"Hao'er, you have now withstood a strong laborer." On the way to her home, Yang Gendi couldn't hold back her joy and said to her son. The son helped Su Jinwang's family change a stove in one afternoon, and in exchange for Su Jinwang's promise to pick up 20 loads of water for his family, isn't this worth a strong laborer?

"Mom, look at what you said, I'm a 17-year-old young man, and I'm also a strong laborer." Su Hao said with a smile, he still held back a sentence in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it to Yang Gendi, which was what a sage in later generations said: Science and technology are the primary productive forces.

"Jin Wang said that he would help us pick 20 loads of water, but in fact, he didn't lose anything." Yang Gendi said with relish, "With your new stove, his family can save at least thousands of catties of firewood a year, and these firewood are worth three or four dollars of silver." ”

"How is the price of this firewood calculated?" Su Hao asked, it turned out that Xiucai had never cared about this kind of firewood, rice, oil and salt, so Su Hao had no concept of the price of these things.

Yang Gendi is very happy to teach her son this knowledge, she said: "The price of this firewood is also time-sensitive. It's cheaper on hot days, and it's more expensive on cold days. When he was cheap, he also sold 20 wen a load; When it's expensive, a load can be sold for 40 yuan. ”

"Well, an average of 30 Wen is a load, if you can save 1,000 catties of firewood, it is equivalent to 10 loads, which is 300 Wen, which is almost 3 yuan of silver." Su Hao silently calculated in his heart, and after calculating, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed. If a provincial firewood stove can only help farmers save 3 yuan of silver a year, it doesn't seem to be of much value.

"It's only worth 3 coins of silver......" Su Hao said his confusion.

"3 Dollars is still less?" Yang Gendi's thoughts are completely different from her son's, she said: "3 dollars of silver, you can buy seventy or eighty eggs." ”

"Uh......" Speaking of eggs, Su Hao began to feel it, thinking that Lu Xiu'er was happy to be like that after only a few bites of egg custard, he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy: "Then we lost, this Uncle Jin Wang's family only boiled 6 eggs for us, and we haven't finished eating them yet, why should he give us dozens of eggs?" ”

"Alas, the folks in the countryside can't be regarded as so fine." Yang Gendi sighed, she also felt that it might be better if she could earn a few eggs to go home, "Didn't Jin Wang say that he wanted to help our family carry water?" Besides, his family has helped us a lot in the past. ”

"I make a stove in one afternoon, which can be worth 3 taels of silver, 9 taels a month, 108 taels a year, which seems to be pretty good, right?" Su Hao said happily, "Mom, why don't I repair the stove for others, just charge 1 yuan for repairing one, and there will be ...... a year."

"Bang!" Before Su Hao finished speaking, he was hit firmly on the head.

I saw Yang Gendi's eyes rolled angrily, and reprimanded: "What kind of bastard are you talking about, asking you to help others repair a few stoves, because we owe them people." You're a scholar, how can you do such a thing all day long? You finished the stoves in the homes of a few people who walked around with us a lot, and you weren't allowed to do it for others in the future, do you hear? ”

Su Hao touched his head, and was about to argue, when he suddenly heard the voices of people outside the village. The mother and son listened attentively, and all of them shouted the same sentence: "Out of the water!" Out of the water! ”

"Mom, the well I was referring to is out of water!" Su Hao's heart moved, although this was also something he had expected, but he was still quite excited when he really heard the news of the water.

"Go check it out!" Yang Gendi also became excited, to say that she was not worried, it was false, for more than a day, she was thinking about the well located by her son all the time. You know, if this well can really produce water, then the son is the hero of the whole village, and from now on, who would dare to say that her son is a high-scoring and incompetent wreck!

The mother and son ran towards the outside of the village, and along the way, countless villagers were also running. When those people saw Su Hao, they all shouted loudly: "Xiucailang, the well you are referring to has water coming out!" What a lot of water! ”

Su Hao's mother and son ran to the well, and the scene was already surrounded by the villagers, and they heard Zheng Chun's irrepressible laughter coming from the broken throat from afar: "Hahahaha, blessed by the King of the Well Dragon, the water is finally out of the water!" ”

"Excuse me, let me go in and have a look." Su Hao pulled the crowd with his hands and squeezed into the middle.

"Get out of the way and let Xiucailang in." When everyone saw Su Hao coming, they hurriedly got out of the way, and at the same time followed him with adoring eyes. As for Yang Gendi, she has been surrounded by a group of women and complimented, Yang Gendi said kind words in her mouth, and her face was already full of tears.

"Master Xie, how is the situation?" Su Hao squeezed to the edge of the well and asked Xie Changfa, the leader of the craftsmen.

"Xiucai Lang is talented, just hit 60 feet away, and it will come out of the water, not a bad point." Xie Changfa bowed respectfully to Su Hao, this is the craftsman's reverence for knowledge.

"How's the amount of water?" Su Hao continued to ask.

"The water is very fast, Xiucailang said that 400 quintals an hour, only a lot more." Xie Changfa said.

No more, no less...... Isn't this a compliment to me? Su Hao said in his heart, in the eyes of my dignified geological expert, the estimated water output should be impartial, this is called bullishness, if the water volume is underestimated, the result is only a lot more, it means that I am not good at learning.

However, he also knew that in fact, Xie Changfa couldn't see what the current water output was, and the algorithm of 400 quintals per hour could only be judged by measuring it with a bucket. Xie Changfa said this, the purpose is to praise him, because in the drought season, everyone hopes that the more water in the well, the better.

"Xiucai Dacai, saved my life, please accept Zheng Chun's worship."

Zheng Chun stepped forward and made a big salute to Su Hao, he didn't care about Su Hao kicking him to the ground yesterday. The officials in the county government are majestic in the eyes of the common people, but for scholars, they are not worth mentioning at all. What he is thinking about now is how to entrap this Xiucai and let him point out a few more wells for him. If every well location Su Hao pointed out could be like this well, then he would be able to show off in front of the magistrate.

"Zheng Dian's politeness, you came to dig a well, but also for the benefit of my village fathers, how dare Su accept your gift?"

Stretching out his hand and not hitting the smiling person, since Zheng Chun had already lowered his head, Su Hao would not care about anything, and turned around and saluted Zheng Chun.

"Zheng Chundou dares to ask Xiucai to help point out a few more wells, I don't know if Xiucai is willing to help?" Zheng Chun asked respectfully.

"Su is duty-bound." Su Hao sang in a high voice.

The chief Su Zhong also stepped forward and praised Su Hao in extremely sensational language, but the meaning of the words was to show that Su Hao's achievements today were the result of the care and care of his village leaders. Su Hao naturally didn't mind Su Zhong's praise and self-praise, he had won countless honors in his previous life, who had the leisure to care about what a village cadre said.

"Uncle Zhong, now that the well has come out of the water, please ask Uncle Zhong to assign the order in which each household carries water. My family has little labor, can I ask Uncle Zhong to take care of one or two? Su Hao said to Su Zhong.

"Needless to say? When you say this, are you slapping your uncle in the face? Su Zhong looked disgusted, "Without the well location you pointed out to by your virtuous nephew, how could we get this sweet spring?" Your household water is naturally a priority. The whole village is here, you ask, who dares to say a word? ”

Li Chang spoke, and the villagers naturally wanted to come and have fun, so everyone expressed their attitudes:

"Xiu Cailang, you don't need to say it, we have covered the water used in your field!"

"Sister-in-law Gendi, you can rest, one load of water for each of us is enough for your family."

"Auntie, with my brother Su Hao, you can sit at home and enjoy the happiness, you don't have to do anything in the future."

Yang Gendi nodded to this one for a while, and thanked that for a while, and she was very busy. She knew that this was a way of showing respect for her son, and that in this dry season, the person who could point out the well was enough to be respected by the whole village.