"Brother Niu, do you think it will take a few days to dig such a long living ditch" Chu Xintian thought that Niu Dazhuang was meticulous in his work, so he asked him directly.

After all, Chu Xintian is indeed a layman in this regard.

Niu Dashuang thought about it seriously. He lowered his head and pinched his fingers. After a while, he said

"I think it's a good way to dig a canal here, it's a straight road, the soil on the hill is soft and there are no stones. I think that a few people can dig the canal in a few days by working together, however, I am afraid that this dug canal will not last long, it is autumn and it does not rain, which is easy to do, but if it rains again in spring and summer next year, the canal we dug may be washed away by muddy water from the mountains. I don't think digging the canal is the key, the key is that we have to find a way to fix the canal. ”

Niu Dazhuang made a lot of sense.

Indeed, on that isolated mountain, there are trees everywhere. The soil here is formed from decaying leaves that fall from the trees. It is very soft and difficult to set, and a heavy rain will wash away a dug ditch.

So it's not enough to just dig out the ditch, you have to find a way to fix it, but Chu Xintian doesn't know how to fix it

As for the method of fixing the ditch, Niu Dazhuang also thought about two points.

One is to lay stones at the bottom of the ditch and stones on both sides. Even if it rains, the stones will not be washed away easily, and if there is any damage, it can be repaired in time without delay.

Another method is to use wood, chop the thick wood of the bowl, cut one end into a wedge, and then nail it to the sides of the trough and arrange it tightly in two rows. The wood is nailed to the ground, and with the holding force, it will not be washed away by muddy water.

Among the two methods proposed by Niu Dazhuang, Chu Xintian chose the second one.

It's good to use stones, but it's hard to find scattered stones in the North Mountains, it needs to be mined separately, and they don't have time now.

But the wood here is readily available.

A few days ago, they were cutting trees in the forest not far away, the trunk of the tree turned into wood to build a house, the rest of the branches were left in the forest, the branches of the big tree were thicker than the mouth of the bowl, Chu Xintian thought that she would collect these branches in the future and use them as firewood under the mountain.

Now, however, she thinks the branches can be used to build waterways.

Although the forests in Beishan are dense and there are many trees, Chu Xintian feels that she is guarding the forest, so even if she uses the products here regularly, she has an obligation to protect the forest, and she can't cut down all the trees at will.

The concept of sustainable development and resource conservation must be adhered to, so they can build waterways from the branches they cut down in the first place. If the branches are not enough, they can find other ways.

The route had been surveyed, and Niu Dazhuang went down the mountain first, found someone to buy a bag of quicklime, and moved it to the mountain.

They drew two lines out of quicklime to indicate where they were going to dig.

Chu Xintian felt that the width of the canal did not need to be particularly wide, about half a meter.

Niu Dazhuang also thought that what Chu Xintian said was reasonable, so he used quicklime to draw the route from the deep water pool to the foot of the North Mountain, and then everyone began to dig the river.

Aside from a few minor twists and turns, the road is mostly smooth.

The smoother it is, the better the effect. This is the best way to dig a canal.

Niu Dazhuang is right, the soil on the mountain is very soft, Chu Xintian, Hammer, Niu Dazhuang, Niu Li, Fusheng, a total of five people, they work together, this waterway is half a meter deep, half a meter wide, 1,400 meters long, in less than two days, it was dug out

Although Chu Xintian knew that the canal was unreliable, she still felt a sense of accomplishment.

Looking at this ravine, Chu Xintian seemed to see this ravine, and this spring water flowing in the future will irrigate the large medicinal fields at the foot of the mountain.

As soon as he thought of this, Chu Xintian's heart was surging.