Chapter 233: The Fountain
The idea of repairing the canal, Lin Qing actually had it a long time ago. Irrigation is the foundation of agriculture, and in order to increase agricultural output, it is necessary to overhaul water conservancy.
And this is even more common at the national level. Zhengguo Canal, Dujiangyan, and various canals are all for the dispatch of water conservancy, showing a country's political consciousness and ability.
But Lin Qingqing's reason for repairing the canal is very simple. If the canals are not built, the unstable irrigation of rain alone will not be enough to meet the needs of crops. At that time, Lin Qingqing's stream water that he relied on to build the tofu workshop may be red eyes of the villagers.
Although Lin Qingqing felt that the villagers were not going to rob openly, it was still possible to gossip in secret. And Lin Qingqing is unlikely to share this stream of water.
After all, good water is the foundation of good tofu, and without this natural stream, the quality of Lin Qingqing's tofu will decline. From this point of view, Lin Qingqing's great water conservancy can be said to be done for himself.
Lin Qingqing did not take matters of water conservancy too radically, but carried them out little by little and in an orderly manner, coupled with Hua Ming's guidance, so it did not bring any pollution to the village.
However, the matter of repairing the canal was finally noticed by the strict management of the town.
It was the central part of Jiangle Village, which was neatly paved with round marble, and a high platform was built in the central place. On the high platform, there is a beautiful woman pouring water from a clay pot.
What really surprised the visitors was not the lifelike statue, but the spring water that was actually gushing out of the clay pot.
The reason why I knew it was spring water was because a few brave visitors had tried the water.
"Good water, clear and sweet, should have been transported from the mountains." A man with a slight bulging belly said.
"Brother Zhao is bold, but has he tasted something else?" A scholar next to him asked.
"This is the spring water, what else can you taste?" The chubby man asked rhetorically.
"I want to ask Brother Zhao, do you understand the reason why this water is spurting out of the ground?" The man explained.
"I still want to ask, is there a spring in this place?" The chubby man said suspiciously.
"No, if there was a sudden spring, it would have been discovered a long time ago. When I came to Jiangle Village a few days ago, there was nothing unusual. ”
The visitors to the town couldn't figure out why the water was spurting out of the ground, but Lin Qingqing knew it clearly. After all, this is the most expensive item in the village.
This fountain took a lot of manpower to take water from the upper reaches of the canal, and then transported it here in a closed, open-pitched bamboo.
In this project, not only a lot of manpower and material resources are required, but also the water pressure, the size of the water flow, and the degree of airtightness of the waterway need to be carefully calculated.
Just this small fountain, just the raw materials such as stone, cost Lin Qingqing a full ninety taels of funds.
"Boss Lin, why did you build this thing, is it just for the sake of good looks?" Ran Tingchun on the side asked suspiciously.
"It's just for the sake of looking good." Lin Qingqing said bluntly.
"Huh?" The sudden reply made Ran Tingchun a little unable to turn around.
"It's just beautiful. Isn't there too little landscape in our village as a place for those visitors to play? There aren't many natural landscapes, so we'll have to make them ourselves. ”
Lin Qingqing himself didn't realize the significance of this fountain, but those visitors did. After all, they are well-informed people. Immediately, the fountain was spread everywhere.
But Lin Qingqing didn't know at this time. For her, it is just an artificial landscape created to make up for the shortcomings of Jiangle Village's lack of landscape.
If there is a fountain, it is probably because Lin Qingqing wants to use this fountain as a test method for the closed hair of the public canal. At the same time, it is also to familiarize those villagers with the difficulties of water conservancy projects.
After all, after Lin Qingqing was ready to teach them the general things, he threw his hand and left it to Hua Mingguan.
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Recently, in Jiangle Village, the number of visitors has increased dramatically, and the visitors are not only from Yongyuan Village, but also from more distant places.
They usually come in groups of three or five, and then order a 'Mandarin Duck Copper Hot Pot' in the restaurant on the second floor of Lin Qingqing, and then quarrel with each other.
And when they have finished eating, they often run straight to the fountain in the middle of the village.
At the beginning, Lin Qingqing didn't care. However, when there were more and more visitors and the area became wider and wider, Lin Qingqing knew that he was bad.
In this era, the manufacture of artificial fountains did not appear, and such an obviously artificial fountain naturally attracted people's attention.
More importantly, as a large agricultural country, Daming's emphasis on water conservancy is far from being comparable to other aspects.
Soon, visitors began to listen to the fountain's maker. And Lin Qingqing, as the proprietor, has always been masked, pretending not to know.
Later, more and more people asked, and Lin Qingqing even said: "The little girl didn't know, but one day she saw the stone there, and then the spring was there." If it's the reason, I'm afraid it's sincerity. ”
Because of Lin Qingqing's pure appearance and the character image of 'Tofu Shih Tzu', some people do believe in such myths, but more people are not easy to fool.
So, half a month later, after the secret investigation of many visitors, as well as the 'confessions' of several villagers, the truth about the fountain was finally revealed, and the 'culprit' who made the fountain was finally punished.
"Hua Ming, don't you still admit your guilt?" Lin Qingqing said in a righteous and righteous manner.
"Miss Lin, what are you talking about, why did you tie me up?" Hua Ming said as he struggled.
The string was wrapped around Hua Ming's pale arm, which made many female visitors cry out in distress.
"Sinners, it is you who created this fountain with the intention of disturbing the people's hearts. On behalf of the villagers of Jiangle Village, I will arrest you today. Lin Qingqing shouted.
Several villagers on the side followed Lin Qingqing's words and nodded: "Yes, yes." As Miss Lin said. ”
In this way, under Lin Qingqing's treacherous schemes, Hua Ming was arrested and sent to Yongyuan Town for interrogation.
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The guest seat followed Hua Ming to Yongyuan Town, and as soon as they left, Lin Qingqing breathed a heavy sigh of relief and said, "Hey, Hua Ming, if you don't go to hell, who will go to hell." As the saying goes, a friend of the dead road does not die of the poor way. ”
"Miss Lin, Hua Ming won't have anything wrong with him, right?" Li Sisi on the side said worriedly.
"Don't worry, the document said that it was going to be arrested, but in fact, it was just to ask about the details, for a talented person, those officials could not offend at will." Lin Qingqing explained.