With the bet between Ping An and the earth master, the work of drilling the well was carried out extremely quickly.

The huge boulder that covered an area of land was not an obstacle to digging a well.

The villagers brought a large amount of dry firewood, piled it on top of the boulder and lit it, and when the fire burned the boulder red, it was poured cold water on it, and the boulder suddenly swelled and cracked, and then used a hammer to knock the swollen stone into pieces and remove it.

A fire boiling water pouring method can easily remove the boulder.

Of course, when it was watering, the earth master was laughing, and the villagers were distressed.

The water is pumped from the manna well, which is already scarce, and it can be said that each sip is very precious. But in order to dig a well, it had to be used to pour stones.

The big bluestone was removed, and the next well was mainly excavated and excavated.

Although the well smith is more arrogant, he has a lot of experience in drilling wells, and it only took two days to dig a depth of three zhang.

It's just that when the digging reaches this depth, the wellsmiths are going to strike, because there is not the slightest sign of water coming out, and there is a certain risk of digging further.

The villagers, who were looking forward to it, were also restless. They thought that with Gu Niang's dream guidance, they would dig one or two zhang deep and the water would come out.

The earth master glanced at the deep pit that was more than three feet deep and dark in winter, and smiled calmly: "Do you want to continue digging?" ”

Liu Yang, the village head, said without hesitation: "Dig, dig a little more, and continue to dig." If they don't want to dig, let our people go down and dig"

The master stopped talking, and the master shook his head and worked hard.

One foot, two feet......

"Huh."

Suddenly, the villagers gathered around the well heard a soft cry coming from below.

Liu Yang squeezed to the front in a few steps, and shouted to the bottom of the well: "Out of the water?" ”

A wellsmith replied, "The soil is getting wet, dig it again." There could be water. ”

The villagers held their breath and listened carefully.

Digging another foot, the bottom of the well exclaimed: "The water is out!" ”

"Out of the water?"

When the villagers heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and then their faces were full of ecstasy and they danced with their hands.

They're really digging a well of thirst. Ping'an's bet with the earth master is still secondary, this well is drilled, if there is no more water, they will face the problem of draft. At that time, it will be a nightmare to become a victim of disaster and flee to another country.

"Is it really out of the water?"

One of the villagers was still a little incredulous.

"Let me go."

As he spoke, he pulled on a rope and slipped down, without waiting for help.

And at the bottom of the well. The well craftsman who was covered with mud and dust, listening to the cheerful cheers from above, stepped on the cool muddy water, lost his mind for a moment, and muttered to himself: "Is that Gu Niang so effective, there is really a water source." ”

The villager who pulled the rope and slipped to the bottom of the well, ignoring the crowding at the bottom of the well, squeezed his probe hand hard and grabbed a handful of mud in the muddy water. Then excitedly shouted at the top: "It's really water, pull me up." Pull me up. ”

When the other villagers pulled him up, their eyes moistened when they saw the mud still dripping in his hands.

After more than a month of digging a well, the well was finally drilled!

Some villagers knelt down in the direction of Gu Niang Temple and kowtowed a few times very reverently.

In fact, the water source of this well is not large, only the thickness of chopsticks. The victory lies in a continuous supply, day and night, and there is enough water for the whole village to drink.

Although it is no longer possible to irrigate the crops, as long as people have water to drink, they will not die of thirst. You can still live.

If you live, there is still hope.

When the water comes out, the well bricks are built, the fence is enclosed, and a well is laid.

Liu Yang, the village head, specially used a fat chicken and a pound of village brewing, and went to the private school to ask the old master of the private school to write a memorial to the well, and when he was sacrificing to the well, let Ping An recite it in a frustrated manner.

In order to prevent it from being vandalized, they also built a small house for the well, and even sent people to keep vigil in the small house every night.

And the middle-aged earth master, when the well craftsmen exclaimed that the water was out of the water, he took advantage of the happiness of the villagers and wanted to sneak away, but he was forced back by the sharp horns of an old ox after walking a few steps.

In fact, the villagers of Daoxiang Village led by Liu Yang did not embarrass him, everyone no longer had to worry about drinking water, they were all jubilant, and they did not take that bit of gambling to heart.

However, the earth master still had to be cheeky after all, and apologized to Ping An and walked away.

It didn't take long for the news of the water well being drilled in Daoxiang Village to spread and caused a sensation in several nearby villages.

Most of the wells in the village have also dried up, so there is an endless stream of villagers who come to Daoxiang Village to fetch water.

As for Gu Niangtuo's dream that the water source was rumored to be a beautiful talk, it spread far away, and the entire Qiandeng County was preaching it, and the people who read good things couldn't help but make an article about it.

It's just that there is still no sign of rain, and the drought is still spreading.

There are more and more displaced people, and in Daoxiang Village for more than a month, you can see groups of displaced people passing through the village every day.

Most of the displaced people live like beggars, there is a drought everywhere, they don't know where to go, they can't see where the future is.

From time to time, cold and heat will be sick, and if wind and rain are not seasonal, they will be hungry.

The villagers of Daoxiang Village did not rejoice for many days, because the scribes who collected the land taxes went to the countryside.

Everyone looked through the clouds, but they did not look forward to the holy decree of the Holy One on the reduction of land endowments.

Given to the land, the mu is collected.

Since the implementation of a whip law, the field has been changed to levy and fold color, and each large mu is levied with seven cents of silver.

The crops in Daoxiang Village have not been harvested, but the yield has also decreased a lot, and there is not much left after the field endowment is handed over.

As for those who have no surplus grain in the autumn and have no surplus, they can only flee except for loans, selling fields, and even selling people.

It can be said that October and autumn are over, and the farmers have gone on a hunger strike.

Even if every household in Daoxiang Village still has some surplus grain, if they have to eat it until the next year, they are afraid that they will not be able to survive the summer harvest even if they eat all the grain seeds.

The price of grain on the market has risen to 1261 stones, and the Yin Shi people are shaking their heads, not to mention the ordinary farmers.

Someone in the county seat of Qiandeng County has set up a chaff market to sell chaff.

Bran is the husk of a grain that is very rough and extremely difficult to swallow.

However, the people who buy chaff every day are bustling, and they have to queue up before dawn. By daybreak, the bran was sold out.

It's not that you eat bran and live to a hundred, but that bran is much cheaper than rice and noodles, and some poor people can barely afford it.

It's just that the bran is also eaten one day, and when you can't even afford to eat the bran, you have only one way to go out and escape the famine.

In fact, even the bran is extremely poor and cannot afford to eat it.

Exactly, where can you seek a valley and flee along the gate to beg for food. Poor Weng has no livelihood, and sells the little boy Yi Dou chaff.

When he had no livelihood, he had to sell his children in order to fill his stomach with a few buckets of chaff. (To be continued......)