In the morning, the fourth child woke up in a daze, rubbed his eyes and propped himself up, but his whole body was uncomfortable, it felt like he had fallen from the roof and fell to the ground, and he grinned with a little pain.

"Don't get up if you're uncomfortable, take advantage of the recent lack of rest, rest and sleep, we can also live the life of that old man for a while, at least not three poles a day!"

Lao Wu didn't know when he woke up, sitting on the bench and smoking a room full of cigarettes, the fourth child smiled when he saw this and said, "Hey, what are you doing?" Smoke early in the morning? I said, I dreamed just now that they burned the fire and made it smell of smoke, but it turned out that you did it. But after speaking, he saw a pile of cigarette butts in front of Lao Wu, and knew that he must not have slept much last night, so he shook his head and lay down again.

That Dunzi is a sincere person, he said that he came early in the morning, Lao Wu saw that they were still asleep and no one called, so he pinned the shovel behind the waistband of his pants as usual, blocked it with his clothes, and followed Dunzi to his house.

Although there are few people in Nanpo Village, the distance between each family is not short, it is all mountain roads, Lao Wu did not sleep at night and walked the mountain road very hard, and finally arrived at the house of the dun and felt that he could fall asleep by finding something.

Dunzi invited Lao Wu into the door, and said with a smile: "Brother, you see that I want to dig a well in this place, see if you can do it!" ”

Lao Wu opened his eyes in a daze, and was startled, the place that Dunzi said was actually facing west, and he knew that he was young and didn't understand, so he hurriedly said: "How can this place dig a well?" You have to face the south of the well, and the mouth of the well is in the east, so that the well water can be used, otherwise it will be yin water and you can't drink it. ”

Dunzi was stunned for a moment and then said to Lao Wu puzzled: "Huh? Big brother? Why do you pay so much attention to digging a well? What's the muddy water? I use this well water for iron, and it's okay if you can't drink it, so you can hit it! ”

Lao Wu shook his head and said, "No, no, it's not a matter of whether you can drink it or not." It's a matter of rules, there are no rules, especially in the yard in front of this house, there are a lot of rules, Brother Dunzi, you listen to the eldest brother, you definitely can't harm you, right? Listen to me, how about digging a well in this place? Lao Wu pointed to a vacant lot on the east side of the courtyard.

Dunzi glanced at it and said, "Big brother can't do it." That's where my father tied his donkey, what did you do with my father's donkey when you drilled a well there? ”

This old Wu made him worried, and after raising his hand and rubbing his face, he couldn't cry and laugh and said, "Brother, why are you so dead-eyed?" Why can't you tie a donkey in such a big place? Donkey leashing is not particular! As a result, when he finished speaking, an old man came in from outside, holding a cigarette bag and pot behind his back, and thought it was the head of Niu Village.

"Who said there are no rules for tethering a donkey?" The old man said this as soon as he entered the door.

Lao Wu squatted beside him and asked him in a low voice: "Hey, brother, who is this?" ”

Dunzi raised his eyes and smiled and said, "This is my father." Then he beckoned to his father, "Daddy! You see, this is Brother Wu, the captain of the grave team, and I brought him to dig a well. ”

Dunzi and his father walked over without raising their eyes, glanced at Dunzi and said, "What are you doing with me for such a thing?" all those who have married their wives. You can't understand what I asked you to do, I won't shoot you to death with a shovel! What's the use of leaving you for? ”

When Lao Wu heard this, the old man was quite powerful, which also showed that this dun was very stupid and useless, but it had nothing to do with him, and he was ready to start exploring the soil condition after seeing the place, and he had to explore the underground water veins with a bamboo pole. So he smiled and said to the old man, "Brother, since you are back." So where are we going to dig this well? ”

The old man waved his hand, raised his eyes to look at Lao Wu and said, "Don't be in a hurry to fight." Haven't you said how much it costs to drill a well? I heard Dun'er say that you want to pay back the stones? What's going on? ”

As soon as Lao Wu heard that the old man thought that he was stupid when he saw the dun and was going to cheat him out of money, he hurriedly told him about his skills in digging wells, saying that the wells he drilled were not only faster than others, but also that the stones on the walls of the wells were also very neat, and there would never be soil seepage. That well was drilled by him, and there are several wells in the nearby villages that were dug by him, and everything has a reputation here! Rest assured old man!

The old man seemed to have a lot of eyes, and he said in disbelief: "What are you talking about?" Why don't I believe you can dig better than others? Isn't it just digging a hole? Who wouldn't? ”

Originally, Lao Wu had a good temper, especially those who were older than him. But this old man actually can't look down on the only craftsmanship he can come up with, he can't help it, he can scold him, but he can't insult the name of the shovel Wu that came from their old Wu family! If not for anything else, you have to earn a lottery for yourself!

Lao Wu's stubborn temper came up, and he came to his senses in an instant, and directly pulled out two shovels from his lower back, touched each other, and made a clear crisp sound. The father and son were startled, and they thought that Lao Wu was in a hurry when he spoke, and he took out a knife and came out? But after a moment of stunned work, I saw Lao Wu squatting where he said to dig a well, put the shovel up, inserted the soil a few times with the flat tip of the shovel, and then held the shovel handle with both hands, like the animal digging the soil, and instantly dug down a calf-deep round pit, and was about to be knocked down. But he was stopped by the old man's voice, and Lao Wu also stopped his hand and straightened his waist, thinking that he must have been shocked by his own craftsmanship, and he was beautiful, and suddenly found that the two men were staring at a pair of shovels in his hands, and their eyes were straight.

The old man walked over quickly, but his eyes didn't leave the pair of shovels, and when he came to Lao Wu, he swallowed his saliva and deflated his old mouth and said, "Can you show me this shovel?" ”

Lao Wu thought to himself, what is this for? What's so nice about your own shovel? But the old man had already come, so he handed him a pair of shovels. The old man took the shovel, it felt like a treasure, and he looked at it left and right in his hand, and couldn't stop admiring: "This quenching is so good, oops!" This thing is absolutely amazing! ”

Seeing that the old man's eyes lit up when he looked at his shovel, Lao Wu crawled out of the pit, and before he could stand up, he was caught by the old man, and he was so frightened that he almost didn't retreat and stepped on the air and fell.

"Where did you get this shovel?" The old man asked Lao Wu with a small eyeball.

Lao Wu looked down at the shovel, then raised his eyes to look at the old man and said, "This, this shovel belongs to my father, he used to dig wells, and he also gave me the shovel, what's wrong?" ”

The old man held a shovel in one hand, so that the tip of the shovel was naturally facing downward, and then let go, only to see that half of the shovel did not even make a sound, and directly entered the hard ground in the hospital, raised his eyes and said to Lao Wu with some excitement: "Oh, you are really a good thing!" I have seen this kind of quenching technique twice in my life, and the last time I saw it was a short sword with iron as clay, which was taken out of the tomb by a great official in the late Qing Dynasty. The color is exactly the same as your shovel surface, it's all this blue-yellow, it's an antiquity! (To be continued......)