255 springs
Ah Worm smiled and nodded, "Don't worry! We'll leave it to you, and you'll be busy. ”
"Good!"
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and responded, went back and took the sapper shovel and went out from the small gate at the foot of the mountain, walked to the clearing, and saw the fish and people holding the rope to mark the location of the fence and the enclosure.
To the south, the wall was built more than 100 meters from the foot of the hill behind.
The women and the old man were planting yams and kudzu in the ditch. Tugen took Ahei and they picked up stones and made ditches in the sugar cane field.
"Xiaoqing, what are you doing with a shovel?" Sam asked in a loud voice.
Yao Xiaoqing approached and said with a smile: "I want to go to the southern hillside to find out if there is any mountain water that can lead to the canal below." If you don't have it over there, you can only divert water from here, which will be a lot of trouble. ”
The old man named Ah Qi said: "Xiaoqing, you go to the grove where we made traps, we cut the grass there last year, and I found a small puddle there. ”
Yao Xiaoqing also remembered when she heard it, every time she walked there, she felt that the forest was wet, and she felt strange in her heart but she had never looked carefully.
"I'll go and see, where does the water come from?" She turned and climbed up the hill.
Climb up the hill, walk through the pine forest, and walk for another hour to reach the top of the grove.
She ran down as fast as she could with her shovel. After entering the woods, I walked south for a while, and found the wet place.
This time, I saw that it had accumulated into a puddle the size of a bathtub.
Yao Xiaoqing scooped the water in the puddle dry with a sapper shovel. Stand there looking at the middle of the puddle.
After a minute or two, water slowly soaked out of the dry puddle.
She looked at it carefully for a while, and noticed that a stream of water the size of chopsticks was bubbling out, "Is there a spring or groundwater down there?" Dig down and see. ”
Yao Xiaoqing muttered to herself, picked up the shovel and dug up, and dug for an hour, and when the puddle was more than a meter deep, a fist-sized column of water sprayed out like a fountain.
She was doused with water all over her head and face.
"Phew!" Yao Xiaoqing spit out the water in his mouth and laughed, "Haha! It turns out that there is a spring below! ”
She stood there happily for a while, and saw that the water that came out of the ground was not weakening but growing in size, and the clear spring was flowing outward.
Yao Xiaoqing measured it with his feet, and the location of the spring was more than a hundred meters away from the cleared land that had been cut down, and the forest was full of all kinds of miscellaneous trees.
The trees had to be cut down and a large pond had to be dug under which a ditch would lead to the Ninh River, so that the water that had come out of the pond could be diverted to the canal in the middle of the way.
It not only solves the excess water volume, but also solves the irrigation problem of this piece of land.
After thinking about it, Yao Xiaoqing returned to the place where Ada and they dug a ditch, and saw that dozens of people had dug more than ten meters long.
She calculated that at this pace, she could dig up to twenty-five or six meters in a day. It will take a month and a half to dig from here to the grove at the earliest.
The efficiency of using wooden and stone tools is too poor, and iron tools are still used.
Thinking that these talents are obedient, whether they are ghosts or ghosts still have to be observed for a period of time, or they have to send people to dig together.
And some men were sent to tidy up the fields and sow the corn.
Seeing Yao Xiaoqing standing there without speaking, Ada thought that they had done something wrong.
He climbed up from the ditch and asked, "Xiaoqing, is there something wrong with you?" ”
"Nope." Yao Xiaoqing pointed to the grove, "I found a spring over there, let's dig the canal over there and bring in water from there." ”
Ada put his hand on his forehead to block the sunlight and looked at the grove, "Okay, it's much easier to draw water from there." ”
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "Yes!" Dab, your legs and feet are inconvenient, pay attention to rest, don't be too tired. ”
"Know! I'm careful! Ada Le said hehehe.
"You're busy, I'll go back and see if their method of growing sugar cane is right!"
Ada nodded, and went over with a wooden shovel to do it.
Yao Xiaoqing went to the sugarcane field non-stop, and saw that Tugen and the people had already dug up two sugarcane fields, and the ridges and drainage ditches had all been dug up.
Taro squatted in the field with several women to plant sugar cane.
She stood on the ridge and looked at it, and saw that they had laid the cane seeds flat in the furrow and gently pressed them into the soil, and the sugarcane buds were also facing to the sides or upwards, so she left to the foot of the mountain with confidence.
The wolf led people to set up the bamboo pipe from the mountain to the freshly dug pond at the foot of the mountain, and when he saw Yao Xiaoqing coming, he said with a smile: "Xiaoqing, are you tired?" ”
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and shook his head, "Wolf, you're pretty fast!" The pond was dug so quickly, and the bamboo pipes were erected. ”
The wolf nodded, "The shovel is powerful, I don't worry about breaking it, and I can work quickly." ”
Yao Xiaoqing said: "I'm ...... the grove in the south, and when you finish it here, you just go there to dig a canal with those people." ”
The wolf smiled and nodded, "It's much easier to find a water source, and we'll go there in the afternoon." ”
At this time, Ah Yu hurriedly ran out of the tribe, "Xiaoqing, go and see, Dongxue fell and was about to give birth to a baby." ”
"Hey!" Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly ran in, "Is she in the cafeteria or at home?" ”
Ah Yu panted behind Yao Xiaoqing and said, "Yun Emu has already brought her back to her house, and Eminem the Leopard is helping her deliver the baby." ”
Yao Xiaoqing ran to Da Shu's house like a gust of wind, and before he entered the house, he heard the painful moaning of Dongxue.
She patted the dust off her body, scooped up water and washed her hands before walking towards the hall.
She was also worried in her heart, because she had never experienced any of this, but had only seen pregnant women giving birth on TV.
Hua stood at the door and saw Yao Xiaoqing coming back, "Xiaoqing, you show Dongxue!" ”
Yao Xiaoqing nodded and said, "You are still pregnant with the doll, go back and rest first." ”
Hua nodded, "Got it, I'll go back." ”
Yao Xiaoqing entered the room, only to see Dongxue lying on the kang with a pale face, biting a cork stick in her mouth, and moaning constantly.
Leopard Eminem stood at the end of the bed, helping her deliver the baby, "Xiaoqing, Dongxue should have given birth in the past two days, today at the door of the cafeteria, my foot fell on the ground, and my stomach began to hurt badly." ”
Yao Xiaoqing glanced at Dongxue, "Did you fall badly?" ”
Dongxue endured the pain and said: "It's not bad, I sat down with the door frame, and my stomach hurt badly." ”
Yao Xiaoqing breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that she could still speak. stepped forward to check the pulse of Dongxue, and saw that the pulse was still strong and powerful, and went to the end of the bed to take a look, and saw that there was no heavy bleeding, and completely relieved.
"Eminem, how long do you think it will take for her to give birth?"
Leopard Eminem shook his head worriedly, "I haven't seen the doll yet!" ”
Yao Xiaoqing walked to the door, "Ah Yu, you go to Yun Amu to cook a bowl of poached eggs for Dongxue." ”
"Hey!" Ah Yu responded with a crisp sound and ran quickly.