The green mountains are all over the white Manchurian, and the rain is like smoke in the sound of the sub-regulations. There are few idlers in the countryside in April, so the sericulture is planted again.

This is the scene of the later Southern Song Dynasty poet Weng Juan describing his hometown in April, which can be used to express the current busy scene in Fuwangli.

In the past few days, the cocoons have been clustered, and the women have begun to be busy cutting and spinning and weaving. Sometimes it rains and the men are busy planting millet and rice in the fields, so every family is busy.

In some households, there is a shortage of manpower, and after the women have done a good job of picking mulberries and feeding silkworms, they are also responsible for helping the family transport rice seedlings, and sometimes the men are too busy, and the women have to help with the rice planting.

It's turnip and mustard time again, and the families who grow these two crops have to divide their hands to harvest their rhizomes and then replant other crops.

Not only that, in April, everything is competing to grow, and the growth of weeds is naturally very vigorous, at this time, there are no herbicides, all rely on manual weeding, so this field weeding is a big project.

Of course, this weed is not useless, and those who have livestock at home can feed it. Or when the weeds are dried, they are burned to ashes and sprinkled into the fields to fertilize the fields.

Now there is no straw burning to pollute the environment, plant ash is a natural fertilizer, for the people, is a time-saving and labor-saving method, otherwise these weed seeds, but it is not easy to deal with it.

In short, the township is full of busy figures, some people are busy with this, busy with that, go out early and return late every day, but there is no free time at all.

Of course, all this has no impact on Wu Yong, he still adheres to his previous habits every day, practicing riding and archery and reading and learning calligraphy, this is not that he is lazy and does not want to work, but that his family's fifty acres of farmland and fifty acres of orchards were taken over by the homeless people at the foot of Funiu Mountain.

After more than two months of continuous development and growth, they have built 12 cottages, each of which has almost forty or fifty households, and the total population has reached an astonishing six or seven thousand, which is six or seven times more than the number of people in Fuwang.

However, so many people live here, and it is not enough to rely on that coal mine, so they also opened up thousands of acres of mountain fields, first planted some crops that are easy to survive, raised the land for a year or two, and then planted food crops.

Wu Yong didn't have any opinion on this, and only asked them to take care of the new seeds he planted.

Yang Ji and the other twelve village owners naturally patted their chests and promised that they would definitely complete the tasks assigned by the immortal monarch.

Without the shackles of the field, Wu Yong was idle. But he has not been idle for the past few days, and has been thinking about digging a pressurized water well in his house.

To this end, he drew two simple illustrated books for Yang Ji, and asked him to use pig iron to help build a set of tools for drilling wells and a set of pressurized water wells.

In fact, the principle of this pressurized water well is very simple, there is a piston above, there is a valve below, this piston and valve are a one-way valve, so that the air goes up and not down, when the piston goes up, the valve opens, you can pump the air in the pipe below to the upper cavity, when the piston goes down, the valve is closed, and the air comes out from the side of the piston, so that the circulation will pump the pipe below into a vacuum, and the water will be pumped up under the action of atmospheric pressure.

Wu Yong planned to use cowhide as a piston, copper sheet as a valve, and as for the water pipe, he used an iron pipe with a layer of paint on it.

Nowadays, the paint is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is a natural paint, but it is not the highly toxic industrial paint of later generations.

After many days of preparation, everything is ready today.

"Two uncles, be careful, you don't need to push too hard, just turn it with a stick and an iron rod, and the iron drill bit below will roll the dirt up." The two strong men nodded, when Wu Yong asked them to dig a well at the beginning, they agreed without thinking about it, but they didn't expect to come to the Wu family's courtyard, but when they found that only the two of them came to dig a well, they couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded.

In the past, they used to dig wells, all with small shovels, little by little, digging the soil, which was time-consuming and laborious, and it was often all the villagers who worked together to dig a well.

Only the two of them will dig the well today, and when will it be dug! Just when they hesitated, Wu Yong explained how to use the tools to dig the well today.

The two of them suddenly realized that Wu Yongzhi planned to use an iron drill to dig a well with a wellhead only an inch wide!

It was also the first time they had dug such a well, and they were immediately full of interest. As the soil in the well continued to be brought up by the drill bit, traces of water soon appeared.

Wu Yong didn't expect that the groundwater at this time was so abundant, so he dug less than two meters before the water came out. Unlike later generations, when the groundwater was seriously depleted, there was no water in wells of more than 10 meters.

Wu Yong asked the two to fight more than one meter more, and then called to stop, and then installed it with the blacksmith who built the pressurized water well.

First, the oval hollow-out discus at the bottom was installed, which prevented the mud from clogging the pipes.

Then the iron pipe was lowered and the pressurized water well above was installed. When everything was finished, Wu Yong walked to the side of the pressurized water well, grabbed the pressure handle, and began to press it up and down, pressing hard.

I only heard a few 'creaks', and it seemed that the water was starting to rise up. In order to speed up the bubbling water, Wu Yong asked Guo to pour a scoop of water into the pressurized well.

With the pouring of this scoop of water, soon the sound of 'coo' was heard, and then the water began to flow out, and as Wu Yong continued to lift and lower the pressure handle, the water continued to flow out of the pressurized water well.

It was a little muddy at first, but as the groundwater underneath continued to change, the water in the pressurized water well above began to clear up.

"Yong'er, how did this water come out?" Guo, who was standing on the side, didn't understand a little and looked dumbfounded.

。 It's not just that she doesn't understand, but everyone standing by the pressurized water well at this time doesn't understand this principle. Many villagers heard that Wu Yong had made a new gadget, which could automatically produce water in their yard and stop doing the work in the fields, so they ran over to watch, and they were amazed to see this miracle at this time.

Zhuo Wenxuan also stood aside to watch the excitement, although he was a teacher of Mengxue, he also said that he couldn't understand the pressurized water well: "Yes, Wu Yong, why does the water flow to a high place?" Wu Yong watched everyone staring at him, waiting for his explanation, so regardless of whether they understood it or not, he said with a smile: "In fact, this is the effect of atmospheric pressure, just like in many places where the water level of many rivers is relatively high, ordinary well water will automatically come out." Everyone nodded as if they didn't understand, but Zhu Lidian suddenly asked on the side: "Can you estimate the cost of this pressurized water well?" When Wu Yong heard this, he frowned and thought about it, and said with some uncertainty: "This pressurized water well takes a lot of time, especially this iron pipe is more troublesome to deal with, I estimate that it is less than a thousand yuan, and no one will do it!" Then he turned to the blacksmith who was building the pressurized well,

"Uncle Liu thinks how much does this pressurized water well cost?" The blacksmith grinned: "The price estimated by Xianjun is roughly the same, but Xianjun also undercalculated the cost of drilling wells. The iron drill bit and iron rod that drilled the well are no less valuable than a set of pressurized water wells! Wu Yong was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Yes, it's really less!" There is also a cost for digging a well. However, this set of well-drilling tools can be recycled, and the cost is almost negligible. Saying that, Wu Yong shouted to everyone again: "Listen, everyone, if anyone needs to dig a well, they can come and get this tool for digging wells by themselves." ”

"This pressurized well costs 1,000 yuan, which is too expensive, so my family should go to the well in the middle to get water."

"Yes, it's really not cost-effective to spend a thousand dollars just to fetch water. This pressurized well is not an iron pot, so it must be used. ”

"Although this pressurized water well looks good, I don't know if it can be used for a long time, so my family still doesn't think about it." At present, the income of a common family is only 5,000 yuan a year, excluding the taxes paid to the government, plus daily expenses, it is good to have 500 yuan left a year, and it is indeed not something that the people can afford to spend 1,000 yuan to build a pressurized water well.

Don't look at Fuwangli in the recent period, many villagers have a lot of income, but they would rather continue to fetch water than spend money on pressurized water wells in their yards.

At this time, Zhu Wang shouted loudly: "Wu Yong, get this pressurized water well for my family." When the others heard this, they all looked at Zhu Wang and smiled: "Hey, I didn't expect Zhu Wang to know that it hurts, your family made this pressurized well, I'm afraid it's to save your wife some effort!" "Everyone watched from afar, and there was a great taste of sour grapes.

"Isn't it just a pressurized water well, what's the big deal? We can also exercise by lifting water. ”

"It's just that we carry water like a wheel, what is so strange about a pressurized water well." Although everyone said this, their hearts were sour.

Looking at Zhu Wangmeizi's appearance, envy and hatred rose in his heart. This Zhu Wang must have made a lot of money recently, otherwise how could he be willing to spend a thousand dollars to build a pressurized water well.

The novelty pressurized water well was also seen, and the price was also bottomed out, and the onlookers began to slowly leave the Wu family's small courtyard, they still had work to do, but they couldn't delay it all the time, especially when they saw that Zhu Wang's family was also going to get this pressurized water well, looking at it, it was really not a taste in their hearts.

After a while, the onlookers in the courtyard were almost gone, and now there are still two strong men who are digging wells, Zhu Lidian, Zhuo Wenxuan, blacksmith, and Zhu Wang.

At this time, Guo invited them to sit down and talk, and at the same time brought out cherries and jujube cakes to entertain them.

Jujube Guo makes it himself, April is the season of jujube, and people have begun to use jujube to make snacks at this time.

Jujube cake is actually similar to the jujube cake practice in later generations, the rice is boiled and dried, steamed with fresh jujubes, and then pressed into a paste, and then stirred with water and mixed thoroughly.

Wu Yong has seen the detailed method in miscellaneous books, and the general content is like this.

"Japonica rice jujube method: cooked rice is ripe and rotten, exposed to dry, and finely sieved. Steamed with jujubes, taken from the paste, and soaked in glutinous. Rate one liter of glutinous rice and use one liter of jujube. "Cherry is the famous fruit of the first summer, in the pre-Qin era, its name is peach, which means the fruit that is eaten by warblers and birds.

Therefore, after that, it changed its name and changed its name to Yingtao. After the Qin and Han dynasties, the warbler passed the cherry and changed its name to cherry.

However, these cherries were sent by the villagers, and Wu Yong didn't plan to ask for them, but the villagers were enthusiastic, and they couldn't do it if they didn't want to.

Recently, I don't know why, every day there will be villagers to send things to the Wu family, some food, useful, and some rare medicinal materials, and now the room where the Wu family puts sundries is full of these things.

As everyone spoke, Guo brought boiling water boiled with rice fermentation. This is Wu Yong saw Guo's making jujube cake, so he asked Zhu Lidian for some wine koji and made it.

Everyone ate cherries and jujube cakes, and drank this rice fermented water, feeling a different flavor. At this time, the two strong men who were digging wells spoke: "Nephew Wu Yongxian, can you sell us your set of well-drilling tools?" ”