When the heat came, the sun in the sky burned the stones every day, and the river had stopped flowing, leaving only a few small ponds deep in the riverbed.

The second well in Gujia Village also bottomed out.

Before dawn, someone had already gone to Dongjia Village and came back indignantly.

"The people of Dongjia Village are really special and not things! actually took the opportunity to sell water, and asked for 500 wen a bucket of water, why didn't they grab it! ”

"Dongjia Village is better than Zhangjia Village, Zhangjia Village's words are released, and 700 Wen can be exchanged for a bucket of water."

"Without water, what will we do in the food business of the commercial street?"

"Ask the county lord first, it's really not good, we can only close all of our business, the water consumption of our village food street is too large, and then continue to operate, I'm afraid that even our own drinking water will be cut off in two days!"

"Even if the business is closed, our village will not be able to survive for a few days with that well alone, and the fields will need water, and the people will have to drink water. On such a hot day, if you don't drink water for a day, you will really die......"

"Li Zheng is here, let's see what Li Zheng has to say......

She stood on the high ground, cleared her throat and said, "Everyone be quiet." ”

Everyone looked at Li Zheng with hope, the pillars of Gujia Village except for Gu Qing are Li Zheng, and they believe that these two people will definitely be able to come up with a charter.

"Five hundred wen a bucket of water, Dongjia Village will really take advantage of the fire to rob." Li Zheng said in a deep voice, "Yujia Village raises a lot of fish, shrimp and crabs, and there is no extra water for us, Zhangjia Village has a bucket of water for 700 yuan, if it doesn't rain, we can't bear this natural disaster even if we empty our families......"

Li Zheng's words made many people panic.

If the water is completely cut off in a few days, then the whole village will die of thirst.

Gujia Village, where our ancestors have lived for generations, will soon starve to death......

An old man cried at the bottom: "The people of Gujia Village have never done anything bad, why does God punish us like this and create evil......

"It's all quiet!" Li Zheng raised his voice, "God is not so ruthless, he will always give us a way to live." ”

Li Zheng had already thought clearly last night, the trees and wild vegetables on the mountain can survive, and some pheasants and hares are also alive and well, which means that there must be a water source on the mountain, what Yang Pei said is well-founded, and the current Gujia Village can only have this expectation.

"There's still a well and water, so if you're worried, you can do whatever you want." Li Zheng said slowly, "Before the sun sets, I will give you an explanation. ”

The fact that there is water on the mountain has not yet been confirmed, so I can't reveal much for the time being.

Without waiting for everyone to ask more, Li Zheng left with his hands behind his back.

After being a lizheng for twenty or thirty years, he is full of prestige in the village, and after saying this, the people in the village really slowly pulled out of that panic.

Gu Qing and Yang Pei took Xia Zhu, Gu Er and Li Zheng to meet at the foot of the mountain.

Li Zheng was followed by his eldest daughter, Jin Hua Niang.

More than half an hour later, the group arrived at the ravine of the two peaks.

As soon as you walk over, there is a cool water vapor blown by the wind, which is refreshing.

Jin Hua Niang strode over, and when she saw the water seeping out on the stone wall, she was very excited: "There is really water!" There's always water here, why no one has ever found out! My God, Gujia Village is saved! ”

Li Zheng trembled: "Because there was no shortage of water in the past, no one wanted to come here to find water, if there was no Yang Tianguan, Gujiacun would be difficult this year......

Jin Hua Niang stepped forward with a shovel, and began to dig without saying a word, only to dig a small hole, and a clear spring gushed out of the ground, and the group drank happily.

Jin Huaniang was very ashamed: "Yang Tianguan, I didn't believe you before, I'll admit my mistake to you here." ”

"It's all from the same village, and when you say this, you will see the outside." Yang Pei didn't care about being misunderstood, Gu Qing turned to the topic and said, "If the water here is led down the mountain, the rice will be saved." ”

Li Zheng snapped his fingers, according to the normal season, this should be the filling and ripening period, the rice in the village is setting ears, it is the time when a large amount of fertilizer and water is needed, and the matter of leading water down the mountain should be sooner rather than later.

However, the water source is too far away from the bottom of the mountain, and more than an hour has passed back and forth, and even if people are used as livestock, it is impossible to water all the rice fields in ten days, which is a bit tricky.

Li Zheng squatted on the ground, washed his face, and said slowly: "County Lord, what do you have in mind?" ”

I don't know why, he always feels that Gu Qing will have a good way, and it is not clear where this feeling comes from.

Gu Qing looked at Yang Pei with a smile: "Brother Yang, the method you came up with yesterday, say it and discuss it with Aunt Li Zheng." ”

Yang Pei nodded, cleared his throat and said: "There are thousands of acres of rice fields in our Gujia Village, and it is definitely not possible to rely on people's shoulders to carry them, I thought about it, can I dig a ditch from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain and lead the water to the field......

Before he finished speaking, Jin Huaniang immediately shook her head: "Yang Tianguan, do you know how many miles there are from the foot of the mountain to here, there are more than ten or twenty miles of road, which is longer than the river embankment for flood control......

Gu Qing took a step towards Yang Pei and said softly: "In addition to digging a ditch, can you come up with any better ideas?" ”

Everyone was silent, they couldn't think of it.

"Boy Yang, you go on." "What if it works?" ”

Yang Pei didn't sleep all night last night, just thinking about how to better dig a ditch to divert water.

This is the most important thing in the whole village, and it is also what he should do as an official of the imperial court.

"More than ten miles sounds like a long distance, and it takes more than half an hour to walk, but in fact, as long as the ten miles are divided into countless small sections, and each person is responsible for one section, this matter is not a very difficult thing."

He stood up, took three or four steps, and continued.

"This is about one zhang, a person can dig it in an hour, but the soil is very hard if it doesn't rain, and there are stones in the soil, so if a person digs a zhang of land, it takes two hours."

Yang Pei talked eloquently, "I went down and measured it yesterday, a total of about 3,000 zhang, one zhang needs one person to dig for two hours, then three thousand zhang needs three thousand people to dig for two hours......

When Li Zheng usually deals with the chores in the field, he often has to mentally calculate these numbers, and she gives the answer in an instant.

There are about four or five hundred people in the prime of life in Dahe Village, who are between the ages of sixteen and forty-five, and it is almost fifteen or sixteen hours for so many people to go into battle together.

It is impossible for people to work at high intensity all day, and if the time is differentiated, it is about two and a half days.

In two and a half days, the water from the mountains can be drained to the rice fields, which is a ridiculous thing that Li Zheng never dared to think of before.

"Yang boy, you are so smart......" Li Zheng was incredulous, "I used to think that Gu Niangzi was the smartest junior in our Gujia Village, and from today onwards, you are also one." ”

(End of chapter)