After determining the general direction, Wang Manyin walked out of the cave.

"What's going on, full of silver?" Seeing the person appear, Wang Yanqiang hurriedly asked.

"Uncle Yanqiang, I heard the sound coming from the flue, could something have fallen inside?" Wang Manyin didn't sell it, and bluntly stated his speculation.

"Flue? You said that there was an East XZ in the flue. How could it be...... If there really is something, it will be scorched when you make a fire and cook." Wang Yanqiang's face was full of disbelief.

"That's right, if there's a rat or something, it's going to call. We cooked yesterday morning." Liu Xiangyang also retorted.

Although there is no open flame in the long flue, the heat rises during cooking, and at least the high temperature can be reached.

If there is really any animal hidden, even if it is not scorched, it is estimated that it will be smoked half to death, how can it survive for so long. What's more, from beginning to end, no animal calls were heard.

"If it's true or not, check it out."

Wang Manyin did not talk nonsense and decided to prove everything with facts.

He climbed back into his head and reached into the dark flue to fumble his way. Probably because of the rain the day before, part of the loess at the top of the flue collapsed. As soon as his hand penetrated more than 20 centimeters, he touched a horizontal wooden stick with a rope tied to it.

Wang Manyin subconsciously pulled it, and the rope swayed gently.

The next moment, I heard Wang Yanqiang shouting loudly in the cave, "There is movement again, it seems to be coughing!"

Is it really because of the flue? Wang Manyin completely relaxed.

When everyone outside the cave saw his movements, they couldn't help but ask, "Brother Wang, what's in there?"

Wang Manyin didn't answer, just kept swinging the rope.

The sounds in the cavern became clearer and clearer, and it sounded like something was constantly scraping the flue, and it sounded like a human coughing in a low voice.

With curiosity, Wang Manyin pulled the rope up. Seeing clearly what was falling at the end of the rope, he couldn't laugh or cry for a moment.

So, a lot of times people scare themselves.

In order to verify his thoughts, he put the rope down again, and then rushed into the cave and said, "Uncle Yanqiang, is there any movement now?"

"yes, yes, I still can't find it." Wang Yanqiang is still looking around in the cave.

"Brother Wang, don't sell it, what the hell is it!" The intellectuals were full of curiosity on their faces, and they urged one after another.

Even the few female intellectuals who were full of panic in front of them also approached one after another.

"Come up and see for yourselves......

When Liu Xiangyang and the others came to the side of their heads, they also reached out and groped into the depths of the flue.

After someone pulled the rope, Wang Yanqiang was heard shouting inside.

"It's really fake, how can it be such a thing, I'll go down and listen to it?!" Liu Xiangyang looked at the end of the rope tied to a piece of ginger stone, and he didn't want to believe it at all.

There is even a feeling that the IQ is being pressed to the ground and rubbed.

Everyone has made all kinds of speculations before, and in the end, the whole god is chattering. As a result, the truth is too ordinary to accept.

Shang Zhimin's face was also incredulous, and he couldn't help but ask, "Brother Wang, what's going on?" Who is idle and has nothing to do to tie a stone and throw it in the flue to deliberately scare people......

"That's right, this matter must be investigated to the end," and another educated youth said with murderous aura. ….

Wang Manyin glanced at the other party and explained, "It's really not that someone deliberately sabotage, this rope was used to straighten the flue when the craftsman was digging the flue, which is equivalent to a plumb weight. I guess after the flue was dug up, they forgot to take it out and hung it all the time."

The chimneys of the caves on the Loess Plateau are not stacked with bricks, and the flue is directly pulled out from the stove and until the side of the head, which is similar to making a hole straight up and down.

It's definitely a technical job, and it's done precisely by a person with a tool in a small space. Because the flue should not be too thick, otherwise it will easily collapse after a long time.

And for smooth ventilation, the entire flue must be kept straight...... So a plumb is used in this process.

"Why didn't we listen to it for the past few months?

to the sound?" Shang Zhimin is still a little difficult to accept.

Hearing this, other educated youths also questioned it one after another.

They have been in the village for nearly half a year, if this plumb hammer has always existed, it should have sounded a long time ago, why now.

"The reason is very simple, it rained the day before yesterday, and the rain washed down the cliff, and the top of the flue collapsed a little. Inadvertently caused the rope to deviate from its position and stick to the flue. Plus it's windy...... The flue is filled with wind, that's why it's like this, I don't believe you can ask a few girls, is it that the pot stove is particularly difficult to burn in the past two days?"

For Wang Manyin, now that he knows the truth, it is not difficult to push back.

However, if this plot is placed in the future generations, it will definitely be able to water an episode of "Approaching Science".

Hearing this, Liu Lanying immediately nodded and said, "I cooked the food yesterday morning, and there was indeed smoke in the cave......

"Is it true that there is ginger stone in the flue?" At this time, Wang Yanqiang listened to Liu Xiangyang's narration and hurriedly climbed into his mind.

Then, he shook the rope to verify it himself.

Sure enough, another cough came......

As for why the sound is like a cough, it should be that the loess flue has been baked for a long time, and the soil wall has been burned dry and burned through, turning into a ceramic like a brick, so the collision sound sounds particularly strange.

"The sun is cowardly, this is spread out, Lao Tzu will definitely lose the dead in the Shibi Festival Commune......

After running up and down a few times, Wang Yanqiang finally reluctantly admitted: The thing that tossed everyone for two days and made a group of people nervous was a small piece of ginger stone.

It's as simple as that. almost ruined his own reputation.

In order to completely dispel the fear of the female intellectuals, they did not directly remove the ginger stone, but let several people from the other party come up one by one to do experiments.

Shen Jinqin was even more glad in his heart, fortunately he didn't drink the bowl of boy's urine, otherwise he would have been too wronged.

In the next matter, Wang Manyin did not participate again.

However, after this incident, his ability in the hearts of everyone is a little higher. A person's prestige is often accumulated from small things.

When Wang Manyin arrived at home, his mother-in-law had already cooked the meal.

Seeing her husband coming back from the village, Orchid immediately asked curiously, "Manyin, what's the matter?" What is the voice of the female intellectual's cave, and have you found the reason?"

Just now, when I was cooking, someone from the village came to buy something, and I mentioned it by the way.

When Wang Manyin told what had happened, Orchid was also a little crying and laughing. ….

After the meal, she talked about other topics: "Man Yin, my sister-in-law Aihua came to chat in the morning, saying that many families in our Jar Village are about to run out of food. She also said that you are well-informed, do you know when the commune's return grain will come down this year?"

"I don't know," Wang Manyin was silent for a moment, shaking his head.

The so-called resale of grain means that the peasants are returned to sell grain according to the situation of grain shortage in the rural areas in the spring, which is also called "reselling grain."

What was the price of the surplus grain that was levied at the beginning, and what price was used when it was sold, it did not increase at all.

Of course, this is not something that the village or the production team can decide. There is a complete process, so the time and amount of grain to be returned each year cannot be determined.

"In this way, you grab a few handfuls of dried sweet potatoes and make two scoops of sorghum noodles, and I will send them to Brother Qiusheng's family......" Wang Manyin thought for a while and said.

So many families in the village are almost out of food, and it is estimated that Wang Qiusheng's family is no exception. However, Wang Manyin didn't dare to take too good grain, just asked him to get some dried sweet potatoes and sorghum noodles.

When he went out with a cloth bag, across the deep ditch, he heard the cry of a child on the other side.

When I entered the courtyard, I saw Wang Qiusheng squatting at the root of the cliff, holding a half-sized broken baby in his arms, which was a stone.

At this moment, the little guy has tears on his face and is crying quietly.

"Brother Qiusheng, what's wrong? Is the stone sick?" Wang Manyin hurriedly said loudly.

"Nothing, nothing. Manyin, why are you here, have you eaten?" Wang Qiusheng hurriedly put the child on the ground to greet him.

"I don't look at the stone like it's okay

Son, why don't we take him to the hospital?"

"No, your sister-in-law Dongmei got some chaff from her mother's house two days ago and baked some cakes...... The stone ate too much at once, couldn't pull off the, and shouted that his stomach hurt, so I rubbed him."

Wang Manyin was stunned, and handed over the cloth bag with difficulty, and said, "Brother Qiusheng, I just knew that your family was out of food. I still have some food at home, so I'll get you some and make do with a few meals."

He didn't say anything stupid about children not eating bran...... Everyone knows that bran is unpalatable.

Just like Wang Qingming said when he worked last time, the chaff is pinched into an ingot, and it is difficult to swallow. The white flour is pinched into a donkey, and it is still delicious.

"Manyin, you've helped us enough......

"Brother Qiusheng, don't say anything, it's important to let a few broken babies fill their stomachs, just wait for the wheat to be harvested."

Wang Qiusheng nodded, his lips moved, and he didn't say anything.

Of course, Wang Manyin knew that what he did was a drop in the bucket, but ...... That's all there is to it.

For the second team of Jarzi Village, what is really helpful is to pay close attention to the construction of the earthen dam and silt more than a dozen acres of good Sichuan land.

As time passed, Wang Manyin had completely regarded himself as a member of the Jar Village. Now in his heart, he has never been so eager to accomplish something.

***

"Man Yin is here, come into the house and sit. Look at you, take something every time......" In the courtyard, Guo Chaowang and his mother-in-law greeted him warmly.

"It's not a good thing, it rained the other day, and I caught a few crucian carp from the Dongla River. I thought you liked it, so I sent it over......

Wang Manyin responded with a smile and handed over the cloth bag containing a few fresh crucian carp.

This time he did catch it from the Dongla River, and last night, he quietly released hundreds of catties of fish.

"Well, it's strange this year, we have a lot of fish in the Dongla River." After Director Guo's mother-in-law took the cloth bag, Lisuo found a basin of water and poured a few crucian carp into it to raise.

Wang Manyin had previously discovered that the survivability of the fish produced in space was also significantly better than that of ordinary fish in the outside world, even in the turbid water of the Dongla River, they could survive for a long time, and they could also reproduce for a long time.

Take the crucian carp in front of you, even if you are out of the water for half an hour, most of them are still alive.

Mountain farmer