The thin rain silk is knotted in the air in a long line, silently falling in the mountain forest, the breeze blows, and the bamboo forest sways gently, as if welcoming the moisture of the rain.

"Smack!"

A crisp sound came out, startling a white-headed bird, and a Nanzhu tree more than 20 meters high slowly fell, spilling a large area of rainwater.

Compared with other bamboos, Nanzhu is not only thicker and longer, but also more durable, and the adult's thigh-thick Nanzhu is split in half, the bamboo joints are polished off, and connected together, which is the most commonly used local water diversion method.

Xu Fugui is responsible for cutting Nanzhu, and Laishun will dispose of the branches of Nanzhu, a Nanzhu is very heavy, fortunately, the strength of the two is not small, even in the mountains and forests, the efficiency is also very high.

After cutting more than ten Nanzhu in a row, Xu Fugui was tired and sweaty, looked at the blistered hands, and the bursts of spicy pain were transmitted to the nerves.

I took off my soaked shirt to reveal my fair and firm skin, peeled a bamboo skewer with my hand, punctured all the bubbles in pain, and sat on the ground while drinking water while resting.

Lai Shun sat on the Nanzhu and smirked: "Young master, why don't you tan?" ”

A few days ago, on a sunny day, they were all working shirtless in the field, and his skin was obviously darker more than a little, on the other hand, Xu Fugui's complexion did not change much.

"Maybe I was born to be a young master." Xu Fugui made a joke.

His skin just doesn't tan easily, and if he gets too much tan, it will still turn wheat-browned, and then gradually darken.

Laishun rested for a while, felt a little urgent, walked to the side to pee, and halfway through the peeing, he suddenly shouted excitedly: "Young master, there is a pheasant in front!" ”

Xu Fugui's eyes lit up, his movements were swift like a monkey ape, holding the towering Nanzhu in his hand, he quickly came to his side, and looked at it, a wet pheasant had just disappeared into the bushes.

"Come on, chase quickly!"

The two hurriedly chased after the pheasant, which was a gift from nature, and they didn't want to miss it.

I haven't eaten meat for several days, and my beak is about to fade out.

After all, the pheasant is begging for a living in the mountains and forests, and they shuttle flexibly in the mountains and forests, although the two of them chase after each other in two ways, they still can't catch up.

Eventually, the pheasant swooped straight into a large area of fern-leaved grass taller than a man, and many thorny unknown grass vines grew in the grass.

"Goo-Goo......

The pheasants scurried into the grass, but instead of running, they turned their heads and crowed twice, as if to laugh at them.

"Young Master, what should I do?" The green light came to his eyes, and he wanted to pluck the pheasant and roast it immediately.

But the dense fern grass blocked their way, and the pheasants were petite and could come and go freely, and the two of them could not enter at all.

Xu Fugui licked his lips, pulled out the firewood knife from behind him, and with a strong swing, the fern grass fell down one after another.

Laishun laughed twice, and the two of them went straight out of the way.

To their surprise, the pheasant did not run away when he saw them coming in, but cooed and seemed to want to scare them away.

"Okay, good, dog mongrel, don't run like this, wait for Lao Tzu to come." Laishun wiped off the weeds on his head, and the firewood knife in his hand flew quickly.

It wasn't until the two of them reached a place two meters away from the pheasant that the pheasant crowed twice unwillingly and turned around and ran away.

Laishun sighed in disappointment, wanting to throw the firewood knife over, but he was afraid that he would lose the knife and would not be able to explain it to the neighbor.

Xu Fugui was a little unwilling, and continued to take two steps forward, when his eyes suddenly lit up, and he beckoned: "Come and see you." ”

Lai Shun looked at the probe, "A lot of eggs!" ”

No wonder the pheasant couldn't leave just now, it turned out to be its nest.

The two of them walked over happily, swept all the surroundings aside, and wrapped the eggs back with their clothes.

Wild eggs are much smaller than eggs at home, but they can't bear the large number, I don't count them, but there are at least more than 30 of them.

Finding a dry rock, the two of them made a fire with matches and buried ten wild eggs directly into it.

After the eggs were baked, one person and five of them ate a fine light, comforted the five internal organs temple, and the remaining eggs were packed and brought back.

After eating, the two of them were full of strength, picked up the firewood knife, and continued to chop the bamboo, striving to bring the mountain spring water to their homes as soon as possible.

There is a mountain stream not far from the mountain, and no matter how dry the weather is, there will always be water in the mountain stream.

Therefore, the ancestors of the Xu family gathered the people of Xujia Village to expand the mountain stream, and cleaned up the surrounding weeds and stones, so as to find a water source for Xujia Village.

Each family only needs to find a way to bring water from the mountain stream to their own home.

There was also a suggestion to dig a ditch directly into the mountain to bring water from the mountain spring to the village, but the project was too large and required too much manpower, so the decision to implement it was delayed.

In the previous life, this ditch has always remained in the imagination, because with the development of Yunxi County, Xujia Village has been drinking tap water at the beginning of the 21st century.

Not to mention tap water, it will be sixty years later, Xu Fugui has calculated, if you want to bring mountain spring water to your home, you have to prepare at least thirty Nanzhu.

A bamboo split in half can form a length of at least 30 meters, and 30 bamboos, about a thousand meters in length, should be enough.

However, this project is not small, and Xu Fugui did not expect to be completed in one day, and it would be good to be able to cut out thirty Nanzhu today.

After Nanzhu is completed, a path to place Nanzhu has to be dug on the road, which cannot be completed in ten days and half a month.

At noon, the two calculated the time and went down the mountain to eat with wild eggs.

As soon as I came to the bamboo forest, I saw a man wearing a hat shouting water buffalo from the field.

"Fifth Brother Chen, herd the cattle." Xu Fugui said hello with a smile and casually put his clothes on his shoulders.

Chen Yunsheng looked up, grabbed the buffalo, and respectfully shouted to the young master.

Chen Yunsheng is another neighbor of theirs, just 30 years old, the fifth oldest in the family, and he brought the cornmeal he ate this morning.

"Don't call me young master, just call me Fugui, thank you for the cornmeal, if you need to exert strength in the future, just greet me."

Chen Yunsheng rubbed his hands, "It's good that the young master doesn't dislike it, by the way, the young master is going to the mountains?" ”

"Yes, I went to the mountains and cut some Nanzhu for water."

"Then you can just lead it from the Nanzhu in front of my house, save yourself all those efforts, how convenient it is ready-made."

Xu Fugui smashed his mouth twice, "I'm so embarrassed, you worked so hard to attract water." ”

Chen Yunsheng waved his hand indifferently, "Anyway, it's something that doesn't cost money, just open another opening, you can prepare three or four more Nanzhu bamboos, and lead them directly to your water tank." ”

Xu Fugui thought about it, this is indeed the truth, many families in the village are drawing water to eat together, which will save a lot of effort.

"Cheng, then I'm going to trouble you again......