Digging up the silt was only the first step, and when it was more than a meter deep, Shengwu stuck the shovel in the silt on the side, changed his hands, and dug around in the silt at the bottom of the pit, looking for traces of the lotus root.

After digging for a long time, he finally found his goal.

First, he dug away the mud on the surface with his hands, revealing the black lotus root root underneath.

Then, he measured the outline of the lotus root with his hands, took the shovel, cut off the two ends of the lotus root, and dug out the lotus root.

This set of procedures took nearly ten minutes.

Seeing that the Shengwu brothers had worked hard for a long time to dig out an arm-thick lotus root, the audience in the live broadcast room was stunned.

"Is it so hard to dig lotus roots?"

"It took half a day to dig such a big pit, and you did such a one?"

"Huh? I thought it was like digging potatoes, digging it out in a few clicks, this lotus root is buried so deeply? ”

"This digging a lotus root can exhaust me to death!"

Not only was the audience in the live broadcast room amazed, but Liu Yifei couldn't help but be surprised when she saw Shengwu throwing the lotus root on the side of the open space and carrying a shovel to change places: "Can you only dig one in this pit?" ”

"There's just this one in this pit, and I haven't touched anything else."

Shengwu stared ahead, searching for his target, walking forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and he didn't have time to talk at all.

After taking a few steps forward, he found his target and continued to repeat what he had just done.

Watching him dig the mud shovel by shovel, the fine sweat oozing from his forehead was shining brightly by the rising sun, Liu Yifei finally understood why he said that he couldn't do this job all year round.

With this amount of labor, from morning to night, ordinary people can't stick to it at all!

Watching from the sidelines, Liu Yifei couldn't help but ask: "Isn't there any machine that can come in and dig?" How tiring is it to rely on people to dig like this? ”

"Not yet."

Li Yi came to her side, shook his head and explained: "The lake is full of mud, people can't hold it up, and the machine can't hold it up."

Moreover, when digging the lotus root, it must be intact and complete, otherwise it will not be sold at a high price.

If you change the machine to dig, it is easy to be injured by mistake if you dig deep, and if you dig shallow, you still have to rely on people to continue digging, which is meaningless. ”

Liu Yifei looked at the two Shengwu brothers who were digging lotus roots in the mud, and asked a little unwillingly: "Then can't you design a machine that can not only ensure the quality of lotus roots, but also replace manpower?" ”

Li Yi smiled: "If you want to design, you must be able to design."

However, the cost of equipment procurement, daily energy consumption, driver salaries, regular maintenance, etc. is relatively high, and it may not be able to recover the cost for two or three years. ”

"Then after two or three years, won't you be able to make money?"

Liu Yifei was puzzled: "The efficiency of the machine must be higher than that of a human, right?" ”

"Of course."

Li Yi raised his hand and pointed at the two Shengwu brothers, and asked rhetorically, "But if they use machines, then where should they go to make money?" ”

Liu Yifei was stunned and speechless for a while.

Li Yi explained: "A machine can replace a hundred jobs, and if a hundred people are unemployed, they will have no money to eat and cannot afford to buy lotus roots, so the lotus roots dug up by the machine can only desperately lower the price."

The more machines there are, the lower the price of lotus roots, but even if the price gets lower and lower, more and more people will not be able to afford it, because more and more people will lose their jobs because of the machines.

In the long run, it will be a vicious circle, crazy involution, and in the end, no one will benefit. ”

Liu Yifei scratched her head: "It sounds so complicated. ”

"It's quite complicated, so many times, there is always a gap between beautiful imagination and reality."

Li Yi picked up the shovel, handed it to her, and said with a smile: "It's your turn, try to see if you can dig one out." ”

"I'm sure I can."

Liu Yifei took the shovel with confidence, and walked crookedly towards the open space on the side of Shengwu.

After asking Sheng Wu how to find the location of the lotus root, she found the target area and excavated.

The first shovel went down, and she dug hard, but she couldn't dig out the mud.

Even though she was mentally prepared, she still underestimated the weight of the silt.

Pulling the shovel out, she re-shoveled a thin layer of silt, this time finally digging a small hole.

Shovel after shovel digging, and soon she was sweating finely.

But she didn't stop, still digging shovel after shovel.

The camera crew was shooting on either side of her, and these were the best materials.

After digging more than 30 shovels, she finally couldn't stand it anymore, straightened up, raised her hand and wiped her sweat with her sleeve.

The sleeves of her clothes, already wet with mud, left a mud mark on her face.

After catching her breath, she continued to dig.

She dug for twenty minutes before she finally reached the bottom.

When the shovel hit a hard object, she happily threw it out and dug under the mud with both hands.

After digging for a long time, she tugged hard, and suddenly an ass pier sat in the mud behind her.

But she didn't care, but held a huge lotus root as thick as a child's leg, and cheered happily: "Dig it out!" ”

The camera faithfully recorded this scene, Zeng Shun slapped his palm with satisfaction, and laughed: "This is good!" ”

After hearing his words, Li Yi stepped forward and pulled Liu Yifei up.

"It didn't hurt, did you?"

Li Yi asked with concern.

"It's okay, this mud is all soft, it doesn't hurt at all."

Liu Yifei proudly raised the lotus root and showed off to Li Yi: "Look, I'm amazing, right?" ”

"Awesome."

Li Yi nodded with a smile and helped her wipe the mud watermark on her face: "The one you dug is bigger than Brother Shengwu and them, this is called a woman who doesn't let her eyebrows." ”

"Haha! But I'm digging too slowly. ”

Liu Yifei raised her hand to wipe her sweat, looking at the dug mud pit, and her heart was full of a sense of accomplishment.

Picking up the shovel, she stepped forward and said with great interest: "I continue to dig, I want to earn a thousand yuan today!" ”

Li Yi looked at her with a smile, noncommittal.

But after Liu Yifei dug out another lotus root, she was so tired that she sat in the mud pit, panting and lowering her goal: "Forget it, it's better to have five hundred yuan." ”

Just when Liu Yifei was digging hard in the lake, on the other side, Lin Long was already in a hurry.

The staff of the tax department who suddenly came to the door caught him off guard.

The tax officer's request for an audit scared him so much that he didn't sleep for two nights in a row.

He couldn't figure out why a tax officer suddenly came to check the accounts?

He also dotted up and down on weekdays, huh? Why didn't you say hello and go straight to the door?

What's even more strange is that when he went to the leader who had been informed about the news, the leader refused to see him, as if he was avoiding him.

This made him wonder even more.

And in addition to being puzzled, he was more angry.

On weekdays, he eats and drinks well, and gives things and red envelopes, what is it for?

Not to avoid this trouble?

It's good now, you have collected your things, you have taken the money, and if something happens, you wipe your mouth and want to admit it, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

Therefore, early this morning, Lin Long, who was red-eyed, drove to the downstairs of the leader's wife's work unit and waited.

Today he is bound to have an explanation!

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(End of chapter)