It's March 1929 in Shanhe Village, and I roughly calculated the time, and there are still four months left before the war caused by the Eastern Railway Incident in July.

According to the various historical materials I consulted, several wars that took place in this incident at that time were relatively close to Shanhe Village, but there is no record of whether Shanhe Village was affected or not.

The name Shanhe Village or related materials have hardly appeared in modern historical events. According to this incident, Tsarist Russia had gathered troops to harass and roam here dozens of times, large and small, and roamed at will, Zhang Xueliang led the Northeast Army to confront Tsarist Russia, but because of a unclear understanding of the situation at home and abroad, the battle was defeated, and some areas in Northeast China were seriously affected by the war.

Based on the scope of the area where the battles took place, I can roughly guess that the people of Shanhe Village will not have a good time.

Now that the weather is starting to warm up and the frozen ground has melted somewhat, the old plan can be put into practice - I am going to dig a shelter in this mountain and river village so that the villagers can have a place to save their lives in the event of a war.

The starting point is the cellar in the backyard of this floating grain store.

The entrance of this cellar is about two meters square, three meters deep, it is supposed to store vegetables, and there is a thick hemp rope soft ladder at the mouth of the cellar, I squatted at the mouth of the cellar and watched it for a long time, and then slowly climbed down along this soft ladder.

The ladder is already very old, I regretted it halfway down, my weight of one hundred and sixty or seventy pounds was pressed on this ladder, the ladder was almost deformed, and the wood on the feet was also rotten, and two pieces were stepped on by me, and they broke directly and fell off the rope.

The further down I went, the more turbid the air in front of me became, with a musty smell.

I finally went down to the end, but I felt that it was dark in front of me, and it took me a long time for my eyes to slowly adapt to the darkness.

There is a large storage space at the bottom of the vegetable cellar, which is divided into two small rooms of about five square meters each and less than one meter high. These two small rooms are the places where vegetables and grains are stored, but they are too short, and if I want to enter them, I will have to bend over 90 degrees, and even squat on the ground and move in a little bit.

There were still some rotten leaves and rotten potatoes on the ground, and the foul air was probably caused by these rotting things.

It's March, and the temperature on the ground is still very low, but it's quite warm under the cellar.

The cellar is three meters deep, and it is not easy to dig to this depth, and there is such a large space dug in it, it seems that the original owner has a lot of money.

If you look at the soil under your feet, it is also very dry, and there is no damp feeling of an underground cave, so if you continue to dig half a meter to a meter, you should not dig up groundwater.

The current plan is to excavate about a meter below the entrance of the cave to the side, increasing the width and height of the lower part so that people can stand and pass through, just like moving around the room, so that if the situation outside is not good, living inside for a long time will not be greatly affected.

As for this soft ladder, I think this thing is really unsafe, people step on it and sway, if you use this thing, if an emergency comes, it is estimated that it will take ten minutes for the old, weak, sick and disabled to go down.

The cellar is 90 degrees straight down, ideally with a slight slope and steps on the slope, so that people up and down can save a lot of trouble.

I went home and bought a set of digging tools: a shovel, a pickaxe, an empty cement bucket, a herringbone ladder, gloves, and in addition, I bought a hand-held electric digging pile driver and brought it with me with a full charge, in fact, I had never used this thing, and I was completely fooled by the hardware store owner.

With all of this in mind, I quickly returned and began my asylum digging venture.

I first lowered the herringbone ladder, and according to the depth of the cellar, I chose this ladder that can reach 3.5 meters high, and then with a shovel, I went down to a position of about one meter and began to dig to the side and below.

As soon as I shoveled down, I knew that this work was not easy to do: the soil was very dry and hard, and it was not hard to stand on this ladder and dig downward, and it would hurt to grind my hands after digging a few times, and the digging pile driver was basically useless, this thing was okay to make holes, but it was completely insufficient to dig cellars.

However, when you can't dig it, you can also use a pile driver to make a few holes to make the soil layer softer, and then change to an iron pick, use an iron pickaxe to cut along the hole made by the pile driver, loosen the soil, and then clean it with a shovel.

But it's still too cumbersome to climb up and down and keep changing tools, and it seems that digging a hole is really not a good job, and even a shelter of the size I have planned may not be something that can be done by one person.

In addition, standing on the ladder and digging to the side, it is impossible to catch the soil and get out of the hole, so I have to dig for a while with a cement bucket and carry it to the ground.

After more than three hours of drying in one go, I was a little tired and stupid, especially when I did this Peng Yuyan's Kyoto branch in the forties, I couldn't take off this robe, I tried to change my clothes with this black Taiji mirror, but the left and right were all long shirts, which was really numb.

Now the position one meter below the entrance of the cave has been widened by me about half a meter, and it has been dug to the bottom and emptied of the soil, but my physical strength has basically been exhausted, and I have roughly calculated that if at this rate, the space below is expanded to the width I need, it is estimated that a year will not be enough.

I'll have to find a few helpers.

"Immortal Master?"

Zhao Donglai's voice came from behind him.

I looked back and saw that he was staring wide-eyed at the cellar and a large pile of dirt on the ground.

"Oh, Zhao Donglai, are you done with the front?"

"No, I'll come and ask you what you're eating, and my daughter-in-law will go home and do it."

"I don't eat it, you can just eat it."

Thinking about Zhao Donglai's cautious appearance when he came to deliver food, he might have to open a small stove for me, I was uncomfortable, and I might as well go back and order a takeout.

"Fairy Master ......"

"Zhao Donglai, you will call me the shopkeeper in the future, my surname is Luo, my name is Luo Fusheng, which is the name of this grain store. I'm not a fairy, I'm a human like you, if I'm a fairy, I still need to dig this thing! ”

I wiped my sweat and felt it still running down my back. I'm really a little allergic to the words "fairy master".

"Yes, yes, shopkeeper, are you going to expand the cellar?"

"yes!"

"How big is it, you wait for me to close the grain store at night, I'll expand it, I've done this work."

"Expand to five hundred people."

I have investigated during this time, there are about 90 households in this mountain and river village, with a population of nearly 400 people, and then think about the long-term, such as the new population, getting married and marrying daughters-in-law, putting things or something, so it is best to have a shelter that can accommodate 500 people in one step.

However, I obviously saw Zhao Donglai's face twitch:

"Shopkeeper, that's too big, we don't have so much food to put in it."

"I'm going to use it for people, five hundred, can you expand it?"

"Shopkeeper, I can't expand alone, why don't we hire the third brother, their brother is a good hand at digging vegetable cellars, and most of the vegetable cellars in the village are dug by their brothers."

Oh? And this kind of talent?

To be honest, I was moved, I was really tired and lost my temper after more than three hours of digging just now, and I even wanted to give up, and now Zhao Donglai said this, my heart is also alive: spend some money to hire someone to dig it, or the shelter is not dug out, I will be tired here first.

"You said that the third brother Xu is good at digging holes?"

"Isn't it, it's the big man of the white wolf with empty gloves in our store today, the bucket of rice at the beginning is still with us, he stood in that person and earned us more than a pound of rice without moving the nest......"

Zhao Donglai came again, I smiled bitterly and pressed my temples, listening to Zhao Donglai's chatter.

Now there are still 17 months left before September 18, 1931, that is, the September 18 Incident, and counting the fact that Shanhe Village is far away from the main site of the war, around February 1932, the location of Shanhe Village will also be completely lost.

So there are about two years left to prepare for my plans.

"Shopkeeper, today, in one day, I lost a total of nineteen catties of all kinds of rice and flour grains."

"How many people are here?"

"The news spread later, and more than fifty people came."

"More than fifty people have made seventeen pounds?"

"My daughter-in-law and I are too busy, the people in front don't go, the people in the back can't squeeze, or we have to pay more, and in the future, we have to do this every day."

The common people are hard, and they are willing to squeeze in this small shop for a day for a few taels and a pound of food.

Zhao Donglai insisted on changing the rule of big buckets and small buckets, and after some in-depth discussion and discussion with him, he decided to formulate the following rules:

1. For tenants who have no land, each person over the age of 50 can receive one pound of coarse grain per day, and half a pound under the age of 50, which is equal to men and women. You can come to borrow grain, no interest, and pay it back after the autumn.

2. Those who have land, two acres and less, can come to borrow grain, no interest, and repay it after the autumn.

3. Those who owe usury can borrow money and grain to repay their debts without interest, and repay them after the autumn.

Fourth, the rule of eliminating the big bucket and the small bucket entering.

5. Those who recruit workers should be tenants, and there is no age limit, and they can also be converted into silver if they provide food plus two catties of coarse grain or half a catty of fine grain every day.

After discussing, Zhao Dong came to find red paper, studied ink, solemnly wrote the rules on paper, and then found a wooden board to make a sign, ready to stand at the door tomorrow.

After the brand was ready, Zhao Donglai stared at the brand for a while, and his eyes suddenly turned red:

"This is all for the sake of our poor people, shopkeeper, do you still say that you are not a fairy master?"

"I'm really not, the gods won't care about this. Zhao Donglai, if you have nothing to do, go and ask the third brother Xu, come to expand this vegetable cellar for me, how to expand it specifically, and wait for tomorrow and the people who are willing to work will come, I will talk to everyone. ”

"Shopkeeper, I'll go."

Zhao Donglai turned around and went out, and I went back to the house and began to sketch the shelter.

If you need 500 people to eat and live in it, according to the space of two square meters per person, at least 1,000 square meters, if you count the activity space for eating, drinking and Lazar, the place you need is larger, look at the area of this yard, it must be not enough to hollow out all the backyards.

If all 500 people are crammed together, this is also a problem, and it is better to be able to separate the spaces and then connect them by passages......

After thinking about it for a long night, I finally drew the preliminary sketch and waited for everyone to arrive tomorrow to explain a few words and start work.