Chapter 20: Digging a Well
This trip was a good one!
Most of the medicinal herbs collected were transplanted into the space by her, and a small number were sold for money. She decided to teach herself medical skills, and in the future, if there is a headache and brain fever at home, she can also watch it.
There are a lot of books on medicine in the mall, and there is also one called Divine Doctor Inheritance, but this one is expensive to death, and it costs 10,000 yuan! Shen Ruoqing now has more than 6,000 yuan in his body, and he can't afford to buy this divine medicine inheritance for the time being, so he only spent a few hundred yuan to buy a few ordinary primers.
There are a lot of good things in the mall, such as strong pills, beauty pills, physique enhancement liquids, and even secret recipes for giving birth to children. These secret recipes and pills are not cheap, and the cheapest secret recipe for giving birth costs five hundred yuan.
Shen Ruoqing couldn't use these things for the time being, she wanted to buy the strong pill before, but it cost 5,000 yuan, Shen Ruoqing felt that it was not cost-effective, and after taking the physique enhancement solution, Shen Ruoqing felt that her strength had also increased a little, so she had no idea of buying strong pills again.
The time was almost up, Shen Ruoqing dug up some wild vegetables and put them in the bamboo basket, ready to go down the mountain.
On the way down the mountain, Shen Ruoqing occasionally saw one or two pheasants flying over, but she couldn't hunt and couldn't catch them at all.
But fortunately, I didn't encounter any large animals, and I went down the mountain safely.
"If you are a girl, go digging wild vegetables again."
"Yes, auntie, although new food has been distributed, my family has few vegetables, so I dig wild vegetables to make do with it."
"Ruoqing girl, I heard that the above policy has been opened, and now it is allowed to keep the land for yourself, then your mother will open more land at home, grow vegetables or something, and save you from going to dig wild vegetables every day in the future."
Is it allowed to keep your own land?
That's great news.
Shen Ruoqing thanked this aunt and walked home quickly.
"Mom, I heard that the top is allowed to keep the land for yourself!"
"Yes, I'm telling the third child to go to the captain's place to line up to get seeds." Mrs. Ji had already gotten the news and sent Shen Xiangxi to line up early in the morning to receive the seeds.
Shen Ruoqing nodded and poured out the wild vegetables.
"Good baby, now that the food at home is enough, don't dig wild vegetables, look at your tanned these days." Mrs. Ji was a little distressed.
Tanned? I wear sunscreen every time.
Shen Ruoqing said: "Mom, don't look at this mother-in-law Ding is a wild vegetable, but it is also a medicinal material, I asked the acquisition station in the county last time, and I also accept this mother-in-law, three cents a catty, but people want to do it, and it is sunburned." ”
"Three cents a pound! Let Erya and Sanya dig with you tomorrow. ”
Shen Xiangxi brought back the seeds, but only the seeds of cabbage, radish, tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers, and brought bad news.
"The river on the brigade has dried up, and every household will have to have a ration of water in the future."
"What then? This rice has just been planted. Our family's own land needs to be watered too. ”
"Now the captain is not worried, it is not enough to rely on the well in the village alone, otherwise we will have to carry water from the next village to water it."
"Mom, let's dig a well, otherwise we won't be able to grow vegetables at all."
Shen Ruoqing opened his mouth again to dig a foreign well. She tried it with the detection function, and there happened to be a twenty-meter-deep place in the courtyard of the Shen family where there was a current.
This time everyone was silent for a while.
"Even if you hire a master to dig a well, you may not be able to get water."
"You don't care about this, I have a way to get water."
"What can you do?"
"I've read in books about how to be able to hit water. This part of our yard happens to be a depression, and the book says that this place is the easiest to get out of the water. ”
"Will this work?"
In the end, Mrs. Ji still agreed to dig a foreign well.
There is money in the family, and the Shen Xiangdong brothers know it. Shen Dahai was stoned to death when he went to mine, and the construction site lost 800 yuan, which was absolutely unusable, but I didn't expect Mrs. Ji to use this money to drill a well. Shen Ruoqing didn't know that there was still this money, she just thought that Mrs. Ji wanted to exchange the little yellow croaker for money.
The matter of digging a foreign well was thus determined. Shen went east to ask the price.
Now there are more people digging wells, but in these years, many people have spent money in vain and can't get water. But this did not prevent the price of digging a foreign well from rising, the cheapest to drill a foreign well in the past, only 40 yuan, now the cheapest is 55 yuan, and if it is far away, you have to pay five yuan for the journey. The deeper the well, the higher the price, if you want to dig a deep well, you have to ask for a hundred, and this price is enough for two more rooms.
A few days later.
The three masters who drilled the well rode into Dashi Village in an ox cart.
Shen Ruoqing was very happy, took out the big rooster cigarettes and asked Shen Xiangdong to send them to the well drilling masters.
When several well-drilling masters saw that there was still smoke here, they immediately had a better impression of Shen Xiangdong's family.
"Master, we want to drill a deep well, the deeper the better, because we want the water quality to be better, and we are afraid that it will not be enough, how do you think we should drill it appropriately?"
Shen Ruoqing said.
Although it was a girl who spoke, a few well drillers were a little disliked, but after all, it was the master's house, and they also gave them smoke, so they still replied: "If the deep water well is deep, it must be more than 20 meters, so that the water quality can be guaranteed." Of course, it would be better to be able to drill more than 30 meters, anyway, the deeper the overall water quality, the better, but we can drill a well of 35 meters at most, and we can't drill it no matter how deep it is, the key is that there is no such long well. Moreover, if you go over a 15-meter deep well, you have to add one dollar per meter, after all, it is not easy to fight. ”
"Then let's hit the deepest thirty-five meters." After speaking, Shen Ruoqing looked at Mrs. Ji.
Mrs. Ji also nodded: "Then it's troublesome for the master." ”
"No problem, but let's talk ugly things first, no matter if we don't get out of the water in the end, we will collect the money. Even if there is no water, your family will have to pay this money, and we are not responsible, only responsible for digging wells. ”
"We all know the rules, and the trouble master is more careful. At noon, a few masters ate at my house, and the work was done slowly and not in a hurry. ”
When a few people heard that there was still food to eat at noon, they were naturally very happy. After all, every household did not have enough to eat in these years, and even if they came out to dig a well, they would bring their own dry food, and when they hadn't dug a well for a long time, they ate outside.
Several well-digging masters arrived at the place designated by Shen Ruoqing and began to work. At this time, to dig a foreign well, in fact, is to use the well to hit the ground little by little, and the well is like a Luoyang shovel, one by one to shovel out the underground soil, until the water comes out, the overall is to vigorously produce a miracle, all by manpower to hit.
Several people have rich experience in drilling wells, although there are only three people, but they also perform their own duties, two people are responsible for taking soil, one person is responsible for adjusting the length of accessories, and the three people are also very skilled.