Chapter 21 Follow-up to the Well Drilling
The village knew that the Shen family had come to dig a well, and there were many people who came to see the excitement. One hugging the other. After all, the whole village now has a large well to drink, and no one has ever dug a well in their yard.
"Shen Xiangnan, how much does it cost your family to build this foreign well?"
Shen Xiangnan was very angry at this time, and took the big rooster cigarette that Shen Ruoqing brought back and sent it to the crowd: "It doesn't cost much, the average is only fifty or sixty, but if my family wants to make a good one, it will not exceed 100 yuan at most." ”
"A hundred bucks! So expensive! The crowd exclaimed, "Shen Xiangnan, your family is quite rich!" ”
Shen Ruoqing frowned, she didn't see that this cheap second brother still likes to show off.
"How did the Shen family come up with 100 yuan? Didn't I remember that his family was quite poor? Shen Ruoqing is still digging wild vegetables every day this month! ”
"Hey, you don't know that, do you? When Shen Dahai died, he compensated hundreds of yuan, and the Shen family was rich. ”
Wang listened with her ears propped up, she asked Shen Xiangnan where the money for digging wells in his family came from, Shen Xiangnan refused to tell her, and now she knows that her father-in-law's compensation was hundreds of yuan! When Shen Xiangnan married her, he also said that the family had no money and gave such a little dowry!
"How did this well go so deep or dry? Don't come out of the water again this time! ”
It's more than ten meters deep, and it's still dry, it looks like the Shen family's money is going to be wasted!
"I don't think I can get water! It's all deep! Should! I still want to learn from others to dig foreign wells, so the money is spent in vain! "It's Ji Meihua who speaks, and she can't see the Shen family having a good time!
The master who drilled the well was also unsure, so he ran to ask Shen Xiangdong: "Do you continue to fight?" ”
Shen Xiangdong looked at his wife, and Mrs. Ji looked at Shen Ruoqing.
"Keep fighting, don't worry, master, we all said it at the beginning, even if you are unlucky and can't get water, you won't be missing."
"Also, this wells pay attention to a luck, whether you can hit the water also depends on luck, if there is no water below, you can't force water, right? Master, go ahead. Shen Xiangdong said.
The people who watched the excitement also nodded, and there were still one or two people in the crowd who wanted to dig a well, and they also stopped thinking at this time. That's a lot of money, if you don't get out of the water, the money will be in vain!
Shen Ruoqing watched the well drilling master work for a long time. When I was about to hit twenty meters, the mud came out. At this moment, Shen Xiangdong and the others can be regarded as reassuring. Until it is 35 meters deep.
Then the worker master will follow the head of the well, and gently press the pressure rod, and the water will flow out of the wellhead.
"Out of the water!"
"In the beginning, there will be sand in the water, but after a few days, it will be clean."
"Good work, hard work!" Shen Xiangdong sent out another round of smoke. Seeing this, the Shen family is undoubtedly the happiest, this money was not spent in vain!
"It's really got them out of the shit luck and out of the water!" Ji Meihua was very unwilling, and scolded again.
"Aunt Shen, in the future, you have a water press, can I come to your house to pick up water?" A neighbor asked.
It's hard to agree to this, it's so difficult to use water now, if everyone goes to Shen's house to get water, what can we do? But if you don't agree, you will inevitably be difficult to be a person in the village.
"People spent a hundred yuan, sister-in-law Qi, your abacus is really good. If you want to draught, you can also fight, the well master is here, and you can save the road fee! Someone joked that the person who spoke was someone close to the mouth of the big well in the village.
"Didn't I see that the Shen family's foreign well has been laid? If my family also fights, don't talk about that money first, can you get out of the water or two? Sister-in-law Qi was not annoyed when she was told it, and replied with a smile.
"No problem, you can pick it up, a few nearby families far away from the big well can come to my house to get water, but the amount of water that comes to my house is also limited. If there is no limit, these will not be used by the wife and her own house. Mrs. Ji came up with such a compromise. After all, the amount of water used in the village is now limited, and if she doesn't make a limit, I believe there must be many people who love to use more water on purpose.
"Aunt Shen, you are so good! Rest assured, we won't use your own water, and we won't hinder your own water. ”
Mrs. Ji said this undoubtedly won the favor of many people in the village, and for a while, the prestige of the Shen family in the village also increased a little.
And Shen Xiangdong also invited the well drilling master into the house for dinner.
Although new grain has been distributed, everyone knows that this year's grain is not enough to eat, because there is no water to irrigate the land, and it is still two to say whether the next season's grain can be planted. The well drill didn't expect to eat much better.
Unexpectedly, the staple food of the Shen family's hospitality was still a nest made of cornmeal. Now cornmeal is classified as fine grain, and many people who are afraid that there will not be enough food to eat have long exchanged cornmeal for other coarse grains.
In addition to the nest made of cornmeal, the Shen family also fried a large pot of cabbage and potatoes, although there was no meat, but it looked like there was a lot of oil and water, and the other was a plate of scrambled eggs.
In this era, such a meal can be regarded as sumptuous.
The well digging master thought that it would be good to eat some Erhe noodles, and he could still eat a nest made of pure cornmeal, as well as a plate of scrambled eggs, all of whom praised the Shen family's kindness.
After eating, Shen Xiangdong sent off the master who was digging the well.
When I came back, there were already people lining up at home to fetch water.
"The newly dug well water has sand and cannot be eaten, and if it is to be eaten, it will take a few days." Shen Xiangdong said.
"It's okay, we'll call back to use it, Shen Xiangdong, your water presser is really easy to use, just like that, the water will come out, and my family will save some money to dig a foreign well next year."
As the first well in the village, everyone's freshness is still very strong.
Shen Ruoqing looked at the people in line, and also sighed, it seems that his family will not need this well today. But it doesn't matter, she was originally there to use water to cover freely.
After having Yangjing, Mrs. Ji took her three daughters-in-law to clean up the vegetable garden. Now each person has two points of self-reserved land, their family has a total of 14 people, can have more than 1,800 square meters of self-reserved land, the area of this self-reserved land is not small, in addition to planting a little area with a little food, the others have planted corn and sweet potatoes. With self-reserved land, there is no fear of running out of food to eat.
Shen Ruoqing also got some land nutrient solution from the system mall on his own land, which cost more than 100 yuan. I believe that the output of this land should not disappoint her.
Because of the self-reserved land, the Shen family finally stopped eating acorn noodles, but Shen Ruoqing felt that it might be that Mrs. Ji didn't change them after eating the acorn noodles. However, since the Wang family heard that Mrs. Ji still has hundreds of yuan in her hands, she uses the child in her belly as a demon every day, either to eat eggs or to drink chicken soup.
However, Mrs. Ji was not used to her, and she was honest after cleaning up two meals.