Since the day the dam was built, I have been buying pigeons to feed.

What she didn't understand was that I didn't buy one or two, but hundreds.

I bought a total of 600 before I stopped.

Just because six is an auspicious number: Lu is high, Lu Lu is ······ Wait a minute.

I locked them up in Mr. Wu's house on the other side.

I'm not feeding for the sake of picking up eggs, but for another thing.

Finally, one day Yu'er couldn't help but ask me: "You raise so many pigeons, what is this for?" ”

I said, "I'm always doing the right thing." ”

She said, "You have to tell me." ”

I said, "You'll know then." ”

"You have to tell me," she said. ”

I said, "Pick up the eggs." ”

She said: "How much can pigeon eggs be sold for?" I'm afraid that I won't even be able to earn back the food I feed every day. ”

I said, "When the time comes, not only will you earn back the grain, but you will also earn back the much." ”

She stared at me and said, "I don't believe me." ”

I said, "Then let's ride a donkey and read the record book." ”

"You have to be clear," she said. ”

I smiled and said, "Pick up the eggs." ”

She stared at me for a while and said, "Why don't you sell pigeon eggs as prizes?" ”

I said, "That's a really good idea." ”

She said, "Who wants to pay to smoke you with a pigeon egg?" ”

I just laughed and didn't say anything.

She added, "Aren't you going to pack pigeon eggs for prizes?" ”

I looked at her with a smile.

She said: "Yes, only then will people be rare and willing to buy your lottery tickets, but ······"

I stared at her.

She said: "The poor do not rarely pack pigeon eggs, and only the rich people are rare in these pigeon eggs, but how many rich people are there?" Besides, if you buy it back, you won't be able to eat it for a while and it will spoil, so it seems that you are. ”

I laughed and said, "yes,." ”

She was about to come and hit me, and I ran away.

When I turned around, a shoe hit me straight in the face. She took off her shoes and threw them at me.

I said, "You don't talk about martial arts. ”

She laughed and said, "Do women still need to talk about martial virtues?" ”

My father-in-law and mother-in-law didn't understand it, and came to me twice in three days and asked me to slaughter the pigeons and stew them.

I am categorically opposed.

When the news got out, people started laughing at me for being stupid again.

When my father-in-law saw that I spent so much food every day to raise those useless pigeons, he didn't give me a good face.

It is always said that food is used to raise people, not pigeons. I always shook my head and sighed behind me, saying that I was occasionally smart, but I did something more ruined, and one day I would lose this family in my hands, and I regretted marrying Yu'er to me.

I naturally became a loser in the mouth of Yu'er's mother's family.

I was silent. Concentrate on raising pigeons and building dams.

Only the craftsmen will ask for my wages, and the small workers who pick up stones in the river and carry them up to the embankment do not need me to pay them.

Because they said that I had given the wages of the craftsmen, they should also give their labor for the dam.

I designed the levee to be wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. I also designed the levee to be in an arc shape, with the inner arc facing downstream and the outer arc facing upstream. I didn't design a sand spill hole, I didn't design a spillway, because my dam wasn't built as high as the river bank. Six feet below the riverbank.

At the top of the levee, I designed a five-foot-wide bridge, which was two feet higher than the riverbank. But it's not an arch bridge, it's a slab bridge. In this way, the excess water flows downstream over the top of the embankment, which also facilitates the movement of people on both sides of the river.

I designed the downstream side of the embankment to be inclined and the bottom of the embankment to be tilted upwards like the moon. When the excess water flows down, it rushes into the sky. By the time the water falls, it is already some distance away from the embankment, so that it does not hurt the bottom of the embankment.

As soon as the foundation stone of the embankment was laid, while we were in full swing to build the dam wall, the old men who lived downstream came with people to stop the construction and wanted to destroy the embankment we were building.

Their reasoning was that I had blocked the river upstream, harming their irrigation downstream.

I laughed, laughed at their blindness, laughed at their lack of knowledge.

They opened their eyes to me with angry eyes, and called to those who had brought them to act immediately and destroy my levees.

As soon as the people who built the levees saw it, they immediately took up all kinds of weapons to block them, and confronted them, and the group fight was only a matter of my order.

But I didn't do that, I just called the old men downstream aside and showed them another drawing.

This drawing is a canal I designed. They can also see that this is a canal drawing.

An old man jumped out and said, "You have irrigated the fields, what about us?" ”

The other gentlemen all spoke up.

I said, "There are two canals I want to build, one on each side, and so much water is flowing down, will I be able to use up the farmland on both sides?" ”

They stared at me.

I said, "What do you do with the water that runs out of water, and go back to the river?" No, you can't let it flow into the river, you can continue to build my canal, so that you can irrigate your farmland together. ”

The anger on the faces of the old men was driven away by a smile.

I said, "It's just a few days later than we do." ”

The old men all smiled and said, "It's okay, a few days later won't affect our irrigation." ”

I said, "Should you donate money and energy to this dam?" So that our descendants will not have unpleasant things and somersaults. ”

The old men all said it should be.

In this way, this turmoil was resolved by a few words from me.

Although the poor people did not understand the merits of my dam-building, they did not dare to disobey their master's orders, and they joined us in building the levees with much incomprehension.

Suddenly, half of the people were overwhelmed, and my levee was completed before the spring came.

With the donations of these old men, I just took the lead in this embankment, and I didn't spend a penny.

I didn't build the levee directly opposite our village, but a mile upward—just because I believe in feng shui.

I remember that in my hometown, a large family listened to the words of the monk Huayuan and built a bridge over the river directly opposite their village, but the family soon declined.

Why did this big family listen to the monks?

It's just because the monk Huayuan told him that although his house base is in good shape and has a backer, there is no way out - just because there is a river outside the dam in front of the door.

The monk told him to build a bridge over the river directly opposite the gate, so that the foundation of his house would have a backing mountain and a way out, and his descendants would have a prosperous journey of thousands of miles, wealth and glory.

I just don't want to repeat the mistakes of that big family.

Besides, there is another benefit of building in this place - it is a good way to direct water to my family's fields.

Just because I proposed and took the lead in the construction of this embankment, although there is not a single family surnamed Zhuo in the villages on both sides of the river, people still name this embankment 'Zhuojiayan' after my surname.

Without my permission, the craftsmen engraved these three words on the piers at the top of the embankment.