Chapter 156: Digging a Cave

After returning to the village, Qin Yi reported the matter of Tian Zhongyuan and Tian Xiaoyan to the patriarch. The patriarch was also very much in favor of building a warehouse for the distribution of medicinal herbs in the county seat, and the village and himself had fully tasted the sweetness of distributing herbal medicines;

As for the two of them living in the county seat, it is a matter of course. One is that the warehouse needs people, and on the other hand, the two of them don't belong to this village in the first place. The patriarch knew that sooner or later they would have to leave. Besides, the house was purchased by Qin Yi personally, who will live in it? It doesn't matter what happens to the village and other people?

The problem of farming and eating grain has been solved, and the distribution of herbs has also been settled. Compared with the past, the life of the villagers is much better, but Qin Yi is not satisfied?

He actually had a plan in his heart for a long time, but he didn't tell anyone, including his family Tian Zhongyuan and Tian Xiaoyan. His plan was to build roads and cut him off from the outside world.

The amount of road engineering outside the mountain is not large, and some can be widened to take the carriage. The biggest barrier is the road outside the mountain and this dirt hill in the middle of the village. If it's a stone mountain, there's not much you can do. But because it was an earth mountain, Qin Yi came up with a way to dig a cave, dig a cave through the mountain, and walk out of the cave directly.

This is not something that two people can do, and it requires the strength of the whole village and the joint efforts of the whole village.

With roads, oxen, horses, and larger farm implements can be brought in, and people don't need to pull pears for ploughing the land, and people can work more briskly.

With a road, there is no need to go over the mountains and mountains to get out of the village.

With the road, the whole village, regardless of gender, old and young, can go out and see the world outside.

The beautiful scenery depicted by Qin Yi once again touched most of the villagers.

Qin Yi's idea also won the support of the patriarch and the village council. However, there are also different voices.

Since the terraces were built and the terraces benefited the whole village, no one talked about the mountain god for a long time?

There was an old man in the village, with white hair and a white beard, and no one knew how old he was, because the second oldest man in the village said that when he was young, this old man had a beard, but then he was blackbeard.

Qin Yi is full of ambition plans: Where is this cave to be built, how to repair it? The white-bearded old man came to Qin Yi with the support of his family.

Qin Yi and this white-bearded old man have met and spoke, and the white-bearded old man has praised Qin Yi in front of everyone. But he came to dissuade Qin Yi this time, and he was very excited and his attitude was very resolute.

It turned out that when Grandpa Whitebeard was young, there was a capable person in the village, a capable person like Qin Yi, who also wanted to open up the way out of the mountains. He had the same idea as Qin Yi, he was also digging a cave.

It is also the mobilization of the whole village, and everyone is also full of confidence. But before he was halfway there, the mountain god got angry and buried the six who had dug the hole in the front and buried it alive.

They worked in separate shifts, and he himself had just been replaced, and he had escaped.

Qin Yi asked the white-bearded grandfather, what happened later?

"What else? Can this mountain god be provoked? Who would dare to dig again. Mr. Qin! Don't look at the fact that it's okay to repair the terraces, it's outside! It's like us patting the soil on our bodies, what's the matter? Isn't digging a cave for the life of the mountain god? How can the mountain god agree?" The white-bearded old man spoke earnestly.

"Grandpa, you said that our village really dug a cave?"

Qin Yi was overjoyed in his heart, he had never heard of this?

"Mr. Qin, is this still wrong? The old man participated in person, and he is almost halfway dug up? Six lives? Can the mountain god afford to provoke him?"

Qin Yi asked, is there still the cave that is almost half dug up?

The white-bearded old man said that he had filled in the hole at that time.

Qin Yi asked the specific location, saying that he wanted to go and see it. The family of the white-bearded grandfather supported the old man and led the way for Qin Yi.

When you get there, although it has been a long time and is covered with vegetation, there are still ruins to be found if you look closely.

Qin Yi decided to take a few people to dig up the hole and take a look.

The village is small, everything spreads quickly, and the old man's dissuasion soon spreads throughout the village, and many people have concerns?

However, Qin Yi is not an ordinary person after all, there are still people who work with him.

Among them are Pang Sanwa and Lu Shaoyu, because the two of them think: their relationship with Qin Yi is not ordinary?

When digging the hole, the family supported the white-bearded old man and kindly stopped him. Qin Yi really wanted to do the work of the old man, but no matter how patiently Qin Yi explained, the white-bearded old man just couldn't listen?

"I'm so old, how many days can I live? What am I afraid of? Am I not for you, Mr. Qin? Although the old body is old and dizzy, I can clearly see that your Mr. Qin is a good person and a powerful person, aren't you afraid that you will encounter accidents?"

Seeing that it was hopeless to convince the white-bearded old man, Qin Yi could only sincerely express his gratitude. But he insisted that he had made up his mind, and just like when he built the terraces, the mountain god punished him to bear it alone.

The white-bearded old man was very sad, sighed, shook his head helplessly, and walked away.

When filling in the hole, a lot of branches were thrown inside, and there was not a lot of soil to backfill the hole.

It didn't take much effort for a few people to open the hole.

It was a little dark inside, and Qin Yi lit a torch and went inside.

It was damp inside, and there was a pungent smell of staleness, but Qin Yi was overjoyed?

He didn't expect that after so many years, the cave would still be kept in such good condition? This shows that the soil of this mountain is good and suitable for digging holes.

In this way, Qin Yi's determination to dig a cave was strengthened.

Now he has a new idea, is he going to renovate the section he has dug up, and use the cave that has been dug to repair it?

Qin Yi continued to walk inside, and when he came to the place where the accident occurred, there were indeed traces of a landslide.

Qin Yi compared the soil quality and found that the soil in the place of the collapse was very loose. Qin Yi smiled, what kind of mountain god is this angry? It's just a landslide caused by bad soil quality.

Qin Yi took out the two kinds of soil and compared them with a few people who went with him, and several people felt that Qin Yi's analysis was reasonable.

Since Tian Zhongyuan and Tian Xiaoyan moved away, Qin Yi really hasn't cooked much by himself, because every time it is time to eat, there is always a woman in the village who brings Qin Yi food.

Qin Yi is not stupid, he knows what women want to do, but he always pretends to be stupid.

Human interaction is always mutual, let alone the love of men and women? Women can't be too much?

After a long time, there was a rumor that Qin Yi had a problem in this regard. When Qin Yi heard it, he laughed. Think it's okay to save a lot of trouble?

But there is one person who doesn't believe it, that is, Lu Shaoyu's mother-in-law, and only she knows the reason.

However, she never spoke to others. It's not that I'm embarrassed?

She also often comes to Qin Yi to deliver food, but she just comes to deliver food, and when the food is delivered, she turns around and leaves. When other women come to deliver food, they must enter the house, and they have to try their best to find an excuse to try their best to rub around with Qin Yi for a while. And Lu Shaoyu's mother-in-law is usually in the courtyard and calls Qin Yi out. After handing over the rice bowl to Qin Yi, she stood in the courtyard and waited for Qin Yi to send the empty bowl out and bring it back.

The rice is given away, but the bowl has to be taken back, and it doesn't matter if the empty bowl is washed or not?

Is it to use the half-dug cave? Qin Yi was still hesitating.

He went into the cave a few more times, and discussed it with the patriarch and the elders of the council. But the patriarch and the elders all let Qin Yi take the idea, because they didn't understand. Nothing else, it's just that Qin Yi wanted to avoid that section of the collapsed road.

The question is: Will you not encounter such a section of the road if you dig in another place? Qin Yi remembers reading in a book that the soil layer in the mountains is different. In other words, if you dig again, there is a high probability that you will also encounter a layer of soil that is easy to collapse? In this way, it is much better to use the hole that has already been dug, and it can save a lot of labor and time.

The most important thing is how to pass through this collapsible road section, how to pass, and there is no other way, but support.

What kind of support is used? Only logs can be used for local materials.

Qin Yi thought that in order to ensure the safety of the cave diggers, the support of the roof of the cave should be done first. That is, a horizontal hole slightly larger than the diameter of the log is dug in the upper part first, and the log at the top of the support is first inserted horizontally. Logs should be longer. Then excavate under the logs. Do support on both sides while digging.

It takes a lot of logs, but there's no shortage of trees here.

In the first step, Qin Yi first led people to cut wood.

Logs are the main way to build houses, and everyone has tools for cutting logs, and everyone can do the work of processing logs.

The processed logs were transported to the entrance of the cave, and it was time to see that they could do it for a while, and then Qin Yi began to take people in to dig the hole.

The work surface is small, only a few people can be accommodated, and the progress is slow. But Qin Yi was not in a hurry, he had long known that such a big project would take several years?

Thanks to proper planning, the project is progressing smoothly.

It didn't take long to dig in and found the bones of a person, and everyone knew that this was the victim of the year.

Qin Yi and the others carefully cleaned out these bones and built a large tomb not far from the entrance of the cave to commemorate the ancestors who sacrificed their lives for the construction of the road.

Digging holes can only be used during the slack season, which is the season for harvesting herbs. Everyone was busy collecting medicine, and the digging had stopped for many days.

There was good news in the village that Lu Shaoyu had hunted a big wild boar in a hunting cellar dug in the mountains.

Here, the big game is meant to be shared with the whole village. At night, the aroma of pork can be smelled in front of every house in the village, which is a grand festival in the village.

Qin Yi knew that Lu Shaoyu would definitely send it to him, and he had been waiting for the wild boar sent by Lu Shaoyu to go to the pot.

But after waiting for a long time, there was no movement. It is said that after someone has finished it, maybe some woman will also send a bowl to herself. But no, what's going on?