Chapter Twenty-Seven: Opening the Fields and Making Lakes
Li Xuan's family still has two acres of sloping land on the edge of the West Mountain, which is a small wasteland dug out by Li Xuan's father. Since the hillside cannot hold water, only drought-tolerant crops such as corn can be planted, and as much grain can be harvested in the autumn.
Now, Li Xuan's pagoda has stored a lot of water, and it can also refine spiritual water. It would be a shame not to put this land to good use.
Li Xuan thought, I can also change the land in Xishan into a vegetable field, and when the time comes, I can use spiritual water to grow spiritual vegetables, not only for my own family to eat, but also for relatives and friends to borrow some light. Otherwise, just a few times Song Zhong came, and the dishes at home would not be enough.
Li Xuan's idea was very good, but when he got to the ground, he was really a little dumbfounded. This hillside has a relatively steep slope. It is mainly dug out by Li Xuan's father along the hillside a few years ago, and planting some corn every year can yield a little harvest.
But when it comes to growing vegetables, watering alone is a big problem. Because there is no water source nearby, I can't carry the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda to water it every day, then it will be exposed.
Li Xuan pondered for a few days, and finally let him come up with a solution. The second layer of his Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda has a water storage function, and it also comes with a function of finding water veins. That is, to find out if there are any springs or groundwater nearby. If there is a vein of water near your home, you can draw the water out.
On the day off, Li Xuan sacrificed the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda and began to wander around this land. About three hundred meters to the east of the plot, the pagoda reacted.
According to the information fed back from the pagoda, there is a vein of water passing through at a depth of fifteen meters underground. It's fifteen meters underground, but it's a bit difficult. Li Xuan thought about it, how could he let this water flow out.
Li Xuan patted his head, there was a way. The first layer of the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda has a storage function, and I use this function to suck away the soil and stones on the water veins and transfer them to other places.
Just do it. Li Xuan first looked around and found that there was no one else around. He sacrificed the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda of Heaven and Earth, and shouted "suck" softly. I saw that the earth and stones were sucked into the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda of Heaven and Earth, and a large pit with a diameter of about eight meters and a depth of more than three meters appeared under the pagoda.
Li Xuan carried the pagoda to the west side of his wasteland, and shouted softly: "Release." The pagoda spat out the soil that had been sucked in again.
Next, he walked a few hundred meters west to let the pagoda spit out the stone again.
This is definitely the first time that the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda has done this kind of most boring and rubbish work since the opening of the world, which is simply insulting the "Tag" of the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda. It's a pity that the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda met such a strange master, and could only endure it silently.
And so it went back and forth, five or six back and forth. Li Xuan opened a large pit more than ten meters deep on the water vein, and finally exposed the underground water vein. Li Xuan used the second layer of the pagoda to absorb some water into it, and the pagoda identified the water quality: "Jipindi mineral water is rich in minerals, beneficial to the human body, and has little effect on the restoration of the pagoda. "Although it is also ordinary water, the water quality is much stronger than that of the Elm River.
After the big pit came out, the water in the underground water veins gurgled out, and it took about an hour, and the big pit opened by Li Xuan was almost full, and the water was about two meters away from the edge of the pit, and it no longer rose. This big pit looks like a large well.
The water of this leyline is drawn out, and it is enough to water the ground. Moreover, the water quality is very good, rich in minerals that are beneficial to the human body, and it is completely drinkable.
However, the big well looked a little strange. Because it was a well dug in the mountains, and it was such a large well, the amount of work was a bit too large, and it would be difficult to complete it by manpower alone.
At that time, there were no excavators in the countryside, and there were only a few old bulldozers in Yushu Township, which was difficult to work on the hillside.
Even if it is pushed with a bulldozer, it is not a well that goes straight up and down, but a large pit that pushes out. The appearance of this big well is impossible to explain to his family.
Li Xuan thought about it, and simply didn't do anything, just come and make it bigger, and make this piece of land look like a bulldozer. With a little more effort, I enlarged the big well to create a small pond, and then expanded my own land several times, saying that I was looking for someone to help push it out with a bulldozer. So that you can explain it yourself.
Li Xuan looked back at this hillside again, estimated the distance between the front and back, and began to plan in his heart, how to make better use of this hillside.
This large well must be fixed and immovable, and the water in the center of the well is too deep to be dangerous, so it must be expanded around this large well.
The land of Li Xuan's family is on the southeast side of this mountain, and the newly dug large well is on the east side of this land, with a relatively small slope, but the terrain is uneven, and there are more large stones, so it has not been opened into land. If you want to build a pond, you can use this large well as a center and expand it by about 50 or 60 meters in the east and west directions, and then expand it in the north and south directions to form a large pond that can be used as a fish pond in the future.
After the pond was built, it was more than 200 meters away from the western plot, and the open space in the middle was leveled with stones dug up during the construction of the pond, on which a large house could be built.
Dozens of fruit trees can be planted around the house, such as small apple trees, apricot trees, pear trees, and sand fruit trees. If you use the spiritual water of the pagoda, you may be able to transplant some fruit trees grown in the south, so let's wait until later to do the experiment.
The more than two acres of wasteland in the west need to be expanded and smoothed out so that vegetables and grain can be grown. In the future, another plot of land will be selected to concentrate on fruit tree experiments.
Just do it, Li Xuan spent a whole morning on this piece of land, turning east and west, and finally made a look.
First of all, he enlarged this large well into a pond, which is about rectangular, more than 130 meters long from east to west, more than 70 meters wide from north to south, about 3 meters deep, and an area of about 10 acres. The middle of this pond is the deepest, with a direct access to the water vein, about fifteen meters. When the groundwater gushes out of the veins, the water on the edge of the pond is about a meter deep, and gradually deepens to the middle. The pond is considered to have been repaired.
Although the water in this pond is groundwater, the water temperature is not very cool. According to the old people, there used to be hot springs in this area, but then they disappeared somehow. Li Xuan thought, maybe there were hot springs here before, so the water is not cold, just enough to raise fish.
In the middle of the open space, Li Xuan used to put stones, so that the pagoda spit out all the stones here, and preliminarily classified them according to their size, which will be used to level the ground and build houses in the future. This pagoda Li Xuan is more and more comfortable to use, suck whatever he wants, suck as much as he wants, as long as it does not exceed the space on the first floor of the pagoda. And with the improvement of Li Xuan's function, this space has a tendency to gradually expand.
More than two acres of land in the west were expanded by Li Xuan to about twenty acres. He transported all the soil used to dig the pond to this side with the Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda. It doesn't matter if it's raw or cooked, it's just spit out evenly anyway, as long as it's flattened.
In rural areas, it is generally cooked soil, because the raw soil is cold, and it does not like to grow crops. And now, this problem is not a problem for Li Xuan at all. As long as you spill some of the spiritual water in the Xuanhuang Linglong Pagoda of Heaven and Earth, no matter how much you grow crops on the multi-growing soil, you will still be able to grow and have a high yield.