Traveling through the farmhouse: farming and making a fortune and raising cubs

Chapter 389 Chapter 389

"Master Li, Mrs. Li, everything is ready. There are people guarding every fence on the road. Are you going to start pouring water now?"

The water flow in the canal has almost bottomed out. After all, the water inlet has been blocked, and the water higher than the water level of the water outlet has all flowed away last night.

Lin He looked around. The canal was three feet wide and four feet high, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, and the water output would not be small.

But the entire pond is several acres, if the water is released too fast, the fence on the road will definitely be washed down.

"First open a small part of the gap, and you find a few more people to go along the canal. There must be two people on each side of the canal, one to stabilize the fence, and the other to catch fish and sundries."

"By the way, remember that you must never go down the ditch. You have to use fishing nets to catch fish. If you go into the water, the current will be too strong, and you will be washed into the river, but you will not be able to rescue them."

Regardless of whether it can be saved or not, it is much better to be serious than someone being careless.

"Okay Mrs. Li, we got it."

Afterwards, everyone else went downstream, and only two people remained, using hoes to dig up the soil at the section of the water outlet a little.

For the stability of the canal, the canal was dug very wide. After leaving a certain distance, both sides were built with one-foot-wide bluestones, and the bottom of the canal was also padded with bluestone slabs.

Such a canal will not be damaged after decades of use, and the cracks in the stones can also allow small fish and shrimps to live, which is very useful.

The bluestones on both sides are the field ridges for pedestrians to walk on.

At the entrance of the canal, the width of one and a half feet was filled with soil, and the outermost part was blocked with stones. Now as long as these blocked places are dug out, the water will flow down.

When the last hoe was dug out, the water that had been stored for a long time instantly flowed into the canal, and even the upper layer of soil used to block the water was washed away a lot.

"Mrs. Li, will this be overwhelmed directly? I'm afraid I won't be able to stop it later."

"No, you guys watch here, dig some more when the water flow is low, and fish out some lotus leaves by the way, so as not to block the canal."

The most dry lotus leaves in the pond, and some leaves blown by the wind, etc., are now following the water flow and quickly gathering in the ditch.

But no fish yet.

That's right, fish won't float on the water, and fish won't appear until at least half of the water is filled, and more fish will definitely stay in the mud in the pond.

The fence in the canal is mainly to keep the small fish and shrimp in the canal, nothing more.

After confirming that the two people at the water outlet understood it, Lin He walked downstream. The water flow was very fast. In just a few words, he saw that several people in front of him had already started to salvage dead leaves.

The entire canal took more than a year, and several diversions passed through hundreds of acres of land, and then flowed into the downstream river.

If the mountain is not too high, she even wants to lead the water to the mountain.

There is no water source on these two mountains, and every time the crops are watered, it is more troublesome.

A flock of sheep blew from nearby, and when he turned around, he saw Liu Qingsong driving the flock out.

Unlike the empty cattle pen, the sheep flock at this time has grown to nearly [-] sheep, and a few sheep are sold every month.

At present, Lin He is very satisfied with the number of sheep. The main reason is that there is not enough lawn here, and there are still more grains and crops. Two hundred sheep are already saturated.

The flock of sheep walked along the familiar lawn, followed by a big dog, and the sheep pen was near the foot of the mountain, but now only half of the mountain is left for cattle and sheep, and the flock of sheep usually rush to the nearby mountains.

At this time, the lawn on their own mountain is specially planted with a lot of pastures that they like on the mountain, and every once in a while, they will be watered specially so that they can grow better.

But most of the time, the goats will be driven to other nearby mountains to graze. After all, the pasture also needs to be cultivated, and the area dedicated to planting pasture in their family is not large, only two or three acres.

Raising cattle is much more convenient. Cattle can eat more food, such as fresh corn leaves, sweet potato vines, or some leaves of straw thatch.

And now there are not many cows at home, so they can be fed no matter what.

Liu Qingsong didn't notice them, and drove the sheep seriously. Now there is no need for someone to guard the sheep. The big black dog has replaced the work of the shepherd dog very well.

Lin He didn't pay much attention to it, the matter in the pond was more important right now.

Quickly came to the first fence. In fact, the distance is quite far. A fence will only be placed about one mile away.

When Lin He arrived, one of the two pressed the fence firmly, and the other was busy picking up the rotten leaves.

In such a short period of time, the rotten lotus leaves in front of the fence were blocked by almost ten feet.

"There are too many lotus leaves. When you can't stop them, you can lift up the fence and put the lotus leaves behind, and the people behind will salvage them. If you keep blocking them like this, the water flow is very slow, and the lotus leaves will also get bigger and bigger. More and more."

Hearing this, the person holding the fence quickly put the fence back, and all the lotus leaves were taken away instantly when they were submerged in the water.

But when he raised the fence, it soon blocked some rotten lotus leaves.

Lin He stared at the water surface and felt that it was a little more turbulent than before, and the water flow seemed to be getting bigger.

"Huh? Looks like something hit the fence."

The person holding the fence suddenly let out a surprise.

"Could it be a fish? The fish in this pond have been raised for two or three years, and I'm afraid they are not small now."

Lin He also said: "It is estimated that this water will be left for a period of time. After the garbage on the water surface is cleaned up, fish can be caught. Let people cook more at noon, and everyone can eat whatever they want."

There are a lot of fish in the pond, and when she occasionally goes to the pond, she will use her spiritual power to warm up the ducks and geese on the water surface, the lotus leaves in the water, the fish swimming in the water, the lotus roots and aquatic plants at the bottom of the water, etc.

And it's been more than two years in a row. Years ago, she had caught fish with Li Changhui, and it was even more delicious than rice field fish!
"Thank you, Mrs. Li!" The two were overjoyed, and they even took their work seriously.

Lin He looked at it for a while and then continued to walk down, explaining to almost everyone beside the fence.

The dead branches and rotten leaves on the water surface can't stop it, so let it go below, as long as it stops the fish and the last two relatively dense fences will not fall down.

After turning around and returning to the original position, she was surprised to find that the water level had dropped a bit, much faster than she thought.

After thinking about it, yes, this canal is very wide, the water level is high at the beginning, and the pressure is high, so the speed of opening the gate to release water is naturally faster.

But even so, it will probably be in the afternoon when the water in the pond is drained.

Maybe I can catch the fish I caught before dinner and take them to the city.

Lin He was thinking this way, but the surprise came sooner than expected.

(End of this chapter)