Chapter 71 Water Mountain

On the other side of the hillside, Yu Zheng went to watch. Cleaning up the weeds was not difficult. As long as the villagers in the village still wanted to work in her house, they would not be lazy and play tricks, and the Su family did not send anyone there again.Lian bought a lot of radish seeds from every household in the village, and the radish seeds can be planted only after the land is cleaned up.

The people in the village only think that the Su family's head was kicked by the donkey. They bought the mountain and used it to grow radishes. Everyone knew that they would lose money, but they bought the land, and they didn't care about what they wanted to grow. Anyway, one day The Su family didn't pay less than [-] wen, and the villagers slandered in their hearts for a while, but there was nothing to say.

Yu Zheng also felt that Su Yu needed to nourish his brain. Before and after the Chinese New Year, Xinglin Town did not rain once for several months. If there was no water to grow radishes, the radish seedlings would not be able to grow out. This is not a waste of effort.Although Yu Zheng has never done farm work, he still knows the basic principles, but the Su family is used to it, and he, an outsider, can't take care of it, and he doesn't want to do it.

Su Yu outsourced the making of toothbrushes to the villagers in the village. Except for Mrs. Liu's house, any villagers who wanted to do it could come to her house to pick up the work.Bamboo is free in the countryside, and the villagers can go to the mountains to cut it by themselves, and there is no need to worry about not having enough pig hairs. Su Yu bought all the pig hairs from Gao Butcher's side, and there are dozens of bags, which are enough.

After straightening out these things at home, Su Yu began to hatch ducklings, picking and picking the more than 3 duck eggs collected earlier, and finally used more than 3000 duck eggs. Su Yu planned to hatch them all at once. She spends most of this time at home.

As for the shop, the bacon and sausages haven’t been sold much in the past few days, but the soap placed at the door has become popular. It’s especially popular among the women in the town. It doesn’t cost much at ten cents, and one piece can be used for a long time, which is better than the ashes at home. Quite a lot, the soap in the shop is sold out in boxes of boxes, and at least two boxes are sold a day, which also drives the sale of bacon and sausages in the shop, but preserved eggs and salted duck eggs have always been bad. For sale, not to mention preserved eggs, almost every family can make them. The price of preserved eggs and suyu is ten yuan a piece. When people hear the price, they are immediately scared away.

Su Yu's job of hatching eggs this time was much easier. She only had to pick the eggs and go to the house to check on them every one or two hours.

After watching it at home for four or five days, Su Yuji hung on to the radishes planted behind the house, so he went for a walk with his father.The soil on the hillside is very good black soil, the soil is soft and there are not many stone particles, and there is no need for deep plowing to plant radishes. They are planted by tapping acupuncture points, and ten women can plant them in two days.

Su Yu grabbed a handful of soil and lifted it up, and it disappeared when the wind blew.Looking at the weather, it is estimated that there will be no rain this month. I dug up the radish seeds and saw that they have not sprouted yet.

"Girl, what's the matter? The seeds have been planted. It won't rain this day, so it's not worthwhile to ask the villagers to carry water to irrigate. I'm afraid that the radishes sold won't be enough for the villagers' wages."

Su Lao Er didn't say a word, if he really asked someone to carry water, his family would become a joke in the whole village, and the radish would become the price of rice, and it would be a loss if it was planted in the end.

Su Yu naturally knew this truth, but in her opinion, it was not difficult.

"Father, go and chop a piece of bamboo, let's try it first, I want my arm to be this thick."

After hearing what his daughter said, Second Su went straight to the side and chopped a bamboo. He had brought the machete with him when he went up the mountain.

"Dad, break the bamboo into two halves. One half is bigger and the other is smaller. Just think you can clear the knots on the bamboo joints. You do it first, and I will go home to get the knotted hemp rope."

Su Lao'er had only been working with bamboo for a year or two. He broke the bamboo and quickly cleaned up the knots inside. When Su Yu ran home and brought a coil of hemp rope over, Su Lao'er was almost done.

Afterwards, the bamboo was closed, and the father and daughter tied the broken bamboo in two with hemp rope. After finishing, Su Laoer carried it to the riverside.

"Dad, put one end of the bamboo into the river, with one end exposed and most of the bamboo facing the bottom."

Su Laoer did as he did, Su Yu stepped forward, covered the exposed end of the bamboo with his palm, loosened and covered, and repeated this several times, water flowed out from the end of the bamboo, and Su Laoer looked at it. It's amazing.

"This...how did the water come out?"

"I don't understand either. This is a method I saw in a book."

"It's strange that others say that reading more books is useful, and such a good method is also written in the book."

Su Yu smiled, and said this to deceive her father, and those scholars can't be fooled.

In Su Yu's view, this is very simple, just a siphon principle, but the ancients didn't know it.

"Dad, you can go to the village and find a few more people. Look at the length of the bamboo and dig a pit at the end, and then continue digging upwards. It is estimated that you will have to dig seven or eight pits. The top pit should be larger. As long as the water reaches the top of the slope, it is much simpler to water in other directions. Dig a few ditches in the other three directions, and dig a few pits in the middle to let the water on the top of the slope flow down from the ditches. When the time comes, water The ground is not a problem either.”

"Success, I'll go later."

These are not just for watering the radishes. When the lemons are planted in the future, they will also need to be watered when the weather is dry.

"While it's still early, my dear, you go home first, and I'll go find someone in the village. This job isn't difficult at all. If you find three or five, it can be done in half a day."

"Father, go, you don't have to worry about me, Erhu is with me."

The second Su was very excited. He had been a farmer all his life, and he never thought that the water could go up the mountain by itself. Before Su Yu finished speaking, the two of Su and Lao had already walked away.

When Su Laoer went to the village to recruit people, the villagers thought that Su Laoer was crazy. Could the water flow back up to the top of the mountain?
"Second boy, I didn't mean you, isn't this just nonsense? Can the water still listen to you, can't you go up the mountain by yourself?"

"You just listen to me, this thing can definitely be done, I have tried it, half a day's work, I will give each of you [-] Wen as wages."

When the people who were hired by Su Laoer to work heard that they had to dig holes to carry water to the mountain, they all shook their heads and refused to do it. It wasn't that they didn't want to make money from the Su family, but that they thought it was a bit unconscionable to make money. The Su family couldn't do it despite their efforts, and they were too embarrassed to accept the money.But now after hearing about it for a long time, each person was given twenty cents, and several people couldn't help but be moved again.Who cares, if Su Laoer wants to mess around, let him mess around. They just want to get wages. After a few people swayed around, in the end they still couldn't afford twenty cents and half a day's wages.

"Then we can agree, no matter whether it succeeds or not, you have to pay the wages."

"Success, when did I rely on your wages, as much as I said."

Several people followed Su Laoer to the bottom of the hillside. Su Laoer compared the distance and asked them to dig a hole by themselves while he cut bamboo.

Seeing how excited Su Lao Er was, several people thought Su Lao Er was crazy, and they had never seen water flow backwards by themselves.

 The above siphon method is from Baidu, I changed it a little bit, but I didn’t write it scribbled.

  
 
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