"Splash!"

"What do you think of Wang Zhong?" Li Laoshuan suddenly asked after returning home, holding his waist and rubbing his bulging belly with a satisfied look on his face.

The water splash is also full, the fragrant mutton buns and iron pot stewed chicken, as well as so many side dishes, basically the water splash of potato and potato every day can't be controlled.

But after listening to Li Laoshuan's words, he was stunned for a moment, but he didn't think much about it: "Brother Wang Zhong is a very good person. He can bake bricks, tiles, and mud tiles. He even makes the food so delicious. I think

The chefs in the restaurants in the county may not cook as delicious as him!"

Then he added: "I have never seen anyone as powerful as Brother Wang Zhong."

"Oh~~~" Li Laoshuan looked at his daughter, nodded thoughtfully, and said nothing more.

"It's getting late, go get some rest!"

Father and daughter went to sleep separately.

Lying on the kang, Li Laoshuan's mood was quite complicated. Thinking of all the events in the past few days, Wang Zhong entertained the villagers who helped him. Every day, he had soup made from mutton bones, steamed buns from Erhe Noodles, and...

There was porridge cooked with cornmeal, and there was a meal of mutton for three days, and everyone got three or four pieces.

And today's meal, Li Laoshuan has never eaten such delicious mutton stuffed buns and such fragrant stewed chicken in his whole life.

The figures of Shuihua and Wang Zhong kept reappearing in his mind. This night was the first time in Li Laoshuan's life that he had insomnia.

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After moving into a new house and sleeping on the big kang that I built myself, I really feel a different kind of satisfaction.

The only drawback is that there is no electricity, but Wang Zhong can still accept this, and after coming to Yongquan Village for so long, Wang Zhong has gradually adapted to it. After all, when he was in the world of "Youth", he spent time on the battlefield.

It's even more miserable than this. You might be camping in the wild at any time, and a heavy rain might suddenly hit you while you're asleep.

Lighting the candle, Wang Zhong took the hand-drawn drawing and began to think about the next thing.

He is already married to Shui Hua, not to mention the protagonist Ma Defu, even if the Jade Emperor or Tathagata Buddha comes, it will be useless.

But marrying Shui Hua is not easy.

First of all, Shui Hua and Ma Defu are childhood sweethearts. There is also some confusion between men and women between the two of them. This should not be difficult to solve. After all, in the original work, even an unknown person named An can marry Shui Hua.

, let alone himself, Wang Zhong has enough confidence in himself.

Digging out the corner of a wall? The main thing is that if you wield the hoe well, how can there be a corner that cannot be dug down?

No, this is not poaching, because Li Laoshuan has no intention of marrying his daughter to Ma Defu.

To marry Shuihua, the key lies in Shuihua's father, Li Laoshuan. As long as Li Laoshuan is dealt with, he will nod, and the probability of marrying Shuihua will be greatly increased. As for the relationship, it can be cultivated later.

As Zhang Ailing said, there is a shortcut to a woman's heart.

However, this is not absolute. After all, in the original work, Shuihua made the move to escape from marriage and run away from home to make a living outside.

That's why Wang Zhong hangs out in a place like Huiyongquan Village.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be nice for him to live in the county town?

There was no water or electricity, and he relied on candles for lighting at night. At night, there were no women around him, and there was no mobile phone or computer. There was nothing to do, so Wang Zhong could only pick up his old job.

As for the water splash, I can only do it slowly, I can’t remember this.

But there are also shortcuts to conquer Li Laoshuan, but just having a house is definitely not enough. It depends on what Li Laoshuan wants most.

A smile appeared on Wang Zhong's face, and he wrote two words on the letter paper with a pen - water cellar!

Water is the source of life, especially in the dry and water-scarce northwest, especially in the desolate, remote, and poor Yongquan Village.

Li Laoshuan could marry off his daughter for a water cellar and a small amount of gift.

Then why can't I do it myself?

Come to a slightly larger water cellar. Are you afraid that Li Laoshuan won’t take the bait?

Before coming to this world, Wang Zhong had done his homework in advance. A water cellar not only refers to a bottle-shaped cellar buried underground, but also a complete system for water diversion and water filtration.

In the arid areas of northwest China, as long as conditions permit, almost every household will have a water cellar before the tap water is connected.

At this moment, Wang Zhong was somewhat thankful that he had reached the fourth level of civil construction skills.

From design to tiles, there is nothing Wang Zhong can't do.

Wang Zhong specifically checked the information and studied it carefully, and already had a plan in mind.

Long before the new house was built, Wang Zhong had made preparations to dig a water cellar. Wang Zhong had already planned the overall drainage system of the house, and was waiting for the water cellar to be built to conduct ground water diversion and drainage.

Filtering channels can begin to store water.

Although he will move to the Gobi Desert in Yuquanying in two years, Wang Zhong still has to live here in these two years, and since he wants to marry Shui Hua, he must definitely do it in these two years.

And the earlier the better, Wang Zhong didn't want to stay alone in an empty house for more than two years, so a water cellar was definitely indispensable.

The design of the water cellar was very simple for Wang Zhong, and he came up with the blueprints in just ten minutes.

Generally, people in the Xihaigu area dig water cellars directly, dig them into the shape of a vase, and cover them with red soil that has been mixed in advance. However, with the severe soil erosion and desertification of the soil in recent years, the risk factor of doing so is greatly increased.

increase in height.

In the original work, the man surnamed An who was married by Shui Hua had an accident while digging a water cellar, buried himself in it, and became paralyzed. Wang Zhong was always known for his prudent work, so naturally he could not make the same mistake as him.

Wang Zhong had already thought about using fired fire bricks to build the bricks. This would be a popular method in later generations.

Early the next morning, Wang Zhong carried a horn hoe to the edge of his house, drew a circle with a diameter of three to two meters with lime, and then dug straight down along the circle.

It took two hours to dig and another hour to transport the soil from the edge of the pit to the open space next to it.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It took Wang Zhong two days to dig a circular pit with a diameter of 3.2 meters and a depth of 4.5 meters.

The reason for digging so deep is that Wang Zhong planned to pave the bottom of the water cellar with a layer of blue bricks and then apply a layer of cement mortar waterproof layer.

The reason why it took two days was mainly because the further down you go, the more difficult it is to transport the soil. If someone helps, Wang Zhong can finish the job in one day.

[To be honest, I have been using Yeguoyuedu to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. Yeguoyuedu is available for Android and Apple.]

But this job is somewhat dangerous, so Wang Zhong didn't look for anyone, so the speed was naturally slower.

After digging the round pit, Wang Zhong ran to the county and bought back three tons of cement. One ton and twenty bales were loaded into a truck, and the rest was packed in the space and brought back home.

As for fine sand, there was already a lot left over when building the house. Wang Zhong used space to transport some more, and it was enough.

The materials were ready, and Wang Zhong started making the gear set and the pulley. When everything was ready, he called the third child and invited Shui Hua to come to his house to help cook.

Bricklaying is a complex job and cannot be done quickly. Although Debao has been learning from Wang Zhong for a while, his skills are not yet in place. If it were for walls, he would be able to get started. However, the water cellar is different. Wang Zhong did not dare to ask Debao and the others to help, and Debao

Bao and the others still had to study with Teacher Bai, Mai Miao's father and De Bao's future father-in-law, in school.

It was the weekend when Debao and the others were on vacation, and Wang Zhong asked him, Gawa, Shui Wang and the others to help adjust the cement slurry and use Wang Zhong's homemade pulleys to send the materials into the pit.

But Debaogawa and the others were small and weak, but they were still able to endure hardships. They spent two days building the cave dwelling into a cave-like shape with a big belly and a narrow mouth. Wang Zhong gave them six yuan for each person's wages.

It made several children extremely happy.

Next came the combing of the water inlet and outlet channels. This was a particularly delicate task. Wang Zhong did not ask anyone else to help him. He did it himself and tinkered slowly by himself.

It took Wang Zhong a day and a half just to make the entrance and exit.

When Wang Zhong was working, Shui Hua still helped Wang Zhong cook every day, but she refused to take the money no matter what. She said that in the past, there were more people and more food was cooked, so it was okay to take the money, but now she would give it to Wang Zhong.

If you do it alone, it's all done incidentally.

Wang Zhong knew Shui Hua's temperament. She looked weak, but was actually strong and very determined, so he didn't force him. However, every time he regularly sent rice, flour, grain, oil, and mutton to Shui Hua's house, he would send more, so that she could take it with him.

The old party secretary also cooked meals together, and the extra money was regarded as Wang Zhong and the old party secretary's meal money.

When Wang Zhong said this, Shui Hua hesitated for a moment, but in the end she didn't refuse.

After the water cellar was finished, Wang Zhong was not idle. He first paved the entire house with fire bricks, and then used the remaining fire bricks to surround the southwest corner of the front yard next to the half-person-high wall.

A small vegetable garden about 40 centimeters high and about 10 square meters.

Wang Zhong didn't miss the courtyard either. He paved it with cement mortar and found a level. Since the courtyard was relatively large, Wang Zhong made a five percent slope to guide the rainwater from the rooftop to the water cellar.

After all these are done, there will be no more work left, and Shui Hua will no longer have to come over to deliver meals to Wang Zhong at noon every day.

He was used to Shuihua coming to deliver meals every day, and now he suddenly had to cook by himself. Wang Zhong actually felt a little uncomfortable.

Simply looking for something to do, Wang Zhong even went to the county town, brought back a lot of silt from the Yellow River, filled it at the bottom of the vegetable garden, and then spread a thick layer of soil to let the silt settle in the soil.

Let it ferment for a year, and when spring comes next year, it will be the best fertilizer.

After watering for a few days, Wang Zhong sprinkled a few handfuls of cabbage and leek seeds in the vegetable garden, one ridge for each, and inserted two ridges of garlic. The soil was raised high in one ridge, and the other ridge was kept normal.

In December, every household starts preparing for winter irrigation early.

There are no rivers or canals in Yongquan Village. For winter and spring irrigation every year, each household can only carry water to the fields one by one, and water one seedling after another.

During the wars in the past, this kind of barren and remote place was a rare paradise in the world. Because it was too poor and miserable, even the bandits and horse thieves would not hesitate to come to such a place.

But now is the age of peace and prosperity. How can a remote, secluded and poor mountain ravine like Yongquan Village, with a lack of food and drink, and extremely inconvenient transportation, become a paradise?

In addition, in recent years, there has been no war, and the population has increased rapidly. People have been reclaiming wasteland, cultivating land, and deforestation indiscriminately. In some places, tree roots and turf are not spared. It is not because people do not know the principle of entering the mountain forest in time.

, but for daily necessities, such as daily boiling water for cooking, and making fires for warmth in winter. How can those straws and straws in the bare fields be used? All year round, the common people are digging and planting in the fields with their backs to the sky and their faces to the loess.

The little grain he had was enough to feed his family, and there was not much surplus. How could he have the money to buy coal to burn like Wang Zhong?
To be continued...