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"I found it. The three brothers of the Guo family will dig wells. I told them that they will come tomorrow, but how much they charge per meter depends on the location."

Xu Qian nodded, thinking that she needed to pack lunch for digging a well, so she went back to the vegetable yard of the old house and picked vegetables.

She is going to the county seat today, so she can take out a piece of meat, marinate it with salt and leave it there overnight.

No need to go all the way to town tomorrow.

The three brothers of the Guo family came early the next morning. They walked around in front of and behind the house.

Finally, it was decided to dig the well next to the right side room, not a few meters away from the eaves of the right side room.

The reason why they dug here instead of digging on the edge of the front yard, close to the paddy fields, is that they are afraid that the water in the paddy fields will come over and affect the quality of the well water.

The current position is about 20 meters away from the paddy field in a straight line, so there will be no water.

The price was still seven yuan per meter, and there was no price increase, but they told Xu Qian that they might have to dig more to dig through all the rocks outside before the water would come out below.

"Go ahead, no matter how deep you dig, you must get water out, and I can't do it."

"to make!"

"Sister-in-law, don't worry. There are so many paddy fields around here, which means that there must be water veins down here. I just don't know how deep to dig. Anyway, we must have dug the well."

The three brothers of the Guo family are not very old, they are in their twenties, and they usually earn work points on the team.

There are more than ten days before the summer harvest, so they will come out to dig wells for others to earn some money so that they can marry a wife in the future.

Xu Qian nodded, then went to the kitchen to boil a pot of boiling water and took it out.

At this time, the three brothers of the Guo family had already started digging with shovels and shovels.

Xu Qian stood aside and watched for a while, then went back to cook.

The staple food at noon is steamed Erhe noodles steamed buns, the ratio of white flour to corn flour is two to one.

Xu Qian added a spoonful of sugar to the fermented buns, so the steamed buns are still relatively soft.

The dishes are cowpea fried meat and potato stew. Although there are two meat dishes, in fact there is only one catty in them.

The fat and big meat slices are thinly sliced, and after a little frying in a small pan, they need to be scooped up.

After the vegetables are cooked, the meat can be put in, and then the seasonings are put in quickly, and they are scooped up.

The meat must not be left in the pot for a long time, otherwise the fat slices will turn into oil, and even the meat slices will not be found in the bowl.

Today, Xu Qian's fried dishes are very beautiful. The two full dishes are full of slices of white meat.

The three brothers of the Guo family were very satisfied with their food, and praised Brother Wenjun for marrying a good wife and cooking well.

Xu Qian is so happy.

"The water is out, the water is out!"

The Guo brothers dug out the water on the sixth day of digging, and the depth of the well is now about 17 meters.

"It is estimated that the rock layer has been dug through, and there is indeed groundwater below. Will my sister-in-law continue to dig?"

"Dig, keep digging, dig 30 meters."

Xu Qian stood on the top of the well and shouted.

After the soil below was transported out, the color was indeed different. It was basically yellowish white sandstone before.

Now the bottom is reddish-brown soil, the soil is thin, and there is indeed water underneath.

"to make!"

There are many rocks in front, and the soil is very hard. It is really difficult to dig, but now it is much easier to dig down the well, the soil is moist, and it is not so laborious to dig.

It took six days for the first 17 meters, and only 13 meters for the back, and it took four days to dig a total of 30 meters.

After the well is dug, stones are needed to build the walls of the well. After the well is built, it will take a while for the groundwater to pass through the soil and stone walls and seep into the well before drinking.

It was already May 25 after the whole well-drilling work was done.

Some places in the countryside also call this day the Dragon Boat Festival.

Xu Qian entertained the three brothers of the Guo family. After having a good meal, she paid them the wages for digging the well, which totaled 210 yuan.

It seems that they earn quite a lot, but in fact, this job is really not something that ordinary people can do.

It's all physical work, under the sun, from morning to night, hardly any rest.

However, after getting the money, the faces of the three brothers clearly revealed a look of joy.

Drilling wells is indeed very profitable, but how many wells can be drilled in eight villages in ten miles all year round?

They just drilled this well this year, and they are naturally delighted to be able to earn so much money.

The wellhead of Xu Qian’s house was built high, and a stone slab was placed on the wellhead to prevent the child from accidentally falling down.

"Dad, are you free?"

"What's the matter?"

Old man Zhou now has a headache when he hears Xu Qian's voice, and he is afraid that Xu Qian will repair something again and waste money.

"I just want Dad to set up a well potter's wheel on the well in my house, and then wind it with more than [-] meters of hemp rope. I can't lift such a big bucket of water. I don't think there is a way!"

A well potter's wheel can be set up on the well, and the bucket can be lifted up together with the water, which saves much labor than simply using the hand.

"Success, after the summer harvest is over in two days, I'll just make one for you."

The old man Zhou thought for a while and nodded. The well potwheel is a simple thing. Even if he is not proficient in carpentry, he can still make such a simple thing.

"Then Dad, it's settled."

Xu Qian went back satisfied. Although Xia Shou was busy, she didn't see Xia Shou, so she was relatively free.

Chunmei will go to the old house to help cook in the past two days, and after cooking, she will also go to the team to meet Xia Shou, so she takes care of the laundry and taking care of the children by herself.

But she also wanted to be lazy. She didn't want to wash diapers or anything, so she put diapers on Sanba directly.

During this time, people in the village are busy with the summer harvest, and basically no one will come to her house.

In fact, her guess was completely correct, and no one came to her house until the summer harvest was over.

After all, in the village, she had no friends at all.

Let's talk about the educated youths who came with her, they all live in the educated youth spot now, and they are just acquaintances with her, and they are not very familiar with her. After all, she got married after she came here.

After the summer harvest was over, the team had to distribute the food. Xu Qian's work points were not enough. It should be said that the four of them, mother and child, had no work points at all, so they had to pay for work points with money.

Xu Qian's brigade mainly harvests winter wheat and rapeseed in summer.

The rations of Xu Qian and the children were divided into 75 catties of wheat and [-] catties of vegetable oil.

Other villagers don't get much food.

If you only eat this amount of wheat, it is definitely not enough.

However, the villagers can replace fine grains with coarse grains such as corn, or they can use money to buy some.

"Captain, I will buy another sixty catties of wheat and five catties of vegetable oil."

After Xu Qian finished distributing the food, she immediately raised her hand and shouted.

"You want sixty catties of wheat and five catties of vegetable oil, right? Pay the accountant and come over to weigh the grain."

The captain was not surprised that Xu Qian could buy food. It would be strange if she said she didn't buy food.

Wheat is 12 cents a catty, Xu Qian [-] catties of wheat is [-] cents, vegetable oil is [-] cents, five catties is [-] cents, the total is [-] yuan and [-] cents.

Then it cost nine yuan and five yuan to buy work points.Together, it costs 22 yuan and five cents to buy grain and vegetable oil.

Over there in the old house, the two brothers Zhou Wenguo and Zhou Wenbing did not dare to follow Xu Qian's example. They ate fine grains almost every meal, and even bought them generously.

Each of their families only kept about ten catties of wheat, and replaced the rest of the wheat with corn and beans.