Return to Splendid

The person shouting was thin, wearing white military uniform, and looked to be no less than 40 years old. He waved and shook his head at Xing Yi.

Xing Yi stepped back and asked: "Is it very deep inside?"

The man nodded: "It's very deep."

"Has anyone been in there?"

"I went in there when I was younger."

Xing Yi really wanted to go in, but considering that he was older, he might be inconvenienced. He thought about it and said, "I want to trouble you and help me find a young man to lead the way, okay?"

Xing Yi went on to explain that an irrigation station should be built next to the river ditch below to ensure that the paddy fields in the village can be irrigated.

He understood and said, "Don't be busy yet, wait for me."

He turned around and ran away in a hurry. After more than ten minutes, he came back with a bundle of bright straw and two bundles of hemp rope.

"You still haven't found anyone for me?"

"Young people can't be found and won't come."

Xing Yi still hesitated and looked across the village.

"Don't look at it. If you look at it again, the sun will go away."

Xing Yi had no choice but to agree and said, "Okay, let the two of us go in, so you have to be careful."

Pu Mingfa tied one end of a hemp rope to Xing Yi's waist and the other end to the tree at the entrance of the cave. He did the same thing himself.

Pu Mingfa is from this village and is very aware of the dangers inside.Xing Yi still didn't know what was in the cave, so he said nothing and let Pu Mingfa do what he wanted.

The bright and beautiful bundles are as thick as the wrist.Each person took two bundles, and Pu Mingfa said: "Light one bundle first, and when it is almost burned out, light the second bundle."

Xing Yi knows how to make sunflower stalks. They cut off both ends of the sunflower stalks, bundle them, press them with stones and soak them in the ditch. When the skin rots and falls off, the remaining tendons are picked up and dried in the sun. Tie them into bundles and make them into torches.

He was in front, and Xing Yi was behind. He lit a torch and marched 20 meters inside. He was not allowed to go any further, otherwise he would fall into the pit and be unable to climb out.Hold the torch forward and look inside carefully.

There was a pit in front of him, which was filled with water. He said that when he was young, several of them tied stones with ropes and tried to explore it down. The [-]-foot rope was used up, and the stone had not yet touched the bottom.They speculated that it should be a deep pool, basically round in shape, with shallow edges and deep middle, like a very large pot.

Xing Yi remembered and asked him: "Hey, I didn't ask you, what is your name?"

"Oh, my name is Pu Mingfa."

The torches were half burned, and they walked left and right. The longest distance was a hundred handfuls of rice, which was almost done. Pu Mingfa grabbed Xing Yi and prevented him from going forward.

Pu Mingfa seemed a little nervous, and his voice trembled slightly: "No one has ever been to the other side, and they can't go there." Xing Yi himself didn't feel much, he only knew that this cave was mysterious, countless unknown, and fascinating.

Returning to the point where we just stood, and after repeated visual inspections, Xing Yi calculated in his mind that the diameter of the so-called particularly large pot mouth was between 70 and 80 meters.Based on what he said, the slope is twenty feet long, which is about sixty meters. Based on this rough calculation, the total volume of this cauldron is really quite large. When it is full of water, it is almost a small reservoir.

After walking out of the cave, Xing Yi had a bold idea in mind. He built a ten-meter-high dam inside the cave entrance to block the water in the belly of the mountain. Gates were set up on the left and right sides of the dam to connect with the ditches on both sides outside. When the water is filled, it passes through ditches and is used for irrigation.By building an irrigation station on the ditch, the lift will be higher. In addition to watering farmland, tap water can also be installed.

After leaving Hegou, Pu Mingfa said: "You must be hungry. Let's go to my house for dinner."

Xing Yi said: "Don't bother, I will figure it out myself."

"Then where are you going to get food?"

"The canteen has instant noodles."

"Nevermind, you are here to help the village build an irrigation station. You are not allowed to eat outside anyway. You must go. I don't have anything good to eat at home. Just order whatever you want."

The strength in his hands was sincere, and Xing Yi no longer refused.

Pu Ming made his fortune in the middle of the mountain.There are two houses, one covered with tiles and one covered with straw. Turning around and looking down, there are hundreds of houses in the whole village. About half of them are half-tiled and half-grass like his house, and the other half are covered with tiles. They are the latest and modern ones. The style is just like that of Director Dong's house made of concrete, but only three or five.

There is a white wooden table in the outer room, with a woven bag on it, like a bedding inside, and a plastic bag with a washbasin, a mouthwash basin and a lunch box inside.

The woman with Pu Mingfa squatted beside the stove, pulling the roasted potatoes from the inside out from the mouth of the stove.The roasted potatoes were brought out with a small bamboo winnowing table. The woman was also short, in her 30s, and had a kind face.

The aroma of roasted potatoes filled the room, and Xing Yi couldn't help but twitch his nose to smell the aroma.

Pu Mingfa took two roasted potatoes from the bag and handed them to Xing Yi, and introduced to the woman: "This is Uncle Xing, who is here to help the village build an irrigation station."

Xing Yi was polite, put his hands together, brought it to his nose to smell, ate two in a row, and said, "You can't taste this in the city."

Pu Mingfa told the woman: "Go and take off that piece of bacon and wash it."

As soon as I entered the house, I could tell that the family situation was not very good. After entering, I saw the table and two benches in the outer room. The door of the inner room was half open, and I could vaguely see a bed, covered with a mosquito net.

I heard him wash that piece of bacon, which means there is no second piece. How can I bear to eat it?

But the woman moved quickly and had already put the bacon in the pot.

Seeing that he couldn't stop him, Xing Yi had no choice but to say: "I promise to eat at your house, but I have to make it clear first that you have to pay for the meal."

"It doesn't have to be like this. We don't have enough food for our family. It won't be enough for you for a month and a half. Three or two meals is still fine."

Within an hour, the meal was ready, and the air was filled with the scent of bacon.

Pu Mingfa moved the pile of luggage to the corner, asked Xing Yi to sit at the table, gave him a full bowl of rice, and put three slices of bacon on the rice. The bacon slices were one centimeter thick and as big as the palm of your hand.

The woman also put two slices of bacon in the bowl for her man.Pu Mingfa took a bite himself and pointed his chopsticks at Xing Yi: "Eat it, it's not too salty and it's delicious."

Xing Yi ate it, and his mouth was full of bacon fat. This was a taste he would never forget.

After eating and tidying up, and making tea and drinking water, two people came outside the door, both in their thirties, one bald and one with long hair. They were not polite when they entered. They moved the bench and sat down side by side.

Pu Mingfa remained motionless and spoke coldly: "Is something wrong?"

The man with long hair pointed at his luggage: "Are you really going out? Can you take off your clothes, Lao Pu?"

Pu Ming said in a muffled voice: "My feet are on my belly, who can care where I go?"

The bald man said: "Where you want to go, Lao Pu, has nothing to do with us. That is your own freedom. However, you know that the village has requirements."

"What kind of request? I don't know."

"I need to report before I leave."

"I don't have the time." Pu Ming took the bowl, drank the tea in one breath, and put the empty bowl down hard. The bowl rolled on the edge of the table, fell directly to the ground, and broke into two halves with a clang.

The woman came to clean, but he kicked her away. Half of the bowl fell at the foot of the long-haired woman, only half an inch away from the toe.

The long-haired man's face suddenly turned red. He rushed forward in a few steps, reached out and grabbed Pu Mingfa's collar, and widened his eyes: "Pu Mingfa, what do you want to do?"

Pu Mingfa tried to pull the hand away, but his size was asymmetrical and his strength was out of proportion. He couldn't pull it away, so he jumped up and hit the face with his fist.

The woman and the bald man stepped forward at the same time, and Xing Yi also took action to separate them.

The woman knew that her man was no match, so she quickly pushed him back to the back room.

His long-haired temples stung, tears streaming down his face, and his retaliatory hand was blocked by three people. He was so angry that he followed closely behind, waving his fists on the woman's head.

Xing Yi pointed his toes toward his ankle. When he staggered, he stretched out his arm to stop him, pushed him to sit on the stool, and said, "You have something to say, you don't have to be like this."

The long-haired man groaned angrily. His hair was too long. When he waved, his long hair slid down and blocked his eyes, which affected his shot. When he swept his hair back, he scratched hard and was angry with himself.He shook his body and jumped up when he saw the opportunity.

At this time, a high-pitched voice sounded at the door: "What happened?"