Chapter 176 Li Jianguo’s “Prehistoric Identity”
Li Long had a delicious meal of rice at Gu Xiaoxia’s place and left with a full burp.
There were two teachers in the middle who came to watch the fun. Li Long greeted them generously with a bowl and praised Gu Xiaoxia for her good rice and fried vegetables.
The two teachers originally wanted to come and watch the fun, but they were shown a show of affection and then left.
Li Long got on his bicycle and said to Gu Xiaoxia:
"Then I'll leave first. I'll see you when I have time. Your dad's side will be here for another ten days or so and it's almost over. Do you think you'll go to the mountains during this time?"
" I won’t go now, as long as I know my dad is fine.” Gu Xiaoxia wiped her hands with her apron and said, "He is happier there than on the team, and the food is not bad. The students here are about to take their midterm exams, so they are a bit busy during this period."
"I will take you there when you are free. In the mountains." Li Long kicked off the car, waved to Gu Xiaoxia, and rode away.
Gu Xiaoxia watched Li Long disappear before returning to the dormitory to continue cleaning up. Although it was only noon, it felt very fulfilling.
Li Long was a little embarrassed when he pedaled his bicycle and approached the team. I originally came back to deliver some wild vegetables to see how things were going at home, but after having lunch at Gu Xiaoxia's place, the wild vegetables I brought back were a little wilted.
But it's okay, I can eat it.
When he was approaching the village, he saw a group of children tearing down reeds in the reed ditch to make seedlings (harbors or red cherry guns). They broke off a long reed from the root, and then removed the top two reeds. Leave one leaf on and remove all the others.
The reeds had not yet grown any cherry blossoms at this time, and the tops were very pointed. The children then tightly pulled the two leaves on the top into thin strands, which looked like the cherry blossoms of the red cherry gun. , and then play with each other after they are done.
Li Qiang was also among them. Li Long stopped the car and asked him:
"Qiangqiang, why didn't you go to class this afternoon?"
Preschool classes should be held in the morning and afternoon.
“Our teacher said that she had something to do in the afternoon, so she asked us to play first and then go to class later.” After experiencing the last Elaeagnus elata incident, these children were a little afraid of Li Long. Now when they see him coming, they all behave well. He stood on both sides of the road holding the seedlings in an orderly manner, making Li Long look like a reviewing troop.
"Then you go ahead and play, don't hurt yourself." Li Long warned, got on the bike and rode home.
Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei both went out to work. Li Juan had not finished school yet, so Li Long locked the car, took out the wild vegetables, and saw that only half of the water was left in the tank, so he went to fetch water.
This well is shared by seven or eight families. When Li Long passed by, a woman from another family was also carrying water. When she saw Li Long coming, she asked in surprise:
"Xiaolong, are you here to fetch water too? Do you know how to fight?"
In the past, Li Long would have most likely thought that the other party was kind-hearted, but now he could hear that the sister-in-law was very teasing. Ming meant it, but he didn't reply and stepped forward to put the bucket down. Get down, take off the pole, use an iron hook on one end to fasten the handle of the bucket, grab the pole and slowly lower the bucket into the well. When the bucket reaches the water surface, grab the iron hook on the other end of the pole and swing it skillfully, and the bucket When the well surface is tilted, water enters the bucket. After a pause of about ten seconds, the bucket is filled with water.
Seeing Li Long skillfully fetching a bucket of water, the sister-in-law who originally wanted to see the joke became unhappy. When two people meet to draw water, they are usually a bit competitive. After all, the person who draws water last is equivalent to eating water that has been touched by other people's buckets.
Li Long picked up the bucket of water and poured it into the bucket on the well surface, then filled another bucket and went back with it.
Although there was no conflict with others throughout the whole process, the idea of digging a well was stronger.
At least the well has been killed and drilled, so it will be clean and safe for use.
He remembered that dead mice, birds and the like seemed to be fished out of this well every year. After all, there is no lid on the wellhead now. In two years, there will be an iron lid, but it won't be tightly covered in winter.
The water is definitely not very clean.
There is no standard for killing wells these days. The killing heads are welded by blacksmiths themselves. They cost more than ten yuan each, which is not expensive, but it is not cheap either.
Of course there is no problem for Li Long, the problem is the person who dug the well. Of course, there's also the issue of finding the right location. He remembered that it was easier to drill a pressure well in his previous life. He would dig a pit three to four meters long and leave the pipe directly after the water came out to seal the soil back.
But the water layer of three to four meters is a saline-alkali layer, and you basically don’t drink the water you pump out. If you want drinkable water, you have to keep pumping down, at least to more than ten meters below. Only after passing the sand and gravel layer will the water from the water layer below rise up.
Killing the well at this time is also simple. As long as the well is drilled to a sufficient depth, the water will come up by itself.
The water tank was filled with water, and while Li Long was washing the wild vegetables, Li Juan came back with her schoolbag. Seeing Li Long washing the vegetables, she quickly put down her schoolbag and came out to help.
"Are you hungry?" Li Long asked while washing wild vegetables, "If you are hungry, I will cook you some vegetables now."
"Not hungry, I brought steamed buns for lunch." Li Juan shook her head, "Uncle, what kind of dish is this?"
"This is wild celery. You should be able to recognize this. It's wild leek." After washing, Li Long hung the wild vegetables to dry, waved his hand and said, "Then you will do your homework later?"
"Write your homework It's over, I'm going to mow the pig grass on our property. There is a piece of sweet potato on the head, and our pig is so cute." Li Juan's eyes were bright, "I'm afraid that someone will cut it, so I have to go quickly."
"Okay, go ahead. , don't cut the roots." Li Long warned with a smile. In the past few months, he obviously felt that Li Juan was much more lively than before, but he didn't know how she was doing with her studies.
Li Long was a scumbag in his last life, so he would not ask Li Juan and Li Qiang about their academic performance. Li Qiang is a bit naughty, but actually his academic performance was very good after he reached elementary school.
He doesn’t need to worry about it.
When Li Jianguo and Liang Yuemei came back in the evening, Li Long had already prepared dinner, which consisted of corn batter, fried wild vegetables, and steamed buns.
Li Qiang followed Li Long happily and was very busy. What he was holding was the bottom layer of steamed buns pressed against the edge of the pot, with a thick layer of browned edges. This layer is what children like to eat these days.
It is said that if you eat it, you can pick up money - Li Long also found out later that the old man said this just to prevent the children from wasting food.
But the children believed it now.
After dinner, Li Long told Li Jianguo the idea of drilling the well.
"If a well-killing head only costs more than ten yuan, then the rest will be easy." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "Then let's take a look."
"It's more troublesome to find someone." Li Long I'm a little worried. There are no private well diggers anywhere yet. There are state-run well diggers, but they will definitely not dig a well for us for this small well.
"Who are you looking for?" Li Jianguo said this with a proud face, "It's just that the tools are troublesome..."
"What tools are you looking for?" Li Long hadn't heard anything yet. , "Brother, do you know what you want?"
"We build a pressure well in our own yard, and the diameter is no more than ten centimeters at most. All we need is a long steel bar, more than ten meters... No, we have to weld two steel bars together. Then it is used to kill the well. Pipe..."
Li Jianguo was rolling a Mohe cigarette when he stopped and thought, "According to you, it's definitely not possible to be three to five meters deep, and we definitely can't drink the saline water, so we have to find a good place. Let's dig the well into the yard and dig it first..."
Li Long Listening to what Li Jianguo said in a very logical way, I couldn't help but ask:
"Brother, how do you know so clearly?"
"Me? Haha, ask your sister-in-law who I used to be. What are you doing?" Li Long turned to look at Liang Yuemei, who was showing off clothes for Li Juan.
"Your eldest brother, before we got married, we were working in the well-drilling company. I was there at the time, and by the way, there was also Tietou's father from across the street."
"We were all digging wells at that time. It was tiring to drill by hand. We drilled wells for banks and supply and marketing cooperatives in the county. Later, we drilled wells for various communes. After the well-drilling team stopped for a while, we settled here." Li Jianguo. Remembering.
"Brother, it turns out that you are professional in digging wells." Li Long suddenly realized, "Then let's dig tomorrow? I will go to the blacksmith shop tomorrow to dig and weld the well head, buy the pipes and weld the steel bars, and it will be done in one day. It can be done."
When he said this, everyone in the room, including Liang Yuemei, Li Juan, and even Li Qiang, looked at Li Jianguo with bright eyes.
Obviously, they all agreed with Li Long's proposal.
Carrying water is really annoying. Even the little Li Juan has done it. Although she is not satisfied with it, she still has to carry two and a half buckets of water when she is in a hurry.
Li Jianguo looked at them, thought for a while and said:
"If the fields are not busy these two days, let's fight. I will go to Lao Lu now to settle the matter. . The well has been dug and can be used by both our families."
There is definitely nothing wrong with this. Nowadays, every courtyard has only courtyard walls and no gates. They usually have a good relationship with each other, so there is nothing wrong with the Li family's well-pressure and the Lu family's use of it.
Li Jianguo stood up, lit the rolled Mohe cigarette with the kerosene lamp, put on his clothes and went out.
Li Long also came outside the hospital. It was already dark, because there was no light pollution and the moon had not risen yet. The sky was full of stars and looked very beautiful.
Li Qiang didn’t know when he came to his side. He asked Li Long:
“Uncle, what are you looking at?”
“Look at the stars.”
"What's so good about the stars?" Li Qiang didn't understand. They were just bright spots.
Li Long thought to himself, when you grow up, you will miss seeing the stars in the sky and clearly seeing the constellations.
Thinking of this, he became interested and took Li Qiang outside the hospital, telling Li Long one by one, from Polaris and Big Dipper to Altair and Vega.
Tell about horoscopes and folk stories.
Watching short videos in my previous life filled my mind with a lot of information, which came in handy now. The version he told about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was not about stealing clothes, but the earliest version in which both parties were gods.
I don’t know when Li Juan also came out and listened quietly.
When Li Jianguo came out of Lu's house, he saw three people looking at the stars. He was happy:
"It's so dark, why don't you go into the house?"
"It's agreed. ?" Li Long asked.
"Okay. Tomorrow you go buy the well head and weld the steel bars, we dig the hole, and when we come back we drill the holes - by the way, we also need to buy pipes." Li Jianguo took money out of his pocket as he spoke. "The well head and steel bars are repaired on the commune's agricultural machinery Buy it from Factory Old Liu and just keep the accounts. The pipes have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative. You have to prepare 20 meters first. You can take the ten dollars first..."
"No, no, no," Li Long waved his hand hurriedly. "I have enough money."
"Your money belongs to you. We are building a well for our family without your having to pay..."
"Isn't it just right that you do the hard work and I pay for it." Li Long doesn't want Li Jianguo's money. He took two steps back and said, "Leave the shopping to me and the well digging to you, just right."
Li Jianguo refused to give out the money.
After breakfast the next day, Lu Yingming and Sister Lu came over with shovels. It can be seen that they are more excited than the Li family.
"His aunt, you said that you have dug so many wells for others, and now you can finally build a well for your own home. It's great!" Sister-in-law of the Lu family sighed, "It's not easy!"
Li Long took Li Juan and Li Qiang with him on his bicycle. He first sent Li Qiang to preschool, then took Li Juan to the elementary school, and then dropped her off at the rural agricultural machinery repair shop.
It is said to be repairing agricultural machinery, but it is actually the former blacksmith shop. Because each production team has a Dongfanghong 75 tractor, as well as planters, plows and other agricultural machinery. These big guys are very solid, and there are basically no major problems. Small problems will appear from time to time. These minor problems are not worth going to the agricultural machinery factory for repair, and they can be solved here.
Li Long came to the repair shop and found someone welding things here. He saw Lao Liu whom Li Jianguo was talking about.
Lao Liu was watching the master welding things when Li Long came in. He looked familiar but didn’t recognize him, so he smiled and asked:
“Little brother, what can I buy?”
"Director Liu, my brother is Li Jianguo. My family is going to drill a well, and I wanted to come over and see if you have a well head..."
"Old Li's brother, are you Li Long?" Liu was happy when he heard this, "What, pressure well? There is a well head!"
He took Li Long to a warehouse, pointed to the four pressure well heads inside and said, "Look, All It was only recently welded. There are not many pressure wells nowadays, but they still do it from time to time... By the way, you do it yourself, do you have the tools?"
"No, my brother said I would get it from you. I asked for welded steel bars. "
"Just tell me that your brother is a well-digging man and knows how many meters you need. I'll weld them for you right now."
"The shallow water over there is alkali. It needs to be deeper, at least ten meters."
"Okay, three pieces of steel bars will be credited to your brother's account. Do you want the pipe? I have the pipe here, but It's an old one..."
"I don't want the pipe. I plan to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a new one. By the way, don't keep the account, I'll give it to you here. Cash."
"Okay, I heard that you have made money since the beginning of the year. I thought it was just a rumor, but it seems to be true. The cost of killing the well is twelve yuan. You have to pay the worker, fifteen yuan for the cost, three yuan for you.”
“Okay”
Li Long paid eighteen yuan and said to Lao Liu:
"I'm going to the county to buy pipes now. Will the steel bars be welded when I get back?"
"That must be no problem."
When Li Long returned to Li's house with a complete set of things, a pit two meters square and more than one meter deep had been dug in the yard.
(End of this chapter)