In fact, the well in Yushudun had already dried up to the bottom.
I usually drink river water.
This water comes from the source and there is no pollution upstream, so there is no problem in temporarily replacing the water source.
But it is not clean after all.
Most people in the village are used to drinking raw water, so it is common for worms to grow in their stomachs.
I've been busy harvesting crops and holding mobilization meetings these days and have no time to take care of this matter.
The well was sealed, and Zhao Wei thought it would be a good idea to give the villagers a lesson on hygiene.
Otherwise, not only the elderly and children will be prone to illness, but adults will also suffer.
He didn't want to see the disgusting roundworms being pulled out.
Moreover, in order to deal with viral infections, the village has always been equipped with lime, which was Zhao Wei's strong request.
Right now, the well has been poisoned. To be on the safe side, we must make it clear over and over again that no one should be allowed to make this mistake again.
At the same time, he was also trying to find a way to remove the rat poison in the well.
This kind of thing naturally requires the help of Lin Qinghe, the old miracle doctor!
In fact, the best way is to clean the water source several times.
It is the dry season now, so it is theoretically feasible. However, in practice, the well is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. Adults cannot go down there, and children do not have the strength or means to clean out the toxic sludge inside. It is always difficult.
Moreover, there is no pumping equipment, which makes it really difficult.
So the only solution he could think of was a physical method, which was to put fine sand and charcoal into a bamboo frame and sink it to the bottom of the water, reducing toxins through adsorption.
When the rainy season comes, wash the well a few times and it should be usable.
After listening to his ideas, Lin Qinghe also proposed his own solution.
The first is to use alum, which has the effects of astringency, detoxification, and precipitation of impurities. Just sprinkle it into the well.
Then take a large amount of licorice and boil it into a decoction. After it cools down, pour it into the well. After soaking for 2-3 hours, flush the well wall and bottom with clean water.
The main trouble is that you have to change the water many times.
It's not very suitable in this dry season unless some of the water in the river canal can be diverted.
The last traditional method is to use clean loess, sieve it, put it into multiple layers of linen bags, and hang it in the water flow of the well.
Use soil particles to absorb toxins and replace loess bags daily.
Without saying a word, Zhao Wei paid for it out of his own pocket and went to the medical company in the county to buy a large amount of alum.
This thing is not expensive, it is a common item.
It's rare for someone to buy as much as he did. He cleared out the pharmaceutical company's stock in one go.
The person in charge was shocked and asked Zhao Wei what he wanted to do with it.
He has to find out its purpose before he can sell it.
Zhao Wei did not hide it. What happened in their village could not be concealed from anyone. After all, it was a very typical village and had long been famous in the county.
Zhao Weineng was able to protect the village's food supply with his own efforts. Not only did he complete last year's production task and hand in this year's, he also ensured that every villager received a lot of food.
So, when the head of the pharmaceutical company learned that he needed to buy a large amount of licorice, he personally led people to move two or three hundred kilograms of stock to him.
There are more than a dozen water wells in Yushudun, a residential area with more than a thousand people, so the water consumption is naturally very large.
Since it involved human lives, many people were alarmed and even sent people to Yushudun to watch how they removed the toxins from the well.
Zhao Wei received them one by one, and then followed their advice and dug up the upper part of one of the wells.
This way, adults can easily get down to the well.
Then, the people in the village who were responsible for digging the canal worked overtime and managed to divert a stream of water to one of the wells.
Thus, a vigorous anti-drug operation was launched.
The first person to go down into the well was Er Laizi.
Zhao Wei specially asked Yunxiu to sew a multi-layer cotton mask for him.
The smell of this rat poison is very pungent and choking.
There is no guarantee that there may not be poisonous gas at the bottom of the well.
In this day and age, it is not easy to dig a well, so the only way to clean it is so laborious.
Erlaizi is a very brave man. After more than half a year of experience, he is no longer the weak young man he used to be.
The women could not help with this kind of thing and could only stand aside and watch the fun.
There were quite a lot of girls of marriageable age in the village, and at this moment, their eyes on Erlaizi had changed.
In the past, Er Laizi was like a toad, with scars on his head that made people feel sick and want to vomit. Even if he was rich, no one wanted to marry him.
But now, the bald scar on Erlaizi's head has already been cured by Lin Qinghe.
Moreover, he is very ambitious and can earn more than 30 yuan a month. This is a rich son-in-law that can be shown off no matter where you look at it.
Unfortunately, things are different now. The girls in the village are no longer within Erlaizi’s range of choice for a spouse.
The girl he wanted was the kind who studied in the county town and was an intellectual, not an illiterate country woman.
Not only him, but all five of Zhao Wei's disciples were like this. Their views on choosing a spouse had already quietly changed.
People tend to move towards higher places, there is nothing to say about this.
To be honest, if Zhao Wei was reborn and came to this village without Yunxiu as his wife, his view on choosing a spouse would be different from that of these disciples. He might still look for this old type of woman to be his wife.
He likes to spend his life with this kind of woman who is down-to-earth, capable, and able to shoulder the burden of the family.
Not to mention, Yunxiu was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, even without makeup. She had already captivated him the first time they met.
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But now it’s by the well.
As Erlaizi climbed down through the gap in the well wall, the sound of the well rope rubbing against the stone wall was particularly clear in the quiet village during the dry season.
The black mud accumulated at the bottom of the well had a pungent medicinal smell mixed with the stench of rotting dead rats. Even with a mask on, the smell was still so strong that he had to hold his breath.
This well has been used for too long, and it is very likely that many rotten and smelly things have sunk to the bottom of the well over time.
This is a good opportunity to clean it thoroughly so it will stay clean for decades to come.
The second beggar was falling down, pulling at the rope, and sinking step by step with the help of the light from the lantern hanging above his head.
"Step slower!" Zhao Wei shouted while lying at the mouth of the well, holding another rope tied to the bamboo basket in his hand.
"First, shovel the top layer of poisonous mud into the basket, and be careful not to get it on your skin!"
Erlaizi bent down and started to move. They couldn't stay in this place for long, and the best thing to do was to fight quickly and decisively.
When he shoveled the third basket of poisonous mud, the second beggar suddenly stopped.
The shovel blade scraped against a hard object, and when the mud was pushed aside, some green silver coins, copper coins, iron products, etc. were revealed.
I didn't expect that there would be such an unexpected surprise in the well. It was really a pleasant surprise.
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