At the same time, Geng Feng and Geng Tian were on the mountain, sawing down several large willow trees.
After they were dragged down the mountain, they were pushed back to the village one by one on a large cart and delivered to Carpenter Tian.
Carpenter Tian was an experienced craftsman. He knew the size of the well casing and did not discuss the wages with Geng Feng. He just started working.
The old carpenter can absolutely trust the character of Geng Zhenhai and Geng Feng.
The next day, the north wind was fierce. At the Yin hour, commonly known as the time when ghosts bared their teeth, Qin Nian and his friends all got up.
Ye Meizi and Yao Hua made breakfast, while Geng Zhenhai and Geng Zhenjiang, together with the three young men from their family, started digging the ground with pickaxes.
If you get up an hour earlier, you can get a lot more work done.
At this time of year, the soil is deeply frozen and is quite hard, making it very difficult to dig.
But no matter how hard it was to dig, it couldn't stop the young man who was full of strength.
When the sun just rose, the permafrost was completely dug up, revealing a large pit more than one meter deep.
Only then did I return to the house.
Breakfast consisted of white flour buns, millet porridge, two boiled eggs per person, and pickled radish.
The young men who did the heavy work each ate several large, soft, white steamed buns.
After eating, put down your chopsticks and start working immediately.
Mrs. Li sighed with emotion: "It's great to be young, it's great to be young, you don't feel tired when working, just take a rest when you are tired.
When I was young, I was also like that, I didn’t feel tired when I worked—”
The five people of Geng's family, father, sons and brothers, dug for two consecutive days and reached a depth of more than three meters.
The old well carver would check the soil layer from time to time to make sure he had dug in the right place.
Qin Nian sighed in his heart that the old man was really honest in his work and never deceived anyone.
At this depth, two people cannot dig at the same time. Only one person can dig in the bottom of the well, and two people can be on top, pulling the soil up with baskets.
Three people taking turns are enough.
While Geng Feng and Geng Tian were digging a well here, Geng Zhenhai continued to draw water from the well in Dawa Village and pull it back in a hired ox cart.
At least two trips a day.
Geng Zhenjiang took Sun Dalei and a few others to the mountain to continue chopping firewood. After a day or two of chopping, one load of firewood on a ox cart was enough to last for several days.
Thanks to everyone's efforts, the stew restaurant's business did not suffer any delay.
A week later, a well more than ten meters deep was dug, and water was bubbling out of it.
This time it was Carpenter Tian's turn to take action. He had to carry the sawn, hexagonal willow wood well casing down into the well in circles and then install it securely.
This is a technical job, tiring and difficult. Carpenter Tian is not afraid of hardship or cold, and does the job very carefully.
Mrs. Li sighed again: "Bad people gather together and live in Baijia Village."
After the well casing was installed, the windlass was installed, and the well rope was tied, the three young men of the Geng family began to dig the well.
The so-called well cleaning is to pump out all the turbid water in the well until the water coming out of the well is clean.
Whether the well is cleaned thoroughly or not will directly affect the water quality in the future.
After two or three days of digging, a well with clean water finally appeared.
It took less than half a month from making the decision to completing it.
Qin Nian calculated the wages for Carpenter Tian and the old well carpenter, and gave each of them an extra basket of strawberries, thanking the two old craftsmen again and again.
That night, Qin Nian asked the chef to cook ten dishes, and everyone sat at the table together, eating and drinking to celebrate the fact that they had their own well.
There was laughter and joy, and it was very lively.
At this time, the villagers of Baijia Village also heard about Qin Nian digging a well, and they were staring at each other in amazement.
If Qin Nian fetches water from their village all year round, he can charge a lot of money and the whole village will benefit.
Now, people have to dig their own wells. Not to mention a bucket of water costing a hundred cents, even if it was ten cents, people would still find it too much trouble.
The villagers of Baijia Village all regretted their actions and even blamed each other. Some simply pointed fingers at Adlizheng, saying that it was his greed that caused the whole village to suffer no benefit.
Ade was so angry that he started quarreling with many people.
Qin Nian's stew restaurant has more and more customers, and many customers have reported that when they ate at Qin Nian's restaurant, they learned how to stew from the chef.
But when I made it at home, it didn’t taste the same, and I couldn’t figure out why.
Qin Nian certainly understood that her caged chickens were all fed with spiritual spring water, and the stew was also made with spiritual spring water, so how could they be the same?
Her stew restaurant is busy from morning till night every day, and everyone rarely has time to rest.
The work was too tiring, so Qin Nian took the initiative to raise the wages of the people he hired. Everyone was happy and worked even harder.
In the blink of an eye, it's the end of the year.
That day, after breakfast, Qin Nian was planning to go into the picking garden to take a look.
All the strawberries that were harvested a while ago were picked, and new ones are now available for sale.
Because it is Chinese New Year, there are many more people coming to pick strawberries as gifts than usual.
Fortunately, Qin Nian had thought of this early, and this crop of strawberries was three times more than the previous one.
Qin Nian just stood up when he heard someone knocking on the door.
"Who is it?"
During this period, Mrs. Li ate well, had no mental pain, and her health was very good.
He was energetic, quick on his feet and quick on his lips. When he heard a knock on the door, he hurried over to ask a question, then opened the door.
There were six people standing in a row outside the door, six men, two in their teens and one in his twenties.
Mrs. Li became alert. "Who are you looking for?"
The first person said, "Let's go find Qin Nian."
"What do you want from Qin Nian?"
The man said again: "Let's find Qin Nian."
Qin Nian came over and gently pushed Mrs. Li away. She stood in front of the door and said, "I'm Qin Nian. What do you want from me?"
"Geng Zhenjiang, Geng Zhenhai, Geng Feng, Geng Tian, Geng Di, all of you come here."
Mrs. Li suddenly shouted loudly, her voice was so loud that the six men were startled at the same time.
The men of Geng's family were just about to do their own work when they suddenly heard Mrs. Li's call and hurried over.
Geng Feng asked loudly: "Grandma, what's the matter?"
I don’t know when it started, but Geng Feng, like Qin Nian, started calling Mrs. Li “grandma.”
Geng Tian and Geng Di also shouted.
"Come here, all of you."
The man from the Geng family also saw the six men standing at the door, and knew what Mrs. Li was saying to be on guard against.
Several people came over quickly.
The leading man looked at Qin Nian and said, "Miss Qin, we have something to talk to you about. Can we go in and talk?"
"Who are you? What do you want from me?"
"It's not something that can be explained in a few words. Can we go in and talk?"
The man asked again.
Qin Nian opened the door and six men came in.
The man from the Geng family came in soon after.
The leading man was somewhat unhappy: "Miss Qin, we have something to talk to you about. Can you please ask these irrelevant men to leave?"
Qin Nian’s face darkened: “They are my family, not irrelevant people.
If you have anything to say, please speak up. I have things to do."
Mrs. Li curled her lips and said, "You said it's irrelevant right away. I think your guess is really irrelevant."
The leading man had no choice but to nod: "Okay, since you are Qin Nian's family, it's okay to listen together."
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