“So is Guiyi Village.”
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Then Meiying Village and Zhoujia Village also expressed their desire to participate in the competition.
Seeing how active everyone was, Li Mengyue suddenly had an idea in her mind.
“Pah pah pah!”
When everyone heard Li Mengyue clapping, the three hundred or so people suddenly fell silent.
"Since everyone wants to compete, what's the point without a prize? I declare that whichever village finishes first will receive ten kilograms of grain from me."
"What!"
"Is this true?"
"Ten pounds, did I hear it right?"
"Ten kilograms per person, and each village has fifty people. Doesn't that mean Li Mengyue will have to provide fifty kilograms of food?"
Everyone's face suddenly lit up with smiles. They had never expected that they would meet such a great person just by going up the mountain to play with bamboo pipes.
Although only the winning village can get food, they believe that the victory will definitely belong to their village.
However, some people were happy, while others were worried about Li Mengyue, wondering if taking out so much food at once would affect the family.
What's more, every household is short of food nowadays. Who would let their daughter casually take out 50 kilograms of food as a prize for a competition?
"Niece, let's stop competing. It's our job to handle the bamboo tubes. How can we ask you to take out the food?" Li De said to Li Mengyue.
The person standing next to him immediately came to his senses when he heard what Li De said.
Yes, how could they be so confused? It was enough for them to have Li Mengyue teach them how to use bamboo pipes to divert water. How could they be so greedy as to ask for other people's food?
"Yes, Miss Li, we were just joking. Don't take it seriously. We didn't hear anything about food."
"That's right, we can bring down the mountain water, but not every village can use it. What kind of competition is this?"
"Yeah, it's all a joke, let's get to work."
"Okay, okay, each village will take five miles of land first, and then we can divide the rest."
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With that, everyone picked up their tools and started moving.
"Uncle De, there's no need to save for me. We can still spare a few dozen kilograms of food. It's a deal. The village that finishes first will win ten kilograms of food for everyone."
When everyone who was about to start working heard this, they all cheered and started working quickly.
Just kidding, if you win you can get ten kilograms of food, which is enough for a family to eat for more than a month if they save it.
Li Mengyue saw that everyone was working enthusiastically and praised herself for her wit.
Just paying a little bit of food can mobilize everyone's enthusiasm and shorten the time. Why not do it?
It seems that rewards can also be used to clear rivers and build large reservoirs, so that everyone can work together.
What's more, fifty kilograms of food is nothing to her.
Not to mention the meat that the child's father sent over, even the meat she got from Master Liu's yard would weigh tens of thousands of pounds.
Although everyone was very careful when setting up the bamboo tubes, since no one had done this before, there would be some problems.
So Li Mengyue asked everyone to stop and demonstrated how to do it before letting everyone continue.
In this way, the speed was indeed increased a lot.
At this time, Li Mengyue was not idle either. She went to explore the address of the reservoir.
Since it has been decided to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build a reservoir, Li Mengyue will not act casually, but will carefully select the site.
However, the location selection is also very important. If it is too small, the water storage capacity will be insufficient and it will not play its due role.
After all, the reservoir was built to prevent insufficient rainfall in July and August every year.
Once this problem occurs, the floodgates can be opened to release water to prevent crops from being sun-dried or dying due to severe water shortage.
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