Chapter 33 Digging a Fish Pond
As soon as Lin Heng and Xiulan left, sister-in-law Liu Juan was left standing in the room awkwardly.
Father Lin glanced at her and said, "I told you to talk less, but you didn't listen. You should be magnanimous."
Having said that, he walked out on his own. Liu Juan deserved it.
It’s bad enough that you talk about Lin Heng behind his back, but you are also often sarcastic to his face. Now that he is against you, do you still expect us to help you?
"Wife, please give in to Lin Heng and talk less in the future." Lin Yue glanced at his wife and persuaded her with a smile.
"You're controlling me now? I've washed your clothes, cooked for you, and given birth to three sons for nothing, you ungrateful bastard!!"
When Liu Juan heard what her husband said, she became immediately angry, gave him a cold look and went into her room.
Lin Yue looked innocent. Weren't we discussing something properly? Why did I become the ungrateful one?
"Oh!" He sighed, picked up the note, puffed of a cigarette and walked out.
Mother Lin shook her head, saying that there was a huge difference between her eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law.
Lin Heng came to the vegetable garden outside. Now the vegetables had been moved to other fields, and the soil on the ground had also been processed.
After looking at the spring again, Lin Heng decided to create a stream ecological landscape here, making it similar to a stream. After raising grass carp fry, he could also raise some small fish, koi and so on.
If you have nothing to do, you can also adjust the small fish here.
After careful planning, Lin Heng decided to use 50 square meters of the backyard to build an ecological fish pond. The first thing he had to do was to dig out the spring and make a well.
The water in the well is then drained into a secondary reservoir, and then a stream is made from the secondary reservoir to divert the water into a large fish pond. Finally, the water is discharged through an outlet connected to the large fish pond.
There is no need to do swamp filtration or the like, because this is an ecological fish pond with a water source, so the water can flow continuously and is living water, so there is no need for swamp filtration for recycling.
After thinking about the general appearance, Lin Heng took a wooden stick and started drawing lines on the ground. After some attempts, he was finally satisfied.
I went back to the house and shoveled some wood ash as white lime to make a mark, and then I just built according to the mark.
At this time, Lin's father came to the field with an old man. The old man in yellow was holding a compass and some other tools in his hands. He was obviously a Feng Shui master.
"Lin Heng, this is your uncle." Father Lin introduced.
"Hello, uncle. You look really strong." Lin Heng grinned and flattered him a little.
"Shi Feng, you look much more stable than when you got married." The old man in yellow said with a smile.
Shifeng is Lin Heng's nickname because when he was a child he offered sacrifice to a big stone and acknowledged the stone as his godfather, hence the name.
Because he was always sick when he was a child, people at that time believed that if they recognized a stone as their godfather, their life would become harder and they would not be prone to illness.
"Uncle, I want to dig this spring deeper and build a fish pond. What do you think?" Lin Heng asked with a smile, pointing to the small spring behind him.
When his uncle saw the spring, he nodded and said, "Okay, this is a good thing. Water brings wealth. It would be a good omen if it was made into a pool and circulated in the yard. I'll show you a detailed picture later."
The old man nodded, then looked at the direction of the house. Lin Heng's house had mountains behind it and a river in front of it, so it must be a good place.
"Then uncle, can I expand this spring now?" Lin Heng asked again.
"This is just a small puddle. You can only move here. You have to wait until the eighth day of the first lunar month to move other places."
The old man in yellow took a look and nodded.
"Okay." When Lin Heng saw that he could move, he turned back to look for his elder brother Lin Yue.
"Brother, take the tools and help me dig a well." Lin Heng shouted.
"Can we start construction today?" Big brother Lin Yue looked at him.
"Sure. I asked my uncle, and he said there's no problem as long as we touch the spring." Lin Heng nodded.
"Since we have nothing to do, let's go dig." The eldest brother Lin Yue nodded, took a shovel, pickaxe, and hoe and went out with Lin Heng.
Lin Heng was holding a gourd-made ladle and a wooden basin.
First, scoop out all the water in the puddle, then dig with a hoe and shovel the soil with a shovel.
Lin Heng's idea is to dig a well with a diameter of 1.5 meters and a depth determined by the situation. People can drink the water in the well, and then it will be connected to a secondary reservoir and then to the stream ecological fish pond.
While digging, the two chatted.
Lin Yue said that we should drink less tonight and go catch some eels.
"Lin Heng, your sister-in-law is that kind of person, don't take it to heart." Suddenly, the eldest brother Lin Yue said with a smile.
"Brother, you think too much. How could I take it to heart? I understand your difficulties." Lin Heng smiled and shook his head.
He and his older brother were only two years apart in age. They grew up together, caught fish together, poisoned fish together, stole other people's corn and soybeans to eat, got beaten together, and fought together.
Even if they fight and get angry with each other sometimes, they will be fine soon and they are always thinking about each other.
In his previous life, when he had a high loan of 50,000 yuan, his eldest brother helped him despite the abuse from his eldest sister-in-law.
Therefore, even if the eldest brother favors the eldest sister-in-law and they talk about him together, he would not care. He believes that the brotherhood between the two will not change.
"Haha, I'm relieved if you think so. We'll still be the same as before. We'll teach those yellow eels a lesson tonight."
When eldest brother Lin Yue heard this, he smiled and patted Lin Heng on the shoulder. He didn't want to be separated from Lin Heng because of other things, but he had no choice and was always conflicted.
He felt resentful about Lin Heng's fooling around during those days because he resented Lin Heng for not living up to his expectations, not because of anything else.
"Of course." Lin Heng chuckled.
Without mentioning anything else, just the fact that his eldest brother voluntarily dropped out of school after elementary school so that he could go to junior high school was enough to make him not be angry with his eldest sister-in-law.
The reason I said that in the morning was just to piss off my sister-in-law, and I didn't take it to heart at all.
While chatting and shoveling the soil, they soon dug more than one meter deep, and several small springs were exposed. Streams of water as thick as thumbs flowed out of the mountain.
"First divert the water away and continue digging."
The two men took off their shirts, dug a ditch nearby to divert the water, and continued digging downwards.
It took more than three hours to complete a well with a diameter of 1.8 meters and a depth of 2.2 meters. The two men were so tired that they were sweating profusely.
"The groundwater in this place is really abundant." Lin Heng sighed.
After digging deeper, three springs appeared, all with a diameter of four or five centimeters. The water flow was not fast, but it was continuous. No wonder this land is wet all year round.
"Wait until this afternoon, find some stones to build a circle in the well to separate the loess on the wall of the well, and the well will be almost done."
Lin Yue nodded. Now that the well was built, less water would seep out, and his brother's house would be much drier.
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