Chapter 75: The water diversion river is connected (please recommend and collect)
"Haha, actually we don't need to move so far, we can just move the boat there." Luo Chong said with a faint smile, pointing to the artificial river not far away.
"There? There is no water there, isn't it said that wooden boats float on the water?" Dali didn't understand what Luo Chong meant, and asked directly.
"Well, there is no water now, but we just need to divert water over there."
What? Divert water over here, will water still listen to people?
The tribesmen around him widened their eyes in disbelief, their jaws dropped to the ground, and they couldn't believe what the leader had just said.
"Take the shovel, push a few carts and rattan baskets and follow me, I will tell you how to divert water over here." Luo Chong picked up a bronze shovel and walked to the river first.
The weather has been very good these days. Although it is still very cold in the morning and evening, the temperature during the day is very high, and it can basically remain above zero degrees at noon.
There was another moderate snowfall two days ago, but it didn't stay on the ground at all, and it melted in less than a day. After two consecutive sunny days, the ice on the river became thinner and thinner, and a water line had already formed near the middle of the river.
Spring had quietly arrived, and it was time to divert water to the artificial river.
Luo Chong brought more than 30 people and various tools to the end of the artificial river. The tribesmen who had not been out of the wall for a long time also came to watch the fun.
A group of children drove out eight wolf cubs who had just turned one month old. Qubing also led Benben, who had just finished feeding and was unwilling to move, over. Rourou and Huishan also ran away and could not be found. Only the sound of elephants could be heard from afar. Spring was coming, and the people who had been hiding in the cave for a winter could not help but come out to move.
At the end of the artificial river, there was only a 2-meter-wide land left between here and the river. Now, as long as this last barrier was dug, the water would flow through.
The excavation work was to dig from one side of the artificial river to the direction of the river. Several people were in the ditch, several people were on the ground, and the rest tied rattan baskets with ropes as hanging baskets, and carried soil out of the ditch one basket at a time.
After a morning, when the soil layer was only about 30 centimeters thick, water seepage had already appeared on the artificial river.
Luo Chong asked the tribesmen below to quickly climb up by grabbing the rope, and first lit a large bonfire on the shore to keep warm. Then he took off his fur robe, tied a rope around his waist for the tribesmen to pull, and took a shovel to do the final work of clearing the river.
Water had seeped out of the bottom of the ditch. Luo Chong stepped on the cold mud, pointed the shovel at the bottom of the soil, and dug the last barrier of the river water.
After swinging the shovel for more than a dozen times, the moment Luo Chong pulled out the shovel, a strong stream of water also gushed out from the gap, like a fountain spraying a water column horizontally. The gushing river water directly pushed Luo Chong out, but fortunately the rope on his waist pulled him in time.
"Fuck, this water is so damn cold, hurry up and pull me up."
Luo Chong was startled by the icy water, and he got ashore in a few seconds after the tribesmen pulled him hard. The tribesmen who had been prepared for a long time quickly wrapped Luo Chong with animal skins and let him stand by the campfire to keep warm.
The gushing water continued to erode the soil around the gap, and the huge pressure directly washed out a large hole with a diameter of one meter.
Luo Chong also shivered all over, wrapped in an animal skin robe, standing on the shore and watching the surging river water rushing into the artificial river.
The water in the stream formed a vortex due to the strong suction force, and the thin ice on the river surface could no longer bear it. The crackling sound was endless, and the broken ice debris also rushed to the big hole at the bottom of the river, and the soil layer around the big hole was also collapsed and submerged in this torrent with a splash. Countless fish of varying sizes were also swept into the torrent and rushed to the river channel of the diversion river together.
The rushing river water rushed all the way to the end of the diversion river near the wall. The water flow suddenly hit the end of the river channel, stirring up countless tiny waves. The 700-meter-long river channel was flooded by ice water in an instant, and the water level of the diversion river also rose at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The little wolf cubs were so scared that they kept howling. Qubing and Benben also ran behind Luo Chong in fear. This place was not only safe but also had a bonfire, which was more comfortable than other places.
Under the gaze of all the tribesmen, more than ten minutes later, the water flow returned to calm again. The natural stream had also been connected to the diversion river, but the river water was still a little turbid, and the mud on the bottom of the river was rolled up.
On the chaotic water surface, the broken ice floes were also slowly floating, and some fish that were just stunned by the impact of the water flow also floated up with their white bellies turned up.
"Fish, there are fish, lots of fish, go get the basket and catch the fish."
A woman holding a child saw the fish swimming in the river with their bellies turned upside down and shouted excitedly, pointing at the fish and yelling non-stop.
The tribesmen who were just worrying about how to lift the wooden boat into the water now had their eyes wide open, the river water was really diverted! !
"How about it? Now the water is very close to us. We don't have to run so far to get water in the future." Luo Chong said to the tribesmen while looking at the gradually clearing river water.
The matter of digging the river to divert water had a great impact on the tribesmen, especially those who came from the original Xieding tribe.
Their daily water used to be taken from the natural pool in the cave, but in late autumn and winter, when the spring water stopped flowing, they could only use stone basins to get water from the small river three kilometers away.
At that time, the people of Xieding tribe envied the Han tribe for having pottery. They thought that maybe one more pottery could store more water, but Luo Chong's behavior refreshed their understanding of water.
This is too violent. In order to take less steps to fetch water, they directly diverted the river water to the doorstep. It was really willful.
The tribesmen who had been living in the Han tribe had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.
At the beginning, Luo Chong did not let everyone continue to store food, but mobilized all the tribesmen to dig the river to make bricks. At that time, the tribesmen thought that Luo Chong dug this ditch just for those bricks.
When the artificial river accidentally captured wild animals a month ago, the tribesmen thought that digging this ditch was just a trap.
When they saw the river water filling up the long ditch, the tribesmen finally realized the ultimate purpose of digging the river.
Of course, this is only the first step in digging the diversion river. The ultimate goal is to dig canals and cultivate land along both sides of the diversion river.
Do it right away. Spring has arrived, and the plan for cultivating land must be put on the schedule immediately. After all, time waits for no one.
At noon, after the Han tribe had a dinner to celebrate the completion of the diversion river, in the afternoon, taking advantage of the warm noon, Luo Chong took a bundle of thin ropes and planned the layout of the rice fields with the tribesmen.
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