Seeing the pool of clear water in front of him, Captain Fan Ming was visibly excited. If he hadn't seen that Huang Yuelan was pregnant, he would have slapped her shoulders so hard that they were sore.
"Yuelan, you have made a great contribution to our team this time. Give me the hoe so I can dig down." Fan Ming's eyes were sparkling as if he had discovered gold, and his whole body was glowing with a different look.
Huang Yuelan handed the hoe to the team leader, and Fan Ming picked up the hoe and started digging hard.
Although Fan Ming is the team leader, he is also a good worker. With one hoe, he immediately stirs up a large amount of soil.
With one hoe after another, it didn't take long before the team leader had dug a big hole.
At the same time, water kept flowing out from it, and the flow was much stronger than before.
Seeing the water flow gradually getting stronger, the captain felt more confident.
We have only been digging for a few minutes and the water flow has become stronger. Just imagine, if we dig for half an hour or a whole day, the water flow will be louder.
Thinking of this, the captain became even more motivated.
The villagers who were working nearby saw the team leader working behind Huang Yuelan's house and couldn't help but start talking.
"What do you think the captain is digging for? He's working so hard. I've never seen a captain work so hard before."
"Who knows? I don't know what the hunter's wife is doing, but she is so famous that she can even ask the captain to come and help."
"The captain is only doing this out of respect for Hunter Wang, otherwise he wouldn't help her."
After digging for about ten minutes, I suddenly hit a large hard rock, which made a notch in the rock with the hoe. I could also see water flowing out from all around the rock.
"Captain, this stone is quite big. I think it will be difficult to dig it out with a hoe. I'll go home and get a crowbar." Huang Yuelan turned around and went back home to get a crowbar.
Team leader Fan Ming saw that it was really difficult to use a hoe to move such a large stone, so he went to the nearby farmland to find a few young and strong villagers to help.
Everyone was just wondering what the captain was doing here, but now they understood, there is actually a hidden spring over there? !
When they heard that there was a spring, the villagers were more enthusiastic than each other and were willing to come and help.
After all, having a water source means that food production in the village is guaranteed, and they don't have to face the dilemma of harvest failure and hunger.
Huang Yuelan quickly found a crowbar at home and went to the back of the house to see that the team leader had already found several villagers to work there.
Team leader Fan Ming asked the villagers to dig a big puddle nearby and let the running water flow into the puddle.
In short, the principle is: not a drop of water should be wasted.
Huang Yuelan handed the crowbar to the team leader, and the team leader and several villagers worked together to pry the big rock open.
"One, two, three, up!"
After the big rock was pried open, water immediately flowed out.
"Pried it open! Pried it open!"
"Wow, what a big spring!"
Everyone was stunned by the spring before them. It was almost the same as the Baotu Spring in later generations, and water kept bubbling out.
Huang Yuelan found it incredible when she saw the spring water dug out by the team leader and the villagers. It was much bigger than the one she dug herself.
With this amount of water, there is no problem in using it to irrigate the farmland in their brigade.
After digging it out, the entire hidden spring was also dug out. Because there was a layer of rock underneath, there was no need to continue digging. There were two main things that needed to be considered next.
The first and most urgent thing is to hurry up to irrigate the crops that are about to wither due to drought and water shortage. Although many crops have wilted, they can still be saved if they are replenished with water in time. It is never too late to mend the fold.
So the team leader immediately adjusted the work and asked the villagers to fetch water from the newly dug spring and use it to irrigate the crops.
"Who discovered such a big spring?"
"The hunter's wife found it first. It's behind her house. She saw it was wet, so she dug a few times and found a spring. She asked the team leader to dig for her, and they found such a big spring. God is merciful and didn't let our No. 1 Production Team have a complete crop failure."
"That's right. Such a large spring of water is sure to save the crops in the field."
"This is all thanks to the hunter's wife. If she hadn't discovered this spring first, we would all be staring at the crops dying of drought without doing anything."
"Who says it's not true? This time, the hunter's wife has made a great contribution to our team."
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The villagers all praised Huang Yuelan.
Saving the production team’s crops is equivalent to saving the team’s food, and saving the team’s food is equivalent to saving the lives of all the villagers.
The second most important thing is to make good use of this spring.
This spring water is not stagnant water that disappears once used up; it is living water that keeps flowing here.
Therefore, we have to find a way to store this water so that it is convenient for villagers to get water without having to wait in line.
Whether to build a reservoir or a pond requires consultation with the higher authorities.
Huang Yuelan returned home and turned on the bamboo water pipe in her home. The water flow inside was still the same as before and was not affected. She immediately felt relieved.
Just now she was thinking that the hidden spring dug out by the captain and his men was higher than where she had dug. If it was a spring, then if the water was intercepted from upstream, there would definitely be no water here.
But the result was unexpected. The water flow in his home was not affected at all. This proved one thing: the secret spring in his home was not the same as the one dug out by the team leader and his men.
Team leader Fan Ming quickly reported the problem of spring water in his village to the commune president, and asked for instructions on the next solution.
Team leader Fan Ming proposed building a large pond in the village to divert the spring water there for the villagers to use daily and for irrigating the farmland.
When the commune president heard the news, he was immediately excited.
This year, the entire commune was affected by the drought. Seeing that the grain production task was severely hampered, they were thinking about how to solve the problem. But now, the First Production Brigade has solved the difficulty by themselves.
Leaders like those who take the initiative to solve problems. No one likes those who know nothing and just look at the leader eagerly, hoping that the leader will give them help.
"Xiao Fan, you've done a great job. As for the pond repair, I have to bring geological experts to conduct an on-site investigation before making a decision for you. We should find professionals to do professional matters and not do it recklessly." The commune president said to Fan Ming of the first production team.
Fan Ming thought to himself, isn't it just a small pond? He can lead some villagers to dig it. Why do we need geological experts?
Although he thought so in his heart, he didn't dare to say it out loud, so he could only answer with a smile: "Okay, President, I'll listen to you."
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