Village Chief Li was overjoyed and led his men down to investigate.
Jiang Qinyu followed behind. She didn't need to do anything after that, but she needed to see the effects of the explosion.
"Hurry, hurry, clear away the loose stones in front of us..." Village Chief Li urged.
Li Dachui, Liu Erleng, and the others wore bamboo hats that Jiang Qinyu had reminded them to wear, to avoid being hit on the head by falling pebbles.
Everyone was very enthusiastic, and the first explosive point was cleared quickly.
Jiang Qinyu, also wearing a simple safety helmet, bent down and entered this section of the passage.
"Just as I expected, if nothing unexpected happens, the rest should be at this height. For safety, Uncle Village Chief, we need to weave a large net using thick vines and pull it across the top of the cave to prevent falling rocks from injuring people," Jiang Qinyu said as she looked around.
Village Chief Li replied, "That's easy. We'll just provide three meters of material for each household and then join them together. Besides, the hole is quite narrow, so we can definitely weave it quickly. We can finish it by tomorrow."
Women can start weaving at night when they have nothing to do, just light a torch, and then join the finished weaving together in the morning.
Seeing that there were no problems here, Jiang Qinyu went out first, while Liu Erleng and the others continued to clear the passage.
"My dear niece, now that this hole is cleared, we can finally build our irrigation canal." Village Chief Li was overjoyed; another important task had been accomplished!
Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "If we had enough time, we should actually dig a pond at the entrance of this cave."
If there were a pond with water, she could do something shady, like burying the plastic hose inside.
But it doesn't matter if she doesn't have one; she can just throw a section of pipe into the underground river later.
She refused to believe that with a continuous flow of tap water, the mountain would still lack water.
As long as the entire Yunshan area has enough water, and the underground river flows out, the people of Dingshui Village will never have to worry about running out of water again.
Thinking of this, Jiang Qinyu suddenly wondered if if she kept the tap running, would it improve the environment here over time?
If the land, which has suffered from a severe drought for three years, is irrigated and the tap water supply continues uninterrupted, the entire ecosystem of Yunshan is likely to gradually recover, thereby affecting the surrounding areas.
I just don't know if there are any restrictions on the water supply in this space. It would be awkward if it stopped running after a short time.
Jiang Qinyu decided to give it a try. If the tap water supply could be unlimited, then the drought problem would no longer exist in Dingshui Village.
"Uncle Village Chief, when will the cleanup be finished?" Jiang Qinyu asked Village Chief Li.
Village Chief Li thought for a moment, "I'll go back at noon and call some more people to help. We should be able to get it done before dark."
“Okay, I’ll come over later. If you need anything, just have someone call me from my field,” Jiang Qinyu nodded.
After saying that, she turned and went to her own field.
Wang Bo was also helping to clear the passage created by the blast, but he was outside and heard Jiang Qinyu was about to leave, so he specifically looked over.
"Hey kid, what are you looking at?" Village Chief Li lightly slapped him on the back of the head. "Don't ruin my niece's reputation!"
"No, Uncle Village Chief, I'm just curious, is the explosive that Sister-in-law Lu made really that magical? She said it was a hole half a person high, and it really was a hole half a person high, and the mountain didn't collapse." Wang Bo put away his ulterior motives and looked at Village Chief Li seriously.
Village Chief Li chuckled, "You don't know this, do you? My eldest niece is quite capable. That's why she's one of those educated people. But wait a minute, didn't you go to school before? How come you don't know these things?"
Looking at him with suspicion from Village Chief Li, Wang Bo felt as if he had returned to the time when Lu Yanzheng was still in the village, and everyone in the village compared him to Lu Yanzheng.
Lu Yanzheng studied, and so did he, but Lu Yanzheng always got better grades than him in every exam; Lu Yanzheng learned hunting from Meng Tianze, and so did he, but when Lu Yanzheng could go into the mountains alone, he could hardly even shoot a rabbit.
Later, Lu Yanzheng and Meng Tianze became sworn brothers, completely excluding him from the group.
“Sister-in-law Lu’s elder brother is a scholar, so maybe they read different books? Uncle Village Chief, please don’t judge me. I think this explosive is a good thing. I wonder if I could learn how to make it from Sister-in-law Lu…” Wang Bo said thoughtfully.
The book definitely doesn't have detailed instructions on how to make explosives. If it did, the imperial court would have confiscated it long ago, and ordinary people wouldn't have had a chance to come into contact with it.
Where did Jiang Qinyu learn that from? Besides, she's a woman. Even if the eldest brother of the Jiang family dotes on his sister, he wouldn't let her touch such dangerous things, would he?
Village Chief Li glared at him. "Does she owe you anything? You think you can just learn whenever you want? You'd better stop thinking about it now. If I find out you're bothering her, I'll teach you a lesson!"
He always remembered Jiang Qinyu saying that explosives were very dangerous, and after these two incidents, he realized that these things should not fall into the hands of people with bad intentions, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
Even if there is a need to use this kind of thing in large quantities in the future, Jiang Qinyu herself must choose the people and be willing to teach them how to do it.
Wang Bo lowered his eyes and hummed in agreement, but inwardly he didn't think much of it.
He had begun to waver, but if the situation inside the cave was as Jiang Qinyu had described, then he absolutely could not give up on this woman.
...
Jiang Qinyu walked over her family's several acres of land again. Compared to a few days ago, there were more weeds growing in the fields now, but the soil moisture level remained at a normal level.
While the high-yield, high-quality seed package contains mostly rice and wheat, it also includes other crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes.
Since few people in the village were farming, Jiang Qinyu decided to do it herself, planting each crop for one season to see the yield first.
After replanning what to plant on her own land, Jiang Qinyu took the opportunity to check on the land belonging to other people.
Now most of the villagers' land has been plowed, and Grandpa Jiang said yesterday that they would start sowing in the next couple of days.
However, what each family grows is their own business, and they have to do everything themselves, including sowing.
Jiang Qinyu had already made up her mind. She would ask Aunt Qin and Liu Yazi next door to help with planting, and pay them by the day.
Jiang Qinyu spent the entire day in the fields, and as the sun set, she went to the dam.
"My dear niece, you've come at the perfect time! We've finally connected the underground river!" Village Chief Li beamed with joy, seeing Jiang Qinyu as if she were a lucky star.
Jiang Qinyu walked over, bent down and went inside; she quickly reached the hundred-meter mark.
While talking to Village Chief Li and the others, Jiang Qinyu secretly threw a piece of plastic hose into the underground river.
Wang Bo had been watching Jiang Qinyu closely. When he saw something fall into the river from her hand, he opened his mouth to shout, but seeing that Jiang Qinyu's expression didn't change, he shut his mouth.
Maybe he was seeing things, or maybe Jiang Qinyu threw away something she didn't want.
"Uncle Village Chief, hurry, hurry back! Jiang Dacheng came back from town and said that the people from Xiahe Village are back and are on their way to our village right now!"
Jiang Qinyu was startled. The people from Xiahe Village were back? The group of people who killed Dingshui Village in the original owner's past life memories? Didn't they go to escape famine? How did they come back?
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