With the bet between Ping An and the Earth Master, the well digging work was carried out extremely quickly. +◆,

The huge rock, which covers a very wide area, has not become an obstacle to drilling a well.

The villagers brought a large amount of dry firewood, piled it on the boulders and lit it. After the fire burned the boulders red, they poured cold water on them. The boulders suddenly swelled and then used a hammer to knock the cracked stone into pieces and remove them.

With a method of boiling water, you can easily move the boulder away.

Of course, when watering, the local master was mocking and the villagers were feeling distressed.

This water was made from the small amount of Ganlu well, and it can be said that each mouth was very precious. However, in order to dig the well, it had to be used to water the stones.

The big bluestone was moved away, and the next well was dug, mainly to dig the soil.

Although Jing Jiang is quite arrogant and domineering, he has a lot of experience in digging wells. He only took two days to dig three feet deep.

But when the digging reaches this depth, the well craftsmen are about to strike because there is no sign of water coming out. It is risky to dig it again.

The villagers who were looking forward to it were also anxious. They thought that Gu Niang had guided her dreams, and if they dig a depth of one or two feet, they would get out of water.

The earth master glanced at the deep pit that was more than three meters deep and dark, and smiled calmly and said, "Do you still have to continue digging?"

Village chief Liu Yang said without hesitation: "Dig, and you must continue digging even if you dig another 1 zhang. If they don't want to dig, let our people go down and dig."

The earth master stopped talking, and the well craftsman shook his head and worked hard.

One foot, two feet...

"Huh."

Suddenly, the villagers around the well heard a soft cry coming from below.

Liu Yang squeezed in front a few steps, leaned his head and shouted at the bottom of the well, "Is the water coming out?"

Below, Jingjian replied: "The soil has become wet, dig it down. Maybe there is water."

The villagers held their breath and listened carefully.

Digging another foot, there was a scream at the bottom of the well: "The water is out of the way!"

"It's out of water?"

When the villagers heard this, they were stunned for a moment, and then their faces burst into ecstasy and they danced.

They are really digging a well when they are thirsty. Ping An and the Earth Master’s bet are secondary. If this well is dug, if it does not come out of water, they will face the problem of water draw. By then, they will become victims and avoid them from a foreign land. That is a nightmare.

"It's really out of water?"

There was a villager who was a little unbelievable.

"Let me go."

He said, but without waiting for others to help, he pulled a rope and slid it down.

And the well craftsman, who was covered in mud and dust, listened to the cheers coming from above, stepped on the cool mud and water for a moment, and muttered to himself: "Is that Gu Niang is so effective? There is really a source of water."

The villager who pulled the rope and slid to the bottom of the well, ignored the crowding at the bottom of the well, squeezed his hands and grabbed a handful of mud in the turbid water. Then he shouted loudly to the top excitedly: "It's really water, pull me up. Pull me up."

When the other villagers pulled him up, they saw the mud dripping in his hands and his eyes suddenly became wet.

After driving the well for more than a month, I finally drilled the well!

Some villagers knelt down in the direction of Gu Niang Temple and kowtowed a few times very devoutly.

In fact, the well has little water source, only the thickness of chopsticks. The advantage lies in the continuous flow, day and night, and it is enough for the whole village to drink water.

Although irrigating crops is not possible, as long as people have water to drink, they will not die of thirst. They can still survive.

If you survive, there will be hope.

When the water comes out, build well bricks and enclose the walls. A well is ready.

Village chief Liu Yang specially used a fat chicken per kilogram of village brewing to a private school to hire an old master from the private school to write a parallel prose of sacrifice to the well. When the well was sacrificed, he made peace recite it up and down.

In order to prevent being destroyed, they specially built a small house for the well, and even sent people to the small house to watch every night.

And the middle-aged earth master, when the well craftsmen were exclaiming out of the water, he took advantage of the villagers' happiness and wanted to sneak away. Unexpectedly, after only a few steps, he was forced back by the sharp horns of an old ox.

In fact, the villagers of Daoxiang Village, led by Liu Yang, did not make things difficult for him. Everyone no longer had to worry about drinking water. They were all happy and did not take that bet to heart. Several enthusiastic aunts even pulled the ground master and said that they wanted to treat him to the well before leaving.

However, the Earth Master had to be a little shameless after all, apologized to Ping'an and left in shame.

The news that Daoxiang Village had dug out of the well spread soon after it made a sensation in several nearby villages.

The wells in most villages have dried up, so there are endless villagers coming to Daoxiang Village to fetch water.

As for Gu Niang's dream, saying that the water source was circulated as a beautiful story, it spread from afar. The entire Qiandeng County was spreading, and scholars with good things could not help but write an article on this.

But God still has no signs of rain, and the drought is still spreading.

There are more and more refugees. Over the past month, Daoxiang Village has seen refugees passing through the village in groups every day.

People leave their hometowns and are humble, most of the refugees live like beggars, and droughts are everywhere. They don’t know where to go and can’t see where the future is.

When the cold and heat are frequent, they will be frigid, and when the wind and rain are not regular, they will be hungry.

The villagers of Daoxiang Village were not happy for many days because the clerk who collected land taxes went to the countryside.

Everyone looked through the clouds and rainbows, but they could not expect the emperor's imperial edict on reducing land taxes.

The tax is returned to the land and the acres are collected.

Since the implementation of the One-whip method, all land taxes have been changed to be redeemed, and each large acre of 70 cents of silver is charged per cent.

The crops in Daoxiang Village were not completely harvested, but the yield was also reduced a lot. After paying the land tax, there was only a lot left.

As for those who have no autumn grain harvest and have no surplus grain, they can only escape from the loan, sell land, or even sell people.

It can be said that the autumn of October is over, and the farmer has already had a hunger strike.

Even if every household in Daoxiang Village still has some surplus grain, if you want to eat it for the next year, you may not be able to eat the grains and you will not be able to harvest in the summer.

The food prices on the market have risen to one tael and sixty stone, and the wealthy families are shaking their heads, not to mention ordinary farmers.

Some people set up a bran city in Qiandeng County to sell corn bran.

The chaff is the crust of the grain, which is very rough and extremely difficult to swallow.

However, people who buy brans every day are bustling, and they have to queue up before dawn. By dawn, the brans are sold out.

This is not about eating bran and vegetables, living to a hundred years, but rather that chaff is much cheaper than rice and flour, and some poor families can barely afford it.

However, I have finished eating the chaff for one day, and when I can’t even afford it, I have only one way out to escape from the famine.

In fact, even if it is chaff, there are extremely poor families who cannot afford it.

That is, where can I find a way to fast and flee along the door? The poor old man and the old man have no livelihood and sell their little boys to fight for chaff.

When I was not able to make ends meet, in order to fill my stomach, I had to sell my children. (To be continued...)
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