After a night of silence, Zhou Yang was picked up early the next morning!
It turned out that Director Zhang sent someone to call him, saying that the comrades from the well drilling team wanted to take a look at the No. 1 well position where water is most likely to flow, so they informed him.
Zhou Yang looked at the pale sky outside, and was speechless.
Although he didn't have a watch, he could tell that the time was definitely not past four-thirty.
But when he thought about it, he felt relieved. There was a reason why the comrades in the well-drilling team got up so early. It was the same as ordinary people going to work, trying to avoid the noon time when the sun is the most poisonous.
When you get up from the bed, you don't need to put on your clothes. After all, you can't take off your clothes to sleep in this place.
Zhou Yang simply wiped his face with a wet towel, then gave his sleeping wife and daughter a sweet kiss on each face before walking towards the management office.
It was still a bit cold on the farm in the early morning, but fortunately Zhou Yang had gotten used to it in the past few days.
Anyway, at this point, the shack where their parents live is almost as hot as the outside, which is why they can't take off their clothes to sleep at night.
If you take off your clothes to sleep like at home, you will definitely catch a cold the next day.
When they arrived at the farm management office, Tian Ye and others had already packed up their things, and the group was having breakfast.
Breakfast is still white steamed buns, and there is also millet porridge.
Although Zhang Hanwu didn't say it, Zhou Yang also knew that these grains should be saved from the soldiers' meals, and they themselves were reluctant to eat them.
Seeing Zhou Yang coming, Zhang Hanwu handed him two big steamed buns and said at the same time: "The porridge is gone, just order some water!"
Zhou Yang was not polite, took it and started eating.
After all, I don’t know how long I will be busy, and I really can’t do anything without eating something!
While he was eating, he saw Tian Ye coming over and saying, "Comrade Zhou Yang, do you have any objection to me waking you up so early?"
"I don't have any opinion. I just think it's too early. Comrades go straight into work without a good rest. Could it be..."
Before he finished speaking, Guo Tong said from the side: "They are all used to it!"
Tian Ye explained: "The reason why it's so early is that it's too hot at noon, and drilling a well is a physical job, so try to do it in the morning and in the evening!"
"On the other hand, there is heavy humidity in the morning, and dew easily condenses in some places. This makes it easy to identify where the groundwater level is shallow, so that you can determine the location for drilling a well!"
Although Zhou Yang also understood this, he had not directly visited the construction site with the well drilling team so early, so he was still a little behind in some details.
After a simple breakfast, the group went straight to the north slope where Well No. 1 marked on Zhou Yang's map was located.
In order to rush for time, the comrades of the well drilling team drove the truck directly to the north slope.
Later, Zhou Yang took Ye Ye, Guo Tong and others to the ravine.
The ditch is not deep and the terrain is not very wide.
When Tianye came to the bottom of the ditch and inspected it, he felt that there was a high possibility of water being drilled here, so he immediately asked Captain Guo to dig a hole to try!
Captain Guo received the order and immediately ordered his brothers to prepare to start work!
Since the engineering vehicle could not drive into the bottom of the ditch, everyone worked together to lift the mechanical equipment and tools used for drilling the well into the bottom of the ditch.
In view of the fact that the terrain here is a bit narrow and not convenient for work, Captain Guo immediately asked people to use shovels to expand the surrounding space.
In order to allow the comrades of the well digging team to save energy, Anping directly asked his soldiers to go up and help.
With the help of the soldiers, the project progressed much faster.
When the space at the bottom of the ditch was large enough, Captain Guo and others began to set up equipment.
They first used three long and thick wooden poles to build a tripod, hoisted the drilling rig, and then connected the diesel engine to drive the drilling rig to rotate.
The well-drilling equipment currently used is still an old-fashioned drilling rig, the one with only one diamond drill bit.
Above the drill bit of this drill is a pot composed of four curved steel plates. There are gaps between each steel plate. As the drill bit advances and the steel plates rotate, the excavated mud blocks are parked in the pot. inside.
Based on time and experience, the operator will know when the mud in the drilling rig pot should be full and lift it up in time.
The worker standing by the well grabbed the steel cable and pulled it aside. The four steel pieces opened and the mud fell to the ground with water.
Then go down the well and repeat this process, digging very fast.
While the well-drilling equipment was being hoisted here, Anping led his soldiers to dig a reservoir aside, which was also prepared for the well-drilling team.
Soon, the reservoir will be dug!
Then, buckets of water were poured into the reservoir!
With water in hand, Captain Guo and the others officially started the diesel engine and the drilling equipment began to operate.
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The roar of the diesel engine and the sound of the water truck coming in and out alarmed the people in the village. In addition, Director Zhang had informed them yesterday that a well was going to be drilled on the farm, so everyone hurriedly got up and rushed over.
The young adults must be here to help. This was already agreed upon yesterday.
However, neither Director Zhang nor ordinary villagers expected that the well-drilling team would start work so early.
Therefore, the villagers arrived late.
In addition to young adults, the elderly and children also came, but they all came to see the fun.
After all, drilling wells is a new thing, and everyone wants to see how this well is built.
With professional equipment, this speed is really incredible. In less than two hours, the drilling depth exceeded ten meters.
As the depth increases, the color of the excavated soil gradually changes.
When fine sand and gravel appeared in the excavated soil, Captain Guo had a smile on his face.
Based on his many years of experience in drilling wells, once such fine sand and gravel appear, it means there must be water below.
We just don’t know how thick the sand and gravel layer is at this depth and how much water it can hold.
Another hour later, when the excavated soil turned into red clay again, Captain Guo knew that this depth was still not enough.
So the team members were again ordered to continue drilling down to reach deep underground water.
While the well drilling team was busy drilling deeper, Zhang Hanwu also organized everyone on the farm to come to help.
Everyone pulls water, carries soil and drains water, and digs trenches.
The women set up a big pot on the spot and cooked for the well digging team and others.
But when it came time for lunch, something went wrong.
It turned out that when the comrades of the well digging team ate, they found that what they ate were white flour steamed buns and stew with meat, while the soldiers and ordinary villagers in the village ate vegetable soup mixed with leaves, grass roots.
The huge difference in food attracted the attention of the comrades in the well drilling team, and they immediately sent people over to inquire about the situation.
In the words of the comrades of the well digging team, although they came to help, they did not want to be special. They asked the villagers and soldiers to eat whatever they wanted.
This stumped Zhang Hanwu and others!
In fact, what the comrades in the well digging team don't know is that the food of the villagers has been improved a lot today.
Knowing that everyone had to perform high-intensity labor today, the leaders of each group deliberately added a lot of corn noodles to the mixed vegetable soup, which made the mixed vegetable soup not look as clear and watery as before.
But even so, this thing is still far from normal food.
The villagers and soldiers had no choice but to eat these things, but they could not let the comrades in the well digging team eat these things, otherwise what kind of people would they become.
People drove all the way from hundreds of kilometers away to help dig wells, so to speak, to save their lives. It is unjustifiable that they would give this kind of food to their saviors.
At the moment, Zhang Hanwu could only ask Zhou Yang to come forward and tell the situation here again to Ye Ye and other comrades in the well drilling team.
