Youyu was watching from the other side of the hillside. It was not difficult to clear the weeds. As long as the villagers in the village still wanted to work at her house in the future, they would not be lazy and slippery. The Su family did not send anyone over. Mrs. Lian bought a lot of radish seeds from various households in the village and waited for the land to be cleared before the radish seeds could be planted.
The people in the village only felt that the Su family had been kicked in the head by a donkey. Everyone knew that they would lose money when they bought the hilltop to grow radishes. But the land was bought by others and they could grow whatever they wanted. They couldn't control it anyway. The Su family didn't pay less than thirty cash as wages, and the villagers complained in their hearts for a while but nothing came of it.
Yu Zheng also felt that Su Yu needed to replenish his brain. Around the Chinese New Year in Xinglin Town, it didn’t rain for several months. If there was no water for planting radish, the radish seedlings would not come out. This was not in vain. Although Yu Zheng had never done farm work, he still knew the basic principles. However, the Su family was so used to it that he couldn't control it as an outsider, and he didn't want to.
Su Yu outsources the job of making toothbrushes to villagers in the village. Except for Mrs. Liu's house, any villager who wants to do it can come to her house to take over the work. Bamboo is free in the countryside, and the villagers can go to the mountains to cut it themselves. There is no need to worry about not having enough pig hair. Su Yu bought all the pig hair from the butcher Gao, and he has dozens of pockets, which is enough.
After sorting out these things at home, Su Yu started hatching duck seedlings and sorted through the more than 30,000 duck eggs collected earlier. Finally, there were more than 23,000 duck eggs that could be used. Su Yu planned to hatch them all at once. , she will stay at home most of the time during this time.
As for the shop, they haven't sold much bacon and sausage these days, but the soap placed at the door is very popular, especially loved by women in the town. It doesn't cost more than ten cents, and one piece lasts for a long time, which is better than the ashes at home. Quite a few, the soaps in the shop are sold in boxes for takeout, at least two boxes are sold a day, which also leads to the sale of bacon and sausages in the shop, but the preserved eggs and salted duck eggs have never been good. For sale, let’s not talk about the preserved egg. Almost every family can make it. The preserved egg and fish are priced at ten cents each. When people hear the price, they are immediately scared away.
Su Yu's job of hatching eggs this time was much easier. She only had to pick the eggs and go to the house to check on them every one or two hours.
After four or five days of watching at home, Su Yu remembered the radishes grown behind the house, so he went shopping with his father. The soil on the hillside is very good black soil, which is soft and has few stone particles. Planting radishes does not require deep plowing. It can be planted by digging holes, and ten women can plant them in two days.
Su Yu grabbed a handful of soil and threw it up, but the wind blew it away. Judging from the weather, I guess it won't rain this month. I dug a hole to scatter radish seeds and found that they haven't sprouted yet.
"Daughter, how can this be done? The seeds have been planted. It won't rain today, so it's not cost-effective for the villagers to carry water for watering. I'm afraid the radishes sold by then won't be enough to pay the villagers' wages."
Su Laoer didn't say a word. If he really found someone to fetch water, his family would become a joke in the whole village. The radishes would be worth the price of rice, and in the end they would lose money even if they were grown.
Su Yu naturally knew this truth, but in her opinion, it was not difficult.
"Dad, go chop down a piece of bamboo and bring it over. Let's try it first to make my arms as thick as mine."
After hearing what his daughter said, Su Laoer went directly to chop down a bamboo not far away. He had brought the machete with him when he went up the mountain.
"Dad, break the bamboo into two halves. One half is bigger and the other is smaller. Just think you can clear the knots on the bamboo joints. You do it first, and I will go home to get the knotted hemp rope."
Su Lao'er had only been working with bamboo for a year or two. He broke the bamboo and quickly cleaned up the knots inside. When Su Yu ran home and brought a coil of hemp rope over, Su Lao'er was almost done.
Afterwards, they closed the bamboo, and the father and daughter used hemp rope to tie the broken bamboo into two pieces. After they were done, Su Laoer carried it to the river.
"Dad, put one end of the bamboo into the river, with one end exposed and most of the bamboo facing the bottom."
Su Lao Er did as he did. Su Yu stepped forward and covered the exposed end of the bamboo with his palms. He repeated this process several times, and water flowed out from the end of the bamboo. Su Lao Er on the side watched. It's so strange.
"Why...how did this water come out?"
"I don't understand either. This is a method I saw in a book."
"It's strange that other people say that reading more is helpful, but such good methods are also written in books."
Su Yu smiled, saying that he could only deceive his own father, but those scholars could not deceive him.
In Su Yu's opinion, this is very simple. It is just a siphon principle, but the ancients did not know it.
"Dad, you can go to the village and find a few more people. Look at the length of the bamboo and dig a pit at the end, and then continue digging upwards. It is estimated that you will have to dig seven or eight pits. The top pit should be larger. As long as the water reaches the top of the slope, it is much simpler to water in other directions. Dig a few ditches in the other three directions, and dig a few pits in the middle to let the water on the top of the slope flow down from the ditches. When the time comes, water The ground is not a problem either.”
"Okay, I'll go there later."
These are not just for watering the radishes. When the lemons are planted in the future, they will also need to be watered when the weather is dry.
"While it's still early, my dear, you go home first, and I'll go find someone in the village. This job isn't difficult at all. If you find three or five, it can be done in half a day."
"Father, go ahead. You don't have to worry about me. Erhu is with me."
Su Laoer was very excited. He had been a farmer all his life and never thought that the water could go up the mountain on its own. Before Su Yu could finish his words, Su Laoer and Su Laoer had already walked away.
When Su Laoer went to the village to recruit people, the villagers thought that Su Laoer was crazy. Could the water flow back up to the top of the mountain?
"Second brother, I'm not telling you, isn't this nonsense? Could it be that the water still listens to you and can't go up the mountain on its own?"
"Just listen to me. This can definitely happen. I've tried it. It takes half a day and I'll give each of you twenty cash."
When the people who were hired by Su Laoer to work heard that they had to dig holes to carry water to the mountain, they all shook their heads and refused to do it. It wasn't that they didn't want to make money from the Su family, but that they thought it was a bit unconscionable to make money. The Su family couldn't do it despite their efforts, and they were too embarrassed to accept the money. But now after hearing about it for a long time, each person was given twenty cents, and several people couldn't help but be moved again. Who cares, if Su Laoer wants to mess around, let him mess around. They just want to get wages. After a few people swayed around, in the end they still couldn't afford twenty cents and half a day's wages.
"Then we made an agreement. No matter whether it works or not, you have to be paid."
"Sure, whenever I ask for your wages, it will be as much as I said."
Several people followed Su Lao'er to the bottom of the hillside. Su Lao'er measured the distance and asked them to dig a hole while he chopped bamboo.
Seeing Su Laoer's excitement, several people thought that Su Laoer was crazy. They had never seen water flowing back on its own.
The siphon method above comes from Baidu. I changed it slightly, but it was not written randomly by me.
(End of chapter)
