When they arrived at the old village, after the two separated, Xiaofang walked towards the west mountain, while Dasha went to the north mountain to the Joshua Road in Tanyao.

When I arrived at the charcoal kiln, I found that Qingshan and his old man were already busy in the mountains.

Liu Qingshan walked down with a shoulder pole carrying two empty buckets.

Tan Dasha looked at it quite curiously: "Qingshan, what are you doing? Why are you picking two empty buckets?"

Liu Qingshan swayed with two empty buckets, walked to the plain ground of the mud and sand in front of the charcoal kiln, glanced at the snakeskin bag on the ground, and replied: "If you want to dig a water storage puddle on the top of the mountain, you have to use cement to prevent water leakage, so you have to carry water. Uncle Dasha, are you going to open a kiln today? But I have to make the water storage puddle first, or do you go dig yam first today? I will open a charcoal kiln with you tomorrow."

"No, I'll just drive it myself." Tan Dasha said, "You did a lot of work before, but now I'm going to open the kiln."

"It's not good, so let's open the kiln together tomorrow. It's not easy for you to do it alone." Liu Qingshan insisted, "You think, if you take charcoal inside alone, there must be someone outside to collect charcoal. Otherwise, if you take charcoal and set charcoal, you should not be tired and dizzy. Moreover, this kind of work efficiency is not high. You should dig yam first today, and we will open the kiln together tomorrow."

Listening to Liu Qingshan's analysis, Tan Dasha felt it made sense, so he nodded: "Okay, then I won't open the kiln today, let's open it together tomorrow. But I won't dig yam today, I'll dig a hole for you."

"No, you go dig yam, I can dig that little puddle in one go."

"Then dig a little bigger, dig a little deeper. Or dig two more."

"This requires digging a hole, and carrying water and cement. Digging a hole will be harsh. Digging a few more is easy to say, but it is not that easy to do."

"That's all, I'll help you with it." Tan Dasha turned around and walked into the water hole below without waiting for Liu Qingshan to reply.

There was a bucket of water in the water puddle, which filled a bucket of water and walked up the mountain with it: "Qingshan, where are you going to dig a water storage puddle?"

"On the flat ground on the top of the mountain." Although Liu Qingshan was helpless, he was also happy when he saw Tan Dasha insisting on helping.

If one more person helps, the job will naturally be much easier.

He also quickly picked two buckets of water to follow Tan Dasha's footsteps.

The water storage puddle is located at the top of the mountain. However, it has not been excavated yet.

Although the mountain is generally inclined, the top of the mountain is very flat and has a large area, so it is estimated that it will have at least dozens of acres of land.

Yes, just the location of the top of the mountain, it is estimated that there will be dozens of acres of flat land.

In addition to the ladders that have been formed on one side of the mountain and the ladders that will be formed later, the mountainous land of Liu Qingshan’s family is at least more than 100 acres.

If you add the fir forests in Luang Po Wa, the tea forests in Taro Po Wa, and the unfinished shrub forests, it is estimated that there will be five or six hundred acres.

Of course, if you add the stairs given by the second grandfather's house and the stairs up, and after passing the mountainside path, it will continue to reach the top of Dongshan Mountain. Well, you won't know how many acres there will be.

Moreover, these mountains are only less than one-tenth of those in Liu Qingshan’s mountainous areas.

In the further and deeper mountains, his family still has many mountains that are deserted.

However, it is very impressive to be able to open up this large piece of mountain land and plan it well.

Tan Dasha stood on the top of the mountain, looking around at the flat ground on the top of the mountain and the ladders that were slanting downwards, and couldn't help but sigh: "Qingshan, your home is so good. There are so many mountains. Unlike our home, there are not many places. After being assigned to the hands of a few brothers, it is even less."

"Hi, what's the use of many mountains? No matter how many mountains there are, it would be useless if you don't know how to use them." Liu Qingshan looked at his father next to him meaningfully and said, "There is no prospect of farming, so it's better to sell some mountain goods."

"Then you have to have mountain goods for you. Moreover, even if you get mountain goods, you have to have sales. Just selling them in the town will not be a big deal." Tan Dasha said like a smart person.

Liu Qingshan picked up the hoe and dug it hard to the ground: "That's right, but no matter what you do, you must be patient and willing to endure hardships. If you can't make money if you don't work hard, you really have to make money by lying down."

Tan Dasha laughed twice, and hurriedly picked up the hoe to dig the ground.

The soil on the top of the mountain is harder than the soil on the mountainside, and it is more difficult to dig.

However, this is not a problem for Liu Qingshan.

As soon as he hoes down, even the earth trembled.

It was almost noon when a huge water storage puddle appeared on the flat ground on the top of the mountain.

The water storage pit is so big that it is about twenty square meters, and the deepest part is about one meter.

Looking at the formed puddle, Liu Yuanhe was not very satisfied: "Qingshan, are you stupid? If the puddle is dug like this, even if it collects rainwater from the sky, the water inside will be dried by the sun in a few days."

Upon hearing this, Liu Qingshan pointed to several huge wild trees beside the puddle, rolled his eyes and replied, "Do you think I didn't cut these big wild trees together when I was clearing the land to keep them beautiful?"

Around the water storage puddles, there are one or two huge wild trees. These wild trees just circle the puddles and form a natural barrier.

When it rains, rainwater falls on trees or on the ground, and it will pour rainwater into the reservoir puddle as artificially excavated diagonally.

When the sun comes out, these big trees become natural parasols, which can not only prevent the scorching sun from evaporating the water in the puddle, but also prevent the water from evaporating naturally. Even if the water evaporates into the air, it will adhere to the canopy of these big trees.

When moisture condenses into dew on the leaves, it can nourish the big tree.

So it can be said that water pits and big trees will complement each other and rely on each other.

After explaining, Liu Qingshan said again: "And if the water storage puddle is not dug like this, but dig a square puddle like someone else's swimming pool, then if the animals in the mountain fall down, they basically cannot come out. Dig this way, deep in the middle, and then gradually slowly extend to the surroundings to become shallow, just to prevent the animals in the mountain from falling down. Moreover, even if they fall into the water, according to the terrain from shallow to deep, they can walk out by themselves. Do you understand?"

Such a straightforward explanation can be understood as long as you are not a fool.

But even though they understand, Liu Yuanhe and Tan Dasha still couldn't understand the truth.

You said that he is a living person who doesn’t think about how to eat wild game in the mountains, but actually thinks about how to prevent the wild game from falling into the water. Isn’t this a brain disease?

Like the others in the village, they all want to catch wild game every day. He just dig a water storage pit and even reserved a way to escape the wild game in the mountains. Isn’t this a brain disease?

Liu Yuanhe stared at his son and thought to himself, he probably was really a pig demon in the mountains.

After digging the water storage puddle and having lunch, you have to start applying cement to the water hole.

It is much easier to apply cement than digging a water hole that requires a lot of effort.

Liu Qingshan was responsible for digging some sand from the gables of the ladder below, while Tan Dasha and Liu Yuanhe were responsible for carrying water.

The sand was dug up and the water was enough, so it started to mix the cement.

When the cement entered the mountain early in the morning, Liu Qingshan carried it into the mountain.

The sand has been poured in the middle of the puddle, and then pour cement onto the surface of the sand. First, mix the cement and sand with a hoe. After mixing evenly, dig a small hole in the middle of the cement and sand, and then pour water slowly into it.

After the water penetrates the cement and sand from the inside to the outside, stir again.

The cement and sand stirred in this way are relatively even.

After the cement mortar is stirred, it has to spread it into the water puddle.

Because the puddle is similar to a hemispherical shape, it is not difficult to spread the cement mortar in all directions.

After a few rounds, the original yellow mud color of the water storage puddle was gone, and replaced by the gray color of the cement mortar.

All three of them were so tired that they were a little limp.

Liu Yuanhe sat under a big tree, wiped his sweat, shook his head and said, "I'm so tired that I won't do this again."

"It's okay." Tan Dasha sat under the big tree opposite and grinned, "It feels a little easier than burning charcoal."

"That's not." Liu Qingshan didn't rest and was still doing some finishing work. For example, piled up the excess cement mortar under the big tree and made into a rectangle. In this way, when the cement is dry, you can sit there.

In the future, no matter whether my father goes to the mountains to manage the orange forest, or the uncles and aunts in the village go to the mountains to work, when they walk here, they can wash their faces and rest.

Although Xishan Village is surrounded by mountains, sometimes if you want to find some water, you have to walk to the hillside or foot of the mountain to find water, which is particularly troublesome.

Now, with this water storage pit, there are advantages and disadvantages for both mountain people and animals in the mountains.

If a certain amount of rainwater is collected from the water storage pit, then animals in the mountains, or people who work in the mountains, don’t have to go far to get water at the foot of the mountain.

In this way, digging a water storage pit can be regarded as a major project to benefit the animals in the mountains.

Liu Qingshan smoothed the last bit of cement and said, "I want orange forests and don't want to work hard. How can there be such an easy thing? If so, I can only do the job of making money while lying down. However, as you do, I may not be willing to pay the money to others."

"What do I look like?" Liu Yuanhe doesn't like to listen to this, "Your father, I was also a famous handsome guy in the past, okay?"

"Haha." Liu Qingshan said contemptuously, "This is the first time I have heard someone praise me for being so shameless."

Tan Dasha listened to the two father and son bickering and laughed foolishly from the side.

Now, the work of this water storage puddle is completed and dusk is approaching.

Considering that they had to go into the mountains to open a charcoal kiln tomorrow, the group finished their work and went back.

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Chapter completed!