Chapter 39
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After the stream was diverted, the embankment had no supply of running water and slowly became quiet, and rows of black stones were also revealed.
Of course, these stones were not arranged naturally here, but were built by the villagers of the time a long time ago.
There was no cement at that time, so our ancestors could only use the shape of the stones to stack these stones closely together in inlay to achieve the effect of storing water and accumulation of sand. When the sand fills the riverbed and the water level increases, water can be used for farmland on the shore.
Therefore, it can be inferred from this, a long time ago, this area should have been farmland. However, as the population increased, the houses were expanded here.
After the stream water was changed, the father and son began to clean up the branches, wood, some stones and aquatic plants in the river.
I've been busy with all this, and a day has passed.
The next day, the two started using sand and cement.
"Dad, I'll do it." Seeing that his father was about to interfere with the cement, Liu Qingshan said, "You go find a few buckets and just help me pass on the cement and stone later."
The rain is still falling.
In order to prevent the cement slurry from being diluted by autumn rain, the father and son built a temporary shed with rain glue paper early in the morning.
Seeing that the two of them worked so hard, Wu Cuimei wanted to come out to help, but before she could step out of the threshold, she was scolded by the two men.
"What are you, a woman, involved in our men's affairs?" Liu Yuanhe said while searching for the small mud bucket in the woodshed, "You are staying at home. If you really can't stay idle, you can do hygiene at home or sew clothes. It's still raining outside, so don't get hurt by the body."
"Ha, you have only been drinking pigtail soup for a few days. When your waist just turned, you started to look down on others. Don't forget, when your waist hurts so hard, I will scrape it for you." Wu Cuimei hummed and returned to the house.
Liu Yuanhe only found two mud buckets: "These are only two, and they are a little cracked. This is the bucket your mother uses to hold urination and sprinkle. If it is broken, she will definitely curse people."
Liu Qingshan smelled the strong smell of urine in the air and looked at his father with a dark face: "Does our family not even have a normal mud bucket?"
"Our house has never built a cement building, so where did the mud buckets come from? Only these two are specially bought to fill your mother with urination." Liu Yuanhe glanced at the direction at the door and urged, "Don't dislike it. If your mother sees it, she will be scolded."
Liu Qingshan was helpless and had to take the mud bucket that was soaked in urine and put it in the newly cured cement slurry.
Liu Yuanhe was responsible for loading cement slurry and giving the cement slurry to Liu Qingshan.
Liu Qingshan walked from the river below to the water slope and built another embankment outside the original stone embankment.
The main material is the stones that can be seen everywhere in the river channel. However, this time, with the added bonding of cement slurry, the quality will definitely be much better. Moreover, Liu Qingshan not only built a new embankment, but also filled the gap between the new embankment and the old embankment while building a new embankment.
In this way, the double blocked stone walls will surely form a powerful embankment.
Although the length of this embankment is only about two meters, it is three or four meters high, and it is slow to do meticulous work, so it took two days for the father and son to build this embankment.
At dusk the next day, Liu Qingshan stuffed the last bit of remaining cement slurry into the cracks of the stones, and the work was completed.
Both father and son washed their hands in the stream, and then stood on the shore with drizzle. Looking at the fruits of their labor, they all had a great sense of accomplishment in their hearts.
Liu Yuanhe smiled and said, "I originally thought it was difficult, but now it seems that it is not difficult."
"Not." Liu Qingshan also smiled, "Dad, if you had already had such an enlightenment, our family would not be so poor."
"Look, you are proud, as if all these are your own contributions." Liu Yuanhe sneered, "If I hadn't given you an idea, you would have to work for two more days."
"Yes, yes, dad, you are the most amazing. Let's go and celebrate with a chicken."
"Is it done?" Liu Yuanhe asked, pointing to the embankment that was only more than two meters long but about half a meter wide, "That's all right? Don't you need to build a flat bridge?"
"Hey, what are you doing flat bridges?" Liu Qingshan said, pointing to the dam that was concave and convex, like a rake that was placed inverted, "Dad, look, I raise a cement pier every 20 or 30 centimeters. Before connecting the yard with the large stone slabs, we can cross the river first by stepping on these cement piers. Anyway, the water flow will flow through the sunken place and will not wet your shoes, so why do you have flat bridges?"
"Oh, too." Liu Yuanhe forgot this. His son said two days ago that when he has money and time in the future, he would have to connect the yard with the large stone slab. In this way, if he builds a flat bridge now, it would be unnecessary.
"Okay, go home and kill chickens. I will make a fire, I will boil water, you will kill chickens, you will pull out chicken feathers." said my dad.
Liu Qingshan threw away the tools in his hand, picked up the hoe and ran into the mountains in the drizzle: "No, no, dad, you make a fire, boil water, kill the chicken, and pull the chicken feathers."
"Hey, I've done all the work, then what are you doing?" Liu Yuanhe shouted to his son's back.
Liu Qingshan turned around suddenly, and the hat on his head almost fell to the ground. He quickly grabbed the hat and laughed at his father: "Haha, I'll go to the mountains to make some chicken heads and go home to make chicken soup."
"I'm lazy and cheating again." Liu Yuanhe cursed helplessly and had to go home by himself.
Seeing that his son had not come back, Wu Cuimei, who had already boiled water, asked, "Where is your son?"
"I've gone into the mountain." Liu Yuanhe said while taking off the rain glue paper, "This kid will cheat. He told me that I would boil water and he killed the chicken, but he ran away in an instant."
"What did he go into the mountain?" Wu Cuimei quickly walked to the door and looked into the mountain, but could not see her son.
"He said he wanted to make some chicken heads and cook chicken soup. Hurry up and pour water for me, and then I'll kill the chicken later."
Liu Qingshan quickly got to the mountains and soon found the head of the chicken.
The so-called chicken's head is not the real chicken's head.
The scientific name of chicken head is Chicken Wutou, also known as Chicken Gongtou, Chicken Head Date, Chicken Laoguai, Iron Wolf Chicken, Xiao Guanzhong, etc.
The head of the chicken is a fern, so it grows basically the same as its other siblings and distant cousins. Its leaves grow symmetrically on both sides of the petiole, and the leaves slowly grow from bottom to top, reaching the longest in the middle, and then extend to the tail in a slowly shortening posture.
Although the name of Chicken Tunt sounds strange, in fact, it is also a Chinese medicinal herb. Chicken Tunt has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and sucking wind, dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and expelling ascaris and tapeworms.
Moreover, if you have a cold or cold, you can also use chicken to make soup.
Liu Qingshan grabbed the chicken's dizzy leaves, pulled off the leaves first, and then waved his hoe to dig out the roots of the chicken's dizzy roots.
The roots of chicken dizzy heads are not as thick as the rhizomes of other large ferns, but are shorter, about 5 to 8 cm in length and only 3 to 4 cm in diameter. They are shaped like chicken heads, with black-brown color, with most petiole residues on the surface, and have fine brown-black curved roots, and reddish-brown slightly glossy scales at the top.
Chapter completed!