Chapter 56 Water Well Raiders
If you draw a map of Li Siwen's territory, the location of the tree house is definitely the central heart of the territory and the commanding height of the entire territory. Even if the river water flows backwards last time, the highest water level line is about three meters away from here, which is very advantageous.
But such an advantage is a disadvantage for well digging.
About fifty meters south of the tree house is the five acres of farmland he reclaimed. Another fifty meters eastward is a lonely tree, surrounded by five people. Li Siwen has no idea to cut it down for the time being.
Now, he kept walking between the tree house and the farmland with his hands behind his back, observing and thinking, and finally decided to dig a well twenty meters away from the farmland, so as to whether it could produce water or not, as long as the strategic location was correct.
After inserting the fine steel shovel at this position, Li Siwen walked forward twenty meters, about ten meters away from the tree house.
"A brick kiln can be built here. If possible, the tree house must continue to be expanded to this location before winter comes. However, if the burned bricks do not have cement reinforced concrete, the hardness is too poor, so I have to build a solid stone wall around the tree house first."
"Well, it's useless to think about it, let's do it."
Li Siwen returned to the position of digging the well and waved the steel shovel and dug it hard. At 24 o'clock, he was as easy as holding a toothpick. The shovel he dug out could easily throw dozens of meters away. This is why he could dig out a trench five meters deep at any time. It was really - so outstanding.
Hey, let’s not talk about it, it’s easy to expose the style of the king.
Digging wells actually requires skills. After Li Siwen digged four or five meters deep in one breath, he did not see any water. So he immediately climbed up and carried five ten-meter-long logs, thick as buckets, smashed them one by one, and tied them horizontally with shorter logs to form a fence to prevent landslides and other things.
Continue to dig down, wield the shovel quickly, throwing out the soil with one shovel, and the depth is visible to the naked eye to explore down.
When he finally dug seven or eight meters deep, mud appeared. Li Siwen immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Can he say that he was a little panicked?
Of course not.
Without further digging, he climbed up to the ground, went to the Mianshui Valley to carry two or three hundred kilograms of stones, moved dozens of dollars in one breath, threw some of them down, and then went down the well again.
He arranged these stones in a rough direction, then said nothing, and was able to dig them out, digging from mud to mud, and then digging from mud to mud. Until the big stones sink, the mud could not be dug out, and only turbid mud and water were left. He then gave up, climbed up and threw the remaining big stones down again, arranged along the smashed log, and a raw well came out.
It took about five hours in total.
It consumes 25 points of energy, perfect.
After resting for an hour at noon and getting full of energy, Li Siwen continued to transport stones from the Wanshui Valley, throw them into the well, and arrange them along the surrounding pieces, and at the same time smashing down more logs.
Anyway, it’s nothing to do with rough technology, it’s a miracle!
In the evening, a square well that was a little "ugly" was successfully launched. Li Siwen backfilled some of the soil and carefully tamped it, and everything was done.
Without time to be proud, Li Siwen began to study how to get water.
First of all, he must have a bucket, but the embarrassing thing is that he does not know the legendary bucket hoop skill, and if he wants to cook mud, he has to continue waiting.
"Let's check the well water condition first. If the water quality is good, at least you don't have to collect dew."
Next, Li Siwen took advantage of the darkness to go to the farmland to weed the seedlings for daily weeding and loosening the soil. This cannot be relaxed, after all, it is the basic foundation.
After weeding, it is time to catch grasshoppers, mice, bird eggs, wild vegetables, and mosquitoes in daily life.
Whether or not he worked hard at this stage not only determines the richness of his dinner, but also is an important source of his soul value at present.
It was almost ten o'clock in the evening before Li Siwen returned to the tree house and had this supper that was not enough to eat.
As for the dried fish and dried meat, it cannot be used easily. He just ate some dried meat and dried fish in the morning and lunch.
Once the dried meat and dried fish are well dried, it will save it and be eaten in winter.
So far, Li Siwen has stored about 400 kilograms of wild boar/wolf jerky, about 1,000 kilograms of dried fish, and about 50 kilograms of dried mushrooms. These are all important strategic reserve materials, and they have to be counted every day to see if there is any mold or imperfect drying.
During the day, fire stoves will be lit to burn some anti-inflammatory grass roots, branches and leaves, and smoke and roast these dried meat and fish.
This is mainly for insect prevention. After the branches, leaves, roots and stems of anti-inflammatory grass will have a unique bitter taste, which is miraculous for mosquitoes.
Anyway, he would never allow his dried meat fish to be eaten by the insects!!
In addition, lighting a fire stove during the day is also to remove the moisture in the tree house. After all, the tree house was newly built and there was a heavy rain a few days ago, so moisture is inevitable.
"So, after the bricks are successfully burned, I have to burn more tiles to prevent the tree house from leaking. Otherwise, no matter how well-preserved jerky is, it will become moldy!"
Li Siwen thought seriously that it was related to food safety, so he had no choice but to do his best.
After carefully thinking about the development of the territory, after possible defects, he buried the fire seed in the fire stove, closed the skylight, and extracted a little soul value and added points.
This is something he has to do every night. The side effects formed by adding a little soul value are relatively small. If you accumulate every day, you can quickly increase the soul development level to 50%.
After some trouble, he quickly fell asleep.
Perhaps because of the improvement of soul development, Li Siwen only slept for about five hours before he woke up in high spirits.
It was about four or five o'clock in the morning. Every day he had to get up to collect dew, and today was no exception.
Because the well dug yesterday needs to be clarified for a while, but there is no need to collect too much, the water in the well will probably be able to drink it at noon.
In addition, the process of collecting dew is also the process of Li Siwen inspecting the territory. By the way, he can practice space judgment so that he can come and go freely in the territory even if he closes his eyes in the future.
In short, he is now in control of one of the three major elements, including the right time, place, and people.
Routinely, he ignited two fire stoves and threw them into a anti-inflammatory grass root. He then carried a mountain axe on his back, took two empty water hyacinths and crawled out of the tree house, and began to collect dew.
Almost an hour later, Li Siwen filled the two water hyacinths with dew. Just as he straightened his waist and was about to move his body, something suddenly flew out of the grass a few meters ahead, very fast. As soon as he caught his eyes, the thing came to his eyes.
Subconsciously, Li Siwen took a quick step back and moved away from the vital points of his face. At the same time, he punched out with lightning and hit the thing to the ground.
This set of reaction movements is the result of spatial judgment and stability talent.
However, before Li Siwen could be proud, he felt a tingling sensation in his fist.
"Damn it! Poisonous?"
Li Siwen was a little surprised. When he looked at the ground, he saw that it was a black bug with a length of only about 30 centimeters. It looked like a centipede, but it also had a pair of wings, which was dark all over and was very ferocious and evil.
Chapter completed!