Chapter 659 The dolls buy a new set of clothes every year, and the whole family eats white noodles every day!
Zhang Erya is the second daughter of Zhang Laoliu's family in Qinghua Town, Yan'an Prefecture. She is thirteen years old this year.
Since the craze for digging oil wells started in Yan'an Prefecture, more than 30 members of the Zhang family have also mobilized to participate in this undertaking.
It's just that they didn't go to Yanchuan County to dig, they dug in front of their own house. The second uncle of the Zhang family said that in the early years, black oil came out of the area where their family lived, and they must be able to dig out oil in front of their house.
As a result, the whole family mobilized together and dug three deep wells for more than 20 days, but nothing was dug out. Now they are digging the fourth well.
"Erya, please put more pellets for everyone at noon today. The well is dug deep. If you want oil to come out, you have to work harder." Early in the morning, the second uncle ran to the kitchen that Zhang Erya was in charge of.
, instructing Zhang Erya how to prepare food.
The older children all participated in digging the well. Only Zhang Erya and a few younger children were responsible for cooking.
"Second Grandpa, there is more than a liter of millet left in the kitchen. If we make rice, we will have no food tomorrow." Zhang Erya looked at the cracked rice vat in the kitchen and told the Second Grandpa helplessly.
The truth.
In order to dig out the oil well, several members of the Zhang family gathered all their grain together, hoping to dig out the oil and turn around. So far, the investment has been in vain and there is no output, and it will be a problem to eat in a few days.
"I invited a god last night and said that I can dig out the oil today. You can cook your food, but if you have the oil, are you afraid that you won't have anything to eat?" The second uncle of the Zhang family is a bit of a god, and he usually likes to make gods. This
In order to dig out the oil, he would ask the gods to come to him.
After giving instructions to Zhang Erya, the second uncle walked to the mouth of the well being dug, lit three wheat straws as incense, knelt on the ground and chanted for a while, then got up and ordered the whole family to start digging the well.
Digging oil wells is not like ordinary water wells. They have to be dug very deep, so no one can dig in. The digging method is to use a steel tube similar to the Luoyang shovel of later generations as a drill bit, drop it in, and then cut each section round.
Knock down the logs, and finally use a winch to lift up the logs and steel cylinder. After pouring the soil lifted up by the steel cylinder, continue this set of actions.
"Look, all the soil being lifted up now is black oil. Oil will definitely come out today." When it was almost noon, the second uncle pointed at the soil lifted up in the steel tube and showed it to everyone excitedly.
"Er Da, last time we lifted up the black soil from our well, and it hit a rock. We folded the drill bit inside. People have gone to dig where oil has come out. You have to let us go there.
Digging in front of your house. It’s okay to dig in front of your house. Let’s ask a husband to look at the wellhead. Can the god you asked to show us the wellhead be reliable?”
The person who spoke was the third uncle of Zhang Erya's family. He was now full of doubts about his second father and felt that he had wasted the whole family's efforts.
"If your child talks nonsense again, I will tear your mouth to pieces. Please, sir, can you please ask Mr. Jun to help you with two liters of white flour? How can you go dozens of miles to dig out oil where it can be dug out?"
When you dig a well on someone else's property, you are not allowed to give money to others? That's it, our family may not necessarily grab the land. Have you not heard that people are risking their lives just to grab a piece of land that produces oil? We Zhang
At home, there are only six of you brothers in your prime, how can you rob more than anyone else?"
In order to dig out the oil, there is now a lot of chaos on the Yan'an Prefecture.
To find the location of oil wells, all kinds of ghosts and ghosts were used. There is a habit of looking for fortune tellers when digging water wells in this place, and finding oil wells is no exception. People who used to show people cemeteries now turn to looking at oil wells, regardless of whether they can see accurately or not.
Yes, two liters of white flour at a time is indispensable. If there is really oil, there will be additional thanks.
There are only so many places where oil can be produced. It is not easy to grab a good place. Fighting is inevitable. In the fight for oil wells, more than a hundred people have died.
Uncle Zhang Er knew in his heart what the situation was in his family. It was actually a helpless act to rely on himself to pray to gods and dig a well in front of his house.
At noon, Zhang Erya reluctantly made millet rice for the whole family. After this meal, if oil does not come out, the thirty members of the Zhang family will no longer be able to dig a new well.
In the afternoon, the adults took a break from the heat and continued digging wells. Zhang Erya and his brothers and sisters boiled water and prayed to the stove door, hoping that the Kitchen God or the Fire God would bless the Zhang family and dig out oil.
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Waiting was a torturous thing. Until the sun was almost setting, there was still no news from the wellhead.
Could it be that another abandoned well was dug? I don’t know what the adults were thinking, but Zhang Erya was filled with despair at this time.
She also thought that after digging the well, like the daughter of the old Fan family in the neighboring village, she could let the adults buy a new dress. Unlike herself now, who is already a thirteen-year-old girl and is still wearing half-pants.
, some younger brothers and sisters don’t even have to wear pants.
A sense of despair filled Zhang Erya's heart, and she didn't even have the time to think about what to cook for dinner.
"Oil is out!" Suddenly a hoarse shout came from the other side of the oil well.
"Oil is coming out!" Immediately afterwards, all the people digging the well in the Zhang family began to shout loudly.
"Is there oil?" Zhang Erya shouted nervously, then rushed out of the kitchen and ran towards the oil well.
When they arrived at the oil well, they found that the entire Zhang family was dyed one color by black oil. But they didn't care at all about their current appearance, and instead jumped around the oil well wantonly.
Zhang Erya and a group of children also joined them, and it was not until dark that the Zhang family stopped.
"Oh no, I haven't cooked dinner yet?" Zhang Erya paused and then remembered that he had forgotten about dinner.
"I'll beat you to death, you damn girl. Hurry up and cook." When Er Ya Niang heard her girl's cry, she just scolded her. Only then did the cook remember that this wasn't for the whole family.
Will a family of ten go hungry?
"Second girl, wait a minute! Let's eat mutton tonight. Fourth child, call a few people and bring the gelding to my house. Second child, you ride your donkey and go to Wu Mazi's house in the town to buy incense.
Bring some incense on credit. We have to make a wish. I made a wish to Mr. Lao Jun when I was digging the well!"
The oil has come out, and the second uncle is willing to give up anything. The only sheep left in the family, he plans to make it tonight even if he wants to eat it. What will we eat tomorrow? We will eat whatever we want tomorrow. This oil well in our house is a
All of them are good wells, and they will definitely produce a lot of oil. One stone of crude oil is worth four hundred cents. If you dig out six or seven stone in a day, it is equivalent to two or three taels of silver dollars. From then on, the Zhang family has a cornucopia of money.
, are you still afraid of not having anything to eat?
Thanks to all the gods and their own obsession, the Zhang family finally dug out oil at their doorstep. From then on, they no longer lived a hard life. The children, big and small, bought him a new set of clothes every year.
.The whole family feeds him white noodles every day. Uncle Zhang Er is full of confidence in being a good parent in the future!