coobybook Chapter 45 Persuading the Villagers to Help
Chapter 45 Persuading the Villagers to Help
It's a lot of hard work, and you can only carry a few buckets of water a day. When you pour it into the fields, it only wets the surface of the soil and doesn't do much good.
Shen Gou Dan, carrying a wooden bucket, was getting impatient and began to urge them on.
"Erniu, what are you talking about here? Aren't you going down to the river to fetch water or not?"
After some internal struggle, Li Erniu secretly made his choice: "Let's not talk about it anymore, I'm going to help Brother Qingchuan crash and burn!"
"What the hell?"
"Are you going to make a mess of things too?"
"They've gone mad, are you going to go mad too?"
Li Erniu was silent for a moment, then suddenly said firmly, "How will we know it won't work if we don't try? Besides, Brother Qingchuan and Shuisheng are both working hard to solve the drought. Let's do our part. If it really works, we can also fetch water for irrigation."
Shen Gou Dan waved his hand dismissively, "Fine, you can come and tinker with it. I'll fetch water to irrigate the fields myself. If it doesn't work out in a few days and the crops die of drought, don't regret it."
After saying that, Shen Gou Dan picked up the wooden bucket, turned around, and went down the embankment.
Li Erniu pursed his lips and walked towards the group, somewhat ashamed, "Brother Qingchuan, Shuisheng, I...Is it too late for me to come and help now?"
“It’s not too late!”
Shen Qingchuan and Shui Sheng answered in unison, pulling him along to join the assembly team.
With one more person and one more effort, the assembly speed increased significantly.
Several hours later, people came to the field to check on the crops one after another. They all looked worried and sighed. But when they saw Shen Gou Dan carrying a wooden bucket and struggling to carry water to irrigate the field, they were immediately inspired.
Before long, everyone carried their wooden buckets and came up to the embankment, but they were all attracted by Shen Qingchuan and his group.
This is the water truck that Shen Qingchuan and Lin Shuisheng mentioned when they went to their house.
They initially thought the two were just bragging, but they never expected them to actually come up with something.
But does this thing actually work?
The weather hasn't been raining, and the crops in the fields really can't take any longer to grow.
If we have to carry water bucket by bucket to irrigate the fields, how long will it take?
Just then, Shen Gou Dan, carrying the twenty-fifth bucket of water, finally managed to climb up the embankment from the river, so exhausted that he collapsed on the ground, panting heavily.
"Huff huff huff... I'm exhausted. Let whoever wants to carry the water carry it, let whoever wants to irrigate the fields irrigate them. I'm not doing this anymore, I'm about to die from exhaustion."
Everyone stood on the embankment carrying wooden buckets, dumbfounded when they saw Shen Gou Dan looking so exhausted and miserable!
Should we raise the water level or not?
When Shen Xiaotang saw that most of the families whose fields bordered hers had arrived, she thought to herself that her chance had come!
So she immediately pulled Uncle Shuisheng, who was more eloquent than her father, forward to persuade everyone.
"Grandpa Iron Pestle, Uncle Xingwang, you've arrived?"
Lin Tiechu's home is not far from their new home. She had seven daughters in a row, and it wasn't until she was over forty that she had a son. Now she is fifty years old and is still working hard in the fields to support her son.
Now that he has a son, he's become more assertive, and when he sees the eldest daughter of the Shen family, he practically looks down on her.
"Well, here we come."
Lin Xingwang forced a smile and asked, "Girl, what are your dad and the others up to?"
Asking questions knowingly!
Her father and Uncle Shuisheng went to his house first. After hearing this, he shook his head and said that he was too busy at home to leave, but now he had time to carry a wooden bucket to fetch water to irrigate the fields.
"Dad and Uncle Shuisheng are making a water pumping machine that can replace manual water collection. Uncle Erniu is also helping out."
Lin Xingwang smiled awkwardly and nodded, saying, "Your dad and the others are quite capable; they really were able to create such a large object."
No wonder a few days ago, when he was returning home from the fields, I saw him carrying wood home with his wife, his injury just healed; it turned out they were making this thing.
Seeing that Lin Tiechu and Xingwang had no intention of helping, Shuisheng quickly spoke up to persuade them.
“Xingwang, you saw Gou Dan’er carrying water. He’s already exhausted after carrying only about twenty buckets. How much water can he irrigate with that? Why don’t you come and help assemble the cart? There’s strength in numbers, and we can get it loaded and go down to the river to fetch water for irrigating the fields quickly. We only have to work this once, and then we won’t have to worry about drought in the fields anymore. It’s such a good deal!”
Lin Xingwang smiled wryly, somewhat disbelieving.
"Can this thing really draw water? You're making it sound so incredible. Even our ancestors didn't know how to research this after all these years. Can you really research it successfully?"
Throughout history, there have been countless intelligent people who have been unable to solve the problem of drought in the fields. Does Shen Qingchuan, an overly honest farmer, really have this kind of brain?
You must be joking!
Don't waste your time and effort on nothing.
Seeing that Lin Xingwang was somewhat skeptical, Shui Sheng immediately said, "Whether it will work or not, it's almost finished. We'll know once we get it to the river. Once we successfully get the water, all the fields around here will have water, and more than one family will benefit. Let's all help finish the work and get it to the river quickly. Why bother carrying buckets of water to the fields? What's the point of all that effort?"
Lin Xingwang was skeptical, thinking that they definitely couldn't build it, and even if they did, they might not succeed.
But when he saw Gou Dan panting heavily with his tongue lolling out as he carried water, he worried that the crops in the fields would die of drought. At the same time, he didn't want to carry water bucket by bucket. After all, his family had five or six acres of dry land, which was a large area. Carrying water in wooden buckets was just a drop in the ocean.
It’s useless!
Lin Tiechu craned his neck to glance at the large object surrounded by several people, his eyes filled with disdain.
"A young man with no experience is unreliable. What can a few young people accomplish? There are many respected elders in the village. Even if they want to find a solution to the drought, it should be the village head who leads the respected elders to come up with a plan."
So he called to Lin Xingwang to carry the wooden bucket down into the river.
Several women came from behind, but without asking any questions, they went straight into the river and began carrying water into the fields, sweating profusely and panting heavily.
After a while, everyone was too tired to lift the water anymore, so they had to give up on using wooden buckets and started to move closer to the group that had caused the car to overturn.
Lin Tiesheng was old, and he had just risked his life to fetch about ten buckets of water from the river. The water dried up instantly when he poured it into the field, and he only managed to water a tiny patch of land.
If all else fails, we can only hope that Shen Qingchuan will make a mistake!
Even the usually cunning Lin Xingwang had to change his mind and place his hopes on the overturned vehicle that was being assembled.
Seeing that everyone was gradually giving up on using wooden buckets to carry water to irrigate the fields and had gathered around, Shen Xiaotang immediately reminded her father.
"Dad, please say a few words and explain the principle and function of the overturning so that everyone can help."
"Okay, Father understands."
Shen Qingchuan put down the parts he was working on, stood up, and introduced them to everyone.
The villagers who had previously been skeptical or half-believing became excited when they heard that the tippler had such a miraculous effect, after giving up on the method of drawing water to irrigate their fields.
Shuisheng seized the opportunity to persuade, "The crops in the fields are almost dying of drought, and everyone is in a panic. But worrying won't do any good. Why don't we all help each other out and get water from the river as soon as possible? Then the crops will be saved."
“That’s right, we’re just killing time anyway, and if it really works, why waste our time?” Erniu quickly chimed in.
Those women, who are not as strong as the men, were exhausted from carrying water down the river, up the embankment, and into the fields. They could only carry a few buckets back and forth. At this moment, they placed all their hopes on the cart.