This well digging site is on the periphery of Wei Bao's A, which is the middle ground between Wei Bao's A and Zhao Liquan's A.

"That's it, Xiaobao, I'm afraid that when the time comes, Zhao Liquan will say that this place belongs to them?" Wang Zhihui reminded.

Wang Qiuya said: "Otherwise, let's fence this place first?" It's all around the wasteland, and they won't look at it, so it's fenced, and that's where we are. ”

"Yes! We don't have much now, it's just a lot of wood! Wei Bao decisively agreed with Wang Qiuya's suggestion, and said to Wang Zhihui: "Uncle Wang, if you can dig the well smoothly, you have to take the first credit!" ”

Wang Zhihui scratched his head embarrassedly, "I just thought of it, if I had thought of it earlier, I wouldn't have let the iron pipe get stuck in the ground just now." ”

"Listen to you, it seems that you will be able to make water here?" Wang Zhihui's wife couldn't help but whisper, worried that there would be no water here at that time, delaying Wei Bao's affairs, and even more afraid of wasting silver, iron is very expensive in Daming.

"There should be water here, when the earthquake happened, I came out to look for food, I came here and saw it, there is an old locust tree over there, I can't be mistaken, it must be this place." Wang Zhihui pointed to the position under his feet.

Wei Bao said to Wang Zhihui: "Mark this place, choose the location to dig the well tomorrow, and let people fence this place overnight tonight and merge it into our A!" ”

The first half of Wei Bao's sentence was said to Wang Zhihui, and the second half of the sentence was said to Luo Sanzi beside him.

Luo San was stunned and hurriedly agreed: "Don't worry, son, I'll arrange for people now, and tomorrow I'll be here to protect the wooden fence." I lay flat on a thick log and went up, and I couldn't see what it was doing here. ”

Wang Zhihui also said: "Xiaobao, don't worry, it's here, you won't be mistaken, just look at the old locust tree, the east of the old locust tree is about ten steps, and I saw a piece of water here." ”

Wei Bao nodded, feeling a little tired, and left.

Even if there is a little hope, he still feels so tired, and it is so hard to dig a well in Daming! I secretly wonder that no matter what era it is, the workers are really miserable. Every day, I do the work of worrying and hard work, and I often encounter difficult problems, some of which cannot be solved for a while, and I am in a hurry to do it, which can really make people's hair gray and look old, but the wages of workers are always the lowest.

The salary has nothing to do with him, he does things for himself, and there is no such imbalance.

However, if you can personally lead the industrialization process, Wei Bao really doesn't want to participate in industrial construction, especially the installation and use of specific industrial equipment.

What he likes is to be a mayor, a high-ranking official, and govern his own territory, but he doesn't want to be a factory director, a factory director. I don't want to be a workshop director or a section leader in a workshop.

It's just that these things will still be encountered from time to time in the future, industrialization, without him, the only person who has seen the future vision, it will definitely not work.

"Xiaobao, go and rest earlier, right?" Fan Xiaolin said distressed when she saw that Wei Bao seemed to be very tired.

Wei Bao nodded, didn't say anything, in fact, he didn't do much in the afternoon, but he did feel very tired.

"Yes, yes, Xiaobao go and rest early, Rui'er, you don't care about us, we have a few maids, you go and accompany Xiaobao." Huang Ying also hurriedly said. In Huang Ying's eyes, the empathetic and well-behaved Xu Rui was the most favored by Wei Bao, so she sent Xu Rui without hesitation.

Xu Rui hurriedly agreed.

"Childe, go and rest, eat and rest early." Luo San was stunned and said, "I know what to do, here I am." ”

Wei Bao hummed, and then went with Fan Xiaolin, Wang Qiuya, and Xu Rui.

Luo San was not stupid, although he was not as sharp as Fan's head, unlike Liu Chunshi, who is scheming and calculating. But Luo San is stunned and has the courage to do things and take responsibility, and it is very suitable to be a big steward.

After an afternoon of wind blowing in the ice and snow, Wei Bao's little face froze, and when he returned to his warm house, his face was actually out of balance.

This scared Wei Bao half to death, "His face didn't move!" ”

Wei Bao felt the pain in the heart of half of his face and sore teeth, and he struggled to speak, and he couldn't speak clearly.

"It's frozen!" Wang Qiuya's eyes turned red all of a sudden.

"There's nothing I can do about it, it seems like I can only wait for myself to get better." Fan Xiaolin hurriedly said: "Xiaobao, don't worry, I'll ask Cheng Blind." ”

Cheng Blind is the fortune-telling old man raised by Wei Bao, the old man not only helps people tell fortunes, but also knows medical skills, otherwise he would have starved to death.

Wei Bao couldn't speak anymore, he was angry and annoyed, he didn't expect that the well didn't come out, and he made his face nervous disordered! I don't know if there will be sequelae, so I sat sulking alone at the table of the Eight Immortals, my painful eyes narrowed.

Wang Qiuya's eyes were red, and Xu Rui silently shed tears.

As soon as Xu Rui cried, Wang Qiuya also cried.

Wei Bao was upset and moved by the crying of the two women, suppressed his emotions, and said nothing, afraid that he would get angry instead. He knows that he has a bad temper, and sometimes the more he cares about him, the more he does something inexplicable. I'm afraid that people will worry about themselves, but they will scold those who care about themselves, especially now that they have absolute power in this armor, they are often a little carried away.

So he just went straight to bed.

Fan Xiaolin came back after a while, "Cheng Blind said that it was not a big deal, saying that Xiaobao had a thin skin and a tender face, so apply a warm cloth towel, and it would be fine if he rested early." ”

"Then Xiaobao won't have dinner tonight?" Wang Qiuya hurriedly asked.

"Let's heal my face first, why don't you have dinner with such a face?" Fan Xiaolin pursed her lips and hurriedly went to fetch hot water.

The hot cloth towel was quickly delivered, Wei Bao was lying on his back, at the mercy of Fan Xiaolin, Fan Xiaolin gently massaged Wei Bao's face, and sure enough, after a while, Wei Bao's face returned to normal.

"It scared the hell out of me." Wei Bao finished speaking softly, and he was embarrassed to shut up again. This thing scared me to death, hey, I'm a little ordinary person, how big of a deal is this? However, this is really the first time that Wei Bao has found that his face is frozen like this? I was really scared just now.

When the three girls saw that Wei Bao could speak normally again, Xu Rui and Wang Qiuya cried with joy.

Fan Xiaolin smiled: "Look at the two of them, this can also cry." It's not a big deal, okay, Xiaobao hurry up and eat, go to bed early, get up after sleeping, and tomorrow will be completely fine. ”

Wei Bao nodded: "Let's still eat Qiuya's red date porridge, right?" Anything else? ”

"Yes, I'll get you two more loaves." Wang Qiuya wiped her tears and said.

"Yes." Wei Bao smiled slightly: "It's troublesome." ”

Wang Qiuya smiled and went. The three daughters all like this calm Wei Bao.

Wei Bao also knows that he is always calm, and he always gives people a gentle and elegant image to be more personable, but he can't control it occasionally.

Especially in this armor, he often feels like an emperor, and he needs to control his emotions from time to time.

He found that power is really not a good thing, it is convenient to do things, and he can do whatever he wants, but without the power of monitoring, it can make people arrogant for no reason, and he can't stand the slightest doubt, and he can't even care that others are just a suspicious look, otherwise his heart will be blocked, he didn't have such a 'stingy' before.

Even if no one in this armor will scold him with words anymore, including Wei Dakang, he doesn't dare to say it, but everyone doesn't say it, Wei Bao still feels that they don't believe in their hearts that they can dig a well!

Drilling a qualified deep well has almost become Wei Bao's obsession, and he even dreams about digging a well.

After dinner, Wei Bao went to bed early after Wang Qiuya served him to wash his face and feet.

Now Fan Xiaolin will no longer rush to do these things with Wang Qiuya, otherwise she will find a day and beg Wang Qiuya to give Wei Bao the opportunity to wash her face and feet for a day.

When Wang Qiuya went out, her face was flushed, her heart was pounding, and she thought that Wei Bao was going to leave her to 'help each other', but as Wei Bao's door was closed by her, this nervous emotion was replaced by a powerful feeling of emptiness, loneliness, and loss.

If Wei Bao didn't have a heart, if he wanted to find someone to 'help each other', in fact, he would only look for Xu Rui, not Wang Qiuya and Fan Xiaolin, Wei Bao couldn't accept that girls were so close to him, and then he couldn't give girls any title. There is no such psychological barrier for Xu Rui, because he has slept with Xu Rui.

After Fan Xiaolin saw Wang Qiuya coming out of Wei Bao's room, she looked a little sluggish, as if she had something on her mind, and smiled slightly: "Qiuya, go to sleep, what are you rubbing on this cold day?" ”

Wang Qiuya sighed, glanced at Xu Rui, who had fallen asleep, with a hint of resentment in her eyes, originally Wang Qiuya thought that Xu Rui was beautiful, but she was only on par with herself, even if she was a little more beautiful than herself, it would not be much worse. But Xu Rui and Wei Bao 'helped each other', she knew it, which inevitably caused a little inferiority complex, and felt that Xu Rui was much more beautiful than herself.

"I'm the most idle right now. I am responsible for the entry and exit of materials and money, and there is not much external exchange in A, so I only need to go to the warehouse once a day and record how much material I have consumed. Fan Xiaolin wrapped herself in the quilt and smiled: "You two have to wait for Uncle Wei, Aunt Wei and Wei Bao to sleep before you can rest." ”

"You went to bed early, haven't you fallen asleep by this time?" Wang Qiuya complained.

"Hehe, such a big temper today? Xiaobao messed with you again? Fan Xiaolin smiled: "Didn't I wait for you to come back and talk for a while? Otherwise, I won't be able to sleep. ’

"Xiaobao didn't mess with me, why did he mess with me? If you want to provoke, you will also provoke Ruier. Wang Qiuya said quietly.

Xu Rui was about to fall asleep in a daze, but when she heard herself, she opened her eyes: "Sister Qiu Ya, Sister Xiaolin, what's wrong?" ”

"It's nothing, Qiu Ya praises you." Fan Xiaolin smiled, seeing that Wang Qiuya was eating Xu Rui's vinegar a little, and guessed that it must have been Wang Qiuya who saw Wei Bao eating Xu Rui's tofu.

Xu Ruifen's face flushed, "Praise me?" I didn't do anything. ”

"You waited for Xiaobao well, shouldn't you praise it?" Wang Qiuya said.

When Xu Rui heard this, her face turned even redder, and she understood that Wang Qiuya must have heard the movement that day, originally she was just suspicious, but now she sat down, and hurriedly said: "Waiting for the son is Sister Qiuya's business, I dare not trespass." ”

"No one said you were arrogant, what are you nervous about?" Wang Qiuya heard Xu Rui say this, and felt a little more comfortable, secretly wondering which person Xiaobao liked, it was not Xu Rui's decision, and she should not have an opinion on Xu Rui.

"Okay, let's talk about digging a well. Xiaobao's big guy with a steam engine is really amazing, and he really hit the water today. Fan Xiaolin said.

"Yes, I didn't expect to be able to make water, but unfortunately Childe said that it can only be used in deeper water." Xu Rui echoed that she usually doesn't talk too much, and deliberately diverted the topic, so as not to talk about her and Wei Bao again.

"Today, Uncle Wang said that there is a place where you can fight deeply. Qiuya, if what your father said is right, this time it will be a great achievement. Fan Xiaolin said.

Wang Qiuya didn't reply, she didn't care much about digging wells, which family in the village didn't go to the river and stream to fetch water to drink? It's been so many years, and her ancestors have been like this for generations, and she doesn't think it makes much difference whether she drills this well or not.

"Are you afraid that what Uncle Wang said is not right, it will make Xiaobao delay his efforts and waste iron? It's okay, don't worry, I think Uncle Wang is quite sure. Fan Xiaolin continued.

"Sleepy, sleep." Wang Qiuya washed her face and feet, and said while going out to pour water with a basin.

Fan Xiaolin muttered, "What's wrong today?" ”

If it weren't for the fact that Aunt Wei didn't like her because of her refusal to marry before, Wang Qiuya really wanted to propose it to Xu Rui, she and Xu Rui would be exchanged, let Xu Rui take care of Wei Bao, and she would go to Aunt Wei and Uncle Wei to be the leading maid.

Wei Bao got up very early the next day, and although he slept very early yesterday, he didn't sleep well all night because he was worried about it. As soon as the day dawned, we were going to dig a well.

Wang Qiuya heard Wei Bao get up and hurriedly got up.

Fan Xiaolin and Xu Rui also woke up. Xu Rui doesn't have to go to Wei Dakang and Huang Ying very early every day, because Huang Ying explained that she doesn't need to serve them to get up, Xu Rui only needs to go over before breakfast.

"Xiaobao woke up so early?" Fan Xiaolin said in a daze.

Wang Qiuya snorted, "I should have woken up, and I heard Xiaobao open the door to relieve my hand." ”

Wei Bao's bedroom has a total of three doors, one door leads to the outer room where Wang Qiuya, Fan Xiaolin and Xu Rui are, one door leads to the shower room, and one door leads to 'Mao Si' who has a flush toilet installed. Wei Bao couldn't stand the wooden toilet, and he couldn't stand people like this time, so he made two big stones and squatted on them to solve them.

Wang Qiuya opened the door a crack, didn't see Wei Bao, and closed the door again.

Seeing that Wang Qiuya got up, Fan Xiaolin and Xu Rui also got up and dressed.

Wei Bao opened the door and came out after a while, and saw that the three girls were already dressed neatly, and said strangely: "What are you all doing when you all get up so early?" Did I wake you up? ”

Wang Qiuya complained: "Why don't you ask me to dress you?" ”

Wei Bao thought it was funny: "I'm not stupid, I don't know how to dress myself?" ”

"Wait, I'll go get you water and wash your face." Wang Qiuya walked as she walked.

Wei Bao took a deep sniff of the three women's fragrant boudoir, and hummed happily, although he still didn't know if he could succeed in drilling a well today, but his mentality was a little more normal than yesterday, he failed once, but he was not in a hurry, he wanted to prove himself too much yesterday, he wanted to prove the power of the steam engine too much, and he was invisibly burdened with a lot of psychological pressure.

"I'm going to get breakfast." Fan Xiaolin said: "I just don't know if it's done so early." ’

"I'll go too." Xu Rui followed.

Fan Xiaolin smiled: "Let's go." ”

Wei Bao suddenly remembered something, and originally wanted to keep Xu Rui down and take the opportunity to warm up twice, although it was only a minute away, kissing Xu Rui's pink little face and touching Xu Rui's plump chest was still enough.

When Xu Rui saw Wei Bao's eyes looking at her, she suddenly remembered this stubble, her pink face was red with shame, but the corners of her mouth were filled with a smile.

Fan Xiaolin keenly captured the micro-expressions of the two people, and only pretended not to know.

Wei Bao quickly washed up and had breakfast with the three girls.

Xu Rui was going to serve Wei Dakang and Huang Ying, while Fan Xiaolin and Wang Qiuya followed Wei Bao to see the well.

Luo Sanzi, Tan Madman and others had already prepared last night and moved the steam engine to the new well drilling site.

Wei Bao originally planned to set up a water station next to his house so that his family could get water. Now this new location is almost 8 miles away from Wei Bao's house, and the township is too big, and Wei Bao's A covers an area of more than 5 miles. This new location was originally not in Wei Bao's A, but in the middle of Wei Bao's A and Zhao Liquan's A.

"Childe, we hit another pipe next to the stuck iron pipe last night, and we were lucky that the stuck iron pipe was pulled out." Luo San was stunned and happily reported the good news to Wei Bao, but he didn't say that they were busy just now, and more than 20 people didn't close their eyes all night.

Wei Bao saw that each of them looked haggard, so he guessed what their situation was last night, "It's hard work, didn't you sleep all night?" Otherwise, go find a few more people, and you all go and rest. ”

"Childe, we're not tired." Madman Tan hurriedly said. Hou San and the people of the escort team, as well as a few blacksmiths and others, also unanimously said that they were not tired.

Wei Bao smiled and nodded: "Okay!" Let's get started! "I am satisfied with everyone's enthusiasm for their work.

In fact, Wei Bao's team is already an organization with the nature of a political party, although it has not put forward a clear party program or a clear political goal, but Wei Bao's organizational form has strengthened his position imperceptibly!

It can be said that Wei Bao is the program of this team, Wei Bao is the belief of this team, and it is somewhat militarized, of course, Wei Bao's militarization through organizational forms is much more political than the natural formation of local warlords like the Wu family and the ancestral family in this era.

Originally, these were not in Wei Bao's plan, and he wanted to make it into a bourgeois political party, but considering that he had not yet gained a firm foothold and had not yet created an independent and isolated environment from the outside world, he did not dare to put forward his own political ideas in a big way.

Now shouting the political slogan of capitalism must be earth-shattering, and all the people of the Ming Dynasty must be recruited to suppress him. Not to mention that the Ming court could not tolerate this kind of thing, even the local wealthy families would not appoint a piece of land to set up industries, and replace the social organization form of landlords and tenant farmers that had been formed for thousands of years with a wage economy.

5 meters.

10 meters.

Today's progress is about the same as yesterday.

15 meters.

At 15 meters, yellow muddy water came out of the iron pipe, which was almost the same as yesterday's progress.

This time, Madman Tan didn't report the good news to Wei Gongzi happily, but just wiped the yellow mud water on the iron pipe to show Wei Gongzi.

Wei Bao nodded: "The key is to see if it will run into limestone again!" Or quartzite rock layers. ”

20 meters.

25 meters.

30 meters.

Wei Bao was excited, and a group of people who dug wells also followed suit, and several blacksmiths nervously watched the iron pipe continue to go deeper, but they didn't expect to be able to hit so deep.

At this time, Wei Dakang, Huang Ying, Fan Lao Pimple and his wife, Wang Zhihui and his wife also heard the news and rushed to see the excitement, and they all wanted to see if Wei Bao would succeed in drilling a well today.

"Oh, it's hit so deep? It seems that Lao Wang, you are going to make meritorious service this time. Fan Lao said sourly, for fear that Wang Zhihui would suggest to Wei Bao that if the well could really be successfully drilled here, the Wang family would get a great credit. In fact, Fan Lao Pimple also hoped that the well would be drilled, but he didn't want Wang Zhihui to succeed when he told Wei Bao where to dig the well.

Wang Zhihui didn't speak, looking nervously at the iron pipe going deeper, secretly thinking that if it was stuck again today, if such a long section of the iron pipe was stuck in the ground and couldn't be taken out, the loss would be great, and he would definitely be responsible.

Wang Qiuya also had a general idea, but she didn't complain about her father's suggestion to Wei Bao.

The person who was most worried was Wang Zhihui's wife, who had been clinging to Wang Zhihui from beginning to end, and her two hands were nervously clasped together.

35 meters!

40 meters!

The iron pipe is still deep, and it is not stuck.

Wei Bao is both happy and strange now, so deep, still not out of the water?

45 meters!

Until the 30 1.5-meter-long iron pipes that Wei Bao asked the craftsmen to build were all used up, there was still no water.

Wei Bao almost didn't despair, this time he didn't get stuck in the rock, but what if he didn't get out of the water? If you still don't get water after another ten meters, it will be troublesome, and the iron pipe can't be taken out.

An iron pipe weighs almost 30 kilograms, and now 30 iron pipes are 900 kilograms, all of which are taken by manpower, and more than 30 people from the escort team have all gone up, as if performing acrobatics, everyone is close together, and a few tables are used to superimpose the height.

Anyway, the exposed iron pipe is full of hands, and there is no way to increase the hands.

If you really hit more than ten meters and there is no water, although it will not be impossible to get the iron pipe, but it will be very difficult, it takes so much effort, and then you find that there is no water here, what should I do?

Wei Bao secretly thought that it was normal for the water to come out of the well at 100 meters, or even 200 meters, and 300 meters, in that case, his technical conditions would definitely not be able to do it.

Everyone stopped and looked at Wei Bao, waiting for Wei Gongzi to make a decision.

Wei Bao didn't speak for a long time, not knowing what decision to make.

Wei Dakang said something that everyone knew, but no one dared to ask: "Xiaobao, do you want to dig a well here?" ”