Chapter 206

"Has everything been moved here?" Asked the patriarch.

"They all moved in." From the opposite side.

"Is everyone back?" The patriarch glanced around and yelled.

"They're all back!" The crowd returned.

"Take away the bamboo raft. Let's go back to dinner first. Let's dig ditches all night in the evening!"

A group of men went home wet, shivering with cold.

Li Changting came out of the space after taking a bath and couldn't help sneezing. Then he saw Cao Laoliu blowing his nose with straw paper.

In this cold day, Li Changting should have lain on the hot Kang. As a result, he was devastated in the cold wind and rain all day. Rao Shi's strong Li Changting also felt a little uncomfortable.

"Have a bowl of ginger soup." Li Jinmei put ginger soup in front of Li Changting, "it's comfortable to drink."

Xu Qing reached out to explore the temperature of Li Changting's forehead. It was not hot.

"I'm fine." Li Changting holding Xu Qing's hand, "probably in the Kang for a long time, the body tired lazy, did not adapt to the temperature outside."

"It's very cold and hot in this way. I think there will be a lot of colds in the village. Men are strong and don't fear anything, but it's not good to infect women and children. I'd better match some medicine to dispel the cold later." Xu Qingdao.

At this time, Li Jinmei asked: "where is the patriarch going to dig the bathhouse and latrine? It's not our tunnel, is it? "

If so, they usually don't know how many people come and go in front of the cave door every day!

Xu Qing said: "it must not be possible. This tunnel in front of us is for escape. It must be hidden. Moreover, we are too far away from everyone's cave. It's inconvenient to carry a bucket of water, so we won't dig here."

Li Jinmei was relieved: "that's good, otherwise we don't want to have a meal and have a rest."

Xu Qing nodded deeply.

After a simple dinner, Li Changting and Cao Laoliu went to dig ditches with hoes.

Xu Qing went back to his cave and went into the space to collect medicine.

Duanmu Xiang has been addicted to refining medicine recently. He holds the manuscript of Qin's Wine Classic all day. He is so fascinated by the chapter of medicine and wine that he seems to be stunned. All three meals are sent to his room by Xu Qing.

Although it's an ancestral secret, Xu Qingxin is better than duanmuxiang. As long as duanmuxiang guarantees not to spread the secret, he can read and study it.

Xu Qing prepared 50 pieces of medicinal herbs, packed the herbs into the bamboo basket, and carried the basket out of the space.

An hour later, Xu Qing and Li Jinmei went to Dashan cave to see how the ditch was digging.

If the cave is illuminated by a campfire, the men start to dig from the middle to see the traces on the ground. They will dig a ditch at least four meters wide.

Eight men, holding hoes, widened and deepened the ditch bit by bit. From the entrance of the mountain to the crack, they dug down obliquely. The depth was one meter, six to two meters.

Considering the problem of fetching water, the man led the ditch to the lower reaches of the underground river, trying not to let the water mixed with sediment contaminate the underground river. However, due to the continuous rainstorm recently, the water in the underground river is somewhat turbid, and it often takes a long time to settle before drinking.

Now we simply use wooden buckets to hold rainwater and drink it after boiling.

The curtain at the entrance of the cave is pressed by stones. The cold wind can't blow in. The bonfire in the cave is burning, but it's not very cold. Everyone dig out the ditch near the crack as soon as possible, and the excess soil will be piled up at the foot of the walls on both sides of the entrance.

Li Jinmei swept around and asked, "is there anyone else?"

The patriarch said, "go and dig the tunnel. No matter what, you have to dig out the latrine first."

Because the river has flooded the valley, it's raining heavily and it's not convenient to go out. In recent days, everyone has been using the toilet to solve personal problems in the cave, let alone the taste.

So the rest of the men went to dig tunnels and latrines, and many women went to help, helping to pick up soil and raise torches.

"Oh, my God, there's water in here already!" When the two men were about to dig to the entrance of the cave, they found that most of the bamboo curtain at the entrance of the cave had been wet by water, and some water flowed in along the cracks, forming several puddles on the ground.

Fortunately, the patriarch told them to dig ditches at night. If they wait until tomorrow, the cave will be flooded.

At this time, the crack has been opened up on the other side, and a four meter wide and two meter deep ditch has been dug out. Now there is only one side of the entrance of the mountain that has not been opened up, but it is not urgent. They have to put up a railing first, and then build a small bridge.

The planks that had been removed from the opposite cave were of great use. The soil near the ditch was soft, and the railings had to be nailed into the soil half a meter back.

Xu Qing looked at the dark crack, frowning slightly. He nailed the fence to prevent someone from falling into the ditch. But if someone really fell into the ditch, he would be washed by the rapid current, and directly fell into the crack and into the 100 meter deep underground river. There was no possibility of rescue or survival.

At the thought of this, Xu Qing could not help but feel a little frightened. She said to the patriarch beside her, "a rope net bar has been tied at the crack. The rope will not affect the water flow, but if someone falls down, it can save lives."The patriarch blinked his eyes, looked at the gap for a while, and nodded solemnly: "well, I have to prick one!"

Xu Qing provided a bundle of strong hemp ropes. Li Jinmei made a fishing net with a big mouth but enough to catch people. Several men opened the net and nailed six deep posts on the ground and walls to tie the ropes to the posts.

An hour later, the ditch was ready and all the men climbed up.

Li Jing and Li Zhuang tied a strong rope around their waist, and the end of the rope was pulled by three men.

"Dig." At the patriarch's command, Li Jing and Li Zhuang jumped out of the ditch, waved their hoes and began to dig through the earth wall between the entrance of the mountain and the depression.

"Remove the curtain!" Patriarchal way.

Immediately someone pulled open the stone pressing the curtain and rolled it up.

The cold wind and heavy rain came, and the people near the entrance of the mountain beat hard.

With Li Jingyi's hoe down, the water in the valley surged into the ditch along the gap.

The two men quickly stabilized themselves and bit by bit dug the earth wall in front of them. The resistance of the hoe under the water was not small. They were hard to chisel, and the people around them were worried.

Fortunately, with the current scouring, the soil lifted by the hoe was quickly taken away by the current. A moment later, Li Jing and Li Zhuang had chiseled out a four meter wide gap.

The man pulling the rope quickly pulled them up, and the water kept pouring into the ditch. Soon the water level of the ditch exceeded one meter. The water flowed along the ditch into the crack, and fell into the underground river from the 100 meter high crack, making a roaring sound like a waterfall.