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"Are you going to use all this money to build the aqueduct?" Boss Chen walked over to Jiaoniang and asked.

"To tell you the truth, Boss Chen says that I plan to make something new that you all have never seen before." Jiaoniang had only decided after much deliberation, that Zhu Zixiu would agree to give her the riverside territory. Of course it wouldn't be for free. But it also saved Jiaoniang a lot of trouble. Since he had promised to renovate the canals in the county, Jiaoniang would naturally do his best to do it. I want to be a water wheel and solve the problem of the drought in the Qingyuan County once and for all. "

"Tch" Hearing Jiaoniang's words, the Boss Chen laughed. It was very real. To think that he thought that Jiaoniang could still be considered as a reliable person to do things, but now it seemed that women were all women, and would say more than what they could do.

"It's normal for Boss Chen not to believe it. I'll fix it first, but the most important thing is to first solve the problem of irrigation."

Jiaoniang had observed from the village that because Qingyuan County was located in the mountain, the ground here was low in the southeast region and high in the northwest. Although there were also rivers flowing down the mountain, the amount of water was not enough to be used for irrigation.

In order to solve the current irrigation problem, besides repairing the water channel reservoir, the first problem should be lifting water. In the current water wells, only men could rely on brute force to bring the water up, and what Jiaoniang needed to do was for the girls to bring the water up as well.

To do that, one thing is the pulley. In the past, Jiaoniang's hometown had wells as well, and most of the wells used a wheel to fetch water, so shaking the handles didn't even require much effort to bring the water up. Later on, there was a type of well called a water well, which required a tube and a rubber sheet to absorb the water, which Jiaoniang didn't have at the moment, and there was also a type of well which used the barb principle.

However, Jiaoniang could only give a general idea of the theory behind the wheel, she could not understand it even if she took one step at a time. Fortunately, Ye Xuan had done a good job with his work, and had carefully listened to Jiaoniang's explanation to create the mold, but when it was actually used for carrying water, it was missing something, and it required a lot of effort to bring it up, it was practically useless.

Jiaoniang had no other choice but to place her hopes on the carpenters of this era. Ji Dahe was too busy digging and had no time to study, so she asked around to find any famous carpenters.

It was a pity that three wives couldn't give birth to sons, all of them were daughters. Later on, his depressed temperament became extremely strange, and he no longer worked as a craftsman, so he didn't know what he was doing at home. His daughter-in-law ran away two times, and only his crippled daughter-in-law accompanied him, and the eldest of his daughters was now seventeen years old, not even on the wedding day yet, but on the spring day when they were selling flowers to earn some money to support their families, life was not as comfortable as it was in the past.

He just so happened to be married off by a wife in the village. Coincidentally, the wooden box was made by the Old Man Sun, Jiaoniang went to take a look, and discovered that the box was indeed made very well, the camphor wood box could protect against insects, the bottom of the box had four supports that could protect it from the tide, and the most miraculous part was the box's lock. It was not made of iron, but was made of wood, and only the owner would know how to open it.

Jiaoniang turned the wooden lock over and over again a few times. There were no keyholes, and he didn't know what kind of structure was inside, to actually be so magical.

Therefore, Jiaoniang wanted to find this strange old man on the way back to the city.

When Boss Chen left, it seemed like he did not want to discuss things too much with Jiaoniang. In truth, Jiaoniang could understand his attitude, and recalling how little he had accomplished in the past few months, how could he get the attention of these people?

Jiaoniang calculated in his heart, if he really wanted to fight, the first thing he had to do was raise his prestige, he couldn't let others look down on him because he was a girl.

It was a pity that the time was not right yet. If he recklessly tried to get the support of others, it might attract a lot of criticism.

No matter how many times these landlords scolded Jiaoniang, they still donated money obediently and even came to Jiaoniang's side to say a few good words.

After all, behind Jiaoniang was his Zhu Family. No matter how formidable Jiaoniang was, he would never be able to convince and convince these people. This time, he should also thank Zhu Family, and let Jiaoniang remember all of these rich people in the city by heart.

It took them a whole morning to finish counting the total contributions. There were 18 people who participated in the donation process, and the total amount was 2,137 silver taels. This was already a huge amount of money in this era.

"Even if you spend all of this money to repair the canal, you will still have some left over. I'm afraid that you, an ignorant woman, would be blinded by your wealth and won't run away with our money. Aren't we deceived?" When the man said that, he took out the money unwillingly. Now that Jiaoniang revealed the total amount of contribution, he immediately exploded, who wouldn't be jealous of the amount of money.

"Everyone doesn't trust me, but do you not trust Boss Zhu? Boss Zhu is one of the most important people in the city. If I want to escape with the money, Boss Zhu would be the first one to not let me leave the Qingyuan County, I would not be able to escape even if I had wings! Everyone be at ease, the expenses for these silver are all at my disposal, if any of you do not believe me, you can come and check at any time, and if any of you do not pay me back, I, Jiaoniang, will not have the face to see any of you. "

Jiaoniang's words were sincere, not to mention them, if such a thing truly happened, Boss Zhu would definitely not sit idly by and allow it to happen. After the crowd discussed for a while, someone said: "We will trust you for now, but what do you plan to do with this money? Repairing roads and canals? "What should we do with the rest of the money?"

However, if she were to return the remaining silver, that would not be Jiaoniang's style. What she wanted to do, coincidentally required such a large amount of silver, and since she could not pay for it herself, she could only use these people's hands.

"Don't think too much into it, everyone. This time, I've found some experts to repair the irrigation system in our county. After this, there will no longer be any drought problems. I hope that you can trust me and monitor this frequently."

Everyone looked at each other, they did not want to believe Jiaoniang, but in their hearts, they held their breaths. Just as they were about to flare up, the door was suddenly pushed open, and a middle-aged man walked in.

"Do any of you have any objections?"