The banquet in the village consisted of four large pieces of chicken, duck, and fish, which were placed on the table in wooden basins with a diameter of more than one foot. Su Hao brought more than 20 students and government officials, plus the original
Wang Tiangui and others, who were digging wells in the village, put together four full tables and placed them in the open space outside Cai Youshou's house.
Su Hao declined everyone's toasts on the grounds that he had to work in the afternoon, and also prohibited the students and government officials from drinking. In this way, the whole scene became much more polite.
After dinner, Su Hao and others began to survey the terrain around Caijia Village. Just like he did in Longkou Village, he not only observed the direction of the hills, but also went down to the abandoned wells to see the cross-sectional conditions underground.
The students who came after him also imitated his example, sitting in bamboo baskets and having people put them down into the well with a pulley to look at the soil and rock formations.
These students were not as squeamish as Su Hao thought. Going down the well was more of an exciting experience than work. When these people came back to the surface from the well, their faces were all flushed.
, was so excited that he kept bragging about what he had learned underground to the students who had not yet had their turn to go down the well.
Su Hao treated the work at the Caijiacun station as a training exercise. He asked everyone to go down the well for a circle, and then explained the rock formation structure to everyone based on the surface landforms, and analyzed which places were more likely to be used as water storage sites.
Structure, and where shallow groundwater is less likely to form.
"Look, everyone, this is the terrain map around Caijia Village that I hastily drawn. We guess that the two structures in this area will trend like this..." Su Hao used charcoal to draw a picture on the paper, and said:
The students pointed and explained, "Let's analyze based on what we talked about yesterday, where to dig a well has the greatest possibility of producing water."
"This..." Ma Yu, who was standing next to Su Hao, was the first to speak. At the same time, he pointed at a certain place on the map. As expected of the leader of the county examination, his understanding ability is indeed the strongest among everyone.
.
"Well, this place is indeed an ideal place. Let's call it point A for the time being." Su Hao used a charcoal pen to draw a mark on the place pointed by Ma Yu and write the word "A". If it is left to future generations
, he must have marked it with ABCD letters.
"Let's take a look, are there any other suitable well locations?" Su Hao continued to ask the workers.
The students stared at the map for a while, then looked up at the surrounding terrain, and were all recalling what Su Hao had said. At this time, a clear voice came from behind Su Hao:
"I think there might be water here too."
Following the sound, a slender hand stretched out and lightly clicked on the map.
Su Hao was squatting on the ground. When he heard the sound coming from behind him, he turned his head and looked up. What caught his eye was a pretty face. When their eyes met, the person behind him quickly turned his face away.
Scarlet Hong didn't dare to look at Su Hao again.
"It turns out to be Han...Brother Han." Of course Su Hao recognized it. The other person was Han Qian who was listening to the class in the classroom yesterday. Although Meng Jin had previously covered it up for her and said her name was Han Qing, Su Hao had already
I asked Lu Xiu'er and found out that the daughter of the county magistrate's family was named Han Qian, who was literate and "very beautiful".
Su Hao still believed in Lu Xiuer's aesthetics. When Han Qian went to attend class the first day, she deliberately dressed herself up to be less eye-catching, but Su Hao could still feel her natural beauty. At this moment, the two people faced each other. Su Hao could clearly see Han Qian's face with her face still a few feet away. Although he was not a writer, he had also heard of the term "skin as thick as fat". He felt that this term should be used in It is indeed too appropriate for Han Qian.
Han Qian had to go to Han Wen for a long time and finally got the permission to go to the countryside to observe Su Hao's exploration of the well. As a wealthy lady, Han Qian could not squeeze into the same car with the students to go to the countryside. Han Wen arranged The confidants hired a covered carriage, asked Han Qian and the maid Honglian to put on men's clothes, and took the carriage to Caijia Village.
This time, Han Qian was dressed as a student, while Hong Lian was dressed as a book boy. Of course, it was impossible to hide this dress from everyone's eyes. It was just a cover-up to gain some psychological comfort.
Just now when Su Hao was explaining the geological structure to everyone, Han Qian also came to the crowd and stood behind Su Hao to listen. She was also an extremely smart person, and her comprehension ability was no less than that of Ma Yu, the strongest among the students. After listening to Ma Yu talk about the first well location that could be chosen, she couldn't help but point out the second well location.
Everyone didn't pay much attention to Han Qian's presence at first, but when they heard her speak, they realized that a stranger had appeared. Listening to Han Qian's voice, and looking at her appearance and figure, the students couldn't guess this person. In fact, she was a girl. Everyone couldn't figure out Han Qian's identity for a while. Due to ethics, they didn't dare to make noises. They just subconsciously took a half step back and didn't dare to get too close to her.
As soon as Han Qian spoke, she knew that her identity had been exposed, but she had been mentally prepared for it. As a second-generation official, she didn't take the scholars seriously, so she didn't care whether she became a popular figure. The onlookers. She nodded to Su Hao and said, "Brother Su, do you think what I said is right?"
"What Brother Han said is very correct." Su Hao chuckled and casually made a mark where Han Qian pointed, marking it with the word "B".
"Brother Gai, does this mean that if we dig wells in these two places, we will definitely be able to produce water?" Ma Yu asked.
Su Hao said: "From a common sense perspective, this should be the case. However, we also need to know that the geological structure is very complex, especially in Fengcheng, which is located in the splicing zone of the Yangtze Plate and the South China Plate. There are multiple ductile shears. Cutting zone...well, you can just listen to this casually without going into details. In general, it means that the geological structure of our Fengcheng is relatively complex, and it is very likely that the rock layers will fracture somewhere, which makes us deduce The structure that comes out changes.”
"Then what should we do?" Ma Yu asked. He had already written down all the words Su Hao said just now, and planned to go back and think about it carefully. Now what he has to do is to squeeze it out of Su Hao's mouth. more knowledge.
Su Hao said: "There is no good way, we can only use the method of trial and error. The several wells that Wang Dianli and others drilled before have provided us with trial and error materials. By analyzing the rock formation section conditions underground, we can maximize the Reduce errors and thus avoid waste.”
"Brother Su, you mean that we can dig wells in these two places first. If water comes out, that's it. If no water comes out, we can also estimate the new well location based on the conditions of the wells dug. Is that right?
" Han Qian asked.
"What Brother Han said is absolutely true." Su Hao replied.
"Okay, let's go determine the well location now." Ma Yu said excitedly. Although the deduction of the geological structure was completed by Su Hao, it was some knowledge that he could understand. It was the first time in his life that he used science and technology to
To accomplish something, it felt like a completely different experience for Ma Yu.
"Master, can you please take a moment to speak?" Chen Guanyu, who had been standing nearby to listen to the discussion, stepped forward and gave Su Hao a look.
The purpose of Su Hao bringing Chen Guanyu was to let him handle some non-technical matters. Seeing Chen Guanyu's mysterious look, Su Hao said hello to the sentient beings, and then followed Chen Guanyu
Went to the side.
"Old Chen, what do you have to say?" Su Hao asked Chen Guanyu.
"Master, Xiaodao just listened to Master's explanation about underground water and felt enlightened. In Longkou Village, Xiaodao was defeated at the hands of Master in surveying wells. I am really convinced." Chen Guanyu said.
Su Hao was surprised and said: "Old Chen, you asked me to talk alone just to praise me?"
"No, no." Chen Guanyu said quickly, "Xiao Dao is just expressing his own thoughts. I asked Master to take a step to speak. I want to suggest to Master that of the two well locations just chosen, it is best to choose location B first, just in case.
If there is no water in place B, what do you think if you choose place A again?"
"Why?" Su Hao asked, "From the comparison of the two places, the water storage structure at A is more obvious, while the structure at B is somewhat unclear. Drilling a well at A is safer.
.”
Chen Guanyu whispered: "Xiaodao also knows this. In fact, during lunch, Xiaodao had already asked the Feng Shui master who was surveying the well here. He had also chosen this location before, but later gave up.
Already."
"Why?" Su Hao asked again.
"This place A happens to be next to the ancestral grave of Cai Li's family..." Chen Guanyu said meaningfully.
"Damn!" Su Hao uttered a 21st century exclamation, "Old Chen, are we short-handed?"
"What's convenient for others is what's convenient for yourself." Chen Guanyu said, "Besides, Cai Lichang is also a somewhat powerful person. He told me that he has a relative who is an official in Beijing. I think, since we
There are two points to choose from, why do you have to choose point A first?”
"That's alright." Su Hao gave in. There might be water in both places anyway, so there was really no need to offend Cai Youshou. He had given him five taels of silver in advance, so he probably expected this result.
After understanding this truth, Su Hao returned to the students and said to everyone:
"Everyone, let's go check out the location of the well now. Mr. Chen did some math just now and said that the office A that Brother Duwen likes is related to the feng shui of Caijia Village. What I mean is that we would rather believe that he has something to do with feng shui.
, don’t believe it. Anyway, there are two well locations, A and B, so let’s try drilling a well at B first.”
"Let's go and take a look together." The students didn't have any objections and said together noisily. They saw that Chen Guanyu was indeed dressed as a Taoist priest, so they believed the explanation given by Su Hao.