Chapter 329 Yue Feng’s secret weapon!
The brothers walked into the mountains chatting and laughing. They set out at around six in the morning and arrived at their destination before half past eight.

This is a water bubble with a trickle of flowing water all year round. When it snows heavily in winter, the surface of the water bubble is covered with ice and snow, making it difficult to identify.

However, the spring water from the upstream keeps flowing downstream, and the bottom of the water does not freeze all year round. It’s just that winter is not the rainy season, so the water flow will be significantly smaller.

The shape of the water bubble is also very interesting, like an upside-down gourd. The spring is at the mouth of the gourd upstream, and the water flows down from above, forming two water bubbles, one large and one small, below.

“We’re here! Do you see that gourd-shaped bubble at the bottom of the ditch? This is our goal today.

Temporarily build a dam to block the middle partition, and then drain all the water from the gourd belly below!! “

Yue Feng stood on the ridge and spoke to the bubbles below.

“What the hell? Drain it all? It’s not difficult to block the middle of the gourd with a partition, but how do you drain the water?
Are we going to rely on carrying the buckets we brought up the mountain to fetch water? We won’t be able to finish it even if we work until dark!” Xiao Tao scratched his head after hearing Yue Feng’s plan.

Yue Feng: “If I say it can be done, it can be done naturally! Who said that if you use a bucket to carry water, you also need to bring a pipe? I have a trick! !
Go down first and light a fire on the sunny side!”

“Okay! All up to you!”

Soon the brothers got busy, because going into the water in winter is no joke.

Even if you have leggings so that you won’t get wet, the coldness in the water will still freeze you over time. You have to light a fire and make preparations in advance.

Moreover, it is best not to go into the water alone in the winter. If you are unlucky and fall, and the clothes you wear are too thick and soaked with water, you will not be able to get up. It won’t take long for a living person to freeze to death.

In my previous life, someone in the next village lost his life in this way.

The young men worked hard, gathered a lot of firewood and started a fire, and then piled more firewood aside for use.

Yue Feng found the end of the roll of pipe he was carrying and opened it, shaking it off while measuring the length.

When it reached the predetermined length, the waist guard took out a knife and cut the pipe easily. A good industrial water hose was cut into four sections of basically the same length by Yue Feng.

After cutting the hose, Yue Feng took down a few sections of hard plastic pipes less than 20 centimeters long from the sled. This thing had been cut into sections of about 10 centimeters when he bought it, and there were also four sections.

Each section of hard pipe is tied to the front end of the hose with wire. After it is tied tightly, it is temporarily thrown aside and awaits use.

“There’s neither a pump nor a tractor head. How can we drain the water out of this gourd with just a few pipes?” Xiaowu was a little confused as he watched Yue Feng’s operation.

Yue Feng: “You have to believe in science!”

Yue Feng used a shovel to knock away the snow and ice on top. After a simple cleanup, the gurgling water underneath soon appeared.

The water pipe is fully extended downstream, and then a section of water is poured into the upper hard pipe, and the shriveled pipe is flushed open by the water flow.

This pipe is used for drainage in the mine. Master Niu helped me make a roll of it.

The structure has plastic inside and high-density braided wire outside. It can easily freeze hard when it comes into contact with water at minus 20 degrees Celsius. Its supporting strength is slightly worse than that of a hard pipe, but much stronger than a thin plastic pipe. It can barely be used as a siphon.

Yue Feng asked Xiao Tao to look up carefully. He lifted the end of the pipe and accumulated some of the stream water in the pipe. When it was almost accumulated, he suddenly laid the end flat.

Under the influence of atmospheric pressure, water high above will flow out through the pipe until the pressure difference is gone.

This is a very common siphon effect in junior high school physics, but at that time, there were few educated people, and even if there were people who understood it, most of them would not farm at home, and almost no one used this method to pump water from a water bubble.

“Wow! It can really produce water? What’s the principle?”

The brothers looked at Yue Feng’s miraculous operation with shock in their eyes.

“Because it’s scientific reason! You guys don’t just stand there, Xiao Tao stay and help me watch the water inlet pipe, Xiao Wen and Xiao Wu, take the shovel and raise the waist of the gourd, block it first!”

Yue Feng issued the work arrangements and several people immediately got busy.

Using the same method, Yue Feng set up the other three pipes to “automatically pump water”. Then he picked up a shovel and joined in the work of blocking the dam.

During the dry season in winter, the flow rate of the spring water on the water bubble side is very slow. After digging out the mud from the water nearby with a shovel and piling it up, the surface soon froze hard.

It took the four guys less than an hour to build the new mud dam. As long as they ensured that water did not flow into the gourd below for the time being, there were no strict requirements.

The dam upstream was raised, so the spring water naturally could not flow downwards. The four pipes below kept flowing water out, and the water level in the gourd belly bubble began to slowly drop.

Before the water in the bubble was drained, the guys had nothing to do, so they just sat by the fire, chatting and bragging.

When it was almost noon, I took out the lunch I brought up the mountain and ate it until I was full.

At around 1:30 in the afternoon, the water level in the bubble had basically dropped to about 30 centimeters.

The water is very clear in winter, and you can see leaves, mud and other debris on the bottom of the water. In this era, there is no pollution from industrial creation in the water bubbles in the mountains and forests, and they are completely original.

“Xiao Tao, you hold a stick and support me on the shore. I will go down and try it first. If the mud is deep, you pull me up when I call you!” Seeing that the water level was almost high, Yue Feng stood up and walked towards the bubble.

“How about I go down?” Xiao Tao was worried about Yue Feng, and he wanted to go down by himself. “We have to come down later, you are tall, it will be more convenient for you to pull me up from above!” While talking, Yue Feng tentatively walked into the water bubble.

After Yue Feng’s probing, he found that there was about 30 to 40 centimeters of mud under the water bubble. Including the reserved water depth, it was only 60 to 70 centimeters, barely enough to cover the knees.

Yue Feng probed in the mud for a while to make sure the bottom was solid enough, then turned around and went up to the shore.

As I recall, this side has a hard bottom. Now that I’ve verified it, there’s nothing to worry about. I’ll start working once the water dries up.

Less than an hour later, the water level had basically reached the bottom, and the four Yue Feng brothers all went down into the pool wearing their forked pants.

The temperature of the mud piles in this season will drop quickly without the protection of running water.

Yue Feng carried a bucket and went down to the water bubble. He bent down and reached into the mud to scoop a handful of water along the gourd-shaped drain outlet.

With just the first handful, he caught a lot.

Wow, the wood frogs that hibernate in the mud are almost stacked up like a pyramid. You can catch at least three or four of them in one hand.

The drop in water temperature caused them to become less active, and they could only move slowly, completely unable to struggle.

“Hehe! The water outlet here is warm, and there are many toads in the mud below! I caught three or four of them!” Yue Feng raised the toads in his hand to show everyone.

At this time of year, large female forest frogs are quite common, with a bulging belly that is yellow with a slightly reddish tint and is filled with seeds.

Xiao Tao, Xiao Wen, and Xiao Wu, who were standing nearby, also started digging into the mud, and they almost always found something empty-handed.

Just as Yue Feng said, the density of toads in this inconspicuous water bubble is very high.

“Fuck, I caught one too! There are so many down here, I can’t catch them all with just one hand!” Xiao Tao also exclaimed excitedly.

“I have one too! Look at this female leopard, how big she is!”

“Brother Feng, we’re rich! There must be a toad weighing dozens or even hundreds of kilograms in this puddle of water?” Xiaowu also caught it, his face flushed with excitement.

Yue Feng smiled slightly and threw the caught toad into the tail basket: “Several dozen or hundreds of pounds? I estimate that more than a hundred pounds will not be enough! You don’t even need to move from where you are standing. There are piles of people stacking up underneath!
We will eat the good ones if we can pick them, and we won’t want the male frogs, we will only catch the big female leopards!”

“Okay! Let’s start the competition! After we finish the work, we’ll see who catches more!” Xiao Tao instigated.

It would have been better if this sentence hadn’t been there. As soon as they heard about the competition, the enthusiasm of the four brothers immediately rose to a higher level.

With his waist bent, his buttocks sticking out and his sleeves rolled up high, he felt for toads in the freezing cold muddy water. Every time he reached out, he would pull out at least two or three toads.

Simply rinse it in the upper layer of water, throw the female leopard into the bucket, and throw the male leopard aside. The main thing is to have the goods and do whatever you want.

Just like going hunting in the mountains, catching fish and toads is also addictive. It is a hunting instinct that comes from our genes.

They were all young and strong men with lots of rage, competing secretly to see who had caught more. Their enthusiasm for catching frogs was terrifying.

In less than half an hour, the bucket at Yue Feng’s feet was full of frogs.

They are all female leopards with big bellies. This small bucket probably weighs no more than 20 kilograms.

“My bucket is full!!” Yue Feng shouted.

“I’m almost full too!”

“My side is full too!”

“Damn it! We don’t have enough buckets to hold frogs! With four buckets of frogs, I estimate that we haven’t even caught a third of the frogs in the bubble!”

Xiaowen looked around. He usually would bring a lot of things when he went up the mountain, useful or useless. But today he came with only a few people and couldn’t find anything useful.

“There’s nothing to pack. It would be better if we brought a urea bag! What should we do, Brother Feng?” Xiaowen looked up and asked reluctantly.

Before coming, Yue Feng planned that catching 20 to 30 kilograms would be enough. He didn’t expect that in just a short while, he caught four buckets, weighing dozens of kilograms. He was a little overwhelmed.

“How about, let’s come back tomorrow?” Xiao Tao asked.

Yue Feng shook his head: “Come up first! These four buckets must weigh nearly 100 kilograms. Apart from the ones we give away, there is enough for us to eat! How much is too much?

When we leave later, open the mud dam above, and the pond below will be full again in less than a day!

“When we want to eat them later, come over and catch them again! From now on, this will be our private place for catching frogs!”

Xiao Tao nodded: “Okay, let’s catch these first as a token of our appreciation! Let Auntie stew some toads for us tonight! Such a fat female leopard, stewed with soybean paste, will be so delicious!”

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