Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Chapter 393 Digging Loess

Shen Zheng remembered the high-precision map that had not been used for a long time.

Are you there?

I have to take a good look at it when I get back. If it were in Tongan County, it would be a great treasure!

With a smile on her face, she said to the countless limestones in front of her: "Ten thousand years ago, there might have been a big lake under our feet."

Liang Fu looked over and asked curiously, "What do you mean?"

Shen Zheng realized that she had said too much, but she still explained: "Limestone is mostly formed in shallow seas or lakes, where rocks are deposited. Or it can be formed by the accumulation of remains of extinct organisms, but it is unlikely that this is the sea."

Having said this, Shen Zheng quickly stopped talking.

Otherwise, she would have to explain to them what "earth plate movement" is.

Liang Fu almost threw away the limestone in his hand when he heard this. He was paying attention to something very strange: "A biological corpse? A human?"

Shen Zheng was once again amazed at his train of thought and consoled him, "That shouldn't be the case... Most of them are animals from ancient times and creatures from lakes and seas."

"Oh..." Liang Fu breathed a sigh of relief for some reason.

......

When the three of them walked back to Xiahe Village, Shen Zheng felt like her legs were not her own. She sat down on the ground without caring about her image.

"I can't do it anymore, my lords. I really need to take a break." She turned to look at Liang Fu and Shen Xingjian, who were calm and composed, and her voice was tinged with a hint of weirdness: "You two... don't you want to take a break?"

Shen Xingjian cut off a piece of himself, put all the limestone on top, and smiled at Shen Zheng:

"I'm fine." He looked at Shen Zheng and hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Shen, Master Shen, if you are tired, please take a rest. I'm going to the villagers' house and get us a bowl of water."

Liang Fu looked over in surprise, "Can you do it?"

Shen Zheng widened her eyes.

What is this nonsense!

Shen Xingjian was stunned for a moment, and said blankly: "It can be done...right?"

Shen Zheng looked at Shen Xingjian's gradually receding back and cheered him up in her heart.

Come on! Social phobia.

After a while, the first person to come back was not Shen Xingjian, but Wu Lizheng, who was holding three bowls in his left hand and a basin under his right armpit.

Before Wu Lizheng arrived, his voice came first: "Oh, my lord, why didn't you call me when you came to the village! If the big guys knew that I left you here alone and asked you to go through the woods, I don't know how they would punish me!"

He moved closer and looked at Shen Zheng left, right, and up and down.

Fortunately, I was not hurt or fell, but there was a little too much sweat on my forehead.

Shen Zheng climbed up using both hands and feet. "It's not that serious. I went with Lord Liang and Lord Shen. It's okay."

Could Wu Lizheng say that he didn't trust those two adults? No.

He could only look distressed as he handed the bowl in his hand to Shen Zheng and the other two, "I'll pour you some water. You must be exhausted from the journey, right?"

Shen Zheng wiped her sweat and didn't say whether she was tired or not. She just said, "This trip is worth it. Wu Lizheng, is there anyone in the village who can build a kiln?"

While pouring water for Shen Zheng, Wu Lizheng was thinking about people in his mind: "Building kilns... It seems that there is no one in our village. No! That guy who came with Li Shanchang seems to know how to do it!"

"Niu Chu?"

"Yes! It's him! But it seems that he can only build small earthen kilns. He can't build large and complicated ones."

Shen Zheng had forgotten to ask in the county school who built the small earthen kiln, but she didn't expect it was Niu Chu.

She drank three bowls of water in a row, but Wu Lizheng still felt that she hadn't drunk enough, so he added more water as soon as the bowl was empty. "Would you like to drink some more?"

Shen Zheng burped, "I really can't drink any more... By the way, where's the lotus?"

Wu Lizheng finally put the basin down. "Hehua went to town and is learning to read from Miss Yu. She said that Miss Yu is teaching her the fabrics and clothing styles that are popular in Beijing."

He thought of his daughter's behavior in recent days, and his eyes smiled: "Miss Yu is worthy of being from the capital. She has a wide range of knowledge. Hehua said that she has learned a lot of new things. Recently, she doesn't sleep in. Every day, she writes and draws on the ground with a firewood stick, waiting for the cloth workshop to start working and use it in weaving cloth!"

Shen Zheng was a little annoyed when she heard Chai Huobang's words. Lotus was now working for the cloth shop, but she neglected Lotus's "working environment".

"Wu Lizheng, when Hehua comes back, tell her to go to the county school to get a set of paper and pens when she goes to town next time. Write down her ideas on paper. This will be convenient."

Wu Lizheng smiled happily, "Hey! I'll remember it!"

He looked at the stone on the ground and asked them, "Master Shen, is this what you were looking for over there? The stone?"

"That's right." Shen Zheng picked up a stone and handed it to Wu Lizheng, "This will be very useful. By the way, where on the river dam is there fine sand? And loess, have you heard of any place near us where there is some? If not, sticky wet soil will do."

Loess mostly appears in plateau areas, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist in plains, it’s just less abundant.

"Yes, yes, yes." Wu Lizheng was very happy to be able to help her, and pointed in a direction: "Go downstream, there is fine sand on the riverbank over there. The sand is very fine."

"And loess!" Wu Lizheng thought for a moment and asked, "It's yellow soil, right? But it sticks to that and becomes hardened easily. It's slippery when we step on it in the rain. We farmers don't want to turn over that soil."

Really!

Shen Zheng had thought that it might be difficult to find loess in this area, so she chose ordinary clay as a backup. Unexpectedly, Wu Lizheng, who was knowledgeable, actually knew where to find it.

"Where?" she asked.

"It's not in our Shanghe Village. It's in a farm owned by the Wang family. The soil there is hard to turn over, so the Wang family seems to have planted some fruit trees there. It doesn't matter where the fruit trees are planted, and they won't produce much fruit, but at least the land is being used."

Shen Zheng smiled happily when she heard this.

Having the things you need in your own hands is better than anything else!

The three men handed the limestone to Wu Lizheng, and told him to find someone to dig some fine sand from the river beach first, while they went to find Wang Guangjin to dig loess.

The loess in Wang's village is not large, but not small either, forming a complete small hill.

When Wang Guangjin heard that Shen Zheng wanted to use it, he immediately ordered people to cut down two fruit trees. The fruit trees fell to the ground with a loud bang, raising a cloud of dust.

Wang Guangjin showed no sign of distress. "Sir, I have ordered people to cut down all the fruit trees today. You can come and get as much soil as you want."

Shen Zheng was about to say that they didn't need so many trees this time, and that they didn't need to cut down trees on a large scale, but Wang Guangjin interrupted her: "Don't be polite to me. As long as you want it, I can give it to you if I have it. If you don't want it, I don't know how to face you."

Shen Zheng thought inappropriately: Is this the domineering president?

Wang Guangjin called Lai Xi over and ordered him, "Hurry up and drive the carriage over to bring the soil that Lord Shen needs. Be quick!"