Pampered by the Toughest Man After Divorce-Chapter 38 - Pipe_1

Chapter 38: Chapter 38 Pipe_1

Chapter 38 -38 Pipe_1

Ye didn’t hold any doubt; Nan Feng would always do something beyond his expectations, and she seemed confident, so he just followed her.

Before Nan Feng headed to the river, she first cut a large piece of bamboo, drilling a hole in the center, thus, making the bamboo a long pipe.

She had seen a small story about Su Doupo on television before: During the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Doupo once wrote a letter to Deng Shou’an in Guangzhou, where he mentioned the water supply issue in Guangzhou.

Consequently, Deng Shou’an used ten thousand pieces of bamboo to invent a water supply system for Guangzhou, resolving its water supply issue.

Nan Feng thought this idea could be copied.

Latterly, Nan Feng went to the river, inserting one end of the bamboo pipe into the river, and pumping air from the other end.

As the air was evacuated, water spouted from the other end.

Seeing this, Ye’s eyes flashed with amazement.

Nan Feng smirked at him triumphantly: “See how smart my idea is?

It just suddenly hit me.”

Ye nodded with a slight smile on his face: “You intend to draw the river water into the vegetable field with the bamboo pipe?”

“Exactly!”

Ye discussed with her: “If that’s the case, we need to cut a lot of bamboo, and we must find bamboos of similar size for the water to flow smoothly.”

“Exactly.

Cut about a hundred pieces of similar-sized bamboo will do.

This is called a water pipe, and moreover, the water pipe cannot be exposed, so we need to dig a channel in the ground and bury the water pipe,” Nan Feng outlined her plan all at once.

Ye added: “It’s going to take a lot of time, and I don’t think you can handle it all by yourself.”

Nan Feng winked: “Don’t we have you?

Our vegetable fields are close to each other.

Once the water pipe is constructed, your household can also use it.

By then, everybody wouldn’t need to carry water, and I can leave the field to my dad and concentrate on hunting to earn money.

It’s a one-stop solution.”

Without any hesitation, Ye agreed: “Alright, I’ll be responsible for cutting the bamboo, and you can figure out how to make the water pipe.”

Nan Feng and Ye didn’t know that while they were discussing the terrain and the size of the bamboo, the nearby villagers were watching them, but they were too engrossed in their discussion and didn’t pay any attention even if they saw it.

…

The two got straight to work.

That same day, Ye went to cut bamboo.

He was extremely efficient.

He had fetched one hundred pieces of evenly sized bamboo from the mountain within two days, which astounded Nan Feng.

But afterwards, Nan Feng started to worry.

After all, it’s a bamboo pipe, neither could it be welded nor melted, so how to join a hundred pieces of bamboo with no gaps in between?

She shared her concern with Ye, but as it was getting late, they decided to continue it the next day.

…

These past few days, Nan Feng and Ye had been figuring out the water irrigation in the vegetable field.

At first, it just attracted the villagers to watch out of curiosity, but later, more and more people started gathering around.

The first to ask was Old Aunt Sima who came to fertilize the vegetable field: “What are you kids up to, Feng?”

Nan Feng replied: “We’re trying to draw water from the river to the vegetable field, so we wouldn’t have to fetch water.”

Old Aunt Sima doubted: “Says who?”

“Yes,” Nan Feng didn’t even lift her head: “Old Aunt Sima, once our water pipe is completed, you can fetch water directly from the pool in our field instead of carrying water laboriously.”

Old Aunt Sima could only laugh it off: “Let’s wait and see when it’s done.”

It was evident that Old Aunt Sima was skeptical: “Mind your bamboos, Feng.

Don’t knock over the cabbage seedlings in my field.”

“…”

After Old Aunt Sima’s visit, Aunt Lan came over to ask, followed by Nan Quanyou, Old Uncle Zhou…