silent farm

Chapter 24 Lanxiang-level Master

Zhang Feng also noticed that the rain in the ranch didn't seem to be very sufficient.

There have been seven or eight rains in other places, but only one or two in the pasture.And the rainfall is not very large.In other places, it can rain three or four times a day, and it can be downpours for several hours.And even if the pasture can rain, there is only one rain a day, and it may spread from the surrounding area, and the rain is much less.

After all, even if Yunduo wanted to spread over, he would have to run for an hour or two to cover the [-] kilometers.After running so far, sweat has flowed away.

He was very worried about this, but found that there was no way to do anything about it, but to resign himself to fate.

Li Sheng was not nervous at all.Grass can pass the water of those small lakes to every grass, and the water in the small lakes will never dry up.On the contrary, this kind of weather is more in line with his requirements.

The agricultural machinery roared, and the land was turned over.The planting agriculture of the ranch was officially opened.The precipitation is not as much as expected, and farmers don't have to worry about delays in farming.If the weather on the ranch is the same as around.Then their productivity would be unbearably poor.

In other places, it may rain heavily for several hours a day during the day.In such weather, even hiding in a farming machine is not easy to work.But now it rains for at most one or two hours a day, and I can work a few more hours a day.

Li Sheng is also very satisfied with the weather.He doesn't want to be bored in the house growing mushrooms every day.It's not raining here now, but the air is humid.If there is more rain, the mushrooms will really come out.

But it doesn't rain much here, it doesn't mean there is no change.The most obvious change is that the surrounding rivers are very rough.The originally clear river water became turbid, and the river water carried a large number of leaves, branches, insects, and even dead animals floating down from the river.Originally, the river bank was seven or eight meters above the water, but now it is less than two or three meters.Li Sheng was worried that if it rained for a few more days, the water would flood up.

On this day, Anthony told him that the embankment near the pier had collapsed a little.If the water flow is not blocked, there may be a shock on the pier side.

When Li Sheng heard this, it was terrible.Although you can travel by plane.But now the main supply of pastures is through waterways.Now the food used in the ranch can only be bought from outside.Of course, only ships have the right carrying capacity.If you have to use a plane, the plane has to fly out several times a day to meet the needs of the ranch: "Come on, call Thomas, let's go and have a look together!"

The three of them drove the jeep with the roof on and all the way to the pier.

After Li Sheng got off the car, he went to the upstream side of the pier to have a look.Because of the obstruction of the rocks of the pier above, the water swirls and washes against the mud bank.Before, he remembered that the upstream side of the pier only protruded by one or two meters, but now it has protruded to five meters.In other words, the embankment here has been washed away by as much as three meters, and the originally relatively straight shoreline has been deeply sunken here.

He looked around. If the wash continued, it might wash up to the dirt behind the pier.Eventually the entire pier will separate from the land, forming an island in the river.Even the river may wash away the soil under the pier, causing the entire pier to sink.This pier is only about sixty meters long.All built with stone and cement.If the bottom is hollowed out a little bit, its own gravity can destroy itself.

If the pier is destroyed, it doesn't really matter, he still has the money to repair a pier.But he doesn't have the time.If you want to repair the pier, you have to wait until the dry season.Even if the repairs are barely started, the construction period will not be completed in a few months.Wouldn't it be half a year without using the pier?
But he also wondered whether such a situation would happen this year or in previous years: "Anthony, has this happened before?"

"It needs to be renovated every year. It's just that this year seems to be particularly serious." Anthony said with a frown. "The sandbags below seem to have been washed away."

Li Sheng immediately sensed it.is not that right?Those sandbags have all slid to the bottom of the river.At this moment, he can be considered to have figured it out.This may have something to do with him getting all the silt in the river ashore.

The river deepened.The bottom of the sandbag is higher than the bottom of the river. Now that the current is increasing, the mud below cannot support it and slides down to the bottom of the river.The end facing the water of the pier generates a vortex to carry away the soil, and it is not surprising that such a small bay is finally formed.

I didn't expect myself to be the culprit.

Li Sheng rubbed his nose, this cannot be said.He thought for a while and said, "Thomas, see if you can get some wooden stakes here and throw some sandbags into them, would it work?"

He specially called Thomas over because Thomas was an expert in the jungle, and he was better at dealing with these things than he was.

"This Anthony is better at it." Thomas said. "But I think it's doable. But I think it might take a long log."

Li Sheng also knew that it would take a long log.The water depth of the river here is also seven or eight meters.In addition to the soft mud below, there is really no way without a log more than ten meters long.

"Anthony. How do you think it should be done?"

"Before we also thought about using wood to fix the embankment here. But it was because the required wood was too long and there was no way to drive piles, so we didn't do that in the end." Anthony shrugged.

Li Sheng felt it carefully and found that although the silt at the bottom of the river had been removed, the river bank had also become steeper.Ooze doesn't though.But if you want to fix the wood, you have to drive the stake into the soil at least two or three meters.Otherwise, the clay on the steep slope in the river will be squeezed away by the stakes, and it will be easily washed away by the river water, so that the stakes will lose their bearing points.The only way to ensure that the stakes will not be washed away is to penetrate deeper into the clay layer of the river bottom.

However, when the wooden piles more than ten meters long were erected, they should be at least three meters higher than the pier.I am afraid that there is no such long person in this world who can knock on it.No wonder Anthony said there was no way to drive the piling.

Anthony called someone over the walkie-talkie.Zhang Feng is now in charge of the grazing of the ranch, so he doesn't need to watch the cattle himself.He will also come this time.

It turned out that he was anxious when he heard that the pier was going to be washed away.Now most of the workers in the ranch are Chinese.The accident at the dock also means that the supplies may not be able to keep up.Many of these workers were called by him. If he couldn't even eat enough, how could he be worthy of them?
Seeing the situation here, he also suggested piling.But Li Sheng also told him the problem.

But Zhang Feng blinked and said: "People can't do it, machines can be used! Don't we have excavators?"

Excavator knock?Immediately in Li Sheng's mind, an excavator raised the bucket, hit, hit, hit the stake accurately... Li Sheng would really like to ask him if he graduated from Lan Xiang.

Anthony's eyes lit up, as if suddenly enlightened, and said with a smile: "Zhang, you are a genius."

Seeing that Anthony also agreed with Zhang Feng's suggestion, Li Sheng hurriedly asked someone to drag the wood over. If he didn't hurry up, the place would be destroyed.

Soon, without caring about damaging the pasture, several timber trucks brought over some fine timber.Each one is eleven or twelve meters long.The truck came up and down to talk to each other. When the wood was moved down and one was sharpened with an axe, the Lanxiang artifact also arrived.

Anthony did not dare to act as an expert at this time: "Zhang, what do you think should be done next?"

Zhang Feng was not polite, walked to the edge of the pier facing the water, and said: "Let's explore the situation below here first, and find a suitable place to drive piles."

So a worker found a long enough steel pipe, and after boarding the ship, he lowered the steel pipe.Find a place with a slight slope.Anthony looked at the mud brought up by the steel pipe, and said, "There is already clay under here. I think this place is fine. But it is several meters away from the shore, and it is dangerous to use human power to support the wooden pile."

Zhang Feng looked at the whirlpool in the water, thought for a while, and said, "No one needs to support it directly. We tied two logs tightly at one end and then supported the opposite side, sandwiching the log in the middle."

Li Sheng had to say that he came up with a solution.Everyone tried it, as long as the two logs were tied tightly against the opposite bank, and then the stakes were clamped in a suitable place, and then tied with ropes, but not too tight, just push the logs against the opposite bank with force. , so that the stake will not be too crooked, and it will not be caught because of friction and cannot be driven down.

After the first stake is ready.Babur, who used to do logging, went out himself and drove the excavator to the pier. After adjusting the position, he did not know where to manipulate the place, and the digging arm hit the wooden pile with a "bang".The stake sank half a foot deep.However, the stakes are also inclined a lot.Babur pulled it with the bucket to restore the stake as far as possible.And then again.

In the end, the wooden pile was driven to the same height as the pier before giving up.

Li Sheng gave a thumbs up to Babur, who was so cool in the excavator, and almost praised him: he is definitely comparable to Lan Xiang's graduates.

On this day, twenty or so people worked till night.It is piling and sandbag filling.Finally, the place with an area of ​​more than thirty square meters was filled.The pier is finally safe.

(End of this chapter)