"Scholar, don't boast. We have dug more than a dozen wells, but none of them have been dug out. Can you find a well position and be sure to be dug out the water?" Zheng Chun walked up and said to Su Hao.

Zheng Chun spoke like this with a purpose. After all, Chen Guanyu is a professional Feng Shui master. He can't dig wells according to the well position he guided, and he can't dig out water. Su Hao is just a scholar. According to Su Zhong's words, Su Hao is simply a nerd. Maybe he just wanted to escape the charge of beating the official officer. Of course, Zheng Chun could not beg him to give in to the well position.

However, the conversation between Su Hao and Chen Guanyu was clearly that Chen Guanyu was in vain, which shows that Su Hao was somewhat capable. In Zheng Chun's heart, he also hoped that Su Hao might be able to solve his current predicament. Otherwise, after spending so much money and not making any water, he would not be able to go back to hand in the work.

So, Zheng Chun used this trick of playing hard to get, waiting for Su Hao to speak himself.

Now this Su Hao is not the original nerd. How can Zheng Chun hide his little care than Su Hao? However, Su Hao is too lazy to fight with Zheng Chun. The county magistrate is just a small deputy section-level cadre in the future. Is it worth Su Hao’s thinking about?

Instead of answering Zheng Chun's question, Su Hao pushed the crowd away and came to the well he was digging. He looked inside and asked, "How deep has this well been drilled?"

"40 feet." replied the well-driving craftsman next to him.

"Give me the torch, I'll go down and take a look." Su Hao said.

The craftsman looked at Zheng Chun who was following Su Hao. Zheng Chun waved his hand and signaled that the craftsman could give Su Hao a torch. The craftsman lit a torch and handed it to Su Hao. Su Hao lifted his robe and stepped into the hanging basket where he dug the well with the torch.

"Brother Hao!" Lu Xiu'er was a little anxious and shouted.

Su Hao smiled at her and said, "What are you afraid of? You're just going down the well to take a look."

"But..." Lu Xiu'er didn't know whether she should stop her brother's actions. Seeing the people around her with curious expressions, she couldn't say anything more, so she could only whisper: "Be careful..."

Drawing such a well was a common occurrence for Su Hao, a geological expert in later generations. He had gone down a deep well worth hundreds of meters, and he did not think there was any danger at all. He made a gesture to the two little workers shaking the wheel. The little workers turned the handle and put down the hanging basket bit by bit.

Su Hao sat in the hanging basket, holding a torch to look at the rock and sand on the well wall. He suddenly couldn't see the place he couldn't understand, so he pulled the rope and asked the people above to stop first. About ten minutes later, he sent a signal underground, asking people to pull him up. The situation underground was about the same as what he estimated in advance. This place was indeed an anticline structure. The purpose of his downwards was to understand the thickness of the rock layer and its possible direction.

"How is that scholar, what have you seen?" Zheng Chun approached forward and asked impatiently.

Su Hao shook his head: "The secrets of heaven cannot be revealed... I also want to see where those wells are."

More than a dozen other wells were distributed around the village. They were originally planning to fill them in order to prevent someone from falling down. But these days everyone was busy digging new wells, so the matter of filling them was temporarily put down. Seeing that Su Hao was confident in his spirit and trusting him a little more, Zheng Chun told the craftsman who dug the well to take a wheel rack, rope and hanging basket to inspect the other dry wells with Su Hao.

Su Hao did not look at all the dozen wells. After drilling out of the fifth well, he looked up at the sky, murmured a few words, and then pointed to the southeast direction with his finger and said, "From this direction, 700 steps."

"What did you say? There is water in 700 steps?" Zheng Chun couldn't help but tremble. He wanted to believe that what Su Hao said was true, because it meant that his political life would be saved.

"Drive 60 feet deep and get out of water... 400 tons per hour." Su Hao could not help but convert the ancient unit of measurement. One lever is 100 kilograms, and 400 kilograms is 40,000 kilograms, which is equivalent to 20 tons of water. According to his estimate, it should be similar to digging a 20-meter well at that well, 240 tons of water will be released in one day and night. Even if there is an error of about 20%, no one can notice it.

"You are talking nonsense!" Chen Guanyu finally left wildly. Before that, he saw Su Hao's confident expression, and felt that Su Hao might have some tricks. Now, when he heard that Su Hao dared to say the amount of water exactly like this, he was more at ease and believed that Su Hao was definitely talking nonsense. Throughout history, no matter how good the Feng Shui master is, no one dared to make assertions about how much water is every hour. Being able to accurately say whether there is water or not is already against the will of heaven. This young scholar dared to assert how much water can be produced, which fully demonstrates that he did not know how to check the well position at all, and did not even have the minimum common sense.

Su Hao looked at Chen Guanyu with pity and said, "Chen Shenshang, if I were you, I would definitely go find a place to pee first."

"What does it mean?" Chen Guanyu was stunned by Su Hao's words, not knowing what allusion was about peeing.

Su Hao said: "When I turned around, I had 400 dans of water in one hour. You have to drink 40 dans. If you don't linger now, can you drink it then?"

With a puff, Lu Xiuer, who had been following Su Hao, couldn't help laughing. It was really hard for girls to intervene in peeing, otherwise she would definitely follow her brother to defame Chen Guanyu.

"Sir, look..." The leading craftsman Xie Changfa looked at Zheng Chun and sought his opinions.

"Scholar, you said that you can get water out in 700 steps. If you can't get it out, how can you stay?" Zheng Chun asked Su Hao.

Su Hao said lightly: "Then just send me to the official position, you can punish me anyway."

"Brother..." Lu Xiuer tried hard to pull Su Hao's clothes behind her. She knew that her brother had never learned any Feng Shui at all, so she didn't know how to find a well position. The official family had dug so many wells but had no water coming out. He could get water out with just one finger?

Su Hao ignored Lu Xiu'er's reminder, but looked at Zheng Chun with a smile and asked, "This official officer, if you take out the water as I said, what will you say?"

"I will report to the magistrate and remember you for your merits." Zheng Chun said with his chest patted.

"Okay, then let's start." Su Hao waved his hand and said. He didn't expect Zheng Chun to give him more promises. According to Su Hao's idea, it would be more affordable to not remember the merits.

Zheng Chun looked at Chen Guanyu, then looked at Su Hao, hesitated for a while, stomped his feet, and said, "Okay, I just believe you, a scholar. If you can't get out of the water, I'll settle the score with you."

This is what is called "I'm so anxious and seeking medical treatment". Chen Guanyu pointed out so many wells, but no water was produced. Zheng Chun had to pin his hopes on this scholar who pretended to be a ghost.

When Xie Changfa saw Zheng Chun nodded, he walked to Su Hao and asked, "Sir, you just said that you were 700 steps from this direction. Xiao was afraid that he would not be able to understand what he meant. Can you please give me some advice on Xiao?"

This is Xie Changfa's prudence. Digging a well is not a trivial matter. If you choose the wrong position, it will be in vain. Su Hao pointed at him casually. If he refused to admit his account in the future, who would be the mistake?

"It's totally OK." Su Hao replied. He has always been arrogant but not arrogant. He will have a cold face towards officials, but he has always respected ordinary workers very much. He walked 700 steps along the direction he chose, followed by a standard step, then stood down, picked up a piece of rubble, drew a circle on the ground, and said, "That's it, hit 60 feet down and water will surely come out."

"This is 700 steps..." Xie Changfa scratched his head and looked at Su Hao in surprise.

"Yes, didn't you count with me just now?" Su Hao asked.

"Uh... sir, great talent, we country people calculate the steps, and we take one step by step according to each left and right feet. You calculate the one step for each foot..." Xie Changfa said dullly.

"Ahem, this is the method of detecting well positions. This step is different from what we usually say." Su Hao knew that he had made a mistake and hurriedly covered it up. The steps mentioned by the Ming Dynasty, as Xie Changfa said, referring to the length of each step, and Su Hao still followed the habits of later generations, 70 cm a step. It's no wonder Xie Changfa was puzzled. Fortunately, Xie Changfa did not make his own decisions and drilled the well at a distance of 700 steps that he understood. Otherwise, the well would probably have to be hit to the edge of the structure again, which would be a joke.

Seeing that Su Hao had already set up the well position, Xie Changfa greeted him. Several well-driving craftsmen and workers came over together, picked up shovels and picks, and started digging the soil. After the soil on the surface was dug, they would have to set up a pulley and hang it down the well with a hanging basket to work. These things were already very skilled for them.

The village chief Su Zhong came over. He looked at the work of the craftsmen, and then said to Zheng Chun: "Sir, you don't have to stay here anymore. Can you get out of the water? Just let the people below report you a letter. Thank you for your hard work today, why don't you go back to the village to take a break first."

"Okay." Zheng Chun nodded, gave Xie Changfa a few instructions, and then took the servants back to the village with Su Zhong. I don't know whose turn it was to be responsible for entertaining these officials tonight. In short, I must have to kill chickens and buy meat, and I will bleed a little hard.

"Master Xie, I'll trouble you here. After the water comes out, remember to let someone tell me something." Su Hao also explained to Xie Changfa, then turned around and said to Lu Xiuer: "Let's go, Xiuer, let's go home too."

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Chapter completed!