Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

Mingtong - it is the villagers of the three surnames who divert water from the Xiulingyin Canal into the village, A regionalized rural generalization of prolonging life.For a long time, they believed that the reason why people don't live to be over forty is because of "unfortunate fate".If life is cleared, people will live longer.The purpose of repairing the canal is to save one's life.The Lingyin Canal was repaired in the early winter of that year after Sima Lan's operation.The third project only took more than half a year to complete the originally estimated project volume of one and a half years.In total, the average width of the canal is 2 meters, the depth is 1.5 meters, and the total length is 40 kilometers. There are more than 30 households in the village, dozens of laborers, three ups and downs, and it took 16 years.The rectification of large and small landslides was completed 1010 times.30,000 cubic meters of earth, 11,000 cubic meters of stone, 21,000 cubic meters of stiff soil, 56 tons of cement, 18 kilns of lime, 3.2 tons of explosives, more than 54 meters of fuses, countless detonators, and more than 2,000 broken steel brazes Roots, more than 500 hammers, more than 200 frame carts, 2,100 pairs of radish baskets, 900 shovels, 800 shovel handles, and thousands of kilograms of hemp rope.18 people died directly due to the repair of the canal (not including those who died of throat blockage), and 21 people were disabled with broken arms and fingers.To raise funds for the construction of the Lingyin Canal, villagers with three surnames went to Jiaohuoyuan to sell human skins 197 times, covering 907 square inches, and 6 people died directly because of selling human skins.More than 30 women went to Jiudu to make a living as human flesh.At the most difficult time, he sold all the coffins and trees in the village, his daughter's dowry and the young man's wedding property. There were not even any pigs, chickens, and sheep left in the village, and only a pair of old cows were left for farming... In the end , They ushered in the day when the Lingyin Canal arrived.

Fate blocked - the opposite of Mingtong.