Once the foundation is laid, the house can be built quickly.
In fact, Xu Yin really wanted to build a kiln to bake bricks, but she didn't know enough about the world. If building a private kiln was illegal, the gain would outweigh the loss.
In the afternoon, while mixing yellow mud and clay to paste the wall, Xu Yin saw Chen Mancang and several others going to the river half a mile away to fetch water. She felt tired just looking at it.
But there is no water source near this wasteland. The mountain is just an ordinary firewood mountain, and there is a small stream.
Building houses and clearing land require a lot of water.
After thinking about it, Xu Yin decided to build a waterwheel.
But it is not the solar waterwheel that was boldly engineered by the palace in the Yan Dynasty, but a waterwheel that relied on hydraulic power.
If the water flow is gentle, a rickshaw is needed to drive the water wheel. Therefore, when using water, someone needs to be watching at all times.
Chen Mancang and the others had never heard of water turning over a car, so Xu Yin took a branch and drew it on the gravel ground for them to see:
"We build it upstream of the river, and then we dig a ditch from here to here. When the ditch is completely filled with water, you can try it even if you want to plant rice. You can dig a hole in the ditch to release water into the fields. As long as the river water If we don’t dry it, we will have a steady stream of water to use, and we don’t need to run to the river to fetch it.”
After everyone understood it, they cheered, but when they calmed down they couldn't help but worry: "Brother heroes, can this water-spinning car really be built?"
"Yes!" Xu Yin gave them reassurance, "I will be responsible for building the waterwheel, and you will divide the labor into felling trees and digging ditches."
"no problem!"
"That's it! This little work is nothing!"
Xu Yin said with a smile: "Even if the waterwheel is built, someone will have to stand by when water is urgently needed. When the water flow is slow, the waterwheel will not run too fast, and people will need to drive it from time to time. Then we will Make a plan and let each family take their turn!"
"As long as there is water, I can let my boy stay by the waterwheel every day."
"Yes, Skinny Monkey is idle when he is idle. Give them some work to do!"
Seeing that they all understood, Xu Yin said no more.
Just as Xu Yin was fussing with the drawings, a group of people ran over, and the leader plopped down on her knees.
Xu Yin: "..."
The other party was sobbing and slapping himself: "You are the one who has not seen Taishan, and has offended the hero! You are wrong! Please give me more, heroes, and spare me this one time! I am willing to follow the hero in this life, I just ask the heroes to save the lives of my little father and mother!"
Xu Yin recognized him when he called "Hero": Isn't this the man with the broken eyebrow who was thrown down after failing in the robbery on Chaishan Mountain?
Which song is this from?
Chen Mancang knew him and explained a few words: "His parents are dying. They were already too weak to speak due to lack of food and water. They were caught in the rain a few days ago and became even more seriously ill. In fact, I advised him that day. He came to you to ask for soup and medicine, but I don’t know what he thinks, and he refuses to come."
Xu Yin guessed that the reason why he refused to come was simply because he was worried that he would recognize him and refuse to give him the medicine.
Seeing that Xu Yin was silent, the man with the broken eyebrow continued to kowtow and beg: "My parents are dying... Please save my parents' lives, heroes! As long as my parents can be saved, I will be a cow or a horse for the rest of my life..." "
Xu Yin quickly asked him to get up: "It's okay to go see your parents, but I have something to say first. I'm not a doctor. I just have medicine to treat wind and cold. If what they have is not wind and cold, then I will..."
"If even the hero's medicine can't cure them, we can only say that it's all a matter of fate!" The man with the broken eyebrows said with red eyes.
Xu Yin sighed silently, dug out her dowry baggage, and said she would go see his parents before talking.
Erlang was worried and insisted on following him.
Xu Yin shook her head: "You stay here and take care of Third Sister. The wind and cold are easily contagious, so I was careful along the way because I was afraid that you two would get sick. What did I tell you before? Try not to go to crowded places. If you don't listen to me, Already?"
Erlang had no choice but to take his third sister to stay and look after the house.
There is no sign of the house yet... The two children continue to mix mud and paste the stone walls.
Here, Xu Yin followed Shi Feng to the place where he placed his parents.
The two elderly people had been feeling groggy since being exposed to the rain. They had been traveling for days and had a high fever last night.
Xu Yin took out a bottle of liquor from her bag and asked Shi Feng to wipe his parents' bodies to cool down.
Then while Shi Feng was busy, he stuffed an antipyretic medicine into the unconscious old man's mouth and fed him a few mouthfuls of spiritual spring water.
"My hero, you want to make some medicine, right? I've already started the fire!" Shi Fengnian, who had previously robbed Xu Yin with Shi Feng and was kicked to pieces by her, came over cautiously with Xiao Xiao.
Seeing his trembling look, Xu Yin laughed and said, "Don't do such unreasonable things, I won't do anything to you."
"No more! No more! I will never do it again! We were... Hey! A family of young and old were waiting to eat and drink. If we had not been desperate, we would not have had such evil thoughts, but after being taught a lesson by the hero, we will give up. I’m really done with it now!”
"So you have done a lot before?" Xu Yin looked at him with a half-smile.
"Ah? No, no, no! That day was our first time. We finally had the courage to stop you, but what you did...really! I can swear to God!"
"Okay! Let's light the fire!"
"Why!"
Using antipyretic drugs and physical cooling, Shi Feng's parents quickly recovered from their fever.
Xu Yin told them to drink more water, and to boil warm water instead of raw water.
By the way, I also spread the word to other disaster victims about the harm of raw water to the body.
Many people don't take it seriously, thinking that having water to drink is good. The mountain streams are not dirty and it doesn't cost any firewood to boil them.
But people like Shi Feng, Chen Mancang and others took Xu Yin's advice to heart.
I would rather spend some time and effort, make more trips to Chaishan Mountain, and pick up more firewood.
Xu Yin's firewood has not been cut off since that day.
Chen Mancang and Shi Feng took turns delivering firewood to her. When they saw her scraping bark for the wood of the waterwheel, they took the initiative to go over and do it. A lot of the scrap wood she scraped was quite strong, so they surrounded Xu Yin. Fences serve as courtyard walls.
Xu Yin didn't ask them to help in vain, and would cook some medicinal porridge for them to drink from time to time.
The more the merrier. Soon, the water-rotating car was built.
However, since there are no professional carpentry tools, the construction is relatively rough, but it does not affect the use.
Ditches have also been dug from the river to the end of the wasteland. When passing the walking section, Xu Yin chiseled out a stone slab and laid it on top to prevent the children from falling in.
When everything was ready, she directed everyone to assemble the waterwheel.
Then demonstrate it to them.
As she moved the water wheel, the water wheel slowly started to rotate.
"Pap..."
"Clang..."
The small buckets on the waterwheel sank into the river one after another and emerged from the river again.
The bucket filled with water rose to a certain height. When it passed the mouth of the ditch, it "crash", the bucket turned sideways, and water poured into the ditch.
Amazing!
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