jdhmnovel Chapter 246 Waterwheel
Chapter 246 Waterwheel
Zhao Feng was familiar with Wen Wuyan, but he and Gu Qingqing did not have much contact due to the difference in gender and because they lived in the same house in the village.
Calling her by her name directly felt a bit too intimate, and later when his wife Yang Xing came over to raise chickens and ducks, he simply called her the boss.
Gu Qingqing felt a little confused when she was called the boss. Why did she feel like she was being treated like the local landlady?
"Well, what you are looking at should be the industry of the village or the tribe. It is a big project and it must be exquisitely made. If properly maintained, it can be used for many years. It is mainly used to irrigate the crops in the fields. I don't care so much about this, and the purpose is simple. As long as it can bring water from low places to high places and transport the water to the potholes through bamboo poles, as long as there is water in the puddle over time, the ducks can play in it when they grow up. This saves manual labor." Gu Qingqing explained seriously.
"Hehe, I don't understand, but I'll listen to you. Just tell me what you need us to do today." Zhao Feng said that he was only responsible for doing the work.
"Yes, Qingqing, you said yesterday that as long as the wood arrives, we can assemble it today. Now everything is ready. What should we do next?" Wu Fang's husband Zhao Xi did not come, so she was the only one here. In between conversations, she began to roll up her arms, as if she had endless strength.
Zhao Qin also nodded beside her, seeming to be equally prepared.
Gu Qingqing was not polite either. She pointed to the bamboo segments of about three feet in length and uniform thickness prepared on the ground and demonstrated to them while teaching them how to do it.
"Align the holes on the top of the bamboo, then use the wooden stick prepared here to pass through the two holes aligned up and down, then the third, the fourth, and the fourth one to connect with the end of the first, so that you can form a square first. The rest is much easier, you just need to pass the remaining bamboo tubes on the ground directly through the wooden tube, and it will form a three-dimensional square."
Everyone worked together, and when Gu Qingqing demonstrated the fifth one to them, the remaining three women had already understood.
Gu Qingqing looked at Wen Wuyan, Zhao Feng and Zhao Bei and said apologetically, "The three of you will do the hardest work next. You need to go into the stream barefoot and build a wall with stones upstream to block the water flow and make the stream shallower in this area. It's cold now, and you will definitely catch a cold if you go down barefoot. My family has prepared wine and food for you. When you are done here, come to my house in the evening to drink some wine to get rid of the coldness in your body."
Since they were asked to work and it was a cold day in late spring, Gu Qingqing couldn't remain indifferent when they were asked to go into the water.
The work had to be done, so she could only find a way to make up for it elsewhere.
Zhao Feng didn't think he was delicate. He said nonchalantly, "Why? Can we be frozen by such a short period of rain? We are rough guys who have done everything. We are not afraid of this."
Zhao Feng deliberately smacked his lips after he finished speaking, "But if you really want to drink, it's not impossible, hehehe!"
Yang Xing deliberately gave him a glare and said with a smile, "You sounded like a normal person before, but it turns out you're still thinking about that glass of wine."
Zhao Fengle: "You little wife, why do I become a non-human when you open your mouth?"
Yang Xing blushed in shame when he called her "little wife" in front of everyone. She picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it at Zhao Feng, muttering "I'll teach you a lesson."
The bickering between the two of them immediately made the people around them laugh.
Gu Qingqing joined in the fun, then she held a branch in her hand, stood on the shore, leaned forward and circled out a piece of land in the creek.
Zhao Xi was the most motivated. As soon as he heard Gu Qingqing's arrangement, he took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs and prepared to go down to the stream. Zhao Bei came here to help with the work today, so he followed him without saying a word.
Wen Wuyan stopped Old Yang and Li Xin who were about to go down, and followed them into the water.
Seeing that he couldn't go into the water, Li Xin helped Yang Xing and the others pass things.
Gu Qingqing was directing on the shore. After they had built a thin stone wall, she pointed to the other side and said, "Look at the size of the square frame they made. It would be best if the stones in this area could be cleared to the edge. We will put this frame in the water later."
After the men in the water quickly moved the stones away, Yang Xing and the others on the shore also assembled the square frame.
Follow the four square boxes into the water.
Gu Qingqing picked up a thick bamboo used as an axle support and handed it to Wen Wuyan, and instructed again, "Stand this thick bamboo upright in the frame, and then fill the frame with stones around the bamboo to prevent the bamboo pole from falling down."
In just a few moments, several people completed what she asked.
With so many people working, the two frames were installed, the axle spokes were installed, then the scrapers and water buckets were installed, and then the water troughs and transfer pipes made of thick bamboo were installed.
As Wen Wuyan, Zhao Feng and others pushed away the stones that had blocked the stream in the morning, the stream water flowed through the waterwheel baffle. The waterwheel, which had been assembled for most of the day, began to turn slowly under the push of the water flow.
"Ah! Auntie, this really turned." Li Xin cheered as he watched from the side.
"Look, water is coming out. Water is coming out here. Quickly connect the water trough." Wu Fang saw the water from the top bamboo tube pouring out from a high place, and she excitedly hurried to lift the water trough.
"Let's do it." Zhao Feng said.
"Wow, I didn't expect that we could really make it. Sister-in-law, how come you are so creative and can think of everything. What's going on?" Zhao Bei looked at the water falling from the top and felt it was very strange. He followed others and stood below to try to stare at it.
Gu Qingqing didn't say anything, but just followed beside and laughed. After the water trough was aligned with the distance, the water flowed down through the bamboo tube that served as a pipe.
They followed the water in the bamboo tube until they saw the stream water flow into the puddle, and everyone cheered again.
"Well, if anyone finds it interesting in the future, just come and see it. You've worked hard today. Brother Feng, go back and change your clothes and then come to my house. Daxin, follow Uncle Zhao Bei to the bamboo house to call your uncle Dong to come home for dinner. And the rest of you go home and call your husbands and children to come along." Gu Qingqing first said to Li Xin, and then to Wu Fang and Zhao Qin.
Wu Fang and Zhao Qin smiled at each other, and then Wu Fang said, "Your words are enough. If not, Zhao Qin will not come over tonight. We still have a lot of things to do over there."
Gu Qingqing pretended to be unconvinced, "What can you do?"
Yes, what could it be? It was nothing more than that he felt that he had no work to do, so he couldn't bring his family to Qingqing's house to eat. The food in Qingqing's house didn't fall from the sky, it was all bought with real money.