Chapter 263 The vicious female partner escapes to farm (14)
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 it was illegal to build a private kiln, 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 them.
But there is no water source near this wasteland. The mountain is just an ordinary firewood mountain. 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.
However, it is not the solar waterwheel that was boldly engineered by the palace in the Yan Dynasty, but a waterwheel that relied on water power to overturn.
If the water flow is gentle, a rickshaw is required to drive the water wheel. Therefore, when water is used, 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 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! What's this little work like!"
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 monkeys are idle when they are idle, give them some work!"
Seeing that they all understood, Xu Yin said no more.
Just as Xu Yin was tinkering 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 met 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, but 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 refused to give him any 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 am willing to 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 they don't have 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 eyebrow said with red eyes.
Xu Yin sighed silently, took 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 to take care of Third Sister. The cold is easily contagious, so I was careful along the way, just for fear 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 have 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.
"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."
"I won't do it! I won't do it! I will never do it again! We were... Hey! A family of young and old were waiting to eat and drink. If we hadn't been desperate, we wouldn't have had such evil thoughts, but after being taught a lesson by the hero, we would give up.
I’m really done with it now!”
"So you've done it a lot before?" Xu Yin looked at him with a half-smile.
"Ah? No, 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 antipyretics and physical cooling, Shi Feng's parents quickly recovered from their fever.
Xu Yin told them to drink more water, boiled warm water and not 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 think so, thinking that it's good to have water to drink. The streams in the mountains are not dirty, so it doesn't cost any firewood to boil and drink.
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 collect more firewood.
The firewood in Xu Yin's house has not been cut off since that day.
Two groups, 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. From time to time, she cooked some medicinal porridge for them to drink.
Everyone gathered firewood and the flames were high. Soon, the water turned and the cart was built.
However, since there are no professional woodworking tools, the construction is relatively rough, but it does not affect the use.
A ditch has been dug from the river to the end of the wasteland. When passing the walking section, Xu Yin cut 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 turn.
"Pap..."
"Clang..."
The small buckets on the waterwheel sank into the river one after another and emerged from the river surface again.
The bucket filled with water rose to a certain height. When it passed the mouth of the ditch, the bucket turned sideways and poured water into the ditch.