Chapter 178: Making a Waterwheel

People are either as temperamental as chili peppers, or as layered as cabbage, or as thoughtful as lotus roots, but most people are as straight as sugar cane and never beat around the bush. A solution and a worry lovesickness, a Buddha and a ceremony smoke and rain building.

Sun Houpu left happily, and Zheng Ruoying let go a lot, pestering Liang Chuan and talking all the time.

"A few days ago, someone in the village killed a tiger, do you know about it?"

"I don't know, huh?" Liang Chuan frowned and pretended.

"Oh, I haven't seen a tiger, is the tiger big?"

Liang Chuan pulled his hands apart and gestured, "Well, it's probably that big." ”

Zheng Ruoying glanced at him and said angrily: "You're talking about kittens." ”

"Uhhhhh

"Okay, what have you been busy with lately, look at you playing in the mud at home every day, when will that waterwheel help build one!"

Liang Chuan choked and said: "I said Miss, how can you be different from the previous and the back, when Sun Gongzi was there, it was a beautiful girl, knowledgeable and courteous, and as soon as Sun Gongzi walked on the front foot, how could the nature of this unruly young lady be exposed." Liang Chuan also deliberately pulled his throat and shouted out of the courtyard in a fake manner: "Yo, Sun Gongzi come and see, this Miss Zheng is wild, come and see!" ”

The laughter of a group of old village girls outside the courtyard came in immediately, and someone shouted: "Don't be like a in the spring, the boy is gone!" The word "begging for joy" was so ashamed that Zheng Ruoying's face was flushed at that time, and she stomped her feet with her pink fist.

"Liang Chuan, you are excessive!"

"Okay, okay, Miss, I've been very busy these days, okay, let's make this waterwheel now. But you can get the money for this material, I haven't had a penny of income recently, and the family of eight is waiting for me to uncover the pot, but I don't have the money to buy materials for you. Liang Chuan said it miserably, and he almost took it seriously if he didn't know.

"A family of eight? I've calculated that there are only seven people in your house at most, where are the eight people? Zheng Ruoying folded her fingers and counted, no matter how she counted, she felt that she should be one less person.

"Black Nose is also a part of our family, okay?" The black nose called out very knowingly, and the artist Li Erhua and they all laughed.

"Your dog has become a sperm!" It's really a three-day stay in the school, and even dogs can chant poetry.

Liang Chuan originally wanted to bother Zhao Jinyu to take care of the waterwheel, but after Liang Chuan's work, the joinery at home was about to start working because it had to be completed with the progress of the mud work. The doors, window lattices, and beams and arches, and the furniture in the house all need to be handled by their master carpenters. Liang Chuan went back and forth several times, but Zhao Jinyu was so busy that he didn't have time to receive Liang Chuan, let alone help Liang Chuan make a waterwheel.

Liang Chuan had no choice but to postpone this matter indefinitely. But Liang Chuan can wait, Zheng Ruoying can't wait, the tenant farmers in the family have come to her again and again to complain, they also want to work hard for the Zheng family, but after all, there is not enough manpower, and they can't be busy with more than 100 acres of land.

The cow didn't die of exhaustion, but the man died of exhaustion first. Their Zheng family has cherished the people's power since they started their family, and the people of Fengshan are willing to work hard for their family and help your family create wealth.

Liang Chuan called He Baozheng, "Lao He, which store did you buy sawdust that day, you want to buy some wood today, don't you also shout every day that the Hehe in the field is dying, let's put the mosquito coil thing first, make a waterwheel first, and then you don't have to go to Nanxi every day to pick up water." ”

He Baozheng's old face is happy to bloom, the crops in the field are about to become his heart disease, and he has to sigh every day when he walks over, but he can't help it, and he is still looking forward to God's food.

This year's thieves don't know what to do, the spring has been hot day by day for so long, but I haven't seen a drop of water fall from the sky, in previous years, there was nothing planted in the field, it rained every day, and other farm work could not be done.

The waterwheel is an extremely important agricultural production tool in the agricultural history of our country, and in the era of high dependence on manpower, a waterwheel can liberate countless manpower and devote itself to other agricultural production activities, so as to create more production value.

The high school calendar textbook will introduce the development process of agricultural tools, the Han Dynasty appeared overturned, which is the prototype of China's waterwheel, to the Tang and Song dynasties, the application of axles has made great progress, and the working people have realized the convenience of water power and made a cylinder car. In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the axle was even more advanced, which was also the credit of iron smelting, the appearance of gear sets, and various diversified water wheels that relied on wind, water, and animal power came into battle.

The kind of high-roller car that Liang Chuan wanted to build is recorded in Wang Zhen's agricultural book, which is a book that cannot be bypassed in the study of agricultural history, and is quite a historical book for understanding ancient agriculture in China and in contemporary times.

Liang Chuan will be big when he sees other agricultural knowledge, but when he sees this kind of gadget, he has a whim, and he also went to the Internet to buy some wood chips and bearings to make a small water wheel, the scale is reduced, but the function is exactly the same. If you have done it once, you will be able to do it again, and the rest has not changed, but the volume of the material has increased.

Liang Chuan sat in He Baozheng's ox cart, Zheng Ruoying's carriage followed Liang Chuan, and the two cars rushed to Fengshan. Liang Chuan didn't go directly to the timber store, but went to the Wanda store first, and now Sun Houpu may buy a bamboo basket in the store, and Ye Xiaochai has to explain there, but it's about the same, the price he told Ye Xiaochai was one hundred and fifty yuan, and the price was added by Sun Houpu himself, and it would only be high and not low.

The Sun family's convoy was indeed not covered, it was all flatbed mule carts, waiting in line at the entrance of the Wanda store, carrying bamboo baskets to the car. When Liang Chuan arrived in Fengshan, Ye Xiaochai was directing the Sun family's subordinates to carry it, she was holding a pen and an account book in her hand, and she was keeping accounts.

At this time, Liang Chuan didn't see Sun Houpu, it stands to reason that this kind of trivial matter can't be done by him, the eldest young master, who will come out in person, it is a drop price, and it can be done properly by giving it to his subordinates.

Ye Xiaochai sold all the hundreds of bamboo baskets in the store today, thinking that after making such a big contribution, he could go back and show off with the owner, but he didn't expect the owner to come to supervise the field himself. She asked how many bamboo baskets there were in the store, wrote them down in the account first, and then ran to Liang Chuan with joy, and said excitedly: "Owner, I will tell you good news!" ”

Liang Chuan couldn't bear to spoil this girl's good mood, and said, "What good news, say it slowly!" ”

"Today, a boy came to the store and bought all the bamboo weaving in the store, which is much more heroic than you!"

Liang Chuan pretended to be surprised and said, "Did this family buy it?" ”

Ye Xiaochai nodded, and then said: "Yes, it's them, their boss went back, I originally asked him to ask you what the price was, I thought it would be a little lower, but I didn't expect to go to He Lu and I didn't know what was wrong, at first glance, it was a material who couldn't do business, I didn't bargain, he was stunned and added another thirty Wen to the price I said, do you say it's a fool." ”

Liang Chuan sighed, looked left and right and made a silent movement, "The little hairpin is still here, you can't talk nonsense, you are our valued guests when you enter our store, you can't offend you." ”

"Yes, boss, I won't next time." Ye Xiaochai stuck out her tongue and grimaced, but she still couldn't hide the excitement on her face, she wanted to show herself too much, the work of watching the store by herself was too easy, if she couldn't make some achievements, it would be difficult to go back to Yiniang, and she would have no face with a few sisters.

The bamboo baskets of the Sun family moved out of the back room one after another, and so many bamboo baskets were pulled from He Lu by He Baozheng in an ox cart. He was happy to see that the business in the store was good, and the old ladies in the village would soon be able to share the money, and their enthusiasm for work would be higher when they got the money. Bamboo weaving is piecework, and the more you do, the more you earn.

Liang Chuan had already figured out how to design this waterwheel. When the time comes, find a shallow beach on the edge of Nanxi, lay two hard piles, and then make a large runner of the waterwheel, and the large runner is placed on the pile fork. The upper part of the waterwheel is higher than the embankment, and the lower half is immersed in the water and relies on the driving force of the flowing water to drive the rotation of the waterwheel.

Now the more complicated are the outermost two wooden planks of the waterwheel, these two circles are the large frame of the waterwheel, and the bamboo tube for taking water and the wooden plank pushed by the water flow are hung on the outside, so that the master carpenter of the lumber shop has to make it a little more reliable.

The shaft of the waterwheel Liang Chuan can take a strong log on the line, and the surrounding bracket can be made of the bamboo on the mountain, which is tough and light in texture, which will not increase the burden of the waterwheel, and can make the waterwheel more durable and durable, which is the most ideal material.

He Baozheng led a group of people to the timber shop, Cai Gang drove the carriage and followed behind, Liang Chuan thought that this girl was not tired today, and followed all the way.

As soon as He Baozheng entered the store, the two apprentices in the timber shop seemed to see a savior, and kindly took He Baozheng's hand and accosted him and said with a smile: "Brother, I can be regarded as looking forward to you, how many sawdust are you going to collect today, do you want to bring bags, do you want to pull them all home?" ”

The two apprentices were so enthusiastic that He Baozheng was a little embarrassed, touching his head and not knowing how to refuse them, he really didn't come to collect sawdust today.

Zheng Ruoying followed He Baozheng and came in, the two apprentices looked up, thinking about what day was so lively today, and a fairy-like girl came to the store, and after a closer look, it turned out to be her own eldest lady!

"Hello Miss!" The two apprentices were busy and hurriedly asked for peace, and all of a sudden they also alarmed the master carpenter, who was busy with carpentry work, put down the ink fountain, and hurried over to say hello.

Liang Chuan saw that his heart was happy, and he dared to love that this was the Zheng family's industry, then it would be easy to do, and he was worried that the carpenter master would not be able to serve him, so there would be no problem.