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Xiao Zhai Xiao enlisted

Chapter 5 Sha Wujing repairs the stone weir and the little loach becomes a handsome catfish

Section 2: A waterwheel made of pure wood

Monk Sha stood in Xinpi Ridge, looked north, and saw a small meandering river to the foot of the hill, which flowed slowly to the southeast. Monk Sha walked about 400 meters south along the hillside and saw more than a dozen villagers using a "water wheel" to water the daylily vegetable fields.

Monk Sha had never seen such a waterwheel. The waterwheel is about 4 meters long. The body of the waterwheel is 40 centimeters wide and about 35 centimeters high. There is a large dragon head that can rotate in the front, and a shaft handle that can rotate on each side. A watermill requires two people, each of whom pushes and pulls back and forth at a 360-degree angle with a handle about one meter long. There is also a small faucet at the back of the waterwheel that can be turned. The middle blades are connected by a wooden bolt called "eight grasps". The equivalent of a chain for a modern bicycle. In fact, it was the predecessor of the bicycle chain. The difference is that the chain of the bicycle is made of metal; The entire watermill is made of wood, and there is not a single nail in it. A waterwheel can lift water 1-2 meters high. At that time, Monk Sha saw the villagers using three waterwheels in a zigzag shape to water the daylily fields more than five meters high. Driving water is a very strenuous and heavy physical labor. The villagers usually have to take a breath break in 15 minutes. If there are many people, change shifts; If there are fewer people, take a five-minute break.

At that time, the villagers in the traffic were curious when they saw Monk Sha, and everyone stopped to chat with Wujing.

"This old brother, what kind of 'formation' are you putting here?" Wujing asks an older villager for advice.

One of the older villagers, Xiao Xiangqi, who is in his 50s, said: "We are watering the daylily fields.

"What is daylily for?" Wujing continued to ask.

Xiao (Xiao), an older villager, said: Daylily is the best among vegetables, and mortals and immortals need it. Daylily is a good medicine for the prevention and treatment of vascular diseases. Legend has it that there was a snake in the fairy world that was cut in two by a farmer at one time. The fairy snake begged the eagle to find the daylily and put it on the wound. The next day, the fairy snake miraculously returned to its original state. After observing this miracle, the farmer dug up the daylily and planted it himself on the third day. Since then, we have been growing daylily here. We have a soil here that has been weathered by the red rocks, which is particularly suitable for growing daylily.

Villager Xiao (Xiao) picked a daylily "arrow shaft" and handed it to Wujing for a closer look.

Sha Wujing saw more than 20 flower buds on a daylily "arrow shaft", arranged in order of size. The largest is more than two inches long, and the smallest can only be seen as a small dot.

Villager Xiao (Xiao) told him that the biggest bud will bloom tomorrow afternoon, and we must pick it back before three o'clock in the afternoon.

Xiao (Xiao), an older villager, walked to the middle of the river and picked up the river water with his hands to slap Xian's face, flushed his hands and feet to cool down, and then continued to say to Sha Wujing: Daylily mainly eats "flowers", and the daylily that has just been about to bloom "flowers" but has not yet bloomed "flowers" has the highest nutritional value. From planting to picking and processing, the whole process of daylily is very difficult. May and June of the lunar calendar are the daylily picking period. Daylilies are usually picked after twelve o'clock in the afternoon. This season in the south is precisely the hot summer. Every year during the harvest period, there are villagers who are bitten by poisonous snakes. After the daylily is picked back, it should be put in a large iron pot and steamed for seven or eight minutes as soon as possible. The big iron pot is steamed about 30 catties each time. If you can pick more than 100 catties of daylily a daylily, you need to steam it four to five times. The steamed daylily should still be sealed with a furoshiki cloth after it comes out of the pot. Wait until the next morning to sprinkle the daylily on the "beater" woven with bamboo strips to dry. Dried daylily that has been dried for 2 to 3 days is the best among the vegetables that people eat.

Daylilies are best grown in red soil. We're red soil here. The daylily harvest period is about fifty days. During the harvesting period, the south is mostly in the dry season. In order to prevent the daylilies from dying, we used water trucks to irrigate the daylily fields from the river. When encountering a hill, at most eight or nine waterwheels should be placed, and the ground on the hill should be filled with water in a zigzag shape.

Monk Sha was very curious about the water, and he replaced the older villager Xiao (Xiao) for a while. The car water is a handle in one hand, and it needs to be pushed forward hard. When you turn to the angle of the item point, you need to pull it back hard. Whether the two of them push or pull, they have to work hard. If one person is lazy and does not exert himself, the other person will not be able to turn the waterwheel full of water. Therefore, the car water is the best way to test the cooperation of two people at the same time. Monk Sha drove the water for five minutes, was tired and sweaty, and deeply experienced the difficulty of the villagers' driving water.

The sand monk is more proficient in waterways. After the villagers replaced him, he made several rounds of patrolling the nearby river and decided to build a weir here. Repair canals on both sides of the weir. The height of the weir should be at least five meters. In this way, the water level is raised by the storage of water by weirs, and then the water is introduced into the fields through aqueducts. Villagers can water their rice fields or daylily fields directly with water from the canals. After the dam was repaired, the villagers no longer had to work so hard to carry water.

Monk Sha wanted to build a weir and dam, so he did what he said. The Xinpiling hill is full of red rocks. The rock is usually 40 to 50 centimeters thick, about one meter wide, and its length varies from 10 to 20 meters long to 10 to 30 meters long. The red rocks here are exceptionally hard. Exposed to sunlight weathering, it takes thousands of years to weathering a layer of soil two to three centimeters thick. If soaked in water, it will not be weathered for hundreds of millions of years. With a clear understanding of water and a better understanding of the particularity of rocks, he decided to use local materials. From the east side of the Xinpiling hill, he used his flat shovel to split a rectangular red strip stone with a length X width X height (thickness) equal to about 5 meters X 1 m X 0 and 5 meters. He hauled the rectangular red stone down the river for 200 meters. Then they were piled up piece by piece to form a dam. The length of the dam is 85 meters, the width of the base is 10 meters, the width of the top of the dam is 5 meters, and the height of the dam is 5 or 5 meters. The entire weir is made of red rocks stacked piece by piece, without any cement, nails, wood, triad, etc. If Wujing didn't have mana, it would have been impossible for the people to build this weir made of pure red stones. When Monk Sha repaired the Xinpi weir dam, it only took a few hours. Moreover, from the design of the entire weir scheme, on-site construction, to the completion of the "ribbon cutting" after the last day, it was all quietly completed by Wujing alone in the evening after the villagers returned home. According to the name of the hill Xinpiling, the local people call this weir dam Xinpiyan.

When Wujing built the Xinpi weir dam, the design was very scientific. After the water level of the entire weir is raised by five meters, the rice fields and daylily fields on both sides of the dam are continuously watered through the side channels on both sides of the dam. On the west bank of the dam is a channel more than one meter wide, which can irrigate thousands of acres of rice fields. The area of daylily fields irrigated on the east bank of the dam is small, and the existing flow channel is about half a meter wide. In order to prevent floods from washing away the fertile land, Wujing built two garden-shaped culverts with a diameter of one meter at the entrance of the aqueduct on the west bank. The first culvert is one meter above the weir. The second culvert is two meters above the dam. The two culverts are spaced 30 meters apart. The design of these two culverts is very scientific. In the dry season, when the impoundment surface of the weir is parallel to the weir dam, the amount of water flowing into the canal through the two culverts remains constant. In the event of a flood, the amount of water flowing into the canal through the two culverts remains the same, regardless of whether the flood water level is one or two meters above the weir or two. As long as the flood water in the river is not higher than two meters above the weir dam, the culvert can effectively prevent the flood from washing away the rice fields. These two culverts essentially function as two flood control levees. In Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, Li's uncle and nephew artificially pierced a cave at the entrance of the canal on the bank of the weir dam, which is called "Hukou" by the locals. No matter how big the flood in Dujiangyan is, the amount of water flowing through the "Hukou" will never change. No one can say clearly, when Li's uncle and nephew built Dujiangyan, did they learn from Wujing's experience in building culverts at the entrance of the Xinpiyan canal? And there is also innovation. Wujing's Xinpiyan has two flood control culverts, and the flood control capacity is limited. When the flood water in the river is two meters above the weir dam, the flood water can rush into the paddy field area. The flood control capacity of Dujiangyan's "Hukou" is very firm. The "Hukou" is opened on the slope of a bluestone mountain, and no matter how big the flood in Dujiangyan is, it will not wash away the farmland. Nowadays, Dujiangyan, which has come up from behind, has become a well-known tourist attraction for Chinese and foreign tourists; The new weir built by Sha Wujing earlier was silently forgotten at the foot of Xianren Mountain.

Sha Wujing repaired the dam and the canal, and stood under the weir, intoxicated with the joy of success. Suddenly, ripples rippled in the water. Then, a middle-aged woman in a red dress surfaced in the water. The middle-aged woman drifted to Wujing.

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