Two days later, the waterwheel was finally built, and Pei Qingyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, in the past two days, she has encountered far more difficulties than she imagined. The blacksmith's treatment of 100 steels is not satisfactory, in actual operation, she encountered several times of different interface sizes, rough inner mouth full of barbs and other problems, in order to catch up with the schedule, she directly drew the sword to some subtle places to process and polish again, on weekdays, she regarded the love sword as life was directly used to do all kinds of rough work, but she couldn't take care of it so much, every day at noon, when the three of them ate together, Su Qingyun relied on his task to have no technical problems, and was always on the side to her yin and yang, Because she really didn't finish it according to the deadline once, she could only swallow her anger.

Fortunately, on the last night, she took people to rush to work overnight, although she was late all night, but she finally completed the goal before the next morning, which did not affect the next stage of the task. Pei whispered a long sigh of relief, and heard a childish voice in his ear: "Sister, drink water." ”

Looking down, it was a little boy I didn't know, "When my father said last night that he wouldn't come back, I was thinking, if he doesn't come back, you must still be working for the village, so I think you will be thirsty after working all night, I will bring you some water." Then he whispered in her ear, "I added starch syrup." "There is a lot of reluctance in Mandarin.

The little boy's face was not clean, and it could even be said that he was dusty. The water in this bowl is a little muddy, probably because of the addition of starch syrup, and the bottom of the wooden bowl has marks left by years of use, you really can't ask a peasant child to be very particular.

Pei whispered in his throat, wanting to refuse: "Thank you, I'm not thirsty, you can take it and share it with others." ”

Unexpectedly, he was dismissed: "Miss, we all see how hard you have worked in the past two days, you drink first, we are not thirsty." ”

She looked at the eyes of the people around her, which she had never seen in the Sword Tower before, grateful, admiring...... They didn't mean to disgust her, in fact, this bowl of water was a rare treasure in their eyes. Caramel is not a common snack, at least for the destitute peasants. The child has to behave well so that his parents are likely to buy him a few pieces to taste at a rally. This piece of caramel in the water may be his most precious treasure in the past few months.

Seeing this, Pei whispered and didn't want to excuse himself, so he closed his eyes and poured into his mouth. There are a lot of impurities in the water, which may be the insoluble residue of starch sugar, she tries to think in the direction of making herself feel the best, her throat is itchy, the water is a little sweet, there are some other tastes, some sour, some astringent, maybe the sugar has been put for a long time.

Pei whispered and drank it all in one sip, handed the bowl to the little boy, the little boy who had always looked nervous put his mind at ease and smiled happily, the big men on the side saw Pei whispering and drank, and unceremoniously picked up the kettle and poured water into the bowl, looking at the little boy's heartbroken eyes, laughing and touching his head, and drank it all heroically.

Pei Qingyu looked at these old and young people who were naturally frolicking together, and for the first time felt that he didn't need to stay so far away from this red dust all the time, looking at the dirty clothes on his body because of the overnight work, he grinned embarrassedly and joined in the celebratory laughter.

Seeing that the woman who had always been like a fairy also smiled, the twelve people who stayed up late to work together were even more presumptuous, venting their tiredness for many days.

"I'll carve words on this bamboo tube for you." Pei whispered a whim, "Just take it as a commemoration of our struggle this night." ”

"That's not good, what if the bamboo cracks along the word marks?" The big man at the head rubbed his hands in embarrassment.

"No, it won't." Pei whispered with a smile on her face that she had never seen before. After she took the initiative to ask for help, she followed Chen Lihua to learn how to make a waterwheel for two whole days, and she was familiar with its various characteristics, which is why Chen Lihua dared to let her be in charge of this delicate work.

But the big men are still reluctant to do this, they don't understand physics, they don't understand science, but the natural caution of the farmers makes them unwilling to move the waterwheel that has been completed so far.

Seeing this, Pei Qingyu could only helplessly take out an extra bamboo tube, insert it next to it, and carve it stroke by stroke: "Twelve-person car." Then he said lightly: "That's what it should be called." ”

A village man hesitated: "If you do this, will it make Miss Chen unhappy?" ”

Pei pouted softly and snorted arrogantly: "It's just a name, she won't object to me." ”

The villagers looked at this simple bamboo card, their hearts were surging, to a certain extent, they are also celebrities through the ages, although they will not have a name, but the sentence "Pei whispers twelve people and builds twelve cars" has also outperformed the vast majority of ordinary people.

"Thirteen-person car, it's better to call it thirteen-person car." Finally, someone suggested.

Pei Qingyu looked at the number of people, and then saw the eyes of these twelve people, and then remembered that he seemed to have missed himself.

"According to yours, it will be called a thirteen-person chariot." Pei whispered and covered his mouth and chuckled.

In the afternoon of the same day, regardless of men, women and children in the village, all gathered together, watching Su Qingyun lead people to connect the last section of the pipeline, the waterwheel began to rotate slowly with the water flow after it was completed, the clear river water was scooped up by the bamboo tube, turned one hundred and eighty degrees and then poured on the pipe, the first wisp of clear water flowed along the bamboo pipe to the distance, the children had never seen this kind of scene, cheered excitedly, and ran away along the pipe, ready to compete with the pipe to see who ran faster.

The adults were a little more steady, just slapped the little boys' butts, and then led by Muramasa, slowly walked towards the salt field.

The pipes were unimpeded all the way, which relieved Su Qingyun, who was ready to replace at any time, Pei Qingyu did it on time, she didn't want to get out of the basket.

The vast salt land was divided into sixteen squares by Chen Lihua, separated by ridges made of earth, and at the same time formed a small embankment, each square is the basin in the embankment, and soon there will be water flowing to the first basin, and the land that has been dry for a long time does not refuse to swallow the bubbling spring, but no matter how hungry and thirsty the land has its own limit, sooner or later a steady stream of clear water can turn the first basin into an ocean, and then the accumulated water can flow down the small gap in the ridge to the next basin, And after a day of infiltration in the first basin, the next step can be carried out.

Chen Lihua felt bored after watching it for a while, and left, as long as everything was normal, there was no need for her to watch the small stream of water fill the land little by little. The other villagers still looked at the trickle with expectant expressions, as if they were looking at hope. Unexpectedly, Pei Qingyu also chose to stay and didn't know what she was thinking, even if Chen Lihua asked her, she just smiled and didn't say anything.