Chapter 141: Waterwheel
The waterwheel is a seemingly simple, but in fact extremely delicate water lifting tool. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The biggest role of info is to irrigate the fields.
Not to mention the time and effort, the manufacturing material of the waterwheel is also very common, that is, wood.
There is not much else in the Aaronic Mountains, but there is a lot of wood. Hundred-year-old trees can be seen everywhere, and the local pig-headed tribes are cut down for firewood.
As soon as William proposed the construction of a watermill, it aroused great interest among the Loisal and the Hog-headed chieftains.
At noon that day, William drew a rudimentary blueprint of a waterwheel, and the chieftain of the pig-headed people gathered all the names of the village, and everyone sat around under a big tree at the head of the village, arguing and discussing.
Regardless of whether the waterwheel is useful or not, in short, it doesn't cost much money to make the waterwheel at all, and even if it fails, there will be no loss.
Many pig-headed people fought back and forth, and in the end, the matter of making a waterwheel was agreed by most of the pig-headed people. And the next day, began to put it into action.
In the early morning of the same day, more than 100 strong pig-headed men, divided into groups of five, armed with stone axes, thick ropes, sawtooth and other tools, swept away into the mountains in groups.
William and Loisal were divided into separate groups, and they were mainly responsible for selecting a thick and strong tree to be used as the most important part of the waterwheel: the beam in the middle of the waterwheel.
Things went very quickly and very smoothly.
With the big trees on the snowy mountain being cut down, many pig-headed people were busy all day, and finally collected thirty-six trees before evening.
When it was dark, the pig-headed men left their tools behind and returned to the village in groups to rest for the night. The next morning, many pig-headed people came to the snowy mountains again and continued to complete the rest of the work of yesterday.
The thick trees, stripped of their bark and branches, were left with bare branches and piled up in the clearing.
The chieftain of the pig-headed man held a stack of drawings drawn by William in one hand, and a cane in the other, and pointed here and commanded there, and drove the pig-headed man to take wood, punch holes, etc., and make various parts of the waterwheel.
On the other side, William was also busy.
He glanced at a piece of wood lying upside down on the ground in front of him, picked up a sharp stone on the side of the road, and drew two circular lines on the wood.
Seeing this, Loisal stretched out his hand and followed the two circular lines once again.
One by one, the thin blades condensed from the fighting spirit suddenly cut the rough wood into three sections, long at both ends and short in the middle.
William nodded with satisfaction: "Just use the middle piece of crossbar to make the bearing of the waterwheel." ”
After the various parts of the waterwheel are made, the rest of the things are spliced and assembled.
However, the assembly had just begun, and on the pig-headed side, there was a fork.
A piece of wood that was to be installed on the waterwheel to hold back the water was accidentally broken. At first, William didn't take it seriously, but as more and more parts kept being scrapped, William finally realized that something was wrong.
The pig-headed man is rough and careless, and it is okay to do the rough work of cutting down trees, but once he does the delicate work of assembling the water wheel, it is simply unsightly.
At last, in the open woods full of stumps, all the pig-headed people, including the chieftain, were quite embarrassed, and looked at William and Loysal.
Although Loisal and William are not ordinary people, it is not so easy to assemble a waterwheel with the strength of the two of them, and it is not easy to complete it in ten days and a half months.
Loisal didn't mean it, and according to the structural diagram drawn by William, he buried himself in assembling it without saying a word.
William sat on a piece of wood, took out a packet of Double Happiness from the Ring of the Dead, struck a match and lit it, took a deep breath, and prepared to rest for a while.
Just as more than a dozen pig-headed people were stunned to look at the cigarettes lit in William's hands, and William hesitated to take out a few packs to share, the pig-headed chief trotted over from a distance: "Someone is coming from outside the village, someone is coming!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned.
William stood up, the magic spell moved, and a 'Eagle Eye Technique' magic blessed his eyes, and looked towards the snow-capped mountain, and sure enough, he saw a caravan of more than 100 people.
The owner of this caravan was a fat man. Dressed in the robes of the nobility of the Holy Spirit Empire, he sat in a luxurious carriage pulled by three horses, and was lifting the curtains, constantly looking at the appearance of the small village where the pig-headed people lived in front of him.
William only glanced at it, and noticed that each of the wagons in this caravan was loaded with loads, pressing the rolling wheels deep into the snow. As the carriage drove by, it left behind the wheels and hoof prints.
In the caravan, there was another acquaintance: Churchill.
At this moment, Churchill looked very embarrassed. He had a thick layer of gauze wrapped around his forehead, his nose was blue and his face was swollen, and his left leg seemed to be injured.
Seeing the Jimmy family's caravan arrive again, William withdrew his gaze, and a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He knew that free labor, there were.
In fact, it does.
Half an hour later, when Basar Jimmy led his caravan into the tribe of the pig-headed people, he pounced, and led by an enthusiastic pig-headed man, Basar and his party came to the snow-capped mountain where William was.
As soon as everyone saw each other, Basar was full of flattery and smiles. The first sentence was to open his mouth to scold Churchill, who was traveling with him, and made him kneel in front of William to apologize and admit his mistakes.
Seeing Churchill's pitiful kneeling appearance, William answered lukewarmly, which was considered forgiveness, and he forgot the unhappiness he had a few days ago.
Churchill's face turned from sorrow to joy, but before he could get up, he was firmly kicked by Basar on the buttocks, only to hear Basar shout: "Churchill, are you blind? Don't you see Your Excellency the Master sitting on a log? It's so filthy there, how can you sit on people? Why don't you go and get the little stool of my carriage?"
Churchill fell on the ground, but he did not show any complaint, and led people down the mountain in a fit of grievance.
William watched this scene coldly, and he also knew in his heart that this was just a show for himself by the little nobleman Basar, maybe they had already communicated and discussed it before they went up the mountain.
"Okay, okay, we're going to make a watermill here, and we're almost out of manpower. If you're all right, just leave. At this time, William said lightly.
Basar suddenly understood, and then there was the next scene.
A large number of pig-headed people, along with the chief of the pig-headed people, sat together on a long log, smoking the red double happiness sent by William, and while swallowing the clouds, they supervised the assembly of the waterwheel.
"The size of the plank was substandard and the weight was a bit overweight. Spliced on the waterwheel, the waterwheel is not easy to turn. William took the waterwheel blueprint in his hand and walked as he went.
Bassar followed behind William with great devotion, nodding his head and bowing his head, and when he heard William say this, he immediately shouted at the burly man who knew no carpentry skills at all: "What are you still doing in a daze? ”
As soon as these words came out, the pig-headed man who was smoking and resting on the side suddenly looked at Basar.
Basar was slightly stunned, and quickly changed his words: "It's not that you guys, you are so smart, how can I scold you?"
When the pig-headed chief heard this, he nodded in great agreement and took the lead in closing his head.
Basar secretly wiped the cold sweat overflowing from his forehead, and didn't dare to say more. (To be continued.) )