Chapter 115: Pump
In fact, the water wasn't cold. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Yes, if you measure it with a thermometer, you will find that the water is not cold at all!
To say that it is cold is completely the "feeling" of people. In other words, in fact, no matter how long you stay in that water, you can't be "frozen" to spoil. -- Even if it's bad, it's bad for other reasons, such as nerve palsy.
"You mean, the water is lukewarm, not colder, hotter than our well water?"
After listening to An Wenxuan explain the Tao in this way, both Murong Tianlong and Sha Jia exclaimed in amazement. Sharjah couldn't help but ask An Wenxuan.
"That's right!" An Wenxuan nodded affirmatively.
After testing the water yesterday, An Wenxuan wanted to use his left hand to warm up his right hand, which was so cold that he couldn't stand it, but when his left hand covered his right hand, what he felt was not cold, but warm, but that warmth was not obvious.
This phenomenon was ignored by An Wenxuan at the time, and when he thought of this situation at night, An Wenxuan compared it with some experiences in his previous life, and finally came to a conclusion, that is, the "cold spring" is actually a "hot spring"!
"Then, why is the warm water cold?" After listening to An Wenxuan's explanation, Sharjah and Murong Tianlong were stunned for a long time before Murong Tianlong asked.
"That's what I want to say to you. From now on, you should soak in the water once a day, and when you don't feel cold, you will already know the reason by then!"
The four of them came to a small waterhole in the southwest direction 400 meters from the center of the fountain. Over the night, the size of this small waterhole has expanded a lot, and now it is almost 30 square meters wide, and the deepest part is more than 1 meter.
Except for the part that is directly filled with water by the fountain, the water in the rest of the small waterhole is extremely clear and transparent, and under the reflection of the green grass with slightly fluttering stems and leaves under the water, it presents an indescribable beauty, which makes people can't help but love it, and want to squat down and get close with their hands.
And those who do it do.
Not only that, but there are many of them.
Then their fate can be imagined. Obviously, I saw that everyone around me who touched the water screamed and jumped, but few people who had not been in contact with it couldn't help but look at it, so it became a wildlife park.
Grinning, jumping up and down, screaming, this combination is even better than the acrobatic over there.
An Wenxuan said to Sharjah that he wanted to channel the spring flow that spread out along the fountain, but in fact, what he wanted was not just channeling, but building.
An Wenxuan originally just wanted to make an ordinary deep water well, a fountain! And it was such a dazzling fountain that was not expected.
But it doesn't matter, since the fountain that pulls the wind comes out, if you don't make good use of it, it will really be a violent thing, and it will be thundered by the sky. Therefore, the fountain will become a very important part of his Lingshan renovation plan, and the spring flow formed by the fountain will run through the entire Lingshan.
This is the first stream. An Wenxuan then planned to divert water from the branch of the Calado River to the west, and the stream formed by the fountain would run in a general backward direction in the Lingshan Mountain. In this way, the whole miniature body of water tends to be complete.
After every meal, An Wenxuan always felt a little bitter in his mouth, and at the same time there was an astringent look.
An Wenxuan always thought it was a water problem. The water from the well in Lingshan Manor is not the "clear and sweet" as the legend says, but obviously contains some impurities. This impurity does not mean that there is a lot of sediment or anything, but An Wenxuan suspects that the soil here is not good, the composition of the water is complex, and various types of water penetrate into the ground and mix together, becoming a kind of water that seems to be clear but has an extremely inferior taste. It's like mixing rain, snow, river, and mountain springs.
If this water is drunk raw, it will make people feel unspeakably uncomfortable all over the body. No matter how good the health is, after drinking such a bowl of water, you will also experience what sub-health is after half an hour. If you look for it, you can't find anything wrong, but it feels like something is wrong.
Therefore, An Wenxuan once thought that the faint bitterness and astringency in his mouth came from water, so he had to dig a deep well this time.
But then I found out that it was not, but from salt. As for the process of discovery, it was very simple, that is, one day An Wenxuan was tired of eating meat, so he asked Azhu to specially steam a few potatoes for him, and he dipped the potatoes in salt to eat, and as a result, he found the culprit.
Therefore, An Wenxuan wanted to purify the salt a little, because the amount used was not large, so the workload was not large.
After Sharjah went out to connect the waters, An Wenxuan asked Murong Fengwu to be his assistant to help him with his work. Murong Tianlong was curious and had nothing to do, so he also followed them to the small kitchen in the side courtyard.
"Feng Wu, boil water, Wu will give you a way to make a fortune. An Wenxuan sat on the chair and commanded in a big way.
"Oh. Murong Fengwu obediently played the role of a little maid at this time.
It's just that this little girl is a little tough, I saw her point with her hand, and the pile of firewood under the stove was blasted by her. Well, it's "boom", the fire is on all sides, it is in full bloom, and the momentum is extremely extraordinary.
"Feng Wu, you're awesome. An Wenxuan clapped his hands with tears in his eyes.
Murong Fengwu waved his hand at him, indicating that it was trivial and not worth mentioning.
"Wenxuan, what are you doing boiling water?" dragged a large pile of firewood to the stove again, stuffed it down, and almost stretched the stove out of the stove before Murong Fengwu came back and sat down and asked An Wenxuan.
"I'll deal with the salt, this salt doesn't taste good. An Wenxuan explained to the two siblings, Murong Tianlong and Murong Fengwu.
"What to do with the salt?" a voice suddenly came out ghostly. First, the voice arrived, and then the people began to appear, and as soon as they appeared, they were already sitting next to An Wenxuan.
Although it was Sharjah from the voice, An Wenxuan was still taken aback and complained: "Master, don't play like this in the future, it will scare people to death." β
Are all the archmaguses so weird? Not being a killer is a waste of resources.
An Wenxuan didn't know that Sharjah was killed by him, so he had to use magic as much as possible to make himself move.
After complaining, An Wenxuan said: "It's very simple, after the water is boiled, put the salt in it and melt it." β
"Water boiling? Sharjah disagreed. Then An Wenxuan saw that the water in the pot was all empty, and when he looked up, he was caught in the air by Sharjah, and the fire element was covered, and it all turned into water vapor.
"What about next?" Sharjah asked. An Wenxuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, and asked Murong Fengwu to take two large pieces of salt and throw them directly into the cloud of water vapor. "Master, dissolve them. β
"What's next?" Master Sharjah's efficiency is not ordinary. Almost after An Wenxuan finished speaking, this gentleman had already completed the task with high efficiency and efficiency.
"Master, you can find a clean-looking stone and cut it into a large bowl, and then you can find a way to seep the water through the bowl, remember, it seeps through, and then steam the water you get. β
Aren't you a cow? I'm going to see how good you are.
It turns out that a cow is a cow, and a cow from another world is still a cow. Sharjah became a superb magician at this time, no, what is magic, people are magicians.
A large bluestone floated in the air, and then each of the six sides was cut into a cuboid, and then the cuboid became two, and then the middle was cut into the hollow, and the water vapor poured in, and the two cuboid hollow stones merged into one, and then the stone disappeared into the air with a scream, and then continued to ......
"What about down there?"
Sharjah displayed a small half-crystalline mixture of powder particles in front of An Wenxuan in front of him, allowing him to watch it to his heart's content.
"Below......"
An Wenxuan was really about to burst into tears, "Feng Wu, find a clean wooden bowl and put this in it." ...... Master, grind it finer, the finer the better, I know, you can do it. β
An Wenxuan finally couldn't help but hide his face with his hands. In fact, few people know that some good quality coarse salt not only beats refined salt in terms of nutrients, but also tastes much better than refined salt. An Wenxuan knows a famous barbecue master, and one of his secrets is to "use only coarse salt", and disdain for those various kinds of refined salt.
As far as An Wenxuan knows, those good quality coarse salt has always been in short supply, and it is favored by many chefs in this industry. The use of coarse salt and refined salt makes a great difference in the taste of the dishes.
Of course, this is talking about those who produce good coarse salt, and some coarse salt contains some ingredients that are not suitable for absorption by the human body, and it is possible to eat poisoning if you eat too much.
An Wenxuan didn't think about purifying refined salt, but just filtered out the insoluble or slightly soluble impurities in the salt block. Using stone seepage water as filtration was the only method An Wenxuan thought of at this time. If you don't have Sharjah, just make the stone thin, and the water seeps quickly.
The usual color of the salt blocks in the manor is a little green and yellow, but there are other other colors that are not very noticeable.
Judging from the taste, An Wenxuan estimated that this salt was neither sea salt nor rock salt, but most likely the salt from the salt lake.
After learning the method of refining refined salt, the Murong brothers and sisters hurriedly said goodbye and went to make a fortune! Fortunately, the female general of the Yang Sect and the four swordsmen of Meilan Zhuju were left to serve him, otherwise An Wenxuan would be sad again.
After dinner, Xu Fan's version of She Taijun and the quiet version of Mu Guiying left only Meilan Zhuju and the four sword servants in the inner garden, and the rest of the Yang family's daughters were sent to the cultivation ground to practice. An Wenxuan didn't care about this, and asked Mei Jian to call the iron lion into the inner courtyard, and when the iron lion saw that it was night, An Wenxuan was still looking for him, thinking that there was something urgent, so he hurried over.
"Uncle Tie, is there a kind of hose that is empty in the middle, it becomes soft when heated, and it becomes hard when it cools? I want to make something," An Wenxuan said as he gestured with the style.
The iron lion breathed a sigh of relief, and after a little thought, he said respectfully: "Young master, most of the pectin can be softened when heated, and it will become hard when it is cold, the tube you said is not ready-made, but it is not troublesome to do, as long as the mage apprentice makes an iron box, opens a round hole, and then puts a round iron rod in the center of the round hole, stretches it out and fixes it on the iron box, and pours the melted pectin after heating into the iron box, and after the pectin leaks out from below is cold, it is the hose that the young master wants?"
An Wenxuan listened to what Tieshi said, and thought that the hose could be made by itself, and it could also be heated to soften and dissolve, and it should be successful to see that the tap water should be successful.
"I saw that every time Azhu and the others helped me prepare water for washing, they had to carry a wooden bucket to the well, and walked back and forth a few times, so they wanted to build a water tower at home, well, it is a big bucket at a high place to catch the water from the fountain, and then connect it to the room where water is needed with a hose, and the water flows to a lower place, so that as long as there is water in the water tower, it will avoid the trouble of carrying water back and forth. β
The iron lion suddenly realized: "Ah, so that's the case, what the young master said is a good idea!"
"Hehe, you buy some pectin tomorrow first, make some hoses and I'll try it", An Wenxuan didn't think about the question of the water pump himself, so he had to answer it first.
After the iron lion left, An Wenxuan first solved the problem of the faucet, since it is a homemade hose, it can be made thin and soft, and the hose can be folded without water and tied tightly with a rope, the water pressure is not high, and the water should be able to be turned off, but it is too inconvenient to use it like this.
An Wenxuan recalled the water equipment at home when the house was renovated, the kitchen, which was all metal faucets, the bathroom, also metal, etc., there was a drifting rubber ball in the toilet, and when the water was full, the buoyancy could make the rubber plug automatically block the water inlet.
As long as he prepares a rubber ball smaller than the inner diameter of the hose, and leads out a pillar, just like a lollipop, first put it into the water pipe, and then heat the water pipe, and after the water pipe becomes soft, the inner diameter of the water pipe at the opening is less pressed, so that the water flow is flushed, the rubber ball will automatically block the water pipe, and the water will not flow out, as long as the column on the rubber plug is pushed into the pipe, the water will naturally flow out, and you can also make a fixture on the column, which can be fixed after pushing it up, and you need to manually let him go to reset, so that the faucet is doneγ
After the faucet figured it out, he looked back and thought about the water pump, An Wenxuan knew that no matter what kind of water pump, it was inseparable from atmospheric pressure, and blades needed to be used, but the blades like electric fans were too troublesome to make, if you wanted a lot of them, you could first use wood to make a wooden mold, and then use glue to make it, and now use it at home, it is too troublesome to make spiral blades.
After thinking about it repeatedly, he remembered the water gun made of bamboo tube he played with when he was a child in the countryside, making a small hole in the bamboo, wrapping a rag around a chopstick, and then pulling it back like a syringe, and then sucking the water into the bamboo tube, and then pushing it upside down and in the air, it would spray the water high, huh......
He thought silently in his heart, and finally came up with a way, so he prepared an empty cylinder, three openings, which can be made with iron and hard glue, and two of the openings are placed above the opening, and a pectin ball is placed above the opening, and the ball is larger than the opening.
The third opening is on the side, make a piston, the piston pulls outward, the air pressure in the middle of the cylinder is reduced, due to the dual action of gravity and pressure, the rubber ball above will block the water outlet, and at the same time, the rubber ball below will be lifted due to the reduction of pressure in the cylinder, and the water below will be sucked into the cylinder cavity.
The piston pushes inward, pressing the rubber ball at the water inlet, and the rubber ball above is pushed open by the water flow, and the water is sprayed upward, the greater the thrust, the higher the water can be lifted!
After thinking about it like this, he called Lan Jian to bring a pen and paper, drew a picture of the water pump, and handed it to Mu Guiying, the quiet version, and asked her to arrange someone to make a few such pumps tomorrow.
Early the next morning, the Iron Lion brought an alchemist, Glasgow, to the manor with his three wives and concubines and six children.
Glasgow used to be poor at home, and after cultivation, he became a relative supported by the family, because he was a commoner but became an alchemist, and when his wife got married, he had one more concubine to marry, and now the eldest son is ten years old, and his name Gray has not even reached the second order, it seems that there is no chance, and he does not want to reach the fourth order before the age of fourteen.
After graduating from the junior college, he did not reach the peak of the fourth order, and if he still wanted to study in the intermediate college, he had to pay the tuition fees by himself, and with the current conditions in Glasgow, it seems that he could not afford to send it. The youngest is a daughter, only four years old, and she is too timid to open her mouth.
An Wenxuan instructed Iron Lion to arrange a house for the Glasgow family in the outer garden, and Iron Lion saw that An Wenxuan had no other instructions, so he led Glasgow's wife and children out of the inner garden.
After recovering his thoughts, An Wenxuan called Chen Zihan's version of Yang Bajie and instructed: "Chunhua, you go to the tent and get 12,000 gold coins and give them to Glasgow." Then he said to Glasgow: "Today you will go to Ba and prepare all the things you need." β
Glasgow said hesitantly: "Young master, do you want to send someone with me?" Today is the first day of employment, just hand over so many gold coins to him alone, aren't you afraid that he will run away?
An Wenxuan happily patted Glasgow's shoulder and said: "Don't be suspicious of employing people, don't use suspicious people, you will find that in the future, you will get far more than these twelve thousand gold coins for doing things with me, if you take the money now and leave, it can only be your loss!"
The words not only expressed his absolute trust in Glasgow, but also showed his strong self-confidence, thinking that he was flying wildly, but he didn't expect Glasgow to just respond: "Yes", which made An Wenxuan very depressed.
After Glasgow took the money and left, An Wenxuan came to the outer garden, called a few male servants, and arranged to build a large pool on the top of the corner tower.
The corner tower was originally the tallest building in the manor, and it was easy to install a large pectin box on top of it, and at noon, the iron lion also made the pectin tube, and the reciprocating water pump made in Glasgow, although more complicated than the hose, only made one or two, and it was also made at noon.
An Wenxuan personally commanded the hose to be connected to the reciprocating water pump, as long as the hose was docked with the water pump joint, a slightly thicker layer of hot pectin solution was dropped, and after cooling, it was sealed and connected, although it was ugly, but no one cared, and everyone didn't know what he was going to do.
After connecting the equipment, An Wenxuan personally twitched the piston, quickly pushed and pulled dozens of times, only to hear the iron lion on the corner tower shouting violently to this side: "Young master, why is no one lifting water, but there is water in this pool?!"
An Wenxuan handed the piston lever in his hand to Chen Zihan's version of Yang Bajie, who was eager to try, and asked her to continue pulling, and he led Murong Fengwu and the Yang family generals and others to run up to the corner tower quickly, and saw the hose shoot a small column of water into the water tank.
"Haha, it's convenient to take a shower now. An Wenxuan hugged Murong Fengwu and laughed.
Murong Fengwu looked at the white column of water, glanced at the iron lion, and asked incredulously, "Wenxuan, this water flows directly from the well?"
An Wenxuan pointed to the well and said, "Yes, don't you see that the spring flowers are pulling? As soon as she pulls the water, it will be pumped up!"
Murong Fengwu suddenly shouted, "Chunhua, you speed up!"
After she instructed Yang Chunhua (Eighth Sister), she asked Tieshi to write down the time when she had just started pumping water to see how long it would take to fill the tank. An Wenxuan saw that Murong Fengwu's face was extremely serious, and he secretly laughed in his heart, as for it, isn't it just a water pump? But he saw that Murong Fengwu didn't seem to understand, so he let her try.
The well is forty or fifty meters away from here, and the height is not low, after all, An Wenxuan wants to ensure that water can be used on the second floor, but Yang Bamei alone pumped up the water in less than ten minutes, if it is carried with a bucket, it may just be a round trip!
"Wen Xuan, can this pumping be faster?"
"Yes, make that piston bigger and stronger, make the water pipe bigger, and push and pull half a bucket of water at a time. β
After Murong Fengwu and Tie Shi heard this, the two glanced at each other, nodded to each other again, their faces suddenly turned pale, and they said in unison: "Wenxuan, this is a big trouble."