Chapter 113 Waterwheel
After Liu Xiu's repeated questioning, the Luosang father and son hesitated to tell the truth.
Their injuries were caused by participating in a group fight caused by water fighting with the village next door.
There is a small reservoir more than ten miles upstream of the small river in Linbian Village. The water in the reservoir is connected to the irrigation of fields along the river in recent dozens of miles. The fields along the coast are clearly divided, with the river as the boundary. The fields on the left belong to Linbian Village, and the fields on the right belong to Shanglin Village.
It’s not during this busy farming season. Both villages need water irrigation, but there is only one reservoir, and the water level is there. If the water from the reservoir flows to Linbian Village, most of the fields in Shanglin Village will not be able to irrigate. On the contrary, if it flows to both sides, there will be no water available in nearly half of the fields downstream...
Therefore, in order to compete for the water flow in the reservoir, the two villages had a dispute for a while, and a chaotic fight between hundreds of people a few days ago. This is how the injuries of the father and son of Luosang came from.
Until now, the water flow problem has not been completely solved, so maybe when will the two villages have to fight for this matter?
After understanding the cause and effect of the matter, Liu Xiu didn't know what to say. The reservoir did not belong to a certain village. If we follow it, we were still built together many years ago by the two villages.
The fight caused by the fight for water cannot be divided into the right or wrong questions. The husband said that the mother was right and the mother said that the mother was right, and Liu Xiu could not run to beat the people in Shanglin Village for this.
Liu Xiu lived in the countryside when he was a child, and he had experienced this kind of thing. The two villages fought each other frequently. The rural people were not as angry as soon as they got up, and there were no fewer things to kill people, and even the officials were not easy to manage.
"Anyway, don't worry about this matter, Mr. Liu, the village chief will find a way to solve it." In the end, the father of Luosang said helplessly. In order to compete for water, the two villages have to work hard almost every year, and everyone is used to it.
After pondering for a while, Liu Xiu said in confusion: "It's not a solution for you to continue like this. It's impossible to fight one every year, right? It's not a good thing to hurt anyone. It's not a good thing to delay the things in the field."
"What else can you do if you have always been like this? Hum, don't worry. I will beat them when I recover from my injuries. If I beat them up, it will be fine." Lausanne raised his head and said in a muffled voice.
Liu Xiu was speechless, you are almost missing your arm and leg and still beat him? Don’t lose your life.
Actually, if you think about it, this is the real life of most people. Their family matters are trivial, and the trivial matters that concern the people, and the warriors are too far away from them. It is a great thing to do when they are entangled in their neighbors.
Thoughts flashed, Liu Xiu asked in confusion: "I see that the stream outside the village is not big, but it flows continuously all year round. Logically speaking, irrigating the fields is enough. There is no need to compete for water in the reservoir again, right?"
Lausanne's father said: "It is true that the fields are higher than streams, and the water in the stream cannot flow into the fields. I can't water many dry crops in a day, and I need a lot of water in the rice fields. When should I mention it? Only the water in the upstream reservoir flows down the ditches can satisfy the irrigation of the fields."
The corners of his mouth twitched, and Liu Xiu said speechlessly, "Didn't you think about raising the water level of the stream on the spot to irrigate the fields?"
"Mr. Liu means to build another reservoir, right? That's unrealistic. The fields are right by the stream. When the water level rises, it will flood many fields. Besides, the streams are constantly around the year, and the reservoir cannot be built." Dad Lausanne shook his head and said.
Liu Xiu had a headache and said, "There is no need to repair the reservoir. Just get a few water trucks on the shore?"
"Waterwheel? What is a waterwheel?" Lausanne and his father looked at each other with a confused look on their faces.
Well, Liu Xiu guessed that he had to pretend to be an inventor again and explained the purpose of the water truck roughly. The father and son were shocked. There was such a thing?
Liu Xiuxin said that water trucks can not only be used to raise the water level to irrigate crops, but also added a few simple devices to build a mill to grind flour and spring rice.
After thinking for a while, Liu Xiu saw that it was still early, and said, "How about this, I will find the village chief and call the village carpenters and blacksmiths. Everyone will work together to build a water truck today. You can follow a few of them to solve the problem of irrigation once and for all, so that there will be no need to fight with the next village for water competition in the future."
The structure of a water truck is simple and can be made in half a day if you have enough manpower and materials. Although Liu Xiu is not a bad person, he doesn't want to see the villagers fighting to the death and doing things every year to fight for water. There is no need to hide it.
If this problem can be solved, it will be a major event related to the entire village. The ancestors have benefited from generation to generation, and the father and son of Luosang can no longer sit still.
"Mr. Liu, wait for a moment, I'll go find the village chief now." Dad Lausanne stood up with a cane and said.
Liu Xiu immediately stopped him and said, "Uncle, it's inconvenient for you to have injuries on your body. I'd better go there and walk a few more steps."
"What can I do? Mr. Liu, just sit there. The stream, the stream, where is it dead? Go and find your village chief grandfather..."
Not long after, the old village chief who received the news came. When he heard that Liu Xiu could get a water truck to solve the problem of irrigation in the fields, he immediately left in a hurry to summon the carpenter and blacksmith. How could he look old?
Then, Linbian Village became lively. A large group of people came to the river and moved wood to build water trucks under the guidance of Liu Xiu. With the lessons of mosquito coils last year, no one doubted the authenticity of the water trucks that Liu Xiu mentioned, and they were all full of energy.
In the tinkling work here, a group of villagers from Shanglin Village slowly gathered across the river to watch from the other side of the river, holding knives, forks and sticks in their hands. It was like you, Linbian Village, whether there were so many people who wanted to fight or what, but this side didn't need to pay attention to it at all.
The water truck is not a high-tech one, and Liu Xiu even mentioned only one thing, and the carpenters in Linbian Village understood that there were many people and great power. After working hard, they made a ten-meter-high water truck at noon.
When the water truck was installed in the small river and the river water washed the water truck and brought the water to a high place, the entire Linbian Village was sensational, and people cheered and the problem that had been troubled by ancestors for generations was solved in this way. How could we not be excited?
After being excited, they were sad. Many people even knelt down and cried bitterly. If there were water trucks earlier, so many villagers would not have been disabled or even died due to the armed fight caused by water fights.
"There are no more waters in Shanglin Village, we will not fight for the reservoir in Linbian Village. You can play for yourself, it's best to drown you."
"Did you see it? This is called a water wheel. Mr. Liu said it can not only be used to water the ground, but also grind flour and pound rice. Last year, you learned to make mosquito coils in our village. You will also learn this water wheel shamelessly, right? Genggugugugugugu, don't want to see you again..."
After the water truck was made out, the effect was immediate. The villagers who were not in the way of dealing with Shanglin Village immediately shouted at the villagers of Shanglin Village opposite. The villagers of Shanglin Village opposite were shocked and confused when they looked at the water truck, and they could not answer their mouths when they looked at each other.
"Mr. Liu, you have helped us again. I don't know how to thank you." The old village elder looked at Shuiche in tears, and immediately knelt down at Liu Xiu when he spoke.
Liu Xiu was startled and quickly helped him up and said, "It will make me lose my life. This will make me die for you. And I just came up with an idea. Everyone is the one who takes action and can't bear such a big gift."
"For the sake of this, Mr. Liu, you don't know how many casualties and injuries will be reduced after having a water truck. It's just a small task for you, but for us it's a huge matter for countless living people. I must kneel down." The old village elder burst into tears and insisted on kneeling for Liu Xiu.
"Thank you, Mr. Liu, please bear to kneel down..."
Before Liu Xiu could stop the old village chief from kneeling stubbornly, the other villagers reacted and didn't know who was calling out, so a group of people knelt down at Liu Xiu.
He put his heart in his heart. Thinking that when he was a child, he was killed and injured in the village in his hometown because of a fight for water, Liu Xiu fully understood the mood of these villagers, and his eyes were a little red.
Facing the villagers kneeling all over the ground, Liu Xiu said in a deep voice: "What are you doing? Get up. I'm just a simple task. If you do this again, I will never step into your Linbian Village in the future. I will do what I say. If you don't get up immediately, I will turn around and leave!"
Seeing this, the villagers were afraid that Liu Xiu would be really angry and turned around and left, so they had to get up, but when they looked at Liu Xiu's eyes one by one, the gratitude was beyond words...
Seeing that the villagers were all up, Liu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief in secret. The villagers would kneel down and kowtow at any time. This was also the reason why Liu Xiu did not set foot in the village.
Next, the iron was hit while it was hot, and the old village chief arranged for the villagers to step up the installation of more water trucks to solve the irrigation problem once and for all.
Liu Xiu ignored the follow-up matters, but only warned some precautions for frequently applying oil to the bearings of the water truck to reduce frictional damage, explained the mill's idea, and then returned to his home in Lausanne.
It was already afternoon, and Lausanne's mother had already arranged a table of food and enthusiastically kept it at his house, and Liu Xiu stayed for dinner.
However, a farce happened while eating, and the old village chief brought several villagers with crutches to Liu Xiu to ask her to apologize.
After asking, Liu Xiu was amused and crying, but Sister Luosang thought his medical books were valuable. She stole a few books to ask if the village could sell them for money. As a result, the village got the source of the medical books by a few words, which led to this release.
So, the Lausanne family was ashamed and after returning the medical books, they all accompanied them.
Liu Xiu was so angry and funny about this matter. Although Liu Ying was a bit disgusting, Liu Xiu couldn't really do anything to her. If she stayed there, she would only cause trouble for the family. She simply lost sight of her eyes and immediately packed the medical books and left them back to the mountain after the meal.
Most of the medical books and medical experiences that Shang Songnian collected throughout his life were given to Liu Xiu. The escort agency used two carriages to deliver them. Originally, the old village chief wanted some villagers to help Liu Xiuyun back to the mountains, but Liu Xiu carried a large bundle of books like a hill on his shoulder with one hand and waved his hand and left.
Chapter completed!