Meng Yuqing is responsible for marking the lines, and Xuan is responsible for cutting.
It took the two of them a whole morning to cut out all the parts.
After lunch, the two began to assemble. With Xuan there, even if any part didn't fit, he could immediately make a new one.
When the 30-centimeter waterwheel was assembled, Xuan squatted beside it and played with it.
Meng Yuqing rubbed Xuan's face and said, "It's not over yet. We still need to build the aqueduct and guide the water flow."
Xuan nodded, picked up the wooden sticks that were as thick as two fingers and started digging.
Meng Yuqing moved a stone about ten centimeters high from the side, placed a small bowl on it, and then took a large basin from home and filled it with water.
After Xuan finished fixing the aqueduct, Meng Yuqing placed the waterwheel in a basin filled with water and turned it gently. When he saw that the water buckets in the waterwheel were successfully filled with water and the water was poured out after turning to the highest point, he knew that there was no problem with the waterwheel.
He waved towards Xuan Zhao and said, "Come on, put this end of the aqueduct here, and raise the other end above the bowl."
After Xuan did as he said, he saw Meng Yuqing turn the waterwheel again, and the water was smoothly transported from the lower basin to the higher place. Then the water bucket tilted down, and the water poured out from it and injected into the aqueduct.
The water flowed down the aqueduct into a high bowl.
"It's really been transported up." Xuan kept turning the waterwheel. "It only takes one person to turn it here. It's much more convenient than drawing water up by ourselves."
"Haha, it doesn't need anyone to turn it." Meng Yuqing grabbed Xuan's hand, stopped the small waterwheel, and continued, "The water in the basin isn't moving, but the water in the stream is flowing. The movement of the water naturally moves the waterwheel, so there's no need for anyone to turn it."
The two of them brought the small waterwheel to a small ditch. Meng Yuqing put the small waterwheel into the water. Sure enough, the water flow directly made the small waterwheel turn.
The adults washing things in the ditch and the cubs playing saw Meng Yuqing and Xuan bringing new things and ran over to see.
"Wow, what is this? It turns by itself when put into the water." Ruya reached out and touched the small waterwheel.
"These are things used for farming. We came here to test whether they can be used." Meng Yuqing replied.
"So will this work?" Ruya continued to ask.
"It's usable now. We'll make a bigger one later." Meng Yuqing took the small waterwheel out of the ditch. "When the big one is done, you all can go and take a look."
"Okay." The onlookers replied.
After the small waterwheel was completed, Meng Yuqing told Ronglin the news.
The next day, they set off and walked to the stream which was about the same size as a small river.
Meng Yuqing said to the otter beastman, "I'd like to trouble you to go down and see how deep the water is."
The otter beastman agreed and jumped into the water, then turned into a giant otter and swam down.
After a while, he surfaced and told Meng Yuqing the depth of the water.
Meng Yuqing nodded and said to him, "I understand. Come up."
After saying that, he turned to look at Xuan, "It's built right here."
After the place was determined, Xuan led the orcs to start the movement. Some people stayed here to build water wheels, while some went to dig water troughs and make aqueducts.
The large waterwheel with a diameter of ten meters, together with the frame on which it is supported, is more than twenty meters high in total.
Meng Yuqing almost never left, always watching here and adjusting the size of the parts at all times.
It took them several days to cut all the parts of the waterwheel.
The waterwheel's bearing shaft is made of a piece of high-quality wood.
The waterwheel is too large, and even after the parts are cut, assembling it is a hassle.
The crowd dismantled and reassembled the waterwheel, and replaced parts several times. When they finally finished building it, the water trough had been dug for many days, the aqueduct had been completed long ago, and Ronglin had already led people to turn the soil and sow seeds on that high ground.
Everyone was waiting for the water truck to be finished and start delivering water.
On the day when it was completely completed, many people came to the planting area to watch.
"What a big thing." An orc said as he looked at the waterwheel standing in the water.
"I heard that they want to transport water from here to there, so it has to be so high and so big." Someone heard some news.
"It's moving, look." someone said excitedly.
"Yeah, the water has really been transported up. Let's see where the water is going." Someone pulled his companion and started walking in the direction of the aqueduct.
"Run faster, run faster, we can't catch up with the water." A little orc in the front urged.
Ronglin stood at the edge of the farmland, staring at the water trough they had dug with a nervous expression.
There was a burst of cheering, accompanied by the sound of running water.
The water from the third stream flowed down the aqueduct into the trough at his feet.
"That's great! There's a way to transport water to higher places. Then there are many places in our planting area that can be used. We don't have to find low places to dig canals." Ronglin happily grabbed Luo's hand.
Luo hugged him gently and rubbed him. As a partner, he knew best how much Rong Lin cared about the matters in the planting area. He himself was not an orc with any great abilities, nor was he outstanding in Qingshan City. He was just an ordinary person.
All he could do was to accompany Ronglin and silently support what Ronglin wanted to do.
After having water trucks to transport water, the people of Qingshan City couldn't help but reclaim the higher ground in the planting area and expand the area of the planting area.
It’s just a matter of building a few more water wheels. Just build them. After all, there’s no such thing as too much food.
So, those who had been busy plowing the soil and sowing in early spring and were about to receive their wages and return to the temporary tribe postponed their return and stayed to continue helping.
To be honest, they don’t really want to go back. Some of them even think it doesn’t matter if they don’t get paid. They are willing to keep working here and stay in Qingshan City.
Meng Yuqing thought that since they already had water trucks, they might as well raise the river embankments on both sides of the larger flowing water sources near Qingshan City.
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