Chapter 110 Waterwheel
Li Xiangyu felt his face getting hot and he coughed lightly: "That's good, I'll buy you something else next time.
Uncle, aunt, I heard some things after I came back. Grandpa and my father are old and may do some foolish things. I have already advised them, and I hope you don't bother with them. We are a family, there is no deep hatred. If you need any help in the future, just go to the old house and find someone."
"Yeah." Li Youshan responded perfunctorily.
Seeing that the others had nothing to say, Li Xiangyu felt embarrassed to stay any longer.
He said hello and left.
It doesn’t matter. The relationship has been strained for such a long time, and it can’t be mended with just a few words.
If that doesn’t work, you can start with the two smaller ones.
If you talk to them more often in the academy, will you still worry about not being able to find out how to deal with the bamboo shoots?
The Li family members didn't take his words to heart, and they packed up their things before it got completely dark.
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For the next two days, Li Wanyue devoted herself to making water for shampooing her hair.
She had studied the two bottles that Xie Yan had sent her, but could only smell a few of the ingredients.
After all, it is impossible for people to easily figure out how someone makes money.
But she doesn't go for the high-end lady route, just the country route, and what she does is enough.
She wanted the shampoo to smell better and reduce the possibility of others guessing the medicinal ingredients.
I plan to use the water steamed from the flower petals to boil medicinal herbs to make shampoo, or add some purchased incense spices, the taste should be better.
After some trials, I finally made three different flavors of shampoo, and the smell was obviously better than before.
He also asked Li Dachuan and others to cut some bamboos of different sizes and saw them into sections to hold shampoo.
I plan to go to the county town in a couple of days to order a batch of porcelain and pottery bottles. After all, there are always people with money who will look at the packaging when buying things.
After I finished making the shampoo water, I heard my father say that he had to start fetching water from the fields again, and then I remembered to test the water truck.
That night I went to Zhao Dafa's house and told him about testing the water truck the next day.
Zhao Dafa and his two sons were all making tables in the county town. When they heard that she wanted to try out the water truck, they asked her eldest son to stay and help.
If there is any problem, it is convenient to modify it in time.
The next morning, Village Chief Li directed a group of people to move the water truck to the river.
He was a little excited. If it was really as Yue said, then it would be easier for them to water the fields in the future.
The villagers were very curious about what this thing was and followed it to take a look.
"Village Chief, what is this?"
"Waterwheel."
"What's it for?"
"If it is debugged properly, we won't have to carry water for watering in the future."
The villagers were skeptical. Could this be such a good thing?
Everyone set up the waterwheel along the direction of the river and secured it securely, then fixed the wooden trough, and then used bamboo pipes to draw water.
More than an hour later, after several adjustments and modifications, Li Wanyue asked Li Dachuan to move the large rock that was blocking the waterwheel.
The waterwheel began to turn with the water flow. Small bamboo tubes were filled with water and then turned to higher places with the waterwheel.
The water in the bamboo tube is tilted and poured into the trough, and the water in the trough is led along the bamboo pipe to the canal in the distant fields.
Li Wanyue looked at the waterwheel with a smile. Watering would be easier in the future.
The eyes of the village chief and villagers lit up. If they could divert water to the fields and then dig ditches across, they would save so much effort.
Village Chief Li walked up to Li Wanyue and said excitedly: "Girl Yue, you really helped our village a lot. Everyone in our village should thank you very much."
"You're welcome."
Village Chief Li thought of something and asked, "By the way, you spent a lot of money on this waterwheel, right?"
"Uncle Dafa made it. Because it was his first time making it, some materials were wasted. The materials were all good. In order to make it durable, he also brushed it with tung oil. In total, he spent more than six taels.
Now that I have experience, I should be able to make it with 4 taels next time."
Village Chief Li nodded and said, "Since our whole village will benefit, we can't let your family pay for it. We will share the money equally among the whole village."
Li Wanyue didn't say anything, knowing that Village Chief Li didn't want the villagers to feel entitled.
If you really spread it out, it's only a little over a hundred coins per household, but it saves a lot of effort, so it's still worth it.
The village chief stood on a stone and glanced at the people present.
There isn't much to do in the village, so people would basically go and watch whenever there's something going on.
Almost everyone in the village came to the river.
He raised his hand and pressed it down, and the crowd who were still discussing suddenly quieted down.
Village Chief Li said: "There are dozens of households in our village. I have seen almost all of them. I will take this opportunity to talk to you all.
We all know how tiring it was to carry water to the fields in the past. Especially due to the terrain of the fields, it was not convenient to dig canals from here to the fields. Some fields were also too high to dig canals to divert water. This waterwheel solved this problem.
You have also seen its usefulness. When the time comes, we can just dig canals in the fields and lead the water to each household’s land, without having to carry water to irrigate the fields.
With this waterwheel, our whole village will benefit. What I mean is, this waterwheel was invented by the Li family. Since they have come up with the idea, we can't ask them to pay for it.
I just asked Yue, this waterwheel cost more than six taels of silver. If you don't believe me, you can go to Dafa's house and ask. I will personally pay one tael of silver, and the remaining five taels will be shared by all of you. If you calculate it, each family will only pay a hundred coins. What do you think?"
The villagers looked at each other, and Li Youtian, Li Yougen, Tie Niu and Zhang Mei were the first to express their opinions.
Li Youtian: "I think it's great. The whole family doesn't have to spend time and effort fetching water. We can save time to carry heavy bags in the county town. We can earn 100 coins in a few days and have more time to work. My family supports the village chief's statement and is willing to pay."
"You're right. We all know that if it doesn't rain, it takes days to water the land at home. It's very tiring. Now it's much easier. My family also supports the village chief."
Zhao Dafa’s eldest son said that the remaining balance was contributed by their family.
The villagers expressed their opinions one after another, and a small number of them were unwilling to pay.
"Village chief, this one hundred coins is not a small sum. The Li family makes money from bamboo shoots, and we don't make much money.
His family bought a bullock cart and made new clothes, so they probably earned a lot of money. Since it was his family's idea, couldn't he just pay for it? We all thank her."
Li Wanyue looked over and saw that it was someone from the Zhou family.
Someone immediately agreed, "Yes, village chief. Originally, his family didn't take us with them when they went to collect bamboo shoots. My Jia Jiawang also lost his job at Ruifulou because the Li family supplied bamboo shoots to Zuixianju. It's fine that we didn't ask them for compensation, but do they have the nerve to ask us to pay for it?"
Village Chief Li glared angrily: "What are you talking about? Who doesn't use the bamboo from the bamboo mountain to make backpacks and baskets to sell? Who doesn't use bamboo to make rattan chairs and beds? Otherwise, you pay the money, and everyone will be grateful to you."
Then he pointed at Zhou Jiawang’s mother and said, “And you, you blame Dashan’s family for your Jiawang’s loss of his job. How dare you be so shameless?
If any of you don’t want to pay, then you don’t have to use the water truck or the canal, and just continue to fetch water for your own families.”
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