Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 74
After spending an entire afternoon, the craftsman finally built a model of a wind-powered waterwheel that was shrunk many times for Sun Xin according to Sun Xin's request.

After installing it and trying it, the two found that there was a problem with the design of the wind-powered waterwheel. After the windmill turned, it could not drive the waterwheel.

But now that there is a model, everything is easy to handle. Sun Xin asked the craftsman to continue to experiment by removing the parts on the model, making bigger wind blades or thinner water buckets, and finally choosing a suitable solution.

After a day of experimentation, the craftsman made a wind-powered waterwheel that could operate efficiently.

All the structures of this wind-powered waterwheel are exactly the same as the real wind-powered waterwheel, but it is only shrunk. After removing all the structures and enlarging them, it can be made into a real wind-powered waterwheel.

The carpenter was terrified, pointing to the model and said: "This is how to design this wind-powered waterwheel?"

Sun Xin nodded with a smile.

This kind of change is really a simple thing in later generations, it is not even considered an innovation, and most of it is just debugging, but for this craftsman, even if he really masters a method, no one else can do it. The method of making the tool is naturally happy.

It took only ten days for the waterwheel to be erected behind the gazebo, and the wheels of the waterwheel whizzed as soon as the wind blew.

Pipelines are attached to the back of the waterwheel.Sections of pipes lead the water to the center of the gazebo, and water is poured down from the spire in the center, forming a rain curtain-like effect in the gazebo.

Sun Xin went in and tried it after the gazebo was repaired. Because water was poured on the roof to cool down, the temperature in the gazebo was four or five degrees lower than outside. In summer, it can basically be kept below [-] degrees. Compared with It's much cooler outside.

At the same time, there is always the sound of pattering rain in the pavilion, which will also give people a very refreshing feeling psychologically.

Sun Xin, who has experienced the air-conditioning room of later generations, thinks that the effect of the self-rain pavilion is average and effective, but it is not an artifact that makes people "breath the wind under the armpit" like the legend in ancient books.

What's more, the construction cost of this thing is also very high. This small pavilion cost nearly 100 taels with an area of ​​only five or six square meters. No wonder it didn't spread quickly in later generations.

But for people who have never experienced the space-time enjoyment of air-conditioning and fans, the effect of this self-rain pavilion is completely different.

As soon as Hu Sanniang entered the gazebo, she felt very comfortable, and the annoyance of the past few days disappeared immediately.

Especially after Sun Xin put down the bamboo curtains on all sides of the gazebo, the breeze in the pavilion is gentle, cool and the sound of rain can be heard, while ensuring privacy.

Hu Sanniang liked staying in this pavilion, and she didn't even want to go out.

"Why don't we have dinner here."

Sun Xin naturally agreed.

When the couple had just finished their lunch, they saw Ya'er walking in.

"what happened?"

"Ma'am, no...it is Mrs. Hu Chen."

In fact, there was no need for Ya'er to report, she had just entered the gazebo with her front foot, followed by Hu Chen with her back foot into the rain pavilion.

Opening the gauze curtain and entering the pavilion, Hu Chen felt the cool breeze blowing on his face, and the sound of rain was gurgling, which made people feel comfortable.

In the past two days, Sun Xin has discovered that Ziyu Pavilion is a luxury building that only existed in unofficial history notes in the Song Dynasty, and ordinary people have never heard of it.

Of course, Hu Chen has never seen it before, even on Dulonggang, there is no such enjoyment. Sun Xin had the idea of ​​helping them to go to Dulonggang to repair one.

"Mother, why are you here at noon? Didn't you ask Sun Xin to pick you up first?"

"I have my own car and horses. Besides, do I have to pick a time for my daughter?"

Ya'er hurriedly brought Mazhazi for Hu Chen to sit in the gazebo.

Sun Xin asked Ya'er to add another pair of bowls and chopsticks, and said with a smile, "Have you eaten, mother? Let's eat some together."

Mrs. Hu Chen originally ate it, but when she saw the eggs and stewed noodles that the two were eating, she felt that the color of the noodles was good. Entering such a cool room in the summer, one's appetite suddenly opened up up.

"Is this water biscuit?"

Sun Xin said with a smile: "I just like to take a bite of this."

Hu Chen watched Ya'er pack a bowl of stewed noodles for her, then spooned a thick spoonful of scrambled egg sauce, mixed with a few chopsticks of summer vegetables, and finally added some sesame oil and vinegar to the bowl and stirred evenly. The aroma is overflowing,
Hu Chen's appetite whetted, he took a bite of the noodles, nodded and said: "This tastes good, do you usually eat like this?"

Sanniang smiled and said to Hu Chen: "This guy Sun Xin can't live without meat, a few eggs a day, even if he can't eat meat in summer, he must eat an egg sauce, vegan food can't be eaten now gone."

This is the truth. Before the Sun Family Village was built, Sun Xin had a shortage of meat in his stomach. At that time, he asked Xie Zhen and Jie Bao to get some seafood and game to fill it up. But hunting alone can’t feed him. For the three of them, most of the time they can only rely on bacon jerky and other tooth-beating sacrifices. The staple food on weekdays is just some grain with pickles.

During the process of building the Sun Family Village, life was also very difficult. It was still stick noodle porridge with pickles, and it was difficult for Sun Xin to drink. It was not until the economic conditions of the Zhuangzi became more abundant this year that Sun Xin stopped treating himself badly, not to mention There was an extra Hu Sanniang in the family, and he couldn't eat too badly, so he gradually resumed the eating habits of his previous life.

But Hu Chen was extremely surprised when he heard this.

"Meat is indispensable for every meal? So, you still need eggs on weekdays. Don't you want to eat hundreds of thousands of eggs a year?"

Hu Sanniang thought for a while and nodded, "That's right, I bought all the eggs raised by Zhuangzi's farmer and it's not enough for him to eat, and I often have to go to nearby villages to buy them."

Hu Chen secretly clicked his tongue when he heard this.

Hu Sanniang used to be a young lady in Hu's village, and she didn't eat much, so she didn't know what the money wasted on eating was.

But Mrs. Chen understood what it meant for Sun Xin and Hu Sanniang to eat thousands of eggs a year.

These days, an egg always costs three Wen, which is not much, but an ordinary laborer only earns three to four hundred Wen for a busy month.

Co-authored by Sun Xin and Hu Sanniang, the annual cost of eating eggs alone is equivalent to the income of a strong laborer. You must know that women do not go out to do things these days, and the money earned by a strong laborer is to support the wife and children at home. human.

Which is not so luxurious.

In this era, even the landlords are very frugal. Even in Hujiazhuang, they only eat a meal of meat every now and then. The so-called eating better and more often means eating rice noodles that are finer than ordinary people. It's just that the farmers are used to thrift.

Hu Sanniang just thought that Sun Xin liked to eat, but she didn't know that Hu Chen knew that the living conditions Sun Xin provided her had far exceeded the level she could enjoy when she was in Hu's Village.

Thinking that a mill driven by a windmill is enough to start a mill, and that such a windmill can be built just for the enjoyment of the family, is Sun Xin having a bad day?

She changed her mind and thought about Sun Xin's field when she entered Zhuangzi before. After a year, Sun Xin's field area has expanded so much, and the field is black and shiny, obviously all good fields .

Hu Chen's heart instantly understood what Hu Taigong meant before.

San Niang really came to a good family!

(End of this chapter)