After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

Qin Yao stayed at Carpenter Liu's house until two or three o'clock in the afternoon. She determined all the details and drew him a scaled-down detailed drawing before going home with a growling stomach.

The sunshine is just right at noon. After harvesting the wheat in Liu Dafu's field, wheat stalks are already being burned. At a glance, the fields in the village are full of busy farmers.

The large stretch of fertile land near the river to the east of the village belongs to Liu Dafu's family. Every year when spring plowing comes, villagers come to the house with chickens and ducks, wanting to rent his family's land for farming.

Qin Yao remembered Old Man Liu's suggestion to rent Liu Dafu's farmland for farming as early as possible.

But now, whenever she thinks of the exhaustion of working in the wheat fields a few days ago, all the cells in her body are screaming: Run!

Forget it, there are still some days before spring plowing, let's get the hydraulic stone mill out first and check the situation. If the situation is not good, it's not too late to go find Liu Dafu.

With an idea in mind, Qin Yao got busy with her hydraulic stone mill.

She first cleared a piece of flat land near the bridge on the north riverbank near her home.

Then he went to the lower reaches of the river and brought back two boulders weighing several hundred kilograms.

During the whole day, apart from eating, drinking, and sleeping, the rest of the time was spent hammering on the stone with a pickaxe.

After beating like this for five days, two millstones with a diameter of 80 centimeters and a thickness of 20 centimeters were produced.

Then a hole was punched in the center of the millstone, a rotating shaft and a wooden handle were installed, and a large millstone was ready.

At the same time, news came from Carpenter Liu that all the waterwheel parts had been obtained, and someone was sent over to ask her to assemble them together to avoid making mistakes.

Qin Yao went over after breakfast, and together with Liu Carpenter, they spent the whole day in his yard, building a waterwheel as tall as a person.

The bearing was also finished, and the two couldn't wait to see the effect. After chewing a few mouthfuls of dinner, they carried the water wheel and the bearing to the river.

The villagers were having some time after dinner. They saw Qin Yao knocking by the river these days and were curious about what she was doing.

Now they saw her and Carpenter Liu carrying waterwheels and other things towards the river bank, and they all followed them curiously.

When Qin Yao and Qin Yao arrived at the river, everyone in the village who had time to spare came.

People from the Liu family's old house were also among them. Qin Yao didn't even need to say hello, but her brothers and sister-in-law took the initiative to come over to help.

Mainly because he wanted to know what Qin Yao had done as soon as possible.

The adults dispersed the children who came over, and under Qin Yao's command, put the waterwheel into the river she had prepared. The base was filled with stones, and it started to rotate steadily in the water.

This is the first step. The next step is stone grinding and the splicing of various parts of the bearings.

No one else can get involved in this process, only Qin Yao and Liu Carpenter can operate it.

Fortunately, Qin Yao was very strong, otherwise one person would not be able to lift these heavy wooden piles.

After the assembly was completed, Qin Yao shook it to make sure it was stable, then personally lifted the boulder that she had placed by the river in advance, blocked the river with the big stone, causing the waterwheel to stop turning, and connected the other end of the stone mill with the wooden stake. Put the water wheel together and use wooden blocks to insert the gaps and knock them tightly.

After the assembly was completed, the sky had darkened, leaving only a sliver of orange sunset on the horizon.

But instead of reducing the number of villagers on the bridge, there were actually more villagers than before.

The village chief and Liu Dafu were attracted by the excitement here. Liu Ji lit a torch from home and took it down, and there was light in the open space.

Qin Yao went down to the river, removed the big rocks blocking the river, and ran ashore quickly.

Crash! Suddenly, the river water poured into the narrow river channel, forming a strong impact force. The water wheel started to rotate faster and faster, vigorously driving the bearing shaft to rotate, and transmitting the force to the handle above the millstone. The millstone slowly Turn slowly.

It's spinning! It's really spinning! Liu Carpenter shouted excitedly.

Qin Yao quickly ran over to look at the millstone. Maybe it was because of the large flow of water at the moment, and the speed was quite fast.

Really turned around? The village chief came over curiously, and everyone made way for him.

Qin Yao nodded, smiled, and asked Liu Ji to go home to get the newly sifted wheat.

Liu Ji was more excited than anyone else and ran home in a hurry to get wheat.

He saw with his own eyes that Qin Yao had been tinkering by the river for five or six days, and today she actually built such a big waterwheel and even made the millstone spin by itself. How miraculous this is! It was enough for him to brag for half a year.

Come on, come on, Mai is here!

Liu Ji rushed down with two buckets in his hands, one empty and one full of wheat.

He did know to pick up an empty bucket.

Qin Yao took the wheat, put a handful into the hole in the middle of the stone mill, and immediately heard the crunching sound.

After a while, the ground wheat grains fell out. Qin Yao pushed them with her hands, and then they fell into the wooden trough next to the stone mill and automatically fell into the empty barrel along the slope.

The village chief couldn't wait for Qin Yao's slowness, so he personally scooped up a ladle of wheat and poured it into the mill.

The crumbs that were ground for the first time fell out, and they were ground twice more to become fine flour.

Night has come, the torches by the river shine brightly, and people's surprised voices can be heard from time to time in the center.

This grinding is faster than humans, and it's effortless. Madam Qin, how did you come up with this good guy?

Qin Yao said that she had read it in a book and tested everyone's willingness to pay to use their own water mill.

Mr. Liu jumped up from the crowd and asked, Ms. Qin, would you like to release this water mill for everyone's convenience?

After asking, he was afraid that Qin Yao would think that he was using it in vain, so he immediately added: I won't use yours in vain. If you tell me the rules, everyone will be happy to do it.

Liu Ji immediately tugged on Qin Yao's sleeves. For such a good thing, there must be more usage fees.

Qin Yao hadn't thought about how to set the price for a while, but seeing that many people were eager to give it a try, she responded loudly:

It's too late today. Let's go home first. I haven't finished the water mill yet. I'll finish it in two days and come up with some rules before letting everyone know.

The villagers thought about it and realized that the water mill was indeed very simple now. It didn't even have a shed. If it rained, the food would be damaged.

Then she told Qin Yao to remember to post a rule after cleaning up and tell everyone that they were waiting to use her water mill.

Liu Dafu wanted to use it the most. His family had a lot of grain, and grinding it alone would be tiring, so he hired five people to help grind the grain.

It would be much easier if Qin Yao's water mill could be used.

All you need to do is send one person to watch and pour the grain into the stone mill, and the people who were originally turning to grind the mill can be freed up to do other things.

Someone wanted Carpenter Liu to make one for his home.

Carpenter Liu told him: To make such a water mill, the wood processing fee is at least two taels of silver, not counting the two large millstones. Mrs. Qin went to the river to find big stones and took them home and chiseled them out with her own hands.

The villagers immediately gave up the idea of ​​building a water mill for their own homes.

What can I do with those two taels of silver? Make a water mill? I'm afraid it's crazy!