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Chapter 49

Today, there was another unprecedented rainstorm, and the already wet soil formed a low-lying area. Lin Xinshu kept frowning on the way home in the car, looking out the window.

Nowadays, rich people all go to buy high-priced old rice to live, but those poor people who can’t afford this price can only sit on the side of the road and wait bitterly, waiting for a handful of rice to be scattered on the ground, and then I hurried over to pick it up bit by bit pitifully.

hold on!Hold on a little longer.

It doesn't rain all the time, there's always a way.

When Lin Xinshu came home, he went upstairs without saying a word, and kept flipping through the books.

Can always think of a way to solve it.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" There was a knock on the door outside the house. Lin Xinshu went downstairs and saw two children. After turning on the light, he could see their faces clearly. They were his students.

Quickly asked: "What's the matter with you? Is something wrong?"

Yu Shui scratched his head, looked at Lin Xinshu and said, "Teacher, we..."

Seeing Yu Shui's stupid look, Qian Xiaoxiao, a girl at the side, hurriedly stopped her and said, "Forget it, don't talk about it, let me talk about it, we found that the woman who sells grain in the west has suffered the same disaster as us. , but it doesn’t seem to be affected at all. Nowadays, everyone regards food as more important than life. No matter how expensive the food is, how can they sell it with good intentions? And their family is not a good person at first glance. So Yu Shui and I prepared to sneak into Liang Tian in their backyard at night, but there was a vicious dog in their backyard that was not tied to a leash, luckily we ran fast and nothing happened."

"Then we drilled a small hole outside the wall, and found that there seemed to be a round wooden frame in their grain field, and there were small buckets working outside the frame to drain the excess water in the field. into a ditch next to it."

Log shelves?

"Can you still draw it?" Lin Xinshu's tone was full of tension and excitement.

If there is such a thing, then everyone will be able to eat it after the autumn harvest this year.

Qian Xiaoxiao said with a smile, "Of course."

In less than half an hour, Qian Xiaoxiao drew the wooden frame on the paper.

Lin Xinshu picked up the paper and studied it continuously, and smiled happily for a while, all the anxiety and unwillingness of the past few days were swept away.

"We'll look for a craftsman tomorrow morning to see if we can make this wooden shelf. With this, we can all have enough to eat."

In the early morning of the next day, the three of them took the paper and looked for a carpenter who could make the project, and almost all of them agreed.

"This wooden frame is too complicated. This water wheel does not need manpower or livestock to pull it. Nowadays, there are very few people who can make it. He died years ago."

"Then do you know where the family lives now?" Lin Xinshu asked eagerly.

The carpenter said with a wry smile: "I know, but don't think about it, that person will definitely not do it for you."

"Why?"

"The old carpenter was a good man before he was alive. Sometimes he would help some poor people for nothing, but how many carpenters are there in Shanghai Beach? The old carpenter was in poor health, and he often just Do it, rest for more than half a month, and the family has always been poor, so his son attaches great importance to money. If you don’t have a lot of coins, he is definitely not willing. Besides, this waterwheel is mostly It is his family's ancestral handicraft, as you said, it can really benefit the grain fields, why hasn't he told everyone about it until now?"

"And you probably know about that man's son, who is the only one in the west that sells grain."

"It's really unlucky. I have to go back and ask them to make the things I stole from their house. If they see this wooden shelf, they will definitely not be able to help." Qian Xiaoxiao said with some frustration.

Although Lin Xinshu was a little disappointed after hearing what the carpenter said, how could he give up at this point?He comforted him and said, "How will you know if you don't try?"

Seeing that Mr. Qian insisted on going to the family's house, Qian Xiaoxiao hurriedly stopped him and said, "Sir, you can't go. If they see this paper, they will definitely type you out."

At this time, Yu Shui, who was silent at the side, said: "Sir, I used to have a master carpenter. Let's see if we can do it."

After hearing this, Qian Xiaoxiao excitedly slapped Yu Shuida on the head: "Idiot! Why didn't you say it earlier!"

The muddy ground in the village was very wet due to the rain. Lin Xinshu reminded the two people in front to be careful.

A dilapidated fence surrounded a not-so-big brick house, and Yu Shui shouted outside: "Master Liang! Are you there, Master Liang?"

After a long time, the people in the house opened the door, but the three of them saw a very thin middle-aged man, slumped, opened the door with no energy at all, and asked suspiciously, "Who are you?"

"Master Liang is me, and I am Xiao Yushui." Seeing Master Liang's appearance, Yu Shui couldn't help but feel a little sour in his eyes.

Master Liang used to be his half-master. Yu Shui’s family has been very poor since he was a child, and only one-third of an acre of land supports a family of five. Well, I want to send Xiao Yushui there, at least I can learn a skill, and I won't starve to death in the future.

However, Xiao Yushui liked reading very much at that time, but the family had no money and could not go to school at all. During the few months at Master Liang's house, he worked during the day and read at night.

One night, Master Liang got up at night and saw Xiao Yushui studying hard. He felt sore. He had no wife and no children. He was just such an apprentice, and he wanted to pay for his studies, so he gave the money he had hidden for many years to him. Xiao Yushui, and the two have been apart for several years since then.

Xiao Yushui ran over and hugged Master Liang, choked up and said, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

When Master Liang saw that it was Xiao Yushui, he hurriedly called people in. After Lin Xinshu entered the room, he handed the blueprint of the waterwheel to Master Liang. Seeing that Master Liang was looking at the blueprint and did not answer for a long time, he asked a little nervously: "Can I Can do it?"

Master Liang paused, and said: "This craft is a bit complicated. After I study it for a few days, you can choose as many people as you like." After speaking, he turned and went into the room.

Yu Shui looked at Master Liang's appearance, and quickly explained: "Sir, don't blame my master, others are like this, they can't let go when they see wood, especially this kind of challenge, but I think my master should be able to do it. "

Lin Xinshu frowned a little: "It's okay, it's the best if only Master Liang can make it, if not..." If it doesn't work, let that person make the waterwheel, and In Beiping, if there is no more food relief, the battle of sincerity and righteousness will be difficult.

Late at night, Lin Xinshu was lying on the bed and couldn't sleep. Zhong Chengyi hadn't written a letter for half a year.

Whether he was injured, whether he lost weight, everything affected Lin Xinshu. Looking at the moonlight outside the window, Lin Xinshu missed Zhong Chengyi very much at this time.

"It's done! It's done!" Master Liang ran out of the back room excitedly.

Yu Shui and Qian Xiaoxiao, who were still asleep, woke up from the dream, Qian Xiaoxiao rubbed his eyes and said, "What happened?"

"Waterwheel, it's the waterwheel!"

The three of them walked into the house, only to see a rotating water wheel pouring water from one side to the water basin on the other side little by little.

Lin Xinshu, who had been frowning all this time, finally smiled, with tears in his eyes, and bowed to Master Liang, "Thank you, Master Liang."

Master Liang waved his hands hurriedly, and said with some emotion: "I should thank you for sending this blueprint here. With this waterwheel, we can have a good harvest this autumn."

Brother Ayi, you have to wait for me.

A few months later, Master Liang's waterwheels had spread across every field, and patches of golden rice fields covered the entire land. Two meters, and will never die from hunger again.

"Look at you guys! What are they!"

"And ours!"

Bags of rice mixed with a lot of chaff were thrown on the woman's face. Seeing this, the woman hurriedly explained: "That's not the case, listen to my explanation! Hey, don't do this, don't smash it!"

And the man at the side just stood aside tremblingly, whispering: "I told you not to sell like this."

The woman's ears were sharp, so she picked up a broom beside her and beat the man up, cursing at the same time: "You useless thing! You are still scolding me! You will hide! You can't do anything! You still run! You still run away! run!"

However, when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, Lin Xinshu finally received another letter from Zhong Chengyi.

Spring came really early this year, and when the weather warms up and everyone discusses things, it is easy to get sleepy.The fighting is not so violent anymore.The peach blossoms you planted in the backyard of your home should all be in bloom. You took care of these flowers and plants with care. I still remember that I was sitting on the bench and looking at you, thinking that people are more beautiful than flowers.

There are also peach blossoms here in Beiping, but they seem to be less delicate than those in the south. Seeing these delicate and beautiful flowers now, it can be said to be like seeing things and thinking about others.

A few days ago, Lao Yan got a flower from nowhere. He said what it was called lilac, and that the flowers in the foreigners had a language, and lilac represented longing. I don’t know where he got it from. This thing, no matter what you say, you have to put the flowers in an envelope and send them home to show to his daughter-in-law. Isn’t that stupid?

Xinshu, apart from missing you, everything is fine here. Take good care of yourself and wait for me to come back.

Lin Xinshu finished reading the letter with a smile, and when he was about to put the envelope back, he saw something in the envelope.

The author has something to say: This book is pure nonsense, if there are logic bugs, I will fix it~