I really don't want to be a rebel [infrastructure]

With the installation of the final base completed, Luo Shixing couldn't believe it when he looked at the exquisite bamboo waterwheel.

Is this the crooked parts he made before?

He looked down at the unusable parts, and then at the beautiful waterwheel, he couldn't help but put his chin on his face and said, "Ah Wei, you're not reincarnated from Luban, are you?"

Cheng Jing smiled slightly: "Where is it so exaggerated?"

He reached out and fiddled with the water wheel, and the small water wheel turned slowly, occasionally making the sound of parts rubbing against each other.

At the beginning, the bearing part may be a bit rough because the parts are too close to each other, so it is a bit difficult to turn.

Luo Shixing knew that at this time, he needed to add a little oil to the bearing.

It's just that oil is a rare item in their house, and they are reluctant to eat it. How could it be used to lubricate the waterwheel?

But this is not a troublesome thing, turn it around more, and the water wheel will rotate smoothly after the wear reaches a certain level.

Just as he was about to say this, he saw Cheng Jingwei put the waterwheel down, sprinkled some soil on the part of the bearing that needed to be rotated, and then shook it to let the soil enter the bearing.

This time, it was more difficult to turn because of the presence of soil. After Cheng Jingwei turned a few times vigorously, he shook out the soil inside again.

Luo Shixing was surprised to find that turning this time was very easy.

Cheng Jingwei gave him the bamboo water cart and said, "I just rubbed the inside with soil, it should be better now, let's play with it."

While talking, he patted Luo Shixing's head, and helped him straighten his broken hair by the way.

Luo Shixing subtly felt that this guy was really treating him like a child, so he couldn't help turning the bamboo water cart while emphasizing: "I don't want to play, I have serious things to do!"

Cheng Jingwei smiled indulgently when he saw him staring intently at the bamboo water cart: "Well, then you have to rest early, no matter what you do, let's talk about it tomorrow."

Luo Shixing reluctantly put the bamboo water cart on the table, very much like a child reluctant to part with his beloved toy.

He had been discouraged before and lost interest, but now that the waterwheel is ready, he has rekindled his enthusiasm.

If it was put in future generations, he would definitely stay up late and start doing what he likes, but now... For the sake of his eyes, let's forget it.

In case he is short-sighted and doesn't even have glasses to correct his eyesight, even if he knows the principle of glasses and how to make them, he needs to start with glass first.

Oh, this is also impossible. There is no suitable material for making transparent glass in the Central Plains. At most, it is made of colored glaze. If he wants to make glass, he needs to go to Persia and other places in the west to find materials.

Forget it, let's wash and sleep, protecting eyesight is more important.

The next day, Luo Shixing took his bamboo water cart to the stream. On the one hand, he wanted to see if the ground cage was working, and on the other hand, he wanted to see if the bamboo water cart could run smoothly and whether the slope of the water board was sufficient. .

If the inclination of the water board is not enough, it may not be able to carry the water, and there is no way to let the water fall from a high place.

As for the fact that the waterwheel is just a model, it doesn't matter. Regardless of the size of the waterwheel, as long as there is water flow, the waterwheel should be able to operate.

When he got there, he was not in a hurry to control the ground cage, but found a stone and put the water wheel on it to adjust the position, so that the water wheel of the water wheel could just touch the water surface without sinking too much so that the water wheel could not rotate.

After adjusting the angle, Luo Shixing held down the base of the waterwheel and began to observe.

Driven by the water flow, the small water wheel slowly turned, and Luo Shixing breathed a sigh of relief.

When he drew the waterwheel pattern before, he relied on his impressions, and he was not sure about many places. During the production process, Cheng Jingwei even asked him some questions occasionally, and then made fine adjustments.

Fortunately, Cheng Jingwei has rich experience, otherwise this water truck might not be able to be built so smoothly.

After the water wheel turns, the water brought up by the water board also starts to splash down, which proves that the water wheel can indeed bring the water to a relatively high position, so the design of this water wheel is no problem, wait until the real water wheel is made Time, as long as the data is enlarged proportionally.

Oh, and in this process, the size of the waterwheel must be taken care of. If the waterwheel is too large, the driving force generated by the water flow will not be enough, and the waterwheel will not be able to turn.

But that's something to consider later.

Luo Shixing put away the waterwheel and threw it into the bamboo basket, happily preparing to see the ground cage.

Before looking at the ground cage, he had already prepared himself. It is still dangerous to place the ground cage outside, and he may be attacked by fish or other wild animals.

But it doesn't matter if Luo Shixing is happy today, anyway, the waterwheel has brought him enough happiness, it's a surprise that the ground cage has something to gain, if not, just wait for the next time!

As a result, when he got there, he found that the ground cage was still intact. After he picked up the ground cage, he could vaguely see a few small palm-sized crabs running away inside!

Well, his slap is so big, he is indeed a small crab.

Luo Shixing's eyes widened. He didn't know there were crabs in the mountains before!

After all, when one thinks of crabs, the first thing that comes to mind is the sea. As for river crabs, they only have such a sense of existence when they are on the market every year.

It's just that this little crab doesn't seem to be the same as the river crab he saw. In his impression, the river crab either has fine and dense hairs on its pincers, or it's a special species like the Yangcheng Lake hairy crab, but these two kinds The crabs are all dark green in color, and it seems that it is not easy to distinguish them by looking at the color without looking at the pliers.

But this crab is different. This crab is actually dark red, or should be said to be a gradient from dark red to black, with a little bit of orange red on the abdomen and other places. It looks strange, but I don’t know if it’s delicious. .

He lifted the ground cage and opened the opening at the top and began to pour it into the bamboo basket.

No, I don't know, I was taken aback.

There are not only a few small crabs in the ground cage, but even shrimps as long as a finger!

In addition, there are a few small fish, which don't look like a lot, but it's good to enrich the recipe.

Luo Shixing was in a good mood, so he started pulling a few grasses from the nearby bushes and throwing them in.

He remembered hearing people say that if you put crabs together and nothing else, they will fight, so crab farmers will cover the crabs with a lot of grass in order to make them more honest.

After all, if crabs fight fiercely, their legs will be knocked off. Once they lack arms and legs, the crabs will not be sold if they are not in good condition.

Of course, Luo Shixing didn't care whether the crabs fought or not. He used these grasses mainly to cover the crabs, so that they would not easily crawl out when it was dark.

After finishing all this, he put the ground cage back and happily went home with the crab.

On the same day, he made a river seafood set meal. There were not many small crabs, and the shells of the crabs were relatively soft. I don't know if they were born with this or they just molted their shells.

This kind of crab should be fried to make crispy crab, but unfortunately, the wild boar doesn't have much fat, so naturally there isn't much lard left.

Luo Shixing won't use it easily now, he still has some left over for the New Year's Eve dinner, how can he eat all of it now?

So I simply chopped it together with the shrimp and made a river fresh sauce for bibimbap. The fish is still grilled fish, because it is not big, each person will share one piece, and then serve it with some green vegetables.

Not to mention that this combination looks pretty good, because the river fresh sauce only puts salt and pepper, so it is the original color.

However, after frying, both shrimps and crabs are light red, and when paired with yellow broomcorn rice, grilled small fish and green wild vegetables, the color can also be called colorful.

At least Wei Siwen felt that this meal was full of flavor and taste!

After lunch, Luo Shixing said that he would start the next test to see if the water wheel could allow him to realize the freedom of water.

However, it is not enough to test a waterwheel model. He needs more things, such as the model of the house, the surrounding environment model, and the pipeline arrangement.

If you make these things in later generations, you will definitely need resin soil or oil mud to make them, but here... Luo Shixing can only use mud and bamboo to make them.

Fortunately, making a model is not considered exquisite handicraft, as long as he can make a rough shape, even if it is a little skewed, it will not affect the effect.

At most, it doesn't look very good-looking.

He used bamboo to make the pillars and beams of the house, and used stone and mud to simulate the mountain.

From the inclination of the ground surface to the appearance of the house, it was restored as much as possible. By the way, a river channel was built beside the house, and a waterwheel was placed beside the river channel.

The next step is to design the pipeline, how to catch the water falling from the waterwheel and how to lead the pipeline into the house need to be calculated.

To be honest, for Luo Shixing, the calculation process is much easier than the production process.

Wei Siwen was obviously very interested in this, and watched Luo Shixing for several days while he was making the model.

Luo Shixing was also happy that someone came to chat with him or something, Cheng Jingwei was busy building brick kilns, and he had nothing in common with the other slaves who came to help.

Even those people didn't dare to look at Luo Shixing, nor did they dare to talk to him.

It is really lonely for Luo Shixing to be a model by himself. He once wanted to keep Wang Antong.

He did try it once, and after Wang Antong went around having fun and squashed the base that he had just made out of mud and was drying, he angrily beat Wang Antong.

But he didn't dare to use too much force, anyway, Wang Antong dared to smile at him after being beaten, so Luo Shixing sent Wang Antong to Cheng Jingwei.

It's just that Wei Siwen didn't have a job in the county government office, otherwise he would have come to live with Luo Shixing and the others long ago, so why would he need to go to Luo Shixing's place to improve the food?

On the third day of Wei Siwen's absence from work, Al really found out that something was wrong, but he didn't ask, but came directly to see what attracted Wei Siwen here, so that he would rather go here if he went back to work overtime run.

In the past, when Ale really didn't pay attention to Luo Shixing, he didn't take it to heart. Now that he knew Luo Shixing's experience, he felt that maybe his foster brother had come up with something new.

When he came over, he found out that Luo Shixing was indeed making something he had never seen before, and was very interested in what Luo Shixing made for a while, especially when Luo Shixing was able to communicate with him, he simply stayed.

So there was one more person in the onlooker team.

When Wei Siwen and Alezhen saw the rise, they also thought about it, but the result was...their destructive power was a little bit less than Wang Antong, um, just a little bit.

But Wang Antong was sabotaging, and Luo Shixing could just blow him away, so he couldn't blow these two people away, so he could only put on a serious cat face and look at the two adults who were dragging their feet.

Wei Siwen still had some burdens, and after realizing that he was really not very good at these things, he resolutely stopped doing it.

Ah Lezhen was really interested in this kind of thing, but he also knew something in his heart. He would not just help Luo Shixing build a house, but help him with mud and so on.

Luo Shixing didn't know whether to laugh or cry and said, "You are a dignified county magistrate, what's the point of squatting here and making mud with me? Don't you want to deal with the affairs of the county?"

Ale really didn't care about it: "You are still a dignified high priest, am I helping you? Hey, what kind of model did you make? Does everyone in the Central Plains use this?"

What Ale really saw was not just a house, but another thing through this model, such as... a sand table.

Sand tables have existed since ancient times, but what they can be made depends on the level. Most of them are simple sand tables made of sand and some stones. Otherwise, how could they be called sand tables.

When I came to Alezhen, I even just saw this thing in a book. Their maps are so crude, how do I know how to make a sand table?

Especially the terrain in the south is complicated, and simple sand and stones can't completely make people understand the terrain. The sand table is the same as if it hasn't been done!

However, Luo Shixing's subordinates were obviously different. When Luo Shixing restored the slope and surface conditions, he felt the realism.

He originally thought that Luo Shixing was very good at drawing maps, but he didn't expect that Luo Shixing seemed to be able to make sand tables. How could he not be excited?

Wei Siwen said from the side, "I've never seen anything like this in the Central Plains."

Otherwise, why would he squat here every day to watch Luo Shixing do these things, is he full enough?

Luo Shixing usually used the collected moss to enrich the surface of the model, and said casually: "I just made this for fun. How do I know if this is used in the Central Plains?"

I'm... just playing...

Wei Siwen and Ale really looked at each other, and always felt that this sentence contained a lot of information.