She gave birth to three daughters in a row, and was kicked out by her mother-in-law who favored boys

Chapter 245: Building a Simple Waterwheel

The next day, Gu Qingqing brought Erhua to Niu Li to pierce Erhua's ears, carrying a pink hairband she brought from the county for Xiaoyang, a small wooden sword for Xiaoguang, and some snacks that were not available in the town.

"You just came, why did you spend all that money on them?" When Niu Li saw the things Gu Qingqing brought back, she said that she was spending money recklessly, but the smile in her eyes was real.

"Aunt, how much does a hairband cost? I brought this from the county specifically for our Xiaoyang. Why can't you praise me?" Gu Qingqing hugged Niu Li's arms with both hands, imitated Erhua's way of shaking herself, and acted coquettishly to Niu Li.

Niu Li's eyes narrowed into slits as she shook him with laughter, but her tone was full of resentment, "The hairband is worthless, and the snacks are worthless too?"

Gu Qingqing smiled back at her and said, "It's just for fun."

Without waiting for Niu Li to speak, Gu Qingqing turned her head to Xiaoyang beside her with a bitter face, and then complained, "Xiaoyang, look, your grandma is mean to me."

The innocent little girl immediately ran over, looked up at Niu Li and said, "Grandma, please don't be mean to me, Auntie. The things you gave me are so beautiful, I like them so much."

Niu Li raised her hand and touched Xiaoyang's forehead lovingly, "Your aunt brought you this from far away, how could it not be beautiful?"

Luo Meihua, who was following beside her, reminded her, "Then you should thank your aunt."

"Thank you, auntie."

Niu Xiaoguang was dancing with a sword by himself, not recognizing anyone, but when he heard his elder sister talking, he was not willing to be left behind, so he shouted "Thank you, aunt" from a distance and continued to go crazy.

"Oh, Xiaoyang is so good. The little girl with red lips and white teeth is becoming more and more adorable." Gu Qingqing let go of Niu Li's arm, pinched Xiaoyang's cheeks with both hands, and squeezed until she had a goldfish mouth. Then she stopped laughing.

Niu Li looked at Gu Qingqing lovingly, "You are already old, and there are so many children looking after you. Aren't you afraid that the children will learn from you?"

Not really.

There are three of us in my family, and two of Meihua are in the house.

"Go away, go play by yourselves. What are you kids doing here when the adults are talking?" Gu Qingqing deliberately chased them away.

Dahua, who was sitting on the bench holding Sanhua, covered her mouth and laughed, "Mom, if you chase Erhua away too, then we've come here for nothing today."

"What's the matter?" Niu Li asked after she pulled Gu Qingqing to sit on the kang.

Then Gu Qingqing told Erhua that she wanted to pierce her ears.

Niu Li slapped her thigh and said with a smile, "You have found the wrong person. I can't give acupuncture as well as Niu Songniang. It doesn't hurt at all when she does it."

Niu Song's mother, Niu Lan, was also the one who helped Gu Qingqing's family make clothes last year.

"Sister-in-law, do you want to go now? I'll go with you?" Luo Meihua asked.

"Okay, let's go together. By the way, does your Xiaoyang want to get a shot?" Gu Qingqing asked.

Luo Meihua looked down at Xiaoyang, then shook her head and said, "Wait for two years, until she is as old as Erhua. She is still young now, and she can't even wash her face properly. It will be painful for her to get the tattoo."

Since Niu Li was not the best technician, Gu Qingqing had to give up. Then, she took Luo Meihua with her and went to find Niu Lan with her children.

Before leaving, Gu Qingqing did not forget to say to Niu Li, "Aunt, I went to the county to buy some other vegetable seeds. When I grow the seedlings, you can just come to my house to dig them."

"Okay, got it." Niu Li waved at her, and the group walked out of the yard and headed towards Niu Song's house.

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The following days were very busy. Before the spring plowing began, Gu Qingqing, Wen Wuyan and Yang Xing and several other wives selected a place to raise chickens and ducks in front of the hillside, on the south side not far from Old Yang and Zhao Dong's bamboo house.

The reason for choosing this place is that there is a pit of about 20 square meters here. Now there is only water in the middle of the pit, and the surrounding area is overgrown with weeds.

There is a stream a hundred meters away from the puddle. Although this stream is not the source of drinking water for the village, no one knows where it eventually leads to.

The reason why we choose to play here is that the stream is not entirely clear.

Because Gu Qingqing didn't plan to let the ducks play in the creek in the future. The reason was simple: she was afraid that some stupid ducks would give up their iron rice bowls in pursuit of freedom and dreams.

She was planning to divert the water from the stream into the pit here, so she, Wen Wuyan and Yang Xing were busy here a few days ago.

He measured the land, chopped bamboo, and asked the carpenter from Yangjia Village to make a strange beam out of a three-foot-long piece of wood as thick as a bowl.

Now, everything has been made according to Gu Qingqing's requirements and is waiting to be assembled.

What she made was nothing else but a simple waterwheel with a diameter of about eight feet.

At this time, Wen Wuyan, Li Xin and his family.

Zhao Feng and Yang Xing's family.

Because Zhao Dong was helping to build the Wang family's house, and knew that Wen Wuyan wanted to do something, he sent Zhao Bei, a laborer, to help.

There is also Old Yang who is having a good time standing by.

These people were all looking at the thing that Gu Qingqing was about to tinker with with curiosity.

"Qingqing, if you have the time to get the water and the waterwheel, I will go to the stream to fetch water. It will take two days at most to fill up this small hole." Wen Wuyan listened to Qingqing's instructions tirelessly, but he had no hope for what could be made in the end.

"That's not a long-term solution. It's obvious that this pit can't hold water, or if it can hold water, it leaks badly. We can't waste manpower carrying water to fill this pit all the time in the future, right? It's okay on weekdays, but during the busy farming season, no one has the time."

"You don't have time, but we do. I'm here helping you feed the chickens and ducks. I can do all this by myself. The water seepage doesn't look too serious. It will be a bit difficult to fill at first, but when the puddle is really filled up in the future, I can just fetch a few buckets of water every day." Yang Xing has seen a waterwheel. She had seen it in her hometown when she was a child. Although she had only seen it from a distance, she had the impression that the waterwheel was very tall, as high as half a mountain, very big, round and spectacular, and it was turning tirelessly over there.

Now look at the bamboo poles and bamboo strips spread on the ground. Can they really be made into a waterwheel?

Even Zhao Feng, who came to help at this time, was a little skeptical, "Boss, we have seen the thing you mentioned before, but that one was made of wood and was very delicate. Isn't yours too, too simple?"

Zhao Feng was just being reserved when he said it was simple. What she did was more like playing house and too sloppy.

Among all the prepared things, only the beam made by the carpenter is worth looking at.