After breakfast, the people in the apartment went to work.Originally, according to Dad's intention, Ding Chen was asked to take a few people to stay in the apartment to ensure safety.After all, yesterday's events are no longer possible, and not every attack can just catch up with a warrior as strong as Ding Chen.But Ding Chen didn't want to be a fixed post at all, so he didn't have to work as usual, at least he could walk around.So he played the banner of Ye Dai and resolutely opposed this decision.He wasn't a person from the apartment yet, so his father couldn't order him directly, so he had to let Li Xiang stay instead of him.Li Xiang is used to doing this job, and he doesn't have as many problems as Ding Chen, so he accepts it calmly.When he was on the road, Ding Chen naturally walked with Ye Dai without quitting.After more than ten days of edification, Ye Dai was quite accustomed to this way of traveling, and chatted with the two of them while walking.Ding Chen felt that the actions of Dad and the others were a little too urgent, and now it was just the end of September, and they were in a hurry to harvest the crops.As far back as he can remember, the harvest should have started after October.Listening to his doubts, Ye Dai kindly explained to him.The manpower in the apartment is limited, and if you really wait until the crops are fully ripe to do it, you will be too busy, so it is better to start early.In fact, even then, they are usually busy until the end of November.When the cabbage and green onions are harvested, it is time to thresh the corn that has been dried.And that's not all, they have to collect the straw left over from the cornfield and use it as firewood for the winter, and then dig deep into the ground to plant winter wheat, which is the staple food here in the apartment.After saying this, Ye Dai sighed a little melancholy, "If only there were mechanical tools." ”Ding Chen scratched his head and said carefully: "It's a pity that I don't know what the principle of corn threshing is, otherwise maybe you can think of a way." ”If you want to talk about automatic sowing, Ding Chen's eyes are black, and he has no idea at all, but corn threshing, which should not be too difficult to think.After the water transmission system was built, Ye Dai was already very confident in Ding Chen's design ability, and when she heard him say this, her eyes immediately lit up.She grabbed him and said, "There's a threshing machine in the warehouse," she said, "You can't move it, you can see how it's constructed." ”Ding Chen was stunned for a moment before remembering that the apartment was first built as an agricultural base, and of course there would be a large number of automated agricultural machinery.It's a pity that there is no energy later, and these machines can only be turned into scrap metal in seconds.What is rare is that there is no scrap iron collector in this ghost place, and there is no way to recycle and reuse it, so you can only pile it up in the warehouse to grow hair.Don't look at Ding Chen's background in mechanical design, but his major is mainly in the industrial field, and he has never been exposed to such a type of thing as agricultural machinery.So although studying machinery is much more interesting than chopping Chinese cabbage, he is also worried that he will not be able to produce results and will not be able to explain to Ye Dai.It's not like a waterwheel, at least Ding Chen knows what that thing is all about.So Ding Chen expressed his confidence very cautiously, and then honestly followed the team to the cabbage field, and did not go back to see the thresher immediately.After Daddy and the others left the apartment, Su Ying began to feel bored.She is an idle character.Otherwise, he wouldn't have just arrived at Xu Shuidong's place, so he would have run out to hang out by himself.She didn't like children, and she didn't have much to talk about with the women left behind in the apartment.After turning around, he simply called Wang Po and went out for a walk with her.Wang Po's original task was to protect her, of course he didn't have any opinions.So I talked to Li Xiang for a while, and I was ready to go out.Li Xiang knew that they had the ability to protect themselves, so they didn't have much to do.However, another soldier who stayed with Li Xiang to watch the house kindly reminded the two of them that the six people who were still nearby yesterday and should pay attention to safety when they went out.Su Ying and Wang Po listened very good-naturedly, and sincerely thanked that person for the reminder.Li Xiang noticed that Wang Po had left yesterday, so he could naturally guess what he was going to do.But I didn't say anything about it, I just said goodbye to the two of them with a straight face.Su Ying and Wang Po left the apartment and stood on the road, Wang Po asked Su Ying: "Where are we going" Su Ying groaned for a while, and said to Wang Po: "Yesterday I heard them say that a new waterwheel was built, don't you want to go and see it" Wang Po was stunned for a moment, he has never been interested in these mechanical devices.And he also knew that Su Ying was the same as himself.I really don't understand why she suddenly wants to visit the watermill.But anyway, when the two of them were together, it was Su Ying who took the idea, and Wang Po couldn't figure it out for a while, so he simply didn't want to.He knew that Su Ying had always been smart and would not do meaningless things.So he raised his hand and said, "I remember the waterwheel was in that direction." ”The two of them walked all the way, deliberately avoiding the vegetable patch where everyone worked in the apartment.It took about two hours to finally reach the river.Wang Po had been here before, and he had the impression that the waterwheel was extremely tall and could be seen from afar, so he didn't worry about going the wrong way.Unexpectedly, when I came to the river this time, I found that there was nothing on the empty river, only the river flowing through.You can't see the tall waterwheel in the long image at all.At first, the two of them didn't find it strange.No matter how strong Wang Po's ability to recognize the road is, after all, he has only been here once, and after a long time, the terrain by the river looks similar, and it is not strange to remember the wrong way.So Su Ying proposed to look for it along the river.Wang Po felt strange in his heart, feeling that he shouldn't be wrong to this extent, but since he didn't find the target, then he might really remember it wrong.After all, he didn't particularly remember the location of the watermill at the beginning.Then all morning, the two of them went around the river, but unfortunately they still did not find the location of the waterwheel.At this time, the two of them felt that something was wrong, even if Wang Po couldn't remember the exact location, but at this time, the two of them had been looking along the river for a long time.It's impossible not to spot a tall waterwheel.Unless the new watermill was not built here at all.But this is basically impossible, the water pipeline leading to the apartment is buried in the ground, and it is impossible for Ye Dai to build a new water wheel somewhere else.Thinking of this, Wang Po's heart moved, and he said to Su Ying: "Start looking for it from the water pipe." ”The apartment's water pipes are buried in the ground, which on the one hand reduces the chance of accidental damage and on the other hand prevents freezing in winter.But for ease of access, there are markings on the ground.So the two of them quickly found a stone marker buried above the water pipe, and then followed the water pipe back to the river.Looking at the wide and empty river, both of them were a little dumbfounded.There's nothing on the surface of the river here, and there's no sign of a watermill at all.Only a few lonely wooden stakes stood there on the shore.Su Ying said suspiciously: "Didn't they build a waterwheel?"
"Impossible." ”Wang Po said categorically: "Then where did they get the water?"
”The two of them stayed in the apartment for the night last night and naturally knew that the apartment's water supply system was working well.Wang Po looked around, seemed to have found something, took off his shoes, pulled up his trouser legs, and walked towards the river.Su Ying immediately guessed what he was going to do, so she stood by the river and watched quietly.Soon I saw Wang Po stop, bending down and looking carefully into the water.aa2705221，，； mobile phone reading,