305 Workshop
Even Yu Hongyan, with her bulging belly, was helping out whenever she could. She was drying the rice noodles in front of the bamboo pole.
It didn’t matter if it didn’t dry today. They could continue to dry it tomorrow.
Xue Yan looked at the stove and checked the fire. He realized that they didn’t need his help so he walked back to her and asked, “I’m going to the workshop to take a look, are you coming?”
The workshop had been built. From the day it started, he would go to the workshop to check on the progress every afternoon when he returned from town.
Seeing that everything was fine, Jiang Yue nodded.
After that, the two of them left together. Before they reached the foot of the mountain, they could already see Xue Dafu and the others working in the workshop near the river.
Originally, they had only planned to build two simple wooden houses to shelter them from the wind, snow, rain, and sun. However, since Sifu wanted to expand the rice noodle business, he would definitely need this workshop to reduce the cost of early rice.
To prevent the lack of space, they decided to renovate three houses instead of two.
If there were three rooms, one room would naturally contain the grain and use the water to turn the rice grains into the rice. One room could be used to store the rice, and the other room could naturally store the rice. It would be just right.
A normal house didn’t need an aerial base, but the workshop they were building now definitely needed an aerial base.
This was because there were many wooden wheels of different sizes installed at the bottom.
Without a wheel, even if there was water, it was useless. It was the water that drove the wheels to turn, and then one spin will make the other wheel turn, and then another wheel. After a series of turns, the biggest wheel will spin as well.
Thus, there was no need for manual or animal power to push the water wheel.
As long as someone kept pouring rice into the hole above the ridge, the workshop would be able to grind the rice without rest day and night, turning them into the rice.
The bottom of the workshop was suspended, which was much more complicated than the construction of other houses. The position of the rotating wheel had to be reserved, and it had to be angled just right. It would not work if it was too big or too small. Fortunately, Xue Yan had drawn every part of the blueprint in detail. Xue Dafu and Xue Erfu understood everything under Xue Yan’s explanation. They would reserve the position according to the blueprint, even though Li Qingshu and the others had no idea what the position was for. They didn’t know how the wheels and big grains would be processed, but they did what Xue Dafu and Xue Erfu told them to.
When Jiang Yue and Xue Yan arrived at the workshop, Xue Dafu and Xue Erfu were holding a blueprint of how to make aerial structures at the bottom. They checked it over and over again to see if there were any mistakes.
While the wheels were suspended and could be modified, they carefully measured everything, in case the house was built up and couldn’t be modified.
Li Qingshu and the others were tamping the wooden stakes of various sizes firmly to keep everything in place.
“Xue Yan, you came at the right time. Take a look. If there are no problems, we’ll start building the rest tomorrow.” Xue Dafu said.
Xue Yan had the structure he drew in his mind, so he didn’t need to look at the drawing. He began to look at the flight deck carefully.
Jiang Yue, on the other hand, took the drawing and compared it with the flight deck. There were a few parts that were not satisfactory, but she did not say anything. She was sure that Xue Yan would have noticed it, and he would have told them to make the changes.
After a while, Xue Yan finished looking at the entire flight deck and pointed out a few small problems that Jiang Yue had noticed.