The men shouted in unison, ran to the shore and picked up the sink that was stacked there, and pong pong on the waterwheel.

Looking at the rolling waterwheel, the villagers on the shore were dumbfounded, as if they were stupid, and even the old people who were not optimistic about the waterwheel at all were also stupid, and their eyes looked at the rotating waterwheel without blinking.

The troughs are connected one by one, and the water rolled up by the waterwheel falls on the trough, along the notch, until it is not connected to the trough.

Laying a sink is much simpler than building a waterwheel frame, just build a support under the tank, and then splice the dug sink together according to the notch docking method.

The trough grew longer and longer, towards the village, and when passing through the fields along the way, Liu Wei and the men who repaired the water wheel connected many outlets on the trough, and the cool river water flowed down the outlets into the fields, and soon the dry and cracked fields became wet.

As the sink extended, the villagers followed in the direction of the village. Listening to the sound of the water rushing and watching the clear river rushing forward along the trough, everyone's hearts were filled with an irrepressible excitement.

The last section of the trough was connected to a pond dug by Liu Wei earlier near the entrance of the village, which was not very deep, but it covered a wide area, nearly one acre square.

Digging such a large pond can not only solve the difficulties of the villagers to run to the river for washing and fetching water, but also catch some fish from the river and release them into it, and when the fish grow older, it can also allow the villagers to open meat.

The clear water of the river flowed down the trough into the fields, and the water level of the pond near the entrance of the village was gradually rising, and all the villagers saw their hope of getting out of the drought at this moment.

"Luban is reincarnated! Lu Ban is reincarnated! The third uncle, who was most opposed to the construction of the waterwheel earlier, opened his eyes wide, looked at the turning waterwheel and the clear river flowing on the trough, trembled all over, his lips were shaking violently, and he shouted to the other old people on the side: "Old man, I should die!" I didn't know that there was a noble person in the village who saved his life, and he almost killed the life of the whole village! ”

The third uncle dragged his old legs, and quickly ran towards Liu Bian, who was standing not far away watching the waterwheel, and ran in front of Liu Bian, he didn't care about the gravel all over the ground, knelt on the ground, and shouted to the villagers who were cheering around the waterwheel: "Folks, kowtow to the nobleman, the nobleman saved our whole village!" ”

The old people who followed the third uncle to the front also knelt down one after another, and kowtowed to Liu, who was directing the group of men to install the sink.

The villagers who were cheering around the waterwheel heard the shouts of the third uncle, and hurriedly ran to Liu Wei and knelt on the ground with "hulala".

Tang Ji, who was standing far away, saw the villagers kneeling in front of Liu Wei one after another, and couldn't stop calling Engong in her mouth, her lips pursed, and she stretched out her hand to cover her small mouth, and her big eyes were tears of excitement.

It's not that she hasn't seen courtiers visit Liu Wei, but that kind of worship is just an emotionless etiquette, and the kneeling of these villagers in front of her is a sincere reverence.

Thinking of the fragility of Liu Wei at the beginning and the gap between the two of them now being truly admired by the people, Tang Ji could no longer suppress the excitement that had accumulated in his heart, and squatted on the ground and whimpered and cried.

At this moment, she felt a pride that she had never felt before. His husband is a man who stands up to the sky, a man who is admired by everyone! At this moment, in her heart, there is nothing more worthy of pride than that she is Liu Wei's wife.

Tao Hu's sister was also in the crowd of people kneeling down to worship Liu Bian, and bowed down in front of Liu Bian, and there was a trace of indescribable feelings in her heart.

The first time she saw Liu Wei, she felt that he was different from other men, he could let go of a man's natural sense of superiority and cross the river with the woman who was supposed to serve him on his back. It was also at that moment that Liu Wei left an extremely deep impression on her and the village women who saw that scene that day.

Seeing that the waterwheel could really spin, she was also happy for Liu Wei from the bottom of her heart, and her good feelings turned into admiration and admiration in an instant. In her eyes, Liu Wei is no longer a guest favored by the villagers, but a savior sent by God to save the village.

"Folks, hurry up!" Looking at the old and young kneeling in front of him, Liu Wei's Adam's apple rolled a few times, and his eyes were moist, he hurriedly bent down and stretched out his hand to support the armpit of the third uncle kneeling in front of him, and shouted to the kneeling villagers: "I just did my best to do my part, and the villagers made this big gift, so how can I be embarrassed!" ”

"Mr. and Mrs. behave decently, and the grass people have long seen that they are different from me and other country fools, but I don't know that Mr. really has such skills, and he has offended earlier, and I hope that Mr. will forgive him!" Before Liu Wei's words fell, the third uncle straightened up, clasped his hands into fists, his face was already full of old tears, and after saying this, he bowed down again and bowed to the ground with five bodies.

The perennial drought has made the villagers' thirst for water reach the extreme, and when they see the hope that the farmland will no longer be plagued by drought, the excitement and excitement in their chests are naturally irrepressible.

"Eggs, eggs!" Liu Wei was about to speak with his hands on the third uncle's arm, when a slightly silly voice came from not far away, a young man about twenty years old and a little stupid was running towards them with an egg in one hand.

"Erhan, why are you here?" Seeing that the silly man ran over, the third uncle stood up with Liu Wei with a twisted brow, and asked him a little unhappily.

The villagers who were kneeling around saw the third uncle standing up, and they also stood up one after another.

Holding two eggs in his hands, Erhan tilted his head, put his hands behind his back, and muttered in his mouth: "This is the egg of my family's big reed peanut, I gave it to Mr. Xiao to eat, so I won't give it to you." ”

"Hehe, this Erhan also knows something." The third uncle smiled and looked at the villagers, and all the villagers laughed along, and then he beckoned to Erhan and said to Erhan: "Since you want to give the chicken to Mr. to eat, why do you still hold it in your hand?" ”

Erhan pouted, tilted his head and looked at the third uncle and the others with a wary expression, and after a while, he pursed his lips, rubbed in front of Liu Bian, took out two hands from behind, and stuffed two eggs with his body temperature into Liu Bian's hands.

"I can't help it!" Holding the two eggs in his hand, Liu Wei hurriedly postponed.

He knows very well that in such a poor village, the villagers are reluctant to eat the eggs laid by the hens at home on weekdays, and the eggs are generally used to hatch chicks, these two eggs are nothing to him, but for the Erhan family, they may be the most valuable things.

"Sir, don't excuse me!" As soon as Liu Wei opened his mouth to excuse himself, the third uncle stopped him and said to him: "This is also a little bit of Erhan's heart. The child died of his father since he was a child, although the family has land, but suffering from no water to irrigate, the mother and son can not hunt, can only rely on the villagers to help each year, Mr. built a water wheel, but saved the lives of his mother and son, two chickens are nothing. ”

The villagers surrounding also followed the third uncle to persuade Liu Wei to accept the eggs.

Holding two eggs with Erhan's body temperature in his hands, Liu Wei felt a burst of taste in his heart.

From childhood to adulthood, he has eaten countless eggs, but he has never felt that the eggs he has eaten are as heavy as the two in his hand at the moment.

The Adam's apple moved a few times, and Liu Wei's eye sockets were also a little moist, and the difficult life of the villagers made him feel that it was really difficult to live in this era.

He licked his lips, took a deep breath, forced the feeling of suffocation in his chest, opened his mouth to speak, but found that his throat seemed to be choked by something, and he couldn't say half a word at all, so he had to nod heavily.

"Sir asked for my eggs!" Seeing that Liu Wei accepted the egg, Erhan danced happily and ran towards the sink that was gushing with clear water.

The waterwheel was successfully built, and the whole village's title for Liu Biao changed from the previous "guest" to "sir", although this was just a simple title change, but Liu Bian knew very well that from the moment the title changed, his status in the village was very different from the previous two days.

After working for two or three days in a row, Liu Wei felt a little sleepy, said goodbye to the villagers, and returned to Tao Hu's house surrounded by a group of people.

"There's water!" Sending Liu Wei to Tao Hu's house, the villagers cheered and vented the ecstasy in their hearts, and even a few young men naively raced against the flowing water in the tank.

When Liu Wei entered the door, Tao Hu and Tao Huanniang had not come back yet, only Tang Ji, who had returned home one step earlier, was standing by the window in the inner room, looking out of the window stupidly, not knowing what he was thinking.

"What are you thinking?" Walking behind Tang Ji and holding her fragrant shoulders with both hands, Liu Wei asked softly, leaning his face against her cheek.

When his face was close to Tang Ji's cheek, he found that Tang Ji's face was covered with wet tears.

"What's wrong?" Seeing Tang Ji crying, Liu Wei reached out to gently help her wipe away her tears, and asked her, "Is the injury on her foot not healed yet, and it hurts again?" ”

Tang Ji pursed her lips, shook her head vigorously, gently snuggled her head on Liu Wei's chest, looked out the window, and said with a little choked voice in her voice: "The concubine is just happy to see her husband respected by everyone...... In the past, the husband was in Dabao and accepted the bows of the ministers, and the concubine did not feel as glorious as today. ”

"Silly girl!" Holding Tang Ji's shoulders with both hands and making her turn around, Liu Wei said to her softly: "Since you are happy in your heart, why do you still cry alone in the house?" ”

Lowering her head, Tang Ji pursed her lips tightly, and didn't explain much, just gently snuggled in Liu Wei's arms, like a tame kitten, and didn't even move.

Since leaving Luoyang with Tang Ji, Liu Wei has cared about her as a pitiful little girl all the way, but has always ignored the fact that she is his princess.