I was a god in the 18th century

Chapter 471 Water Conservancy Project

In the second half of the night, the heavy rain that had stopped began to pour down again after a burst of thunder.

This summer in London is inseparable from rain. The disastrous Little Ice Age really doesn't want to leave any way for ordinary people to survive.

Because there were too many refugees, the arrangement at night was to let women and children go inside to rest, while the men slept directly on the ground in the yard. Because it was a built-in model, the entire ground was a large wooden board, so there was no need to worry about mud, and sleeping on it was barely enough.

There was thunder in the middle of the night, and many people sleeping on the wooden floor outside the house were awakened by the thunder, but when they thought that they were now hiding under the protection of the temple, they continued to sleep peacefully.

Some of the more timid and sensitive people simply did not sleep, but got up and knelt down to pray. As long as their hearts were filled with faith, they were not afraid.

Xia Qingdai was studying at her desk, memorizing a medical book thicker than a brick. The more she memorized, the clearer her mind became. She didn't feel confused at all. If her cell phone hadn't rang, she wouldn't have stopped.

The person who called her was Wang Yanzeng, who invited her and her brother to take some time to have a simple meal at Yan Shaohua's house.

Ever since Xia Shanglu blocked the knife for Yan Shaohua last time, Wang Yanzeng had been looking for an opportunity to thank them. But when the incident first happened, Xia Qingdai was in a bad mood and inevitably took her anger out on him, so she never agreed to meet her. Whether it was an invitation to dinner or shopping, she refused.

Now more than a month has passed, Xia Shanglu's palm has recovered very well under the blessing of Du Zhong's superb suturing technique, and Xia Qingdai's resentment has dissipated. Hearing Wang Yan's sincere invitation, her attitude softened, and she agreed to wait for her brother to come back and ask about the time before replying to her.

Although we live in the same neighborhood, we have never visited each other. The main reason is that we are both busy and it is difficult to get together. In addition, the city is not like the countryside, where neighbors don't have the habit of visiting each other. Let's make an appointment this time, just to get to know each other.

After finishing the phone call, Xia Qingdai decided to take a break. She walked to the bay window and lay on the glass tank overlooking the Lilliput country.

She could no longer see the situation in the Garden Square after Owen left, and could only see the two sections of the London Villa and Fucui Villa.

It was raining heavily in both places, but fortunately there was no accumulation of water.

She had just pumped water from the Thames nearby, so there was no need to worry in the short term. On the contrary, Fucui Villa was more dangerous, as last year heavy rains caused flash floods.

Fucui Villa is her home base. Xia Qingdai observed silently for a while, and suddenly an idea flashed in her mind. She said to herself, "Maybe I can build a reservoir in the back mountain."

This is a two-pronged approach, which can not only solve the hidden danger of mountain floods in Fucui Villa during heavy rains, but also solve the water problem. In the future, she can buy bottled mineral water to pour in, which should also work.

Xia Qingdai immediately took up the draft paper, pen, and measuring tape and began to measure the back mountain. The area with the small pond was actually very suitable for use as a reservoir.

Although Xia Qingdai chose physics, chemistry and biology in the college entrance examination in high school, she also had to learn geography in her first and second year of high school because there was also a final examination related to her high school diploma, so she had no shortage of geographical knowledge.

If she hadn't sold all the test papers as scrap when she moved, she might have found the question about reservoir construction in the geography exam.

After measuring the terrain data of the back mountain, Xia Qingdai began to choose the location of the water retaining dam. Based on geographical knowledge, the first choice is a location with a small construction volume and a relatively large water collection area.

After choosing a location, Xia Qingdai picked up a small shovel and started digging. She planned to use the pebbles in the fish tank at the bottom of the reservoir. Anyway, the fish had been killed by her brother, and now the water tank and pebbles were just there to take up space, so she was making good use of the waste.

She still had small packages of cement and small steel bars in her treasure chest, and she could use them this time. After the survey and measurement, Xia Qingdai was ready to start work. Of course, before she started, she had to find a video to learn from.

Short videos are now very popular, and there are all kinds of them. There are those that teach intangible cultural heritage projects, farming, electrician work, and of course, there are those that teach how to build a mini reservoir. If you are willing to pay, you can even get one-on-one guidance.

Xia Qingdai didn't have to look hard at all before she found a video about building a mini water dam, which had a lot of likes and comments.

After watching the video only once, Xia Qingdai felt that she had figured it out. Of course, when she actually started to do it, it took her a lot of effort just to bend the small steel bars into the right shape. Her hands were slower than her brain!

Xia Qingdai had no choice but to spend money to buy one-on-one service and let the other party provide remote guidance.

The video blogger who received her private message is an engineer himself. He uses his spare time to shoot these short videos which are half popular science and half showmanship, to earn some extra money from traffic to supplement his family income.

After seeing Xia Qingdai's message, he agreed without hesitation. The fee was not high, only two hundred yuan, after all, it was just remote guidance for the other party to make a small "toy".

Xia Qingdai took out the Bluetooth selfie stick she bought when she went to Europe, and pointed her phone at the back mountain of Fucui Villa. She didn't ask the other party to guide her all the way, but followed the video step by step, and only asked the blogger for guidance when she didn't understand something.

Because she had many experiences in civil engineering, she was able to build a reservoir smoothly. She held a transparent umbrella over Fucui Villa and started working! She was so excited that she couldn't stop.

To her, this is not work, but play, and the more she plays, the more addicted she becomes. Mixing cement and building dams are like returning to her childhood.

What child can resist playing in the mud?
Of course, actually building a dam on site is hard and tiring, but just building a mini one based on the video is fun and easy.

Xia Qingdai was busy in the room, so busy that she forgot it was still raining in Lilliput and that it was time to cook dinner.

When Xia Shanglu got home from get off work, it was almost dark, and there was still not a grain of rice in the rice cooker.

Fortunately, his hand has not recovered yet and he has not been scheduled to work overtime, otherwise he would not have time to cook dinner if he came back later.

He walked to Xia Qingdai's room, knocked on the door, and asked her what she was doing in there and why she didn't even cook.

Xia Qingdai suddenly came to her senses. Time had passed so quickly. The sky in Lilliput was about to rise, while the sky in modern times was about to fall.

"Brother, I forgot. You can cook dinner!" She shouted to Xia Shanglu through the door, with no intention of taking off her gloves and getting up to open the door.

Since she grew up, Xia Shanglu still respected her and would not open her door casually. After all, even if they were siblings, there were still differences between men and women.

Xia Shanglu complained through the door, then resigned himself to his fate and turned to the kitchen to get vegetables from the refrigerator to make dinner.

Xia Qingdai continued to work on repairing the reservoir, and it seemed that it would be completed soon.

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