“Oooh, such a clean river. It’s the first time I’ve seen a river this clean.”
“Is that so? I thought it’s pretty normal for a river…”
The morning on the day after rain fell on the village.
Kazura and Valletta arrived at the river where the villagers would draw water from.
The road to the river was all flat ground, the earth was dry and cracked, looking like a wasteland.
The riverbanks were overgrown with short grass, but there were no tall trees or grasses.
The river was over 5 meters wide, and the water was so clear it was unthinkable for modern Japan, it was very beautiful.
As for the depth, it was probably about a meter deep on its deepest part.
“A few months back it was wider and there was a lot more water, but because of the drought it had grown considerably small.”
“I see…. but even though it’s good that you have a river within walking distance from the village, it’s still a tough distance to be carrying water several times back and forth.”
Since it takes 30 minutes to get to here from the village, the round trip carrying water would take over one hour.
In that case they should’ve brought water in from the river instead, but the surface of the river is low so it can’t be done.
Even if they wanted to draw water from upstream, the river swerves away from the village, there are also hills and other hindrances on the way, and they don’t have the help of decent tools, so they were not able to make a waterway.
“Should I bring in a fire brigade water pump……, but well…”
He needs to bring the water into the village some way or another, but it’s a next to impossible task with only the tools available in the village.
Right then he thought about bringing a gasoline engine from Japan but doing that would be too much of an overtechnology.
It’s a different matter if somebody might die unless he brought in water, but thanks to the rain yesterday the reservoir is half full with water, so they will be fine for a short while.
Kazura thought, if possible he wanted to break current deadlock with tools that people in this world were able to make with their technology.
For that reason, he thought he will do the best thing for the future of the village and for himself.
“Valletta-san, have you ever heard of a waterwheel?”
“Water wheel…. I’ve never heard of it. What kind of thing is it?”
“Umm, you see. It’s a tool where you put a large wooden wheel vertically on the river, and the wheel would turn by the power of the river’s flow.”
“Hmm…. I’ve never seen or heard of anything like that.”
I used a loose stone to draw on the ground and explain to Valletta, but it looks like she really haven’t seen anything like it.
I thought that if she has seen it, then there must be an engineer in this world who can make it, then we can go and request one from that person, but it seems impossible at this point in time.”
“Is that so…… in that case, we can only make a waterwheel ourselves…… that’s too much, right. It’s not something an amateur could easily make.”
He thought for a moment he might somehow be able to make a waterwheel with the villagers’ help, but he immediately stopped that line of thought.
Making a waterway out of wood planks joined together aside, they couldn’t possibly build the plans for such a precise equipment as a waterwheel.
Kazura has seen a waterwheel before, but making one is another matter entirely.
The world of engineering is not an easy one where an amateur could just make a waterwheel without the know-how.
“U, um, if it’s too difficult we’ll manage something somehow…”
Valletta reservedly called out to Kazura, who was making a difficult face as he was thinking.
But it was because they didn’t do anything that the village became that sorry mess.
Looking at Valletta’s uneasy face, Kazura said “It’s okay”, and smiled.
“Let’s bring a waterwheel from my country. We should hurry up and……”
Kazura said as much, but immediately remembered and took out a can of peaches (locally produced) from the bag he was holding.
“Ah, canned peaches, is it?”
“Yes, I already brought it here, so let’s go back after eating some river-cooled peaches.”
Kazura went as far as the riverbank, and put the peach can in the water. He surrounded it with rocks so it wouldn’t float away.
The water flowing from the mountains seen from the distance was cold, at this temperature they could soon eat some cold peaches.
“But, didn’t we distribute all the canned peaches to the villagers yesterday?”
“That’s true, but actually I have one can left over. I brought it with me, thinking we could eat it out here.”
Of course, one can had already been given to Valletta’s house, but out of Kazura’s own “since we already have one left over, it’s better to eat delicious things with a pretty girl” idea, he decided to take Valletta out to eat with the two of them instead of breakfast.
Sorry, chief.
“Which reminds me, wouldn’t you be able to settle the matter of water if you moved the village closer to the river?”
Gazing at the river while waiting for the peaches to cool, Kazura worded the question that’s been bothering him.
He feels it was inconvenient living in a place where you need to go some distance to get to the river for water every time there was a drought.
“That’s right, isn’t in. But even though it’s fine in times where we get little rain like now, during rainy periods the river would often overflow and become dangerous.”
“I see,” agreed Kazura to Valletta who came over and sat next to him.
There was too little rain this season so it became a drought, but next season when there’s lots of rain the river would flood, such an inconvenient land it is.
“That, and since we can’t live elsewhere other than the place Narson-sama designated for us, we can do but live where we are now.”
He’s heard the name several times now, but now that he heard the name Narson again, he can’t help but ask what kind of person this Narson is.
"Oooh น้ำสะอาด มันเป็นครั้งแรกที่ผมได้เห็นแม่น้ำสะอาดนี้""คือว่าเพื่อ ผมคิดว่า เป็นเรื่องปกติสวยสำหรับแม่น้ำ..."ตอนเช้าในวันฟ้าหลังฝนตกในหมู่บ้านKazura และวัลเลตตาถึงที่ซึ่งชาวบ้านจะตักน้ำจากแม่น้ำถนนแม่น้ำเป็นดินทั้งหมดแบน โลกถูกมองเช่น wasteland แบบแห้ง และรอย ร้าวโอบที่อยู่กลางป่ารกชัฏ มีหญ้าสั้น ๆ แต่มีหญ้าหรือต้นไม้สูงไม่แม่น้ำกว้างกว่า 5 เมตร และน้ำก็ใสมากก็ unthinkable สำหรับ ญี่ปุ่นสมัยใหม่ก็สวยส่วนลึก ก็คงเกี่ยวกับเครื่องวัดในส่วนลึกที่สุดลึก"กี่เดือนกลับก็กว้าง และมีน้ำมากขึ้น แต่เนื่องจากฤดูแล้ง มันก็เพิ่มขึ้นมากเล็ก""ฉันเห็น... แต่แม้ว่าจะเป็นดีว่า คุณมีน้ำเดินทางจากหมู่บ้าน ก็ยังคงห่างจากยากที่จะแบกน้ำหลายครั้งและกลับ"เนื่องจากใช้เวลา 30 นาทีเพื่อไปที่นี่จากหมู่บ้าน กลับแบกน้ำจะใช้เวลากว่าหนึ่งชั่วโมงในกรณีที่ พวกเขาควรได้นำน้ำจากแม่น้ำแทน แต่พื้นผิวของน้ำมีน้อยจึงไม่สามารถทำแม้ว่าจะต้องตักน้ำจากขั้นต้นน้ำ swerves เวอร์จากวิลเลจ มีภูเขาและอุปสรรคอื่น ๆ ในทาง และพวกเขาไม่ได้ใช้เครื่องมือดี ดังนั้นพวกเขาไม่สามารถทำให้น้ำ"ควรฉันนำน้ำปั๊มดับเพลิง..., แต่ดี..."ต้องการนำน้ำเข้ามาในหมู่บ้านบางวิธีหรืออื่น แต่ก็เป็นงานถัดไปไม่ มีเฉพาะเครื่องมือมีอยู่ในหมู่บ้านขวาแล้วเขาคิดว่า การนำเครื่องยนต์เบนซินจากญี่ปุ่น แต่ว่าจะมากเกินไปของ overtechnology ที่มันเป็นเรื่องแตกต่างกันถ้าใครสักคนอาจตายยกเว้นว่าเขานำน้ำ แต่ ด้วยฝน เมื่อวานนี้อ่างเก็บน้ำเป็นครึ่งน้ำ ดังนั้นพวกเขาจะดีสำหรับพักKazura คิดว่า ถ้าเป็นไปได้เขาอยากหยุดการชะงักงันที่ปัจจุบัน มีเครื่องมือที่คนในโลกนี้สามารถทำให้เทคโนโลยีของพวกเขาเหตุผล เขาคิดจะทำสิ่งดีที่สุด สำหรับอนาคตของหมู่บ้าน และตัวเอง"วัลเลตตาซัง คุณเคยได้ยินของระหัด""น้ำล้อ... ผมไม่เคยได้ยินมัน ชนิดของสิ่งที่เป็นหรือ""อึม คุณดู มันเป็นเครื่องมือที่คุณใส่ล้อไม้ขนาดใหญ่ในแนวตั้งบนแม่น้ำ และล้อจะเปิด โดยใช้พลังงานของการไหลของแม่น้ำ""อืมม... ฉันไม่เคยได้เห็น หรือได้ยินอะไรเช่นนั้น "ใช้หินหลวมการวาดบนพื้นดิน และอธิบายการวัลเลตตา แต่ดูเหมือนเธอจริง ๆ ไม่เห็นอะไรเช่นนั้นผมคิดว่า ที่เธอได้เห็นมัน แล้วต้องมีวิศวกรในโลกที่สามารถทำได้ แล้วเราสามารถไปและคำหนึ่งจากคนที่นี้ แต่ดูเหมือนว่าเป็นไปไม่ได้ที่ในตอนนี้"“Is that so…… in that case, we can only make a waterwheel ourselves…… that’s too much, right. It’s not something an amateur could easily make.”He thought for a moment he might somehow be able to make a waterwheel with the villagers’ help, but he immediately stopped that line of thought.Making a waterway out of wood planks joined together aside, they couldn’t possibly build the plans for such a precise equipment as a waterwheel.Kazura has seen a waterwheel before, but making one is another matter entirely.The world of engineering is not an easy one where an amateur could just make a waterwheel without the know-how.“U, um, if it’s too difficult we’ll manage something somehow…”Valletta reservedly called out to Kazura, who was making a difficult face as he was thinking.But it was because they didn’t do anything that the village became that sorry mess.Looking at Valletta’s uneasy face, Kazura said “It’s okay”, and smiled.“Let’s bring a waterwheel from my country. We should hurry up and……”Kazura said as much, but immediately remembered and took out a can of peaches (locally produced) from the bag he was holding.“Ah, canned peaches, is it?”“Yes, I already brought it here, so let’s go back after eating some river-cooled peaches.”Kazura went as far as the riverbank, and put the peach can in the water. He surrounded it with rocks so it wouldn’t float away.The water flowing from the mountains seen from the distance was cold, at this temperature they could soon eat some cold peaches.
“But, didn’t we distribute all the canned peaches to the villagers yesterday?”
“That’s true, but actually I have one can left over. I brought it with me, thinking we could eat it out here.”
Of course, one can had already been given to Valletta’s house, but out of Kazura’s own “since we already have one left over, it’s better to eat delicious things with a pretty girl” idea, he decided to take Valletta out to eat with the two of them instead of breakfast.
Sorry, chief.
“Which reminds me, wouldn’t you be able to settle the matter of water if you moved the village closer to the river?”
Gazing at the river while waiting for the peaches to cool, Kazura worded the question that’s been bothering him.
He feels it was inconvenient living in a place where you need to go some distance to get to the river for water every time there was a drought.
“That’s right, isn’t in. But even though it’s fine in times where we get little rain like now, during rainy periods the river would often overflow and become dangerous.”
“I see,” agreed Kazura to Valletta who came over and sat next to him.
There was too little rain this season so it became a drought, but next season when there’s lots of rain the river would flood, such an inconvenient land it is.
“That, and since we can’t live elsewhere other than the place Narson-sama designated for us, we can do but live where we are now.”
He’s heard the name several times now, but now that he heard the name Narson again, he can’t help but ask what kind of person this Narson is.
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