Reborn in 1965, I can obtain resources just by sweeping the floor.

"I'm exhausted. I can barely lift my arms anymore."

There weren't many carrying poles and buckets in the village. Most people used their own washbasins to carry water to irrigate the fields, one trip at a time. The distance from the river to the nearest field was less than 100 meters. After half a day of this, their arms felt like they were broken.

"If this keeps up, I'll be exhausted before it rains. If only I had Ma Liang's magic brush, I could draw a big waterwheel and not be so tired. If one isn't enough, I could draw a few more."

Sitting in the shade of the courtyard, Feng Lan looked at the food in front of her, her arms too tired to move. She couldn't help but sigh, closing her eyes slightly and imagining herself holding a magic brush and drawing this and that.

"Tch! With your meager abilities, if you had a magic brush, why would you bother drawing waterwheels? You could just draw grain, money, pigs, cows, and sheep, wouldn't that be much better?"

Bai Peiyao rolled her eyes at her, shattering her daydream.

Waterwheel!

Feng Lan's words reminded Su Chen: "Yes, we can make waterwheels! Go ask Village Chief Yang. If they make them, we can have them craft one. If not, we can build one ourselves. The system just rewarded me with an intermediate carpenter skill a few days ago."

Su Chen immediately put down his chopsticks and ran out.

"Xiao Chen, why are you running out instead of eating?"

Seeing Su Chen take off running, the remaining four were stunned. Bai Peiyao called out to his retreating figure.

"It's okay, don't worry about me, I'll be back in a bit."

Before the words were even finished, Su Chen had already disappeared.

"Xiao Chen, we don't have that kind of thing around here. We never needed it before. I've never seen such a drought in all these years. Although it wasn't exactly a year of perfect weather, it would still get some rain..."

Arriving full of hope but leaving disappointed, Su Chen had no choice but to return home after hearing Yang Dazhuang's reply.

Actually, I should have thought of this a long time ago. I've been to the county so many times and I've never seen a waterwheel by the river. Besides, if there really was a waterwheel, I guess Village Chief Yang would have installed it long ago.

Since there wasn't one, he decided to make one himself. After returning home, Su Chen closed his eyes and kept recalling the waterwheel pulled by oxen that he had seen in his third brother's house while watching videos in his previous life. At that time, he had even looked down on their backwardness.

With his mechanical expertise, Su Chen quickly grasped the principles and structure of the waterwheel. Then, he took a few sheets of paper and began to draw out each component.

Next, Su Chen found Yang Dazhuang and got some planks and other things. Then he rushed up the mountain and got a few big pine trees.

After everything was ready, Su Chen began busily working in the courtyard.

"Sister Xiaolan, what is brother doing?"

Looking at the wooden sticks and rice boards that Su Chen had placed in the yard, as well as a complete set of adzes, chisels, axes, and saws, Su Nianchen blinked and asked Feng Lan beside him.

"Him? He's working in isolation. Do you know what that means? Let me tell you a story."

As Feng Lan went to get the washbasin, she began telling stories to Su Nianchen and Su Muchen.

The story quickly spread among the children in the village, and by evening, the adults in the family also knew that Su Chen was working on his project behind closed doors at home.

"Xiao Chen, what are you doing? I didn't believe what people were saying earlier, but now it seems they were right. What's the use of this thing? Our village committee has a big truck. You can use it if you want."

After dinner, Yang Dazhuang thought about what people had said in the afternoon and couldn't help but feel a little curious. He walked over to Su Chen's side, and when he saw the large pile of wooden planks and strips in the yard, he was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said something.

"Working behind closed doors? Me! Uncle Yang, who told you that? I am indeed building cars, but not big ones."

Su Chen was taken aback, then remembered that he seemed to have heard Feng Lan talking to the two little ones about building a car behind closed doors that morning. He didn't expect that it would reach Village Chief Yang's ears so quickly, and even become a rumor that he was building a big car.

"If it's not a big cart, what kind of cart is it? A wheelbarrow."

"It's a secret for now. You'll find out in a couple of days; it'll be a real surprise."

Su Chen didn't say what kind of car he was building, mainly because he didn't know if it would even be usable after it was built. What if he just made a big boast and it turned out to be a lie?

After working overtime for several days, we finally finished making all the necessary parts. Now all we have to do is find a suitable place to assemble them.

When we arrived at the riverbank, we saw many people carrying buckets and basins, transporting water to the fields in trip after trip. The riverbed here is relatively low-lying and not suitable for setting up waterwheels.

I walked upstream along the river for nearly two kilometers before finally finding a suitable spot.

The terrain here is relatively high, so water can be drawn from here and flow directly to the farmland; all that's needed is to dig a short irrigation ditch.

After selecting the location, Su Chen gathered Yang Erlin, Yang Qingshan, Li Delin, and others together, asking them to help transport the things from the yard there. Then, they began digging trenches along the river and burying wooden logs to support the waterwheel.

"Xiao Chen, is this thing really usable? How do you make it turn? I've seen waterwheels back in my hometown before, the kind where two people pedal on them."

With everyone working together, a waterwheel seven or eight meters high was quickly erected on the river, and then the installation of the smaller parts began.

It wasn't until evening that the assembly was finally completed.

"Brother Erlin, go and bring the big yellow ox over. Let's try it out and see if we can get water out."

"Okay, I'll go right away!"

Yang Erlin agreed and hurriedly ran back to the village, returning shortly with the big yellow ox.

"There's water! There really is water! That's great! I'll go and call everyone in the village over so they can see."

As the oxen pulled the turntable beside them, the turntable drove the large wooden gear below, which then transmitted the power horizontally to the waterwheel. Streams of clear river water poured down from the top as the waterwheel turned.

Seeing this, Yang Qingshan and his companions were overjoyed and rushed towards the village with cheers.

In just over ten minutes, a large group of people rushed out of the village and surged towards this side.

"This! This is a waterwheel?!"

"Great! The bookmaker is saved now."

"Good heavens, this thing is actually real. I always thought it was just something people made up."

As the river water cascaded down, people craned their necks and began to discuss it animatedly.

"Xiao Chen, this is the surprise you were talking about! It's such a wonderful surprise!"

Yang Dazhuang held Su Chen's hand, his heart filled with excitement.

"Uncle Yang, don't get excited yet. We still need to set up a water trough and then use the irrigation canal to bring the water over."

“These are minor matters. You guys go to the village and get some planks, and then bring over that tattered canvas from the warehouse. You guys go get shovels and pickaxes, and we’ll get the irrigation ditch done tonight.”

Under Yang Dazhuang's leadership, the people disregarded their fatigue from the day's work and worked until late at night, completing the digging of a canal over a thousand meters long and fifty centimeters deep.

"Ding! The waterwheel has been manufactured, solving the drought. The talent change has been successfully triggered. The reward is 2,000 catties of rice, 2,000 catties of flour, 1,000 catties of pork, 50 chicks, 50 ducklings, 50 goslings, 10 piglets, 10 lambs, 5 calves, and all attributes are increased by 2."

As the water flowed into the ground, a pleasant notification sound rang in Su Chen's mind.

Su Chen no longer cared about rice and flour, but chickens and pigs were good things. He had activated the spirit bird garden and spirit beast garden in his space some time ago, but he hadn't found suitable animals to raise. This reward came at just the right time.

He flashed directly into the space. The layout of the spirit plant garden, spirit beast garden, and spirit bird garden was basically the same. They were all large courtyards hidden in thick fog, and after going out, there was a river that could not be seen on the other side.

Before entering the space, you only need to think about where you want to go, and you will appear there after entering. If you want to go to a different place, you have to come out of the space and then go in again.

First, we arrived at the Poultry Garden, where rows of exquisite poultry houses were neatly arranged. Each poultry house was quite spacious, about ten acres in size, with a pond about one acre in the middle, and grass and feed troughs on the sides.

Fifty chicks, ducklings, and goslings were placed in a poultry house. Su Chen added some corn and wheat to the feed trough, which would automatically turn into feed and fall into the trough from the bottom outlet. Each time, a maximum of one hundred days' worth of feed could be added.