The water level of the river section to be constructed is slowly lowering, revealing a riverbed filled with silt.
Working on this wet and sticky riverbed is something nobody likes.
Nevertheless, Ma Lin asked everyone to jump down, first dig out the silt, fill in large stones, and then use more large stones as the foundation to build a stone platform.
Because there were many people, it took just a day and a half to build a stone platform.
The underwater part is made of large stones stacked together, which the water cannot wash away, while the above-water part is stacked with stones and clay, solid and smooth.
Then another day was spent building a slightly smaller stone platform.
Next came the installation of two water wheels.
