After carefully checking it one by one, Chen Xu held the handle of the crank with his right hand, and then took a deep breath and pressed it down, his hand was very heavy, but as the handle turned, the main shaft full of bamboo nails in the hopper rotated with it.

"Huh?! Haha~hahahaha~ Turn ...... Turn it up! Niu Dashi, who was standing next to him, turned red with excitement, and jumped up and yelled after being slightly surprised.

"Mother~Mother~, come and see, my brother is so powerful, the wheels with long bamboo teeth are starting to turn!" Apricot also clapped her hands and jumped excitedly.

As he turned, Chen Xu slowly showed a relieved smile on his face.

As the strength in his hand gradually increased, the speed of the spindle rotated faster and faster, and with the sound of whining, the bamboo nails on the spindle were completely invisible, and only a blue-yellow light and shadow could be seen.

"Brother Xu, can you let me try!" Niu Dashi stood next to him and was eager to try.

"Don't turn too fast, the wooden frame is a little shaky, and it needs to be reinforced!" Chen Xu controlled the strength of his hand and slowly stopped, Niu Dashi hurriedly pounced on the handle and grabbed the handle, excited as if shaking a tractor.

"I'm going to turn too, I'm going to turn too!" Apricot also shouted anxiously next to her.

"Okay, be careful, it's heavy!" Niu Dashi hurriedly stopped, and gave the crank to Xing'er with a smile on his face.

Xing'er stood on tiptoe, her little face flushed, and she finally turned the crank handle, but after a few turns, it became easier and easier as the spindle rotated faster, and she suddenly kept shouting excitedly.

Looking at the two of them changing their cranks, Chen Xu couldn't help but think of the situation when he was a child when he rocked the windmill, and it seemed that he was so excited, but unfortunately it spanned two thousand years of time and space, and he couldn't go back.

Early the next morning, as soon as Chen Xu's family had breakfast, Uncle Ma and four villagers came over with rattan baskets to say hello, and then prepared to go to the mountain to help pick tea.

"Hey, Xiao Xu, what kind of thing are you doing?"

A group of people saw a strange wooden box placed under the pergola, and Chen Xu was still sawing wooden planks to install it, and they all came around in surprise.

"It's a threshing machine!" Apricot immediately shouted loudly.

"What does a thresher do?" Uncle Ma asked everyone's questions.

"For harvesting wheat, put the wheat in, and when it comes out, it will be the wheat grains, and you don't need to pick up the ears of wheat to dry!" Xing'er had already heard Chen Xu roughly say it last night, so she remembered it very clearly.

"What!? Really? Uncle Ma and several villagers were suddenly startled, and they all looked at this strange-looking thing in disbelief.

"Uncle, this is a thing I wanted to make on a whim yesterday, I haven't tried it yet, and I won't know the effect until the wheat is ripe in a few days and I try it in the ground!" Chen Xu explained with a smile.

"What are you waiting for, the weather has been sunny this year, I went to the field yesterday to see, there is no problem with the wheat harvest, just get it now and try it!" An anxious villager said excitedly.

"Get over and do it, Dagen and Simao hurry up and go to the field to cut two bundles and come back!" Uncle Ma said with a wave of his hand.

"Yes, yes, cut some and try the effect first!" Another villager also nodded quickly.

Then Dagen and Simao dropped the rattan basket in their hands, turned around with a knife, and ran to the river beach.

Chen Xu also hurriedly put the last two planks on the top of the threshing machine, completely covering the entire hopper.

The wooden planks on the top are all movable, cover when used, and can be opened when not in use, which is convenient for cleaning the hopper, and once the shaft is worn out or damaged, it is also easy to repair.

"It's coming, it's coming~"

In less than twenty minutes, Dagen and Simao each rushed over with a large bundle of wheat and threw it in the pergola, touching the sweat on their foreheads and urging: "Take it off and show us!" ”

"Dashi, shake the handle!" Chen Xu was a little excited and apprehensive, and put a wooden board flat at the entrance of the thresher as a feeding platform, and then took a rattan basket and placed it under the discharge port on the side.

"Huh!" Niu Dashi agreed, excitedly and nervously held the crank and began to rotate, watching the main shaft in the hopper rotate faster and faster, Chen Xu picked up a bunch of wheat and slowly stretched into the mouth, accompanied by a clear sound of fluttering, Xing'er standing next to the discharge port shouted in surprise, "Ah, the wheat is out, the wheat is out!" ”

"Really...... Really take it off! Uncle Ma and several people squeezed to the discharge port to take a look, and sure enough, there were sparse wheat grains popping out of the discharge port and falling into the rattan basket.

Chen Xu's hand flipped a few times, and after watching all the ears of wheat being beaten by the bamboo nails on the main shaft, he took out the wheat stalks and took a look, and found that almost all the wheat grains on the ears had disappeared.

"Uncle Ma, look at the effect!" Chen Xu handed the handful of wheat straw in his hand to Uncle Ma.

"Good...... Good...... It's cleaner than taking it off after drying! Uncle Ma looked at the handful of wheat straw in his hand and trembled with excitement.

"That's good, wait until I've taken off these two bundles and see the effect!"

Chen Xu also breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he could ensure that the threshing was clean, what he was most afraid of was that he would have to clean up the ears of wheat if he didn't take them off, so it was better to simply use the old method.

So then Niu Dashi shook the handle, Chen Xu continued to feed the wheat bundle to the feed port, the quantity also changed from less to more, and the speed also changed from slow to fast, although Chen Xu has been controlling the speed in order to see the threshing effect, but after a few minutes, the two large bundles of wheat were still taken off cleanly, and became two neat bundles of wheat straw piled up next to it, and the wheat that came out also flowed out from the slightly inclined discharge port and fell into the rattan basket, at this time a small half frame has been piled up.

There are also some broken ears of wheat, straw and leaves, but most of them are very clean grains, and they only need to be handled by hand to reach the level of being repeatedly sifted with rattan baskets after drying.

"It's amazing, with this threshing machine, I'm afraid it only takes three or five days for a family to harvest almost, and it's clean and labor-saving!" A villager squatted in front of a rattan basket and clutched a handful of wheat grains in amazement.

"Xiao Xu, is this thing easy to make?" After a short period of distraction, Uncle Ma grabbed Chen Xu's arm and asked excitedly.

"It's not difficult, if there are enough people and the wood is ready, there is no problem in making two or three a day!" Chen Xu nodded and said.

This first sample is just the first design of the gourd painting scoop, the workmanship is a mess, but he didn't expect the effect to be far beyond his expectations, the wheat grains are very clean, as long as there is someone to help, he only needs to design and then let people make it according to the rules, it should be said that it is not a problem for each family to get one in a few days.

Don't think too much about the degree of fruiting for the time being, you just need to be able to persist for three or five days to harvest the wheat, and now the rush is made of freshly cut trees, and it has not been dried, and it will definitely deform or even crack if it is placed for a long time, but it can be done again next year, not to mention what will happen next year, no one can say.

"Dagen went to inform the others, let them put down the work in their hands and bring the guys over to help quickly, and let Xiao Xu make a few more threshers!"

"Simao and Erzhuang, you take a group of boys to the mountains to pick tea, pay attention to safety, and say hello loudly if there is any situation."

"When the people arrive, what do you need Xiao Xu to arrange directly, let's hurry up and prepare ......"

Uncle Ma gave a series of instructions, and a group of people scattered.

Chen Xu may not know the importance of this thresher just to reduce the burden of labor, but as the oldest farmer in the village, Uncle Ma thinks more, with this thresher, even if it is windy and rainy, he can grab time to harvest the wheat, and will not watch the ears of wheat that have been taken back to the house dry on the field and completely soaked into mud by a rainstorm as before.

The wheat that has been soaked in water can not be used to pay the field tax, so it can only be left to eat by itself, and if it is too late to dry, it is easy to rot and sprout, and then the harvest of the year becomes despair.