With the construction of the greenhouse, the wheat in the field is finally ripe.

The wheat ripened later than Wei Renshi expected, probably because there was no effective fertilizer, and it was not as good as the improved varieties in later generations, so the growth cycle was relatively long.

Wheat harvesting has always been the highlight of the village, and harvesting grain is the happiest time of the year. Even if you are faced with paying rent and taxes, there will not even be much left in your own hands, and it is still difficult to hide the joy of this harvest.

People in the village who are close to each other will work together, today we will cut your house together, tomorrow we will cut mine together, and we will help each other cut the wheat.

Because the wheat harvest needs to pay attention to speed, it only takes a few days.

As the old saying goes, cutting wheat is like fighting a fire, and you can't delay time.

The wheat is harvested early, but it is not ripe, but once it is cut slowly, it is delayed for a few days, and when the wheat is ripe, it will be peeled off. When the wheat is ripe, it dries quickly, and when the wind blows, the wheat grains will fall to the ground, and many of them will be lost.

It was about to take advantage of the fact that the wheat was still ripe for a few days to finish harvesting all the wheat.

"At the latest, it will have to be cut the day after tomorrow." Zheng Li was looking at the golden wheat in the field, his face was solemn and solemn, and he said: "It's best to be able to cut it all in three days, and while the rain hasn't come down yet, hurry up and sift the wheat, dry it and clean it up!" Zhang Si'er, you take a few people to see the wheat field, and if there are miscellaneous things on the table, clean them up. Liu Shishi, you go to the village to inform you that you should ask for people to hire people in the past few days, and you should be ready to prepare, and you will start cutting wheat at dawn every day, so hurry up. ”

Zheng Li was commanding the manpower, and Wei Ren was really smiling and watching.

The most important thing of the year, Wei Renshi has never seen these villagers do things so solemnly.

After everyone left according to Zheng Lizheng's instructions, leaving Zheng Lizheng alone, Wei Renshi stepped forward and said with a smile: "Uncle Zheng, how much can you cut wheat in a day?" ”

"A man with a sickle can cut more than two acres of wheat land in one day. If you grit your teeth, you can cut three acres. Zheng Li said with a slight hint of pride, with his head held high.

This really surprised Wei Renshi, in later generations, when his grandmother's family was cutting wheat, he went back to help, and the skilled hands in the village used a sickle to support death in a day, and only cut two acres.

In later generations, in many remote mountainous areas, where the fields were east and west, all on the slopes of the mountains, most of the fields on the mountains could only be walked by a winding mountain road one person wide, and machines such as harvesters could not reach them at all.

When harvesting wheat, it can only be harvested by manpower in the traditional way.

Therefore, for cutting wheat, although Wei Renshi in later generations cannot say that he is very good, he also goes to cut some for his grandmother's house every year. Until my grandparents passed away one after another.

"Then Uncle Zheng, you are not as good as me!" Wei Renshi laughed and said, "I can cut six acres a day by myself." ”

Zheng Lizheng grinned, knowing in his heart that Wei Ren was really telling a joke.

Zheng Lizheng laughed, but the smile on Wei Renshi's face was taken back.

Zheng Lizheng stared at Wei Renshi, the smile on his face gradually stopped, and he said in surprise: "Wei Langjun is not joking?" ”

"Harvesting wheat, such an important thing, how can I laugh." Wei Renshi nodded and said.

Zheng Lizheng was even more surprised, with an incredible look on his face, paused, and suddenly thought of a possibility, so he hurriedly asked, "Could it be that Wei Langjun has made a new farm tool?" ”

Wei Renshi smiled again. Zheng Lizheng saw him laughing again, and his brain exploded, and his heart jumped a few times.

But I heard Wei Renshi ask, "Uncle Zheng, have you heard of the plunder?" ”

Really!

Zheng Lizheng felt that his heart had leaked a few times, and hurriedly asked, "Plunder...... What is a predator?! ”

When Wei Renshi saw Zheng Lizheng's reaction, he was also happy in his heart, and he secretly said sure enough.

The plunder is a tool for harvesting wheat, consisting of bamboo weaving, ropes, blades and handles, shaped like a large dustpan with a right-angled handle, but with a sharp blade more than two feet long at the lower mouth of the "dustpan". When using "Plunder" to cut wheat, you need to hold the handle with one hand and the rope with the other, waving in a circular arc. Every time he waved, the wheat with more than four ridges fell in response, but it was caught by the bamboo weaving behind it, and it directly became a bunch.

There are many theories about when the "wheat cutting artifact" appeared before the appearance of this mechanized harvesting tool, some say it is the Yuan and Ming dynasties, some say it is the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and some even say that it was made by Zhuge Liang, although this statement is the most unreliable...... But Wei Renshi couldn't be sure, so he had to ask Zheng Lizheng if he had seen it first.

Since Zheng Lizheng has not heard of it, it means that there is no such "wheat cutting artifact" at present.

So Wei Renshi said with confidence: "A kind of farming tool used to harvest wheat." If it is ripe, it is much faster to cut the wheat than with a sickle. A strong person like Uncle Zheng, if he is skilled, he can cut seven or eight acres of land in a day. Maybe, ten acres dare to try. ”

"What?!" Zheng Lizheng was taken aback: "There is such a thing? ”

"Not before, but now it is." Wei Renshi said with a smile: "A few days ago, I saw that the wheat was about to ripen, and I thought that I was going to cut the wheat soon, so I made a few handfuls. Uncle Zheng wants to go over and have a look? ”

"Let's go!" Zheng Li hurriedly pulled Wei Renshi to his house.

"Not at home." Wei Renshi said: "It's in the winery." ”

When the two arrived at the winery, the handfuls of plunder that Wei Renshi had made a few days ago were all placed there.

"Is this the thing?" Zheng Li was looking at what Wei Renshi took out and asked, "It looks weird." ”

"I'll show you how." Wei Renshi said.

As he spoke, he looked left and right, and found a group of overgrown weeds, dense weeds more than half a person high, like a piece of wheat.

"Uncle Zheng, you've knocked it out." Wei Renshi said, holding the handle with one hand, pulling the rope with the other, and swinging it vigorously from right to left, a piece of weeds was cut off at the root, stopped by the bamboo weaving on the plunder, and thrown into a cluster under the action of inertia.

In just one fell swoop, a large piece was cut off.

Wei Renshi himself stumbled and almost fell, but fortunately he was stopped by Zheng Lizheng in time.

"I still can't do it, and I'm low, so it's hard to master." Wei Renshi put down the plunder and said, "Uncle Zheng, you come and try." ”

Zheng Lizheng immediately took it and waved it like Wei Renshi.

At first, Zheng Lizheng couldn't easily use the plunder, but after practicing for a while, he became familiar with it.

"Wei Langjun, is this thing easy to do?" After Zheng Lizheng used it, he stared at Wei Renshi with burning eyes and asked.

"See for yourself!" Wei Renshi said with a smile: "This long blade is the most troublesome. ”

"Good guys!" Zheng Lizheng was excited: "Do it!" Do it now! So take it back and ask, see who wants it, and do it together! ”