Chapter 113: The Wheat Harvest (1)

As soon as the sky was brightened and the surroundings were still quiet, the Su family had already gotten up.

Today is the day of the opening of the sickle and the harvest of wheat, and many people are full of curiosity about the land of Su Xiaoluo's family and want to witness this historical moment with their own eyes.

Su Xiaoluo changed back to the dress of long pants and narrow sleeves, with a high ponytail hanging on his head.

"Girl, you're going to wear this to the ground!" Yingyue felt that Su Xiaoluo was too casual, if she could make a good impression on Mrs. Shang, the matter with Xiangye would be at least half.

"Yingyue, I'm going to go to the ground today, if I don't dress like this, do I still wear a skirt?" Su Xiaoluo's words also have some truth, and Yingyue can't persuade anymore.

At breakfast, except for Shangguan Hongyu, everyone else gathered in the dining room: "Grandmother, did you sleep well last night, why did you get up so early!" ”

"I slept well last night, didn't I want to see the wheat harvest? I was more excited and got up early. Mrs. Shang wanted to witness the skills of her future granddaughter-in-law, and she was also very interested in the wheat harvest and wanted to join in the fun.

Shang Yi saw that Su Xiaoluo was in a good state today, and the back of his hand seemed to be swollen, and his mood was much lighter: "Everyone else can do whatever they want, grandmother, grandma and Xiaoluo can only watch from the side, and they are not allowed to go to the ground!" ”

"I want to try what it's like to cut wheat!" Old Mrs. Shang gave her grandson a blank look.

Su Xiaoluo wanted to say that she had been waiting for this day for a long time, but at this time, her hand was injured and she couldn't use force, and she was also very depressed!

The Su family hired some people, plus Shang Yi's subordinates, Su Xiaoluo's maid. The village chief wanted to find some people to help Su Xiaoluo cut wheat, but Su Xiaoluo politely refused, saying that it was okay to pay, but there was no need to help.

At the same time, Su Changgeng's family also began to cut wheat, and the village chief saw that Su Xiaoluo had a lot of people here, so he asked the villagers to help in Su Changgeng's field.

The people in the front cut the wheat, the people in the back were specially baled, and the half-grown children picked the ears of wheat at the end.

Standing on the ground and watching for a while, explaining some precautions to Yingyue and them, seeing that Su Changan had already driven the ox cart over, Su Xiaoluo wanted to go with him to the place where the wheat was dried.

The wheat is sent to the drying field to spread evenly, and the wheat can be patted with a farm tool called flail to separate the wheat grains from the wheat straw, and then the wheat grains can be dried after the secondary separation.

In ancient times, when there were no modern machinery, this ancient method was used to threh and dry.

In order to reduce everyone's burden, Su Xiaoluo asked people to find four or five small stones, and used cattle to pull them and roll them in a circle on the wheat, which was much faster than manual drying, saving time and effort.

Su Xiaoluo left, of course Shang Yi had to follow, and the reason was sufficient, and they had to carefully examine the link from the threshing of the wheat to the end.

"Xiaoluo, these wheat are quite dry, I see that after the flattening, turn it at noon, and it can be threshed tomorrow, in case it changes the sky!" Su Changan said while unloading the car.

"Okay, if our wheat is beaten with a flail, it will be much faster to crush it with a stone stone first, then beat it with a person, and then separate the wheat straw from the wheat kernels, and then blow off the outer shell to dry."

Su Changan suggested dividing the site into three areas, one for stacking wheat stacks, one for threshing, and another place for drying wheat grains.

"I'll go back and draw a picture, and ask Brother Zixu to go to the county seat to find two carpenters to make a hand-cranked bellows, and tomorrow only two or three people can separate the wheat grains from the husks."

"Can you draw with your hands?" Shang Yi poured a basin of cold water on Su Xiaoluo, there are some things that can be instructed to be done by others, she has to do it herself, she is still a patient, can't she let others save snacks!

"What should I do then?" The bellows have to be made quickly, otherwise many people will have to do this secondary separation work.

"Little fool!" Shang Yi muttered in a low voice and said loudly, "You said I would paint!" ”

"Try it!" I really can't do it, so I can only endure the pain and draw it myself.

Su Changan stood beside the ox cart and looked at the two people who were discussing while walking, and there was a feeling that the flowers in his yard could not be saved, and the flower thief had already stretched out his hand to him, which was particularly congested.

It's just that this person's conditions are very good in all aspects, and people don't have a place to start if they want to find faults.

"Uncle, the car is unloaded, we should go back!" Zixu sympathized with Su Changan very much, and his daughter was about to be snatched away, and it was understandable that he felt uncomfortable.

But he is more partial to Shang Yi, after so many years, it is the first time he has seen Xiang Ye so attentive to a girl, so he will naturally spare no effort to help him achieve his wish.

Su Changan made up his mind to find a maid to go back to accompany his daughter for a while, only Shang Yi and his daughter were not suitable to stay alone, although the two of them went in and out together for official business, it was not suitable for a little girl after all.

When this errand fell on Xuefu's head, Zixu and the old lady breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Su Xiaoluo and Shang Yi described the appearance of the bellows as they walked, and when they arrived home, Shang Yi already had a draft in his heart.

Grinding and laying paper, he drew a picture for Su Xiaoluo in one go: "Is this right?" ”

"That's basically right, there are some places where the size is not clearly marked, and the wind wheel part should be drawn separately, which is very important here, and if you do it wrong, the bellows will not come in handy."

Shang Yi nodded, and Su Xiaoluo said beside him, he was making changes.

"Everyone else is working outside, you two actually came back for a private meeting, if you want to say that Ziqian can do this kind of thing, I believe it, how can Xiaoluo learn badly!" Shangguan Hongyu, who had just gotten up from the bed, was looking for people everywhere in the courtyard of the Su family, and finally found two people sitting in the living room with the doors and windows open, and couldn't help but tease.

Shang Yi turned his head and looked at Su Xiaoluo, he said so about you, and he didn't scold him!

"We're back to make bellows drawings." Too lazy to explain, Su Xiaoluo's eyes fell on the drawings, and after improving it, it could be finalized.

"Who are we? Do you mean Ziqian...... "Shangguan Hongyu likes to tease Su Xiaoluo very much, she doesn't cry or annoy, which is very good, unlike most girls, with them, sometimes I don't know which sentence annoys people, and the most annoying thing is that sometimes it's useless to coax, looking at those people's unreasonable appearance, I really hate to go up and strangle people to death."

"If you can do it, you can come!" Su Xiaoluo refused to answer his question.

"Shangguan, are you idle? Everyone else has gone to the field, and the wheat has been pulled back several carts, and you are still wandering around this yard, are you embarrassed? Shang Yi didn't care about Shangguan Hongyu's words, they were friends and they were the girls they liked, and it was quite useful to listen to him ridicule.

He was afraid that Su Xiaoluo would be angry, and if he alienated himself because of those words, it would be worth the loss.

Su Xiaoluo originally wanted to warn Shangguan Hongyu and ask him not to talk nonsense, Shang Yi had already said that it would be inappropriate for him not to be relenting!