"Dad, in previous years, when I cut the grain, I picked up the pole and beat it with a wooden stick after drying, so is it too laborious? If the millet is cut, it can be threshed in the field immediately, so it will be much easier. ”

Chen Xiaocai said with a smile: "This has always been the way to harvest the grain, if you thresh it in the field, won't the grain fall into the mud?" I can't pick it up, but I'm going to go hungry. ”

"I mean to be a threshing machine, but not to take a basket and put it down and beat it with a stick."

"Why haven't I heard of any threshing machines?"

"I haven't heard of it, it doesn't matter, we can do it! The ship wasn't built by someone else. ”

As she spoke, she described the appearance of the threshing machine in the rural home in her previous life, but Chen Xiaocai didn't know what she was talking about, so she had to go to her brother's room to get a pen and paper, and she said to let Chen Xiaocai draw at the same time.

After the picture was drawn, Chen Xiaocai expressed his doubts, can such a threshing machine really threshh the millet? So why is the wire bent? The sticks of threshing the grain are straight.

"Alas! Dad, don't you know if you make him and try it! If the bend is not good, we will make it straight, this method is to think, always to see the real thing to know whether it needs to be changed, out of thin air imagination there will always be shortcomings. ”

"That's what I said, it's me who is in love." He nodded as he spoke, "The pedals and barns are made of wood, and we can do them ourselves." The two large and small gears and all the iron to be used need to be custom-made, and the size must be accurate. ”

Yanni saw that Chen Xiaocai was thinking hard about what to do, and did not speak for a long time.

"Dad, I think we can make it all out of wood first, and then try it, if we find that the wood used there is not suitable, wouldn't it be nice to replace it with iron?"

Chen Xiaocai slapped his thigh, "Eh! This method is good, it is all made of wood, and if it is not suitable there, change there, and if it is to be replaced with iron, remove which part and let the iron master beat it the same, so it is right. ”

The plan of the threshing machine was finally preliminarily completed, Chen Xiaocai was a man of action, and he decided to move the wood to start construction immediately.

After dinner, Chen Xiaocai and Li discussed hiring people, and Yanni took the books and took her two younger sisters to read and write.

The next day, their house was lively again, because her family had to hire three short-term workers, and she had to set up a few families to cook pig food, and these half-grown children could do it.

Who doesn't have a few children! There is little land at home, and there is no year when I don't go hungry by that bit of production, but now it's okay, who doesn't earn and rush to do something to do!

I thought it would be easy to hire people, but I didn't expect everyone to be so active, and in the end, for the sake of fairness, I had to invite the village chief.

They have a hundred piglets, all of them are currently fed boiled sweet potato leaves, and now they are still young to make 30 buckets of pig food a day, and when they are older, they may have to eat half a bucket of pigs at a meal, which is a bit large, in order to ensure that they can complete it every day, it is best to hire a few more.

Later, according to the preference of poor families with few laborers, ten families were hired to cook pig food, and two more were hired to clean the pigsty, and these two people had to take turns to keep vigil over there, so the wages were different.

The people at the chicken farm were invited by the Li family alone, and the one who invited was Aunt Huang from the next door, who was a clean and neat person, and was very good with the Li family.

Another three days passed, Chen Xiaocai actually made the threshing machine, he laughed excitedly in the yard, everyone ran out to see when they heard the voice, thinking that something had happened.

Yanni looked at the appearance of the threshing machine, so she stood on the threshing machine and pushed the roller twice with her hand, and stepped on the pedal again. The wisdom of these ancients is so high! It only took a few days to make the threshing machine, but there is nothing wrong there, the only thing is that the gear is not iron, not very smooth.

Yanni gave Chen Xiaocai a thumbs up, "Dad, it's really good!" ”

The other three looked left and right at the big guy in front of them, not knowing what to do.

"Mother, in the future, we will harvest the millet lightly, this is called a threshing machine, it can thresh the millet in the field, so you don't have to pick the pole back."

"In previous years, I was the most afraid of threshing, and the Gu Maofei was all over the body, which was very uncomfortable, and I really didn't need anyone to beat it, so it would save a lot!" It seems that the threshing machine is the heart of the Li family.

Now that the farm has hired people, the family is idle, and they only need to go for a walk and play a supervisory role.

The apiary is still in charge of its own family, and there is no need to do anything, but it is also to go to check the condition of the bees every day to see if they have been affected by foreign objects.

Old house

Chen Xiaoquan was taking a nap, and Zhang walked over and pulled his quilt open.

"Sleep, sleep, sleep, look at what you are for, I gave birth to you six children, you can only provide for one eldest to go to school, I shouldn't have given birth to so many in the first place."

Chen Xiaoquan was woken up, frowned and said impatiently: "What crazy are you mother-in-law!" The second child also went to school, and then he didn't want to go, so can I be blamed for this? ”

"I didn't agree to split up so early, look at what kind of life you are living now? The fifth brother went to the county again today, and you only know how to dig in the soil. ”

This sentence woke up Chen Xiaoquan's sleepy worm, "Alas! The fifth brother is really up, and I can't compare to my brother! ”

"Isn't that honey valuable? , He can't earn it all, you two are brothers, let him teach you to raise it, he can raise us, we can also raise it, this is rich and everyone can earn it together! ”

"I also went to collect bees last time, and the bees in this neighborhood were basically collected by the fifth brother, and the fifth brother said that when the bee colony is bigger, he will teach me and the seventh brother to raise it together."

"You will believe this, the seventh brother is now following the boat, you can watch it in the future! The boat must have been handed over to the seventh brother to drive. ”

There are two flowers, one on each branch.

Now that the Li family is free, he took out the fabric he bought that day, and the sisters were also called, saying that they would teach them to cut cloth and make clothes.

Fortunately, Li doesn't know how to embroider, otherwise her hands would have suffered.

"Mother, the last time Sister Shu'er came back, I saw that the flowers on her clothes were beautiful, and I also wanted to embroider small flowers on her clothes." Xiaoyu looked at her mother with blank eyes.

Ah! Little sister, are you serious? But your mother doesn't know how to embroider?

Li Shi said a little shyly, "Xiaoyu! You see how beautiful this dress is, it looks good without embroidery. ”

"Sister-in-law's flowers are embroidered beautifully, mother, can you please teach me?" Xiaoyu took Li's hand and sprinkled Jiao.