"The paddy has been harvested, and the total output is about the same as last year." Su Chengqi took the water to wash his arm and took the towel handed by San'er, "They all came to order, should we sell them all?" ”

"Your eldest brother spent thousands of taels of silver, and sent two hundred taels to Brother Erlang. There is no worry about eating and drinking at home, but there is no copper plate in your hand. ”

"What do you want to do? If you want wine, you have it at home; If you want meat, you can marinate it at home; If you want to be in a relationship, you can catch two chickens and ducks or catch two fish. ”

Although the family is wealthy, Su Li still doesn't want his son to have money in his hands.

Su Zhang's family didn't want her husband to have money in her hands, and many people said in her ear in the past few years that there were many flies sticking to her husband outside.

"Stay and eat for yourself. The money from selling ginkgo seeds has not been divided, so if you don't have enough money, you can borrow it from me. She said.

Su Chengqi expressed helplessness, the richest person in the family is not him, nor his mother, but his third daughter. A big man wants to find his daughter and ask for money to spend, and he can't do it.

"The tea is ready, let's go."

Su Chengqi went to pick up the burden, two large barrels of chrysanthemum tea, enough to drink for a morning.

Su Lingyu took the big hat and led Xiao Wu to follow behind. Five-year-old Kapok ran and jumped and ran ahead with his eldest brother.

On an autumn morning, the sky is so high and so blue. A flock of geese flew south, one moment in a zigzag, another in a row.

There were already many villagers gathered on the grain field, and they were invited by the Su family to help remove the grains. Li Dan's family also came.

In a long period of agricultural civilization, rice threshing depended on hands, and grain husking depended on licking. In order to thresh the rice, the Su family went out as a family. Except for Dean Shen Ming.

Lift the large oilseed cloth to reveal the pile of rice ears. The big guy picked up the bench, sat on the edge of the pile of rice ears, picked up a handful of rice ears and threw them, kneaded and rubbed them, and separated the grains from the ears.

The female doll of the Li family and Su Lingyu got together, talking and laughing. Li Xiaowu has endless words with Kapok, as well as endless snacks.

Li Ying put aside a handful of finished rice ears, "Did you embroider your purse last time?" ”

"Hmm." Li Ying was absent-minded.

While stepping on the ears of rice with her feet, she asked Li Ying, "What's wrong with you?" ”

"But someone came to your house to say goodbye?"

"That's a lot. You know, my family is full of silkworm babies, which are not only expensive but also fragrant. From the oldest to the youngest, there is no marriage, and there are matchmakers coming to the door every day. There are all those who say kiss to Xiao Wu. ”

She didn't want to get married, without her consent, her family didn't dare to marry her, she didn't worry about herself. Instead, I'm worried about the little friends around me. In blind marriage and dumb marriage, it is easy to meet unladylike people.

"Do you have someone you like?"

Li Ying nodded slightly.

"Have you seen him? Have you spoken to him? Know him? ”

Li Ying shook her head, "I only heard that he is the eldest son of Mr. Lu, a private school in the city, who already has an official position and works as a clerk in the government." My dad went to see him and came back and said it was good. ”

"Find a chance to meet and chat." By the way, help the little friends to check.

Li Ying lowered her head, her ears red. He took a purse from his bosom and stuffed it into her.

She thought it was for her, so she picked it up and admired it, "Embroidered with white thread on a blue background and Tilian, it's not appropriate to give it to me." ”

Li Ying said shyly: "Help me give you your big brother." ”

Su Lingyu suddenly smiled, and it was not embarrassing to express his wrong feelings. There are only two radishes in her house in this village, which are more suitable for Li Ying, and Li Ying is not too interested in big radishes.

"Okay, I'll help you give it to him, and ask him what he thinks."

Li Ying blushed with shame and buried herself in her work and didn't dare to speak.

Su Lingyu looked up and saw that Su Zhong was busy, getting along with the villagers, talking and laughing.

Since returning from the academy, Da Radish often goes out with his father to run errands, picks up people and treats things, is used to seeing the scene, does more things, and people also mature.

Looking at Li Ying on the side, although she is only thirteen years old, the bun on her chest is prominent. In two years, I will be able to get married and become a mother.

"Living immortals, thirsty or not? Come and drink saliva. Su Chengqi's eyes were sharp and he saw the Taoist priest and his party.

"Thank you, we're going to go over this side of the mountain and go to Mt. Oxwei to have a look. I want to find a villager to lead the way. The Taoist priest said.

"It's really the right place, in my village, Lao Fu is an old hunter, and the mountain roads near here are all transparent." Su Chengqi called Lao Fu.

Lao Fu agreed, saying that he could bring the warlocks over.

"There's a worker."

The Taoist priest took two steps, and when he saw that one person didn't move, he shouted: "Chen Yong, you still don't leave?" ”

"Hey, here we are." Chen Yong looked at the two girls twice, turned around and caught up.

"That warlock has been staring at Erniu, could it be Erniu's bloodlight disaster?" Li Ying asked.

Su Lingyu couldn't say anything weird, the warlock stared at the second girl, as if looking at the face, but not like it. Where the weirdness came from, she couldn't figure out for a moment.

His eyes returned to the ears of rice in his hand, and he rubbed his hands a few times. It's not a way to step on it with your feet, you have to think of a threshing machine.

The problem is that she was born and raised in the city, and although she has owned a farm and grown rice, she has never seen a threshing machine. The harvester used to harvest rice is a large machine.

There's no way to make it here, and she doesn't know how it works.

If you have a specialization in the art industry, you have to go to craftsmen and let them study it.

After resting for a while, she brought the sack and stuffed it into the ears of rice.

"What are you?"

"It'll be clear later, I don't know if this method will work or not, let's try it first."

As she spoke, she tied the sack, pushed it again, and finally pushed it against the sack and beat it with a stick.

"San'er, what are you doing? Do you wash your clothes? The person next to him asked with a smile.

"It's not like it's a garment to knock and knock, maybe it's faster." She and Li Ying alternated.

Kapok and Li Xiaowu had fun, so they ran over and snatched their sister's stick and beat it on the sack. The beating is not enjoyable, and it is still sitting on it as a horse to ride.

Su Xiaowu saw that it was fun, and he also ran to chase after him.

"You bastards, this is food, not your horses." Su Zhang got up and snatched their "toys".

Untie the rope and pour out the ears of rice, and as a result, most of the grains of the ears are gone.

Someone saw the reason, "It's easier to threh in a sack." ”

Su Zhong picked up the sack and checked the wear and tear of the sack. "It seems simple, but it's not easy, and it costs sacks to do this."

Sacks are good things, and they can't afford to wear them. People who wanted to use sacks to remove the grain gave up on the idea.

Su Zhong went to Su Lingyu's side, "Do you have any other way to remove the grain faster and better?" ”

"Nope. Da Lang, you are a reader, have you ever seen a tool for threshing grains in a book? ”

Su Chong sat down directly on the side, rubbing the ears of rice and thinking, he watched Li Ying drop the ears of rice and knock off the grains with the falling, and he suddenly had an idea.

I don't know where to go with Xiao Si, and then I come back with a big broom made of branches.

He went to spread out the ears of rice, and Guan Xiaopeng took a big broom and hit the ground, "Bang papa." ”

"Bang bang."

"Bang bang."

"Stop."

As Su Zhong stopped, everyone went over to watch.

I saw that almost all the ears of rice that had been beaten three or five times had been threshed, and the remaining grains that were stubbornly hanging on the ears had to be threshed by hand.

They all praised Su for his good ideas, only Su Lingyu was indifferent, this kind of beating to remove the grain was used as early as the northern part of the wheat grain. Nothing new.

People with poor waist strength have difficulty raising the broom. It is still necessary to create more labor-saving threshing machines, freeing up labor and giving people more time to do other things.