Along the way, Qianyan and Ye Feng chatted while walking, and deliberately said goodbye in advance, they really couldn't stand the boredom of Ye and Cai Liu.

From what they ate yesterday to their liking to get dressed to sewing, the two chatted so much that anything could be the content of the chat. Seeing this, the two looked at each other and took the opportunity to leave.

Anyway, the fruit was eaten, and there was no need to stay any longer.

In fact, the mysterious sweet and sour fruit that Cai Liu said is just a plum. Plum, also known as Jiaqingzi and Bulin, has been widely cultivated all over the world in modern times, and there are many varieties.

As for the kind that Cai Liu brought back, it is just the most common green plum, which is sold everywhere in modern times, and it will ripen around August.

Ye Feng still remembers that when he was in school, the most fruit trees in the school's experimental field were plum trees, because plum trees grow fast, and it is easy to graft other varieties, and the survival rate is very high.

This thing tastes sour, can promote the secretion of a certain digestive enzyme, so it has the effect of improving appetite, no wonder Liu and Ye both love to eat.

However, the leaves cannot be eaten too much, and it is easy to have diarrhea.

Before leaving, Ye Feng instructed the two not to eat more, thought about it, and asked the two to put the seeds away, so that Ye remembered to take them home when he went home. Cai Liu said that his brother's friend had brought her back from outside, and thought that she was pregnant, so he brought some to her.

Ye Feng thought, since he couldn't go to that place to buy saplings, he could try to grow them himself.

In fact, Ye Feng knew in his heart that planting plums would definitely not be able to do so in this way. One is that the seeds are difficult to germinate, and the other is that even if they germinate and grow into plum trees, the fruits are generally inedible, either sour or bitter and difficult to swallow.

He just wanted to try it and play with it. If you have the opportunity to go to that place in the future, just fold a few branches on the mother plant and graft them back.

Besides, even if you can't get the branches in the end, the plum blossoms are quite beautiful, so you can use them to enjoy the flowers.

Maybe it was because he couldn't eat more after listening to Ye Feng's words, not long after Ye Feng and Qianyan went home, Ye Shi also went home after a while, bringing back a large handful of plum kernels.

After taking the plum core, Ye Feng carefully cleaned the flesh attached to it, found some fine sand, and buried these cores inside.

By next spring, if the nuclei are still there and not rotting, it will not be too late to plant them again.

After thinking about it, Ye Feng picked out more than a dozen dark-colored seeds and buried them directly on the spot. Whatever, it's just an experiment, it's best to be able to germinate, and forget if it can't.

After doing this, Ye Feng was already covered in sweat.

Just as he was about to wash his hands, he saw Ye Shi and Qianyan looking at Ye Feng with curiosity on their faces, and Qianyan asked directly: "Uncle, can this seed grow into a fruit tree if it is planted, can this tree bear the kind of fruit we just ate?" ”

A thousand words, Ye also wants to know.

Cai Liu's brother brought only a few dozen, although he had a friendship, Ye was not embarrassed to eat more. But she liked the taste as soon as she ate it. If the family can really grow these fruits, they can satisfy their hunger every year in the future.

Seeing the expectant eyes of the two, Ye Feng couldn't bear to tell the truth, but there was no need to hide this kind of thing, so he said honestly: "It's hard to grow." Even if it is planted, the fruit may not taste good. However, if we can find this fruit tree, we can just break off a branch from the tree, or a peach, and I can grow it. ”

It's time to remind the Ye family, and I thought that next time I go to Cai Liu's house to play, I must ask her to help get a branch.

Qianyan didn't give up, and said directly: "Uncle, I know that there are peach trees in the back mountain. But this peach is not delicious, it is useless. ”

It seems that the peach tree that Qianyan said is the kind that has not been grafted, commonly known as hairy peach. This kind of peach has a large pit and little flesh, is bitter and astringent, and when it grows to be fully ripe, it is also astringent, and it can barely be eaten.

couldn't stand the grinding of a thousand words, so Ye Feng followed her to the back mountain, and saw several big peach trees. There are also a few small trees nearby, which I think are the peach that fell on the ground and sprouted.

A three-year-old sapling was selected, and Ye Feng picked up a hoe and dug it. The land here is barren and has little soil, so it is easy to dig. After a while, the two of them took the peach tree home.

On the way, Ye Feng couldn't help but think that he had only planted plant bonsai for so long, except for the ginkgo, the rest were all for viewing flowers and leaves, and forgetting that fruit trees could also be bonsai.

In fact, apples, grapes, pomegranates and other things are suitable for bonsai. If you really want to do it, you can not let it go far from watching flowers.

Moreover, if Cai Liu's brother could ask a friend to bring back the plum branches, he really wanted to try grafting. If it can really be successfully grafted, it really opens up a new world.

I forgot to go to the shed to look at the flowers and plants.

In the evening, after dinner, Chen Jixing talked about harvesting corn in a few days. Thinking of last year's hardships, and this year's only one who could pick corn to go home was Chen Jixing, Ye Feng thought that it would be good if he could break the corn at one time and then pull it home by car.

There is no need to think about the ox cart, because the current land is all winding and winding, and the road is small, and the ox cart cannot enter at all.

Ye Feng suddenly thought of the chicken bus.

The chicken bus is also called a wheelbarrow, because the "clucking" sound it makes when it runs is somewhat like a chicken crow, so it is called a chicken bus in some places.

This kind of car has one wheel and a wooden frame on it, and it looks very simple. However, it is this kind of seemingly simple car that is very convenient to use.

The ancients carried goods, mostly on their shoulders or hands, as for ox carts, in fact, they were not popular at all, and ordinary families could not afford them. Manpower is limited, and carrying three or four hundred pounds on his shoulders is already the limit for ordinary people.

However, this chicken bus is different.

Because there are wheels underneath, it is much easier to place hundreds of catties of goods on wooden shelves to push forward than to carry them on your shoulders. And because it is only one wheel, as long as the wooden frame is made of the right size, the same can be pushed through the fields and countryside.

Even if those roads are not easy to walk, you can pick a section of the road first, and then put it in the car when you reach a stable place.

As for a half-sized kid like Ye Feng, although he couldn't even pick up a fifty pound of corn on the cob, if he pushed it with a wheelbarrow, Ye Feng felt that he could push at least one hundred and fifty pounds.

Immediately, Ye Feng told Chen Jixing his thoughts.

Helpless, Chen Jixing couldn't understand at all, it was a wheel and a wooden frame, and he was already dizzy by Ye Feng.

Chen Jixing doesn't understand, but Chen Jiwan, Chen Qianming, and Chen Qianshui all understand, after all, they know carpentry. After thinking about it, Ye Feng went directly to Chen Qianming.

The kid is now overseeing the building of the house on the other side.

As a result, when Ye Feng said what he intended in the future, Chen Qianming was also confused. Obviously, those who know how to build a stove may not be able to do everything, and hearing about this kind of thing does not necessarily mean that everything will work.

Ye Feng: This is a typical illness and rushed to the doctor.

There was no way, Ye Feng had no choice but to find Chen Jiwan, after all, it was an old carpenter. If he doesn't understand anymore, then he can basically give up.

When Chen Jiwan heard Ye Feng's words, he was a little surprised. He could have done this kind of wooden frame, but he couldn't do it with the delicate carpentry of wheels, and he needed more tools.

Just when Ye Feng felt that there was no play, Chen Jiwan said: "This kind of wheel is sold in the city and in the town, but it is all big wheels, which are the kind used for ox carts." However, they can also be small. ”

Chen Jiwan's words reminded Ye Feng that indeed, since the craftsmen in the city could even do wheels as big as an ox cart, the smaller ones could naturally do it. It's just a small one, and it's not for them to innovate and make things that they didn't have originally.

The next day, under the leadership of Chen Jiwan, the two successfully found the woodware shop in the city. Chen Jiwan felt that the kind of car Ye Feng said was simply magical, and it was really going to be done, and it would be very convenient to transport things in the future.

Seeing Chen Jiwan coming, Master Yang greeted with a smile: "Lao Wan, you are here, what do you need to buy?" ”

It seems that the two know each other very well. Moreover, he actually called him Lao Wan, but if you don't know, you still think his surname is Wan.

Actually, this was Ye Feng's misunderstanding. Chen Jiwan just bought cattle and bought some utensils here that he couldn't make, including wheels. This Master Yang has a good memory, so he remembered him.

Chen Jiwan said: "I'm going to buy three small wheels, do you have anything for sale here?" ”

"Small? How small? Master Yang said in surprise.

Hearing this, Ye Feng was a little disappointed, it seems that there must be no ready-made ones in the store.

"That's right, Master Yang, I have a calf at home, and my son likes it, so I thought about making a small ox cart for him to play with. Well, in this way, I'll give you a comparison. ”

As he spoke, he picked up the standard ox wheel and compared it to Master Yang on the spot. Both of them are extremely experienced carpenters, so as soon as Chen Jiwan said it, Master Yang immediately understood. immediately said that there was no problem, and let the two of them come to pick it up tomorrow.

After returning to the village, Ye Feng did not go home, but followed Chen Jiwan to his house. Under Ye Feng's description, Chen Jiwan began to make wooden shelves and pillars.

As soon as the wheels are brought back, they are ready to use after a simple installation.

If you change to someone else, you will definitely not be able to do this, but Chen Jiwanjia has a lot of various kinds of wood. After a period of exploration, Chen Jiwan had already made the wooden frame that Ye Feng wanted.

Ye Feng said again: "The road here is not easy to walk, and it is narrow, you have to consider the width when making a shelf, it is too wide to enter, too narrow and there are few things that can be transported, this must be taken into account." ”

Chen Jiwan nodded, it was true, he naturally knew the road in the village. Improvements to the wooden shelves began immediately.

When you think that modern unicycles are all rubber, which can not only absorb shocks, but also rub lubricating oil on the wheels, but now the wheels are wooden, then you need to consider more.

After thinking about it, Ye Feng talked about the size of the bracket, bearing, bearing capacity and other precautions one by one. Chen Jiwan's words surprised Chen Jiwan very much, and he felt that he felt that people who had been doing carpentry work for decades admired Ye Feng, a child.

The two discussed for a while, and Ye Feng went home for lunch. After lunch, Ye Feng went to Chen Jiwan's house again, and the two continued to study.

When it was time for dinner, Chen Jiwan made a wooden shelf that Ye Feng looked very good. These wooden strips are very thick, and they were matched by Chen Jiwan's mouth, although there were no nails, Ye Feng tried it, and it was actually very strong.

The next day, the two came to the woodware shop as promised, and Master Yang took out the small wheel that his apprentice made overnight that Ye Feng wanted.

Seeing this, Ye Feng felt pleasantly surprised.

I have to say that this wheel is just the right size, and you can use it on that wooden shelf when you get home in a while. The fly in the ointment is that on closer inspection, this wheel is not made of whole wood, but four curved pieces of wood spliced together.

Under such conditions, there is no glue and nails to fix it, and I don't know if it will crack in half when used. If that's the case, that's what makes it embarrassing.

On second thought, the wheels of the ox cart should have done the same, but the load of the ox cart was much heavier than that of the chicken cart, but the wheels had never cracked, and it seemed that he was too worried.

It's just that Ye Feng was still a little uneasy, and told Chen Jiwan his thoughts directly. Chen Jiwan said directly: "This is originally like this, like the kind you said, it is easier to break, but this is more solid." ”

Back home, in Ye Feng's expectation, Chen Jiwan put the wooden frame on the wheel, checked it again, and then tried it first.

I tried it, and it really worked.

Seeing this, Ye Feng asked Chen Jiwan to put about two hundred catties of goods on the wooden shelf, and as a result, there was still a certain amount of space on the wooden shelf.

When the things are put away, Chen Jiwan's eyes light up when he pushes it, this is simply too easy, with such a weight, an ordinary stout woman can push it. But if they are allowed to choose, they may not be moved.

It seems that this chicken bus is labor-saving.

As soon as Chen Jiwan put it down, Ye Feng stepped forward with some itching and tried it, although it was a little difficult, he could push it away.

However, when it came to practical use, Ye Feng understood that he had pushed more than 100 catties at most. Because those roads are potholed, they are really not as flat as those in Chen Jiwan's yard.

After thanking Chen Jiwan, Ye Feng gave him one of the wheels as a manual fee, and asked him to make another one. Chen Jiwan is naturally willing, with the current friendship between the two families, even if Ye Feng doesn't give him a wheel, he will help.

While it was still dark, Ye Feng pushed the first chicken bus in this time and space and went home.

Along the way, although the road surface is full of potholes, and you have to bump from time to time, the victory is still new in this wheel, the friction is small, and the push is very smooth.

Rao is like this, and when he got home, he also made Ye Feng sweat.

The unique shape of the chicken bus made the family curious.

After thinking about it, in order to prove his point, Ye Feng let Qianyan sit on it, and pushed her around the courtyard a few times, until she was so happy that she didn't want to come down.

At the end, Ye Feng asked Qianyan to come down, and then let Chen Jixing sit up.

Hearing this, Chen Jixing said: "Stop playing, I'm so heavy, it's not a joke to flash your waist." ”

Ye Feng knew that he didn't believe that he could push him, and he was afraid that he would be injured.

Counting up, Chen Jixing is only more than 100 catties at most, and the yard is so flat, there should be no problem in thinking about it, so he said: "It's okay, brother-in-law, this is a wheelbarrow, which I made with Brother Chen." This wheel was bought in the city. Don't look at this car is simple, but it is very convenient to push things, like you, you can push a few hundred catties. I just tried it, and I can also push more than a hundred pounds. ”

Seeing that Chen Jixing was still hesitating, Ye Feng said again: "It's not in the way, brother-in-law, you go up and give it a try." If it doesn't work, I just don't move, and I definitely won't be able to flash my waist. ”

Chen Jixing felt that what Ye Feng said was quite reasonable, so he slowly sat up. Ye Feng saw that he was sitting firmly, so he began to push. As a result, in the astonishment of the family, Ye Feng pushed the car smoothly and pushed it twice before letting Chen Jixing come down.

No matter how simple this car is, it's also a car.

When he was just sitting in the car, Chen Jixing had already thought that this car was so convenient, and it would be the most convenient to use it to transport grain in the future.

Ye Feng saw that he was happy, so he said directly: "Sister, I will help break the corn cob at most this year, but it is definitely not good to pick." When the time comes, I'll help push this unicycle and run a few more times. ”

When Chen Jixing heard it, don't say it, this method will definitely work. Even if Ye Feng was tired of pushing, he could continue to push himself. According to what Ye Feng just said, it will definitely be no problem for him to push three hundred catties at a time, but it is equivalent to picking two burdens.

Originally, he was still worried about this year's manpower problem, but now it seems that Ye Feng has helped solve half of it.

Chen Jiwan is also a powerful person, and he came to the door with a wheelbarrow in the evening of the next day. Chen Jixing, who asked the reason, was even happier, now it's okay, there are two wheelbarrows at home, one for him and Ye Feng.

In order to test the bearing capacity of the car, Chen Jixing went to the field to break up the corn while it was still early after dinner.

In fact, his corn was able to be broken yesterday, and he wanted to think that the sun was good these days, and it was good to dry it in the field. After the corn cob is cooked, it is actually relatively tight at first, and threshing is more laborious.

However, after sun exposure, it will slowly become loose.

Some anxious people break early, and when they take it home, they are not in a hurry to threshing at all, but use bamboo mats to spread in the place and expose them to the sun, and it is much easier to threshing them after a few days of drying.

Breaking the corn, Chen Jixing didn't mention how beautiful it was, these cobs are big and long, and this year's output must not be low.

It was estimated that there were about three hundred catties, because the four baskets he brought were all full, so Chen Jixing stopped. Then he counted the stones, made a mark, and then prepared to try the cart.

As for making marks, he was afraid that there would be such shameless ones, who would fish in troubled waters and steal corn cobs at night.

Before, Ye Feng felt that there was still something imperfect about this car, that is, it couldn't be placed in parallel, it was all oblique. After thinking about it, Ye Feng asked Chen Jiwan to add two wooden sticks to the handle as support.

Squatting down, Chen Jixing pushed the wheelbarrow in one go, but it was not as heavy as he imagined. Then we have a balance in our hands and move forward steadily.

After launching a distance, Chen Jixing believed what Ye Feng said, this car looks simple, but it is actually the most easy to use. This wheel looks small, but it bears a lot of force.

If he carried four baskets of corn on this wooden rack, he would not have to pick it twice. If you pick it with a big bamboo basket, you can make it once, but it will only make him tired, and he will be powerless if he can't pick it a few times.

The first part of the road was a little difficult to walk, but when I got to the daily walk, it was more stable. Chen Jixing not only did not feel tired at all, but felt more brisk walking.

He breathed a steady breath and pushed steadily to the door of the house, and then stopped. Because of Ye Feng's previous suggestions and Chen Jiwan's improvements, those two wooden sticks just played a supporting role. Parked the wheelbarrow, Chen Jixing was very happy.

With this car, if Ye Feng can really push about a hundred catties, even without Ye's help, they will not fall behind others in this year's autumn harvest. Besides, his eldest brother and second brother are also busy, and he won't ask them to help unless he has to.

Early the next morning, Chen Jixing's whole family went to the field, and according to what Ye Feng said, they all started to break the corn cobs, and they were not in a hurry to pick them back.

As a result, after a while, Chen Qianshan also came. After calling everyone, he went directly to the ground and began to break corn.

Seeing this, Ye Feng was happy, but he forgot about this kid. It's just that he didn't go to Ye Ermei's house to help, but came to Chen Jixing's house to help, and he always felt that it was a layer apart.

Seeing this, Ye said politely: "You kid, what are you doing on this big day, haven't you started breaking yet?" "Chen Qianshan's family rented 30 acres of land to plant, which is not a small amount, if he starts to harvest, but he does not help at home, it is unacceptable.

In the end, there is something that is not right.

Chen Qianshan naturally knew what Ye meant, and said directly: "Hey, it's okay, who likes to say let him say it, I don't bother to pay attention to it." If it's wrong to help people work, then there's nothing wrong with it. Besides, my family's planting this year is a little late, and it will take a few days to harvest. There are people in the new house, too, so I don't have to go there. ”

I have to say that Chen Qianshan is a good worker, and he breaks the corn cob very quickly. In about an hour, a few people broke all the corn in about an acre of land.

Ye Shi felt that his waist was a little sore, so he hurriedly came out and sat next to the ground to rest. Ye Feng and the others began to load the corn into the bamboo basket. After a while, all ten bamboo baskets were filled.

Chen Qianshan helped put five bamboo baskets on a wooden frame for Chen Jixing, and put two bamboo baskets on Ye Feng's wheelbarrow. Seeing that the car was peculiar, he asked. Ye Feng explained in detail again.

Now Chen Qianshan is gone, so he has to try it. After explaining the skills, Ye Feng let him go. As a result, Chen Qianshan pushed it, felt light, stopped the car, put two more baskets up, and then pushed it away again.

Ye Feng thought about it, anyway, Qianyan was guarding at home, so he wouldn't go back. When Ye was rested, he was ready to break some more. They went down early, and it was only about nine o'clock.

After a while, Ye Shi and Ye Feng went to another piece of land.

I have to say that with the wheelbarrow and Chen Qianshan's help, this is much more efficient, but in an hour, the two pushed all the corn home. If it had been replaced, it would have taken a day to harvest the land.

In the next few days, Chen Qianshan has been helping, and as a result, the speed is even faster than in previous years.

Within a few days, all the corn on nine acres of land was taken home.

The rest of the sorghum and beans were all petty fights, and Chen Jixing did it alone. As for sweet potatoes and potatoes, it is not yet time to harvest, so you can rest for a while.

In the days that followed, the family spent the rest of their lives threshing and drying corn. At this time, other families had just begun to harvest corn.

I have to say that since I added this chicken bus, I have saved a lot of effort.