Jing Jing saw that her grandparents had planted crops and did a lot of farm work, but she had never worried about it herself, so in fact, she didn't know much about the doorway inside, and when she saw Xiao Changyi say this, she understood.

It's just that

"Rice threshing?" Jing Jing thought carefully about Lin Jing's memories before saying, "It seems that rice is beaten here with rice tubes." ”

Xiao Changyi responded lightly: "Hmm." ”

"No wonder it's so slow, we all have rice threshing machines." Speaking of the rice threshing machine, Quiet's eyes lit up, and he grabbed Xiao Changyi's arm and said excitedly: "Xianggong, let's also get a rice threshing machine, in that way, we won't be so hard to beat rice by then, and the speed is much faster than beating rice with a rice threshing tube!" It's really fast, it's estimated to be more than three times faster! ”

Three times more

Xiao Changyi's eyes flashed, of course it would be good if that was the case, but: "I won't be a rice threshing machine." "He didn't even know what the rice threshing machine looked like.

Jing Jing immediately said: "I won't either, but I've seen what my grandfather's old-fashioned rice threshing machine looks like, and I can draw the parts and let the carpenter and blacksmith make them for us, and then we can assemble them ourselves, and I guess we should be able to make them." ”

"And a blacksmith?"

"Yes, some parts need iron, such as the drum for threshing rice, the wheel, you can't understand it now, it's better to wait for me to draw it and you can see it yourself, you can understand it without me saying it when the time comes."

"Hmm."

Quietly suddenly remembered something: "Is iron expensive?" "The wooden part needed for the rice threshing machine is cheap, and it is this iron

Xiao Changyi: "It's a bit expensive." ”

"Is our family's money enough?" This is a big problem, if the money is not enough, the rice threshing machine will not be successful at all.

"I don't know for the time being, but when you draw out which parts of iron are needed, I can estimate how much iron we need, and I will probably know if we have enough money."

Jing Jing immediately said: "Okay, I'll draw it for you when I go back." ”

The matter of this rice threshing machine is urgent, and she will use it next month, so she has to get it out as soon as possible, so as not to tire people to death when she gets the rice threshing tube.

Then, Jing Jing and Xiao Changyi went to the edge of the mountain to bring the cow home.

In the distance, Jing Jing and Xiao Changyi saw An Hegui and Aunt Yun standing at the door of their courtyard.

"Auntie, uncle, why are you here?" The silence was somewhat surprising.

Aunt Yun sighed heavily: "Xiaolan is not sensible, how can I ask for your chicken's money, you have helped our family so much, and now you have to make three thousand catties of tofu, you didn't tell us to be cheaper and quieter, we really can't ask for this eighteen yuan, otherwise, your uncle and I can only kneel down for you, so that your uncle and I can feel better." ”

With that, the two of them really planned to kneel.

Jing was willing to let them kneel, and while hurriedly stopping them, he said: "Uncle and aunt, don't kneel, I will take back this money, you guys are really torturing us." ”

It wasn't until they saw that Jing Jing really took the eighteen yuan that Aunt Yun and An Hegui were greatly relieved and smiled.

Seeing that it was getting dark, they didn't talk much about anything else, so Aunt Yun and An Hegui left.

After dinner, the oil lamp was lit, and in the stove room, Xiao Changyi began to tie a scarecrow, while Jing Jing sat at the table with black charcoal, and drew the parts of the old-fashioned pedaling rice machine on the inferior paper pasted to the window.