The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and soon it's time to farm again, and this year, Liu Man'er's family didn't plant rice, just planted some peanuts and soybeans, just when summer came, because there was no ice to sell, so the business in the shop was worse than before.

Liu Man'er only let Liu Yunsheng and a little girl look at the store, and she took the two women who came to the store to help before, as well as Feihua, to return home together.

Coupled with the farm vacation, Liu Fusheng and Ye Feng are also at home, because there are many people and there is not much land, this little thing will be taken back in one day, and then you only need to slowly choose peanuts at home.

After asking two women to help for two days, all the peanuts were selected, and the soybeans were taken back to the house.

It's just a pity that the threshing bucket that was promised last year is still in the home and has not been put into use.

Liu Man'er actually wanted to tell the chief about this thing and let him let the villagers give it a try, but because the family was full of female dependents now, she was still a little afraid of causing trouble.

After all, there is no diesel here, and Liu Man'er only thinks of using tung oil or vegetable oil for ignition when lubricating the gears, and she is a little worried that the villagers are reluctant to use oil.

Of course, this is not the point, the point is that she is afraid of causing trouble, anyway, her family has no farming now, what about others, she doesn't have to care so much.

It's just that when she drove the carriage to the county seat in the morning, she still couldn't bear to see the villagers getting up early in the morning to work.

Anyway, she thought that it was their business whether they needed it or not, whether she said this thing or not was her business, even if in the end, she didn't have any credit, but it was still her good deeds for the people.

But she wouldn't go to the chief so rashly, first of all, she still went to Aunt Chunhua's house to pick up some rice, thinking about experimenting first.

Aunt Chunhua's family she believed, and then she first told Aunt Chunhua about it, of course, her purpose was to experiment, is there any problem with this machine.

It may be that God has blessed her, or maybe it is that the craftsmen here are more delicate in making things, and there is no problem, Aunt Chunhua's family is very grateful to Liu Man'er, and hurriedly picked all the rice to Liu Man'er's house, and used her threshing bucket.

Aunt Chunhua has a lot of family, and there are a lot of rice planted, and it is a big thing to dress up the grain every year, not to mention the slow threshing with the bucket every year, and tired, now use this threshing bucket, even the woman can go up and step on a few feet, which is really a lot more convenient.

After helping Aunt Chunhua's family to dig about five points of land, Liu Man'er's heart finally determined that there was nothing wrong with her threshing bucket, so she asked Ye Feng to invite the chief.

In fact, the chief felt that in the past two days, the Chunhua family had always picked up the unfinished rice to the Ye family, and he also felt a little strange, and was about to ask, but he didn't expect that the people of the Ye family would take the initiative to come to him.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a rectangular wooden barrel placed in the courtyard, but he didn't care, and when he entered the hall, he asked, "Aunt Ye, Ye Liu, do you have anything to do with me?" ”

"Of course, the chief, please come with me......" Liu Man'er led the chief to the side of the threshing bucket and showed him the threshing bucket.

"What is this?" The lieutenant asked puzzled.

"Threshing buckets." Liu Man'er smiled slightly.

At this time, Aunt Chunhua's family came over with some rice, and Liu Man'er came to the scene in person and showed it to the chief.

When Liu Man'er stepped on it, a wooden drum filled with U-shaped iron in the threshing bucket began to roll, and then all the rice fell into the drum.

Li Chang's eyes widened instantly, and he himself tried twice, and quickly gave Liu Man'er a thumbs up, "This thing is really good." ”

"Of course, it's called a threshing bucket." Liu Man'er said.

"You came up with that?" The chief looked sideways at Liu Man'er.

"Of course not." Liu Man'er shook her head and said: "This is all the credit of the chief, you are sympathetic to the hard work of the villagers threshing, thinking about it day and night, and came to discuss with our child's Feng'er, your experience combined with Feng'er's knowledge, and the two finally made such a threshing bucket." ”

Ye Feng was a very upright child, and when he heard Liu Man'er say this, he hurriedly said:

"Sister-in-law, this is obviously your ......"

But he was still halfway through his words, and was interrupted by Liu Man'er, "Sister-in-law is just a woman's family, it's good to make some gadgets on weekdays, how can you think of these, this is all due to your good knowledge, wide knowledge, and the credit of our lieutenant chief, it is the lieutenant who discussed with you, and you can think of making such a thing." ”

To be honest, not only Ye Feng, but even the chief was surprised by Liu Man'er's words, he knew, this matter had nothing to do with him, but this Ye Liu clan was able to have a relationship with him, but he did have insight.

What's more, from Ye Feng's words, he can know that this thing is really just this Ye Liu's family came up with, but she didn't take credit, but put the credit on her own brother-in-law and herself, which made him look at Liu Man'er, and sure enough, others said that this stupid girl has become smart now, it seems that she has really become smarter, and she is smarter than most of the women in the village.

"Good, good." The lieutenant nodded, glanced at Liu Man'er, and then said to Ye Feng: "Ye Feng, at such a young age, you can actually care about the people's livelihood and make such a thing, it is really amazing, so let's do it tomorrow, no, today we will go to the field to experiment again, and then go to the county master overnight and ask him to help promote this thing for the benefit of the people." ”

Ye Feng was still stunned, but Liu Man'er nodded and replied instead of him: "Okay, then thank you for the chief, you can take this thing to experiment first, it just so happens that Aunt Chunhua's field has not been harvested yet." ”

"Okay." The lieutenant nodded, not wanting to waste time, and immediately summoned a few men, intending to carry the threshing bucket to the field.

Liu Man'er explained to the chief and a few villagers how to disassemble and install this before letting them leave.

After the lieutenant chief and the others left, Ye Feng stomped his feet and said, "Sister-in-law, this thing was obviously made by you, why do you want to say that I made it?" ”

In Ye Feng's eyes, this is dishonest.

"Silly boy, you're really too upright." Liu Man'er patted the back of Ye Feng's head and said, "Unconsciously, you are as tall as your sister-in-law now." ”

"Sister-in-law, I'll tell you about business." Ye Feng said a little angrily.

"Okay, silly boy, we have to be upright, but we can't be inflexible, you know?" Liu Man'er took Ye Feng to the house, gathered the whole family and said, "If someone asks about it at that time, you will only say that Ye Feng did it, do you know?" ”

"Yes." The girls in the room all nodded, they saw that after their housewife came home a few nights ago, they were still tinkering with this big guy, but since the housewife said so, they should agree.

"But, sister-in-law, why is that?" Ye He was also a little puzzled.

Fang also looked thoughtful?

"Alas......" Liu Man'er sighed and said, "After all, my sister-in-law is a woman, what good is it for me to make such a thing?" It's nothing more than the court rewarding me with a few taels of silver, and people won't remember my name in the future, and more credit will still fall on the head of the magistrate and the governor, and Feng'er You are different. ”

"Feng'er, you are a man after all, and you are a child, even if the county magistrate wants to be greedy, he will always mention you one or two, after all, you are a student of this county, and you are also a disciple of the county, and there are students like you in the county under his rule, and this is another credit for him at that time, maybe he will be promoted because of such merits, if he is promoted, he will inevitably thank you for your merits, and when you enter the career in the future, maybe you will be mentioned one or two."

Liu Man'er said with a smile.

But Ye Feng didn't appreciate it, he said: "If I want to take the exam, I have to take the real Jinshi, but I don't want this kind of credit." ”

Liu Man'er laughed again, "Silly boy, of course you have to rely on your own ability, but if you want to take the Xiucai exam, don't you have to raise someone to guarantee you?" I heard that the magistrate is still young, and he is still from Jinshi, so he will give you a guarantee, and it will save you from recruiting people everywhere. ”

"Of course my sister-in-law knows that you have real talents, but the problem is, my sister-in-law runs a shop in the county, doesn't you have to let someone take care of it, if you have a good relationship with the county magistrate, isn't this sister-in-law stained? So the purpose of my sister-in-law saying this is completely for herself. ”

Although Ye Feng is still young, he has not yet come out of Liu Man'er's words for the time being, but he feels that what Liu Man'er said is not unreasonable, he nodded, although he is willing to take this credit, but his heart is still a little blocked.

Because that's not what he really gets, it's not his learning, it's his stuff.

"Okay, Feng'er, sister-in-law knows that you are an ambitious person, if you feel sorry for your sister-in-law, you can study well, and when the time comes, you can be admitted to the Jinshi, and let your sister-in-law wear gold and silver to become an official wife, okay?"

Liu Man'er comforted Ye Feng, and Ye Feng finally nodded, "I will definitely study hard." ”

Fang Shi also nodded, "Yes, Feng'er, my mother also understands it, since ancient times, a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and your sister-in-law is right to do this." ”

Liu Man'er also sighed and said: "Let's go, let's go to the study, sister-in-law will tell you about the structure of this threshing machine, in fact, the invention of the threshing machine, say that it is not big, it is not small, but since it is your credit, you have to know how it is done, why do you think of doing this." ”

When she returned to the study, Liu Man'er told Ye Feng about her thoughts, and then explained the structure of the threshing bucket in detail, and asked Ye Feng to draw a picture.

Ye Feng is also a smart person, and soon, he summed it up and converted it into his own ideas.

Liu Man'er took the pen and paper, and said: "Feng'er, you have done a good job, you are good at thinking, and you have summed up your own views from it, sister-in-law believes that you will definitely make great achievements in the future." But my sister-in-law hopes that you will be a flexible but upright person in the future, can you understand what your sister-in-law means? ”

"Understood." Ye Feng nodded, in fact, Liu Man'er still meant that he was upright, she didn't like it, in the future, he would become a villain who would only take other people's things for himself.

However, Ye Feng's child Liu Man'er has been with him for so long, Liu Man'er is still very relieved about his conduct, he is an upright child, it would be better if he was more clever.