After harvesting, farmers gather together for threshing, that is, to beat the grains off the straw.

The tool used was the flail, which was originally a threshing tool and was later used on the battlefield.

After threshing, the chaff is also separated from the kernels.

Farmers would choose a windy hillside, hold the dustpan with the grains in both hands, shake the dustpan when the wind rises, and push light things such as chaff to the front of the dustpan, leaving heavier grains behind the dustpan.

The chaff is separated from the kernels and then stored in the barn.

This year, a new thing appeared in a village: a wooden rotating dustpan, called a fan in China.

Pour the grain into the hopper from above, and a person next to him shakes the crank to drive the fan inside, and the wind blows from below, and the grain falls into the basket below under the action of gravity, and the chaff and debris are blown out by the wind, so that the chaff and the grain are separated.

With this machine, you don't have to wait outside for the wind to pick up.

The construction of the machine was also very simple, with a wooden frame, a crank with a rocker, and a few fan blades made of thin pieces of wood, which everyone could see clearly, so there was no discussion of witchcraft.

After a day of trial, everyone found that with this thing, the efficiency of one new hand is better than that of ten best masters, which surprised even the most experienced farmers. Luo Yi saw this scene and was very emotional, this is a Chinese invention in the 2nd century BC, introduced to Europe in the 16th century, but, in many parts of China, such a simple thing was actually lost, a large number of poor peasants could not afford to buy the iron plough that was widely used in BC, and even the hoe was pawned to usurers, and could not afford to buy or rent a fan cart, so they could only resume the use of the time-consuming and laborious dustpan method......

The peasants were very pleased with the new gadget that the Baroness had delivered, but it was not highly regarded by others.

"The farmer should have worked all day, and now he is dancing......"

"God said that Adam had to sweat to be hungry, and now the devil has done their work for them......"

However, there were also free tenants who, after hearing about and seeing about the invention, came to the steward and asked for the price of the rent.

The devil rents out his invention at a fairly low price, almost for free. Despite the need for money, she did not want to be like the short-sighted usurers of antiquity, who regressed the efficiency of Chinese agriculture to the state of a few hundred years B.C. for the sake of immediate gain.

This was a headache for the clergy, who thought they would be able to make a profit.

Then, Luo Yi recruited coolies among the villagers.

The harvest season was always joyful and the food was plentiful, so she didn't have a lot of people, even though the villagers had extra time to spare.

The few free tenants who applied for the recruitment were all very tired of their families, or the kind of people who could not be idle anyway.

After the wheat is harvested, it is the day of the grape harvest.

After the grapes were picked, people stepped on the grapes barefoot, and this practice is still used in some vineyards today, and the dregs left after the grapes were juiced and boiled in water and then pressed, which is the "wine" that the poor people drink.

Even this "wine" is not something that everyone can afford to drink, but fortunately, the vast forest provides many wild apples and pears for the poor farmers to get drunk after a busy year.

The grapes in Brad's land are not good, and Luo Yi has thought about using grafting to improve the quality of the grapes, but that has to have a good scion, and she doesn't know where to get it.

Another option, adding honey to the wine to improve the quality of the wine, seems much easier and the ingredients are plentiful. The recipe was obtained by Shepp from the monastery where he studied, and Luo Yi decided to give it a try.

After the grape harvest season has passed, it is time to slaughter the livestock.

The experienced men singled out the old and weak among the livestock, slaughtered the males who were destined not to survive the winter, and salted, smoked, and dried the meat, and it was a very lively scene, and it took many hands, and all the servants of the whole castle went into battle, and they made blood sausages out of the blood and minced flesh of the animals, and boiled the fat, and made candles out of the fat of the animals.

Every village has a leather-maker who goes into the woods to collect the bark of oak trees and uses it to tann leather, and the manure of pigeons bred in the castle is also used to process leather, and it is said that the leather pickled by pigeon dung is exceptionally soft, making it a good material for making leather clothing, bags and purses.

At this time, the merchants of the city also came to the village to buy and sell various products, and they bought leather, oil, and livestock, and brought with them needles, salt, pottery, whetstones, and other goods.

The transaction tax paid for such transactions was also an important part of the lord's income.

Tailors and shoemakers also come to the countryside at this time to do their business, and this itinerant craftsman is reminiscent of the fairy tales of Grimm, who carry tools and rations on their backs and go from place to place, sleeping in the open and looking for customers.

When they met the customers, they sat down and busily worked, while the others watched them fly needles, cut skins, and nail the soles of their shoes, like a group of curious children.

Luo Yi didn't see this kind of scene.

After a long and tasteless meal, she ecstatic swallowed a whole pot of plump autumn crabs stewed according to her strict orders, and a dozen more oysters, and then lay down as a matter of course.

After joy comes sorrow.

The devil resolutely rejected the priest's offer to bleed her.

She...... She didn't want to kill a pig and bleed her!

The devil lay in bed for a week, and the clergy was overjoyed to see this visitor from another world bound by a weak flesh because of gluttony.

Luo Yi thus missed the most lively time of buying and selling in her territory, but she still had time to participate in the Tournest Bazaar.