The things in the village were settled, and Zhou Qi was ready to return as soon as the sky was bright.

When Su Ling and the others returned to the village before, they were sent over by the officials of the Yamen of Jinfeng County, and Liu Sichen did this thing quite authentically, and the carriage was left.

When I left the village, the villagers came to see each other, including the old patriarch.

"Zhou boy, you went out of the city this time, and you don't know when you will return......"

The patriarch was a little lonely, his wrinkled face collapsed, and his cloudy eyes were full of sorrow.

This Zhou Qi is a talented person in their clan who has been out for hundreds of years, he is naturally very fond of it, and he has long been regarded as a grandson, and now he finally returned to the village for two days, and he is about to leave, very reluctant.

"It's still so sensational?"

Zhou Qi smiled, looking back at the low houses everywhere in this village, wisps of cooking smoke rising, the mountains in the distance were like daisies, and the green ridges near were square, and his heart suddenly calmed down.

After half a year of traveling, I have some feelings for the village.

"Hey, I've forgotten about business."

The patriarch wiped a handful of tears, and then took out a red paper from his arms, and handed it over with a smile: "My little nephew, a few days ago, a male doll was added to the family, and the eight characters and the choice of words for this birthday have been written, you remember to add the family tree when you look back......"

"I think I'll send this genealogy back another day, how inconvenient it is to release me......"

The patriarch hurriedly waved his hand and interrupted: "You are now the highest-ranking person in the clan, what are you talking about, let's go quickly, and then the ink will go down, it will not be able to reach the city after dark......"

At the urging of the patriarch, Zhou Qi and the others set off, and the carriage swayed farther and farther along the mountain road.

In the carriage, there were three women, namely Su Yue, Su Ling, and Zhao Xiaoyu.

And Zhao Cuihua, still reluctant to go back to the city, staying in the village for a lifetime, she is very unsuitable for life in Qizhou City, she has to buy a mung bean cake with ten copper plates, her little heart, it is really unbearable, it is better to stay in the village to help, and it is good to look at the factory!

Zhou Qi was still not at ease at first, after all, this old mother's body and bones have always been bad, and there is no one in the family, so she has to come by herself to chop wood and carry water, how can this work?

In addition, many young people in the present world go out to work hard for their careers, and he has seen too many loneliness of the left-behind elderly, and things on the news are one after another......

This Zhao Cuihua, he has long treated him like his own mother, and he doesn't want to do it in his heart.

Fortunately, Uncle Zhou's house is close, and the kid Zhou Liang also patted his chest and promised that he would definitely serve him like his own mother, and the people in the village now respect them very much, so he will no longer be verbose......

After a few people left, the villagers went to work when they should be busy.

There are still a few aunts and old patriarchs left, afraid that this Zhao Cuihua will be lonely in her heart, so she comforts her again and again.

Zhao Cuihua, who was walking in front, didn't pay attention to them, just moved forward, and soon slapped her thigh, as if she remembered something, and hurriedly said, "Ouch! I'm afraid the hens in my hen pen are laying eggs, so I'll take a look......"

After saying that, the smoke slipped away, and the village women who stayed behind also patted their heads and chattered.

"My duck has to be driven back from the river, don't talk about it......"

"Hey, I still have to go to work, you guys are talking!"

"Who is talking, I have to go to the next village to find a partner for my daughter!"

A few people were talking and scattering, and one of them hurriedly ran into the mountain, and everyone hurriedly shouted: "Third aunt, why are you going?" ”

"Looking for a goose, I don't know if it was taken away by a jackal, and there was one less when I got up this morning!"

At this time, a little girl holding a rabbit pointed to the river: "Don't look for the third aunt, I'm watching your goose fight with Uncle Zhao's dog by the river......"

The third aunt was stunned for a moment, and after a while, she hurriedly ran, this dog and goose fight, and the goose must not be disabled!?

The villagers ran around, and soon dispersed, the old patriarch looked at this village, and his mouth cracked with laughter, half a year ago, this village was still a defeat, and now it seems to be full of vitality!

These were all brought by Zhou Qi, a junior of his Zhou family.

Even though his surname Zhou was a small surname in this village before, but now he has also achieved the position of the boss?!

The ancestral shrine has been repaired!

The patriarchs of the other two surnames don't dare to say anything now!

Really, glorious ancestors!!

……

Shanhe Village does not need to enter Jinfeng County to go to Qizhou City.

But Zhou Qi still drove the carriage around, checked a few shops successively, and conveniently paid some silver money from the shops, waiting for Liu Sichen to come back and then distribute dividends......

The business in the shop has been very stable, and the first four craftsmen, among which Chen San and Li Xian, the two shopkeepers, are very idle, and now they can recite the entire [Book of Songs].

Only Li Fu and Li Ang had to take care of the craftsman's workshop, and they were so busy that they didn't have time to study.

This Li Ang is better, but he just takes care of the small workshop and does not do business, mainly to produce toothbrushes for his own family, and the craftsmen are all self-recruited workers with a high degree of obedience and fewer chores.

Li Fu was miserable......

Since taking over the Du family's craftsman's workshop, he has to worry about the trivial things between the craftsmen and the business of Qizhou City, but fortunately, he is already skilled and obsessed with craftsmanship, and he soon gained a group of fans, but despite this, he still can't help but think about Zhou Qi now......

But after a while, he felt that he was going to die, he couldn't be busy, why did he come to a new life again?

Zhou Qi handed over the two drawings and said with a smile: "Okay, it's really not me who squeezes you, who made you good at craftsmanship?" I'll leave this matter to someone else, and I won't worry about it......"

"What are you, shopkeeper?"

Li Fu scratched his head, completely unable to understand what was on the picture.

I saw that there was a cow on the drawing, and in front of the ox was something similar to a plow rake, but this thing was larger, so that at least three oxen would have to be used, and there was a huge plough bucket in the back, which I had never seen before.

It's a little more interesting on the other drawing.

Above one that I couldn't understand something, there was a huge funnel, and below it was a small opening that looked like it was used to get things out, and on the right side there was a wheel and a thin handle.

Zhou Qi didn't bother to explain, but said: "This is called a plow seeder and a threshing machine, which is quite simple, and the principle is also written on it, you can try it." ”

Li Fu took the drawings and looked at them carefully......

One moment he frowned, and then he was happy, and in just a few minutes, various expressions appeared on his face, and after a while, he finally understood something.

"Shopkeeper, you're too powerful, aren't you? How did you come up with this? ”

He thinks that his craftsmanship is not the best, but it is also passed down from his ancestors, but now he feels that his knowledge is far from enough! This plough and seeder can realize the three aspects of fertilization and sowing of cultivated land through the pull of oxen, which is simply a new development of agricultural tools in the Qian Dynasty......

Zhou Qi can't say that the plough planter was invented by the Russians in 1830, right?

can only scratch his head, and casually perfunctory: "Foolish and foolish!" ”

This point, he still heard a friend of his from an agricultural university mention it when he was in school, simply put, it is to add a ploughing and sowing device to the top of the cow, and now it is completely based on the impression that Su Ling drew the drawings......

It took a night of tossing and turning, and the drawings were wasted in a room, before we had this roughly similar outline.

The threshing machine is easy to say, before going to junior high school, his childhood was spent in the village with his mother, this thing has been seen, when harvesting rice, people hold a piece of rice, a stubble into the threshing machine, people rely on foot or hand crank, the harvested rice is separated from the rice ear......

These two things do not need to be driven by any power, or mainly human and animal power, but they can reduce a large part of the manual labor and time cost of farmers, which solves the labor force in the village, isn't it very fragrant?

It's just that there are too many things in this era that have not been invented, such as steel, such as diesel, oil, and engines, otherwise it would be more perfect to get a seeder, a cultivator, or something.

It's a pity that he is not in this profession, and he can only do this for the time being......

In addition to cultivating the land and sowing and threshing rice, the peasant household also has to go through rice planting and harvesting, but he has not yet been able to figure out these two......

The loss is that there is enough time, and it is still early for spring plowing next year!