As soon as these words came out, Li Qiao immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Very good, the concept of consumption is the same.

He said with a grin: "The scythe is kept secret for the time being, and you will know tomorrow." ”

Tao Zhu: "......"

Even play mysterious.

He swallowed the bun in his mouth, and also suppressed a faint reluctance: "You go back, you have to get up in the middle of the night to catch fish, don't delay your sleep." ”

"I'll help you cut some wheat before you go."

Li Qiao was still thinking about it. can make Tao Zhu sit and cut wheat by himself so diligently, it can be seen that he really can't hold on.

"I won't cut it today, and I'll load the cut wheat on the cart and go home."

"Then will your family blame you for working less?" Li Qiao was a little worried.

"Just a few words of blame."

And can't really put him how.

As the only laborer in the family, if he is tired and hungry, then there will be no one in the family to do manual work.

Li Qiao listened to it and put her mind at ease.

But in my heart, I am more satisfied with Tao Zhu's temperament, and I know how to be flexible with the best family, instead of blindly working hard and foolishly, which is too appetizing for him.

"I'll come back at this time tomorrow, and you'll know what the scythe is for."

"Also, don't be reluctant to eat maltose, every time I come to you in the future, I will bring you two pieces of sugar."

Li Qiao admonished.

Tao Zhu: "......"

This man!

That's how he's always repaid his kindness?

Staring at Li Qiao's distant figure, resentment rose in his moist eyes, and after a moment, he looked down at the two pieces of maltose wrapped in oiled paper.

Bow your head and take one into your mouth.

The sweet taste bursts in your mouth at once.

As sweet as the wild honey he found in the mountains.

He looked in the direction of Li Qiao's departure, and his heart became empty again.

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Li Qiao came home, nibbled on steamed buns for dinner, and then went to sleep.

At half past eleven o'clock in the evening, he began to repeat the process of the previous two days, catching fish and selling fish.

Today's business is better than the previous two days, and after the spread of the previous two days, those who are in charge of buying vegetables on weekdays know that the fish he sells is cheap, and they are waiting for him early.

Soon after selling the fish, he went into the county seat with his money bag to find Chen Laohan.

Chen Laohan had already made three large-sized sickles according to his request.

He touched the blade of the scythe and tried it with another handful of weeds, satisfying himself with its sharpness.

After paying the rest of the money, he bought kitchen knives, iron pots, machetes for chopping wood, nails, etc., from Chen Laohan, and finally went to buy forty meat buns, and then pushed the cart back to Sanliu Village.

This time he deliberately sped up, and it was just after noon when he got home.

He did not rest, locked the door, put two pieces of maltose, five buns, and machetes into the basket, and he carried three large scythes up the mountain.

Finding a place where there was no one along the path up the mountain, he began to work as a carpenter with a waterjet, and after an hour, three new farm tools were made.

Carrying three freshly baked farm tools, he walked along the foot of the mountain to avoid the villagers to look for pottery bamboo.

"What is this?"

Tao Zhu stared at the strange-looking tool in his hand, his face full of puzzlement.

Looking at the shape, this is a long rod and a large scythe.

However, there is an extra handle on the long pole, and a wooden fence is added to the part of the sickle.

The fence is not large, it looks more than a foot long and more than two feet high.

"This is the scythe I spoke of yesterday. For wheat harvesting, you try it, see if you can get it. Li Qian handed him one of them.

In the last days, because machines need to consume fuel, and gasoline and engine oil and other resources are precious, people mostly use hand tools when working.

The tool he is making now is the one that people will use in the last days to cut wheat, called the wheat sickle.

This tool is a transformation of the traditional wheat samarium (also called a plunder) to become lighter and simpler. If you master the skills, then the grass mowing is not lost to the electric lawn mower.

Harvesting wheat is just as fast, but of course, it's not as fast as a real harvester.

But it's much faster than a small scythe, and there's no need to bend over.

"For wheat harvesting?" Tao Zhu took it and looked at the tool in his hand with a surprised expression.

"Yes, I have to bend over all the time to cut the wheat with a sickle, and I am very tired. This one doesn't require bending over. I just tried mowing the lawn, and it was very convenient and much faster than a sickle. ”

Li Qiao said, picked up another wheat sickle, and personally experimented with Tao Zhu.

Holding the long pole of the wheat sickle, he began to cut the wheat. The freshly scythes are so sharp that when they touch the stalks, they can easily cut the stalks, and the fallen stalks will not fall to the ground, but will be blocked by the wooden fence on the scythe.

Finally, the cut wheat is placed neatly on the ground, exactly as if it had been cut with a small sickle.

After watching Li Qiao's movements, Tao Zhu's eyes suddenly brightened.

He grabbed the wheat sickle and stepped forward, following the example of Li Qiao to cut the wheat.

I was not used to it at the first time, and the wheat was not cut.

But after less than ten cuts, he got the hang of it.

You don't have to bend over, and it's fast!

I didn't expect this man to be able to make such a useful tool, and his brain was strangely smart, but the next moment, he stopped moving, this man used to be a scholar, and now he does this kind of carpentry......

"Let me see your hands."

Li Qiao looked at his slightly twisted eyebrows, and his heart was happy.

Spread his hands with a smile: "It's the first time to do this kind of work, I'm not skilled, my hands are blistered, and I have cuts, but it's okay, it will be fine in a few days." ”

The original body was a useless scholar, but now that he has become an all-rounder, he will naturally arrange all kinds of details.

In the palm of his hand, there are not only calluses that have been worn out in the past few days, but also blisters, and two two-centimeter-long wounds.

But I didn't expect Brother Zhu to realize this so quickly, how much does he care about him?

Hey.

Tao Zhu stared at the calluses, blisters, and wounds, his brows were furrowed, and his heart was numb.

He took the wheat sickle and walked towards the end of the ground: "Don't catch fish for the next two days, you can't see water in the wound." ”

"I saved some copper plates, and hid them under the poplar tree over there, not much, but enough to buy medicine, you take it to buy medicine."

“…… Yes? ”

Li Qiao was a little confused, and hurriedly followed: "You don't need to buy medicine for small wounds." Even if you want to buy it, it's with my money, I have the money. ”

"But I can't take your stuff for nothing." Tao Zhu insisted.

"It's me who wants to repay the favor." Li Qian explained.

"Don't you like my money?" Tao Zhu stopped and turned to look at him, his handsome face stiff.

"Of course not!" Li Qiao hurriedly shook her head.

"Then you take it." Tao Zhu said that, and continued to walk towards the end of the ground.

Li Qiao: "......"

He watched as Tao Zhu stopped under a poplar tree, dug about forty centimeters deep with a sickle, and then dug out a small clay pot the size of a palm.

"How do you hide your money here?"

"Because my eldest brother and sister-in-law never come here. My mom and dad don't come here a few times a year. ”

"It's one hundred and sixty-nine dollars, you take it."

Tao Zhu directly stuffed the small clay pot to him.

Li Qiao: "......"

He solemnly took the clay pot, and it was regarded as Brother Zhu'er's dowry!

Brother Zhu gave all the dowry, and he had to hurry up to save the dowry.

However, when he thought that Brother Zhu had handed over all his savings to him, his heart suddenly felt happy.

How much does this like him?

Perhaps it was the beauty in Li Qiao's heart that spread to his face, and inexplicably, Tao Zhu's cheeks were a little hot.

"Your remaining two scythes are for your eldest brother, right?"

"Huh? How do you know? ”

"Then go find your eldest brother. I'll hide this one in my hand in the ground, so that no one will know that I'm causing you trouble. ”

After Tao Zhu finished speaking, he carried the wheat sickle and planned to continue cutting the wheat.

Li Qiao hesitated for a moment and said, "Then I'll come back to you tomorrow." ”

Li Liang's family also worked very hard to harvest wheat, and sending the wheat sickle over earlier would also make them less tired.

Handing the buns and maltose to Tao Zhu, he carried two handfuls of wheat sickles to find Li Liang.

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The author has something to say:

Wheat samarium, an ancient wheat cutting artifact, this tool made by Li Qiao, is different from the traditional wheat samarium, more concise. If you are interested, you can search for Mai Samarium~