Chapter 208 Grade and Consciousness
"rice……"
The old carpenter excitedly threw down the straw and reached out. An apprentice next to him quickly handed over another bunch. As the threshing machine was spinning, the crackling rice was spitting out from the discharge port and falling into the wooden warehouse like a fountain.
"Haha, it's so refreshing, it's really easy to take off. Old man, I can do this for a day without rest..." Yang Anfu became more and more excited as he took off. Two helpers helped hand over rice. The old legs were stepping on them quickly, and the movements on his hands became more and more proficient.
"Uncle Eight, please let me try it too!" A group of carpenters were scratching their heads anxiously.
"Wait, I'll take off this bundle!" Yang Anfu was so happy that he couldn't bear to let go. After finishing a bundle of rice in one breath, he stopped and gave up the position.
"Haha, it's my turn!" The short and strong Tan Laosan knocked away several apprentices who were scrambling to break away, and then began to operate as the movements of Zhao Qi and Yang Anfu. After two bunches of rice, the movements looked very relaxed and handy.
"Okay, okay, get out of here, let's try too!"
Under the competition between a group of carpenters and apprentices, the threshing machine operators kept changing hands. The two hired couples kept holding the cut rice at the constant urging of a group of people, but the harvesting speed was obviously not up to the speed of threshing, and they were broken several times.
After a group of carpenters helped and apprentices finished the trial, some people from the village who were watching the fun rushed to verify this novel thing, and there were men, women, young and old running over in the direction to the village.
In less than half an hour, two or three hundred people gathered beside the rice field of A'an. Under the crowd, the adults laughed at the children and shouted, "Those who fell from the ditch, those who fell from the fields, those who fell from the trees, laughed and laughed, and there were a bunch of dogs running around in the fun. The whole scene was completely chaotic.
Zhao Qi and several carpenters were already squeezed out of the circle by a group of people, more than ten meters away from the threshing machine.
"Ahai is optimistic about the threshing machine, so he has got the ginger!" Yang Anfu yelled outside.
"I know, I'm sure, look at it, Master Eighth Master!" A young man's voice came from the circle.
"Grandma, I've seen the young master!"
On the path, Xiaozhu held Old Lady Su's hand and walked here. A group of children in green clothes and hats were huddled in front of each other, looking like they had a bit of a big family's aura.
"Xiaozhu walks slowly, don't fall down the grandmother!" A Lian followed behind her with an apron and kept reminding her.
"Grandma, you are here too!" Seeing Old Lady Su and Xiao Zhu Alian coming from afar, Zhao Qi quickly came up to meet and support him.
"A few kids just returned to the village and shouted, saying that you have made a machine that can remove clothes for rice. I am almost buried in the soil. I have never seen something that removes clothes for rice. So I come to see the fun..." Old Mrs. Su smiled so hard that she couldn't stop.
"Don't listen to a group of kids yelling. This is called a threshing machine. It can easily trow the rice from the ears. It's not like taking off clothes. I'll help you in and take a look..."
"Grandma Su is here, let go!"
With Zhao Qi and a few people shouting, the onlookers made a way out in an instant, and even a few carpenters followed the old lady Su and squeezed in again with the honorable one.
With Zhao Qi's strong rise in Maowan Village recently, the entire Maowan Village has a vague attitude of being led by Zhao Qi. Old Lady Su, who had a bad temper and a strange personality, also rose with Zhao Qi's status and gained respect from the whole village. People greeted him warmly wherever he went, especially a group of middle-aged and elderly women and old women, who liked to have family chats with Old Lady Su.
However, this is destined not to be of the same level. These women who don’t know a single word are just gossip topics such as gossip about which one gets rich and which one gets married, etc. Old Mrs. Su just listens to Xiaoxiao and occasionally makes a joke to avoid being distracted. Although we can’t talk together, the changes in the village still make Zhao Qi very happy. Old Mrs. Su herself is also happy. Sometimes she will boil water and make tea and talk to a few more words with the few people she can chat with. After all, with these interactions, the old life is no longer so lonely, and the dilapidated cave is full of laughter every day.
After Mrs. Su entered the venue, the crowded situation became much quieter. Several helpers began to demonstrate the working process of the threshing machine to Mrs. Su very seriously. Several carpenters stood next to Mrs. Su and kept explaining the working principle of the threshing machine.
Xiaozhu and a group of children were crowded in front, clapping and cheering each other.
A Lian stood beside Zhao Qi, squeezed together by the crowd of onlookers. Feeling the gentle friction brought by the woman's mature body, Zhao Qi secretly held A Lian's hand in distractedness.
A Lian trembled slightly, and a hint of blush appeared on her delicate cheeks. She looked at both sides with nervous eyes for a few glances. After finding that no one was paying attention, she slowly pressed her whole body against Zhao Qi. The two gentle balls of Zhao Qi were a little dry.
Damn, it was so exciting to have an affair among hundreds of people watching.
In the crowded and noisy crowd, Zhao Qi felt his heart beating, while the woman's heartbeat was faster. The trembling of the bang made Zhao Qi feel it clearly.
"Xiaoqi, the threshing machine you made is really fast. If I had this tool in the past, I could harvest rice by myself and I wouldn't have to spend money to hire someone to help!" A Lian said softly.
"A Lian is right. If there were such a good thing in the past, we wouldn't be willing to spend money to hire people to help every year. We can accept it ourselves...A Lian, why is your face so red? Are you sick?" A woman reminded her in surprise when she turned around and talked to A Lian.
"No, it's because the weather is too hot!" A Lian quickly lowered her head and retreated slightly.
The gentleness behind him disappeared, Zhao Qi felt a little regretful, but his mood quickly calmed down.
Now this young body is in full swing, and it is completely unbearable for women to touch it. It is like a firecracker, and the whole body will stand up when touched, and it is hard.
Moreover, the entertainment activities of the Song Dynasty were almost zero at night. If you lie on the bed, you could only think randomly except for the frogs. If you think too much, your whole body would be hard.
Therefore, Zhao Qi was almost immersed in these tough ideas every night, feeling that he was almost ruined. He even began to understand why Ermazi and the young people in the village liked to drink and gambling in the town at night. If this was not the case, he would be completely unable to spend time, especially single dogs.
"Good things, this is the real good thing that benefits the country and the people. With this threshing machine, women and children can help harvest. These more than ten acres of rice will be harvested in two or three days, but they are several times faster than the Bancang. Qi'er, you are really doing good things. When the time comes, the contribution will definitely be written into the historical books..."
Seeing the working speed of the threshing machine and the clean and neat straws piled together one after another, Old Mrs. Su was so happy that she kept nodding.
Look, this is the difference between level and awareness.
A group of farmers just said it was easy to use, and Old Lady Su pushed it to the level of benefiting the country and the people.
"Okay, OK, everyone is going back to work!"
It was nearly an hour of lively. Two couples hired to harvest rice were brought over as if they were rushing to carry the harvested rice. After dozens of villagers used it repeatedly, almost half of the rice in the fields was harvested, and the rice in the wooden warehouse of the thresher had been cleaned up and put into several sacks and piled up next to it.
Yang Anfu waved his hand to drive away all the villagers and employees working nearby, and then he and several carpenters began to discuss and gesture with him.
"Sister A Lian, it's too hot here. You can take Grandma, Xiaozhu and the others back first. Let Lai Xi and the others watch the dry rice, don't let the chickens, ducks and sparrows cause trouble!" After the crowd almost dispersed, Zhao Qi said to A Lian.
"Then stop drying, put on the hat, I will push the car over and bring the rice back to dry!" A Lian gently helped Zhao Qi put on the straw hat and then helped Old Mrs. Su take a group of children home.
"A Lian is such a good girl, but unfortunately, A'an is not a good thing!" Several carpenters shook their heads and sighed.
"Not to mention the guy who is trampling inside and outside, you guys help Xiaoqi carry these bags of rice back. Xiaoqi comes over and see where the threshing machine needs to be changed. Let's move it back and get it again..."
Yang Anfu ordered, and several young helpers carried a sack of rice and followed A Lian and his group.
Zhao Qi walked to the threshing machine and gestured with his hands, saying, "There is basically nothing to change after doing this. A few bamboo nails were broken. It seems that they are too thin. They can be made thicker and made into iron better. You can also add a wooden rack on both sides, so that the harvested rice can be placed directly on the wooden board, so that you don't have to help hand it alone. If you make a funnel at the discharge port, just put the sack on it, it will be more convenient to pack the bags, and the wooden warehouse doesn't have to be so big... Also, this pedal is a bit hard, and it may be better to press a pair of steel casings on the shaft, and it is also wear-resistant... Otherwise, it will be thrown here and we will make a new one..."
"It's OK, go and do another one as Xiaoqi said!"
Chapter completed!