Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 271

Xu Shi was irritated by Old Man Gan and Old Man Liu. After tossing about for more than half a month, Old Man Wu actually tossed out another thing...a grain threshing machine.

The threshing machine is the old-fashioned foot-operated style. It is a square open-mouthed large wooden barrel. Two large discs with flower holes are cast out of pig iron, and long wooden strips of the same size are inserted in the middle. The wooden strips A row of iron nails bent and folded into a deep U shape was nailed on the top to make a cylindrical drum with bearings on the bottom and a wooden frame on which people stood, holding the rice in their hands, and brought the ear of rice close to the surface. With the drum, step on the wooden frame with your feet, and the bearing drives the drum to rotate quickly, hitting the rice grains continuously, and the rice grains are separated from the straw.

This is actually a laborious job. You have to step on the horizontal plate to drive the drum to rotate. You have to hold the handle in your hands and use your hands and feet to complete it. It is really just a simple threshing of grains, rice shrunken husks and ash The leftovers and the like are all mixed together, that's all, it's still much easier to use than the buckets Fang used back then.

Here is a mountainous area, it is difficult to open up wasteland, and it is equally difficult to harvest crops, especially thinking that Fang used that bucket to thresh the rice, and Luo Tiandu felt powerless for a while. The barrel is definitely not suitable. Not to mention the hard work, the efficiency is low. Old man Wu got out the threshing machine, which really helped a lot.

Even Old Man Liu and Old Man Gan, who usually like to stab at Old Man Wu when they have nothing to do, saw that he had tossed out such a novelty, changed their normal habits, and praised him full of praise. Let old man Wu think more about the guys in farming, and stop letting him think about the kite that can carry people to the sky all day, wasting his talents in vain.

At that time, the millet in the rice field was almost ripe one after another. Luo Baisu organized the mountain people to harvest the crops, and at the same time strengthened his defenses. He was afraid that the barbarians would come to grab the grain at this moment.When the wasteland was opened that day, most of them were opened around the vicinity of the county seat of Yixian County. It was also for safety reasons. It is also convenient for people to come to rescue, but there are still many mountain people in the villages below. They are unwilling to leave their hometowns, and they still open barren fields near the villages, or cultivate their own fields before. The villages are scattered and scattered in the mountains. It's not easy to guard. If the barbarians abandon the land of the county seat and go to various villages to grab food, the people under Cheng Sheng's hands may have to be exhausted and lose sight of the other.

At the beginning of the year, the Yi people came and knew that people in Yi County were farming. Luo Baisu didn't dare to trust him, so he wrote a document and sent a letter to the Ba Xun Mansion and the Military Defense Department. The military defense department seconded some people to come over and grab the grain into the warehouse anyway.

Now the threshing machine that old man Wu has tossed out can greatly save the time of harvesting grain, and the windmill he made a few days ago is also very practical.While ordering people to haul the timber, he picked out all the official slaves who knew some carpentry work, and helped old man Wu to make more threshing machines before the harvest.

Old Man Wu had been despised by Old Man Gan and Old Man Liu for half of his life. He managed to impress the two of them in the past few days and received a lot of compliments from them. He knew that she was afraid of heat, so he reciprocated by tossing something for her.

Inspired by the leaves of a windmill, he adjusted the direction of the lower wind blades so that when the wind blades rotate, the wind generated can blow in one direction. In order to prevent accidental injuries when the wind blades rotate, he also put a cover on the outside. The outer cover is really exquisite, almost completely hollowed out, leaving only very narrow pieces of wood to block it, which is safe and does not block the wind. From a distance, it really looks like a wooden desk fan. There are handles installed on both sides of the fan. If someone is helping to shake the fan, turn the handle at the back. If there is no one, you can shake the handle and blow to the fan yourself.

Luo Tiandu spoke highly of this fan, and moved it into his room. With Luo Tiandu's encouragement, old man Wu worked harder to study it.

This year Yi County is really different. The magistrate of the county took the lead to lead the people to grow grain. When it was time to harvest, the county government brought a big guy out and followed him to the field. The big guy was really easy to use. Put the rice on the drum on the pedal, and the rice will come off by itself. Although it is still hard work, it is really efficient. You don’t have to throw it into the bucket as before, and it takes half a day to get it off. A handful of rice, still not clean.

In the field, men, women, and children are all in battle. The elderly, half-old children and women are busy cutting the millet, and the men hold the rice wheel and turn it up to step on the threshing machine. There is a busy scene of hot water in the sky, and there are threshing machine drums everywhere. dull sound.

When Luo Baisu led people to harvest rice, Cheng Sheng led people to patrol day and night, not daring to relax at all, for fear that if the Yi people were let in, the hard work of the people in Yi County for more than half a year would be turned into waste.

Luo Tiandu was not idle either. He gathered the children who couldn't do any rough work in the county, and distributed two pancakes to each of them, asking them to pay more attention to the situation on the other side of the pass when they were playing. Then he ran over and told the adults.Children have sharp eyes, and they all grew up in the mountains. They are very slippery, and even if they are spotted, they can easily escape by hiding in the mountains.

It's midsummer at this moment, just sitting in the house makes Luo Tian feel so hot that he can't breathe, not to mention the people who are still harvesting crops in the fields at this moment, she reckons there will be quite a few people this summer heatstroke.

Although Luo Baisu didn't have to go to the field himself, it was exposed to the sun all day long. When the family bought grain last time, he bought a lot of mung beans, so Luo Tiandu called his two new wives to boil them every day. A pot of mung bean water, let the family drink it to relieve the heat.

As soon as the weather was hot, she fell into laziness. She didn't want to move after breakfast. She held on to the hand-operated fan that old man Wu made for her all day long. If you stop, you will feel even hotter.

She couldn't sleep at night, and was so hot during the day that she lost weight and dozed off all day long. She was really sleepy that day, so she opened the windows, spread the mat on the floor, and squinted for a while.

Sleeping half-dream and half-awake, I just felt as if the wind was blowing, and it was blowing very comfortably. After sleeping for half a day, after waking up, I opened my eyes to see where the wind was blowing. Luo Ming had been shaking the fan for her , I was probably tired from shaking, and I was falling asleep on the table at the moment, with my hands still on the handle.

Luo Tiandu immediately felt moved. Since she was a child, her nominal elder sister had taken care of her meticulously, lest she would feel a little uncomfortable.Luo Tiandu gently removed the fan from Luo Mingdu's hand, then slowly shook the handle to cool Luo Mingdu.

In the past two years, Luo Mingdu's health has also improved a lot, and his complexion is getting better every day. Even though he is tired all day in Yi County, his face is still rosy, and his cheeks have grown flesh. A skinny look that is worried about being scraped away at once.

Luo Tian was thinking that if he went back to Beijing again, he would have to entrust Wei Que, and then he would find the imperial physician Fu who was taking Luo Mingdu's pulse, so he could take a look. Speaking of this, the medicine at home was almost gone, and she thought in her heart Bei was thinking, when Dr. You went to Ba Xun's mansion to buy medicinal materials, he would go there with him and grab two more medicines.

Luo Tian regards Luo Ming very seriously, and all Luo Ming should be eaten and clothed, all of which are personally intervened, not to mention the medicines for recuperation, she has always caught them personally, and never pretended to others .She was engrossed in her thoughts, but she saw Xiqiao lift the door curtain and opened her mouth to speak.

Luo Tian hastily made a silent gesture, followed her out, and asked her, "What's the matter?"

Xiqiao said: "A messenger came outside, saying that there are letters from the uncle and the young lady."

Luo Tiandu said: "Help Eldest Sister to rest on my bed, if she's hot, turn the fan on for a while, and come out when she's fast asleep."

Happily agreed, Luo Tiandu turned from the porch to the living room against the white sun outside.When they got outside the second gate, they saw Cheng Qing standing on the porch with a famous general, and when they heard the sound, they both looked over.

That man was dressed in military uniform, he looked very familiar, and on closer inspection, wasn't he the Liao Pianjiang who led people to help repair the city wall at the beginning of the year?

"General Liao, Xu Jian is gone." Seeing that he was an acquaintance, Luo Tiandu did not evade, and greeted crisply.

Liao Pianjiang also smiled: "Little lady, long time no see."

The weather was too hot, and Luo Tian felt that the pores of his body were steaming out after only being outside in the sun for a while. She saw that Liao Pianjiang was still wearing a cloak and covered him tightly. Hot, hurriedly said: "It's too hot outside, let's talk about it when we go back to the house, brother Cheng Qing, go and move that floor fan in the yard."

Cheng Qing responded and went, Liao Pianjiang stayed outside for a while, and did not immediately follow Luo Tiandu into the house.

After a while, Cheng Qing went back and forth, carrying a big wooden thing on his shoulders.Fans are only owned by the Luo family now, and Liao Pianjiang has never seen them before, so he took a second look.

After entering the house, Liao Pianjiang took out a letter from his pocket, handed it to Luo Tiandu politely, and said: "Little lady, there is an urgent message from the capital, and I have ordered the humble official to deliver it to you personally."

Luo Tiandu took the letter suspiciously. There was no signature on the envelope, and she didn't know who wrote it. Since there was an outsider, she couldn't open the letter right away to read, and asked Cheng Qing, "When will my father come back?" Since there were letters to Luo Baisu, most of which were official documents, it would be more appropriate for Luo Baisu to collect them himself.

Cheng Qing said: "Someone has already sent someone to call for the uncle, and the uncle should be back soon."

Luo Tiandu nodded and said: "My father will be here in half an hour, General Liao, please sit down for a while."

Cheng Qing moved the big floor fan to Liao Pianjiang, fiddled with it, and then shook the handle.Liao Pianjiang only felt that there was a gust of wind blowing towards his face immediately, which was very cool.

(End of this chapter)