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Chapter 58 The New Pickaxe

Two days later, Wenhan took the pickaxe back from the town. The pickaxe was to be installed with a pickaxe, so Wenhan asked his father to get a pickaxe on it.

Zhixin looked at this strange thing and knew it was a pickaxe. "Wenhan, what are you doing? What can such a wide pickaxe do?"

Wen Han was also a little confused and said softly, "Dad, this is used to dig ginseng soil. You can install a handful and try it out if it is easy to use, so it can be much faster than the original one."

Zhixin looked at the new pickaxe carefully, thinking that it might work. "So, then I'll look for wood now. Looking at this, it seems like I can live. I just don't know if it's so wide, it's too heavy?" Zhixin muttered, and found a pickaxe handle. After measuring it, he slightly trimmed it with the plane at home, and then installed it. The merchants would prepare some handles of various households, so they didn't have to cut the wood now.

Zhixin carried the pickaxe and walked towards his own ginseng field. Wenhan followed behind, and the two of them came to the ginseng field. Zhixin swung the pickaxe and began to dig the soil. This ginseng soil usually requires digging the soil on the ground, together with the grass and tree roots above, into a piece of soil of one and a half to two feet square, and the thickness must be at least eight inches up. Turn the soil over, and the soil inside is facing up, so that the sun is sunbathed. When the sun is almost done, you have to use three teeth to open it and pick out the grass and tree roots.

The new pickaxe is wider than the old one. It used to be digging four or five times one foot and a half, but now it can be done in two strokes, which makes it much faster. And the pickaxe is not much heavy when it is picked up? It is basically the same as before. Zhixin is getting more and more comfortable. After a while, he digged out a large piece. "Oh, this thing is really useful, Wenhan, if you have you, you can come up with such a good idea." Zhixin praised.

"Dad? Didn't this come up with me? It's Jinghan. I don't know how she came up with this idea. At first I was worried. This pickaxe cost me a tael of silver. If it's not easy to use, the money will be wasted." Wen Han still feels distressed when he thinks about it now. This pickaxe is twice as expensive as the average one. The blacksmith said, "This thing is not easy to make? It's necessary to spend more handmade money."

Zhixin frowned after hearing his son's words, and said in confusion. "Jinghan? She thought of it? This ghost girl, she can't dig up the soil. How could she come up with such a good idea? Didn't you ask her?" Zhixin felt a little strange.

Wenhan smiled? "Dad? What's so strange about this? My sister is smart? Didn't you see her studying with us? She's faster than Wencheng. Besides, my sister likes to use her brain? She is particularly interested in these farm work. I guess she thought about it because she saw that you had too much effort with the original pickaxe." Wenhan said while she admired her sister very much. Jinghan seemed to know more about the work in the ginseng field than herself.

Zhixin nodded? He felt that what his son said made sense, so his brows loosened. "Wenhan, you go to the town tomorrow and come back with another pickaxe like this. Your third uncle and I will work faster. This pickaxe is purchased and can be used every year. One tael of silver is not expensive. Besides, digging it out early and doing something else, so you can earn it." Zhixin thought it was quite cost-effective. "Okay, you go back first. I'll work here for a while. With this pickaxe, it's much faster than before." Zhixin waved his hand and asked Wenhan to go back to the house.

Wen Han saw that there was nothing he could do, so he nodded at his father, and then went out to find Jinghan, Wencheng and the others.

There are a few villagers here who are digging the soil. After working for a while, they inevitably have to straighten their waists. They happened to see the pickaxe held by Zhixin. "Brother Xu, what are you using? Why are you wider than the pickaxe we use? It looks very useful. Oh, let me try it." The person next to him came over, took the pickaxe from Zhixin, and tried to dig it a few times. "Oh, it's so easy to use, it's much faster than our original ones. Brother, where did you get it? Help me get it." This person is a family named Qian in the north end of the village. He is quite solid. He is not very good with the Xu family, and it's not bad.

Zhixin looked at the pickaxe, "This is something my eldest son specially made by the blacksmith, just to dig soil. Do you think this is much faster?" Zhixin didn't say it was Jinghan's idea, and he didn't think much about it, just thinking that people shouldn't know it was his daughter's method.

"Then you can ask Wenhan to bring me a handful. I'll give it to him for how much." Qian Dayong looked at the pickaxe and liked it very much. People who work are like this. They will like it very much when they encounter a tool that is easy to use. "I guess this thing is not cheap. Brother, I didn't bring the money today. I'll come early tomorrow morning and bring the money to you. Don't forget to ask Wenhan to bring me a handful."

Many people in the village were digging soil in the ginseng field. Dayong's voice was quite loud just now, so many people heard it and came over. Everyone tried this new pickaxe, thinking it was very good. "Brother Xu, I also bring a handful of it to my house. This thing can last a lifetime, and it is worth it." For a time, many people all said they wanted such a pickaxe.

"I think this is how it is. If anyone of us wants this pickaxe, it's better to go to the blacksmith's place together later. Everyone goes together, and they want more, and the price is probably lower, which can save some money. I just don't know if the blacksmith can be busy, so I just want to ask." Zhixin quickly expressed his opinion after hearing this. It's best to let them discuss this with the blacksmith, which will save more or less. They are all from the same village, and they will be unhappy when the time comes.

"Brother Xu, you are really careful. OK, just as you said, we will finish work early this afternoon and go to the blacksmith's place." Erlin said here.

Everyone also thought Zhixin was right to say this, and they all agreed, and then went to work. In the afternoon, everyone went to the town together without mentioning it. Since then, the people in the village have used this new pickaxe to dig the soil, and it has been much faster to dig the soil. Generally, twenty feet of ginseng soil used to take seven or eight days to dig it, but now it saves half of the time, which is quite amazing. Everyone praised Wen Han for coming up with such a good idea, but no one expected that this idea would be come up with a little girl. The Xu family didn't say much about this. Jinghan was a girl after all, so it would be better to show off less.

Jinghan naturally had no time to pay attention to these, and she was still busy making gastronomy. The gastronomy has already bloomed, which means that the tubers underneath have begun to become empty and have no great value. So everyone no longer went into the forest to find gastronomy, but just took out all the gastronomy at home and dried them again, so that some of them would not be dry and easily broken by then. Jinghan looked at the gastronomy sheeping on the fork, and probably all of them were dried, and they could still be sold for about 40 kilograms, which could be sold for about three taels of silver. For them, there were already a lot of these, after all, just a few children. Jinghan sighed in his heart that if he was in the village, he would not have the chance to dig gastronomy, and he could only pick some dates at home. I thought I had decided to come to the mountain. Although it was a helpless move, this step was very correct.

Now Wenhan sends fish and citruss to the town every day, and earns fifteen taels a month. Although half of them buy things for home use, they can save some money after all. In addition, they can dig medicinal materials and sell some money. In addition, they can pick up prey from time to time in the traps around the yard, and they can count it as well. Now it seems that in addition to being inconvenient to go to the town and often there are beasts in the forest, everything else is pretty good.

While thinking about things, Jinghan didn't stop and pinched the Gastrodia elata that he dug back yesterday one by one. When the Gastrodia elata is cooked and dried, he must often prick it with a needle, and then squeeze it with his hands to release the air inside to dry it. Jinghan is doing this job now.

"Sister, I won't dig up the Gastrodia elata anymore. What should we do next?" Wenxuan asked. During the days on the mountain, the children were having a happy life and pulled things home every day. It felt really good.

Jinghan looked at her younger brother. Wenxuan was white and fatter, so she looked very cute. Jinghan put down the Gastrodia numbness in her hand and patted her brother on the shoulder. "What's the hurry? There are good things on the mountain, and there are mushrooms. I don't know if there will be pine mushrooms in the nearby forest, but the pine mushrooms should be out. There are many kinds of mushrooms in this forest. You will be too busy at that time." He couldn't help but pinch Wenxuan's white and tender face and became an unscrupulous bad sister.

Wenxuan covered his cheeks and couldn't help but jump up, "Sister, don't pinch my face." Then he ran away quickly. Jinghan was left behind and laughed loudly.

Jinghan really likes his current life. Although he is a little far away from the village, this kind of tranquility can never be obtained in his previous life. It would be great if he could always do this. Although he knew that this was impossible, Jinghan still couldn't help but look forward to it.

"Jinghan, I've entered the house for dinner. Just dry the gastrointestinal sensation, don't be watching it all the time. It's too hot this day, be careful of the sun making you dizzy." Xue shouted at the door of the house.

"Hey, mom, I'll come now, you can eat first." Jinghan agreed, put down the gastrointestinal herb in his hand, and trotted into the house.
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