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Chapter 79: Borrowing a Threshing Machine

"I'm not thinking about something, so I'm a little late." Shen Lan said with a smile.

It was also at this time that everyone discovered that Xu Yiyun was following behind them carrying an unknown object.

Thinking of what useful fertilizer Su Xiaoxia had made before, and then letting the rice mature within a few days, and now Xu Yiyun was carrying a strange thing, everyone immediately guessed whether it was Su Xiaoxia's trick.

So someone washed their hands with the scarce water in the field and walked towards the field ridge. As they walked, they asked: "Shen Lan, what is the third child of your family carrying? Could this be your precious daughter-in-law again? Did you tinker with it?"

Shen Lan heard the sound and looked at Su Xiaoxia: "Do you want to tell everyone?"

"Tell me, if they can't ask, they will still ask the village chief to come and ask. Then a group of people will come to the house and ask questions." Su Xiaoxia replied.

"Okay." Shen Lan nodded and said loudly: "Yes, this is what my family Xiaoxia made. It's called a threshing machine. This threshing machine can be used for harvesting and tinkering. It's very convenient. It doesn't even require manpower. To hit it in the basket, just step on it with your feet."

The drum of the pedal threshing machine is composed of a detachable tooth plate cage, and the fixed mandrel is connected by three short shafts... Sticks and blades are installed at both ends of the mandrel and between the large gear shaft...

However, these are all made of wood, but sharp bamboo is used where iron sheets are originally used on the roller. The principle is the same as that of a bicycle. As long as you step on the pedal, it will drive the wooden chain mechanism, and then drive the The drum rotates.

Of course, the process will not be as smooth as a mechanical one, but it is enough for threshing rice.

As soon as the villagers heard about such a novel thing as a 'threshing machine', they all put down their work and came together to follow Shen Lan and others. They wanted to see what this threshing machine was like and how it could actually work. Carry it to the fields.

After arriving in the field, Su Xiaoxia told Xu Yiyun how to install these three parts, and then cut a large handful of rice herself and placed it on the board above the threshing machine.

"Is this enough?" Xu Yiyun asked doubtfully. This thing looks novel, but is it really useful?

Su Xiaoxia nodded, pointed to the place next to her, and said, "I'll thresh it. Later, you can cut the rice and hold it till this point. Mom will sit on the corner of the threshing machine and load the grain from the barn."

"Okay." Xu Yiyun and Shen Lan nodded together.

As for the villagers, they all stood on the roadside and watched. Because the paddy field was half a person shorter than the main road, everyone could stand on it and see clearly. After hearing about it, the villagers nearby came over.

After Su Xiaoxia checked it once, she stepped on the pedal with her right foot and pushed down hard.

It was a bit stuck at the beginning. After all, these parts are not mechanical, and the wood is not polished very finely. It takes a little effort at first.

As she stepped on the pedal, the roller began to rotate, starting slowly and then quickly.

When she saw that it was almost done, she grabbed a handful of rice placed on top, stretched it inside, and let the rice heads touch the drum.

As an indescribable sound came, while everyone held their breath and stared, the rice was knocked from the rice hay into the barn by the bamboo pieces on the roller.

"Yes! Yes!" Shen Lan's eyes were filled with joy, and her face was filled with an overjoyed smile, as if she was holding a fat grandson in her arms.

She even bent down and grabbed a handful of grain in the barn. After picking it up and taking a look, she said in surprise: "My dear, it's cleaner than what I beat with my hands. And I beat out so much at once. I won't be able to beat it now."

Worried about the slow harvest..."

When the villagers saw it with their own eyes, their eyes were filled with indescribable shock.

"Why is Su Xiaoxia so smart? Can she think of such things?"

"Yes, this is so good. We have never thought that there are things that can be threshed. And look at Su Xiaoxia, it is convenient to just step on it. This two-part field can be finished in just one step, right?

"

"I'm so envious. If my family had this, my family would still have to go out early and come back late to work when the weather is not hot..."

"Ha! I think she must have seen it somewhere and then made it. I don't believe that Su Xiaoxia has such a smart mind!"

Hearing this, some villagers replied: "Even if I read it from the book, at least Su Xiaoxia can do it. If it were you, could you do it?"

"I...I definitely can!"

"Don't be ashamed. If you could, you would have done it a long time ago. Why do you need to make sarcastic comments here?"

"I don't have any books to read here!"

"It's no use to you if you have a book. Who doesn't know that you can't read a word..."

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Su Xiaoxia ignored the villagers' comments and just focused on threshing rice. Although it was labor-saving and fast, it would still make you tired over time. Just take a very light dumbbell to exercise and do a few more sets, and you would still be tired.

no!

Xu Yiyun took a deep look at Su Xiaoxia's calm expression, and felt that she was awesome. She actually had so many ideas in her mind. Now he was looking forward to the windmill and wooden plow at home more and more...

So next, Xu Yiyun cut the rice and placed it in a pile next to Su Xiaoxia for her convenience.

Shen Lan, on the other hand, picked up the unbeaten rice in the barn and put it into a sack. She was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth.

The villagers watched for a long time, and when they saw that the sun was getting bigger and bigger, they planned to disperse and go back to their fields.

At this time, someone asked: "My third daughter-in-law, after your threshing machine is used up, can you borrow it from Uncle Jiu to use?"

The person speaking was none other than Xu Jiu Shu Xu He, the middle-aged man who had traded the family's broiler chickens for wild boar meat last time, and who helped Su Xiaoxia pull the bamboo leaves away from her in the ancestral hall that day.

After all, this was not a mechanical threshing machine. Although it was noisy, Su Xiaoxia could still hear Uncle Xu Jiu's voice, so she took the time to reply: "Uncle Jiu, my family has nearly two acres of farmland. If you don't mind waiting for a day or two, we will be here."

I can lend it to you when you run out of time."

When Xu Jiushu heard this, he immediately beamed: "Don't worry, I am working alone at home, and I plant rice a few days later than others, so the rice in my field can still wait for two days."

"Okay, when I finish using it, I will ask Xu Yiyun to carry the threshing machine to your house."

"No, no, I can just come and get it myself. There's no need to bother Third Brother."

At this time, Xu Yiyun came back from harvesting an armload of rice and heard the conversation between Su Xiaoxia and Xu Jiushu.

"It's okay, uncle, let Xu Yiyun deliver it to you. This thing is a bit heavy, and most people can't really carry it." Su Xiaoxia said without changing her expression.

Xu Yiyun and Shen Lan:???

Is this thing heavy?

In fact, this thing is not heavy, but Su Xiaoxia said this deliberately, in order to make those with bad intentions more afraid. Even if they want to attack the threshing machine, it will take several people to come, and once several people come,
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