Pastoral Five Siblings

Mr. Chai tried to persuade him to stay again, and Brother Zhao Kuangyin followed the car until Chai Rong's car entered Beijing.

The last batch of melons was picked by Chai Rong and sent to the capital in three carts. After a few days of looking at the leftover melons, he picked them and kept them for his own home.

The late crops in the field are also harvesting, and the fields in Yuchun are full of buckwheat. Because of the drought, the wheat has been harvested, and everyone's late crops have become real late crops. Because they were planted a month late, sorghum and millet No one has ripened the buckwheat, and those who grow buckwheat are considered to have a harvest. Although the yield is low, it is a grain of grain.

The ones that don't grow can only be crushed and fed to pigs.

"Master, you said, what a pity that those late crops were ruined." Yuchun lamented the loss of the villagers.

"It's a pity that there is no way. They don't have the vision of my disciples. Farmers rely on the sky to wait for the rain. How can you water the land so recklessly like you? There is no large area of ​​fertile land in this place, and irrigation measures will not work." Old Chai That's what I think.

Although there are no grains and miscellaneous grains this year, it is better to have money than to have no grain and no money.

I heard that the harvest in the north thousands of miles away is good. There are many grain dealers here who go to the north to sell grain, and some go to the south to sell rice. The rice he sold to Bianjing was very cheap, and he shipped two thousand catties of rice together with the seasoning.

I still have millet and sorghum at home. If I can afford it this year, I will eat more refined grains. The harvest of seven acres of wheat is [-] catties, and only [-] catties will be left after autumn. Yuchun bought [-] catties of wheat during the wheat autumn.It is enough to eat until the New Year's autumn harvest.

It is already a family of nine, and the burden is not light. If Yuchun does not have special skills, he will not be able to survive.

After the autumn harvest was over and the wheat was planted, the whole family was free, and Li Xue took care of the cooking and laundry.Jingniang is also a master at embroidery, and Yuchun drew many patterns to embroider Li Xue's dowry.

Jingniang saw those strange drawings by Yuchun that seemed human but not human, like kittens and puppies.Small animals that are more attractive than kittens and puppies, I love them very much: "Chun'er, what are these?"

Yuchun couldn't explain it clearly to them, but vaguely gave these animals strange names: "These things are called Ba Tule, Butter Baby, and Doudou Bug." Yuchun said.Sneaking in my heart, I made it up by myself.

Several people seemed to be fascinated by it.Working day and night, never tired or thirsty.It was all embroidered with Li Xue's dowry.

With these dowries, Li Xue is very contented, the family is more lively than before, and Fourth Aunt Wei sometimes comes here to join in the fun: "Chun'er, you draw these things, Qiuqiu likes it." Fourth Aunt Wei is happy say.

"Fourth Aunt. Children like sex toys." Yuchun chatted with Fourth Aunt Wei.

Some people have embroidered Yuchun and then they don't intervene. Yuchun specializes in researching his own waterwheel.Those who don't study mechanics are really struggling to study. , this winter, Yuchun worked with cast iron, and worked with blacksmiths to build water tanks for waterwheels.

Several people were surprised when they saw it: "What is this? It also looks like an embroidered flower?"

Yuchun chuckled: "You all will understand then."

Several people looked at each other, sending each other surprised looks.

The water wheel is an ancient water conservancy irrigation machine, formerly known as the Kong Ming car, which was successfully researched and transformed by Kong Ming.It was popularized in Western Shu, and it was widely promoted and used in the Tang and Song Dynasties.It is mostly used in the south, mainly for rice irrigation.

In the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the world was in war, the people were in dire straits, and agricultural production was extremely backward. There was a drought in the north, and no farmers used water trucks to irrigate the land. In a year of severe drought, there would be no harvest. Can't plant it at all.

The waterwheel developed by Yuchun is an advanced waterwheel developed by the later generations. The efficiency of water lifting is extremely high. It adopts a hand-operated pulley machine, which is light and labor-saving. It only takes one man and half a day to irrigate one mu of land. It was extremely advanced at the time.

Small pieces of farmland, hillside land, as long as there are wells that can produce water, all can irrigate farmland.

After studying the waterwheel, Yuchun began to study the sewing machine. In modern rural areas, everyone at the age of Yuchun's mother and grandma can use the sewing machine.

Although Yuchun is very proficient in using a sewing machine, it is difficult to make one. She does not have that kind of knowledge, and she has no skills in drawing and designing.

I had no choice but to design the size according to my memory. I first drew the size of the chassis, and then designed the shelf and wheels. These are not too difficult.

The most difficult thing is the design of the machine head. The most important thing is the internal parts of the machine head. All of them are leveraged. The size of the linkage between several rotating shafts is the most difficult to grasp. If it is not suitable, it will not rotate .

Yuchun gradually designed the design, from simple to complicated, relying on her previous life with a lot of sewing machines, oiling, wiping, repairing, replacing parts, she is proficient in everything, and the concepts are deep in her mind.

I drew the picture with a clear mind, and after many revisions, the drawings were gradually improved according to the needs of the parts.

Several people were shocked again: "Yuchun! What kind of flower did you make?"

Jingniang looked at the pictures drawn by Yuchun, and they didn't look like flowers: "Chun'er, isn't this a flower? It's something new, let me reveal a little bit first."

Seeing Jingniang's curious look, Yuchun's face was full of doubts, so Yuchun had to satisfy her curiosity: "Sister Jingniang, this is a toy."

"Toy?" Li Xue looked strange, and so did the little girl, this toy is very weird.

In the end, it looked very similar to a real sewing machine. The next step was to practice. Yuchun found a few small cast iron workshops in batches, and first cast a lathe, using expensive stainless steel as the rotary knife.After casting these parts, the frame and the pedals, the outer skin of the machine head was successfully cast, and the frame and the machine head were installed, and then the finished wooden model was compared in the machine head.

After all, it has been seen and used, and it is much luckier to study than the original inventor, and it is much easier to do.

The frame and machine head are fixed once they are molded, and the parts inside have taken a lot of work and have been cast many times before they have a small success.Although the machine didn't work flexibly, she would recast any part that didn't fit. It took a lot of energy. In just over two months, Yuchun had only lost half her body weight.

Seeing her like this, Mr. Chai felt very distressed: "Chun'er, can you rest for a few days before doing this thing?" Yuchun hasn't practiced for a few months, so wouldn't it be over for her physique like this?

Mr. Chai tried to persuade her several times, but Yuchun didn't listen.The trouble made Mr. Chai sigh.

Li Xue felt even more distressed, seeing her forgetting to eat and sleep, every day besides cooking, she boiled goat milk for her: "Yuchun! Stop quickly, drink up the milk, or I will take away your iron guys."

"Okay! I surrender, and I obey." Although Yuchun didn't want to drink that stuff, she forgot to eat her meal. When Li Xue made a fuss, she really knew she was hungry, so she picked up the bowl and drank it all in one go.

Jingniang and Xiaoya also lamented: "Why is she so stubborn?" The three of them thought that Yuchun's hard work was not worth it, and it would take a lifetime to get tired.

These days, Yuchun finally understands the mentality of scientists who study things desperately.It's just that I'm fascinated, and I seem to have entered the state of a scientist.Forgetting to eat and sleep is the way to success for a scientist, without that kind of spirit, nothing can be researched.

It turns out that making machinery is so tiring. How can there be modern conditions in ancient times? Everything is electrified, and people don't need to work hard.The machinery made in ancient times was very difficult, and it took a lot of effort to make a lathe.

The machine cannot be separated from the lathe, and the main structure of the machine cannot be separated from the screw.How can you play without a lathe.

Yuchun did not worry about the machine needles. She drew four sizes of machine needles: "Master, these are enough."

"Okay, I'll find someone right away." Chai Lao sent someone to the capital to find the best needle maker.Built back quickly.

The second is the sewing machine panel and the chassis. Find a woodworker who makes furniture in the town. Once you make it according to the drawings, it will be very beautiful. The ancient woodworking technology is quite high. The furniture made can’t even use a nail. Carved out of logs, glued with isinglass, the antique rosewood makes people's eyes clear.

After Yuchun's dozens of practices, a shelf is relatively rough, but the panel is beautiful. The first sewing machine of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms came out. After trying it out, Yuchun was quite satisfied. A big suitcase.

When Yuchun stepped on the pedal of the sewing machine, the wheels started to spin rapidly.

"Wow!...What the hell is this?" the little girl shouted

"How can it still turn? As soon as the foot is put on, the circle will turn." Li Xue stared and watched.

Jing Niang, who is the most gentle, also exclaimed: "This toy is so good, it's so fun!"

After Jingniang finished shouting, Si Xia came over: "I'll play, I'll play, third sister, give me this plaything!"

"Go away, it's none of your business! This guy can eat people!" Yu Chun blasted Si Xia away, Si Xia struggled to run back, and Yu Chun closed the door.

Jing Niang and the others were chattering around this topic.

Dozens of iron casting experiments cost a lot of money. At that time, iron was still very expensive. During the war, iron was even more expensive.

Yuchun turned the clothes of Yongming and the others into a test piece of the sewing machine, and sewed them into a long seam. Yuchun almost didn't jump up. She was so excited that she almost fainted, reveling in the beautiful career. I went there, thinking about my initial success, although I was tired for so many days, I felt it was worth it.

The three of Li Xue shouted together: "Wow! Yuchun, you lied to us, not for fun? Can you sew clothes?"

"This is just for fun, sewing!" Yuchun laughed "haha".

But Jingniang said: "We can't help Yuchun either, so don't make trouble, and go to embroider." Jingniang is not willing to leave, she just wants to see this new thing, but she is afraid of causing trouble for Yuchun.

In the days to come, Yuchun's energy was mainly devoted to improving the sewing machine. After another month of grinding and repairing, the sewing machine was gradually perfected, and it will be further improved according to the performance of the sewing machine during use.

When the burden of the sewing machine was removed, Yuchun was more free. Li Xue and the three of them also learned some of Yuchun's specialties, and Yuchun basically didn't interfere in cooking. One point, seeing other people busy every day, she is too embarrassed to be lazy.

When Yuchun was free, he found Fourth Aunt Wei: "Aunt Four will help me find four girls who are good at embroidery, stable and honest." Specifically, Li Xue will be trained for a few days, and the embroidery master hired by Mr. Chai will be trained for two months.

Fourth Aunt Wei took a look at it, and she was happy to find those few and said, "You can earn money in Yuchun's embroidery workshop. You can eat and live every day, and you can still get money."

There are more than a dozen older girls in a village, and they were all greedy, so they gathered a group to look for Aunt Wei: "Aunt Si! We also want to go to Yuchun's place to embroider!"

Talk about this, and argue about that: "Fourth Aunt, tell us about it, you know my dexterity." A girl pulled Fourth Aunt Wei, as if she would not let her come and swear.

Fourth Aunt Wei was helpless, and she had a hazy face, and she was not easy to offend anyone: "Yuchun only wants four people, and the eyes of so many people are not enough for a while."

The girls exchanged glances: "Fourth aunt, talk to Yuchun about love and accept us."

Fourth Aunt Wei said: "Let me ask you, Yuchun only asked me to find four people, I'm afraid I won't want more." Fourth Aunt Wei went to find Yuchun, and those girls followed closely.

Yuchun discussed the facts with Fourth Aunt Wei first, and he could only pick the four best ones.

The rest of Fourth Aunt Wei didn't look for them, they were the ones who pursued Fourth Aunt Wei after hearing what they said.

They were all taught by Fourth Aunt Wei, and they were all acquaintances in the village, and she couldn't bear to refuse any of them.

Yuchun knew it well, those who were dishonest, those with weird tempers, those with a sharp pepper temper, and those with a bad mouth and aggressiveness, in short, those naughty ones, Yuchun would not accept them.

"I also hope that the more people the better, but there is no such condition now, the four people are enough for me, and I still need to recruit people when I expand here." Those who make money from the workshop don't come here to make money, and none of those tricky ones will accept it. If anyone wants it, it will affect the work efficiency of good people.

A few people left in dismay, with angry faces and eyes full of jealousy, could Yuchun not see it?It seems that you don’t have to throw someone’s child into a well to offend people. It seems that greed is the reason for hatred in the world. If you recruit a few people, you will offend a large group. I didn’t go to you and don’t want you anymore. .

Li Xue began to teach the four selected by Aunt Wei. They were smart and willing to learn. None of them had high eyesight but low abilities, and they respected Li Xue very much. Although they were all of the same age, Li Xue's skills were better than They are a lot stronger, but Li Xue has studied with Fourth Aunt Wei for two years, and has not left Fourth Aunt Wei's long-term teaching since then, and Li Xue is someone who can figure it out by herself.

Li Xue taught them for a whole month, and they also embroidered a lot of embroidery. Yuchun had two sacks of cloth and embroidered half a sack.Yuchun asked them to stay here after boarding and lodging. One is to save time, and the other is that his sewing machine should be a secret, and he doesn’t want too many people to know. If they go home every day, they will naturally talk about it everywhere. When she makes money, it will be stolen by others, and she just feels that she is losing money. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)