Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 119 The Threshing Bucket

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and soon it will be the busy time of farming. This year, Liu Man'er's family didn't grow rice, but just planted some peanuts and soybeans. It just so happened that summer is coming. Because there is no ice for sale, the business in the shop is faster than before. It's worse.

Liu Man'er only asked Liu Yunsheng and a little girl to look after the store, while she brought the two women who had come to help in the store before, and Fei Hua back home.

In addition to the busy farming holiday, Liu Fusheng and Ye Feng were also at home. Due to the large number of people and the lack of land, this little thing was recovered in a day, and the next thing to do was to slowly choose peanuts at home.

After asking two women to help for two days, all these peanuts were selected, and the soybeans were also taken back to the home. This year's busy farming season has passed so easily.

It's just a pity that the threshing barrel that was agreed last year is still at home and has not been put into use.

Liu Man'er actually wanted to tell the head of the village about this thing and let him let the villagers try it, but since the family is full of female relatives now, she is still a little afraid of causing trouble.

After all, there is no diesel here, so Liu Man'er only thought of using tung oil or vegetable oil to lubricate the gears. She was a little worried that the villagers would be reluctant to use oil.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that she is afraid of causing trouble. Anyway, her family has no farming now, so she doesn't care so much about what happens to others.

It's just that when she drove the carriage to the county seat these mornings, she still couldn't bear to see the villagers getting up to work early in the morning. Today, she still couldn't hold back and told the village head.

Anyway, she thought, it's their business whether they use it or not, and it's her business whether she talks about it or not. Even if she doesn't have any credit in the end, it can still be regarded as a good thing she has done for the people.

But she wouldn't go to the head of the village in such a rash way. First, she went to Aunt Chunhua's house to bring some rice, thinking about experimenting first.

She believed Aunt Chunhua's family, and she told Aunt Chunhua about this first. Of course, her purpose was to test whether there was any problem with this machine.

Maybe it was a blessing from the heavens, or maybe it was because the craftsmen here made more delicate things, and there was nothing wrong with it. threshing bucket.

Aunt Chunhua has a lot of family members and grows a lot of rice. It is a big deal to thresh rice every year. It is slow and tiring to use a bucket every year. Now with this threshing bucket, even women can go up there. Stepping on a few feet is really a lot more convenient.

After helping Aunt Chunhua's house to clear about five points of the land, Liu Man'er was finally sure that there was nothing wrong with her threshing bucket, so she asked Ye Feng to invite the village chief.

In fact, the village chief thought it was a bit strange that Chunhua's family always brought unfinished rice to Ye's house these two days. He was about to ask, but he didn't expect that people from Ye's family would come to him on his own initiative. up.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a rectangular wooden barrel in the yard, but he didn't pay attention to it, and after entering the main room, he asked, "Aunt Ye, Mrs. Ye Liu, what do you want from me?"

"Of course, chief, please come with me..." Liu Man'er led the chief to the side of the threshing bucket, and showed him the threshing bucket.

"What is this?" asked the chief in puzzlement.

"Threshing bucket." Liu Man'er smiled slightly.

Just at this time, Aunt Chunhua's family came over with some rice, and Liu Man'er went on stage in person to show the boss.

When Liu Man'er stepped on it, a wooden drum filled with U-shaped irons in the threshing bucket began to roll, and then all the rice fell into the drum with a clatter.

Li Chang's eyes widened in an instant, and he tried a few times himself, and quickly gave Liu Man'er a thumbs up, "This thing is really good."

"Of course, it's called a threshing bucket." Liu Man'er said.

"You came up with it?" The chief looked sideways at Liu Man'er.

"Of course not." Liu Man'er shook her head, and said, "This is all thanks to you, the village chief. You sympathized with the hard work of the villagers in threshing, and you thought about it day and night, and you came to discuss with Feng'er, a child of our family. Combined with my son's knowledge, the two finally made such a threshing bucket."

Ye Feng is a very upright child. Hearing what Liu Man'er said, he said quickly:

"Sister-in-law, this is obviously you..."

But he was still halfway through, and was interrupted by Liu Man'er, "Sister-in-law is just a woman, and it would be nice to make some gadgets on weekdays. How could you think of this? It's because you are knowledgeable, knowledgeable, and our village chief. It’s thanks to the district chief who consulted with you that you were able to think of making such a thing.”

To be honest, not only Ye Feng, but even the head of the village was surprised by Liu Man'er's words. He knew that this matter had nothing to do with him, but this Ye Liu family could still get involved with him. Relationship, but indeed knowledgeable.

More importantly, from Ye Feng's words, he could know that this thing was really only thought up by Ye Liu, but she didn't take the credit, but pushed the credit to her uncle and herself. He took a high look at Liu Man'er, sure enough, others said that this silly woman has become smarter now, it seems that she has really become smarter, and she is smarter than most of the women in the village.

"Okay, very good." The head of the village nodded, glanced at Liu Man'er, and then said to Ye Feng: "Ye Feng, at such a young age, you can actually care about the suffering of people's livelihood. It is really amazing to make such a thing. How about this, tomorrow, no, today we will go to the field to experiment again, and then go to the county magistrate overnight to ask him to help promote this thing, so as to benefit the people."

Ye Feng was still in a daze, and Liu Man'er nodded instead of him and replied: "Okay, then thank you, Li Chang, you can use this thing for experimentation first, and it happens that the fields at Aunt Chunhua's house haven't been harvested yet."

"Okay." The chief nodded, not wanting to waste time, and immediately summoned a few men to carry the threshing bucket to the field.

Liu Man'er explained to the village chief and several villagers how to dismantle and install this, and then let them leave.

After the chief waited for the others to leave, Ye Feng stomped his feet and said, "Sister-in-law, you obviously made this thing, why do you want to say that I made it?"

In Ye Feng's eyes, this is dishonest.

"Silly boy, you are really too upright." Liu Man'er patted the back of Ye Feng's head and said, "Before you know it, you are now as tall as your sister-in-law."

"Sister-in-law, let me tell you something serious." Ye Feng said angrily.

"Okay, silly boy, we have to be upright, but we can't be flexible, you know?" Liu Man'er took Ye Feng into the house, called the whole family together and said, "If someone asks at that time, you just have to You said Ye Feng did it, you know?"

"Yes." The girls in the room nodded. They saw that their mistress was still messing with this big guy after she came home a few nights ago, but since the mistress said so, they agreed.

"But, sister-in-law, why is that?" Ye He also couldn't figure it out.

Fang also looked thoughtful?

"Alas..." Liu Man'er sighed, and said, "Sister-in-law is a girl after all, what good is it for me to make something like this? It's nothing more than a few taels of silver rewarded by the imperial court. People won't remember my name, more credit still falls on the heads of the county magistrate and the head of the district, but you, Feng'er, are different."

"Feng'er, after all, you are a boy, and you are a child. Even if the county magistrate wants to get credit, he will always mention you. After all, you are a student of this county, and you are also a student of the county magistrate. There is a student like you in the county below, and this will be another credit to him at that time. Maybe he will be promoted because of this merit. Maybe I will mention you a thing or two."

Liu Man'er said with a smile.

But Ye Feng didn't appreciate it. He said: "If I want to take the exam, I have to take the exam to be a real Jinshi. I don't want this kind of credit."

Liu Man'er laughed again, "Silly boy, of course you have to rely on your own ability, but if you want to be a scholar, don't you need someone to guarantee you? The magistrate is said to be young, and he is still Jinshi background, having him as your guarantor will save you the trouble of recruiting people everywhere."

"Of course sister-in-law knows that you have real talents and learning, but the problem is that sister-in-law runs a shop in the county, so she has to be taken care of. If you have a good relationship with the county magistrate, isn't this sister-in-law lucky? So sister-in-law The purpose of saying this is entirely for myself."

Although Ye Feng is still young, he hasn't escaped from Liu Man'er's words yet, but he feels that what Liu Man'er said is not unreasonable, so he nodded. Although he is willing to take the credit, he still feels a little blocked in his heart.

Because that's not what he's really got, it's not his learning, his stuff.

"Okay, Feng'er, sister-in-law knows that you are an ambitious person, if you feel sorry for sister-in-law, you should study hard, and when the time comes, you will be admitted to Jinshi, and let sister-in-law wear gold and silver to become an official wife, okay?"

Liu Man'er comforted Ye Feng, and Ye Feng finally nodded, "I will definitely study hard."

Fang Shi also nodded, "Yes, Feng'er, mother also understands that since ancient times, a woman's lack of talent is virtue, and your sister-in-law is right to do so."

Liu Man'er also sighed, and said: "Let's go, let's go to the study, my sister-in-law will explain to you the structure of the threshing machine, in fact, the invention of the threshing machine, let's say it's big or small Small, but since it's your credit, you have to know how it's made and why you thought of doing it."

Back in the study, Liu Man'er roughly explained her thoughts to Ye Feng, then explained the structure of the threshing bucket in detail, and asked Ye Feng to draw a picture.

Ye Feng is also a smart person, and soon he summed it up and converted it into his own thinking.

Liu Man'er put away the pen and paper, and said again: "Feng'er, you are doing very well, you are good at thinking, and you have summed up your own point of view from it. Sister-in-law believes that you will make great achievements in the future. But sister-in-law hopes that you will be flexible in the future." But you are an upright person, can you understand what my sister-in-law means?"

"Understood." Ye Feng nodded. In fact, Liu Man'er meant to make him upright. She didn't like it. In the future, he would become a villain who would only take other people's things as his own.

But Ye Feng's child, Liu Man'er, has been with him for so long, Liu Man'er is still very reassured about his character, he is an upright child, it would be better if he was more clever.

(End of this chapter)