farmer's daughter

Chapter 94 What shall I do for you to see?

Chapter 94 What shall I do to show you?

Ning Yuanzhi, who came out of the study, approached Xuejian gently, and handed Xuejian a handkerchief.Xuejian didn't care who handed it over, picked it up and wiped it off her face.The little face that had been filled with tears was even darker, and after wiping it, it made it even more blurred.Not only the face, but also the handkerchief was dirty.

Liang Sheng couldn't stand it any longer, stepped forward to take the handkerchief and wiped it for Xue Jian.I can't wipe it off after seeing it, and said:
"I have to wash it. I can't wipe it off, and I will wipe off the skin on my little face. What kind of painting is not good? Go wash it first, and then come to my uncle. Can I help you paint?"

Only then did Xue Jian raise her head and smile:

"Okay, I'll come right away, you wait for me."

After saying that and ran away quickly, Liang Sheng laughed bitterly and said:

"Just a child, crying and laughing."

Liang Shengyue went back to his room to change clothes.The brothers didn't want to move anyway, so they sat on the steps outside Third Uncle's door and waited to see what Xuejian was going to draw.

After a while, Xue Jian ran back after washing her face, with red marks on her face, it seemed that she had wiped her face heavily first.Xue Jian saw that her cousins ​​were all there, but her uncle was not.Just as I was about to ask, the door opened and my uncle came out.Wearing coarse clothes.But it cannot conceal the elegance of his scholars.

"Tell me, how do you want to draw?"

Liang Shengyue led Xuejian into the study, and several boys followed.

Xue Jian thought for a while and said:

"Actually, I didn't fully think about it. I just thought that the feet are more powerful? But the uncle and uncle both use their hands, so let's find a way to use our feet!"

Liang Sheng corrected his funny expression and listened carefully.The older Liang brothers also followed Xue Jian's train of thought to think seriously, only Jun Lin said quickly:

"How is it possible! You don't need to use your feet to stand firmly in the paddy field and not fall down? Besides, your feet can't hold the rice steadily!"

Yes, everyone didn't speak, but they also had the same doubts.

"So, I want to make something that replaces neither feet nor hands, but saves effort!"

Before she finished speaking, Liang Shuang came over from the front yard and called for dinner.Everyone was busy all morning, and they were already hungry, but Xue Jian hadn't finished speaking, so everyone didn't want to move.

Xue Jian looked around and said:
"Uncle, do you want to eat first?"

The more Liang Sheng thought about it, he stood up.
"Okay, let's go eat first! It's hard to say right now, take a break after eating, and have to go to the fields in the afternoon."

Xue Jian admired this little uncle very much, saying that he was a scholar and a teacher, but he didn't have the hypocrisy of a scholar.When I get home, I help with housework.

Everyone turned to the front yard again, and the food was served. The head of the family, Liang Zhongqiu, was sitting and drinking. Liang Shenggao and Liang Shengbei also sat down with mud legs.

"What are you laughing about in the backyard? It's been so long. You're not hungry yet, are you?"

Zhang babbled while serving the last soup.Xue Jian hugged Yue Lian to her exclusive chair, and brought her food over. Recently, Yue Lian didn't want to be fed, she wanted to eat by herself.That's up to her.

Listening to grandma's nagging, Xuejian said coquettishly:

"Grandma, they are laughing at me for my disfigured face. Grandma, my uncle is the worst. If you don't tell me when you see my disfigured face, you will make all your brothers laugh at me! You have to help me punish my uncle!"

Mrs. Zhang glared at Liang Shengyue on purpose, and scolded with a smile:
"Uncle is every uncle! He's still a gentleman! He should be punished! Xue'er, let him eat less later, okay?"

Xue Jian smiled.

Everyone sat at the table to eat, this time Liang Junlin couldn't hold back his words, and once he sat down, he said:
"Master, Xuejian said that she is going to make a threshing machine, so that my father and uncle will not be so tired."

Liang Zhongqiu took a sip of the wine and said with a smile:

"Xuejian, what is it? Show grandpa, grandpa will help you make it!"

"I haven't figured it out yet. I just think it's too tiring for my uncle and uncle to fall like that. I wonder if I can save effort."

Zhang brought food to Xue Jian, and said:

"Let's talk after eating."

Xue Jian also shut his mouth.No more talking.

After dinner, Liang Shengyue wanted Xue to go to the study, but Liang Zhongqiu left them behind and said:

"Say it here, and I'll listen to it too. I'm not used to your books, ink, etc."

Liang Shengyue asked Liang Junlei to get the pen and ink.Liang Shenggao also sat down and said:

"I'm not going to sleep anymore, I'll listen too."

Xuejian was a little embarrassed and said:
"Grandpa, I haven't fully figured it out yet, you guys are tired for a long time, go and have a rest."

Liang Sheng smiled and said:
"Xue'er is embarrassed? Tell me."

Xuejian also climbed onto the stool, but was too short for sitting and too high for standing, so she knelt on the stool.

"Grandpa, I thought so. I didn't make it. I don't know if it will work. Make a big drum, and some nails are nailed out of the drum. Then put the rice on the drum, and then turn the drum, and those nails will drive the rice down. Yes, keep spinning, if you can’t hit it once, you can hit it the second time.”

Xue Jian said, and everyone fell silent.Liang Shengbei even went to take a round wooden barrel to gesture.Then said:

"Xue'er, this is not going to turn around, it will run away as soon as it turns."

Xue Jian shook his head and said:

"It can't turn like this, Second Uncle, we have to think about how the wheels of the bullock cart turn. We have to combine the barrel with the wheels. But I can't do it anyway, we have to find a way!"

"Well, it's interesting! This one might work! It's just Xue Jian, it's tiring to turn it by hand!"

Liang Shenggao also picked up the bucket and turned it around. Xue Jian slid down the bench, squatted on the ground and put the bucket down, and then said while gesticulating:
"Grandpa, uncle, you see, if we clamp the wheels on both sides of the bucket, and then turn the wheels, the whole bucket can turn. But I have to find a way to turn the wheels without hands, but with feet."

With Xue Jian's specific explanation, everyone will understand better.It is also feasible to think about it carefully.Even Liang Zhongqiu became interested, and when he stepped forward, he squatted down and fiddled with the barrel twice, saying:

"How do you use your feet?"

"I can't tell, what can I do to show you?"

Xuejian looked around in a daze, and suddenly saw the sewing basket that Liang Shuang hadn't brought back into the house.I walked over and flipped through it, took out scissors and a piece of cloth, cut a smaller piece of cloth into a small gear, and cut a larger piece of cloth into a large gear.Then take it to several adults and say:

"Look, Grandpa, I just want Grandpa Niu to make two of these things. It needs to be bigger. The small one is put on one stick in this drum, and the big one is put on the other stick." On the stick, every tooth of the big one bites with every tooth of the small one. When the big one turns, the small one will follow suit. As long as we can make the big one turn, the tact will turn, is not it?"

(End of this chapter)