Chapter 233: The Scumbag
"Miss, is this a barrel?" Ai Qiushi looked at it seriously and asked seriously.
Xiao Jiuyue remembered something like this, but she didn't quite understand the details. She said, "This barrel has old wooden boards, and you need to attach wire to them. Then, with the help of the wire and the rotation of the barrel, you can knock the rice grains off the rice ears."
"There's a pedal over here that turns the barrel." Xiao Jiuyue explained everything she knew and asked, "Can you do this?"
Ai Qiushi took a closer look and said, "It should be possible."
"Miss, can such a small thing really knock down the rice?" Ai Qiushi could see the man beating the rice today, and he was really using all his strength.
He was already exhausted today from carrying the harvested rice to the threshing and drying area. He couldn't even imagine how hard it was to thresh the rice.
"As long as we do it well, we can definitely succeed." Xiao Jiuyue said with certainty.
Ai Qiushi took the blueprint and immediately said, "I'll do it now!"
"Miss, can this thresher really be made? You are so amazing, you know everything." Lianxin looked at Xiao Jiuyue with admiration.
Xiao Jiuyue cleared his throat and said, "Maybe I've read too many books."
"Awesome!" Lianxin's words were full of admiration.
"Miss, good news, good news!" Luo Kui ran in excitedly and said, "Miss, I just went to the fields to help everyone deliver mung bean water and meat buns. Miss, guess what?"
"Is the rice harvest good?" Xiao Jiuyue drank the icy cold mung bean soup. It was quite comfortable to drink a bowl of it in such a hot weather.
"How did you guess so accurately, young lady?"
Luo Kui was still trying to keep the secret, but who knew that the young lady would guess so accurately? She said, "I just ran into Shi Lizheng. Shi Lizheng said that growing rice with you has yielded a really good harvest. In previous years, an acre of rice would yield around 300 catties, and at most 400 catties, which was considered a good harvest. But this year, what do you think the yield was?"
Luo Kui's voice rose several notes in excitement, and saliva flew everywhere. Lian Xin guessed, "Five hundred kilograms?"
"More than that." Luo Kui shook his head, and his smiling face seemed to say: Don't worry and guess higher!
"Five hundred and fifty kilograms?" Lianxin swallowed and added another fifty kilograms.
"Lianxin, feel free to guess." Luokui grinned. Seeing that Lianxin had been guessing the number, Luokui couldn't help but said directly: "Six hundred and twenty kilograms!"
"A huge harvest! Shi Lizheng said that the difference between the harvest from the same acre of land he cultivated using the old method and the harvest from the farm following your example is 230 kilograms!" Luo Kui squatted in front of Xiao Jiuyue, looking at her admiringly and saying, "Miss, you're truly amazing! Not only Shi Lizheng, but also the other families following your example are all overjoyed!"
"Those who didn't join in the farming must be unhappy, right?" Lian Xin recalled how Xiao Jiuyue's farming method had drawn ridicule from the villagers. She said, "Miss, the others must be regretting it. Back then, they said you were a girl who didn't know how to farm, but now..."
Lianxin covered her mouth and laughed, she could tell what they were thinking with just her toes.
"It seems that the method my father taught me is good. It's a pity that I was framed by a villain. If it is promoted nationwide, no one will have to go hungry." Xiao Jiuyue did not take this job on herself. She was a girl who never left the house. Let alone farming, she didn't even know where the food grew!
If she really said that she could do it, wouldn't she be telling others clearly that she had changed her mind?
"Don't worry, Miss. The villain who framed the master will definitely die a miserable death and get his retribution!" Luo Kui said angrily.
Lian Xin echoed, "Yes, Miss, this year's grain harvest is good. Next year, we will plant more!"
"Yeah." Xiao Jiuyue nodded slightly. It seems that her method is correct, whether in modern times or ancient times. As long as she finds ways to apply more fertilizer, the yield can be increased again.
An output of 620 kilograms per mu is, in modern terms, a low-yield rice field. If it were a high-yield rice field, there would be no problem if it were doubled.
Xiao Jiuyue's vision is not too far-sighted, but he aims to achieve an output of 800 kilograms per mu next year!
"Miss." Ai Qiushi's voice sounded at the door.
Xiao Jiuyue stood up and heard Ai Qiushi asking how to make a thresher. Xiao Jiuyue simply followed Ai Qiushi to his yard and watched him make the thresher!
The thresher is very important. Not to mention the entire village, just take the Xiao family as an example. They have dozens of acres of land. If they rely entirely on manpower to thresh the land, how long will it take?
One afternoon, Xiao Jiuyue stayed here with Ai Qiushi, watching him make the thresher. Sometimes if something was done wrong or something was missing, he would have to make it on the spot. For example, for the wire, Xiao Jiuyue specially asked Manager Jin to order a batch of triangular wire, which could not be too thin, otherwise the rice would not be able to be threshed.
As the sky gradually darkened, Lian Xin ran over and said, "Miss, there are guests at home."
"Guests?" Xiao Jiuyue looked up. The sun was about to set. Visitors coming at this time?
"The other party claimed to be the master's student, and his surname was Rong." Lianxin repeated what the doorman had reported. Now that the eldest lady was the housekeeper, Xiao Jiuyue was also aware of all the affairs of the household.
"Ai Qiushi, you can continue according to the improvements we just made and continue tomorrow." Xiao Jiuyue stood up immediately and walked towards the front hall. She wanted to verify whether it was Rong Xun and whether he was really transferred to Lancang County as the county magistrate?
lobby.
When Xiao Jiuyue was about to get closer, she straightened her dress to make sure she could meet people. Then she took a deep breath and calmed her breathing. She stepped into the front hall and heard her grandmother's laughter.
Xiao Jiuyue's sight immediately fell on the man in the breeze and bright moon. He was wearing a moon-white gown with bamboo branch patterns. At this moment, there was only one word in her mind: a scoundrel!
"Yu'er, you've arrived just in time. Do you remember your father's student, Rong Xun, whom we corresponded about before?" Old Madam Xiao saw Xiao Jiuyue approaching and waved at her with a smile, saying, "Xiao Xun, this is my granddaughter, Xiao Jiuyue. After the Xiao family fell into trouble, it was thanks to Yue'er that she supported the Xiao family."
Rong Xun stood up, tall and slender, and said in a deep voice: "A tiger father will have a dog daughter. Miss Xiao is as brave as a man, and her beauty is even better than a boy."
When he bowed, his pair of hands with distinct joints were a blessing for those who were obsessed with hands.
If he signed an agency contract, he would definitely become a big star. Xiao Jiuyue lowered his eyes, collected his thoughts, and bowed, saying, "Master Rong, thank you for your praise."
Madam Xiao smiled and stood up: "Okay, I am old, so I won't chat with you anymore. Yue'er, you are the housekeeper now, you have to entertain well."
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