Chapter 238 What to take off
"Jinwen, send these canned lychees and longans to the candy shop, and tell the people from the Tang family to leave one carriage in the county, and send the remaining two carriages to Hongdu Prefecture!" Xiao Jiuyue left some canned lychees and longans, and sent the rest to the candy shop!
"Yes." Jin Wen called people and started moving things onto the carriage.
After Xiao Jiuyue sent the things away, she went to keep an eye on Ai Qiushi. The thresher she wanted to make has now taken shape. She can move it in to test whether it works or not this afternoon.
As soon as Xiao Jiuyue arrived, Ai Qiushi had already assembled the thresher. He stepped on the pedal, and the round barrel with the wire in the middle began to rotate. Ai Qiushi asked excitedly, "Miss, do you think this will work?"
"I'll see. It's okay!" Xiao Jiuyue didn't expect Ai Qiushi to actually make it. It was similar to the thresher she remembered. She asked, "Have you made the big wooden barrel? It's for storing the threshed rice."
"It's done. I made it all with thick wooden boards. Miss, take a look. Is it workable?" Ai Qiushi said as he brought out a thick and solid rectangular wooden barrel and inserted it in front of the thresher just as she said.
"This solid wood must be very heavy to lift!" Xiao Jiuyue looked at the solid wood. It was just a bucket for rice. It was made according to the size of a water bucket, so it wouldn't leak?
Ai Qiushi scratched his head embarrassedly, looked at Xiao Jiuyue and said, "Miss, this won't leak, not even water will leak!"
"Okay, let's try it first!" Xiao Jiuyue looked as if it was just as she expected. She asked people to move the things and transported them directly to the fields!
This big wooden thing quickly attracted everyone's attention. People working in the fields all stretched their necks to see what it was carrying.
"Miss Xiao, what are you carrying?" Aunt Shi asked Xiao Jiuyue while carrying rice back to dry.
Xiao Jiuyue smiled and replied, "It's a good thing, but I don't know if it's useful yet. I'll tell you when I try it and it works."
Xiao Jiuyue didn't say too much. Who knows whether the thresher she prepared would be useful?
What if some key steps are wrong and it is of no use at all?
Aunt Shi was completely bewildered by what she heard and had no idea what this good thing was. Soon, she turned around and saw the big thing being transported to the Xiao family's threshing area. She muttered to herself, "I don't know what it's for! How can she, a rich lady, do such rough work?"
Aunt Shi thought about Xiao Jiuyue's pair of dough-like hands. Those were hands that had never been touched by water. Such delicate and tender hands, one could only look at them!
Aunt Shi racked her brains but couldn't figure it out, so she just carried the rice back to dry it. She had to hurry and dry as much rice as she could before the sun went down!
Ouch, our family has a good harvest of grain this year, and there are not enough mats to dry the grain.
Aunt Shi thought about it and muttered to herself, "Never mind. Having more grain is a good thing! At worst, I can just take out my old drying mat and dry half a load of millet if I can!"
Xiao Jiuyue and Ai Qiushi brought the threshing machine over. As the producer, Ai Qiushi had also heard Xiao Jiuyue explain how to use it, so he called Yu Ge over and said, "Yu Ge, grab the rice in one hand and throw it onto the wire with the other."
"What is this for?" Yu Ge asked, grabbing a handful of rice and throwing it at the wooden barrel. Ai Qiushi stepped on it, and the wooden barrel started to turn.
Yu Ge was so frightened that the rice in his hand almost flew out. He stepped back and said, "Why is it moving?"
"Of course it has to move, otherwise, how can we thresh the rice?" Ai Qiushi looked back at Xiao Jiuyue and said, "No, this... is the direction wrong?"
"Then try changing the direction!" Xiao Jiuyue reminded him. Ai Qiushi quickly adjusted the direction of rotation. He looked at Yu Ge beside him and said, "Hold the rice steady and let the barrel rotate to thresh the rice."
"Don't worry, I have very strong hands." Yu Ge said, grabbed the rice and started to throw it towards the wooden barrel with the rotating triangular wire!
With the experience from last time, Yu Ge did not throw the rice away this time. As Ai Qiushi stepped on the pedal, Yu Ge could even clearly hear the sound of the rice falling into the wooden barrel.
Yu Ge moved the rice back and forth and felt that more rice grains had fallen off. Yu Ge picked up the rice in his hand and was surprised: "Is it possible that the rice grains fell off after just a few shakes?"
Xiao Jiuyue stepped forward to look at the rice. There were still a lot of rice grains on the rice ears. They were not threshed cleanly enough. She said, "Yu Ge, try threshing a little more!"
"Okay." Yu Ge said, and shouted a few times, and everyone brought the cut rice ears to him. Ai Qiushi stepped on them and Yu Ge beat them.
Soon, Yu Ge discovered that Ai Qiushi's pedaling speed was wrong, so he pushed Ai Qiushi away and said, "I'll do it myself!"
Yu Ge stepped on the rice while holding the rice ears in one hand. The rice grains seemed to have grown legs and all fell into the wooden barrel!
"Miss, this thing is easy to use and not tiring!" Yu Ge said excitedly, becoming more and more excited as he worked.
Xiao Jiuyue ignored Yu Ge's excitement. She walked forward and looked at the rice ears that Yu Ge had threshed with the thresher. There were still many rice ears left on the thresher. Could it be that the rice thresher could be improved?
"Ai Qiushi, can that row of wire combs be improved? Arrange them more densely?" Xiao Jiuyue looked at Ai Qiushi. As a carpenter, Ai Qiushi was extremely serious at this time. He looked at the rice ears again and again, trying to figure out which part was threshed cleanly and which part was not.
After a long while, Ai Qiushi said, "Miss, if we stagger the wires a little, will it be cleaner?"
"I'll try it when I get home tonight." Xiao Jiuyue agreed. The thresher, even after being manufactured, needed to go through repeated improvements. She said, "When threshing, the dust is too heavy. Can we make a cover?"
"I can make one, but, Miss, this wooden cover is rather troublesome to make. The dust won't disperse, but won't everyone who steps on the machine be covered in dust?" Ai Qiushi stared at the thresher that he had spent a lot of time making. If it was really useful, Ai Qiushi would feel very happy!
While Xiao Jiuyue and Ai Qiushi were discussing, many people soon gathered around and asked what this was. Xiao Jiuyue explained that he had read it in a book.
Not only the Xiao family, but even the villagers gathered around. Everyone looked at the thresher with envy. It seemed much easier than threshing the rice with brute force.
"Miss Xiao, what's this... what's this stripper?" Shi Lizheng, as the village head, saw such a good thing and immediately asked, "How much is this?"
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