Chapter 275: Shock! Six hundred and thirty kilograms of food.
In the following five days, Xu Zhiyi and everyone worked hard every day and finally made the first thresher. The old carpenter in the town took a more refined approach and was only halfway done.
When the other villagers who had not participated heard that Xu Zhiyi's thresher was finished, they all came over to see what it looked like:
"Zhiyi, how do I use this thresher?"
"Yes! Is the wooden frame here for storing grain?"
Xu Zhiyi: "Let's carry it to the field and I'll show you how to do it."
Upon hearing this, Village Chief Chen quickly signaled to the young men beside him: "You guys, bring the carrying poles over and carry it to Zhiyi's field."
"Hey, I'll go get the pole."
Xu Zhiyi took them to the fields. He had been harvesting rice in his fields these days. He had already harvested three acres of land, with help from the villagers.
After the villagers placed the thresher in the field, Xu Zhiyi went over and picked up a handful of harvested rice, walked to the thresher, stepped on the pedal with his foot, and waited for the drum inside to start turning.
Put the end with the grains in, keep stepping on the pedal, and hold the rice tightly in your hands and turn both sides to prevent any grains from falling out.
After watching Xu Zhiyi's two operations, the villagers really plucked the grains from the handful of rice in their hands in one go!
"Village chief, this wooden frame is full of shredded grains. It's amazing! They were shredded in just two seconds!"
Village Chief Chen watched the villagers pick up handfuls of grain from the wooden frame of the thresher. He couldn't help but walk over with the villagers around the thresher and laughed excitedly:
"Everyone come and try it"
As soon as he finished speaking, someone came over with rice in his arms, thinking about Xu Zhiyi's steps just now:
"Haha, village chief, I stepped on the pedal and the wheel with thorns inside really started to turn. Haha, this is so easy, I got it!"
As a result, just as he finished speaking, the rice in his hand, along with the rice seedlings, was swept in, and he was almost pulled in. He was so scared that he ran ten steps away.
"Ah! Village chief, it eats people!!"
Village Chief Chen: "Eat you? Zhiyi didn't do anything wrong just now, so he picked you to eat, right? Your meat is old and chewy?"
Xu Zhiyi: "I didn't have time to tell you about the things you need to pay attention to. You must hold the rice in your hands tightly, otherwise the drum inside will start to rotate and it will easily pull the rice in your hands in."
"If you can't stand steadily, you may be pulled in as well, so you must remember to hold on to the rice tightly and stand firmly!"
The frightened villager patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief after hearing Xu Zhiyi's words: "So that's how it is. I thought it was going to eat me. Let me try again."
Hearing this, everyone stepped back a little and let him try. As a result, he threshed the grains successfully this time.
"Haha, I can do it too! It's not difficult!!"
When the villagers heard this, they all wanted to try it themselves.
After a round of attempts, except for a few where I couldn't hold the rice seedlings properly in my hands, I basically mastered all the other techniques!
Xu Zhiyi watched the villagers busying themselves. Although the sun made them sweat profusely and their faces flushed, the joy on each of their faces could not be suppressed.
Although this thresher is certainly not as easy to pedal as the modern ones with oil wheels, it uses wooden wheels which require more effort to pedal, but for the ancient ones, its efficiency was extremely good!
Old Man Su walked around and heard the villagers constantly praising his granddaughter Xu Zhiyi. He felt very proud and looked at Old Lady Su who was bending over to cut rice:
"Old woman, you said that our ancestors' graves will also be filled with smoke one day, because our daughter gave birth to such a smart granddaughter for us!"
Hearing this, Old Lady Su stood up and pounded her waist: "How can you be sure that the smoke is coming out of our ancestral grave? Maybe it's the Xue family's ancestral grave that's emitting the smoke!"
Su Ze: "Mom and Dad, no matter whose ancestral grave it is, she is my Su Ze's niece for sure!"
"Uncle, grandma, grandpa, what are you talking about?" Xu Zhiyi came over with a kettle and a bowl, and poured three bowls of iced mung bean soup: "I made some iced mung bean soup, you guys stop and drink it first"
Old man Su came over and sat down first. He picked up the bowl and gulped down the mung bean ice cream in a few big gulps. He felt refreshed: "Ha, Zhiyi, pour another bowl for grandpa."
Old Mrs. Su, who came over and sat next to him, listened to what he said and advised: "Don't drink too much at once. This is ice cold and your body is very hot now. Let it cool down for a while before drinking it."
Su Ze took a sip of the iced mung bean soup and asked curiously, "Zhiyi, how did you come up with the idea of making ice in the middle of summer?"
Xu Zhiyi: "Since last month, the number of customers in the milk tea shop has been decreasing. In the hot summer, no one wants to drink milk tea. So I thought of using well water to cool down milk tea and fruit tea, and I managed to win back a small number of customers."
"Who would have thought that, by chance, I found an old miscellany in a bookstore. I found the content interesting, so I bought it and read it. Unexpectedly, there was a method for making ice on the last page, but it was only half a page, not a complete method. I guessed and tried dozens of times before I succeeded."
When Old Man Su heard what Xu Zhiyi said, he was even more proud: "Oh, my granddaughter is so smart. If it were someone else, I'm afraid they wouldn't succeed even if they tried their best! This brain is as smart as your grandfather when he was young."
Hearing this, Old Lady Su rolled her eyes and said, "When you were young, you weren't necessarily much smarter than you are now!"
"Old woman, you just want to scold me, don't you?"
"I'm telling the truth!!"
"Zhiyi! The rice from the one-acre field we harvested a few days ago has been threshed and the grains are almost dry. The village chief wants you to go over and weigh it to see how much grain we have produced this year!"
Xu Zhiyi looked at the villagers who were shouting and quickly responded: "Okay, I'll be there right away."
Old Man Su: "Old woman, hurry up and let's go take a look. Just looking at the rice growing so well this year, we know that the grain yield is good, but I don't know how much it will increase."
Xu Zhiyi brought the Su family to the village's grain-drying square. Hundreds of villagers were standing around, each with excitement on their face.
When Village Chief Chen saw Xu Zhiyi coming, he quickly waved his hand and asked people to start weighing the rice. He prepared paper, pen and ink to keep count.
"Village Chief, remember fifty kilograms..."
"Village Chief, remember another 118 kilograms..."
After weighing the dried rice from an acre of land, the village chief took out his abacus and began to add up the total. He was so surprised that he widened his eyes. He was afraid that he had calculated wrong, so he calculated again. He calculated four times in a row and got the same number. He then exclaimed in shock:
"Everyone, six hundred and thirty kilograms! A full six hundred and thirty kilograms, dried in the sun!"
When the villagers heard this, they checked twice more. After they were sure that they hadn't made any mistakes, they all jumped up and down in excitement.
They knew at a glance that the amount of rice harvested was more than in previous years, but they did not dare to think so highly.
Just thinking about an extra hundred or so kilograms was enough to make me so excited that I couldn't sleep! I didn't expect that it was twice as much as Fenglin Country's highest grain yield of 300 kilograms per mu!
Village Chief Chen: "Everyone, be quiet. We can have today's result because of Xu Zhiyi. She made it possible for us to have enough food in the future. She is the second parent of all of us! We will all listen to her from now on!"
"We do whatever she tells us to do! Well, except killing people, of course!"
After saying this, hundreds of villagers knelt down and performed a half-kneeling salute.
Xu Zhiyi was so scared that he quickly backed away and told them to get up.
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