Chapter 214 Quyuanli
The next day, the Qin family found Mo Lianfeng.
Mo Lianfeng thought, just come to him to do the job, he was afraid that the other party would not come and then suddenly do something big that he couldn't handle.
"Master Mo, can you lend us a cow for two or three days?"
“What do you want the cow for?”
"Help us turn the soil."
Mo Lianfeng pondered. His latest assignment was to till the soil, a rather demanding task. Without tilling the soil, there would be no way to sow seeds, and spring plowing would be delayed.
Their current farming tools are hoes and plows, and using a plow requires oxen, and their military oxen are all busy. However, considering the generous gift from the Qin family, it is not impossible for them to use an ox...
"We will use this cow for three days. We won't use it in vain. How about turning two more acres of land for the military settlement every day?" Lu Songli put forward a condition.
Mo Lianfeng raised an eyebrow. "So, one cow, if set free to work, is equivalent to a strong laborer?" This was like shutting up the others. He really liked this family. They didn't cause him any trouble at all.
"Okay, I'll have someone take you to the oxen later." He immediately agreed. It didn't matter who the oxen were used for, after all. He was mainly curious about what they were going to do. As for whether they could complete the task of turning the soil? We'd see when the time came.
Under Mo Lianfeng's instructions, his men took them to pick a buffalo that was in its prime and had a gentle temperament.
Lu Songli probably knew that the current plow is a straight-beam plow. Using it to plow the land makes people less labor-intensive, but the speed is actually not much faster than manual tillage.
The buffalo stood docilely in the field, letting them manipulate it. It was obvious that it was quite used to the work of plowing the field, as it would stop and go every now and then.
Once the curved plow was set up, Qin Zhao took it over and said, "Let me try."
"Okay, you try."
Qin Zhao whipped the buffalo and the plow began to pull. Then, the entire curved plow began to move forward, digging and continuously turning the soil. Wherever the curved plow passed, it had completed the task of turning the soil.
The Qin family discovered that this thing plowed the land extremely fast, and the key was that people didn’t feel tired at all!
"Sixth brother's wife, this thing is called a curved plow? Can we get a few more?" With this curved plow, wouldn't their mission be easily accomplished?
When Lü Songli didn't say anything, Qin Heng said, "Don't worry. This curved plow needs to be paired with oxen. Without oxen, it's useless even if we get a curved plow."
When everyone heard this, they thought about it and agreed.
So, on the land designated for the Qin family, Qin Zhao used the oxen to work, while the others continued to use hoes to plow the soil.
Because Lu Songli asked the blacksmith to make a curved plow with fine iron, it plowed the land very quickly. In addition, the land had been moistened with water before, so Qin Zhao plowed nearly four acres of land in half a day.
After plowing four acres of land, Qin Zhao wanted to do more, but the buffalo refused to cooperate, and even the green grass hanging in front of it was useless.
Qin Zhao had no choice but to lead the cow to the steward and ask for a replacement cow. "Can you give us a different cow? This one won't work."
"If it doesn't work, you can whip it."
"If you beat it, it won't go away."
The cow was so tired that its eyes rolled back and its limbs trembled. As soon as Qin Zhao stopped, the cow lay down.
The noise startled the steward, "What did you do to the cow?"
"I didn't do anything, I just let it plow the land a little."
The steward was puzzled, "If it was just plowing the land, it wouldn't be so tired, right?"
Qin Zhao was embarrassed, as if he had been a little too harsh.
Niu: Is that one point? It should be one hundred million points!
The steward in charge of looking after the plowing oxen checked the oxen and found nothing wrong with them. He thought they were probably just tired, so he waved his hand and asked the Qin family to go in and pick another ox.
But the next day, the cows that had been used by the Qin family were lying lazily, and no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get out.
This alarmed the young steward. He stood up and said, "No, I have to go and see what this family has done to the oxen!"
The soil is turned over so quickly!
The young steward took a look and found that the speed was wrong. After calculating again, he was shocked.
The steward immediately jumped up and down in the field, scolding Qin Zhao, the ox driver, harshly. "Other people's oxen plow one or two acres a day, and they're considered hardworking. But if they plow three acres, they're the best!"
"You actually let the oxen turn over seven or eight acres of land a day. You really don't spare the oxen at all! You are not tired, but the oxen are! Don't you feel guilty?"
To put it bluntly, he just feels sorry for the cows!
No wonder the cows that had been used by the Qin family refused to work the next day! They must have felt wronged!
This matter finally alarmed Mo Lianfeng.
Mo Lianfeng arrived at the Qin family's mission field and witnessed the convenience and speed of the curved plow. He immediately ignored the exhausted oxen and asked about the curved plow. He even tried it out and found it was indeed more convenient, easier to use and faster than the straight plow.
He immediately thought of the spring plowing assignment. If he had this curved plow, he would definitely be the first to take the lead...
Lu Songli tactfully presented the blueprints to Mo Lianfeng and introduced his previous blacksmith shop to him without hiding anything.
As for business, it is better to do business with the familiar rather than the new one, and she is quite optimistic about the blacksmith shop.
Mo Lianfeng was very satisfied with the Qin family's knowledge and understanding. When he saw Lu Songli helping her mother-in-law to rest aside and couldn't help beating his arms, he waved his hand and assigned them a new job - weeding. This was also the easiest job in the military settlement. There was no set workload, which made it clear that they could slack off.
When Mo Lianfeng went to order the curved plow, he took Lü Songli and Qin Sheng with him. Originally, he only wanted to take Lü Songli with him, but she suggested taking her young husband, Qin Sheng, along, saying that he was skilled in martial arts and could protect them in case of an accident.
He thought it would not be good to take her alone, so he took her along.
Seeing Lv Songli come to his door again, the young blacksmith wanted to turn his head and pretend he didn't see her. The main thing was that taking this job would make a lot of money, but it would also be very tiring.
Lu Songli smiled and said, "Master Xiao Zhou, are you busy? Is Master Lao Zhou here? There's a big deal coming."
Before the young blacksmith, whom she called Master Xiao Zhou, could say anything, his father opened the door curtain and came out from the backyard. "What big deal?"
After Lu Songli briefly introduced both parties, he stepped aside and let them talk.
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