Love (thirty-three)
Ruan Qi's light words silenced Lan Lan.
She stared at Ruan Qi for two seconds, then spoke with difficulty, "...Can you weld?"
"Yes." Ruan Qi put on insulating gloves and goggles and said to Lan Lan in a relaxed tone, "When I was a child, I often watched my grandfather welding at home. After watching for a long time, I learned it. Later, when I grew up a little and became interested in physics, I tried to make a simple welding machine myself and used it to do many circuit experiments."
Ruan Qi spoke lightly, but the expression on Lan Lan's face became increasingly indescribable.
"You made your own welding machine... How old were you then?"
"How old?" Ruan Qi tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Probably around eight or nine."
Lan Lan: ...
[Eight or nine years old... When I was eight or nine, I was playing in the mud, but Ruan Qi had already started making his own welding machine?]
[Do you still remember Ruan Qi's status as an academic giant? She's a big name in physics and even taught students at Imperial University...]
[Fuck, Ruan Qi has so many identities, I almost forgot about his status as an academic giant. The world of the academic genius is indeed different from ours. He started welding at the age of seven or eight...]
[As a high school physics nerd, I silently shed tears of envy.]
[Can Ruan Qi really make a rice transplanter? I just took a look at the blueprint she drew, and it's impressive.]
There was a simple blueprint at Ruan Qi's feet, which she had just drawn.
Lan Lan pushed her wheelchair over, picked up the drawing and looked at it for a while.
……can't read.
The blueprint was filled with various numbers and symbols, and it looked very profound. Lan Lan shook her head, giving up thinking about such profound academic questions, and asked Ruan Qi softly, "Is there anything I can help you with?"
Ruan Qi had already connected the welding gun. Hearing this, she raised her head and smiled at Lan Lan.
"Thank you, Sister Lanlan, but that's not necessary. This job is quite dangerous, I can do it myself."
Ruan Qi said this and asked Lan Lan to step back.
After Lan Lan retreated to the safe area, she picked up the welding gun and welded it to the metal frame.
Suddenly, the harsh sound of electric welding was heard in the yard.
The noise was so loud that Ji Beibei and Ge Mei, who were cleaning the guest room on the second floor, were woken up.
"What are you doing? What's making such a noise downstairs?"
Ji Beibei opened the window of the guest room, stuck her head out, and was caught off guard by the sparks from the welding.
She was startled.
Who is doing the welding downstairs?
Ji Beibei looked over again, and when she saw Ruan Qi holding the welding gun, her eyes widened in shock.
"Soft Baby, what are you doing?!"
Ruan Qi was still welding and the noise was too loud so she didn't hear Ji Beibei's question.
Lan Lan, who was closer to the villa, heard it and raised her head and said loudly to her, "Xiao Qi is making a rice transplanter."
Ji Beibei: ???
Two minutes later, Ji Beibei and Ge Mei both ran out of the villa.
The two of them and Lan Lan stood together, looking at Ruan Qi with surprise and suspicion.
"Can Xiaoqi really make a rice transplanter?"
"I think... I can. She's very good at physics."
"Is there any necessary connection between being good at physics and being able to operate a rice transplanter? I was pretty good at physics in school, but for most of my life I couldn't even weld."
"This... the world of the academic god may be different from ours."
"Anyway, no matter whether Xiaoqi succeeds or not, we have to cheer her on. Even if she can't do it, we still have to encourage her more."
As the youngest member of the show, Ruan Qi has always been favored by all the guests except Jiang Hengda.
Ge Mei and the other two were afraid that she was young and had a strong sense of self-esteem and would not be able to accept failure, so they were secretly thinking about how to comfort her.
However, what they didn't expect was that Ruan Qi did not fail.
On the contrary, those simple metal frames were welded together in her hands, and finally gradually built into the prototype of a rice transplanter!
At this point, even the director of the program couldn't sit still.
He came over with a small stool, sat next to Ruan Qi and asked her, "Is this the rice transplanter?"
"Yes." The metal frame in Ruan Qi's hand was about as high as an adult's calf, and its appearance was a bit like a household push cart.
She pointed to the top of the frame and explained to the director, "This is the armrest of the rice transplanter. The middle is for the seedling box. This is a manual joystick. Just pull the joystick, and the seedlings in the seedling box will fall into the seedling rack in rows. Then push the joystick again, and the seedling rack will plant the seedlings into the field."
Ruan Qi grabbed the joystick and demonstrated it to the director.
After reading it, the director's eyes suddenly lit up.
“How many seedlings can this thing plant at once?”
Ruan Qi: "Not many. Generally speaking, the spacing between seedlings is 10-12 centimeters. My rice transplanter is less than a meter long and can transplant about seven or eight rows at a time. But it has wheels, so it's very fast."
Manual transplanting takes several seconds to plant one seedling, but this transplanter can plant seven or eight seeds in just a few seconds.
More importantly, it saves effort.
The rice transplanter has wheels underneath, so the person operating it only needs to push it without even bending his waist, which greatly reduces everyone's physical burden.
This thing looks really useful. It can plant seven or eight rows at a time, so it can plant an acre of land in no time!
I come from the countryside, and I've seen rice transplanters similar to the one Ruan Qi makes. But they're all fully automated and commercially available. Ruan Qi is incredibly capable of making one herself!
【Go try it out and see how awesome it is! I can’t wait to see it! 】
Not only the audience, but everyone who saw Ruan Qi make the rice transplanter couldn't wait to try it.
The program director understood everyone's psychology very well and knew that this was a must-see attraction, so he immediately said to Ruan Qi, "Can we try it now?"
"Sure." Ruan Qi took off her protective mask and gloves and picked up a screwdriver. "Once I screw the wheel on, I'll go try it out in the field."
——
It was almost three o'clock in the afternoon.
Xi Jiu and his team had been farming for nearly five hours.
If it were an experienced farmer, four people would definitely be able to plant four acres of land in five hours.
But Xi Jiu and his team had no experience, and Jiang Hengda was always slacking off, while Si Lin and Shi Su only had the physical fitness of ordinary people. With these multiple problems piled up, Xi Jiu was the only one left as the main force in planting rice.
Xi Jiu's work efficiency is indeed very fast.
He had good physical strength, high endurance, and was willing to endure hardships. Therefore, he planted the most rice seedlings, and in five hours he had already planted nearly an acre of land.
However, no matter how efficient Xi Jiu was, he only had two hands. The four boys' goal was to cultivate at least four mu of land, which Xi Jiu alone could not accomplish.
Looking at the vast expanses of bare paddy fields, Si Lin felt filled with despair.
He put the seedlings back into the plate, supported his aching waist, crawled tremblingly back to the edge of the field, and sat down.
"It's so tiring. I still have over two acres to plant. How long will it take?" Si Lin said with a look of despair, his eyes wide open. "I'll never complain about dancing being tiring again. Planting rice is the most tiring job in the world."
Si Lin sat on the ground, muttering weakly.
Shi Su couldn't bear it anymore and moved over holding his waist.
"Si Lin, help me up quickly, my waist is about to break."
Shi Su had injured his lower back in his youth, though it wasn't serious, but he couldn't handle the pain he was experiencing today. Not only did his lower back ache, but his head also hurt. He'd been keeping his head down for five hours straight, and he was on the verge of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Si Lin helped Shi Su over, and the two of them sat together and sighed like brothers in distress.
"It's already three o'clock in the afternoon, and I still have two acres of land to cultivate. I usually feel that I have good physical strength, but now I see that I am still too weak."
"Compared to Master Xi, our physical strength is rubbish." Si Lin wiped the sweat off his forehead, a frown on his face. "What should we do next? We can't just rely on Master Xi, right? But I really can't do it anymore. My lower back hurts."
Shi Su: "It hurts too, I feel like my waist is going to fall apart. After I finish planting the remaining two acres of land, I won't have to eat dinner and will go straight to the hospital to get my bones straightened."
After the two brothers finished speaking, they sighed together.
Meanwhile, Jiang Hengda was still working on his one-third acre of land. He looked very hard-working, but in fact, he hadn't finished planting much in half a day.
Si Lin and Shi Su's face darkened when they saw Jiang Hengda. The labor force was already limited, and with such a useless teammate, how long would it take for them to complete their mission?
Si Lin rubbed his swollen head, supported his waist and stood up: "Teacher Shi, you should rest for a while, I will go to plant for a while."
"Have you rested well?" Shi Su was worried about him.
Si Lin shook his head. "I didn't rest well, and my back hurts. But we can't let Mr. Xi do it alone. He's done enough today."
As Si Lin spoke, he supported his old waist and walked towards the field.
Seeing that he had gotten up, Shi Su felt embarrassed to rest any longer, so he gritted his teeth and prepared to get up.
Just then, a noise came from a distance.
Shi Su, who was holding his waist, turned around when he heard the sound and saw a group of people walking quickly towards him on the narrow path in the field.
And the person walking in front...why does he look like the director of their show?
"Look, is that the director over there? Is that Xiao Qi behind?"
Xi Jiu, who had been planting rice with his head down, immediately raised his head when he heard the word "Xiao Qi" as if a switch had been turned on.
He stood up straight and turned to look over. With his better eyesight than an average person, Xi Jiu clearly saw Ruan Qi following behind the director.
Not only Ruan Qi, Ge Mei, Ji Beibei, Lan Lan who was in a wheelchair, but even most of the staff of the program team, all came.
This posture of mobilizing a large army made Xi Jiu raise his eyebrows in surprise.
Si Lin and Shi Su also saw clearly who the visitors were at this time.
Si Lin couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh my!" "Did something big happen? Why are you all here? Hey! Ji Beibei——!"
He raised his hand and waved it vigorously over there while shouting.
Ji Beibei, who was walking in the crowd, heard the voice, waved back at him, and then ran over here quickly.
Si Lin quickly put down the seedlings and went forward, holding his old waist.
"Why are you all here? What happened?"
"We are here to try out the rice transplanter." Ji Beibei ran over and said excitedly.
Si Lin was surprised: "Rice transplanter? Did the production team buy us a rice transplanter?"
"No, Ruanbao did it himself." Ji Beibei was too excited to explain it clearly for a while. She simply waved her hand and ran back to Ruan Qi, leaving only one sentence for Si Lin, "You'll know soon!"
Si Lin: ...
Si Lin looked at Ji Beibei's lively back, blinked, and turned to look at Shi Su and Xi Jiu.
Shi Su was also confused, and turned to look at Xi Jiu.
Xi Jiu raised his eyebrows, shifted his gaze away from Ruan Qi's face, and looked at the metal rack pushed by the program director, with a hint of understanding in his eyes.
The program crew soon arrived at the paddy field.
The director pushed the 'metal frame' over and said to Si Lin and the others, "Hurry up and get it to the field. Let's see if the rice transplanter made by Teacher Ruan works well."
Except for Xi Jiu, the three male guests including Jiang Hengda all showed surprise on their faces.
This metal rack is actually a rice transplanter?
Or did Ruan Qi do it herself?
Si Lin and Shi Su were genuinely surprised; they hadn't expected Ruan Qi to be able to create something like this. Jiang Hengda was also surprised, but after that, he sneered.
"Seeking attention." He stood in the distance and snorted disdainfully.
The sound was so soft that no one else present heard it except Ruan Qi and Xi Jiu.
Ruan Qi was too lazy to bother with someone like Jiang Hengda and didn't even glance at him.
However, Xi Jiu's dark eyes darkened, and a hint of anger rose in his eyes.
Seeing Xi Jiu was angry, Ruan Qi quickly called out to him, "Jiujiu, come quickly and help me try the rice transplanter."
Xi Jiu paused, the anger in his eyes disappeared in an instant, and when he looked at Ruan Qi, his eyes were filled with tenderness again.
He put down the seedlings, walked to the edge of the field, wiped his hands with a towel, and touched Ruan Qi's head.
"Is this what the baby did?"
"Yes," Ruan Qi raised her head, her eyebrows curved, "This is my first time doing this, I don't know if it works well, Jiujiu, please help me try it."
Xi Jiu curled his lips lovingly: "Okay, baby, it must be useful."
Even if it doesn't work well, he can still praise it to the skies.
Xi Jiu, wearing a filter that was eight hundred meters thick for Ruan Qi, took the rice transplanter from the director.
Ruan Qi briefly explained the working principle of the rice transplanter, and Xi Jiu quickly understood it and neatly stacked several trays of seedlings into the seedling box.
After completing all the preparations, he pushed the rice transplanter into the paddy field.
Push the handrail with your left hand, grab the joystick with your right hand and push it forward——
With a "click" sound, a row of seedlings slid out of the seedling box and were planted in the paddy field in an orderly manner.
Everyone's eyes widened instantly.
"Successful?"
"Is it really inserted? Will it float?"
Si Lin hurried over and pulled the newly planted seedlings upwards.
"It is firmly planted and won't float away!"
This time, everyone was really shocked.
Ruan Qi only used a bunch of broken metal frames and actually made a useful rice transplanter!
The program director knew his romance show was about to hit a climax, and he was so excited that he didn't even care about Xi Jiu's identity. He kept urging him, "Hurry, hurry! Add a few more rows to see the effect!"
Xi Jiu had already started without the director urging him.
He pushed the handrail with one hand and operated the joystick with the other, slowly pushing the rice transplanter forward.
As the rice transplanter moved forward, rows of seedlings were planted in the paddy fields neatly and orderly, like sitting children.
In less than five minutes, Xi Jiu had planted a whole field with the rice transplanter!
Here it comes~ Thick and long~
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