Chapter 140 The Sickly Villain in a Female-dominated World 11
The bamboo forest outside the window rustled in the morning breeze. Lin Qing, wearing a long gown, stood at the desk, drawing something with a pen.
Having experienced so many worlds, this was the first time she had seen such a low-level production method. The weather was already extremely hot these days, and they still had to work hard under the scorching sun. Some villagers even showed symptoms of heat stroke.
In the previous world, after the city was built, the heroine vigorously developed the planting industry and also created a lot of farming tools suitable for the orcs based on their strength.
One of the rice threshers is quite suitable for the current situation, but its partial structure needs to be modified.
After the ink on the drawing dried, she asked Qingshu to call the carpenter from the mansion over, and then she explained in detail the structure of the rice thresher on the drawing to the elderly carpenter.
This machine was built very quickly. Except for the use of levers to drive the reel, which was personally instructed by Lin Qing, the construction and assembly of other parts were completed by the old carpenter and her apprentice.
Due to time and technology constraints, this rice thresher is almost entirely made of wood, and the iron rings originally used to thresh the grains are replaced with smoked bamboo rings.
Knowing that his daughter had been busy with the farm tools recently and had rarely even gone for a walk, the husband rushed over as soon as he received the news that the farm tools were successfully made and that they would be put to the field for testing.
Several temporary workers who were pounding rice grains in the threshing ground stared curiously at the square box in front of them, not understanding why the mistress of the master's house suddenly asked them to stop their work.
Under Lin Qing's instruction, a sunburned day laborer nervously stepped on the wooden pedal under the farm tool. The pedal drove the reel inside to rotate rapidly through the lever. Another day laborer holding the rice stalks immediately stuffed the end full of rice grains into the box. There was a crackling sound, and the rice grains fell into the wooden trough below. The rice grains on the taken out rice stalks had been cleaned out.
The onlookers were stunned with amazement.
The rice was plucked in just the time it took to pee! It didn’t take any effort at all!
Seeing that the experiment was successful, Lin Qing breathed a sigh of relief. Before he could say anything, he was grabbed by Mr. Lin.
"Everyone should go home first. Xiangniang, you take people to move the farm tools back first, and the rest of you can do whatever you need to do." The husband looked around and gave the order.
After returning home, he asked someone to bring a cup of nourishing hot soup to his daughter: "Qing'er, you must have been busy with this recently. Take a rest first."
Lin Qing, who had only drawn the blueprints and relied on the craftsmen to make the machine, drank the medicinal-smelling soup in her hand. Then she looked up at her husband and said, "Father, that was the threshing machine I made. It can save a lot of time and manpower. Father, am I awesome?"
Seeing the happy smile on his daughter's face, Mr. Lin felt a pang in his heart, a mixture of sadness and joy.
"My daughter is smart and kindhearted. She couldn't bear to see the villagers suffer, so she made this farm tool. She is just like you, my father!"
Lin Hanxin heard her husband's words as soon as she entered the lobby: ...
Congying is indeed like my husband, but isn’t she also kind-hearted like me?
She didn't dare to argue and excitedly praised her daughter, then rubbed her hands to show that she wanted to see the power of the new farm tools.
As a native of Shiyuan Village, she understood too well the impact of this farm tool on the village. If this was true, the village would have to build a shrine for Qing'er in the future, and she wouldn't have to worry about having no incense to burn after her daughter's death.
Having once again witnessed the power of this new agricultural tool, the faces of the two masters of the Lin family were filled with joy.
Especially after learning that the cost was not very expensive, Mr. Lin immediately decided to build a few units first. As for his daughter's suggestion to upgrade and renovate them, he let her take the lead. Who knows, she might give him a big surprise someday.
Lin Hanxin was so overjoyed that she immediately decided to write a letter home to inform her sister of the good news.
After getting the thresher, the Lin family's temporary workers were divided into two groups. One group used the thresher during the day, and the other group continued to work in a candlelit room at night. After working day and night for several days, all the Lin family's rice was threshered.
After returning to the village, these temporary workers boasted to the villagers about the usefulness of the thresher.
"You don't know, in the time it takes to pee, a handful of rice can be threshed clean. We don't have to put any effort, just put the rice in and take it out. For example, when I threshed rice at the Lin Mansion at night, the mansion even prepared a meal for me."
"Really? Don't bluff us, Wang. If you say so, you are not suffering as a temporary worker, but enjoying a good life instead?"
"Of course not," the girl said, seeing that everyone didn't believe her, and smoothed her jacket, "Look at my arms, they are a little whiter than yours. If I was in the sun every day, how could I be whiter than the boys?"
The villagers who were listening with great interest all laughed. The young men in the village were indeed tanned because they had to deliver meals to the fields.
"Hearing what you said, I'd like to see if this new farm tool is really that useful." A gray-haired lady couldn't help laughing.
"Madam, you will see it. Do you know who made this farm tool?" The woman smiled, whetting everyone's appetite.
"Mr. Wang, don't keep us in suspense. Come on, we have to go to the fields soon. The weather has been good these few days, so we have to harvest quickly."
The woman who was urged by everyone smiled contentedly: "This is really created by Lin Xiucai, the female ruler of the Lin family!"
"Mr. Lin? What you said is even more misleading. Scholars are all bookish, how can they make farm tools?" Some people didn't believe it.
"Oh, I'll fool you. I can spit on you. I saw Mr. Lin bring the farm tools with my own eyes. I heard that Mr. Lin came up with the idea of making the rice threshing box because he saw how hard we worked. Isn't he a scholar? How could we come up with the idea of making new farm tools?"
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Rumors like this began to spread in several nearby villages.
The villagers of Shiyuan Village have already used rice threshing boxes. There are more than 200 households in the village. Due to the large population, the villagers let the members of the Lin clan use it first, and then the members of other clans will have their turn.
However, because the Chen family was the in-laws of the Lin family, they obtained the priority right of use.
"If we were to say, scholars have very sharp brains. Although Mr. Lin is in poor health, he was able to come up with such a novel thing with just a quick thought. It saves us a lot of effort. Miss Chen, your Xilang will enjoy a good life in the future." The villagers who were queuing to thresh rice could not help but sigh.
In the past, after Lin Hengrong passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, the land of the entire Lin clan was exempted from tax. Only then did they realize the benefits of studying.
Although Ms. Lin is not an official now, she can easily make labor-saving farm tools, which shows that knowing how to read still has its advantages.
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