After a few meetings, Lin Lan could rest for a few days, and Han Qingsong did not go to the meetings, and began to work on the autumn harvest at home. At this time, the production team was busy breaking corn and digging corn stalks, and it was still very busy overall.

That day, Lin Lan brought Mai Sui home to cook lunch. Sanwang and Xiaowang brought back some unripe young corns from the fields. These were distributed by the production team on the fields and asked each family to take them back and cook them.

Yanyan ran over and said, "Teacher Lin, the team wants us girls to pick beans, and we will also be given work points."

Lin Lan let them go, "My dear girls, you can have lunch at home, I will go and deliver the food."

Mai Sui and Yan Yan went to the yard. San Wang pulled Xiao Wang along as well, "Let's go pick beans too."

Now the yard is full of all kinds of grains, some are drying and waiting to be threshed, some are being threshed. They are threshing soybeans now, but using a flail is too tiring, so they use donkeys to pull the rollers to thresh the soybeans in circles.

The donkey put on a blindfold and wheeled around on a roller, causing the sun-dried bean pods to crackle open. The members of the cooperative used wooden forks to separate the bean stalks and used winnowing scoops to scoop the soybeans underneath into sacks.

The public grain quota for soybeans was not small, so a lot of them were planted.

The requirements for handing in the public grain were very strict. The moisture content had to be removed, and the lumps had to be removed. If the soybeans were not dried or had lumps, the grade would be low, and the price for the soybeans would also be low, and no part of the price would be included. So the brigade gathered a group of old people and children to pick out the lumps. Although you can use a winnowing basket to shake the soybeans, the soybeans are too big and too heavy to be handled, and you may not be able to pick them up quickly. But picking beans is also tiring. It is really unbearable to keep your head down and pick them up all day.

Sanwang and Xiaowang picked for a while and then ran away. They thought it would be more appropriate to cut grass, break corn cobs and pick cotton. Picking beans was too troublesome.

Mai Sui couldn't stand it either, "Yan Yan, let's go pick the corn. Picking beans makes me dizzy and I can't even count them."

Yanyan laughed, "Me too, seeing you two are wandering around. What should I do? There are still so many."

It just so happened that Erwang and Shen Yu were returning with a truck carrying corn.

Erwang saw Mai Sui's face turn pale and her eyes dim, and thought she was sick, "What's wrong?"

Yanyan smiled and said, "We are tired from picking beans."

Erwang ran to discuss with Shen Yu who was unloading the truck: "Brother Shen Yu, my sisters are so tired from picking beans that they are dizzy. Let's think of a way to make it easier for them."

Shen Yu didn't know much about farm tools, but he still went to take a look with Erwang.

At this time, Yanyan accidentally spilled a basket of soybeans on the ground. The round beans flew everywhere, and she was so embarrassed that she quickly took a broom to sweep it up.

Erwang looked at the full soybeans rolling everywhere, but the stupid ones remained where they were. He suddenly had an idea: "What if we make something to roll out the full ones and leave the stupid ones behind..." He pointed to the ground for everyone to see, and sure enough, the full soybeans rolled away, but the stupid ones didn't move.

Shen Yu also had an idea, "Let's make a simple little tool to make the full soybeans roll down, and the nuts stay on top." He gestured, and Erwang and Mai Sui understood immediately.

Yanyan was also very interested. After brainstorming, several people came up with various methods quickly. After screening, they determined the most convenient one and went to ask the production team leader in charge of this area for suggestions.

When the production team leader saw that it was Erwang, the secretary's favorite, he naturally did not refuse and just let them do what they wanted.

Soon, they made a prototype, but the soybeans were still squeezed together and did not roll.

Mai Sui: "Let the cloth move at an angle, like a bicycle, and it will move the soybeans down."

Shen Yu smiled and said, "Yes, we just need to make a handle or a foot pedal to keep the belt turning."

There was a carpenter in the village. All they had to do was ask him and he would find a ready-made small wooden gear and put it on them. After a few clacking sounds, they would start picking the soybeans.

One end is high and the other end is low. Pour the soybeans gently on the high end, turn the shaking cloth belt to start conveying them, and the full soybeans roll down and fall into the big basket, while the empty ones stay there and fall into the bag on the other end with a simple pull.

Repeat this process.

"Wow, it worked!" Everyone was very happy.

Shen Yu and Er Wang clapped their hands and said, "Good cooperation."

Erwang was also very happy. This was how they used knowledge to solve problems in production and life. This showed that knowledge was really useful. "If it weren't for Brother Shen Yu's knowledge, we wouldn't have thought of this."

Shen Yu smiled and said, "Don't be so modest, this is the idea you came up with."

Yanyan looked at them enviously.

They are all educated people. Shen Yu has already graduated from high school, which is a very impressive level at that time. In the words of the old people, it is like a scholar holding a banner. After all, most people don't go to school, or at most go to elementary school for two or three years, and not many can go to junior high school. Erwang and Mai Sui can also continue their studies. As long as they want to go, Captain Lin will provide them. They are really happy.

Mai Sui met Yan Yan's envious and somewhat sad eyes and encouraged her: "As long as you want to learn, you can ask us anytime. You don't have to study in school."

Yanyan smiled at her gratefully, "Thank you."

Mai Sui pointed at Shen Yu and said, "You can ask Brother Shen Yu for advice."

Shen Yu smiled and said, "Of course you can. Mai Sui is right, learning is not limited to school. Chairman M said that you should keep learning until you die. Captain Lin is a self-taught person, and you can do it too."

Yanyan smiled happily, her eyes full of hope.

Because Erwang, Shen Yu and a few others made a simple little device to solve the trouble of picking soybeans, the brigade cadres were surprised and happy and came to visit one after another.

Han Yongfang smiled so happily, which was a rare occasion. "This year when we go to hand in the soybeans, we will definitely get first place. Good job, kids." Before, many people had to be arranged to pick beans day and night, but now it's easy. Two or three kids can do it, saving effort and time.

"For you..." Han Yongfang looked at them and said to the captain, "Do we have this charter? What kind of reward should we give?"

The team leader was unusually generous and said, "I think I can give them a reward of 100 work points and let them share it among themselves." With this tool, they could get the job done once and for all, without any more trouble in the future.

There are also work points rewards. The children are very happy.

In the end, Shen Yu and Er Wang were each rewarded 30 points, and Mai Sui and Yan Yan were each rewarded 20 points.

The two girls were very happy, "We have it too? Haha."

Erwang: "Should we give it to the carpenter?"

The captain said, "There's no need for the carpenter. He should be doing this."

The children felt relieved. Mai Sui and Er Wang hurried home to tell Lin Lan the good news. They had earned 50 work points at once.

After listening to what they said, Lin Lan also felt honored.

"It's all thanks to Brother Shen Yu who is so awesome. He finds a way as soon as my second brother tells him to." Mai Sui smiled.

Lin Lan glanced at her and said, "Shen Zhiqing is amazing, and you are great too. You will be even better in the future." Her praise also made Mai Sui and Erwang very happy.

Lin Lan: "It's almost two o'clock, and you two haven't eaten yet. Hurry up." She went to the field after delivering the food and checked. Knowing that the children were busy, she did not disturb them. She just heated the food in the pot and let them eat it now.

Mai Sui: "Yan Yan and Shen Yu haven't eaten yet, I'll go and ask them to eat together."

Lin Lan: "...Okay."

After a while, Shen Yu and Yan Yan followed Mai Sui over. Lin Lan had already packed up and asked them to have dinner together.

Shen Yu brought a vase of flowers. The vase was an ordinary canning jar, which contained chrysanthemums, red polygonum, a few roses and unknown herbs. They were bright in color and fragrant.

"Captain Lin likes to arrange flowers, so I give this to you." He looked at the seasonal flowers and plants planted on the wall and in front of Lin Lan's house, and the flowers in cans and earthenware jars on the north window sill of the main hall, thinking that she must like flowers. It happened that he had arranged a vase of flowers yesterday and brought it over. Although it was not popular to arrange flowers at that time, the wild flowers in the countryside were socialist grass, so there was no problem.

Lin Lan took it and said, "It's really beautiful. Thank you, Shen Zhiqing."

Mai Sui smiled and said, "Brother Shen Yu, you like to pick wild flowers. I thought only girls like to pick wild flowers."

There was no special meaning of wild flowers at this time, Shen Yu naturally didn't know, and he didn't feel embarrassed. He smiled and said, "Xu Dongxing has been unhappy recently. When I accompanied him to relax, I saw the beautiful flowers on the slope over there, and I couldn't help but pick two."

Lin Lan took out the flowers and put them in her own vase, and asked Shen Yu to take the vase back. At this time, the glass bottle was also a good thing.

After dinner, everyone went back to work. Mai Sui and Er Wang also went to the fields to look for Han Qingsong and the others.

In the evening, Han Qingsong and the children came back from work to have dinner. Xiaowang took out a straw hat made of daisy flowers and various wild flowers, and tiptoed to put it on Lin Lan: "Mom, this is the flower hat my dad gave you."

Lin Lan quickly squatted down and let Xiaowang put it on. Xiaowang: "Mom, you look so pretty in it." She looked at Han Qingsong, and he nodded, "Pretty."

Lin Lan started laughing.

Sanwang: "I will pick flowers and put them in the box every day."

Lin Lan wore it for a while, then took it off and hung it on the door frame as a decoration. It looked pretty nice.

With the help of the soybean picking device, not only did their team find it easier to pick soybeans, but neighboring teams also came to learn from them. This year, the soybeans delivered by their teams were all of excellent quality, and they not only received praise from the commune, but also made a lot more money from selling them. At the same time, the team also received 500 kilograms of fertilizer coupons.

When other educated youth heard that Shen Yu and Erwang had been rewarded for improving production tools, they also started to think and offer suggestions, improve existing agricultural tools or develop new agricultural tools, setting off a wave of enthusiasm. Although few of them succeeded and played a greater role, they had a more harmonious relationship with the brigade cadres and members.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is here again.

Since this day was not needed for the autumn harvest, the production team gave the children a day off to let them rest.

Lin Lan cleaned up the house and went to the supply and marketing cooperative to spend the meat coupons, sugar coupons and non-staple food coupons she had accumulated. She first went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy sugar, moon cakes and glutinous rice noodles, and then went to the slaughter group to buy a pound of pork belly, a piece of pig liver, a piece of pig skin and a pig tail. She planned to make dumplings, so she had to ask her eldest brother to help her roll out the dumpling skin and learn how to make dumplings. In addition, she could stir-fry onions and pig liver to supplement the iron for the children, and she could also stew potatoes and radishes with pig tails and pig skin.

Lin Lan returned home and found Sanwang and Xiaowang standing under a pomegranate tree, looking up and counting the pomegranates on the tree.

"Brother Xiaowang, I counted six, why did you say five?"

"Little Third Brother, there are five. One just fell off."

"Ah - how sad."

Lin Lan smiled.

At this time of the year, the weather was clear and the sky was deep and blue. Jujubes, persimmons, pomegranates and other fruits looked particularly beautiful hanging under the blue sky. The fruit trees her family had planted were only bearing fruits of jujubes now. Pomegranates had bright red flowers in the summer and produced more than a dozen pomegranates in the fall, but they fell off every day and it seemed that not a single one could be kept.

This made Sanwang very sad, and he acted as if these were all his children.

Sanwang was very sad, "Maybe we have watched it too many times and forgotten it? Oh."

Xiao Wang also looked up and said, "Maybe your wife is really a little shy."

Sanwang: "...I'm so handsome, it's normal for it to be shy."

Lin Lan: “…………” Can anyone tell me if there is any interracial sadomasochistic love story that I don’t know about?

Seeing Lin Lan coming back, Xiao Wang ran over and took her hand, saying softly, "Mom, Xiao San Ge is heartbroken because of a breakup."

Lin Lan: “!!”

Sanwang heard this, turned around and smiled bitterly at Lin Lan, pretending to wipe his tears, "Mom, I'm heartbroken."

I don't know what's wrong with Xu Dongxing recently. He often mentions the word "melancholy". Zhao Mingjie said that he must have been heartbroken. Maybe his secret lover who didn't go to the countryside with him broke up with him, or maybe he liked someone but was rejected. Anyway, he looked like he was heartbroken. Of course, Zhao Mingjie was also confused. He didn't know where he learned the word from, but he told it to Sanwang because he thought it was new.

Sanwang didn't know what it was like to be heartbroken, but he learned how to feel melancholy.

Lin Lan smiled and pushed him, "Don't flatter yourself. How can you be heartbroken when you're not in love?"

Xiaowang: "Mom, what is love?"

Lin Lan also popularized the concept to children during the promotion. She was not afraid of their questions and let them know what they should know. "Love is when young men and women who have grown up like each other want to get married and become a family."

Xiaowang: "Just like mom and dad."

Lin Lan nodded, "...about the same."

Sanwang snorted and said, "It's just a blind date to find a partner. The way city people talk is really interesting." He was talking about love and heartbreak.

Lin Lan smiled and poked him with a finger, "Are you still heartbroken? Don't tell anyone about it outside, it's embarrassing."

Sanwang pointed at the fallen pomegranates and said sadly, "Hey, this is not called a broken heart, my pomegranate doll is gone."

Xiao Wang smiled and said, "Mom, my third brother wanted to eat pomegranates. He dreamed that a pomegranate tree would become his wife and give him a pomegranate doll to eat. Hahaha."

Lin Lan: “………………”

Author's words: Sanwang: I have many wives, pomegranate trees, apricot trees, peach trees, but not jujube trees. Jujube flowers are not pretty, I don't like them. Of course, I am not a superficial person, roses are pretty, but they are not, because they don't bear fruit. I am a person who pays attention to the unity of the outside and the inside.

Lin Lan: It's over. My son may not be able to find a wife. I was worried about my eldest son, but now it seems that my third son is destined to be alone. My son, I would rather you fall in love early. Anyway, you can get married at 17 or 18 now!