coobybook Chapter 351 Pedal Thresher
Chapter 351 Pedal Thresher
After dinner, Shen Wanning quietly called Lin He and said, "Xiao He, since I've handed over the business to you, just go ahead and do it. If you need money in the future, tell your aunt. If your aunt thinks it's okay, I promise to fully support you!"
"Thank you, auntie! I know!" Lin He said this very happily, like a child recognized by an adult.
The next morning, before the sun rose high, she went to the fields to check on the hybrid rice plants.
"Chen Zihao, why are you here?" As soon as I walked to the edge of the field, I saw Chen Zihao and another villager sitting and chatting by the field.
Chen Zihao stood up and exclaimed in surprise, "Miss Shen, why are you here?"
"I was just asking you! Why are you two here?"
Chen Zihao touched the back of his head sheepishly. "The rice in Miss Shen's field is growing too well. We've noticed some people from other villages wandering around here in recent days. We're worried they might harm the fields, so we've been working in pairs, guarding them day and night. The rice is about to mature, so we absolutely cannot afford any accidents."
"People from other villages? People from the other three villages? Why are they hanging around in our village's fields?" Shen Wanning frowned, puzzled.
Chen Zihao shook his head. "We don't know him either, but since he's someone we don't know, I think we should be more careful."
"I think the rice is almost ready. Since someone is coveting it, it's better to harvest it earlier. Go and call a few people to help harvest the rice!" Shen Wanning said.
Seeing that the rice had already turned yellow and was almost ready for harvest, if it was really burned down as Chen Zihao and the others said, she would have no place to cry.
"Okay, Xiaosan, go call Xiaosi, Xiaowu, Xiaosi, Xiaoliu, Xiaoqi and Xiaoba to come over to help harvest the rice." Chen Zihao said to the man next to him.
"Thank you for your hard work. How long have you been guarding here?" As soon as Xiao San left, Shen Wanning continued chatting with Chen Zihao.
"Not long, just these few days, probably seven or eight days." Chen Zihao replied.
"Why didn't you tell my brother or me about this? At least we can think of a solution."
"Ms. Shen has been in Fuzhou for some time, and I thought Uncle Lin was quite busy, so we tried our best to help with these things if we could, so we didn't tell Uncle Lin." Chen Zihao explained.
Shen Wanning couldn't help but feel a little moved. She had her own selfish motives when she rescued these refugees. She didn't expect that Chen Zihao would protect their Lin family so much.
"After the rice is harvested, go back and have a good rest! You've all been tired these days."
"Hey, okay, okay."
"I heard from my mother that you are engaged to Miss Yan?" Shen Wanning asked casually when she remembered this.
When Chen Zihao gets married, she will definitely give him a generous gift.
"Hehe, yes, her mother finally agreed to marry her to me. Our wedding date is set for the first month of the lunar year. Her mother said she wanted to keep her at home for the last New Year." Chen Zihao looked very happy when talking about Miss Yan.
"That's great. Our whole family will go to the wedding for a drink. After the wedding, Daqing will be completely settled. You and your wife can live a good life in the future." Since Chen Zihao had no elders, Shen Wanning said a few words sincerely.
"I know, I will definitely treat her well." Chen Zihao replied.
As they were talking, Xiao San came over with several other brothers, holding sickles.
"Ms. Shen, leave this to us brothers. You should go home and rest first. The sun is getting higher and higher, so don't get sunburned." Chen Zihao took the sickle from Xiao San's hand and said.
Shen Wanning nodded, "Okay, thank you for your hard work."
"Well, don't worry, we will send the rice to your home after the harvest." Chen Zihao said as he worked.
Not long after Shen Wanning returned home, they brought the harvested rice over.
There wasn't much rice in the field to begin with, and since there were so many of them, they finished harvesting it very quickly.
After lunch, Lin Jiang didn't have to go to school anymore and was trying other wooden products in the yard.
Shen Wanning waved at him and said, "Xiao Jiang, I've collected the rice. Go and try your pedal thresher."
"What if it doesn't work?" Lin Jiang knew that Shen Wanning had spent a lot of effort to grow these rice, so he was a little hesitant to start, worried that it would cause damage to the rice.
"It doesn't matter. Even if it doesn't work, at worst we can just pick the rice grains one by one." Shen Wanning deliberately smiled and joked.
"Okay, then I'll start." Lin Jiang grabbed a handful of rice and put it into the thresher. At the same time, he kept stepping on the pedal with his feet to drive the roller inside to rotate.
As the roller rotates, the iron ring above knocks the grains down and drops them to the bottom.
Lin Jiang stepped on the rice and turned the rice in his hand, and the rice slowly fell down.
Aunt Zhang and the others gathered around and watched Lin Jiang use the thresher to thresh the rice.
"Wow, it really works! It looks very simple and much less tiring than doing it with our hands." Aunt Zhang exclaimed.
They usually use wooden boards to make a large container, and then put an iron frame inside the container. When threshing rice, they take a handful of rice and throw it against the iron frame to knock all the grains off.
But this requires a lot of energy, and often at the end of the day, everyone's arms are sore and painful, and very tired.
After Lin Jiang finished threshing the first handful of rice, he took out the rice stalks and looked at them. There were only a few rice grains on them, and most of the rice grains had been threshed by the thresher.
"Wow, this thing is used to thresh rice, and it threshes it so cleanly! It's really a good thing!" Aunt Zhang exclaimed.
Lin Jingce was more interested in this thing. He was eager to try it. He wiped his palms and said a little nervously, "Can I try it?"
Shen Wanning nodded, "Of course, big brother, try it."
Lin Jingce grabbed a handful of rice from the ground and threshed it with a thresher according to Lin Jiang's instructions.
"It really works! This thing can really thresh the grains!" Lin Jingce exclaimed.
The happiest person was Lin Jiang, "Aunt, can this be reported to the court?"
"Of course you can. I'll go to the county town and tell Lord He in a few days. Lord He has to come and take a look at this thing." Shen Wanning said.
It just so happens that everyone’s rice will be harvested in a few days, and then we can use this thresher to thresh the rice.
"Okay." Lin Jiang replied obediently.
At this moment, Lin He suddenly squeezed in from behind and said, "I have an idea."