Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 109
This is why it is funny to explain: "With my unremitting efforts, I have perceived some mysterious energy from this world. Although this energy is different from magical energy, I can still drive them in the same way as magical energy."

Xu Yue didn't understand energy, but she was greatly shocked.

Perhaps, this is the effect of the inner strength method taught by Dad?She also often felt a warm current in her body.

Xu Yue shook her head, she didn't understand, and she didn't want to get into endless entanglements to study these different power systems, she wiped off the saliva from her sister's kiss, and continued to fight the wool.

The two sisters picked out the washed wool, discarding the damaged or stuttered wool, and used a comb to fleece the rest, and finally only took the smoothest and softest part.

Xu Erniang recalled the steps of spinning cotton thread by female textile workers. She picked up a handful of wool and kneaded it repeatedly on the desk, and soon a thin thread was produced.

Then keep adding wool, kneading while adding, and a long wool will come out.

It's just that Xu Yue pulled it with her hands and broke it directly. The thread produced by manual strength alone was not tight enough.

"We need tools." Xu Yue said seriously.

Xu Erniang threw down the messy wool thread in her hand, got up and ran out, yelling, "Mother, Mother!"

If you have something to ask your mother, you can always get it resolved.

Wang listened to the two sisters' thoughts, combined with Xu Yue's description of the spinning machine, dug out a broken spinning machine from a pile of collected wood, repaired it, and showed it to the sisters for a try.

This is the oldest hand-operated spinning machine. It is small and round, like a windmill, with a diameter of about [-] centimeters. Women use it to imitate linen and silk. After spinning the linen and silk into threads, they can Put it on the loom to weave cloth.

If a woman is weaving all year round except for sleeping, if the weaving is silk, she can earn about [-] yuan a year.

If it is woven into ordinary cloth, it costs about [-] yuan, which can basically match the output of farming, or even exceed the output of farming.

However, in the taxation, there is also the cloth tax. Each household needs to pay a certain amount of cloth tax every year, which has led to the fact that in Daqing, almost all women in the country will join the weaving work.

During the slack season, women will take out their looms to make the cloth they need for a year, and the rest can be exchanged for money or worn by themselves.

Therefore, the saying of earning [-] yuan or [-] yuan a year only exists in the best ideal state.

Xu Yue and her sister used the spinning machine, and the woolen thread was considered a success, but their hands were sore.

So, after spinning wool for a day, Xu Yue, whose arms were sore, decided to modify this hand spinning machine.

"Aniang, can you make the spinning machine into a pedal type?" Xu Yue asked earnestly, rubbing her sore arm.

Mrs. Wang was working on her bow and crossbow, and happened to be short of some parts, so she led Xu Yue to Wang Dayou's house next door.

The iron stove has been set up, Wang Dayou has just bought some iron, ready to open the stove to pick up the craft.

Seeing Xu Yue's mother and daughter coming over, she curiously asked them what's the matter.

Wang said to Xu Yue: "You can first ask if there is a better spinning machine here."

As an aboriginal and craftsman of the Daqing Kingdom, Wang Dayou must be more aware of the situation here than they are.

Xu Yue didn't think about this, she just subconsciously thought that such light mechanical textile tools would not exist in the backward Daqing.

Unexpectedly, when asked this question, Wang Dayou said that there are also foot-operated spinning machines, not only pedal-operated spinning machines, but also large-scale looms that use water energy to run.

However, these technologies are all monopolized by nobles, he has only heard of them, and has never seen them with his own eyes.

The other common people probably don't even know the existence of these things.

"What's the matter, young lady, are you going to learn weaving?" Wang Dayou glanced at Wang Shi in surprise. He never thought that Wang Shi, who can only wield knives and guns, could sit down and teach his daughter weaving.

Just thinking about that scene, Wang Dayou couldn't help shivering, it's so against harmony!
Xu Yue smiled awkwardly, not wanting to explain this wonderful misunderstanding, but she also took the opportunity to tell her about her desire to step on the spinning machine.

Wang Dayou was very interested, but he had never seen it before, and he was afraid that he would disappoint Xu Yue.

But Wang asked, "You have a brother, don't you want to try?"

Hearing this, Wang Dayou was subconsciously stunned, yes, why didn't he think about it by himself?

Seeing that he was enlightened, Mrs. Wang took out a thin wooden board and handed it to Wang Dayou.

There are two parts drawn on the board, the spring and the gear, and the dimensions are already marked.

But Wang deliberately wrote some material ratios under the parts.

Wang Dayou has been blacksmithing for many years, and has also made more delicate things, but he has never seen such a special object, so he asked in surprise:
"Sister-in-law, what is this?"

Mrs. Wang gave a brief explanation, but did not go into depth. Wang Dayou only knew that it was some delicate parts, but did not know the specific usage.

But the ratio of materials under the planks caught his eye.

"People spend their whole life exploring the unknown. Rather than clinging to the so-called inherited formulas, it is better to create new things and let these things become the inheritance of the future."

Mrs. Wang handed over the planks to Wang Dayou, and asked him to study them carefully, and not just stick to the ingredients and recipes he gave.

"Copper, iron, tin, or other things, the effects of different ratios are also different, but each has its own use, and you may experiment a few times, and you will get surprises that you have never thought of before."

After leaving these words, Mrs. Wang took Xu Yue back, leaving Wang Dayou standing in front of the iron furnace alone, gradually falling into an indescribable state of madness.

Xu Yue looked up at A Niang's straight back, a little dazed.

She knew that A Niang was trying to guide her and make her understand something.

She looked back at Wang Dayou next door who had stood in the yard without moving for a long time, and at the straight back walking in front of her, she understood a little.

Wang turned her head and glanced at her daughter, seeing her thoughtful, said:
"Cultivating people does not necessarily have to be taught by yourself. A person's knowledge is limited, but his creativity is unlimited."

"You have to believe that if you give them a direction, they will be able to bloom flowers and bear unexpected fruits."

"Just like me, can I know everything?" Wang shook her head and said, "No, I have to rely on my soldiers and advisors for many things."

"I don't need to know everything, but as a general, I need to know clearly what this person can do and how to arrange him in a suitable position."

"In the old saying, it is."

"Know people and make good use of them!" Xu Yue hurriedly replied.A pair of big eyes looked at A Niang expectantly, hoping to get her approval.

Wang smiled, rubbed the top of her little daughter's hair, and twisted Xu Erniang's carefully braided hair into a chicken coop before reluctantly giving up.

Xu Yue: So, my mother can't make a pedal spinning machine!

(End of this chapter)