After being bound to the learning system in my mother's womb, I became the empress

Chapter 259 Pedal Threshing Machine
The rice was transported to the cement square, dried and threshed.

This is real hard work, more tiring than harvesting rice.

Cuiniang, who stayed at home, cooked a large pot of mung bean soup, chilled it, and went out to cool down the people who were working.

Lin Xi also followed.

The chirping of cicadas was overwhelming, and waves of heat seemed to be rolling in the air.

Xiao Hei was so hot that he stuck out his tongue, but he still followed Cui Niang and Lin Xi dutifully, like a loyal bodyguard.

Lin Xi fed it a piece of ice.

I was also holding a hand stove, but the thing in the hand stove was not charcoal, but ice cubes.

In the square, everyone was working under the scorching sun. The men were either shirtless or wearing only a sleeveless undershirt.

Women also dress quite coolly.

When it comes to work, who can take care of so much?

Lin Xi saw Lin Chunniang at a glance.

She grabbed a handful of rice and beat it against a stone roller.

Grains of golden grain fell off and splashed to the ground.

There was the sound of threshing in the square.

Lin Xi: "?"

Only then did she realize that the millet was threshed manually instead of using special threshing tools.

How long will it take to finish threshing so much grain?

"Xibao, why are you here on such a hot day? Go back quickly."

Lin Chunniang was so hot that she was sweating profusely. Big beads of sweat kept flowing down her forehead, and her face turned red.

The first time he saw Lin Xi, he walked over quickly and carried her to a thatched shed near the square.

These straw sheds were temporarily built, with some tables, chairs, and tea inside. If the workers were tired and thirsty, they could go in and take a rest.

Lin Xi stuffed a grape ball (an ice ball made of grape juice) into Lin Chunniang's mouth.

Lin Chunniang suddenly felt refreshed, and a sweet and sour taste of grapes melted in her mouth. She squinted her eyes in comfort.

Lin Xi: "Chun Niang, don't you have any threshing tools? For example, rice buckets or something like that."

"Threshing tools? No, I've always threshed grain this way."

Lin Chunniang reacted after speaking and stared at Lin Xi with burning eyes, "Xibao, what is it like to beat a rice bucket?"

Lin Xi gestured, "That is a tool specially used for threshing grains. Using it to thresh grains is much more efficient."

After returning home, Lin Xi drew the rice barrel.

Farm tools were included in the agronomy course. She had learned about them before and thought that such tools already existed in this era.

Who knows not yet.

However, beating the rice bucket also requires manual operation, and the efficiency is only slightly higher than beating it on a stone roller.

There must be more efficient rice threshing tools.

Lin Xi lay down on the bed and entered the system space, focusing on the subject of agriculture.

The subsequent course indeed involved more efficient farm tools, and the teacher showed her a pedal-operated threshing machine.

It can be operated while sitting, and the pedals are continuously stepped on with both feet like a bicycle, driving the chain and providing power to the threshing machine.

The drum in the threshing machine will rotate at high speed, like the drum of a washing machine, using centrifugal force to break away the millet.

At the same time, some small blades can be built into the drum, like the blades in a meat grinder, to make it easier to separate the millet.

After her consciousness exited the space, Lin Xi immediately drew a picture of this pedal threshing machine.

Before the invention of the steam engine, this artificially powered threshing machine was probably the most efficient.

After dinner, Lin Xi gave night classes to the Lin family as usual.

When she was at home, she would give classes to the Lin family in the evening, from 7 to 9 o'clock, for two hours.

There was an agriculture class tonight. Lin Xi took out the blueprint of the threshing machine and explained it to the Lin family.

Lin Chunniang: "Xibao, is this what your parents told you in a dream again? Great, with this pedal threshing machine, we will definitely get the first place in this threshing competition." Lin Xi He glanced at her with a smile, knowing that she was covering for him, "Yes, my parents said they wanted our village to win the competition."

Cui Niang and others had no suspicion at all.

Xibao is so young. If her parents didn't tell her the blueprint in a dream, where did she get it?

It can't be that Xibao came up with it himself, right?

As for why the dead parents frequently entrust Xibao with dreams, it is of course because Xibao is so lovable!
It must be that my parents are alive in heaven. Seeing how cute Xibao is, they can't help but get close to her.

Lin Xi gave the drawing to Sanfu, "Can you make it before the competition?"

Sanfu just listened to her explanation, and he knew every part by heart, and he had already simulated the real thing in his mind.

"can."

There are still three days left before the threshing competition, and the autumn harvest in the village has come to an end.

Village chief Liu Shuigan held a selection competition to select three people to participate in the competition.

After all, only three people from each village can go to this competition.

It was not up to him to decide which three people to go to, otherwise he would not be able to convince the public.

The competition was held on the cement square in the village, and the villagers came here early in the morning.

The atmosphere was noisy, even more lively than the Chinese New Year.

When the Lin family arrived with a cart and unloaded the threshing machine, the villagers gathered around to watch out of curiosity.

"Chun Niang, what is this?

"Why did you bring such a big guy to the competition?"

Chun Niang: "This is a threshing machine, used to thresh grain."

When these words came out, everyone was in an uproar.

"Threshing machine? Where did it come from?"

"This thing looks very expensive at first glance. You spent a lot of money to buy it, right?"

"Hey, there is actually a threshing machine? It took me most of my life to know that there is such a thing."

"How does this thing thresh grain? Chun Niang, please show us how to do it."

"Village chief, the Lin family is cheating! How can they use a threshing machine in the threshing competition?"

"Liu Guihua, why are you everywhere? Please calm down."

"You didn't contribute any money, and you're not even qualified to play. Why do you care what others do?"

Liu Shuigan came over, followed by Hao Po and several other respected old people.

"Chun Niang, this threshing machine..."

Lin Chunniang: "Uncle Shuigen, this threshing machine was invented by Sanfu. You also know that Sanfu has been fond of tinkering with these things since he was a child. A few days ago, he saw that we were working hard on threshing, so he built this without saying a word. thing."

Before coming, the Lin family had already discussed among themselves that Sanfu would be credited with building the threshing machine.

Besides, the threshing machine was originally made by Sanfu.

But he still felt ashamed and felt that he had taken advantage of Xibao. Being praised in public by Sister A, his face was hot and his ears were red and bleeding.

Lin Xi, who was being held by Cuiniang, noticed Sanfu's expression and leaned toward him.

Sanfu hurriedly hugged her over, and the next second, a candy was stuffed into his mouth.

Xibao in his arms smiled at him with his teeth exposed, like a brilliant sunflower.

Sanfu's heart softened, and he lowered his head and rubbed Xibao's hair with his chin.

Lin Chunniang: "We tried it at home. Using a thresher to thresh millet is very fast and effortless at all. Do you want to try it?"

Liu Shuigan nodded hurriedly.

Following Lin Chunniang's instructions, he sat on the cushion and rested his feet on the pedals.

Lin Dayou brought over a bundle of rice, put it into the drum in front of the threshing machine, and then closed the lid to prevent the millet from splashing out.

Lin Chunniang: "You can step on it."

(End of this chapter)