Chapter 66 Clean and Effortless
After checking it carefully, Chen Xu held the handle of the shaking handle with his right hand, then took a deep breath and pressed it down. The hand was very heavy, but as the handle turned, the main shaft covered with bamboo nails in the hopper turned.
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"Mom~Mom~, come and see, brother is so amazing, the wheels with bamboo teeth are starting to rotate!" Xing'er also clapped her hands and jumped excitedly.
As he turned, Chen Xu's face slowly showed a relieved smile.
As the strength in his hand gradually increased, the spindle rotated faster and faster. With the whimpering sound, the bamboo nails on the spindle were completely invisible, and only a ball of green and yellow light and shadow were seen.
"Brother Xu, can you let me try it!" Niu Dashi stood beside him and was eager to try it.
"Don't turn too fast, the wooden frame is shaking slightly, and it needs to be reinforced!" Chen Xu controlled the strength of his hand and stopped slowly. Niu Dashi hurriedly rushed up to grab the handle, as if he was shaking his hand and holding the tractor.
"I want to turn, I want to turn too!" Xing'er also shouted anxiously from the side.
"Okay, be careful, it's very heavy!" Niu Dashi stopped quickly, and gave Xing'er a smile with his eyebrows and eyes.
Xing'er tiptoed, her little face turned red and she finally turned the shaking handle. However, after turning a few turns, it became easier as the spindle rotated faster and became more and more relaxed, and she suddenly burst into excitement.
Seeing the two of them shaking their handles, Chen Xu couldn't help but remember the situation when he was shaking the windmill when he was a child. He seemed to be so excited. Unfortunately, he had spanned two thousand years of time and space and could never go back.
The next morning, just after breakfast, Uncle Ma came to greet the four villagers with vine baskets, and then prepared to go to the mountain to help pick tea.
"Hey, Xiaoxu, what kind of thing are you doing?"
A group of people saw a strange-style wooden box placed under the pergola. Chen Xu was still installing the sawed wooden boards on it, and they all surrounded him in surprise.
"This is a threshing machine!" Xing'er immediately showed off and shouted loudly.
"What does the thresher do?" Uncle Ma asked everyone's questions.
"For harvesting wheat, put the wheat in and it will be the wheat grains. You don't have to pick up the ears back and dry them!" Xing'er had heard Chen Xu say it roughly last night, so she remembered it very clearly.
"What!? Really fake?" Uncle Ma and several villagers were shocked and looked at this strange thing in surprise.
"Uncle, this is something I had a sudden idea yesterday. I haven't tried it yet. I waited a few days later, and I put the wheat in the field and tried it to find out the effect!" Chen Xu explained with a smile.
"What are you waiting for? The weather has been very clear this year. I went to the field yesterday. There is no problem with harvesting wheat. Now I will try it!" An anxious villager said excitedly.
"What's the matter with it? Dagen and Simao quickly cut two bundles into the field and came back!" Uncle Ma said with a wave of his hand.
"Yes, cut some and try the effect first!" Another villager also nodded quickly.
Then Dagen and Simao dropped the vine basket in their hands, carrying a knife and turned around and ran to the river beach.
Chen Xu also quickly put the last two wooden boards on the top of the threshing machine and completely covered the entire hopper.
The wooden boards on the top are all movable. They are covered when used and opened when not in use, which is convenient for cleaning the hopper. Once the shaft is worn or damaged, it is also convenient for repair.
"Here's here~"
In less than twenty minutes, Dagen and Simao each carried a large bundle of wheat and rushed over and threw it in the pergola. They touched the sweat on their foreheads and urged, "Take it off and show us!"
"Dashi, shake the handle!" Chen Xu was excited and nervous and placed a wooden board flat at the entrance of the threshing machine, using it as a feeding platform, and then took a rattan basket under the discharge port on the side and then continued.
"Hey!" Niu Dashi agreed, holding the shaking handle excitedly and nervously began to rotate. Seeing the main shaft in the hopper turning faster and faster, Chen Xu picked up a bunch of wheat and slowly reached into the mouth. With a slap, a clear sound rang out. Xing'er, who was standing next to the outlet, shouted in surprise, "Ah, the wheat comes out, the wheat comes out!"
"It really... it really took off!" Uncle Ma and his friends squeezed to the outlet and saw that there were indeed sparse wheat grains popping out from the outlet and falling into the vine basket.
Chen Xu flipped his hand a few times, and watched all the wheat ears being hit by the bamboo nails on the spindle and took out the straw and looked at it. He found that almost all the wheat grains on the ears had disappeared.
"Uncle Ma, see what the effect is!" Chen Xu handed a handful of wheat straw in his hand to Uncle Ma.
"Okay...good...it's cleaner than taking off after drying!" Uncle Ma looked at the handful of wheat straw in his hand and was trembling all over his body.
"That's good. I'll see the effect when I take off all these two bundles!"
Chen Xu also breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he could ensure that the threshing was clean, the most feared thing was that he had to clean the wheat ears. It would be better to just use the old method.
So Niu Dashi shook his handle and Chen Xu kept feeding the wheat bundles to the feed port. The number changed from small to large, and the speed changed from slow to fast. Although Chen Xu had been controlling the speed to see the effect of threshing, the two large bundles of wheat were still removed after a few minutes, turning into two neat bundles of wheat hay next to it. The stripped wheat also flowed out from the slightly tilted outlet and fell into the vine basket. At this time, a small half of the frame had been piled up.
There are also some broken wheat ear heads, wheat straw and leaves inside, but most of them are very clean wheat grains. You only need to deal with them with your hands to reach the level of sifting them in a vine basket twice or three times after drying.
"It's so amazing. With this threshing machine, it's probably almost done in the family to harvest it in just three or five days, and it's clean and labor-saving!" A villager squatted in front of a vine basket, marveling at a handful of wheat grains.
"Xiao Xu, is this thing easy to make?" After a brief loss of consciousness, Uncle Ma grabbed Chen Xu's arm and asked excitedly.
"It's not difficult. If you have enough manpower and prepare all the wood, you will have no problem making two or three a day!" Chen Xu nodded and said.
The first sample was just a first design according to the copy and the workmanship was simply a mess, but unexpectedly the effect was far beyond his expectations. The wheat grains were removed very cleanly. As long as someone helped him, he only needed to design and then make them according to the rules. It should be said that it would be no problem for each store to get one in a few days.
There is no need to think too much about the strength level for the time being. You only need to be able to last for three or five days to harvest the wheat. Now the work is made of newly cut trees. It has not been dried yet. It will definitely deform or even crack after being left for a long time. But it can be done again next year, not to mention that no one can tell what changes will happen next year.
"Dagen goes to inform others and ask them to put down their work and bring the guys to help quickly, and ask Xiaoxu to make a few more threshers!"
"Simao and Erzhuang, you guys will take a group of kids to the mountain to pick tea, pay attention to safety, and say hello if there is any situation."
"When the person arrives later, Xiaoxu will arrange what needs to be done directly, let's prepare quickly..."
After Uncle Ma's series of instructions, the group of people scattered.
Chen Xu may have just wanted to reduce the labor burden and did not know the importance of this threshing machine, but as the oldest farmer in the village, Uncle Ma considered more. With this threshing machine, even if it was windy and rainy, he could seize time to harvest wheat, and would not watch the wheat ears that were collected were dried on the ground and were completely soaked into mud by a heavy rain.
Chapter completed!