North and South groceries

This time, Luo Yong drew the drawing of the threshing machine as detailed as possible.

It is very different from the dispensable mentality when he gave Hengyu the bicycle blueprint, and it doesn't matter even if he fails. This time, Luo Yong is determined to get the threshing machine.

After Hengzhi got this blueprint, he went to seclusion alone. He stayed in their yard all day and didn't come out very often. Xu's family knew that he was making something for Luo Yong recently. Seeing that he didn't come to eat, From time to time, the children at home will send some food to them.

Although they are both Luo Yong's disciples, Hengyu's family's financial conditions are much better than other disciples' families, Hengzhi also has money, even if he can afford to live in Xu's guest house.

It's just that after all, he is a child of ordinary parents, and he is used to frugality. When he comes back to Xipo Village, he still lives in the yard that everyone built together, and eats in Xu's guest house, but he doesn't eat extravagantly. .

Hengyu thought that everyone lent him money to start a car dealership, and he never shirked no matter who among his fellow apprentices needed help with something.

Although there is a gap between the rich and the poor, the relationship between everyone is still very good. Many disciples follow Heng Yu and the others as an example, work and study hard, and hope that one day they can be as outstanding as them.

Hengzhi stayed alone in that courtyard for only two days, when Hengyu heard the news, he rushed over and lived here in Xipo Village, thinking about this pedal threshing machine with his son, his family is in the county town Heng Yu's eldest son, Heng Huai, took care of his car-making business.

In fact, no matter where Heng Yuhengzhi and his father and son stayed, their car manufacturing business was basically run by Heng Huai himself. Neither his father nor his younger brother had much interest in doing business.

This time, this foot-operated threshing machine, in the words of Heng and his son, should be a little simpler than Yanerfei. For small parts, it is best to choose iron.

Now their economic conditions are not as good as before. Although the price of iron products is relatively high, neither Heng's father and son nor Luo Yong will be troubled by this little money.

Others are mainly wood and bamboo structures. Luo used the foot-operated threshing machine seen before. The U-shaped teeth on the roller are basically made of iron. According to the opinions of Heng and his son, this part can be completely made of stone. Bamboo instead.

Dianthus grows slowly. When the new bamboo branches are first pulled out, they are as thin as bean sprouts. After five or six years, they may not grow to the thickness of a thumb. The bamboo branches they will use this time are probably chopsticks. Thick and thick, generally have grown for more than three years, relatively strong.

It takes a lot of time and energy to bake these bamboo branches into arcs one by one and then fix them to the wooden boards that make up the drum.

Heng's father and son are very meticulous in their work, and the U-shaped bamboo teeth are arranged so neatly and neatly by them that Luo Yong feels sorry for them.

"The bamboo teeth don't necessarily have to be arranged so neatly, it's enough to make them more or less." Luo used the foot-operated threshing machine he saw in some rural areas before, and the iron teeth on the drum had fallen off a lot. Not used as usual.

"..." Heng's father and son turned their heads to look at him, with expressions like how can you say that.

"It's okay, you take your time, I'll go to the slope to have a look." Well, being rejected, Luo Sanlang rubbed his nose and went to the slope to look at his corn seedlings.

Ashamed to say, although he originally brought these corn seeds back from the 21st century, it was the first time for him to grow corn himself. Luo Yong was a little worried when he was made such a fuss by Wu Yushi a few days ago When I got up, I was afraid that I would plant all these corns to death by accident, and that person surnamed Wu would not be able to exert himself by then.

But fortunately, corn is really easy to grow. So far, these corn seedlings have grown quite well. Of course, this is also because the disciples of Luo Yong and the villagers of Xipo Village often come to water and fertilize them. Relationship, everyone is also very worried, for fear that this careless Luo Sanlang will plant all these corns to death if he is not careful, and it will be good for His Majesty the Emperor to blame him.

"Why are you here?" Luo Yong had just climbed up the hill when he saw that kid Goro pulling weeds in the field. I don't know how many groups of people come to this field every day, and the weeds are all pulled out. Yes, what else did he pull out?

"I'll pull the weeds." Goro put the two small grasses in his hand on the field ridge, knocked them, and threw them aside.

Luo Yong wanted to say that you are too biased. There are so many weeds in the other fields that you can’t pull them out, and you have to follow a few small grasses.

Goro and the others went back to Xiaohe Village for classes recently. They had classes in the morning and came back in the afternoon.

According to those people in Xiaohe Village, they planned to start road construction immediately after the spring sowing. After they built this road, it would be much more convenient for Wulang and others to go to and from school every day. It will also be much more convenient than before.

"Brother, do you think corn tastes delicious?" Different from the awe and love of adults for the sixth valley, Goro obviously cares more about the taste of corn.

"It should be okay." The tender corn cobs are still delicious when boiled, and they are more delicious when roasted with some honey.

"Brother, won't our family grow rice this year?" After asking about the corn, the kid started to care about rice again.

Some time ago, the Ma brothers came to the house to talk to Luo Yong about the Champa rice seeds, and then Luo Yong sold them all the seeds at home. The price was not expensive. Generally speaking, the two Ma brothers took over Cheap.

"Our family has no seeds, so we won't plant them this year. Xu Dalang and the others still have seeds. When they plant them, I will get some back from them," Luo Yong said.

"Shall we come back to make some seeds?" Goro asked.

"Come back and cook some food." Luo Yong said with a smile.

"Oh." Goro is happy now, he will be able to eat rice again this autumn, and he feels like he has something to look forward to in the next half a year.

The two brothers were pulling grass in the corn field for a while, and when they came down the slope together, they passed by Wang Dang's yard, and happened to meet Wang Dang's son, Wang Shao, and his sister sitting in the yard picking beans. Goro stayed there, and Luo returned home alone.

Er Niang and Peng Er, the head of the family, are both busy in the backyard, and the two younger ones are also going to the backyard now, only Si Niang is watching the store in the grocery store and doing quizzes. Wrong, it turned out to be very hard work.

"Brother, just now someone came over from Xu's inn and asked you to go over there." Seeing Luo Yong coming back, Si Niang looked up at her and said in her mouth.

"Understood." It was almost time for dinner, and I don't know what those people called him to do, but there is nothing to do today, so just go there.

At Xu's guest house, the atmosphere was very intense at this time. The reason was that someone upgraded the quill pen. He used a thin piece of bamboo to cut it into a nib and fixed it on the quill pen.

The bamboo nib is much stronger and more durable than the feather nib, especially the dianthus here, which is very hard and quite elastic.

It is said that before the Qin and Han Dynasties, people originally used bamboo sticks to write. They could be used for writing by sharpening the bamboo sticks and engraving ink tanks on them. In recent years, few people have used them anymore.

Nowadays, Luo Sanlang uses feathers to make pens, which reminds some people of this one. This quill also has the beauty of quill pens. The quills of birds can be used as natural ink tubes, and the ability to store ink is stronger than that of bamboo pens. , that is, the tip of the pen is easy to wear and tear, and it will become bald while writing, and it has to be sharpened again before it can be used.

At this time, someone used dianthus to make the nib of the quill pen. For reinforcement, two semicircular bamboo pieces split in half were fixed on the upper part of the nib, and silk thread was wrapped around the outside.

As soon as Luo Yong saw this thing, he remembered the fountain pens of later generations. After removing the cap and unscrewing the upper part of the pen barrel, the fountain pen looks like this.

Luo Yong tried this semi-finished fountain pen, and it is indeed relatively easy to use. The bamboo nib feels rounder and smoother than the feather nib on the paper, and it is not easy to scratch the paper and make the font appear rough.

This pen is about the thickness of a little finger, and it is much more comfortable to hold in the hand than a thin feather. People like Luo who are used to ballpoint pens in the 21st century like this size very much. pen holder.

The fly in the ointment is that the ink storage capacity of the quill is still a bit poor, and the bamboo nib is still subject to wear and tear, so it still needs to be dipped in ink constantly during use, and the nib needs to be sharpened every once in a while.

In fact, there is probably only one flaw in the fly in the ointment, Luo Yong. Everyone else thinks that this pen is quite good. It is convenient for them to do math problems, draw drafts vertically, and write quickly and steadily.

After dinner that night, everyone gathered in Xu's guest house to chop bamboo to make pen tips, and Luo Yong was there.

Qiao Junlin went to the workshop to teach everyone how to read, and it will take a while to come back. Luo Yong plans to help him make a few.

There are a lot of bamboo branches piled up in the living room of Xu's guest house, free of charge for free use, these are brought over from Hengyu and his son by Xu's brothers, they are left over scraps from the past few days, and they are kept for fire, Why don't you take it here and give these lords a pick, and then sharpen some pens to make the best use of them.

As for the feathers, everyone has stocks in hand, and Luo Yong also bought a few a few days ago, and now he has brought them over, intending to process them all.

In the past few days, the nearby villagers heard that they wanted the big feathers from the goose wings. Some villagers tried to sell the feathers here, but unexpectedly they got a good price.

The gentlemen of Xu's guest house are all rich, so they will not be stingy with the villagers who come here to sell feathers. Generally, one of the better goose feathers can be sold for a penny, and the worse ones can be sold for two or three feathers. At the same time, it can also be sold for a penny.

Each goose can be sold for a few pennies just by selling those big feathers, which is like pie in the sky to those villagers, so recently more people are hatching goose seedlings and raising geese. .

Luo Yong wondered if he could start buying goose down.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there were quite a few people who raised geese at this time. Ducks were rare here. Goose down and feathers used to be used by poor people to keep out the cold in winter. , It is not very good to use it, most of the wealthy people don't use it, they use more cotton, that is, silk.

If you want to develop goose down products, you must first solve the problem of fleece. In this era, this problem is really not easy to solve.