Early spring in the world [farming]

It was still early after returning from Tan's house, so Su Bei Gu and Tan Ruyi stopped by to see the situation in the field.

At this time, many farmers in the field are harvesting late rice in full swing. There are at least three people working in a field, one bends down to cut the rice, and the other behind gathers the harvested rice into a bunch and binds it with dry straw. The remaining person picks the bundled rice to the edge of the field for initial threshing.

The specific threshing method is to spread the rice on the hard ground and hit the rice with a twig to make the grain fall off from the straw.

The rice harvesters and rice harvesters usually complete the threshing first and then come to help threshing. After all the rice has been threshed, they put the grains in sacks and transport them back to the drying field to dry. After the rice is dry, they do the second Threshing.

Harvesting rice also pays attention to the right time, place and people: if the rice is harvested early, the grains will not grow well; if the harvest is late, some grains will rot in the field.When harvesting, it must be sunny and rainy, which is inconvenient for threshing, and these grains will also be soaked.There are fewer people working, and if you want to harvest more than ten acres of late rice in half a month, you have to work from dawn to dark, so almost the whole family of Chen Ahu's family, men, women and children, have to help mow it down. Hug the straw to the edge of the field.

The straw has grass clippings and bugs, and after a long time of contact, the itching all over the body is unbearable. Chen Ahu, these rough guys who are used to farm work, don't think it's a problem, but the children in their family scratch their necks, arms, and chests. All eyes are red marks.

Seeing this, Su Beigu turned around and went to the grass to find several kinds of herbs, put them in a stone trough and smashed them to pieces.

"What is this?" Tan Ruyi asked.

"It relieves itching, and it also has the effect of repelling insects."

Those herbs were smashed into mud, and Su Beigu squeezed them into balls and sent them to the Chen family's children, saying, "Wipe it on your body and it won't itch."

Seeing her coming, Mrs. Chen took the opportunity to stop and rest for a while: "Daozhang Su, I wonder if it will rain these few days?"

Su Beigu doesn't know how to observe the weather, but she can perceive the wind direction and air humidity in this area through the surrounding aura, and observe the changes in clouds and fog, and comprehensively know: "The next two days will probably be sunny."

Chen's wife was a little happy. If it was sunny, their family would be able to harvest all the rice within a few days.

Su Bei looked at Chen's father, who was several dozen years old, and had to shake the scorpion to thresh the grains. It was very hard work. She said to Tan Ruyi, "Let's go back to Tan's house."

"Huh?" Tan Ruyi was puzzled, but followed her back to Tan's house in a hurry.

Tan Guan was happy today and drank a few more glasses of wine. Now he was sitting drunk in the workshop and was about to install the cotton gin. Zhong Sheng was helping him and corrected his mistakes several times.

Seeing the returning daughter and Su Beigu, Tan Guan sobered up a bit, and said, "There is still some meat in the kitchen, you can take it home and eat it!"

Tan Ruyi couldn't laugh or cry: "Father, we didn't come back to get meat."

Tan Guan asked again: "Is there something wrong?"

Su Bei Gu nodded: "Uncle Tan, do you want to use a cotton gin to make two sums of money?"

"Huh? How does one cotton gin make two bucks?"

Su Beigu picked up the barbed roller that was responsible for sticking the cotton in the cotton gin, and said: "If you change this roller, you can remove many parts inside, as long as you ensure that the roller can rotate quickly, it will It will be a threshing machine that can thresh quickly."

Tan Guan hiccupped, followed Su Beigu's words in his mind and followed her meaning, and immediately sobered up.

Tan Ruyi praised sincerely: "Bei Gu, you have so many wonderful tricks!"

"Change it immediately, fast!" Tan Guan excitedly urged Zhong Sheng to go to work.

According to the idea provided by Su Beigu, Tan Guan refitted the roller in half a day, and then installed the roller with the same idea. In this way, as long as the handle is turned slightly, the roller will move faster. The speed turns up.

However, Tan Guan felt that it was inconvenient to turn the handle by hand, and Zhong Sheng also said cautiously: "If you can change the handle from the handle to the one you step on, can one person be able to thresh the grain?"

Tan Guan felt that Zhong Sheng's mind was still very flexible occasionally, and said with a smile, "You're right!"

So he also changed the parts of the hand crank, so that the drum can also be turned in the form of a pedal.

After he finished, he couldn't wait to grab a handful of rice and come back to try it. Under the high-speed rotation of the drum and the action of the iron teeth, the rice was torn off by the iron teeth.Although it is impossible to make every grain of rice fall off, it is much more efficient than the method of beating with scorpions!

"This Daoist Su... is amazing!" Tan Guan sighed.

He took the threshing machine to go to Su Bei Gu on business, and Su Bei Gu bought the threshing machine from him for five guan. Provided him with ideas, and he only charged a little less.

Su Beigu asked Chen Ahu to carry the threshing machine over to use. Now let alone old people, even women and children can start threshing.Because he was afraid that the drum would turn too fast and be easily injured, Su Beigu strictly forbade children from getting close to it, and even adults had to keep their fingers away from the drum when using the threshing machine.

With the threshing machine, it took Chen Ahu's family only nine days to harvest the ten acres of rice that would have taken half a month.

A group of villagers surrounded Chen Ahu when he was threshing grain. After hearing that the threshing machine was built by Tan Guan, the villagers were not surprised. Probably because there was a cotton gin in front of him, they were already used to it. The agricultural machinery that was smashed out.

The de-grained rice only needs a few steps of drying, pounding, and rice milling before it can be eaten. Su Beigu is looking forward to its effect.

However, before that, an uninvited guest came to the Su family, which disrupted her plan.

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When Tan Ruyi returned to Su's house from Tan's house, she found a female Taoist priest sitting in the hall. She was wearing a Hunyuan scarf, and she was a little less indifferent than Su Bei Gu who was wearing a Xiaoyao scarf, but a little more Solemn and dignified.

Su Beigu didn't sit down, but stood aside.

Qin Ru's heart skipped a beat when she saw the situation, knowing that the identity of the other party must be unusual.

Sure enough, the female Taoist said: "I see that you haven't devoted yourself to cultivation at home, so you should go back to the Taoist temple!"

Su Beigu's expression didn't change, he just said: "Master, this disciple wants to practice at home."

"But you practiced at home, but failed to keep the rules and regulations."

There are many regulations in the etiquette and clear rules of Taizhen Temple, and one of them is: to "clean your mouth" and not to tell ordinary people about magical powers such as spells and spells.

However, Su Bei Gu cast the law with great fanfare, swaggering through the market, and completely forgot the precept of "clean speech" and the low-key code of conduct of Taizhen Guannvdao!

Su Bei Gudao: "The disciple is just to help others."

The female Taoist priest's voice was three points harsher: "In the precepts, 'Don't talk too much, don't argue with your master', have you forgotten?!" ①

Su Bei Gu suddenly shut up.

In fact, she didn't forget, she didn't remember it at all. After all, there are more than 300 precepts, just remember the five precepts, and the rest, why bother to memorize them?

Tan Ruyi already knew the identity of the female Taoist priest, but she couldn't tolerate others treating Su Beigu like this, even if it was Su Beigu's master, that wouldn't work!

Tan Ruyi walked in, and asked with a smile, "Bei Gu, are there any guests?"

The female Taoist priest had known that there was a third person outside the hall, so she turned her head slightly after hearing this, thinking, "This is the woman who can disturb Bei Gu's mind?"

Su Beigu introduced: "Ruyi, this is my master, the master of Taizhen Guanjing, you can call her Daoist Wen."

"Master, this is Tan Ruyi, Miss Tan."

She also didn't say who Tan Ruyi was hers.

Tan Ruyi is not a monk, so she greeted Wen Yingxiu according to the etiquette of ordinary people, and the latter bowed her hands and said, "Wu Liang Guan."

This is a blessing, a common term used by Taoist priests to greet each other.

Wen Yingxiu obviously didn't intend to entangle them in words. She said to Su Bei: "Clean up and follow me back to the Taoist temple."

Tan Ruyi's heart skipped a beat, and she said, "Taoist Wen, Bei Gu has practiced well at home, why did you ask her to return to the Taoist temple so suddenly?"

Wen Yingxiu said: "This is not a place for pure cultivation. Originally, people who become monks must live in Taoist temples. She insisted on living at home. I took her to hone her mind, but never thought it was for fun and to show off her Taoism. "

Tan Ruyi said unhappily: "Why does Daoist Wen think she is having fun? All along, she has never dared to slack off. If it is said that she has slackened in her practice, then I dare say that there is no other person in the world who can do it better. She is more diligent and focused!"

Wen Yingxiu didn't want to argue with Tan Ruyi to win or lose. She said to Su Beigu, "No matter what, you still have to return to the Taoist temple, unless you tell me that you want to return to vulgarity."

Su Bei was taken aback.

She doesn't care whether she returns to the vulgar or not, but after returning to the vulgar, such vulgar things will inevitably increase.First of all, someone will always care about her life-long affairs, and secondly, her elder brother will also watch her to prevent her from dividing his family property. At that time, with mundane affairs entangled, will she still have time to concentrate on cultivation?

Moreover, she is not completely devoid of feelings for Taizhen Temple and her nominal master Wen Yingxiu.

I still remember that when she first entered the Taoist temple, she was very weak, and it was Wen Yingxiu who personally went to gather herbs to make medicine for her and coax her to drink it; Occasions; there are also characters that she doesn't know in this world, which Wen Yingxiu taught her to learn. In the cold weather, she nestled in Wen Yingxiu's arms, stuttering to read the characters and copy them with a pen.

Later, Wen Yingxiu gave her lectures and said that he took her out to see the vast world. It was not until she put all her heart into practice that the relationship between master and apprentice became less and less.

Thinking about it carefully, she said that Wen Yingxiu could not replace the existence of the master, and only called him a nominal master. In fact, her relationship with Wen Yingxiu was deeper than that with Lu Xuehuan.

Tan Ruyi took a step forward and approached Wen Yingxiu: "Why does Daoist Wen threaten Bei Gu?"

Wen Yingxiu didn't say a word, but quietly waited for Su Beigu's response.

Su Bei thought, it was really sudden that she stayed at home this time, and she really didn't make any long-term plans at that time, and now that Wen Yingxiu came here to bring her back in person, then she should handle this matter properly to avoid further twists and turns.

She sighed and said: "Since that's the case, let the disciple go and say goodbye to his mother."

Tan Ruyi looked at Su Beigu in astonishment. She really couldn't understand why Su Beigu would compromise on this. Could it be that Fuqiu Township and the Su family really have nothing worthy of her nostalgia?

Su Beigu's figure disappeared behind the door, and Tan Ruyi recovered and chased after him: "Beigu, do you really want to go back? You clearly promised me not to go back."

In fact, Su Beigu rarely did things without explaining. She came back to attend the wedding in Sunancheng, and then stayed at home without telling Guanli first, which is considered an exception.This time when she returns to the Taoist temple, she will also explain to Tan Ruyi: "I'll go back for a while, and I'll deal with the affairs in the temple before I come back."

Tan Ruyi believed that Su Bei Gu said she would come back, and she would definitely come back. The boulder she had mentioned in her heart fell, but she was still a little bit reluctant: "Why does Daoist Wen insist on you going back? And why did she come here suddenly?"

Su Beigu smiled slightly: "It should be the news that I used the formation last time and sent it back to Taizhen Temple. She thought I was abusing the magic and came here in person because she was worried that I would have an accident. It's okay, when I prove to her that I am serious about cultivation After that, she won't worry about me so much anymore."

"After all, you are also for our family..." Tan Ruyi was quite guilty.

Su Beigu suddenly held Tan Ruyi's hand, and said in a low voice, "Actually, I am doing it for myself."

Tan Ruyi looked at her puzzled.

"If something happens to Uncle Tan, you will be sad. If you are not well, how can I be well? So, all this is for me. "

Su Beigu's sudden earthy love words caught Tan Ruyi a little off guard, but it also made Tan Ruyi happy, and couldn't help but hugged Su Beigu and kissed her.

The author has something to say:

Su Daochang: I still have some private money in the Taoist temple, so I have to get it.

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Notes: ①From Baidu.

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