"Brother Yu." After eating, Chang Hao wiped his mouth and rubbed in front of Yu Qingze, looking at him with bright eyes.
Yu Qingze asked, "Is something wrong?"
Chang Hao nodded, and hesitated when he was about to speak.
Oh, this is really rare, and the young man who always wants to say it still hesitates. Yu Qingze raised his eyebrows: "Say, what's the matter?"
"That's right, that," the young boy Chang Hao blushed and felt that he was a bit cheeky, but he couldn't resist the strong desire in his heart, and finally asked, "Brother Yu, are you good at kung fu? Can you teach me?"
That's what happened. Yu Qingze looked at Chang Hao's small body, maybe he could grow taller with exercise? He nodded and said, "Yes. But all I know is some fur, so I can defend myself."
"This is already amazing!"
"It's hard work."
"I'm not afraid!"
"That's fine."
"That's great!" Hearing Yu Qingze's agreement, the little boy jumped up and down and was very excited, "When I finish my studies, I can protect my brother and grandpa!"
Yu Qingze smiled, thinking to himself, your brother is actually not weak, ordinary people can't beat him. However, the wishes and dreams of the young man are so beautiful, they are still worthy of praise and protection.
The two also agreed to start teaching when they were busy with the double grab.
"Brother Yu, what are you doing?" The wish was fulfilled, and Chang Hao began to wonder about the wooden board in Yu Qingze's hand. There were many lines drawn on it with unburned firewood, horizontally and vertically, like a shelf, and he didn't know what it was. .
Yu Qingze smiled, imitating Chang Hao's mysterious appearance, and replied, "Good stuff. You'll know what it is tomorrow."
"Ah? It's so mysterious." Chang Hao was even more curious, scratching his head and scratching his head at those black lines, wondering what they were.
Yu Qingze nodded solemnly: "Yes, it's so mysterious."
Chang Hao was even more curious, but he couldn't ask any more, he was really suffocating.
In the evening, before the two Chang Le brothers came back, Yu Qingze took a shower. Grandpa Chang brought Yu Qingze's old clothes from Chang Le's father for him to wash, and he took off the clothes and washed them. The clothes and shoes he came across, Chang Le took him last night, washed them and folded them neatly, but those clothes were obviously too weird here, so he didn't wear them.
Then he asked Grandpa Chang about the commonly used agricultural tools here, and learned that there are no other better rice threshing tools, and the shovels are also removed by raising the shovel and letting the wind blow. This news made him confirm himself. The idea in your head works.
He wants rice beds, windmills, and threshing machines! He's going to revolutionize their tools! Make it easier for them to double grab!
"By the way, this is for you. This is your name. You can write it on the table with water first." Yu Qingze took a wooden board beside him, and wrote the word 'Chang Hao' on it with a firewood tip. The stroke order of the characters is written.
Without a pen and paper, he found a wooden board and a firewood head instead.
Chang Hao's eyes lit up immediately, he quickly took it over, looked at the two words above, and asked excitedly, "Is this my name? Chang Hao?"
"Yes." Yu Qingze nodded, pointed at two words, and read them one by one: "Chang-hao. The next is the stroke order. You learn the word 'chang' first, and I will teach you to write it twice."
"Wait Big Brother Yu, wait for me to call my brother!" The little boy quickly ran to the kitchen, dragged his brother to the main room, and shouted, "Brother, hurry up, something good!"
Chang Le was dragged away by his younger brother just after washing the dishes and wiping his hands. It wasn't until the main room that he found out that Yu Qingze wanted to teach them to read and write.
Chang Le was also very moved, so he stood behind his brother and listened with curiosity and blushing.
Yu Qingze held the oil lamp on the dining table, carefully taught the two of them how to recognize strokes, and showed them how to write the word 'chang' twice.
Grandpa Chang looked at them with a smile while weaving the mat.
This young man knows so much.
When the two brothers understood, Yu Qingze let them practice on their own and began to draw their own drawings.
The Changle family bought a cow together with seven other families, and kept it in one of the families. When the cows were herding, each family took turns and changed them once a month. After the grass withered in winter, each family had to provide hay to raise. Cattle. The cow dung is used as the reward for the given family. After all, the normal management is also time-consuming and energy-consuming, and it is necessary to ensure the safety of the night and not be stolen by others.
There is only one cow, and it can still take care of it when it is usually ploughing the land, but when it comes to spring ploughing and double grabbing, everyone has to coordinate and line up to use the cow.
The next day, it was finally Changle's turn to use cattle. Early in the morning, Chang Le went to plough the fields. There was only one morning, and the cattle had to rest in the afternoon. They had two fields to plough, and the time was very tight.
Grandpa Chang went with a small wooden barrel. Chang Hao and Yu Qingze made breakfast and dried millet at home as usual. Breakfast was ready, but before Chang Le and Grandpa Chang came back, Yu Qingze and Chang Hao fed the pigs and chickens again, and did all the housework they could.
During breakfast, Chang Le didn't come back, but Grandpa Chang brought back a lot of loach and seven or eight eels, all of which were caught in the fields and ditches, running around in the bucket, and were very active.
Chang Hao likes to eat loach and eel, mainly because it is meat!
"Wow, loach! And eel! Grandpa, when will it be eaten, do you want me to go outside and pick some leaves and come back and let him spit mud?" I couldn't wait.
"Don't worry, we'll talk about it when we finish ploughing the fields today. Go wash your hands and eat, and bring food to your brother after eating. Look at the cow." Grandpa Chang put the small wooden barrel in the kitchen, then washed his hands and prepared to eat.
Chang Hao squatted by the wooden barrel and watched for a while, then happily went to have breakfast.
After the three of them finished their meal, Chang Hao carried an empty basket to deliver the meal first. Chang Hao was actually ten years old, but he was very short and looked like a child of eight or nine years old. Grandpa Chang tied the ropes of the baskets short so that he would not be hard to pick.
Grandpa Chang picked up a load of plant ashes and wanted to spread them in the fields. Yu Qingze's left foot has disappeared a lot, but he still can't use his strength, so he slowly walked into the field.
In the morning, Yu Qingze and Chang Hao were threshing the remaining millet from yesterday's field. Grandpa Chang also came over to thresh the millet after he had scattered the ashes.
During the break, from time to time, villagers came to inquire about what happened yesterday, mainly because they heard that Chang Le had been rewarded with consistent money, and those who came to gossip were all fooled by Grandpa Chang.
Uncle Chang Hao and Wen Li also came over, but before he even opened his mouth, he was scolded by Grandpa Chang.
Yu Qingze also discovered that although Chang Hao was shy at home, he kept a low profile in the face of the villagers' inquiries and didn't say a word to show off.
Chang Le has been plowing and raking the fields, and finally completed two fields of about one acre and two points in the morning.
Changle's three acres of paddy fields are divided into five fields of varying sizes. There are two pieces that have not been cut.
In the morning, there was still some time left for the millet, so they tied up the grass one by one, and picked up the fallen ears again. After the grass is dried a little in the evening, all the grass can be carried back, and the fields can be watered.
At noon, Yu Qingze didn't sleep and was perfecting the drawings.
The structure of the rice bed is relatively simple, and he painted it directly on the wooden board. However, the structure of the foot threshing machine and the windmill cart is a little more complicated. He had to draw a draft on the ground first to confirm the details, size and length of each part. Especially when stepping on a threshing machine, it is necessary to confirm the size of each gear, whether it can be engaged, the length and width of each board of the roller, etc., and then draw it on the board after it is confirmed.
This is a time-consuming job.
It happened to be planting rice in the afternoon. Yu Qingze's foot injury didn't heal, so he couldn't help, so he concentrated on making his drawings at home.
It took him an afternoon to finally get a rough outline of the structure. There are still some details that need to be discussed with the producers at that time. After all, they are professional.
After dinner in the evening, Yu Qingze asked Grandpa Chang to take him to the village head's house. Last night, he had already briefly shared his thoughts with Grandpa Chang.
Seeing that he was done so quickly, Grandpa Chang agreed to take him there. Chang Hao was curious and followed behind to join in the fun.
But before they left the courtyard door, the village chief came to the door with a chicken and a fish.
Grandpa Chang smiled and said: "Yo, Gensheng, we are just looking for you, come in and sit." The village chief called Yu Gensheng.
A few people entered the main room, and the village chief shoved the things in his hand into Grandpa's hand and said, "I came back too late last night, and I didn't have time to thank Brother Le. I'm busy during the day, so I'll come here when I have time. My heart, I hope Uncle and Brother Le don't dislike it."
Grandpa Chang rejected it, waved his hand and said, "Hey, what is this for? It's all from the same village, and Xiaole just happened to meet him. Take these back, didn't Dajian husband just give birth to a baby, take it back to make up for him! The three of us are in good health."
Dajian is the eldest son of the village chief. His husband just gave birth to a little man half a month ago, just when he needs to replenish his body.
"Hey, uncle, there are still some at home. If it wasn't for Brother Le yesterday, my water buffalo would be gone, so I have to accept it!"
Grandpa Chang continued to refuse, "Didn't you let us use your cattle? That's all."
Yu Qingze and Chang Hao watched from the sidelines as they came and went. Chang Le heard that the village chief was coming, but he couldn't send out the bowl of water he was carrying.
After a while, seeing that Grandpa Chang didn't answer, the village chief simply put the chicken under the table and the fish directly on the dining table.
Chang Le finally gave the water out.
The village chief sat on the bench, took the water, took a sip, and thanked Chang Le in person, and then asked, "Uncle, what did you just say to me?"
Grandpa Chang pointed at Yu Qingze and replied, "I didn't look for you, it was Aze looking for you."
Yu Qingze quickly greeted the village chief: "Yes, the village chief, I have something to look for you. My name is Yu Qingze..." Thinking that the village chief probably didn't know himself, he introduced himself.
"You are also surnamed Yu, and you are really related to our village." The village chief nodded with a smile, looked at him and asked curiously, "What's the matter with you?"
Yu Qingze smiled and said, "I heard that your carpentry work is very good. I want to ask you to make me something. This is the pattern."
With that said, Yu Qingze handed over the wooden board with the picture of the rice bed.
The village chief took it over and looked at it for a while, then frowned and asked, "You... a shelf, it's not difficult to do, but what are you doing this for?"
A square long shelf is drawn on the wooden board, and many horizontal bars are evenly connected in the middle of the shelf.
The village head was very curious.
Yu Qingze replied, "This is a rice bed."
"Rice beds?" Several people present looked at Yu Qingze.
Yu Qingze said: "Yes, rice beds, rice of rice. This is used for threshing millet."
Speaking of it being used for threshing, the two brothers, Grandpa Chang and Chang Le, both gathered around and looked curiously at the wooden board in the village chief's hand.
Yu Qingze continued to explain to them: "We are threshing the rice now by directly hitting the rice against the wall of the box, which is actually very labor-intensive and slow. When hitting this rice bed, we hit the rice on it. Look at this. The horizontal bar, which can be made of bamboo or thin wooden strips, is placed on the side, so that when the rice is hit upward, the grain will fall off faster. Moreover, our arms don't have to hit the bottom all the way. Quick and easy!"
When Chang Le and the others heard it, it was quick and labor-saving? Immediately, my eyes lit up, this thing is good!
And the village chief thinks differently from them. He has been a carpenter for many years. With his keen intuition, he knows this thing and can make money! And it's not hard to do.
Yu Qingze carefully observed the village chief's expression, saw the light in his eyes, and knew that he realized the value of this thing, so he continued to add fire to him.
"Furthermore, this rice bed can be used directly in the threshing machine or directly on the flat ground, but the millet on the ground needs to be swept. When the farming is over, this rice bed can also be used for other purposes. It is also very convenient to dry things and put things in there.”
This is very exciting!
The village chief thought for a while and said, "Little brother, I will make this for you, and I can make one for you for free. Can you sell me the blueprint of this rice bed?"
Hearing this, the three Chang Le family were taken aback. The village chief wants to buy this blueprint? Afterwards, they also immediately realized the commercial value of this thing, and it can definitely make a lot of money when it is made. If Yu Qingze sold the drawings to the village chief, wouldn't it be a loss? Do you want to remind him
But before their psychological activities were over, they heard Yu Qingze readily agree.
"Yes. How much can you pay?"
The village chief pondered for a while, and then gave a price that his own house could offer: "Twenty taels of silver. And you can't sell it to anyone else!"
Twenty taels of silver! The three Chang Le family stared at each other for a while. Well, a lot of money!
Yu Qingze raised the corner of his mouth and stretched out three fingers, "Thirty-two! I can draw three more styles for you."
Three, thirty-two? !
Chang Hao and Chang Le have never seen so much money, their mouths are open enough to stuff eggs. Even Grandpa Chang took a deep breath!
The price of thirty taels exceeded the village chief's expectations, and he remained silent.
When Yu Qingze saw it, he stepped forward, took the wooden board from the village chief's hand, and said, "You can go back and think about it."
The wooden board in his hand was taken away, and the village chief seemed to see Bai Huahua's silver waving goodbye to him! The village chief's little heart trembled.
He stood up frowning, walked around in the main room, walked five full circles, sweated out, and finally made a decision with a grit of teeth.
"make a deal!"
Yu Qingze grinned and handed the board back to the village chief.
Chang Le's family of three: ... I always feel that the village chief has been tricked.
After taking the board, the village chief wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I still have an unkind request, I hope my little brother will agree."
Yu Qingze: "The village chief, please speak."
The village chief paused for a moment, then said frankly: "To be honest, I bought this blueprint to make money. However, this season's harvest has not caught up. I hope that before the autumn harvest this year, you can keep it a secret until I get it. It will be sold until it is sold. Of course, I promise you that the rice beds will be ready by then, but I will also give them to you during the autumn harvest."
The craftsmanship of this thing is not difficult. You can see how to do it at a glance. Others will be able to make it soon. This business is only the most expensive at the beginning and earns the most! This point, the village chief is very clear, that's why he made such a request.
Yu Qingze said simply: "No problem."
The village chief looked at the grandfather of the Changle family, the three grandsons.
Grandpa Chang said: "Don't worry, we will never say it. This is your business with Aze, and we know the importance."
Chang Le and Chang Hao nodded heavily. Thirty-two! You must keep your mouth shut!
The village head thanked: "Thank you, Uncle."
Grandpa Chang waved his hand, "It should be."
Seeing that they had reached a consensus, Yu Qingze said to the village chief, "Village chief, I would like to discuss a business with you."
Still have business? The village chief asked, "What business?"
Yu Qingze smiled mysteriously and replied, "Partnership business."
The author has something to say: Author: The urban routine is deep, I want to go back to the countryside!
The village chief has a deep face: Rural routines... Forget it, the past is unbearable to look back on.