Chapter 39
"It's amazing! It's amazing! Hahaha." Yuan Fang laughed as he looked at it. He spread the drawing paper flat on the table, pointed to the plow review, plow arrow and plow Jian and exclaimed: "Just simply adding three small objects can control the depth of the plowhead plow land, it's amazing! I never thought of such a simple thing before!"
Liu Yi's eyes lit up. He could see so many things from a picture. It seemed that Yuan Fang could really make a curved plow.
Yuan Fang carefully put the drawing paper away, looked at Liu Yi and sighed: "Mr. Liu, your picture is really exquisite. As shown in the picture, the plow he made will definitely be two to three times easier to use than the plow, and the straight plow is even more incomparable! Moreover, it does not use much material, but the structure is a bit small, so it will take some effort to make it. But I am sure that I can make a pair in three days!"
"Really?!" Liu Yiuan was overjoyed and said to Yuan Fang respectfully: "I'm sorry, Mr. Yuan can bother to make twenty pairs of one person. The price is not a problem. If you have any need, Mr. Yuan can just speak."
Yuan Fang waved his hand and said, "Mr. Liu only needs to provide me with the necessary wood and plowshares. As for the workmanship cost, I will not take any penny and make twenty pairs for you for free. However, I have a condition."
"Oh? Please speak, Mr. Yuan." Liu Yi said confidently: "As long as you can, you will follow everything."
"Haha, it's not that serious," Yuan Fang smiled and said, "The old man just loves this plow picture very much. I want to ask Mr. Liu to give up my husband."
Just this matter, Liu Yi sighed in relief and said, "If Mr. Yuan likes it, just take it away. If you don't have any material things, this picture will be a secret pearl and it will not work."
"Okay, then I'm not polite." Yuan Fang smiled and put the drawing paper in his arms, and then said to Liu Yiyan: "It's a bit late today. Mr. Liu can collect some willow trees tomorrow. Well, let's take thirty trees first. Remember to have the trunks straight and not too thick. The tree age is ten years old. After receiving it, I will send it to me. There are also plowshares. The teacher will go to a blacksmith shop to set twenty of them, and the style is the same as the straight plow. When the materials are collected, Pei Er and I will rush it for Mr. Liu in the shortest time. We will never delay the use of spring plows."
"This will bring you the trouble of Mr. Yuan and Uncle Yuan." As things settled, Liu Yi's heart calmed down. Seeing that it was getting late, he stood up and said goodbye to Yuan Fang and his son, saying, "It's getting late, and Yi will no longer disturb you."
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. All households have to worship their ancestors in the evening, so it is not convenient to keep guests, so Yuan Fang and his son did not say anything to keep them. They just politely sent Liu Yi out of the door and watched him leave.
When Liu Yi returned home, his family had already gotten up. Liu He took Liu Xiaohui to cook in the kitchen, and Liu Laoshi and Liu Erjiu were feeding the plowing cows in the yard.
Seeing Liu Yi came back, Lao Liu asked, "Yi, where have you been? I haven't seen you for an afternoon?"
"Oh, I went to Xiaer Village." Liu Yi replied: "Go and ask Mr. Yuan to make some plowshares for land use. I have agreed that I will send him some raw materials tomorrow."
"Yuan Fang, right?" Liu nodded honestly and said, "This is the right thing. The ten new cows at home do not have matching plowshares. It is indeed time to prepare a few pairs. Well, there are also carts, hoes, trunks, and sickles that need to be prepared. Let's go to the county town to purchase some tomorrow."
"Yes." Liu You replied, turned to Liu Eryou and said, "Erzhao, the county magistrate will be promoted to Chang'an tomorrow. You go with me to see him off. He is your teacher now, remember to be more intimate when you can."
"Mr. Wang has been promoted?!" Liu Ertiao widened his eyes, with a little surprise and surprise inside.
"Well, Zhongzhou Chief Secretary, the sixth rank." Liu Yi said: "Mr. Wang came here in the afternoon, but you were all sleeping at that time, so you didn't ask you to call me. Then he said a few words and went back."
Lao Liu interrupted and said, "Since Lord Wang is leaving, it is still a happy event like promotion. You should go early tomorrow. When you go, prepare more gifts, see them off, and congratulate them on New Year's greetings. Don't let the teacher think that we are not enthusiastic enough and feel heartbroken."
"I know, dad, we will pay attention." Liu Yiu responded. This matter is that Liu Zhenzhen would not say it, and he also knew what to do.
After working hard for a while, Liu Yiu drove Liu Erzhao into the house. The child should focus on his studies and always hang out with the cow's butt.
After looking at the sky, it was not completely dark. While there was still some time, Liu Yian took out the remaining bamboos from the house and split them into long bamboo strips as thick as fingers in the yard. Heaving bamboo baskets for cows.
Bamboo baskets are a kind of bridle-like thing made by the people who restrict oxen from eating grass. They are made of bamboo and put on the ox's mouth when plowing the land, which can prevent ox from biting crops and eating grass at will. There is a saying that describes the good land, and the ox's mouth is covered with bamboo baskets - they cannot be opened. This is a practical gadget that can improve the efficiency of ox farming.
When Liu Zhen saw that Liu Yi was tinkering with some fresh tricks, he came over. From medical treatment to piercing the ox, Lao Liu was already convinced of their family's methods.
Seeing Liu Yi cross-woven bamboo strips into something like a small basket, Lao Liu asked strangely: "Yi, what are you doing to build such a small bamboo basket? And can't you hold too many things?"
Liu Yi smiled and did not answer. Instead, he walked to their Xiao Huang and put the weaved bamboo basket on Xiao Huang's mouth, which just happened to fit its upper and lower jaws. It was very suitable. After patting Xiao Huang's cow's head, Liu Yi turned his head and said to Lao Liu: "Dad, you have seen it too. This is for cows. It doesn't need to be too big. You just need to put the cow's mouth."
"This?" Lao Liu asked with all his head, what should he do if he put his mouth in his mouth?
Seeing that Lao Liu didn't understand, Liu Yi grabbed a handful of hay and handed it to Xiao Huang's mouth. Xiao Huang happily turned his head over, but he couldn't eat it. As soon as he got close to the grass, he would be separated by the bamboo basket on his mouth. After repeated several times, Xiao Huang stopped deflated and looked at Liu Yi with a pair of big watery eyes.
Seeing this, Lao Liu finally understood a little. He started to nod. With this small basket, he would not be afraid of the ox looking around for food when he was plowing.
Then Liu Yiuan found some ropes and taught Lao Liu to tie a rope trap for the plowing ox.
From the bull nose ring, through the jaw, through the horn, and then wrapping it down from the forehead, a rope sleeve in the shape of a panties with a bull nose as the basis point can be effectively protected and prevent the bull nose from being strained during the pulling process.
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Chapter completed!