Chapter 214 Curved Plow
The next day, the Qin family found Mo Lianfeng.
Mo Lianfeng thought, just come to him to do things, he was afraid that the other party would not come, and then suddenly do something big, he couldn't bear it.
"Lord Mo, can you lend us a cow for two or three days?"
"What do you want the cow for?"
"Help us turn the land."
Mo Lianfeng pondered, his recent task was to turn the land, the task was quite heavy. Because if the land is not turned, there is no way to sow, and the spring plowing will be delayed.
Their current farming tools are hoes and plows. The plows need to be equipped with oxen, and the oxen in their military settlements are not idle. However, considering the generous gift from the Qin family, it is not impossible for their family to use a cow...
"We will use this cow for three days, we will not use it in vain, how about turning two more acres of land for the military settlement every day?" Lu Songli made a condition.
Mo Lianfeng raised his eyebrows, which means that a cow, if released to work, is equivalent to a strong laborer? This was equivalent to shutting up the others. He really liked this family too much. They didn't cause him any trouble at all.
"Okay, I'll have someone take you to lead the cow later." He immediately made the decision. Anyway, it didn't matter who used the cow. He was mainly curious about what they wanted to do. As for whether they could complete the task of turning the soil? Let's talk about it later.
Under Mo Lianfeng's instructions, his people took them to pick a buffalo that was in its prime and had a gentle temperament.
Lu Songli roughly understood that the current plow is a straight-beam plow. It is a little easier to plow the land with it, but the speed is actually not much faster than manual plowing.
The buffalo stood very docilely in the field and let them fiddle with it. It was obviously quite adapted to the work of plowing the land. Anyway, it would stop and go for a while.
After the curved-beam plow was set, Qin Zhao took it over, "Let me try it."
"Okay, you try it."
Qin Zhao raised the whip and whipped it, and the buffalo began to pull the plow. Then, the entire curved plow began to move and dig, turning the soil continuously. Wherever the curved plow passed, the task of turning the soil had been completed.
The Qin family found that this thing plowed the land too fast, and the key was that people didn't get tired at all!
"Sixth brother's wife, this thing is called a curved plow? Can we get a few more?" With this curved plow, wouldn't their task be easily completed?
Lv Songli didn't say anything, and Qin Heng said, "Don't be in a hurry. This curved plow must be matched with oxen. Without oxen, it's useless for us to get a curved plow."
Everyone heard it and thought about it.
So, on the land designated for the Qin family, Qin Zhao used oxen to work, and others still turned the land with hoes.
Because Lv Songli asked the blacksmith to make a curved plow with fine iron, it plowed the land very quickly. In addition, the land was moistened with water before, so Qin Zhao plowed nearly four acres of land in half a day.
After plowing four mu of land, Qin Zhao wanted to do more, but the buffalo refused to cooperate, and even the grass hanging in front of it was useless.
Qin Zhao had no choice but to lead the buffalo to the steward who was in charge of the buffalo and asked for a replacement, "Can you give us a replacement cow? This cow won't work."
"If it doesn't work, whip it with a whip."
"It won't move even if you whip it."
The cow was so tired that it rolled its eyes and trembled. As soon as Qin Zhao stopped, the cow lay down.
The noise scared the steward, "What did you do to the cow?"
"Nothing, just let it plow a little land."
The steward wondered, "If it was just plowing the land, it wouldn't be so tired, right?"
Qin Zhao was embarrassed, as if he had used it a little too hard.
Cow: Is that a little? It should be a billion points!
The steward in charge of the oxen checked the oxen and found nothing wrong with them. They might just be tired, so he waved his hand and asked the Qin family to pick another oxen.
But the next day, the oxen used by the Qin family were lying lazily and could not be pulled out no matter how hard they tried.
This frightened the steward. He stood up. No, he had to go and see what the family had done to the oxen! !
The soil was turned over so fast!
The steward saw that the speed was wrong, and he was shocked after calculating.
The steward jumped up and down in the field and scolded Qin Zhao, who used the oxen, "Other people's oxen plow one or two acres a day, which is considered diligent. Plowing three acres is the best oxen!"
"You actually let the ox turn over seven or eight acres a day. You really don't hesitate to use the ox! You are not tired, but the ox is! Don't you feel guilty?"
To put it bluntly, he just felt sorry for the oxen!
No wonder, the cows used by the Qin family refused to work the next day! They must have felt wronged!
This matter finally alarmed Mo Lianfeng.
Mo Lianfeng came to the Qin family's task field and saw the convenience and speed of the curved plow. He didn't care about the tired cows, but asked about the curved plow. He even tried it and found that it was indeed more convenient, easier to use and faster than the straight plow.
He immediately thought of the task assigned for spring plowing. If he had this curved plow, he would definitely win the first place...
Lu Songli presented the drawings tactfully and introduced the previous blacksmith shop to Mo Lianfeng, without hiding anything.
In business, it is better to do business with the familiar than the new, and she is quite optimistic about the blacksmith shop.
Mo Lianfeng was very satisfied with the Qin family's knowledge and understanding. When he saw Lu Songli helping her mother-in-law to rest aside and couldn't help beating his arms, he waved his hand and assigned them a new job - weeding. This was also the easiest job in the military settlement, and there was no limit on the amount of work, which made it clear that they could slack off.
When Mo Lianfeng went to order the curved plow, he took Lv Songli and Qin Sheng with him. Originally, he only wanted to take Lv Songli alone, but she suggested taking her husband Qin Sheng with him, saying that he was good at martial arts and could protect them in case of an accident.
He thought it would not be good to take only her, a young woman, so he took her with him.
Seeing Lv Songli coming to his house again, the young blacksmith wanted to turn his head and pretend he didn't see her. The main thing was that he could earn a lot of money by taking this job, but it was also really tiring.
Lv Songli smiled and said, "Master Zhou, what are you busy with? Is Master Zhou here? It's a big deal."
Before the young blacksmith, whom she called Master Zhou, could speak, he saw his father lift the door curtain and come out from the backyard, "What big deal?"
After Lv Songli introduced both parties, he stepped back and let them talk.