Just when Xu Yue was worried about her sore arm, Wang Dayou gave her a surprise.
He made the pedal spinning machine she wanted!
This was something Xu Yue didn't expect.
Wang Dayou carried the modified spinning machine and came to Xu Yue excitedly. He was inexplicably excited and described incoherently the source of his inspiration for creating this spinning machine.
Xu Yue listened hard for a long time and finally understood.
It turned out that after receiving the drawing from Wang the day before yesterday, Wang Dayou tried to make a template out of wood. The spring naturally failed, but the gear succeeded.
He made a few more, and accidentally put the two gears together, and with a flick of his hand, an idea suddenly appeared, as if he had unlocked the door to a new world.
So, this is how the foot-operated spinning machine was born!
With the combination of gears, the foot-operated spinning machine is not only lighter than the previous hand-operated spinning machine, but also rotates faster.
Xu Yue tried it on her feet. Except for the wooden gear being a little rough, it was much easier to use than the hand-cranked one.
But before Xu Yue could express her gratitude, Wang Dayou happily ran back to continue studying the metal gears that he had not yet studied.
The weather was fine. Xu Yue and her sister moved the newly-baked foot-operated spinning machine to the yard and spun yarn while basking in the sun.
Xu Erniang was in charge of spinning, and Xu Yue used two whittled wooden sticks to try to regain the feel of knitting sweaters in college.
When I was getting addicted to weaving, a voice came from outside the courtyard door: "Girl, is this Xu You's mother's house?"
Junmei, who was sitting in front of her courtyard, looking at her younger brother while doing arithmetic on a wooden board, raised her eyes to the father and son in front of her. She did not answer first, but asked warily:
"Who are you? What are you doing looking for a young girl?"
The man helped the slightly tilted wheelbarrow, pressed the bulging sack on it, and said:
"I am a tenant at the head of the village. Next to me is my Sanlang Yangwazi. We are here to deliver wool to Xu Youniang. Little girl, are you the Xu family?"
When Jun Mei heard that she was here to deliver something to Xu Yue, she hurriedly got up and put down the wooden board, pointed to the big yard next door and said:
"That's my mother-in-law's house over there, I'll take you there."
"Ajian." Junmei called her brother, and little Ajian ran over. The two siblings led them to the front door of the Xu family.
Xu Yue, who was sitting in the courtyard, had heard the movement early and came out to greet her. When she saw the high mountain covered by the wheelbarrow, the happy smile on her face gradually faded away.
When Yang Wazi saw her, he smiled nervously at her and introduced the man next to him as his father, Zhao Er.
The man is thin and thin, wearing patched linen clothes and straw sandals on his feet. He is dressed the same as most villagers in the village.
Although he raises sheep, he has many children at home and his life is not prosperous.
After hearing from their son that wool could be sold for money, the family started shearing the wool overnight and worked for three days before packing up all the wool and transporting it to Xu Yue.
When he met Xu Yue, the man showed a flattering and embarrassing smile on his face and asked: "Girl, is it two yuan a pound, right?"
Xu Yue nodded, called her brother who was cutting stones in the yard to come over and remove the threshold, and signaled Yangwazi and his son to push the car in.
Xu Erniang had already brought the scale over. While looking at the father and son, she opened the pocket and checked the wool inside.
Yang Wazi lowered his head, maybe because he was afraid of Xu Erniang's scrutiny or something else, but he hadn't raised his head since he walked in.
His father, Zhao Erxuan, smiled and looked away. Xu Erniang frowned and glanced at Xu Yue. Seeing that she didn't say anything, she started weighing the wool.
A cart full of tightly packed sacks weighed more than four hundred kilograms after deducting the weight of the bags!
Yangwazi's family only has more than a hundred sheep, how can they produce so much wool?
Xu Erniang glanced at Yangwazi's father, and the honest middle-aged man's heart skipped a beat.
Xu Yue also turned around and calculated in front of the father and son: "A few days ago, Yangwazi and I sheared fifteen sheep on the hillside and got almost five kilograms of wool."
"Because we are unskilled and the shearing is messy, we get less. Generally, one sheep can cut off two to five kilograms. Our sheep are small and have less hair. Even if one sheep makes three kilograms, your family will still have something left."
If you put down one hundred sheep, the remaining wool will be at most 300 kilograms. What's going on with the extra one hundred kilograms?"
She didn't blame him, she just asked gently, which made both father and son change their expressions.
Xu Yue raised her eyes and glanced over lightly. Yangwazi, who had been burying his head all the time, couldn't stand such eyes and explained anxiously:
"As soon as the people in the village heard that my wool could be sold for money, they insisted on asking my father to bring their wool over. I told them that you don't want so much wool, but they said that you are a little girl and you don't know how to own a sheep.
No matter how much wool you produce, you just want me to coax you to say that these are all from my sheep..."
"Everyone is having a hard time. My father was so soft-hearted that he brought everyone's wool. Xu Youniang, don't be angry. If you don't want so much, my father and I will take you back and give everyone the wool back!"
Zhao Er also didn't expect that the little girl was so good at arithmetic. He knew that he couldn't get away with it. Besides, he had never done such a thing before, so he felt guilty and said hurriedly:
"I will return the extra to everyone, but my girl, will you still take it?"
His family cut 200 kilograms, and for 400 money, they could buy a stone of grain. The children in the family were looking forward to the money and were preparing to cook some porridge.
If Xu Yue was angry because of this, Zhao Er thought about the disappointed eyes of the children at home, and his eyes turned red with sadness.
After hearing what the father and son said, Xu Erniang was so angry that she wanted to throw their wool and the cart out the door.
Serena's sister who dares to coax her really doesn't know how to write the word "death"!
Xu Dalang also had a dark face, but Xu Yue didn't have an attack, so he could only endure it.
Xu Yue looked at the pleading eyes of the father and son, sighed deeply, stopped her angry sister who was about to throw the car away, and asked the father and son to sift out the excess.
"You can charge as much as you agreed to charge, and you can take back the excess." Xu Yue said as she took out two pieces of flax, a total of 400 yuan, and handed them to Yang Wazi.
The young man looked at her indifferent expression and was stunned for a long time before taking the cloth.
"Let's go!" Xu Erniang came to the door and made a gesture of chasing people away.
The father and son took the money, but they were not happy at all. They thanked them several times, pushed the wheelbarrow, and left with mixed emotions.
Xu Erniang snorted and was about to close the door, but Xu Yue walked out.
Looking at his posture, he seemed to be going out.
"You won't be soft-hearted again, will you?" Xu Erniang said, "Don't condone this kind of thing, otherwise they will really treat you as an enemy in the future and create countless troubles for you."
"Hey, Xu Youniang, did you hear me?"
Unable to wait for Xu Yue's answer, she continued to walk out when she saw her. Xu Erniang quit and started to capture Xu Yue.
Xu Yue seemed to have eyes in her back, and she moved her feet to avoid it. Xu Erniang was able to catch it.
Xu Yue turned her head and winked at her: "Sister, aren't you curious about who these people are? Come and have a look and see how these people react."
Xu Erniang was startled, and the spirit of Bagua suddenly opened, "Let's go and have a look!"
