Pig Killer

Chapter 139

"Let's go find brother Liu Ding." Shen Hui'e said as she picked up the plow.

"Do it again?" Tie Feng's eyes lit up when he heard that.

"That's right." Shen Hui'e looked at him with a smile.

"Let me carry the plow!" Tie Feng said, stretching out his hand.

"No, this little weight is nothing." Shen Hui'e said while carrying the plow. "You've worked hard enough as a blacksmith." She looked at her son and said, "Da Chong, tell your brother Cheng that we're going to your uncle Liu's house."

"Hey!" The big tiger responded crisply and ran towards the backyard.

"Let's go!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with her bright dark eyes.

"Second sister, the plowshares we usually use are very small, and the plowshare here is like a shovel." Tie Feng said as he walked, "Your plowshare obviously uses more iron."

"This way we can cultivate deeper." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep and clear eyes as he walked and said, "I also know that people can't afford this. It's too expensive."

"Second sister can afford it." Tie Feng said with a chuckle, looking at her in confusion and asked, "Deep plowing?"

"The tillage is too shallow now. You can tell by looking at the plowshare." Shen Hui'e said seriously and earnestly, "Deep tillage has many benefits. Deep tillage is for careful cultivation." After thinking for a while, she said in layman's terms, "It makes the soil softer and buries the grass seeds deep, preventing them from sprouting. It absorbs water, more water. It also buries the pests deep and suffocates them."

Tie Feng looked at her in astonishment and stammered, "This..."

"When sowing winter wheat this year, use my modified plow and compare it with the plow they originally used. The results will be known during next summer harvest." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her clear and bright eyes.

Tie Feng calmed down and looked at her and said, "We don't have to wait until the summer harvest. Wait until spring comes and the flowers bloom to see how the grass grows. Then we can make a clear comparison."

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with clear and bright eyes.

"Deeply cultivate and work hard." Tie Feng blinked his dark eyes and looked at her and said.

"You reap what you sow. Taking care of crops is like taking care of a child. You have to take good care of it." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her bright black eyes and said, "To take care of crops, you have to understand their temperament."

"What do you mean?" Da Chong looked at his mother and asked, not quite understanding, "Why does it feel like a human?"

"Yes! You have to understand the growth habits of crops." Shen Hui'e looked at them with her warm eyes and said, "These crops like cold, like heat, can tolerate cold, can tolerate drought... All of this requires observation and research." She smiled and said, "Just like people like to be praised, when you touch a yellow ear, touch along the fur, touch upside down, the fur will stand up."

"Why does farming require so many procedures?" Tie Feng looked at her in astonishment and said, "In the past few years, we just planted seeds and raised them in a free-range manner. Who cares about weeding and fertilizing? It's up to nature to raise the crops."

"So the output is not high!" Shen Hui'e said to him with clear and bright eyes.

Tie Feng scratched his head and smiled sheepishly, "It's true. Weeding and applying some manure will make a difference."

"This land is also very greedy!" Shen Hui'e teased with a smile.

"Yeah!" Tie Feng nodded vigorously upon hearing that.

"Look, there are also skills in farming." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with deep and penetrating eyes.

"But we don't know much." Tie Feng blinked his dark eyes and looked at her.

"Brother-in-law, have you been thinking deeply about blacksmithing and how to become better at it?" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at him with her clear eyes reflecting the tiny light.

Tie Feng was amused when he heard this, "Exploration of the unknown."

"Hey!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with her bright black eyes and nodded, "That's right." When she raised her eyes, she was already at the door of Liu Ding's house, "Oh! We're here."

"Uncle Liu, we are here." Da Chong shouted towards the yard at the top of his voice.

"Come in quickly." Liu Ding smiled and said, and when he saw Tie Feng coming in, he said, "Why are you here together?"

"I have something to talk to you about." Tie Feng said while looking at him with a smile.

"It's okay. Tie Ge doesn't have the time to come." Liu Ding laughed and joked, "Busy man!"

"Hehe..." Shen Hui'e smiled and put the plow on her shoulder on the ground.

"Second sister-in-law, what are you carrying?" Liu Ding asked, staring at the iron thing under her feet.

"The plowshare, the plowshare I carried." Shen Hui'e looked at him with a smile and said, "It's a newly made plowshare."

"Your plowshare is really big." Liu Ding said as he walked around the plowshare, and guessed with certainty, "Does the second sister-in-law want to be a handrail?"

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e smiled and nodded slightly.

"That's easy, just put it here! I'll make it for you before you plant winter wheat." Liu Ding responded readily.

"No, no, no, the handrail I want to make is different from the previous ones." Shen Hui'e said quickly.

Liu Ding looked up at her and said, "What kind of thing does the second sister-in-law want to make?"

Shen Hui'e looked at the bowl on the wooden table. There was water in it. She poured the water onto the wooden table and hastily drew the armrest.

"It's curved." Tie Feng said in surprise as he stared at the plow handle drawn by his second sister.

"Our plowshares are all straight." Liu Ding came over and looked at her and said, "Second sister-in-law, will your curved one work?"

"Just do as I say. You'll know if it works after you try it." Shen Hui'e said simply. Some things cannot be explained in words.

"Okay, I'll do it. If it doesn't work, we can change it back." Liu Ding said with a smile.

"Let me tell you about this handrail in detail..." Shen Hui'e stood up and walked to the plowshare, "The connection with the handrail needs to be flexible."

"What do you mean?" Liu Ding looked at her with a puzzled look on his face and asked, "The plows we use now are all dead."

"This needs to be alive, just like the bamboo dragonfly on the meat stall, alive! And able to move." Shen Hui'e said, pointing to the connection.

"Okay!" Liu Ding stared at the joint and said, "Turn it like this..." He stroked his chin with his index finger and said, "It won't flip over."

Shen Hui'e's eyes lit up when she heard this. As a carpenter, she was indeed very accurate in judging problems. "You'll know after trying it."

"No problem, I'll do as my second sister-in-law asked." Liu Ding responded readily.

"The height of this handrail must be adjusted according to my height so that I can hold on to it comfortably." Shen Hui'e made another request.

Liu Ding was stunned when he heard this, then he smiled and said, "I see." He stretched out his hand and gestured, "According to the height of my second sister-in-law, our current handrails are indeed a bit high. They are made according to the height of an average man."

"That's not right. The people working in the fields are women and children, and the tools should be used according to their heights. It's uncomfortable to use like this." Shen Hui'e said to him with a frown.

"It depends on the farmer! We can't force them to change it!" Liu Ding came over and sat opposite her and said, "Who knows, the man in the family may come back and we won't have to bother with that."

What else can Shen Hui'e say at this point? Farming men have a clear advantage in strength.

"This handrail is made like this..." Shen Hui'e took great effort to explain to him the dimensions of the handrail in detail.

It was really difficult. She needed a triangle, a protractor, and other simple tools to draw accurate dimensions.

Don't just rely on your feelings.

You have to find an opportunity to rationalize them and take them out.

After finishing her speech, Shen Hui'e felt dry mouth and her throat was smoking.

"Second sister-in-law, don't worry, I will finish it sooner." Liu Ding looked at her seriously and said.

"I thought Uncle Liu couldn't make it until after the autumn harvest." The big tiger looked at him with surprise in his round eyes.

"This is a plow. Make it earlier and try it out. If necessary, we can modify it later." Liu Ding said seriously.

When it comes to farming, we take it very seriously and everything else takes a back seat.

Shen Hui'e looked at Liu Ding with a slight wave of her eyes and said, "Brother Liu, can I see your carpentry tools?"

Liu Ding was stunned when he heard this, and then said, "Of course." Then he said, "Wait a moment." He took the tools from his workbench and placed them on the wooden table.

"It's over." Shen Hui'e lowered her eyes and looked at the tools on the wooden table: the ink fountain, ruler, carving knife, and tools for shavings...

"These are all the carpenter's tools." Liu Ding looked at her in confusion and said, "These are enough."

"Then what are you going to do about this arc and angle?" Shen Hui'e raised her eyes slightly and looked at him and asked, "Use your eyes to see it?"

"If we don't use eyes, what else can we use?" Liu Ding said jokingly, "There are few curved arcs, basically it's straight." He raised his eyebrows and looked at them and said, "As for the angle, it's vertical."

Shen Hui'e pursed her lips and looked at him without blinking.

"What does Second Sister-in-law want to say?" Liu Ding felt frightened by her stare.

Shen Hui'e closed her hands upon hearing this, then slowly opened them, "What if the angle isn't vertical?"

"Hmm!" Liu Ding blinked when he heard that. "It's rarely used. If you really need to use it, use a ruler and make sure it's symmetrical."

Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep, bright black eyes, thought for a moment, and said, "Have you ever thought that angles have scales like a ruler?" She took the ruler on the table and pointed at the scales.

"How do you do this?" Tie Feng looked at her with a frown, looking at the ruler in her hand and gesturing.

Shen Hui'e thought about it seriously and said, "Bring the hemp rope like this."

"Hey!" Liu Ding stood up and brought a piece of hemp rope over, "Here, second sister-in-law."

Shen Hui'e took the hemp rope and fixed it at a point. The hemp rope opened up the angles from a line, "These angles are marked with scales like a ruler..." and then it turned half a circle.

Liu Ding's dark eyes sparkled, and he rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "This way we can make it at any angle."

"That's right!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep, bright eyes and said, "Everything has a limit!"

"That's easy!" Liu Ding said happily, looking at them.

"Then let's go." Shen Hui'e put down the hemp rope in her hand, stood up with the help of the table and said, "You go ahead and get busy!"

"Let's go." Tie Feng stood up, clasped his hands together, and bowed.

"I'll take you there." Liu Ding walked them out of the house and watched them leave.

Liu Ding looked back at the hemp rope on the wooden table and fiddled with it, "Why didn't I think of it?"