Female-to-male: I live on farming

Lu Youqing looked at him, his expression was considerate and firm.

It's not like they haven't slept together before. If he wants to be here, then let him be here. Just be like usual. Can it really be the same? Lu Youqing lowered her eyes and felt her ears getting hot.

Qin Ke waited until she got on the bed before squeezing in, rubbing his palms together to warm them, then lying on her back and holding her in his arms. Lu Youqing didn't expect him to hug her, and her body stiffened for a moment.

In the past, they had always slept together in a proper manner, but this was the first time he had broken the safe distance and had intimate contact with the other person.

Qin Ke placed his warm palms on her lower abdomen, and put his other hand under her pillow, with her feet also placed under his feet. It was not until this moment that Lu Youqing realized his intention.

His hot body pressed tightly against hers, and soon she felt her whole body warming up.

She slowly relaxed her body against him, feeling his care and love, closed her eyes, and whispered, "You are different from other men I have met."

She had seen children of noble families and also met illiterate farmers, but Qin Ke was completely different from them, as if... they were not from the same world.

"So do you think this difference is good or bad?" Qin Ke rubbed her soft hair with his chin and said with a smile.

Lu Youqing did not answer, but the little hand covering Qin Ke's hand under the quilt told him the answer.

Qin Ke wrapped her soft and boneless little hand in his palm, smelling her fresh and elegant fragrance at the tip of his nose, and smiled silently.

"What were you painting in the afternoon?" Lu Youqing asked with his eyes closed.

After lunch, Qin Ke asked her to lie in the yard to bask in the sun, and he sat beside her, writing and drawing on paper with a charcoal pencil. The charcoal pencil was from when he was drawing the design before building the house. Qin Ke was really not used to using a brush, and the ink always made a mess. Although he practiced big characters according to Lu Youqing's guidance when he was free, calligraphy cannot be mastered overnight.

So he simply found a few willow branches, wrapped them in mud, threw them into the fire and burned them for an incense stick of time, thus making a simple version of charcoal bars.

When Lu Youqing saw this scene, he was very curious and tried to write on the paper with the carbon stick.

Qin Ke felt a little embarrassed when he heard her question. He coughed and explained, "Well, I saw that the menstrual belt you use is very narrow and long. It's very inconvenient."

The cloth strips were sewn with some cotton wool and wood ash, which wrinkled easily and were narrow, making them very prone to leaking. Even in modern times, there are still leaks when sleeping at night, not to mention in ancient times.

He understands this problem too well and can relate to it.

“I was thinking about whether I could try to improve it.”

Lu Youqing's face suddenly turned red as if it was bleeding. Fortunately, she had her back to Qin Ke so that he could not see her embarrassing side. She didn't know how to evaluate him for this.

A seven-foot-tall man not only took good care of her during her menstrual period without any reservations, but he even thought of improving the menstrual belt for her. If this matter were to get out, he would probably be despised by everyone.

But besides embarrassment, she also felt touched and happy, which was extremely complicated.

"But I can't find any waterproof fabric for the time being, so I was thinking about whether I could try some animal skins..." Qin Ke was still chattering in her ear, but Lu Youqing had already buried her face in the pillow with a blush.

"By the way, ma'am, I want to buy a few people." Qin Ke saw that she didn't reply, and suddenly remembered something and said.

Speaking of business, Lu Youqing also tried to calm her inner shyness and asked, "Why do you think so?"

In fact, Qin Ke thought about it for a long time before making this decision. He had a lot of things to do later, but Li Nanqiao was different from him in terms of gender after all, so it was just right for her to stay with Lu Youqing.

"It's about the rice thresher I mentioned to you last time. Although you said it's not easy to make these things at present, I thought I should experiment first to see the effect. I'm not good at carpentry, and I'm worried that if I leave it to someone else, the news will leak out. In this case, why not..."

Lu Youqing understood what he meant, thought about it, and said, "If we find someone who is good at carpentry, it won't be an easy task."

After finishing the house building, Qin Ke started planning for the autumn harvest. After asking Li Nanqiao, he learned that rice harvesting was purely manual. Even the tools used for threshing the rice were very primitive and simple. Qin Ke even followed Li Nanqiao to visit. Not only were the tools heavy and laborious, but the efficiency was also low.

So he started to think about improving the rice thresher, and at the same time, he also found the design drawings of the harvester in the system mall.

When he mentioned this idea to Lu Youqing, Lu Youqing stared at him in surprise for a long time and asked him if he was sure.

He was more conservative and said there was only an 80% chance.

But after Lu Youqing lowered his head and pondered for a while, he shook his head and said, "We shouldn't bring out such things. Without a backer, even if you make it, it will only serve others. Wait a minute, and bring it out when the time is right."

Although agricultural machinery is not a focus of the court, the Ministry of Industry is the most low-key of the six ministries in the court. Even if she has not seen the harvester that Qin Ke mentioned with her own eyes, once such agricultural machinery comes out, it will definitely cause a stir and attract the attention of those people.

Qin Ke slapped his head in annoyance. Many times his ideas and ways of doing things were still out of tune with this era. Fortunately, there were people around him who could discuss things with him and give him advice.

"Let's ask first. Besides, the watermelons will be ripe soon. If someone notices our watermelon fields, we'd better take precautions."

He remembered hearing in modern times that families who grew watermelons would live in the fields at night when they were harvesting, for fear that someone would steal the watermelons. This was even more so in modern times.

Qin Ke didn't need to explain in too much detail, as the clever Lu Youqing understood it all at once, and she was more adapted to this era than he was. Although she was not very humanitarian, he could trust her more because he had someone else's indenture in his hand.

"Then let's pick one first. People have had a hard time in the past two years, and there have been many wars. Many families can't make ends meet and choose to sell themselves. It should be easy to choose. As for the carpenter, we'll look for one slowly." Lu Youqing's tone was flat, but when he talked about the state of the world, there was a hint of sigh and helplessness in it.

Qin Ke hugged her tightly. He knew that she was actually a kind-hearted person who cared about the people, but they were just ordinary people now and they could do nothing about those national affairs.

"Okay, I'll pick one out when I go to town in a couple of days."

"Ah."

The two of them got tired of chatting and fell asleep in each other's arms.