I have been farming since I crossed over.

The two joked for a while before reluctantly parting.

The days slipped away like fine sand, and in the blink of an eye, it was Qingming Festival. The sky was always gloomy, as if covered by a thin veil, and a drizzle would fall from time to time. Such weather made people feel a little depressed, but for Yang Mingxi, it was also a time to make a decision.

She approached Yang Mingjiang and discussed putting their stall on hold. After all, they couldn't keep it running due to a lack of supplies. Furthermore, with the Qingming Festival approaching, the unpredictable weather and the threat of rain made business increasingly difficult. This was especially true for popular snacks like fried potatoes, which sometimes only managed to sell around 100 kilograms in an entire day, leaving a pitifully low profit.

In mid-April, Lu Jintang's family transplanted all the seedlings they had planted earlier, leaving some for the Yang family.

The first batch of rice planted by the Yang family will be ready for harvest in about five days.

Yang Mingxi found Yang Laowu and said, "Dad, it looks like the rice is ready for harvest. Lu Jintang's rice seedlings are just right for us to plant the next wave of seedlings. But the harvesting time needs to be shortened, and we need to fertilize the paddy fields. It should be completed in ten days at most. Otherwise, the seedlings will be too big and the survival rate will be low."

After hearing this, Yang Laowu was shocked and said, "In ten days, the rice can't even be harvested. How can we add fertilizer and plant more seedlings? This is simply impossible."

Yang Mingxi said, "We can provide the rice seedlings that we planted together last time, but they have to harvest ours first. Please ask them to exchange their work for the seedlings!"

Yang Laowu said, "We can harvest the rice, but we don't have a large drying ground to grind the grains. If we harvest the rice and leave it there, it will get moldy."

Yang Mingxi was stunned. Grinding grains with a grinding barrel was such a waste of time! After thinking for a moment, he said, "Don't worry about it. Just find a good person. I'll take care of the rest. By the way, Dad, I'll make you vomit until you're fat!"

Yang Laowu said: "I think there is no problem. I also added the feces of those sheep, and the effect is quite good."

Yang Mingxi nodded, and then said: "I will go to my fifth uncle and ask him to help make a thresher, and then I can solve the problem of grinding the grain."

Yang Mingxi found Uncle Wu Wu and briefly explained to him the principle of the manual thresher to see if he could make it.

After listening to what Wu Wu said, "The trough at the back is simple, just a simple box, but the rotor at the front is a bit more complicated. If it's made of iron, so much iron is very expensive. If it's made of wood, the gears are also a problem. The most important thing is the gears, as the friction of the gears is the greatest. And there's also the connecting belt between the gears. Cloth belts definitely won't work. I'm afraid it's going to have to be cowhide."

After listening to this, Yang Mingxi nodded and said, "Fifth Uncle, you're amazing. This is how it's going to be. You can make it with wood first, and I'll find a way to get some iron gears. But we'll also make a few more wooden ones so we can use them together when the time comes."

"Okay, I'll do my best to make as many as I can. You figure out the rest."

Yang Mingxi nodded and said, "Okay, thank you for your hard work, Fifth Uncle. You can also make more to sell. I won't charge you." After that, he laughed out loud.

Yang Mingxi arrived at the Lu family courtyard by the river. Lu Jintang was there. He smiled and led her in, saying, "You missed me, and you actually came here on your own initiative?"

Yang Mingxi laughed and said, "Yes, I missed you. Don't you welcome me? If you don't welcome me, I'll leave."

Lu Jintang quickly stood up and said as he tried to pull Yang Mingxi over, "How could that be? Can't you see I'm already out? Come and sit down."

Yang Mingxi took the opportunity to say, "That's more like it. What are you busy with?"

Lu Jintang said, "I've seen that our chickens, ducks, rabbits, and pigs are all growing well, so I'm thinking of opening a snack street and a restaurant. Haven't you already sent out the promotion? Is the Dragon Boat Festival snack street opening?"

Yang Mingxi nodded and said, "Yes! But the most important thing now is to harvest the rice and bitter melons. These must be processed before the Dragon Boat Festival."

Lu Jintang said, "Is your rice ready to be harvested? I haven't been there for a few days, so it should be four or five days away! Jiahang lent me a group of people who can be used for your family expenses first, and they also have mules. If we rush them all over, we should be able to finish the harvest quickly."

Yang Mingxi was delighted and said, "That's great! I was just worried about not having enough manpower and mules."

Lu Jintang looked at Yang Mingxi lovingly and said, "What's mine is yours, and what's yours is still yours. Just use it and don't feel embarrassed."

Yang Mingxi smiled awkwardly and said, "I came to see you for another matter. It's a thresher for threshing grain. I saw that people use it very simply, but now I'm short of something. I wonder if you can find it for me."

After listening, Lu Jintang sat up and said, "Tell me what you need. If you can't find it, go find Tang Jiahang. His achievements are his, and he will be happy to help."

When Yang Mingxi heard this, she was so stupid. Where was the official who was her father? If she didn't look for him now, when would she look for him?

He quickly smiled and said, "Then let's go there now and take a look at the snack street and restaurants. We can also go to Master's Aunt to see if there are any ducklings, chicks, or piglets. Aren't there enough?"

Lu Jintang was delighted when he heard this. He was just about to tell her this. The chicks and ducklings that Yang Mingxi brought over were less than two months old, but they already weighed three or four pounds. They were plump and perfect for frying. The ducks, in particular, grew very fast and were about five pounds. If they were to lay eggs, they would still have a few days to do so, but for frying, now was the best time. The piglets were also almost two hundred pounds. If they were to be raised for another month, three hundred pounds would be no problem at all. The rest would have to be raised in batches to avoid a shortage.

After thinking about this, Lu Jintang said, "Okay, let's go, let's go now!"

Yang Mingxi was dumbfounded. She had just thought about restoring the credit value of the space, so why did he need to borrow things again?

In the past month, the fields have been planted with rice, corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes, and I have just paid off the space debt. Fortunately, the animals and plants are separated, and I still have some animal seedlings left.

The two of them came to the county and told Tang Jiahang about the thresher. Tang Jiahang was very interested and immediately sent someone to take Tie and Yang Mingxi back to Changshan Village.

At noon the next day, a manual thresher exactly the same as the one in the 1990s appeared in Yang Mingxi's yard. Tang Jiahang named it: thresher.