The daily life of a peasant girl taking the imperial examination

Zhuge Fengshou was overjoyed. Not only did the clan chief and village head treat him with great respect, but on his way home, everyone in the village, young and old, greeted him warmly and praised him for being a blessed man with a good granddaughter and a good son.

At times like these, he felt that life was becoming more and more promising.

Looking at her grandfather, who was standing tall and looking more energetic than ever, Zhuge Yunshu couldn't help but exchange a glance with her father. They both saw genuine smiles in each other's eyes.

When they arrived at the gate of their own courtyard, Old Chen and the others were already chatting with the aunties from the same village in the general store.

Judging from the looks of it, he probably just got back not long ago.

"Uncle Fengshou, Laifu, and Dahua are back." The man hurriedly walked out.

Holding a bundle of things she had just bought, she said, "We ran out of needles and thread at home, so we came to your store to buy some. If you ask me, Laifu is really clever. This general store has everything from firewood and rice to oil, salt, needles and thread. It saves us so much trouble."

With that, he took his things and headed home.

Since the family opened a general store, her mother was in charge of it at first. But after her mother and father went to town to do business, her grandmother and two aunts took turns looking after it.

There was no other way; the three of them were all equally good at basic arithmetic, and when two of them were together, they could help each other fill in the gaps in their knowledge.

After resting for a while, Zhuge Fengshou took Zhuge Lairong and Zhuge Laihua to walk around the fields. Since the rice could be harvested at the end of the month, there wasn't much farm work to do at the moment.

Initially, Zhuge Yunshu planned to go with her grandfather and the others, but this was opposed by all the women in her family.

Grandma: "Scholars look better when they are fair-skinned."

Aunt: "You've finally gotten a bit fairer, don't let it get tanned again."

Second Aunt: "Dahua, listen to me, you're naturally prone to getting tanned..."

My cousins ​​said, "Grandma is right, fair skin covers up a hundred flaws."

Lin Si Niang: "...Hahaha."

Zhuge Yunshu: "..."

She really wanted to tell them that she could no longer get a tan no matter what.

But there was no other way.

"Host, don't be sad. In time, they'll know how fair and radiant you are," the system comforted.

Zhuge Yunshu: "..."

She wasn't a third wheel, so she wasn't comforted.

system:"......"

Its host is really hard to please, so it has decided to ignore its host for a day, no, for one night!

Zhuge Yunshu had no time to deal with the system; her mind was full of modern agricultural tools, or more accurately, agricultural machinery.

Her original suggestion to go to the fields wasn't to do farm work, but mainly to conduct on-site research and make some simple ancient farm tools based on modern farm implements, so that her family could have an easier time during busy farming seasons.

Ideally, she would use existing ancient materials to replace modern materials, but she knew it would be extremely difficult, and even if it were successfully made, she estimated that many problems would arise in practical applications.

After all, wooden shafts can't compare to iron ones.

Zhuge Yunshu thought that she would be returning to the town school to continue her studies tomorrow, and time was tight, so she could only make the drawings as detailed as possible. Next, she would have to rely on her capable grandfather and uncles.

And so, Zhuge Yunshu returned to his room, lay on his bed, and entered the system.

Enter keywords such as "evolution of ancient agricultural tools," "modern agricultural machinery," and "rice farming tools" in the "Modern Books" section.

I also found some books of the same type, such as "Tiangong Kaiwu" and "Tiangong Qishu".

After finding these, Zhuge Yunshu sat down at the desk in the system and began to study them carefully.

Because of the sheer volume of books, it took Zhuge Yunshu about ten hours to memorize them.

It was only after reading it that she realized she had advanced technology, but unfortunately, she couldn't find the corresponding materials.

With no other option, Zhuge Yunshu could only draw and revise on paper, revising and drawing again. After much revision, it took him eighteen hours to finally complete the design draft of the foot-operated simple millet hulling machine.

To make it easier for his grandfather and the others to see, Zhuge Yunshu drew almost every angle of the front view, side view, top view, perspective view, and sectional view. The annotations and dimensions were also very detailed. There were also enlarged drawings of some important nodes. In total, the whole set used about twenty A3 sheets of paper.

Perhaps inspired by her experience with hulling machines, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and spent more than ten hours drawing a set of blueprints for a foot-operated millet threshing machine.

After organizing all the blueprints, Zhuge Yunshu looked at her work with satisfaction. She hoped that her grandfather and the others would make these farm tools, since she had spent almost fifty hours making them and hoped that it wouldn't be a waste of time.

"Damn it, designing farm tools is such a waste of time," Zhuge Yunshu thought to himself.

She consulted countless documents, especially regarding material replacements and internal procedures.

She is now incredibly grateful that she had previously adjusted the time ratio in the system to 1:50, otherwise she really wouldn't have been able to do so much.

"Host, you should be content. Without the vast amount of data within this system, you wouldn't have been able to design these two farming tools. Besides, what you've done can't really be called 'design,' it's more accurately described as 'improvement,' turning complex modern mechanical farming tools into simplified versions of ancient farming tools..."

"You're just copying what others are doing. Host, you're still too inexperienced. That's why you need to read more and experiment more..."

Zhuge Yunshu: "..."

What should you do if you have a particularly meticulous and frustrating system?

That would be locking them in a dark room, of course.

And so, the system was once again locked up for two days for being so talkative.

Once outside the system space, she found herself lying in bed for an hour.

Zhuge Yunshu stretched his limbs, took out a stack of paper, and while his inspiration was still fresh, quickly drew out the blueprints for the windmill.

She thought that even after the millet was threshed and hulled, there would still be a lot of lighter husks and other debris inside. She thought she could use a hand-cranked fan to blow those debris away.

Zhuge Yunshu became more and more excited as he thought about it; this was yet another agricultural tool that would simplify labor.

Although the principle is simpler than that of a threshing machine and a dehulling machine, it is still a big project to actually draw it.

The most time-consuming part is its most crucial component – ​​the hand-cranked windmill. Zhuge Yunshu had to carefully consider the ratio and size between its bearings and fan blades, otherwise it would be easy for the center of gravity to become unstable.

So she looked up some modern windmill information in the system for reference, and after much deliberation, decided on the size.

Thus, by the time Zhuge Fengshou returned from the fields with Zhuge Lairong and Zhuge Laihua, she had only completed a quarter of the drawings.