Chapter 65: Don’t Want to Cut Sugarcane

When the other ladies saw the captain, they hurriedly asked, “Captain, are you not feeling well?”

Because Li Guawan’s expression was too sad and there were a few enthusiastic aunties around him, Chu Yuan silently closed his mouth with his hands, saying, “Captain, don’t worry, I won’t say anything.”

But Li Guawan was really scared. He stared without blinking, afraid that Chu Yuan would say something scary again.

The ladies around saw the team leader here and did not chat, but recorded the work points and left.

Chu Yuan waited until Mo Xi came before leaving reluctantly. Seeing this, Li Guawan breathed a sigh of relief and left.

After wiping the sweat off his forehead, he finally sent this living devil away.

Chu Yuan and Mo Xi were walking towards the educated youth point.

“I think the captain is afraid of you. He’s afraid that you’ll say something shocking.”

Chu Yuan looked like a scoundrel, but he still spoke without hesitation, “What’s shocking? I’m just telling the truth.”

Chu Yuan swore that she had not exaggerated what she said. She was very good at reading comprehension, and she had pondered over the words of the aunties and understood their true meaning.

Every word he said was well-founded, no wonder the captain was so scared.

Mo Xi smiled and said, “Did you go to town to play yesterday?”

“I didn’t play. I didn’t want to go to work. I went to catch pheasants with the kids in the afternoon.”

Hearing that Chu Yuan didn’t want to say more, Mo Xi didn’t ask any more questions. The two of them just talked about the interesting things that happened today and walked back to the educated youth point.

Chu Yuan took a shower and lay on the bed with the fan on.

Now I’m not even in the mood to eat delicious food. It’s true that I’ve been working for a long time and I’m not in the mood to do anything.

After working for a few days in a row, we encountered the most frustrating task: harvesting sugarcane.

Chu Yuan looked at the endless sugarcane field in front of him with a confused look on his face, feeling mixed emotions. This harvest came so suddenly.

Mo Xi handed over the sickle, and Chu Yuan took it with a confused look on his face, “What is this for?”

“Cut the sugarcane.” Mo Xi seemed to be afraid that Chu Yuan didn’t understand, so he showed her how to do it.

Chu Yuan was so shocked that he couldn’t speak, “That’s what you mean.

We use this thing to chop sugar cane one by one! ? “

Mo Xi nodded. Isn’t this how sugarcane is harvested?

Chu Yuan felt like the sky was falling. How long would it take to harvest the crops at this rate? Thinking about the rice and wheat ahead, Chu Yuan became more and more frustrated.

“Isn’t there any machine specifically for harvesting sugar cane?”

Mo Xi shook her head. She had never heard of special machines for harvesting sugarcane since she was a child. Everything was done by manpower, such as cutting down the sugarcane stalks one by one, pinching off the tips, and then bundling them into twenty-one bundles.

“Don’t even think about it. If there were special machines, they would have been taken out long ago. We need to hurry up and harvest them in the next few days. Otherwise, the sugarcane won’t last long if the weather gets bad. The moisture inside will disappear, and every piece of sugarcane will be scrapped.”

Listening to Mo Xi’s words, Chu Yuan faced for the first time how backward this country was. Even the farm tools were only good enough for hand-cutting, let alone some major inventions.

Chu Yuan could imagine how this country’s early development was like.

It’s all done by hand.

Thinking of this, Chu Yuan truly felt that this country was awesome.

Although she was short of money in Interstellar, she had to work by hand, but she had some information for herself to look up, so she didn’t work blindly.

But here, Chu Yuan saw that nowhere was rich and everywhere was still developing. There was no information to refer to at all. He could only rely on his own brain to calculate and get the accurate answer before putting it into practice.

Chu Yuan sighed, lowered his head and tried it.

The first time, it didn’t cut.

The second time, it stuck. The third time, the sickle stuck on the stick fell off.

Chu Yuan stared at the bare wooden stick. Mo Xi, who was standing beside him, straightened up and saw this scene.

He smiled and stuck the sickle back, then knocked it against the stone a few times to make it stick more tightly, “You need to cut sugarcane quickly and with great force, otherwise it will get stuck easily.

And you need to dig up the surrounding soil first, leaving 7-10cm of roots.”

Chu Yuan nodded as if he understood, dug up the soil to expose the roots, and then started to chop the sugarcane. This time he managed to chop it, but it hurt his palms.

Mo Xi gave a thumbs up without hesitation and continued to do his work.

Chu Yuan didn’t say anything, but just buried his head and worked hard to cut sugarcane, one after another, and stacked them neatly aside. His knuckles had been shattered red, and the initial pain had begun to become numb.

I don’t know how long I kept doing this, but Mo Xi’s voice came, “Chu Yuan, take a break and drink some water.”

Hearing this voice, Chu Yuan’s taut nerves loosened, and he instantly felt the pain in his hand very clearly. His hands were trembling as he took the water handed to him by Mo Xi.

The two men didn’t mind the dirt at all and sat directly on the ground. They took off their straw hats and used them as fans. The sun was scorching overhead and the farmers on the ground were racing against time to cut sugarcane.

Chu Yuan looked at this scene, which was a scene she had never seen in the interstellar space.

Everyone was working under the scorching sun, but they never stopped. More and more sugarcanes were piled up. Some felt tired and drank some water, but they continued to work hard while looking at the endless sugarcane fields.

It’s not that they don’t feel tired, they just feel that this is their harvest.

It is a symbol of whether or not the family will go hungry next year and whether the children in the family can have enough food to eat.

Maybe they could make more so their children could eat more.

“In fact, there is nothing wrong with going to the countryside, the folks are very simple and honest, and they are willing to treat others with kindness.

They are all working hard for their families.”

Mo Xi was also sweating profusely, but the villagers’ struggle was more moving.

Chu Yuan nodded, “Just a little tired.”

Mo Xi laughed out loud when he heard this, “To earn food, there is nothing that is not tiring.

It’s like working in a supply and marketing cooperative in a town, but you still have to explain things to customers and stand all day, which is tiring.

The same is true for workers in factories. They also go to work on time every day and do a fixed amount of work.

Everyone is tired, but this is a tiredness that allows us to see the future, and this kind of tiredness has a purpose.”

The sunlight shines on Mo Xi’s face, and she looks so great at this moment.

So this is what this era is like.

She is not gray, she is bright, and everyone is working hard to spread the light across the earth.

but–

Cutting sugarcane is so tiring! !
Chu Yuan raised his hand and couldn’t stop shaking. This was a natural reaction when the body was tired.

Maybe, I don’t have to be so tired.

Machines can replace manpower and reduce human pressure.

Sugarcane machine!
The sugarcane is sucked into the operating workshop by pressure, and then the tip and root are separated in the operating workshop. The prepared sugarcane is spit out intact, completing the sugarcane harvest.

If you need to cut it, place the blade in the operation workshop, and then release it after cutting, which will save time and effort.

This greatly reduces manpower and speeds up sugarcane harvesting.

Then the loss of sugarcane will be reduced to a very low range. Will this mean that everyone will get more food?
#Before the 20s, almost all sugarcane harvesting was done manually, which was inefficient, labor-intensive and costly. From the 40s to the 20s, Australia and the United States gradually realized the mechanization of sugarcane harvesting#
#Although rice is the main crop in the south, wheat has a long history of cultivation#