With two rice threshing machines, life became much easier for the Zheng Family. Still, Qingmu sent one over to Zhang Huai, telling him to quickly finish harvesting the rice from his few acres of fields so he could come help the Zheng Family while his father plowed and harrowed.
Zhang Huai had already been planning to help him out once his own work was done, and with the threshing machine, it would be even quicker.
He and his parents stored the rice from their acres in the granary. Then, as Qingmu had instructed, he carried the threshing machine over for Zhao San to use. Afterward, he went to lend the Zheng Family a hand, while his father, Zhang Dashuan, plowed and harrowed the fields in preparation for transplanting the rice seedlings.
Even before Zhao San could come over to help, the Zheng Family had finished threshing all their rice. There was simply no comparison between machine and manual threshing.
