After transmigrating into the body of a widow, I became the richest man in the capital.

Chapter 289 Homemade Rice Planting Tools
Today, Su Xiaoxiao spent the whole day in the fields with her ox, but in the end, it was all in vain because she couldn't grasp the knack of farming.

Su Xiaoxiao was so blinded by the morning sun that she couldn't open her eyes. By noon, the sun had become even more scorching.

She felt as if someone had stuck a heat pack on her back, which was burning her skin.

Sweat streamed down his face as if he had just taken a sauna, falling onto the ground in front of him.

There are indeed reasons why people don't like doing the work their ancestors did, like toiling in the fields, and instead want to be clean white-collar workers in big cities.

Some people really can't endure this kind of hardship.

However, going to big cities means dealing with backstabbing and scheming among people, and the mental anguish and torment you suffer are no less. It all comes down to personal choice.

After struggling in the field for half a day, Su Xiaoxiao finally couldn't hold on any longer and sat down on the edge of the field to drink water.

She gulped down cold water, drinking more than the ox she had just bought.

It seems like Su Xiaoxiao has never been this tired since her rebirth.

Bei Yan may not know how to plow the land, but he does know that mules are needed for farming.

He went to the market and bought a mule, saying it would help Su Xiaoxiao plow the fields.

Well, Bei Yan really knows how to pick things. This stubborn donkey perfectly inherited its ancestor's stubbornness and is completely unmanageable.

Su Xiaoxiao used every animal training language she could think of in her life.

They used commands from eight hundred years ago, like "De'er ji wo yu..." but the donkey just wouldn't listen. If they hit it too hard, it would just lie down on the ground and refuse to move, which is commonly known as giving up.

The word most young people use these days, "badass," is actually just laziness, something spoiled by parents.

People who constantly give up on life, feel they won't live much longer, and doubt whether they'll even live to sixty are actually more health-conscious than those born in the 90s and 2000s. They know how to take care of their health at a young age, and seek out all sorts of medicines to treat minor ailments. They use the best, eat the best, and are particular about the best. They enjoy life, know how to eat and play, so how could they not live long? Unless a world war breaks out one day and wipes them all out.

Otherwise, even if the King of Hell came, he couldn't change the record in the Book of Life and Death that they could live to be a hundred years old.

If a mule is slacking off and not working, you can't just use a whip.

If you try to outlast it, you'll only end up disappointed.

Su Xiaoxiao called out to Bei Yan, who was watching the scene from the edge of the field, "Hey, these are the livestock you bought. Come over and help me train them!"

Bei Yan came over and worried like a tiger, but she was actually not as good as Su Xiaoxiao. In the end, she was so exhausted that she collapsed on the ground and didn't move, panting heavily.

"Who bought this stubborn donkey?"

Su Xiaoxiao pointed at Bei Yan and said, "You."

Bei Yan quickly corrected herself, "No, I meant, who did this stubborn donkey take after? This stubborn temper..."

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao replied, "I don't know, maybe it's related to one's roots..."

The village head happened to pass by the field. He watched as Su Xiaoxiao and Bei Yan busied themselves, but they hadn't accomplished anything and were still in the stage of training the livestock.

He immediately came over to them and said, "You two, this isn't how you train livestock. Fine, I'll teach you a couple of tricks!"

Su Xiaoxiao and Bei Yan both looked at the village head. "Uncle Village Head, please tell us how to train it?" "If it doesn't listen and doesn't like to work, there's only one way: starve it. Don't feed it from today until tomorrow morning."

Did you hear that? If parents are a little ruthless, they can use a method on their children who like to slack off: starve them, don't give them food or money, and see if they still pretend or slack off.

The village head told the two men that training mules was not so simple. Before putting the mules on the ground, they had to put muzzles on them and not feed them grass. They would cooperate obediently the next day.

Upon hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao and Bei Yan exchanged bewildered glances, surprised that there were so many rules involved.

Thinking that the animal would obey him after he bought it from the market, he was surprised to find that it was a stubborn mule that he couldn't get to obey no matter what he did. This was really puzzling.

The village head went home to cook. After he left, Su Xiaoxiao was so tired that she didn't want to talk at all. She felt like she was completely out of sorts and her brain couldn't function.

The stubborn mule they had bought was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, as if to say, "Whatever, I'm like this."

Enraged, Bei Yan prepared to brandish her whip and continue striking the stubborn mule.

Finally, the stubborn mule looked at Su Xiaoxiao and the others with its big, teary eyes. Su Xiaoxiao was so angry that she had no choice but to stop Bei Yan and tell him not to hit the stubborn mule anymore.

In Baihua Town, double-cropping rice is grown. Rice is usually sown in March. Su Xiaoxiao and her team first prepare rice seedlings and then transplant them into the rice paddies.

Seeing the people around her bending over to scatter the rice grains while planting rice, Su Xiaoxiao asked the other farmers, "Is this what rice planting is like?"

"Yes."

The villagers answered.

"Wouldn't that be very hard on your back?"

Su Xiaoxiao thought that if she kept bending over like this, she would probably break her back.

In this day and age, a herniated disc is not easy to treat.

Bei Yan assured Su Xiaoxiao, "Don't worry about me, I'll take care of this. How can you let a woman do something like this?"

Bei Yan also displayed a manly spirit, taking the lead and saying he would help Su Xiaoxiao plant rice seedlings.

Su Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at him and said, "Are you stupid? Actually, you don't need to go to so much trouble. You have to be skillful when doing things. I remember there's a tool in my hometown that can grow rice like this, which can save a lot of trouble."

"really?"

Su Xiaoxiao had Wang Er design such a mold. It was a round mold with small holes, into which seeds could be placed, and the seedlings could be separated little by little inside the mold.

Su Xiaoxiao brought these tools, and Bei Yan found that transplanting rice seedlings had become much simpler this time.

This can be done simply by standing here, without having to bend over, making the whole person feel much more relaxed.

In Baihua Village, no one had ever seen rice seedlings transplanted like this before, and no one had ever seen such tools.

These people all came over to watch Su Xiaoxiao throw rice seedlings in the field, finding it very novel.

Finally, they all tried it out and found that this method of transplanting seedlings not only saved time, but also arranged the seeds neatly without any crookedness.

(End of this chapter)