I'm Hoarding for the Apocalypse - Chapter 433

Chapter 433: Threshing the Corn

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Just as Du Yue was about to go out and see if she could rent a machine in the base, she was mysteriously dragged to the utility room by He Xing. The storage room was very small, so it was not used when they were planting crops. Their supplies were basically placed in Du Yue’s space, so it was always empty. However, in the past few days, Du Yue often saw He Xing go there for a few hours. She did not know what he was busy with. He Xing had no intention of saying anything before, so Du Yue did not ask.

Now that He Xing was pulling her in, Du Yue could not help but be curious. “Why are you being so mysterious? What’s in the storeroom?”

He Xing did not answer her. Instead, he turned around and flashed her a bright smile. “You’ll know in a while.”

Looking at He Xing’s bright smile, Du Yue felt like her entire body was shaken.

As He Xing slowly pushed open the door of the utility room, Du Yue naturally saw what was inside. There were all kinds of tools in the utility room and some machines that Du Yue had never seen before. Du Yue was slightly stunned, but she quickly reacted. “Did you turn this place into a workshop?”

“That’s right. I also made a harvester,” He Xing said with a smile.

He Xing pointed at a blue machine beside him. Du Yue took a closer look. It was indeed exactly the same as the harvester she had seen in the video. This kind of small-scale harvester was about half the height of a person. There was a wide open mouth on it, which was used to put in the corn. There were openings at the front and back. The front would spit out corn kernels, and the back would spit out corn cobs.

Du Yue had often seen this kind of small harvester in videos before. Although its work efficiency was average and there would be dust from the corn cobs during use, it was still much less laborious than if they were to do it manually.

Du Yue’s eyes lit up as she looked at the small blue machine. “Is your machine as easy to use as the one in the video?”

He Xing did not answer. Instead, he curled his lips and revealed a meaningful smile. Du Yue understood what he meant just by looking at his arrogant expression. Du Yue smiled. “I was wrong just now. The machine you make must be the best in the world!” As soon as Du Yue finished speaking, He Xing revealed a satisfied smile.

The two of them carried the harvester to the living room. Du Yue laid a layer of plastic cloth on the ground and placed the harvester on it. Xia Ju heard the commotion and walked over curiously. “What is this?”

“A thresher! With this thing, we don’t need to use our hands to thresh the corn.” As Du Yue spoke, she turned on the power button of the harvester.

The moment it was turned on, the harvester vibrated. The sound was not very loud, at least much softer than in the video. Du Yue casually took a cob of corn and put it into the feed port. The machine made some sounds, and soon, complete kernels were spat out from the front, while a naked corn cob fell out from the back. The entire process only took about ten seconds.

This was the first time Xia Ju had seen a harvester work. She looked at the small pile of corn kernels on the ground in surprise, then looked at the bare corn cob and said excitedly, “It’s so awesome! I want to try too!”

Xia Ju excitedly took a cob of corn and put it into the feed port. Then, she obediently squatted at the side and watched how it spat out the kernels. Du Yue looked at her from the side and could not help but remind her, “Actually, you can put a few cobs in at once.”

Upon hearing this, Xia Ju’s eyes widened. She impatiently picked up another cob of corn and threw it in.

There were only about 200 cobs of corn in total. It did not take long before they were all thrown in.

Even after looking at the small mountain of kernels on the ground, Xia Ju was still not done playing. “We don’t have enough corn…”

It was such an interesting process, but it only lasted for a short ten minutes. What a pity. Du Yue looked at the pile of corn, and the smile on her face became even brighter. Even though she had never planted corn before, she knew that it was already very impressive for such a small batch to produce so much corn! These corn kernels were still a little wet, so they had to be dried again.

As for the corn cobs, they could be dried and used to light a fire. They were very good materials to start a fire with. There was no need to throw away the ashes. They could be left behind to mix with the seeds. The corn stalks could also be dried and burned, or cut down to feed livestock. Du Yue and the other two did not plan to raise livestock, so after they cut down the corn stalks, they placed them in the corner of the courtyard and let them dry. After they were dried, they could put them into the space..