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In the past, life was very hard. People were content as long as they had enough to eat and wore warm clothes. Therefore, having a granary stocked full of grain was of utmost importance to every household.

Every autumn, when it was time to harvest the wheat, families would hire itinerant grain harvesters to help gather the crop before the harsh winter arrived. After harvesting, the wheat would be dried under a few days of good weather before being stored in the granary.

Because the time was tight and these harvesters worked for many families, having a threshing machine was absolutely indispensable for people in the surrounding villages.

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Gaocheng is a small town located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, known for its beautiful environment and pleasant climate.

The land here is fertile and well-suited for agriculture; rice is planted in spring and wheat in autumn, making it a place abundant in produce.

Huixiang is a small village under Gaocheng, surrounded by rivers with excellent soil quality. Each household in Huixiang owns several dozen acres of farmland.

Every harvest season, the villagers of Huixiang would be overwhelmed with busy activity, rushing to collect the wheat from the fields.

Gathering the wheat was solved by hiring more harvesters, but once the wheat was brought home, it needed to be processed quickly.

At this time, families without threshing machines would envy those who had them.

Owning a threshing machine meant being able to quickly separate the wheat grains from the stalks. After drying in