Shao Man, who was full of food and drink, was not slow, and the first place he wanted to go to was Pingxian, the closest to here.

From Pingxian County to the northwest, it used to be Liaocheng County.

Due to the proximity to the water transport wharf, most of the villagers in this village are people who beg for a living on the wharf.

Compared with those peasants who only live on a few plots of land, their lives are relatively spacious.

If the crux of the problem can be found in this village, then Shao Manchu does not need to go to the other two villages to take a look.

'Click, click......'

In early spring, before the ground begins to thaw, tenacious grass emerges from the surface.

This touch of green, a symbol of warmer days, also allows those farmers to open their doors to do some outdoor work according to the good afternoon sun.

No, a few half-grown children, carrying baskets and sticks in their hands, laughed and ran to the edge of the field, or brought a bowl of hot water to the family members working in the field, or helped the adults in the family to move some stones turned out during the reclamation.

The women who stayed at home to do their work looked at the back of their own boys, scolded, told them to be careful, and then took out some low stools, sat at the gate of the courtyard, and began to busy their household work.

Walking here, Gu Zheng stopped leaving.

If you enter someone else's village, if you just wander around, you will cause unnecessary trouble for yourself, and if you want to see something, you only need to squat here to see clearly.

No, a family not far from the entrance of the village gave Shao Manchu the answer he wanted.

The mistress of the house, after seeing off the older children, walked to the side of the courtyard gate, and closed the open door on one side, revealing a millstone hidden behind the door.

The volume of this grinding disc is not large.

It is also the size of the basin that Shao Man hoards when he gets up in the morning.

I saw the woman go to the millstone, take off a small broom with bamboo branches hanging behind the courtyard gate, and sweep the millstone from the inside out.

Then she returned to the house, and came out again, one in one hand, and one in the other.

The reason for the return, needless to say, is naturally to use this small stone mill to grind grain.

Shao Manchu, who was squatting on the ridge of the field, looked at the woman's next movements with a good look.

'Brush Lala, Brush Lala......'

The grinding disc is not light, but it is not a matter for farmers who are used to doing heavy work.

The golden wheat grains were thrown down from the grinding plate, and with the back and forth gurgling and grinding, they were ground into some yellowed coarse slag.

'Rustle......rustle'

The peasant woman didn't grind much wheat, and Shao Manchu looked at it, and it was only three or four taels at most.

After a few turns, the little half-sack of wheat was coarsely ground for the first time.

At this time, the peasant woman took the grinding dregs back into her pocket, opened her mouth, and poured them into the grinding mouth while the grinding disc was still gurgling.

'Brush, brush, ......'

This time, the wheat that came out again was a little more smooth, and the wheat residue, which was originally rough and bouncing around, had become flour that could slide down the stone mill.

Looking at this appearance, this is the rough surface of the second mill, which is the coarsest in the big mill.

It is in line with the standard of the fee: a big son.

"Alas......"

Shao Manchu sighed.

Because of this, the peasant woman stopped grinding, and she still swept the grinding disc again with her original broom.

Shao Manchu just watched her clean the inside and outside of the stone grinding cracks, and then swept out the noodles of two coins from it.

Got it, what else don't you understand?

Seeing this, Shao Manchu stood up and walked towards the house of the person who had just finished grinding the noodles.

"Auntie is fine, can I ask you about something?"

Hearing a strange voice suddenly sound behind her, the woman first turned back in surprise, and then saw a small boy standing behind her, so she slowly relaxed her vigilance.

She looked at Shao Manchu's peasant-like complexion and Zhou Zheng's gown, so she responded: "What do you want to ask?"

Seeing that the other party did not simply and rudely close the door, Shao Manchu's smile was even more honest, he bowed his waist slightly, and asked, "Auntie, I want to ask, but every family in our village has this millstone?"

Hearing Shao Manchu's opening, the peasant woman showed a sudden expression, and the next answer suddenly became enthusiastic, she pointed to the stone mill beside her and said, "Hey, you ask this, there are no people in the village." ”

"No, thanks to the first master of Chujia Town, who wants to repair his own courtyard, in the second half of the year before last, some craftsmen in our village moved over one after another to live for a while. ”

"There were a few stonemasons who, in their spare time, chiseled and polished a few stones from the river in the village into stone mills of various sizes. ”

"They don't care whether they collect money or goods, and they can exchange rice and eggs for stone grinding. ”

"No, the people in the village see that it is very convenient, and if they have a little condition, they will put it at home and replace it with one. ”

"Although not every household has this now, there are seven or eight millstones in our village. ”

Hearing this, Shao Manchu swept his gaze towards the interior of the village.

Just look at the village is not big or small, but it is impossible to stop all the business with just seven or eight grinding plates, right?

The woman looked at Shao Manchu and looked into the village, and said a few more words for him.

"What? Are you looking for the stonemason who made the grinding disc? Don't look for it, I heard that the courtyard of the first master has been repaired, and the craftsmen who came out to beg for work have also left us in the past few days and returned home. ”

"Young man, I've been staring at this millstone for a long time, do you have any grain to grind at home?"

"Then you don't need to buy another millstone just for that. ”

"I look at you, you're not a descendant of our village, are you?

"If it's not far away, you can carry the grain over and grind it with the grinding disc of your aunt's house. ”

"If you finish grinding, you can take it and leave, and you don't need money! If it's more, you can go to the other side of the village."

A family bought a big grinding disc and took the lead donkey, and he didn't charge money, but he didn't sweep the scum left over after grinding the grain. ”

"Those scum are borrowed from the millstone. ”

This!

"What's going on, auntie!"

Shao Manchu subconsciously refused.

But the peasant woman on the other side behaved as a matter of course: "What's not going to do this? Borrowing a grinding plate is not borrowing my family's grain." ”

"This stone pier, even if you grind a hundred catties of noodles, it can't be broken. ”

"Just use, just use. ”

Well, I get it.

There are seven or eight families in a village who have prepared grinding discs, isn't it equivalent to the whole village grinding noodles without having to go out of their way to find a big mill to spend money?