Chapter 53: The Mill of Grain
In the next time, Lin Bin and his grandmother worked together to get the wheat to the grain mill.
Speaking of the grain mill, earlier, the rural mill used stone rollers "Lu Jie", about 60 or 70 centimeters thick, about 1 meter long, and the center of the circle on both sides was inlaid with concave iron, which was called "Lu Qi Eye". Make a wooden frame according to the size of "Lu Jie", called "Dial" in the local language, and install iron pestles on both sides of the "Dial", and the pointed end is facing the "Lu Jieyan", and the ox can pull it to grind the field. When grinding the field, one person put on a hanging "Lu Qi", shouting the ox (donkey) in the wheat field round by circle, the local language is called "Lu Luqi".
The cow (donkey) is a straw hat made of wheat straw, which is tied to the cow's eye with a thin rope, probably to prevent the cow from eating wheat or afraid that the cow will faint.
Take a rock rock to pick up cow (donkey) dung, so that the dung does not fall into the grain.
Later it was so, because of technological development and progress.
Nowadays, it is basically threshing machine dewheating, and tricycles are more fuel-intensive. Farmers sometimes feel more expensive.
In the first half of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the wheat in the fields is basically finished, and the usually empty places under the eaves and on the floors of each house are tightly stacked with wheat bundles, and people are preparing to remove the wheat while resting. The process of de-microwatting requires the cooperation of many people, so each family exchanges help for helpers, and the villagers are kind, and no one refuses to greet them in an emergency.
I'll grind it first, and you slow down
After more than an hour, it's time to "pick the scene" and "turn over". It looks simple, but in fact, this thing can be regarded as a technical job.
In the middle of the day, the field was late. A group of men and women began to "start", after rolling and threshing the wheat straw is called wheat straw, first use a wooden branch to pick the wheat straw into a long, and then use the "picking" to clear the field. The shape of the "picker" is similar to that of "Lala", but it is much smaller than that of "Lala", and it is very lightweight, flexible and practical to run in the yard by a person. People pull the wheat straw that has been milled two or three times to the side of the field and pile it up temporarily, so that they can be picked up in the future and used for other purposes, but most of them are used as firewood for daily cooking in the village. The countryside is not as good as the city, there is no gas, gas, etc. Even the people in the village can't afford it.
After cleaning up the wheat straw, the yard is a thick layer of wheat, and people use "pushing" to pile the wheat together, and when the breeze rises in the afternoon, they begin to "raise the field".
"Yangchang" is a technical work that pays attention to "style", usually two people cooperate, one "Yangchang", one "plays".
The person who "lifts the field" holds a wooden lift, pokes a wood on the wheat pile and lifts the wheat, and the wheat is very cleverly lifted in the wind, the wheat is fan-like and evenly spread out in the air, and the wheat grains are separated from the wheat bran with the help of the wind, and the wheat grains fall on the upper wind, and the wheat bran falls on the downwind. Standing in the limelight, with a bare back and a big broom in his hand, he kept waving on the wheat pile, sweeping out the weeds mixed in the wheat pile, and the wheat pile was full of clean wheat grains.
The whole process of "raising the field" is a dozen and a dozen, with tacit understanding, swaying freely, to the wonderful place, there are people next to cheering, the person who raises the field is more and more proud, and the wheat grains in the air fall down like a goddess scattering flowers. It seems that this process is simple, but it is still difficult to implement, Lin Bin still can't do it with his current physical condition, so he can only do some odd jobs on the side.
Before it gets dark, everyone races against time to put the sun-dried wheat into their pockets, and the summer rain is coming, so work quickly, if the wheat is accidentally blown by the rain, it will not be sold at a high price.
What children are most afraid of is to help adults open their pockets, a smell of earth, and with the process of adults bagging (xian) rural vernacular. And then it came to the face. But I still have to endure sacks of stuffing in. Lifting, a rural vernacular, is similar to a shovel in the city, and the rural people themselves make it out of wood. It's called a wooden shovel.
After all the newly cut wheat is milled, the "wheat picking" begins, that is, the wheat straw that has been incomplete after the first rolling is dried and rolled again. The process of "picking wheat" is the same as the previous time, but the quality of the wheat is much worse. The wheat straw after sorting is relatively soft, and the stack is rectangular "wheat straw (zi)", which is used to feed cattle or sheep in the future, and to feed livestock in the future. At this point, the farm work in the wheat mill is over. The next step is to dry and sell, or put it in the warehouse and keep it for your own daily life. The wheat is threshed by the machines in the town to make the flour.
This series of vivid scenes has become a testimony to the hard work of the farmers in the village.
Lin Bin remembers that when he returned to his hometown in later generations, it was difficult to see traditional farm tools such as "wheat cutting sickle", "lala", "picking branches", "luqi", "dialing", "wooden lifting", "wooden branches" and "pushing and chopping" in the countryside of his hometown. In some villages, there are not even many cattle breeders, and with the acceleration of urbanization, the children born to people from rural areas to the city do not know what the mill is all about. Lin Bin, who has lived a lifetime, is deeply touched by these things, and he clearly knows that with the development of the country, not only the development of cities has been developed, but also the development of rural areas has made great progress. In a few years, these will be replaced by agricultural machinery. The development of the times is changing with each passing day, not only the Internet and industry in the city have been developed, so that the people in the city can enjoy many benefits of development, but Lin Bin clearly knows that even if rural agriculture has developed, farmers are still at the bottom of the society.
The wind was light, the sun was light, and it spilled through the cracks in the leaves, leaving a patch of patches. Listen to the clatter of leaves and the chirping of knowledge, and the singing of crickets, crickets and frogs in the fields. Nostalgia for so many years of time, blooming in the depths of the years, accustomed to lighting a lamp at night, waiting for the fate of a lifetime, even if the years have slipped away silently and gently, the kite has disappeared in the distant sky, there are always some unconcealed pains in this chaotic world, and there are always some bumpy roads to go in the sad era!
Even if he lives again, Lin Bin has many emotions that are difficult to abandon, when the past comes to mind one by one. When I experienced everything from my childhood again, things are still the same, but my mind has changed. Lin Bin understands that even if he is reborn, the road ahead is quite bumpy, where did he come from, because of his prophet, he can God block and kill God, and Buddha can block and kill Buddha. But knowing that the road ahead is dangerous, he is not just a person, what does he have. It's not just about achieving self-success. When he saw the hard work of the farmers, thought of their simplicity, and recalled the performance of some people in later generations, those people flaunted their wealth, wasted, and trampled on the fruits of others' labor at will, Lin Bin felt that he had a great responsibility on his shoulders. One day, through hard work. Lin Bin will let them understand what respect is and what it means to be poor. **Silk can also be counterattacked. What is called thirty years in the east of the river, thirty years in the west of the river. "Xiaobin, eat" Lin Bin's memories and feelings were awakened by his grandmother's scream, and after waking up, Lin Bin smiled and clenched his fists. Walking into the house with a firm step. If someone saw the current Lin Bin at this time, they would be surprised. The current Lin Bin is completely different from the Lin Bin just now.
During the meal, the grandmother said, "Xiaobin, eat more, I have tired you in the past two days." ”
"Grandma, we're done with the field, what are we going to do next?"