Regardless of the east, west, north and south, in fact, for the farmers in the countryside, the hulling, rice, and flour grinding are the same as the daily sweeping, sprinkling, cooking, and washing, and they are also the most ordinary but indispensable jobs. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And because the strong laborers of the family have to be busy with the farm work in the fields, return from sunrise to sunset, have a little farm idleness, and have to go out to subsidize the family, most of the work of suffering and grinding falls on the women and children of each family.

Although there are several water mills in Chongtang Town, they carry a load of rice in the early morning, and they don't even have to care, let alone contribute, and they usually come back with a load of white rice in the second half of the morning.

But the owner of the mill also has to live, and he works hard to grind rice and flour, and he is disgraced all day long, so he naturally has to be paid. The practice of Chongtang Mill is to either smoke one catty of 20 catties of rice, or negotiate the market price according to the market.

Wealthy families may not care about these catties of rice or a few coppers, but ordinary farmers are not blessed, so they can only contribute by themselves.

But often to scoop rice, first to peel the rice on the hull, with a windmill or manpower to lift the chaff, and then pour the grain into the treadmill, again and again, hundreds of times of continuous scooping.

When about two-thirds of the grains in the rice mill have been stripped of the rice bran and become rice, they start to sift the rice, sift it again, and then continue to scoop it, scoop it, sift it again, and finally sift the rice to become white rice.

It's manual work, and it's also quite tedious. If there is a water mill in the village, it is better, but if there is only a treadmill, usually just a rice dumpling and a stone of rice will take two people to step back and forth for three or four hours.

Grinding flour is even more troublesome, one person feeds the grinder, feeds the wheat into the grinding disc with a spoon by spoon, and one person pushes the grinding, and the wheat flour grinded out also has to be sifted over and over again.

Usually for two or three hours, half a stone of flour cannot be grinded.

Fortunately, in people with few mouths, they can basically eat for five, six, seven or eight days after scooping rice and grinding noodles once.

Although it is like suffering a serious illness, the arms and legs hurt everywhere, and the pain is several days, and then when it is just right, it will have to be grinded again.

But the people take food as the sky, no matter how painful and tired they are, they always have to eat.

And this is still a family with few mouths, a prosperous family like the Qin family, and it is a matter of three days and two ends.

However, what is very different from other people's families is that the men of the Qin family have taken on the work of grinding rice and flour, and only when they are really too busy will they agree to the women and children to do it.

And it is not as good as the entire Zhoujiawan, although basically every household has a stone mill, but the stone and the stepping mill are shared by the village. Because of Father Qin's ingenuity, the Qin family has their own simple but practical water scoop and wooden spoon.

Use it whenever you want, catch up with the summer harvest and autumn harvest, and don't have to queue up.

According to the family's previous plan, the mill mill was indispensable, but it was only planned to put a grinding water mill in the west cross courtyard as a sideline compound.

However, the income of the winter of the old year was really good, the net income of his own white celery, plus the commission of Qian Delong's white celery, it was enough to build two such houses, Qin Lianbao discussed with his brothers, and took a sum of money from Qin Lianhu to buy books. Qin Lianxiong was thinking about whether he could buy more family property, and although Qin Lianhu, who was in charge of supervising the construction of the house, Qin Lianlong, did not think about modifying the house sample drawings and carving them carefully, but he was also thinking about how to "spend money".

When I was stepping on the mill at night, I suddenly remembered why I didn't make a water mill at home.

In this way, they can also get rid of the manual work of grinding on the ridges.

With this kind of work, I can still do some side things.

But it is a gathering of responses, and the furniture is in agreement.

I thought I just wanted to get it, so I made a big one.

Although the wooden spoon water mill used by the Qin family before consumed very little water, it did not use a vertical water wheel and a large rotating shaft, but only needed a rod, a head, and a stone mortar.

Tie a large wooden spoon to the top of the pole, pour water into the wooden spoon, lose balance when the water is full, lift the head to a height of three feet, the water in the wooden spoon is covered out, and the head hits the rice in the stone mortar and begins to lick rice.

Although this kind of wooden spoon water mill does not cost work, the efficiency is also low, and it is enough for one's own family.

Although the principle is the same, the high-headed vertical water mill that is common in Chongtang Town requires water to give an impact force from the top of the water wheel to make the water wheel rotate.

In this way, it is necessary to build a dam and build a front pond. Although the water wheel rotates fast and produces enough force, the cost is too high, and there must be a big move.

After all, it is to build a dam on the Lianxi River, which is not an ordinary embankment to open the river, I am afraid that it is necessary to convene the villages along the river to negotiate.

So after thinking about it, the Qin family finally planned to build a horizontal water wheel water mill at the door of their home, which is what Qin Lianhu said about the three things of the water wheel.

Although pits and gates were also built, there was no need to build dams or ponds, and the water could hit the lower part of the wheel to generate power. Using the flowing water in the lotus stream, the output will not be small.

Moreover, in addition to installing the online mill, it can also drive the water mill and the water mill to rotate together.

Although the cost is not cheap, it is a good thing. Not only can it benefit its children and grandchildren, but it can also help its neighbors, and it will be convenient for others and themselves.

Qin Lianhu explained it to Guo Dalang.

Although Guo Dalang was born in Lianxi, he grew up in the capital, and he used more livestock in the north, but it was rare to see such a vertical and horizontal water wheel, and he was the first time to grow this insight on the way to the south.

Suddenly, he saw that the Qin family was also building a water mill, and planned to supply it to his neighbors for free, so he was even more interested in being curious, and couldn't help but take a closer look.

The craftsman who can build the water mill is as difficult to find as the craftsman in the house, Qin Lianxiong heard that at the end of March, he found an old craftsman, and after four or five months of busy work, the water mill has been half completed.

Guo Dalang has seen a lot of knowledge in the end, and at a glance he can see that the water mill in front of him seems to be very different from what he has seen before, and there are two large cams on the big reel.

Curious.

Qin Lianhu explained to him: "The upper and lower layers of the wooden cam are respectively driven by the lower layer of water mill and the upper layer of water mill water mill, if you do not use water mill and water mill, you only need to use water mill, then you can remove the three wooden teeth of the upper wooden cam, the upper and lower layers of wooden cam will be separated up and down, the upper cam does not need to rotate, and the hydraulic power can all act on the lower layer of water mill......"

Guo Dalang was amazed after hearing this: "It's not a whimsical idea, it can't be like this." ”

He turned around to look at the fort wall again, and couldn't help but take a long breath, and the last bit of worry about the Qin family in his heart disappeared. (To be continued.) )