Chapter 126: Wooden Fork

The rape harvested and transported back is not 'stacked', and is directly spread out on the threshing ground to dry.

The weather is good these days, and the sun is warm on the ground, which is the most suitable for harvesting and drying grain.

God gives face, Han Cheng naturally wants to carry it, if he doesn't hurry up and take advantage of this rare opportunity to dry the rape, wait a minute, God will be unhappy, it will be a big trouble when it rains.

After all, now is not the future generations, and when the grain is received in the wheat field in the future generations, it can be covered with plastic sheets and wait for the weather to clear.

Not now, not to mention plastic sheets, not even straw......

Once it rains, apart from rushing to transport some to the deer pen where Uncle Deer lives, Han Cheng really can't think of any other ways.

On the wheat field, a thick layer of rape has been spread, and under the sunlight of late spring and early summer, the water is rapidly steaming.

Han Cheng, who has not yet grown up, is holding a wooden fork in his hand and turning over the drying rape, while turning, he also tries to loosen the rape as much as possible, which is conducive to ventilation and speeds up the evaporation of water.

Han Cheng's right hand is in front and his left hand is behind, using a wooden fork to insert some rape, and then the right hand in front and close to the rape is slightly lifted up, and the left hand in the back is pressed down at the same time.

Then, on the basis of this position, tilt the top of the wooden fork slightly downward, shake it a few times in a row, and the rape on the wooden fork will fall off one after another, change to a comfortable position, and then enjoy sunbathing.

This kind of thing is not difficult for Han Cheng, who has been accustomed to farm work since he was a child, even if he is now considered a human being in two lives, it is still the same easy to turn up the field with a wooden fork.

The wood and others who have just begun to come into contact with these things are uncomfortable, how to use this strange-looking wooden stick, how to use it, how not to make it as fast as they can directly use their hands.

But the Son of God didn't allow them to do that, and they had to do these things with such a strange-looking stick.

Look at the strange stick that Miko called 'wooden fork' not far away, skillfully demonstrating Miko, while they were secretly amazed, they had to try to learn from Miko's appearance to do these things that they had never been exposed to.

Han Cheng flipped for a while, looked back at the clumsy use of wooden forks, laborious turning over rape wood and others, and couldn't help but sniffle, didn't he say, 'Crop work, you don't need to learn, what are people doing with us?' 'Why are these guys learning so slowly?'

This made Han Cheng, who wanted to teach them earlier, threw the wooden fork aside, and found a shady place to relax.

Alas, I am a tired life, and it is not easy to be a son of God and put on a coat of God.

He sighed with some peace of mind, wiped the sweat on his head, dragged the wooden fork with one hand, and walked to the wooden people to teach them hand-in-hand.

This wooden fork was specially made by Han Cheng to welcome the first grain harvested by the Qingque tribe.

The structure of the wooden fork is very simple, it is a wooden stick with a diameter of about four centimeters and a length of one meter five or six, and the top of the wooden stick is three forked wooden sticks with the thickness of the thumb and about 40 centimeters long.

Between the three sticks, there is a distance of about 20 centimeters.

These three are called 'fork teeth' (I don't know if it's the word), and the little stick is not straight between the wooden handle and the handle, but the three of them have a certain arc, which is curved downward, about ten centimeters deep, before extending forward.

And in the upper part of the place where the three 'forks' meet, there is a small wooden stick that protrudes upwards and is about two or three centimeters long.

This is done to make it easier for the wooden fork to shovel enough rape, and at the same time, it can also prevent the forked rape from slipping.

When Han Cheng was a child in later generations, every year when the wheat season was approaching, there would be a lot of people selling wooden forks on the street, as well as long-handled brooms, iron sickles, rakes, straw hats, whetstones, and other things related to farming.

At that time, the market was probably the most lively time except for the period before the Chinese New Year.

After all, every household has to go to the street to catch the market, more or less buy some things.

Otherwise, it will not be easy to wait until the wheat is opened, and then it will be difficult to find a free time to go to the street to catch the market.

In later generations, most of the wooden forks were made of mulberry wood, and those who specialized in the production of wooden forks generally had mulberry gardens, of course, which were different from the kind of mulberry gardens used to raise silkworms.

There are basically no large mulberry trees in the mulberry orchard where the wooden fork is produced, and they are all small mulberry trees.

In the first year, the mulberry tree is cut down at the roots, and many shoots will emerge in the spring of the next year.

When the shoots are normal, one or two straight and strong ones will be left behind, and the rest will be cut off from the roots.

When the remaining ones grow to a height of one or two meters, the head of the mulberry tree will be cut off from a place of one meter five or six above the ground.

After the head is cut off, after a while, new branches will emerge from here, and the branches will certainly not be one.

When the new branches are grown, the rest is broken, leaving only three that are about the same distance.

After a long time, the three wooden strips that are about to become 'forks' will be transformed, pinching them out of the required arc and fixing them, and after a while, they will remain in this position and will not change back.

In this process, a small wooden strip in a suitable position will be selected to remain, which is a small wooden bolt at the intersection of the three 'fork tines' at the top of the wooden fork.

When the mulberry forks are almost grown, they are cut down.

While they are not dry, take the skin and burn it in the fire, and take this opportunity to rest the imperfect places before, and when the mulberry wood is cool, the shape of the previous one will be completely fixed, and there will be no further changes.

Then the bark is peeled off, and the axe, planer and other tools are used to rest, and a wooden fork is born.

Han Cheng hadn't been here for a long time, and he hadn't thought about making a wooden fork before, until the rape flowers fell, and he didn't think about this stubble.

It is obviously impossible to make a wooden fork like that of the later generations.

But fortunately, there were a lot of trees in the primitive era, and after a lot of effort to find them, he finally found something that could be used.

After cutting it down with a stone axe, he took it to the outside of the tribal wall, raised a fire, and called for the help of the lame man who was getting carried away and burning his eyes on the wooden pillar to make a wooden ladder.

After burning it with fire, it began to transform the stick in the direction of a wooden fork.

Although the final wooden fork is not in very good condition, and it is slightly better than the defective products of later generations, it can still be used.

(The old book is finished today, and the two changes will start tomorrow.) )