Chapter 83: Stone Mill
"That's it?" Yu Wuya looked unfinished.
"Let's go back to sleep, if we go back late, maybe all the wheat in the house will be wiped out by the mountain disaster!" Uncle Ma stood up and waved his hand, although the villagers were also reluctant, they still left one after another with water cups and children.
The story is good, but it is still not on the same level of demand as food.
"Brother Xu, let's continue to talk about the water in the back, is it okay?" Niu Dashi was reluctant to go home with the sleepy Xiaochun in his arms.
"You're not tired, I'm still tired, go back to sleep!" Chen Xu didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and went to fetch water to wash.
"It's good, the story of Engong is just like a fantasy, it's too unbelievable, I think that Bai Suzhen has been a snake spirit who has attained Taoism for thousands of years, and he still can't beat a small medicine-keeping fairy child in Kunlun Mountain, but I don't know how many years that fairy child has been in the Tao, and the Antarctic fairy who rode a crane is afraid that his mana is even more profound, and I don't know where it came from...... Engong, why have I never heard of these mythical characters you mentioned? Didn't you ......make it up?"
Lying on the mat, Yu Wuya was like a big horse monkey and couldn't fall asleep over and over, looking at the roof with his eyes open.
"It's late at night, go to sleep, when it's true, it's true and false, there's nowhere to do it, it's just a story, why take it seriously!" Chen Xu closed his eyes and turned over and muttered, then his snort gradually sank, and soon he began to snore slightly.
"When the fake is true, the truth is also false, and there is no place for inaction, and there is no ......"
In the next room, on Chen Xu's bed, the water of meditation was still unsettled, and he gently muttered two sentences through the wall, and after lying down, a pair of big eyes opened wide, and he looked at the stars and moon light that came in slightly through the blinds and began to be in a daze, full of worries and couldn't sleep.
That Fahai will definitely not spare Bai Suzhen, I don't know what the ending of the story will be tomorrow?
And she also has the same guess as her senior brother in her heart, where did he know about this unbelievable story? Looking at the way he came to it when he told it, the possibility of making it up by himself was almost zero, could he really be a disciple of the Immortal Family?
When Chen Xu woke up, it was already bright again.
Since traveling to this era, except for the first few days when he was a little uncomfortable and didn't sleep well, Chen Xu recently found that he had slept more and more peacefully, sleeping until dawn every day, and waking up refreshed in the morning.
Without the kind of early and late return in later generations, there is no such busy survival pressure, although he is still working hard every day, but his spirit is fuller, this month, he feels that his soul is as relaxed as being reborn.
The air is fresh, the water is clear, the environment is beautiful, and waking up every day is a new beginning, which is fundamentally different from the pressure of working hard to buy a car and a house in later generations.
Being poor and happy may be the best portrayal of life right now.
Yu Wuya was still yawning with two dark circles under his eyes.
Shui came out of the room after gently dressing up, looking at Chen Xu who was stretching his waist and kicking his legs to exercise, a pair of bright big eyes revealed a brilliance that he had never seen before, his face was a little more charming, and his eyes were a little more gentle.
Two days later, the enigmatic teenager had completely changed her initial opinion.
Because the wheat has been harvested, there is no need to work in the field for these two days, only the wheat kernels need to be taken out to dry.
So after having breakfast and moving the wheat baskets out to dry, Chen Xu began to make grinding racks again under the urging of Yu Wuya.
It was busy until almost noon, the grinding frame was finally made, and the two stone mills were successfully put on the grinding frame to be perfectly combined, and a thumb-thick hemp rope was tied on the beam of the pergola, and the height was adjusted and then hung with the T-shaped connecting rod for pushing and grinding, and the connecting rod and the grinding arm on the grinding disc were connected together, and a pair of composite stone mills commonly used in later generations were all completed.
"Phew~" Chen Xu spit twice into the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands and grabbed the T-shaped handle, and then pushed hard, accompanied by the rattling sound, the grinding disc weighing dozens of kilograms was slowly pushed, and then stopped after a few laps.
The newly made stone grinding teeth are very rough, and the resistance caused by the friction of biting together is very large, Chen Xu's body is not the one-meter-eight adult body of the later generations, and the thin arms and legs can't last long at all, and seven or eight laps is almost the limit.
"Huhu, Brother Yu, you come!" Chen Xu gasped and shook his sour arm and said helplessly.
"How?" Yu Wuya jumped over excitedly and grabbed the handle.
Chen Xu pushed the grinding arm of the stone mill back to its original position with his hands, and formed an angle of 90 degrees with the grinding rod, and then instructed Yu Wuya to stand with his legs one after the other and said: "There is a saying that the village woman pushes the grinding forward and backward, to push the stone mill to turn in a circle, you must let your body move forward and backward with the connecting rod, the two feet are the fulcrum, the body is like flowing water with the stone mill rotates, and the boat is pushed along the water according to the situation, and the first force must be fierce, giving the stone mill an initial acceleration ......"
Although Yu Wuya has not heard of the technical term of initial acceleration, he can probably understand the meaning, and he is a person who practices martial arts, and he quickly got started after Chen Xu's slight instruction a few times, and he pushed it very easily, as his body shook back and forth, the stone mill weighing thirty kilograms and huge friction was sixty or seventy kilograms in his hands, and he was pushed by him like a toy, and his butt was twisted like a small electric motor.
Sure enough, it's a natural foodie blank!
Chen Xu wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and couldn't help but sigh.
"Stop, almost!"
After Yu Wuya excitedly pushed dozens of laps in one breath, Chen Xu stopped, then opened the upper half of the stone mill, carefully brushed the grinding grooves with a brush, brushed all the stone powder that was polished off, and put a clay pot under the grinding frame to connect it, and then went to bring half a pot of clean and dried wheat.
"Can we begin?" Yu Wuya was extremely excited, and he spit into his palm twice in a row to put on a posture.
"Turn around, don't worry about me, just push hard!" Chen Xu stood on the edge of the stone grinder and scooped a spoonful of wheat grains with a long-handled bamboo spoon to prepare.
Xing'er, Shui Qingrou and Chen Jiang also stood by and watched, although they didn't know what the flour looked like in this mill, but according to Chen Xu's usual peculiar attributes, there shouldn't be any problem.
However, the faces of the three people were still full of apprehension and nervousness, Xing'er tightly grasped Shui's soft arm, her little face was tense and serious, and her emotions were more nervous than everyone else.
This strange stone mill is actually pushed in this strange way, and it looks amazing.