When he came home for dinner that day, he suddenly got up and said that he wanted to learn to read and write.

In the early years, because he and Heifu had a knighthood in their family and some savings, they each learned to read Braille from Yan Zhen in the plaque and Lu Ying in the sunset. When he was in his teens, because of various changes, his family became poor again, and his education was delayed. Surprised and out of character, bragging and hanging out with young people all day long, there is no proper shape, which makes my mother very distressed. Now that he has suddenly changed his sex, his family is a little surprised.

The mother looked at Heifu and asked if he was shocked, and Heifu smiled and said, "Mother, you are shocked and sensible." ”

Next, Heifu said that after he was officially made an official, he wanted Jing to go to the school to become a disciple, of course, only concealed the part that he did to avoid military service......

After knowing this, the family members were even more happy, and the future of the disciples in the school was much stronger than that of ordinary Xiao Shiwu. The mother looked at her three sons with relief and began to wipe her tears again.

"Your father was most frightened when he was alive, and if he could see that he had a good future, how good it would be."

The three brothers coaxed and persuaded their mother to stop remembering her deceased.

Then I decided that this winter, I would learn some basic literacy at home. When the spring ploughing and farming are over, he will go to the countryside and ask Yan Zhang's second son to teach him, anyway, Heifu still has more than 2,000 yuan in savings, which is enough to pay the bundle money.

"When I come next year, I can almost send you to the county school as a disciple."

Shocked and agreed, he took advantage of the lack of farm work, and the next day he followed Heifu and began a difficult literacy journey.

The textbook for literacy, of course, cannot be the three-character scripture that appeared in a certain Chu and Han-themed costume drama, which was only available in the Song Dynasty. The "Historical Chapters" used by the nobles of the Central Plains for literacy did not have them in this poor and remote area, so Heifu could only use the eight laws copied from Yan's house as teaching materials, and choose simple words to teach his younger brother.

"Father, mother, husband, wife, brother, brother, son, daughter, you know these words today......

After arranging his daily homework and leaving him alone to scratch his head and ears, Heifu himself went to the quiet well of the house, sat down on the edge of the well, and began to recite the eight laws softly under the light and clouds of the sky.

"The stolen goods are worth more than six hundred and sixty dollars, and they are worth the city. Six hundred and sixty to two hundred and twenty dollars, complete for the city. If you don't earn 220 to 110 yuan, you can be a subordinate concubine, and if you don't make 110 to 22 yuan, you will be fined four taels. If you don't make a profit, you will be fined one or two ......"

Reading this, Heifu put down the bamboo slip and sighed: "It turns out that in the Qin State, stealing a coin is considered theft, and how much money is stolen also involves the severity of the sentence. Those who steal more than 110 dollars will be criminals and slaves, and if they are so strict, who would dare to steal petty......"

"Stealing more than five people and attacking thieves is a group of thieves......"

After a while, when he memorized this paragraph, Heifu couldn't help patting his thigh in annoyance, and said regretfully: "Hate, if I caught a group of thieves that time, my reward would be several times more." ”

For a while, Heifu seemed to have returned to the situation in his previous life after graduation, and he was tested for the establishment of the police station in the county, but at that time he was a small police officer, but now he is the head of the police station......

These eight laws are equivalent to the key points that Yan Zhen helped him draw before the exam, and there are no shortcuts, so he can only memorize them vigorously. When he had spent the morning almost finishing his reading of the Thief's Law, there was a heartfelt cry from the courtyard.

"Brother Zhong, your sister-in-law is here, and he said that the stepping stone you want to build has been done!"

……

A moment later, under the busy work of several men, a "stepping mill" was installed in the backyard of Heifu's house, and it was placed on the edge of the pestle mortar originally used for rice.

But it was almost the same as the appearance described by Heff that day, it was a combination of wood and stone, two square plates as a scaffolding, a beam in the middle, and a long rod was erected, and a stone hammer was mounted at the head of the rod, and the hammer was facing a newly made stone mortar...... At first glance, it looks like a seesaw.

"Brother Zhong, what you asked your sister-in-law to do is such a thing......"

Curious, he came over to take a look, and said disapprerovingly: "I thought it was something new, it looks ordinary." ”

"You'll know the benefits later."

After checking it and trying it with his feet, Heifu picked up the pottery bucket, poured the rice inside into the stone mortar under the treadmill, and took another bucket of rice handed over by his sister-in-law, and poured it into the pestle mortar that was originally used for rice.

Then, he picked up the wooden pestle and said to Surprise: "Surprise, come here, we are Bibi, who has more rice in the same time." ”

"Brother Zhong, don't be kidding."

Shocked but shook his head again and again, raised his thin arm and said: "You are naturally strong, but I am so thin, Chung Mi is definitely not as much as you." ”

But Heifu didn't spare him: "You use the treadmill, I use the pestle mortar, let's compare!" Uncle, you help us count the numbers. ”

Surprised, he reluctantly came over, and stood beside the treadmill, and Heifu taught him to try a few times, and the two of them began to cook rice on their own side......

"Boom, boom, boom, boom......"

In the backyard of their house, there was a sound of rice slapping one after another, which provoked Yang Heyue, who was playing in the front yard, to run over and watch his middle father and uncle compete curiously.

But he saw that Hefu held a wooden pestle, raised it high, and fell heavily into the stone mortar, and from time to time the rice splashed out, and at first he licked it quickly, but after repeating it for a quarter of an hour, he began to sweat......

And the surprise looks much easier, he only needs to step on the wooden bar at the tail of the foot to drive the head to rise, and then raise his leg to reduce the force, so that the unbalanced and falling head smashes into the stone mortar, repeatedly up and down.

Whenever the rice in the mortar slowly peels off and turns white, and has reached the level of brown rice, he scoops it out and puts in a batch of dried rice.

At first, the two of them scooped up the same amount of grain, but gradually, on Heifu's side, the sound of the tight rice squeezing slowed down, and the rhythm became slower and slower, and he was a little tired.

On the other hand, although the strength may not be as strong as the wooden pestle at the beginning, it is better to last, and if he is tired, he can also change one foot and continue to lick, so the rhythm has not changed much.

So after more than half an hour had passed, Heifu's hands were already soft and he couldn't move anymore, but he was shocked to change his feet and continue......

"How?" Heifu put down the heavy wooden pestle in his hand, only to feel as if his hands were not his own, and his forehead was full of sweat, and he was shocked that his face was not red or panting except that his feet were a little numb and his waist was a little sore.

Heartily nodded at the rice that the two of them had scooped out in the past half an hour, and said, "Heifu scooped 4 buckets of millet and was shocked by 5 buckets of millet......"

"I'm actually more than Brother Zhong?"

I looked at this result in amazement.

Heifu laughed: "Sure enough, compared with a wooden pestle, it is not easy to get tired by using a treadmill to scoop rice, you can keep scooping it, and when I am tired of scooping it, you will naturally get more scooping." It is true that the pedal is more efficient than the pestle mortar. The difference between you and my physique is so big, and it can be compared to a lot, and it is even more obvious if two women of similar height and strength come to eat. ”

The biggest difference between humans and animals is that they can use tools, and they can constantly improve tools, and productivity is increased little by little, but what Heifu asked farmers to explore for a hundred years can only achieve, and they can do it in one day.

Those who fake horses are not profitable, but thousands of miles; Those who fake the boat are not able to water, but the rivers. A gentleman is not different, and he is good at things, this is the truth. With the stepping mill, a thin young man can also scoop out the rations of more than ten people, and the efficiency is not inferior to that of an eight-foot man.

Heifu threw the wooden pestle aside, patted it and exclaimed, "Now believe it, do you still say that this thing is useless?" ”

"It's so useful!" Shocked this is completely convincing.

At this time, my mother and sister-in-law also came over, looking at them in amazement.

Sister-in-law Kui tried to tread the mill, a rare smile, she said that if she can use this thing to cook rice in the future, every day to eat the family's rations, I am afraid it will save a lot of time! The point is that it is not easy to get tired, and if it is a busy farming season, even a six-year-old Yang can sit on a wooden pole and scoop out brown rice......

The mother sighed and said, "If there had been this thing in the early years, the old woman's arms would not have to be sick......

The family loved it for a while, and everyone wanted to go up and try it, and at the same time they were full of praise for the idea that Heifu had come up with.

Heifu gave the credit to the whirlpool: "It's still my sister's skill that makes what I want in the original way!" Terrific! ”

Lu smiled innocently, and Heifu took the opportunity to invite him: "I went to serve on the New Year, and the family couldn't be reunited during the New Year, tomorrow is the winter solstice, so I have to have a meal together, and tomorrow my sister-in-law and aunt will come over." ”

After responding to this matter, Heifu patted the treadmill again, and thought proudly: "Everything is ready, the east wind is coming, with this sharp weapon, that thing, I can make it." ”

As soon as he thought of the good things he would be able to eat immediately, he was also very happy, so he hugged his nephew and niece who were watching the excitement next to him one by one, kissed the two little children on the face and took a bite on each other, and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, you will be able to follow the middle father and feast on it!" ”