Chapter 357, Indoctrination (11)
Although struvite is called stone, it is not very hard, and with a hammer, it is easy to nail a steel chisel into this "stone" and then pry off a large piece by striking it from the side. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 However, even so, mining this mineral is still very physically demanding.
A large strouncer had just been prryed off the rock face, and he laboriously put it into a rattan basket, and then walked along the steep path of the island in the direction of the pier.
The distance from the quarry to the dock was less than a hundred steps, so the University soon reached the edge of the dock, where there was a stockyard with a large scale hanging from it. When Jia Da walked over, two Chinese people came to help him unload the rattan basket from his back and hang it on the scale hook. Then another Chinese would move the scales and quickly report the weight: "Sixty-three pounds!" ”
The Chinese who had helped Jia Da unload the basket just now used a charcoal pen to write down the number behind a row of numbers, and then turned to Jia Dadao: "You already have more than 500 catties this morning, and you have another fish to eat at noon today." ”
This was said in Chinese, but Jia Da also heard half of it, but he didn't know how to answer in Chinese, so he smiled at the man, and then said in very jerky Chinese: "Total, always ......"
Although the man had only heard this one word, he also knew what he meant, so he stretched out a finger and said, "First, first!" When A saw this, he smiled, lifted the struvite hanging from the scale hook, poured it into the pile of struvite stones, and then lifted the empty basket on his back, smiled at the Chinese, and turned and walked towards the quarry.
Although the quarry is very tiring, the treatment of those Chinese in them is not bad, the daily food is full, there is a lot of oil and water in the dishes, and there is a fish to eat from time to time. In terms of food alone, I don't know how much better it was than his previous half-starved days.
Jia Da knows that at noon today, his fish is no problem, but this is not the thing that Jia Da is most concerned about now, and what worries Jia Da the most now is his mother-in-law and two boys. The owner of the island said that when the month was over, the wives and children of the three people who had dug up the most strounce stones would come to the island to meet them. The University of A is now the first place overall, but he can't let that stop him, because in fact, the difference between the first and sixth places is also very limited.
"I don't know what that mother-in-law and those two boys are doing now?" Kodai thought as he walked towards the quarry.
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Jiada's wife and two children were recently sent to the vicinity of Zhenyuan Harbor. Two and a half children are now collecting coconuts. Coconut is full of treasures, coconut water can be drunk, the thick fiber outside the coconut shell can be used as brushes, carpets, cables, coconut shells can be used to make buttons and various crafts or activated carbon, and the latter, in the mining of sulfur ore, is almost indispensable. However, for the Zheng family, the most valuable thing is coconut meat. Coconut meat is rich in fat, with a fat content of more than 30 percent, which is much higher than the oil content of even genetically modified soybeans in later generations. These oils are too useful for the Zheng family.
Like monkeys, the two sons climbed to the tall coconut tree and then brandished their knives to cut the coconuts off the tree one by one. Then they climbed down from the tree and put the coconnuts in a basket, and when the basket was almost full, the two brothers carried the basket together and came out of the coconut grove and poured the basket onto the donkey cart next to it.
Now that the cart was full of coconuts, and it was time for the two brothers to go back to lunch, they jumped on the cart one after the other. When the donkey cart driver saw that they were seated, he flicked his whip and made a crackling sound in the air, and then the cart drove slowly forward.
Bypassing the coconut grove, a wooden house appeared in front of them, and the large shed made of coconut trunks and leaves on the left was the place where the coconuts were stored, and several large cauldrons were set up in the open space next to the large shed, and some miscellaneous trees were still burning under the pots. And those pots are still steaming. Next to the cauldron are a number of wooden barrels. Some people are using long-handled wooden scoops to skim some liquid out of the cauldron and pour it into these barrels.
The mother of the two brothers was sitting next to the shed with some other women. To her left, like the others, there was a large pile of split coconut shells that had been taken out of the flesh and placed in a large wooden barrel in front of her, and to her right were several coconuts that had been split in half, the white flesh reflecting a jade-like luster in the sunlight. The coconut meat is quickly taken and cut into small slices in a machine before being boiled in a large pot so that the fat from the coconut meat is quickly boiled out and floats to the surface. They are then skimmed out, put into wooden barrels, and sent to another cauldron to be heated a little to remove the water, and the coconut oil is refined.
The two brothers jumped out of the donkey cart, but instead of running to their mother, they ran to the other side, where there was a strange-looking machine, most of its parts were made of wood, and it had a large opening, from which countless coconuts were put in, and then a few cows dragged a winch to raise things, and the coconuts were split in half one by one, and sent out through the other exit of the machine. The coconut juice flowed through another outlet to a nearby wooden barrel.
The children who picked up the coconuts ran over, picked up the coconut shell scoops from the side, and scooped a scoop of coconut water in the wooden barrel to drink. Coconut water is nutritious and tastes great, making it a good natural drink. In the Hereafter, this thing would be of great commercial value. It's just that now, the commercial development of this thing is too difficult, so most of the coconut water here is directly poured away, except for the workers who try to drink it and use it directly as fresh water to cook rice.
The two brothers drank three scoops in a row, and their little stomachs were swollen, and then they put down the coconut scoops and ran to their mothers.
"Mom, you're not done yet?" The Boss asked.
"It's time soon, you guys will rest next to you, and it will take a while to eat." Their mother looked up and stroked her hair with her hand.
Today's life also makes women very satisfied, except for the absence of her husband, whether it is food or housing, it is much better than before. At the very least, you can eat white rice every day.
"I heard before that the Chinese have a spell to make more grain grow in the field, but I'm afraid it's true, otherwise why would there be so much white rice for us to eat?" In fact, those Chinese are not as fierce as the legend, but unfortunately I don't know what happened to him. ”