Chapter 11 Farming

"Yunshan Chronicles" is the first chapter of the Tang Dynasty

Preface: In order not to be a person who only recognizes words and does not know how to write, in order to force himself to write more effectively. Therefore, it was decided to continue writing the "Yunshan Chronicles," to keep a record of things, to write down nothing at will, and to practice all the characters.

Note: The pendant is about to be completed, and Brother Mu will be idle tomorrow. Tomorrow we will start cultivating the fields, and we will finish. - Yunshan Luoyun

It took almost a morning, three sheets of paper wasted, and two sheets of paper were written. Luo Yun finally finished his first diary. After putting the words 'Yunshan Luoyun' on the paper, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, put down the brush, and rubbed the sore wrist of his right hand with his left hand. I picked up the paper and read it and wrote it myself. Luo Yun felt quite satisfied.

After all, it's the first time to write, so it doesn't go without saying how the font is, and every line is crooked. The only thing that made Luo Yun happy was that he made a dictionary according to his mother's "Thousand Character Text", and finally controlled the font size within the palm of his hand word by word, so that people could see what the word was. can't compare with the handsome and elegant little characters of the mother, but Luo Yun is still very satisfied, so let's practice slowly in the future.

Closed the "Thousand Character Text" and put it back on the shelf, and put the two pieces of paper written in a stack of plain sticks, afraid that Aunt Mei would see it. After cleaning the pen and ink, Luo Yunjing went to talk to Aunt Mei and went out. With Luo Yun's health, there was no problem with running out one after another for the past two days, so now Aunt Mei finally did not restrict Luo Yun from going out as much as before.

When he went out, he didn't go to the fields, but went straight to Carpenter Zhang's house. Since the day before yesterday, I sat with Zhang Song at his house, and the work of the hanging tower was taken over by the excited Daddy Zhang. Luo Yun looked at the Quyuan plough made by Daddy Zhang again, in the end, it was a professional, and this imitation was much better than the prototype he and Mu'er made. declined the money that Daddy Zhang wanted to give him, just kidding. After Luo Yun talked to Father Zhang, he learned that Zhang Song was nineteen, and his younger brother Zhang Lin was also seventeen years old. If this gift is received, although it is not a formal master and apprentice, but just like the students in the school, the lecturer also has the status of master and apprentice. Let two strong men who are both 1.9 meters tall bend down and call themselves teachers when they meet...... Well, he would be happy if it was two bodyguards, but the apprentice would forget it, and it wasn't his own ability, he was afraid of losing his life.

The structure of the pendant was shown to the Zhang family father and son, and the requirements and functions of each joint part were explained in detail, and he asked Daddy Zhang what else he didn't understand. The result is worthy of being a professional, and Zhang Song is almost there. When Zhang Song was still patting his chest to ensure that he would be able to make it, Daddy Zhang took the initiative to propose that if the supporting wooden pillar was changed to the shape of a wooden tower, the effect would definitely be better and more stable.

Luo Yun immediately praised it, Daddy Zhang has the wisdom of that old man, and he deserves to play with wood. However, Luo Yun still explained that the time is short, the task is heavy, and it is too troublesome for Daddy Zhang to make it into a tower shape, and it is not necessary to be so stable when hanging some stones and soil.

"Young Master Yun, don't worry. If this thing runs out, Young Master Yun won't let it stand in that field all the time, right? When the time comes, the joints will be made alive, and when they are used up, they will be dismantled and moved, and in the future, maybe someone will move a heavy object and build a house will still be able to use it. ”

Daddy Zhang's words really made Luo Yun congratulate the great working people again. Look at the forty-year-old in front of him, although he has a face of wind and frost and a thick calloon of hard work, but he has a lot of wisdom in life. Therefore, in the end, before leaving, Daddy Zhang insisted on giving Luo Yun a gift box of four pieces, and Luo Yun did not accept it hypocritically. Just like Daddy Zhang said, since people don't want to help with this hanging tower for a penny, it will naturally be someone else's. Yes, it's useless to look at it for now. But since this thing has the property of being able to carry heavy objects, the common people have to build a yard, build a house, and lend it to some rent. If you build a house, you may be able to hire a few fewer craftsmen and save a few days.

This hanging tower is not like the Quyuan plow, to say that every family buys one back, it is really useless, but as long as a village has such a one, the rent money that will come down for a long time is absolutely indispensable. Father Zhang is a carpenter, and he has two strong sons, and usually whoever builds a house in the village has to ask their family to help. With such a good tool, his business will definitely get better and better. And when Luo Yun finishes building the field and sees the effect, he can make two more planes and sell them in other villages, which is another amount of money. This is not like Qu Yuan plough can be made according to the shelf, and after talking to Daddy Zhang, Luo Yun knew that there were many doorways that ordinary people did not understand.

When Luo Yun came to Daddy Zhang's house, he saw a small tower more than four meters high standing in the courtyard of Daddy Zhang's house from a distance, and Daddy Zhang and Zhang Song were putting it down little by little. Luo Yun walked two steps briskly and entered the courtyard, without greeting the Zhang family father and son who were concentrating. I stood aside and watched, only to see that there was a wooden tower lying flat in the courtyard. Daddy Zhang is trying to connect and fix the two sections. Because Luo Yun required the above section to be able to rotate flexibly, Daddy Zhang was worried about how to rotate and fix it at the same time. In the end, Luo Yun proposed the connection method of the runner, bearing, and pin, which made Daddy Zhang sigh and learn a trick.

Now, Daddy Zhang and Zhang Song are carrying the wooden frame, trying to pass the bearing through the runner to connect the two parts. Luo Yun walked to the wooden tower that was used as a boom and saw that the fixed pulley had been installed, and a runway for the rope to slide was also installed on the tower. Then he looked and saw that the wheel of the rope and the ox had been completed. Luo Yun really felt that it was right to find Daddy Zhang to do this, and it was up to him and Mu'er to do it themselves. When the autumn harvest comes, it may not be done.

Zhang's father and son were busy over there, and they never saw anyone standing next to them. is still the wife of Zhang's father, when Aunt Zhang brought water to the father and son, she saw Luo Yun standing there and exclaimed, which alarmed the Zhang father and son.

Luo Yun greeted Daddy Zhang with a smile, and then handed the water bowl given by Aunt Zhang to Daddy Zhang. People were busy under the sun for a long time, and he was watching dryly and rushing to drink some water. Daddy Zhang promised that this pendant would be used tomorrow, and Luo Yun of course complimented that Daddy Zhang was relieved to do things. Sitting in the courtyard and chatting with the Zhang family for a few words, and asking about the situation in the field, Luo Yun really didn't feel that he was chatting with a few people who were five years older than him and the oldest were not of the same generation at all. Luo Yun is swaying naturally, but Daddy Zhang's family can't help but sigh in their hearts that they are worthy of being children taught by the 'old lady', look at this young age, talking and doing things are different from those leather boys in the village.

I learned that because Zhang's father's family was busy making quyuan plows for the whole village, Zhang Lin was busy with the work in the field alone. In order to compensate for the delay in farm work for Zhang's father's family, the patriarch, Luo Yun, and his second uncle came forward to borrow a cow to cultivate the land for the Zhang family.

Speaking of these families with foreign surnames in Lijia Village, they are actually tenants of the Li family. Every generation of the Li family has taken care of them as much as possible, so these families are also willing to stay in the barren mountains of Lijia Village. Although it is a little poor, it is better than being bullied outside. Besides, the taxes collected by the yamen in this mountain are also low, and the county lord doesn't believe that this place can collect an extra stone of rice. So as long as the wind and rain are smooth, this Lijia Village is similar to the paradise written in the book.

However, Luo Yun never figured out whether the ancestor of the Li family was born as a mountain bandit or a big family who took refuge in the mountains. Luo Yun couldn't ask anyone about this. If you want to say that it is a bandit, the adult men in each room of the Li family are all brave, and they are really a bit of a thief temper when they wield knives and guns. But will the thieves move the poems and rituals to their ancestral ancestral halls? There are not a lot of etiquette rules for the New Year's holidays?

But if you want to say that it is a big family refuge, as far as Luo Yun knows, except for his deceased mother and the second uncle who is now the patriarch, no one in the whole village said that he could really read and write. I can write my name, but I don't know more than my finger except for my own name. The big family wouldn't have taken refuge so thoroughly by throwing away reading and writing, right?

Far from it. Luo Yun sat at Daddy Zhang's house for a while, agreed to meet in the field tomorrow morning, and then went home. I secretly talked to Mu'er in the evening, and I asked Uncle Wu to get a guarantee that there would be nothing in the field tomorrow and that he could rest for two days. Luo Yun told Mu'er to rest well and officially start work tomorrow. After eating in the evening, Luo Yun and Mu'er went to bed early after washing. It also made Aunt Mei strange for a long time, and ran to Luo Yun's bed to ask him if he was uncomfortable. As a result, she got the explanation that she was going to go out with Mu'er tomorrow and that she wanted to nourish her spirits, which made Aunt Mei smile and blame her for being playful.

Mu'er had a busy day, and she fell asleep peacefully not long after lying down. Luo Yun has been preparing for a long time, and he can't sleep because of the fact that he will finally officially start the field cultivation movement tomorrow. Helpless, I had to close my eyes and keep thinking about every detail I had to do tomorrow, thinking about the problems I hadn't noticed yet, and I fell asleep in a daze for a long time.

The next morning, I ate the water cake made by Aunt Mei, that is, noodles. Luo Yun and Mu'er got an explanation from Aunt Mei, and Uncle Wu will accompany them today. It turned out that Aunt Mei was worried that the two boys were going to play in the back mountain, so Uncle Wu followed and took care of her, even if Luo Yun was interested, it would be safer to have Uncle Wu, a professional hunter, to catch a pheasant.

Luo Yun and Mu'er glanced at each other, and Mu'er passed on a message of 'you decide, I don't care'. Luo Yun thought about it, at this time, there is no need to hide it from Uncle Wu, it is better to have Uncle Wu's adult help than to have Daddy Zhang's family do any hard work. So he nodded and agreed.

Uncle Wu originally wanted to hold a bow and arrows, but saw Luo Yun carrying a wooden shovel and Mu'er coming out with a bundle of hemp rope on his back. was surprised for a long time, but Luo Yun smiled and asked Uncle Wu to put down the bow and arrow, saying that they would not go to the back mountain. Uncle Wu walked behind the two little guys for some reason, and when he arrived at the original paddy field at home, he saw Luo Yun and Mu'er muttering a few words, and then continued to walk up.

When I came to the slope that Luo Yun was optimistic about, I saw that Father Zhang, a carpenter in the village, was sitting on a wooden shelf, and a clay pot for water was placed next to it. Uncle Wu and Daddy Zhang belonged to the same generation, and when they were about to go up to say hello, they saw Luo Yun walking a few steps to Daddy Zhang's side.

"Uncle Zhang, it's hard work." Father Zhang, who was scanning the slope, also stood up when he heard Luo Yun's greeting, and arched his hand at Luo Yun.

"Young Master Yun is here, and I just arrived. This is not the base of this shelf brought over first, and my two boys went back to move the rest. Father Zhang greeted Uncle Wu and Mu'er with a smile, and then looked at Luo Yun: "Young Master Yun, do you want to take a look, where do we stand this tower?" The old man looked around just now, and with the length of that boom, he could almost take care of it when he stood in that place. ”

Daddy Zhang said and led Luo Yun to survey the terrain. Mu'er wanted to keep up, but he heard Luo Yun say that he hadn't had time to see it yet, but he didn't expect that as soon as he raised his steps, he was dragged back by Uncle Wu's hand, and he almost sat on the ground. Uncle Wu, who was full of inexplicability, couldn't pull Luo Yun to let him explain, so he could only find this son who obviously knew a little bit of the inside story.

"Say! Did you kid encourage Brother Yun to do something? Uncle Wu puffed out his cheeks, pinched Mu'er's shoulder with one hand, as if grabbing a chicken, Mu'er struggled for a while, and didn't move at all. I had no choice but to tell Luo Yun's plan with a bitter face, but he didn't know the specific operation issues. This crane was later made by Carpenter Zhang's family, what else can he know?

"I really don't know, when I started this thing, Brother Yun showed me a picture he had drawn, and I helped make two wheels. Later, Brother Yun said that he had asked Zhang Carpenter for help, and I don't know what he did. Really, this is all what Brother Yun thinks of himself. It is said that he wants to open a new field and a flat field on this land. ”

Uncle Wu frowned when he heard this, and let go of Mu'er. Mu'er felt her shoulders loosen and jumped to Luo Yun's side. Uncle Wu stood there and ignored his son, Luo Yun didn't understand farming, and Mu'er was barely a half-talker. The paddy fields below are three acres, only two acres, and one acre of paddy fields are closer to the bottom of the mountain, next to the paddy fields in the clan. Because the paddy field was originally regarded as a family property, and it was not yet the time to plant rice, the soil was turned over in the past two days, and the seedlings were managed by their own patriarch and assigned to do it. The two acres of paddy fields here were opened by Luo Yun's father for his mother and Uncle Wu, and they were washed away by the mudslide, and Uncle Wu really didn't plan to dig them out again. Unexpectedly, Luo Yun was thinking about his father and mother, and tried his best to save this field again. 'Alas, the old lady has raised a good son, filial piety! ’

If Luo Yun knew Uncle Wu's sigh in his heart, he would probably be ashamed to find a crack in the ground to get into. He had never seen his father and mother, how could he cherish it so much because it was the fruit of their hard work. Uncle Wu really didn't expect the temptation of white rice to be so great for Luo Yun, so that Luo Yun had to open a field by himself and grow it for himself after learning that all the harvest of the paddy fields in the clan had to be used to pay taxes.

Daddy Zhang's two sons, Zhang Song and Zhang Lin, ran twice in a row to move everything over. Uncle Wu and Mu'er began to assemble under the guidance of Father Zhang, as for Luo Yun, he only had to watch, he wanted to help, but none of the people present were willing to let him start. The depressed Luo Yun muttered beside him: Get used to it, you can get used to it. I'm used to being a young master, look where you cry.

Zhang Song and Zhang Lin brought the last parts, and after putting on the rope, everyone worked together to erect the hanging tower. Then he took a wooden shovel and began to fill the soil to fix, but the rear end of the boom was deliberately weighted by Daddy Zhang, and there was a rope connected to the runner to press the back, so that the crane tower would fall over.

Looking at the wooden crane tower, it really looks like a large tower crane used in the construction site in later generations. Needless to say, the excitement in Luo Yun's heart urged everyone who looked at the hanging tower in a daze, and hurriedly went down to find a big stone to try the effect.

Zhang Song and Zhang Lin, a strong man with a 1.9 meter and a conservative estimate of 1.8 meters, dragged the rope, and Malier jumped down the slope at once. The two brothers picked a large stone one meter square and lifted it together. The brothers gritted their teeth and puffed out their tendons and lifted the stone. The younger brother Zhang Lin still habitually wanted to weigh the weight, but as soon as he didn't grasp it steadily, he smashed it on the ground with a 'bang', but fortunately, the brothers reacted quickly, Zhang Song quickly let go, and Zhang Lin also jumped back in time, otherwise if he smashed on his foot, the foot would be wasted. If Zhang Song's reaction was slow and flashed his waist, Zhang Song would be considered a waste.

Not to mention that the brothers were in shock, and the four people on the slope were also startled when they saw the stones falling. Seeing that the brothers were fine, Luo Yun just breathed a sigh of relief, and there was a scolding from Daddy Zhang's ears in his ears. What is the useless wood, the rotten wood that can be seen but not carved, the hollow bark...... Luo Yun listened to it for a long time and found that this swearing foul language was all related to wood, and he really deserved to be a carpenter.

Seeing that the green tendons on Daddy Zhang's forehead were bulging, it seemed that he was scared just now. Also, he has such two sons, and he has finally raised them, and both brothers can help with the work, and they are the main labor force in the family. The family is saving money to marry a daughter-in-law for the eldest son, if the younger son loses a foot and the eldest son flashes, the family that has just improved will be over.

Luo Yun and Uncle Wu hurriedly appeased the angry Father Zhang, and after Zhang Song asked his younger brother with concern if he was injured, he unceremoniously slapped Zhang Lin on the head, and then hammered two more punches and kicked. Zhang Lin knew that he was wrong, and he didn't dare to hide with his hands in his hands, so he stood there with his head down and let his brother fight.

Finally calmed down Father Zhang, Luo Yun beckoned the brothers below to continue the experiment, and instructed Zhang Lin to be careful. The brothers then walked back to the stone they had just had, and this time they did not dare to lift it up in a conspicuous manner. Hold the rope directly and start tying, and only lift the strip to pass through the seam of the rope when needed.

Watch as the brothers tie up the ropes and retreat to a foot away. Luo Yuncai waved his hand, and Uncle Wu, Father Zhang, and Mu'er pushed the turntable together. The rope tightens little by little until it is straight. Luo Yun nervously held on to the hanging tower, and let Uncle Wu and the three of them slowly push the turntable to collect the rope. The three of them nodded and continued to push the turntable, but their steps slowed down considerably. The three of them all had a lot of strength, and they didn't even feel strenuous to push the turntable together, but they took a little effort after the rope was straightened. The turntable was positioned far back, so the trio didn't see that the stone below had slowly risen as they swirled.

The Zhang brothers both stared down as the stone rose higher and higher, while Luo Yun's attention had shifted from the stone to the hanging tower. Observe the stability of each part of the tower, whether the tower body shakes violently, and whether the pulley rotates......

It wasn't until the stone rose above the slope that Uncle Wu and the three of them stopped when they saw the hanging stone. Father Zhang shook his head there and didn't know what to sigh, but Uncle Wu and Mu'er didn't expect to lift a big stone so easily. Father Zhang put a pin on the turntable to brake it, and then beckoned the Zhang brothers to come up quickly. Lifting the stone is the first step, and then the pendant is rotated so that the stone is placed where they want to be placed.

Having said that, Luo Yun's original design was still too naΓ―ve. His design, the rope through the turntable is easy to hang the stone, but what if the tower rotates? The rope is tight in the back, do you have to carry the turntable and rotate together? Or is the professional Daddy Zhang saw this problem, and added a pulley along the tower body to the place where people can reach the pulley behind the pulley behind the boom, and installed a clip to be able to jam the rope. In this way, although the rope is bent, when it is time to turn, it is only necessary to jam the rope on the tower and put the rope on the plate.

And it's a four-meter-high shelf, so when you rotate, do you have to climb up and move it by hand? It should be said that without Daddy Zhang, even if Luo Yun and Mu'er make it, it is just a wooden shelf that can be seen and not used.