Chapter 164 Harvest
Gumu Village will not only have Wang Xiaohong and their pair after the year, but also many other pairs will also achieve good things.
There should be a total of sixteen pairs of newcomers.
In fact, everyone used to think that living one day at a time was a day, and marriage was already a luxury.
But after everyone gradually stabilizes, what else can we do when there are no computers and mobile phones?
There are more than 80 people in total, like Wang Wei, who are husband and wife, and they are just a couple who can go hand in hand.
More of the people present were single.
Husbands have no wives and children, young people have lost their parents, and women are widowed.
Many were the only ones in the family who survived.
Maybe they thought they would be like this for the rest of their lives, and they didn't expect that there would be a day when they would settle down.
But people's hearts are flesh and blood, and in adversity, support each other, not to mention whether they will change their taste after becoming rich, but the feelings at this time are real.
Many women also told Teng Shidong that they wanted to go down together, but he refused. And no one came to pester him.
He said: "My daughter-in-law and son are at the base in the capital. ”
When he spoke, he showed a rare gentle look.
This was the first time he had mentioned his wife and children in public.
None of the people here are stubborn, and they don't feel much worse than anyone else.
No one thinks they need to rely on someone else to survive.
If you are a tea egg, then it is the price of a tea egg, if you are a rotten egg, then there will be flies and mosquitoes to bite you.
The hectic harvest begins. Some tools are placed on the side.
There are not many scythes, and everyone has to harvest them with their own weapons.
There are also a lot of buckets, said to be buckets, but they are trapezoidal, made of wood, the bottom surface of the larger one is not empty, and the height is about one meter.
There are also many bundles of bamboo mats, which are not mahjong mats that were commonly used before. Rather, it is an old-fashioned bamboo mat made of one-centimeter-wide bamboo strips woven together.
God knows how many experiments Xiao Tuanzi did in order to get the kind of mat that Lu Jiayan said.
How can the really hard bamboo strips deviate from such a thin mat, and it must be so flexible. In the end, Xiaotuanzi finally figured out that after the bamboo was made into strips, it had to continue to be processed, commonly known as 'Huamai Pick', which is to separate the green skin on the outside of the bamboo and the white wood on the inside.
The green skin on the outside is not only extremely flexible, but also very comfortable.
The white ones left behind were very brittle, and they opened as soon as they were broken.
And then weave together the outer layers of those greens, a dozen or twenty roots. Let them fit together like a flat surface.
Not only is it used for threshing grain now, but some are going to be used to play its real use, as a mat.
In addition to this, there is also a tool, the 'gong' shape, but the vertical in the middle is a curved arc.
And every other fist in the middle, there is a horizontal log bar, inlaid on a vertical.
After taking the tools, everyone went to the rice.
Lu Jiayan began to demonstrate how to use, a bucket is put down, and the "work" shaped tool is put in the bucket, leaning obliquely on the edge of the bucket over and over again, and the round "work" is horizontal, just stuck on the edge of the bucket, and it is pressed down without moving.
Then the bamboo mat was unfolded, and two meters and five meters high were erected around three-quarters of the circle in the bucket, leaving the side of the 'work' not to be enclosed. Four bamboo poles are inserted in the four corners of the bucket to fix the bamboo mat to prevent it from collapsing.
Soon someone used a sickle to cut a large handful of rice more than a meter long, and the top was a heavy ear of rice.
Lu Jiayan began to explain: "Grab the bottom of the rice with your hand, then raise it, and then hit the rice bed ('gong') below, and the millet will naturally be knocked down into the bucket, and you can beat all the millet down a few more times." ”
"Remember to make sure you set up a bamboo mat, otherwise the millet will fly everywhere. If the mat is erected, the grain that flies out will hit the mat and fall into the bucket. ”
The reason is very simple, the method is not complicated, you can know how to do it after looking at it, and the skills have to be practiced and explored by yourself.
The crowd dispersed and began to "thresh".
As a claw can not be held, shoulders can not pick the hair ball orange cat.
The main job is to wait for everyone to pick back the beaten grain.
When you spread it on the ground to dry, keep an eye on it to prevent some small animals from coming over.
The food of the small dumplings is separated from the food of the outsiders. It won't come together.
In fact, I want to say that the little group doesn't let the small animals come to Huohuo, but this is the back.
Because the little six have already started eating!
Okura takes five small peaks to commit crimes!
The fragrance of the rice emanated from the rice, Kokura couldn't help it, and then began to huo the grain.
I can't stop eating it, these grains can be grown, and Kokura has a lot of credit.
But dear, it's not right to get rice husks everywhere.
Don't look at them getting bigger, the rice is like melon seeds to them, but one by one, they eat the rice in it cleanly, leaving a shell.
In the end, Xiao Tuanzi couldn't help it. I directly got a small pot for them and put it next to them for them to eat slowly.
After eating, the shells are thrown directly into the pond to feed the fish.
Fortunately, God is very face-saving, and after the millet is dried and then passed through the windmill, it is stored in the warehouse, and it has not rained.
The rice that grows after the end of the world will not have any problems if it is kept dry and left outside for five or six years.
Even after shelling, it can be put for half a year without mold.
As for wanting to eat a bite of white rice now.
It is also necessary to hull the paddy. And this job is really not difficult, but it is just physically demanding.
Use a stone mortar to get out of the shell, but fortunately, you don't need to hold the stone pestle to smash it, you can just step on it with your feet.
In fact, this is very simple, that is, gravity is used to separate the husk of the rice from the rice.
Anyway, it's time-consuming and labor-intensive.
The stone mortar is like a small jar, buried in the ground and only the opening is exposed.
The foot is stepped on is also added with a lever, this side of the step up that side, this side of the foot loose, that side of the fall. Nothing special.
At first, it feels fresh, but after a while, it feels boring.
For the little group who is responsible for assisting in the completion of something, there is no interest in this thing at all.
Before I could catch my breath, the corn over there would have to be harvested.
Break the corn, then cut the corn ridges.
The only consolation may be the corn ridge, which is as sweet as sugar cane.
But the one who can bite two is considered a hero.
Then you have to peel the corn husks, and there are not a few corn kernels on the last corn cob that you have worked so hard to eat, which is very heart-wrenching.
It's the hottest time of summer.
At first, it didn't occur to you to threshing corn on the cob at home.
Pity the smell of corn on the cob on the wooden floor.
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