Chapter Seventy-Eight: Eat Steamed Buns!
The girls also came to help, helping to put it up, lift it, and move it.
"Yo, Zhou Bo, in order to pick up girls, can you even do the work of a stonemason? The power of this love is really powerful. Yingchun said sourly.
"Don't talk nonsense, the purpose of getting a stone mill is to make it easier to grind flour so that everyone can eat it, and besides, my uncle in the countryside is a stonemason, he taught me, and he originally expected me to inherit his mantle, but unfortunately I joined the army later." I said.
"I don't believe it, this kind of craft is very difficult and dangerous, it requires good kung fu, he has this kind of craft, he doesn't pass it on to his son, just to you? Don't lie, you're all making it up. Yingchun said.
"He gave birth to a daughter." I said.
The other girls laughed when they heard this, and Song Yingchun couldn't answer for a while because of my scolding, so she only felt that she had lost face, and she turned her face away angrily.
Yun Wen has been better in the past two days, and it has been seven days, the first difficulty of thinking about the rabies virus is over, and then it will be seen what will happen after 21 days, if it is okay, it will be basically fine, and with Song Bailu's careful care, daily acupuncture, it is estimated that it will be able to survive in a hundred days.
Her wound had scabbed over, and she was able to move her arm to the fullest, and she could help with some small work, but she couldn't do the heavy work for a while, so she was going to work with me to get the stone mill out now.
"Brother Zhou Bo, what should we do? This stone mill is both manual work and skillful work. Bai Lu asked.
"It's really skillful work, but we don't sell it to outsiders, this quality can be seen on the line, this stonemason uses nothing more than two tools, hammer and awl, with these two things can do half of the thing, and the other tools are some chisels, which can be used to chisel, carve, spin, sharpen, but we are not stone carving, we don't need those beautiful things, we just need to find a way to grind the teeth on the two grinding chisels when the time comes." I said.
"Can we help, then?" Bai Lu asked.
"So, I'll arrange it, and everyone will work together to make it well, so that we can eat food as soon as possible, so as not to always have enough to eat. Yun Wen, after a while, I used charcoal to draw the design of the stone mill on the ground, you understand the trouble to help me paint again, your dexterity, the painting is clearer, this stone mill was invented by Lu Ban, so the things people do are mostly the truth of the road to simplicity, so it is not too difficult, it is easy to do it if you understand the principle, now I will tell you about this way of doing. I said.
All three girls came up and sat in front of me with innocent curiosity.
I picked up the charcoal, drew it on the ground, and drew three parts, which looked a little ugly, but the meaning was that meaning, and said: "The stone mill is divided into three parts, namely the grinding disc, the stone grinding part of the immovable disc and the rotating disc, from the bottom to the top, and the superposition in turn, the grinding disc is required to be able to present a groove, and the immovable disc and the rotating disc need to be chiseled with grinding teeth to grind the umbilicus to ensure that the grinding does not fall off." I said.
"So, it's basically all three parts neatly made and then used to put them together, right? It's not that hard. Song Yingchun said.
Because it is not a large stone mill, it is not too difficult to plan how to do it, the tools are there, this cave can have a lot of weapons along the spiral wooden ladder to the second floor, what spear head, the spear head of the spear is unloaded as an awl, you can make do, as for the hammer, there are also copper hammers, meteor hammers, one-handed hammers, two-handed hammers, Ming Dynasty hammers and the like, there are large and small.
I took a few with me, so that I could use them to dig out the rock.
Yun Wen probably renovated my design, and the drawing was much clearer, Yingchun and Bai Lu decided to use an awl to smash out the notch of the grinding disc, and I was in charge of the stone grinding part above.
However, before digging, it is still necessary for me to transform the tools into suitable ones, so I first ask everyone to grind them into sharp corners with stones, so that they can be used on both sides of the edges, so that they can be used for a while.
After all this was done, they each beat the awl in their hands and did their own work.
The difficulty for me is that I will chisel the two rocks into a cylindrical shape, so I asked Yun Wen to use charcoal to draw a circle on the stone rock, I never thought that her hand was like a compass, with a special method, it was drawn in an instant, a proper circle, very neat, and the circle drawn by the two stone rocks, I compared it.
The diameter error is basically only a few millimeters, so much so that I can't measure it with my fingers repeatedly.
The next thing is the manual work, chisel all the parts except the circle drawn, and then flatten all the grinding surfaces on all four sides, so that when they are stacked, they can be completely overlapped, and there is no gap.
And the point is that the most difficult part is to chisel the grinding hole, and to open a hole for the two stone cylinders to connect the grinding umbilicus, this work is the most difficult part, because if the force of the opening process is too heavy, turn back to let the whole rock crack, if it is too light, it will not achieve the effect, and can only be used to work slowly with uniform force.
The Song sisters on the other end chiseled very quickly, and when they saw me looking at them, Song Yingchun immediately stuck her tongue out at me and grimaced, which meant that she thought I was slow and wanted to compare speed with me, but I couldn't be provoked.
Hammer and smash, and then I was extremely careful, for fear that something would go wrong and all my efforts would be lost.
Yun Wen couldn't help me with anything else, so she fanned me, this fan was woven by Song Yingchun using the useless wheat stalks at the end of the wheat field, in order to prevent mosquitoes, now I am sweating, and it is just right for someone to go to the heat for me.
This Yunwen has slender fingers, swaying the fan when it is really beautiful and gentle, cool, but also extremely pleasing to the eye, let me increase my strength, to say that this man and woman are not tired of work, it really makes sense.
It was chiseled from daytime to sunset, Yunwen and Bai Lu went to tinker with food, and Yingchun and I were still chiseling this stone mill.
After that, we ate a meal of stewed ingredients, basically fungus, wild vegetables, wild mushrooms, beef has already been eaten, after eating, we lit the candlestick, down the spiral wooden ladder, to the underground river, everyone washed their faces, drank water to quench their thirst.
During this time, the underground river began to churn again, which startled everyone, and then under Bai Lu's urgent urging, we hurriedly left.
I returned to the third floor of the stone room and arranged a vigil shift, Bai Lu was the first class, Yun Wen was the second class, I was the third, and Yingchun was the fourth, after all, we had done more work today.
There was nothing to say all night, and on the second day, we continued to chisel, and I finally got it done, and then chiseled the four stone grinding surfaces with grinding teeth, which is considered to be completed, and the end of Yingchun was also done, a grinding disc, similar to the design of the washbasin, quite neat.
Then Yingchun relied on a knife to cut out two small wooden cylinders, one as a grinding umbilicus, connected to the upper and lower two of the holes I punched, I also left a hole on the side, the other was cut into the right size and placed in it, used as a handle, I tried to grind twice, it was really a match made in heaven.
Yun Wen looked at me, and I also glanced at her, only when we tacitly complete a big thing together, will this special emotion be derived from each other.
After that, I took the girls, carrying willow baskets, dustpans, and half a pot of wheat to the top of the mountain, near the spring pool, after repeated washing of the wheat, to remove the impurities in it, to take out the wheat bran floating on the water, change the water and wash it several times, and then use the dustpan to sift it, and then the cleaning is completed.
And waiting for the sun to dry, tonight we can use the stone mill to grind the stone flour, we have not eaten grain for more than a year, and we are about to eat the new steamed buns!