The first workshop cave next to the utility room is about the size of half a basketball court, and the ground is simply leveled, and there are some tools that Xia Lingyue doesn't know.

"This is called a stone mill, and it is mainly used to crush grains and make them into powder or slurry!"

Xia Ye walked to a stone platform with the bag on his back, dug more than a pound of wheat with a scoop made of sun-dried gourds, and poured it down the grinding eye.

"Oh"

Xia Lingyue looked at the stone mill curiously.

Its base is a large bluestone flattened, about half a man high, on which is placed a small disc ten centimeters thick and half a meter in diameter, on which is stacked a disc of the same size.

On the top of this disc, a hole half a finger wide was cut, that is, a grinding eye, and on the side, there was a groove and a thick wooden stick was inserted.

"Don't pour too much wheat at a time, and just turn the stick!"

As Natsuno exerted his strength, a creaking and grinding sound sounded, and since it was in a cave, the sound was slightly louder and a little harsh.

"Wow!"

Xia Lingyue couldn't help but exclaim, and the crushed wheat squeezed out of the gap between the two small discs and landed on the big bluestone.

Xia Ye turned the stone mill and poured wheat into the grinding eye, and soon, there were a lot of broken wheat grains piled up on the big bluestone.

"I'm coming!"

Xia Lingyue was very clever and collected them with a dustpan woven with brooms and wicker: "Is this okay?"

"This is just the first step!"

Xia Ye smiled: "Hand me the sieve over there!"

"Sieves?"

Xia Lingyue had never seen such a tool, it was made of bamboo strips, but it was not as fine as a dustpan, but it had small holes like the eyes of a needle.

"Well, a farming tool that can filter out large particles of debris, leaving only flour!"

Natsuno poured the crushed wheat kernels into a sieve.

"Flour?"

Xia Lingyue saw that as her younger brother shook, large particles were left in the sieve, and a white powder fell down one after another like heavy snow.

"It's okay if you call it wheat flour!"

Natsuno collects the flour and pours the crushed wheat grains into the grinding hole for a second grind.

Seeing the white flour increasing little by little, I don't know why, Xia Lingyue's mood is inexplicably better, and there is a strange sense of satisfaction.

Half an hour later, ten catties of white flour were obtained!

Xia Ye drank water, while Xia Lingyue squatted next to the large clay pot, admiring the wheat flour inside, white and soft as fine sand.

It's a stunning touch!

"I want to sleep in it!"

Xia Lingyue sighed, but then frowned again, and her eyes fell on those yellow skins: "One stone of wheat produces less than seventy percent of wheat flour, what a waste!,"

"This is called bran, it has a very bad taste, and it can be used to feed mules and horses!"

Xia Ye thought of the old society, the poor family was only willing to buy two catties of white bread dumplings during the Chinese New Year, and usually ate coarse grains with bran and cornmeal, but that was also better than the common people of this era.

"How can we have livestock!"

Xia Lingyue grabbed a small tuft of bran and put it in her mouth, a little prickly.

"There will be bread, and there will be milk!"

Xia Ye teased: "Okay, let me tell you the principle of the stone mill, do you see these textured grooves on the two discs? Extending from the center outward, from deep to shallow, it is they that rub against each other and grind the wheat into flour!"

"My brother is awesome!"

Xia Lingyue was excited, so she hugged Xia Ye and kissed him on the face, a very simple truth, it was clear as soon as he said it, but there was a strong taste of wisdom in it.

You know, this is the world's first stone mill.

"It's a pity that I don't have any money, otherwise I should send you to the Mojia Academy, you will definitely be able to get great achievements in the mechanics!"

Summer Moon sighed.

"Forget it, I don't want to be a craftsman!"

Xia Ye pouted, no matter how powerful the mechanism of this era is, can you build a fighter jet? So let's try to become a respected great wizard!

"Don't be motivated!"

Xia Lingyue bent her fingers and knocked on Xia Ye's forehead, and she prepared to grind some flour by herself, but after scooping a scoop, she was suddenly stunned, she found that she was only focusing on the stone mill just now, and ignored a big question: "What about the husks on these wheat?"

"Well, that's called a stone mill, and it's used to husk grain!"

Xia Ye is too lazy to show off, this thing really has no technical content, who has never seen a child who grew up in the countryside!

A platform made of several stones, on which there is a stone plate with a radius of more than one meter, with a hole in the middle, and a wooden stake is placed vertically.

A cylindrical stone stone stone stone stone is placed on a stone plate and is secured by a frame made of several pieces of wood so that it does not fall off when rolled.

"After the grain is milled, then use a dustpan to blow it in the wind, and basically the husk is removed, and if there is a livestock grinding, you can save a lot of effort!"

Xia Ye used a clay pot to hold some noodles, poured water, kneaded into a dough, and when he was resting to rest the noodles, he went to the vegetable field behind him to pluck a few young shallots.

"What is this going to do?"

When Xia Ye started cooking, Xia Lingyue immediately ran over, she was really curious.

"Scallion cake!"

Xia Ye shook a smoothed piece of wood: "This is called a rolling pin, use it to roll out the dough into half a fingernail-thick dough, and then brush it with oil, it doesn't take too much!"

"Uh-huh!"

Xia Lingyue nodded busily, this yellow sticky thing is called vegetable oil, which is squeezed out of peanuts by an oil press made of wood by his younger brother.

This kind of oil, fragrant and fragrant, as well as the oil press with a not complicated structure, are all inventions of my younger brother.

Thinking of these, Xia Lingyue had a strong sense of pride, the Xia family is a waste, hmph, he should be, but his younger brother is definitely not, he is a genius!

"Of course, it's okay to brush the lard, it's more fragrant, but it's easy to get fat if you eat too much!"

Xia Ye explained that in this era, there was no concept of vegetable oil at all, and even the nobles ate all the fats made from animal fats.

"Brush the oil, pour the salted shallots evenly, then start from the bottom, roll the dough into a strip, then fold the two ends in half to the middle, gently press with the palm of your hand, and then roll it into a thin dough shape. ”

Natsuno demonstrates.

On the charcoal, heat the thin slate, reach out and try it, and when you feel that your hands are roasted, brush the slate with a brush made of pig's bristles, and then put the dough on it.

Zira!

The original white dough immediately changed color due to contact with the hot oil, and a smell of green onions overflowed.

"Wow, it smells so good!"

Xia Lingyue couldn't help but take a big breath.

Brush the dough with oil, then flip and sear, and if you do it a few times, you're done.

"Out of the pot!"

Xia Ye shouted, and used a wooden spatula to put the golden scallion pancake into the clay plate: "Taste it!"

Xia Lingyue tore off a small piece and just stuffed it into her mouth, just a slight touch of the tip of her tongue, and a burst of cake fragrance immediately exploded on her taste buds.

Click!

The teeth bite lightly, the crunchy sound is like a clear spring, it is extremely pleasant, you don't need to eat, just chewing, it is a superb enjoyment.

The slightly salted green onions, baked until golden brown, the fragrance overflows into the dough, and with the original wheat aroma, it is a natural taste that instantly conquers the taste buds!

Xia Lingyue closed her eyes.

Brains are shaking!

The sky is clear blue, white clouds are curling, and the ears of wheat are like golden waves on the summer breeze.

"It's a pity, if there is an iron plate, it will be more delicious!"

Xia Ye took a small bite and was a little dissatisfied.

"Buy!"

Xia Lingyue chewed the scallion pancake and spit out a word viciously, any enemy who stands between himself and the scallion pancake must die!

When you eat and drink enough, you will naturally start to make money.

Xia Lingyue followed Xia Ye into the deepest storage room, saw a row of well-made wooden barrels, and pushed them with her hands, very heavy: "What is here?"

"I'll tell you later, help me move the sugar cane first!"

These are all stored in the fall!

"Isn't this bamboo?"

Xia Lingyue wondered, what the hell is sugar cane?

"This thing is more common in the South!"

Xia Ye took out a sugar cane and peeled it off with a stone knife: "Taste it!"

"Don't fool me!"

Xia Lingyue was worried that this was her brother's prank, so she waved her small fist before taking the sugar cane and taking a bite.

Click!

The sugar cane is so crunchy that you bite off a large chunk in one bite, and as soon as your teeth are closed, sweet juice pours into your mouth.

"Hmm, it's so sweet!"

Xia Lingyue hit a spirit, and the speed of chewing was immediately much faster, and he handed it to Xia Ye: "You eat it too!"

"It's so sweet!"

Natsuno turned his head.

"Honestly, how much else are you hiding from me?"

Xia Lingyue followed behind his younger brother and looked at his back, he should have been working hard to run this peach blossom paradise all these years.

"A lot!"

Xia Ye's words were concise and to the point.

"Nasty!"

Xia Lingyue stretched out her hand, twisted it on her brother's arm, and then covered her mouth and chuckled.

Xia Ye has already made all the preparations, just waiting for a sunny weather to start work!

After the cane is removed, it is washed, cut into sections, and then placed on a stone mill, where the sweet juice flows out and then flows down the trench into a wooden barrel.

"Once enough sugar cane juice has been collected, it is poured into a stone pot, and in the process, it is filtered through a filter cloth made up of five layers of linen cloth, and then heated!"

Natsuno was demonstrating.

"After heating, put it in a wooden barrel and let it settle for an hour, then pour the precipitated sugar cane juice into another stone pot. ”

"Does it need to be that big?"

Xia Lingyue was surprised, the stone pot was very large, and it could cook a cow.

"Yes, because the sugarcane juice evaporates and concentrates, and in the end there will only be a little left, and the amount is too small, not enough for the little charcoal money burned. ”

It is an eight-meter-long earthen stove with nine pots on it.

"Now comes the most critical boiling process!"

Xia Ye introduced the main points: "At the beginning, the sugarcane juice needs to be boiled in the shortest possible time, and when the temperature in the stone pot rises, the bagasse and impurities in the sugarcane juice will float with the bubbles, so they should be skimmed off quickly. ”

"What the hell are you going to do?"

Xia Lingyue rolled up her sleeves and helped together.

"I'm going to give the world a little sweetness!"

Xia Ye smiled, hearty like the sunshine in spring, heartwarming!