For the next few days, Chengxin was in the old house to help remove corn kernels. How do you take it off without a machine? Do you wipe them off one by one?

Yes and not all. Hands must be used, otherwise it will not work, will it? First of all, you have to prepare a few things, a flathead screwdriver, a bench, and a liberation shoe.

In the hall, lay down the bench, take up the free shoes, and put them on one of the bench legs that he had propped up.

Then, go to the yard and load some corn cobs in, pour them on the side, and use a flathead screwdriver to make a slot for each corn cob.

That is, use a screwdriver to make a head on the corn cob, so that it will be easier to thresh. The man sat on the bench where he was lying, picked up a corn cob with a good head, and put the side with the head on top of the tied liberation shoes.

The soles of these liberation shoes have many deep lines, and when you pull them down a little, the corn kernels will come off.

Just like that, I took the corn cob, kept rubbing on the soles of my liberation shoes, and replaced one after rubbing.

It wasn't until the sole of this shoe was submerged by the pile of corn kernels that he stopped to clean the corn kernels out and dry them, and then continued to pick up new corn cobs and continue to rub them.

The corn cobs planted by the old man were relatively sparse, but even so, there were four or five thousand cobs per acre of land.

Nearly two acres of land, if not 10,000, but 9,000. Chengxin and one of them can only take off four or five hundred pills a day, count it as five hundred, and the four of them keep working, and there are only two thousand pills a day.

So, this is five days, and it took five full days for Chengxin to take off all the corn.

"I'm tired to death, my palms are calloused, and it's finally done."

"I knew I should have come back with a smaller thresher last time I went outside," Zhong Tao said with a stretch.

"Tired of this? When your father was young, there were four or five acres of corn planted at home at that time, and he couldn't finish it for ten or eight days without taking it off, so it was only a few days. The old man didn't cut to the side.

"Hehe, how dare I compare with you, I haven't grown much crops."

"Master, how long will it take for the rice in the field to be harvested?" As soon as Zhong Tao's voice fell, Cheng Xin spoke.

"Rice, it's almost over, I went to see it a few days ago, and it's almost the same in ten days, close to the end of the month."

"Mine, have you gone to see it? Is it possible to collect them together? ”

"Your piece, it's all about the same, when the time comes, I'll collect this side for you in the past."

"You kid, don't you see how you manage those rice, and how it looks like it grows better than mine?"

"This year, all the rice in the fields is growing well, and it should be a bumper harvest." Farmers who have planted the land all their lives are like this, they are not afraid of being tired, as long as the grain in the field can be harvested, they will definitely be happy.

"Hehe, master, I don't know, it may be that no one has planted my field for too long, and there is a lot of fertility in the field," Chengxin casually found a reason to fool.

"Hey, you have to be tired for a few days after resting, fortunately, that thing has a gasoline engine, and Uncle and they are also back, otherwise they will be tired to death, Zhong Tao began to sigh again. Zhong Tao is right, if there is no gasoline engine and manual threshing, it will be tiring enough. There is a bit of corn, and the old man can't finish drying it, so he uses a big buffalo to pull some to Chengxin to dry. So Chengxin didn't go anywhere for a few days, and when the sun came out in the morning, he put the corn kernels in the dam and lay them down. In the afternoon, before the sun sets, put it away in a basket and put it in the aisle of the pavilion. After the corn was dried, it was pulled back for the old man, and the weight was weighed before the warehouse, a total of more than 2,300 catties, and the old man smiled and said that the yield was high. Also, the planting is a little sparse, and it used to be just a thousand catties at most, but this time it is more than 100 catties per acre, almost 200 catties. After a few days, except for Father Zhong, several other uncles came back. It's no wonder that Dad Zhong can't come back, it's a hot day, and there are peak electricity consumption periods everywhere, so they have to be ready to repair the line at any time. On this hot day, where the line fails, if the repair is too slow, it will be scolded by the people. Since the uncle and they are back, Chengxin must have eaten at the old mansion at noon, so as soon as Chengxin received the call, he immediately went to the old mansion. When I arrived at the old house, of course, I had to say hello to my uncle and two aunts.

"Chengxin, your kid stays in the village every day, and you don't look for a daughter-in-law?" As soon as Chengxin sat down, the eldest aunt spoke.

！！ Chengxin was quite depressed, and he only opened his mouth to speak, it was still early. It's still early.

"Early, I'll be thirty in two years, and when your brother was your age, your nephews were all in kindergarten," the fifth uncle began.

！ This time, Chengxin didn't speak directly, and several people only said two sentences and didn't say more. In the afternoon, everyone rested, Chengxin also went back, and took the initiative to come to the old house early the next morning, and began to harvest rice today.

When we came to the old house, everyone was ready to start going to the ground, sickles, big wooden buckets, and gasoline engines. They all went to the fields.

When they came to the field, Chengxin, his cousin, and his uncle, the three of them began to cut rice in the field. This cutting rice, generally cut two nests and put them together, and then put them aside, and when the threshing will be later, it will not be too little or too much.

After Chengxin and the others cut out a little space, the fifth and sixth uncles, plus the uncle, pulled the big wooden bucket closer to the field.

There is a round hobbing tooth in this large wooden bucket, and on one side, there is also a gasoline engine, and when the gasoline engine is started, the hobbing gear in the bucket will rotate.

Then they only need to pick up a handful of rice and hold it, put the end with the rice on the rotating hobbing teeth, and the rice will be taken off by the rotating hobbing teeth.

Behind the big wooden bucket and on the left and right sides, there is also a two-meter-high tarpaulin fence, mainly to prevent the rice from flying out when it will be threshed.

When Chengxin was a little kid, the old man didn't use a gasoline engine, and there was no hobbing teeth in this bucket, just a wooden frame.

When threshing, two people stand one on each side, and one holds a handful of rice in his hand. Then he slammed it on the frame, then shook it twice and continued to beat until all the rice fell off.

This is the source of the legendary threshing of the threshing seeds, but this way has long been invisible.

From the original beating, to the later manual shaking and hobbing, and then to the current gasoline engine, there is also a way to cut the ears of rice, and then transport them home to take off with the machine.

These are basically hilly threshing methods, and in the flat places, harvesters are almost always used.

Three people cut, three people threshed, and after there was more rice in the bucket, the people carried the horses and camels back. The aunts and uncles at home, as well as the old man, are not idle.

There was a lot of straw mixed in with the rice that was brought back, and they had to be sifted out with a sieve.

I took a break at noon, continued after three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and it took more than a day to barely finish harvesting the rice in the old man's field and transport it back.

On the third day, Chengxin's piece was planted, which was less planted than the old man, so it was solved in one day. The uncles stayed in their hometown for a total of five days and then went out, and Chengxin also dried and harvested rice every day.

After the rice was completely dried, Chengxin weighed it all and counted it, two acres of land. A total of more than 2,500 catties of dry rice were harvested.

More than 2,500 catties, which doesn't sound like much, other people's high-yield rice, the yield per mu is quite normal, and the more can reach 1,06.

Chengxin is only more than 1,200, which is not much. In fact, this is a different variety, Chengxin they are a kind of their own food.

So choose which rice seed has a lower yield but a better taste. Those 134156 rice yields are high, but the taste is not so good.

Many friends should find that the rice now is not as fragrant as when they were children, which is to increase the yield and reduce the taste.

The higher the yield of hybrid rice, the worse the taste, like the kind of rice that yields more than one ton per mu in the experimental field, it is also studied for emergency use.

Only when there is a food crisis in the country, when the grain reserves are eaten, this kind of rice is planted in a large area, and there will be no shortage of food at that time.

This is also the reason why I heard that there is no one to grow rice except for rice that yields more than 1,000 kilograms per mu.

It was planted in an experimental field, and it was not yet mature, and even if it could be planted on a large scale, it should not be promoted because of taste problems.

Anyway, there is no shortage of food now, unless the taste comes up, then it can almost be promoted.