Chapter 9 Harvesting Rice in the Mountains

Usually there are always people who come to the carpenter shop to make a carriage frame, ox cart frame, board cart frame, and the rough work outside is done by auspiciousness, and the trick work master is hiding in the inner room to do it himself.

I can't bear to be auspicious and smart, although I haven't really done a board car alone, but the steps can still be remembered.

Grandma Xiang watched Jixiang come back dragging a piece of wood, and knew what he wanted to do, so she hurriedly tidied up the yard and tried to vacate a large piece of open space.

Jixiang took out the tools, laid them out the same, and thought of how the master turned the wood into a board, the board into a stick, and then spliced it together in the same way.

Ji Xiang made a move, adjusted the angle of the saw blade, began to saw the wood according to the measured size, and then picked up the planer and began to cut the wood.

Until the surface of the plank is level and smooth, then plane another piece and air dry the plank, that is, wait for the wood to dry gradually.

He also took out knives, chisels, round chisels, cones, flat axes and hammers, carved the mark of the Xiang family in a conspicuous place on the wooden board, and after thinking about it, he still named it after Fu Bao, and carved a pattern of a treasure gourd.

All the boards are all done, and the tenon and tenon should be opened after the board car wood is dry, and the mortise and tenon joint is used on the two wood components, a combination of concave and convex connection.

The protruding part is called tenon, the concave part is called Mao, the tenon and the tenon are occluded, playing a connecting role, which is the main structural mode of ancient furniture, there is no nail glue at that time, but this connection method is tightly fastened.

Ji Xiang looked at his masterpiece proudly, although the master did not teach, but there is a word called stealing learning, it seems that the effect is good, looked up at the sky, hands and feet can't help but speed up.

All the parts and components, according to memory, began to be spliced together, and in a blink of an eye, a rectangular board car appeared, but there were still two less wheels.

Thinking that Xiao Fubao might also take this board car, Jixiang took out the grinding block and began to polish it carefully, especially in the twists and turns, there can be no little wooden thorns.

"Mother, I'll go to the mountains to find some wood to make the wheels, can you get some hemp grass back."

Ji Xiang packed up his tools and was about to go up the mountain again, he wanted to find a kind of wood made of relatively hard material to make the wheels, and as for the hemp grass, it was wrapped in the wheels to achieve the shock absorption effect.

Grandma Xiang agreed repeatedly, hemp grass is wheel grass, the seeds can be eaten, the stem bark can be woven into hemp bags, hemp clothes, hemp rope, hemp shoes, the village people will always get some hemp back to make straw shoes, make sacks, rub hemp rope......

The family began to get busy, Grandma Xiang took her sister-in-law and a group of children to find hemp grass, Fugui's sister-in-law hugged Fubao to breastfeed, and Fubao fell asleep on the kang when she was full of milk.

While Fubao was asleep, Fugui's sister-in-law picked up a piece of muslin, which was a good thing that Grandma Xiang pressed at the bottom of the box, and now gave Fubao and asked Fugui's sister-in-law to make clothes for her.

The weather in July is already very hot, and Fu Bao can't still be wrapped in swaddling clothes, making two sets of small clothes and pants is also comfortable to wear.

There was a shout outside, and the rich sister-in-law frowned, patted the somewhat alarmed Fu Bao a few times, and hurriedly ran out when she saw that Fu Bao was asleep again.

At a glance, when he saw that the dog girl next door was about to bark again, he hurriedly "shh ”

The dog girl pouted, isn't it just a girl, look at the rich daughter-in-law who is nervous, but her eyes are looking at the board car frame in the yard, with a look of desire.

"Rich daughter-in-law, this board car is made by your family auspicious, can you let Jixiang make one for my family, the autumn harvest is coming soon, and it is convenient to have a board car to pull."

Fugui's sister-in-law nodded and said, "Cheng, I'll tell him when Jixiang comes back, but I don't know how much the manual cost is, so I'll ask when Jixiang comes back." ”

"What...... What is the manual fee? The dog girl pretended to be stupid and said.

Fugui's sister-in-law smiled, waved her hand and said, "Just ask your man at night, I'm going back, Fubao will pee when he wakes up." ”

The dog girl saw that the rich sister-in-law went in without looking back, and couldn't help but spit on the ground, what's unusual, isn't it just a board car, or a board car without a wheel.

It took two days for Jixiang to finally make a board car that can be pushed and pulled, and tied the hemp rope rolled out of hemp grass on the wheel of the car, and it feels good to push.

Several children watched the cart happily climbed up, Fugui and Jixiang were also happy to play with them, for a while, the whole courtyard came from a cheerful sound, so that the dogs next door also clamored for the cart.

Old Man Xiang immediately decided to go up the mountain to cut rice tonight, leaving Grandma Xiang and sister-in-law at home to take care of a few children, and even the rich sister-in-law had to carry Fubao up the mountain together.

Jixiang touched Fubao's little face, a little distressed, he finally knew why Xiao Fubao cried that day and let him go up the mountain, this child is the real treasure of the family.

A few people took advantage of the darkness to go in the direction of the back mountain, Jixiang found a secret place at the foot of the mountain to hide the cart, the rich sister-in-law tied to the Fu Bao, one hand held the oil Liangzi, the other hand also held the Fu Bao.

I knew that Fu Bao was tied up well and would not fall off, but I still used my hand to support it from time to time, and used my chin to feel whether the child was cold or hot.

Fu Bao's heart warmed, and she was even more determined to let the family she was giving birth to live a good life, she looked at the three people waving iron sickles in the field, they were very fast, and in the blink of an eye, a large field of rice had fallen.

Fu Bao tried to use his mental power to absorb the water on the rice ears, so that he would not have to dry it when he returned home, and it would be much lighter to carry.

The three men here kept cutting, and Fu Bao over there kept sucking, and unconsciously, Fu Bao felt that his spiritual power had suddenly doubled, which was an upgrade.

When she made the camphor tree, she also sucked and sucked like this, the dew in the morning and evening, the essence in the rain, and the aura in the land were all the objects she sucked, and this long-lost feeling came back.

When the old man took the hemp rope to tie the ears of rice, he knew that the ears of rice did not need to be dried, and he could grind them directly when he took them home, and he glanced at Fubao vaguely, and Fubao was tightly wrapped in a thin quilt by the rich sister-in-law.

Old Man Xiang has been tying up the ears of rice, and when he saw that it was almost there, he was ready to carry it down the mountain with Jixiang and the two of them with a flat pole, and put it on the cart and pulled it back.

Fugui hurriedly came over to help, this kind of work of carrying the burden up and down the mountain, the two brothers just did it, and the old man sat on the side for a while when he was tired.

In the middle of the night, Fu Bao had fallen asleep in the pine scent of oil liangzi, and the old man glanced at the wild rice field, the three of them were very fast, and there was still a small piece of land to be cut and finished.