Wheat harvest can be roughly divided into eight steps: preparing farm tools, building a wheat field, harvesting wheat, pulling it into the wheat field to dry, rolling stones, separating straw and wheat grains, dusting wheat grains, and putting them into pockets.

The first tools to prepare are the sickle and its companion, the whetstone. The sickle is sharpened, so that the wheat can be cut quickly and effortlessly. Other essential farm tools are sticks, shovels, rakes, pockets, etc. The branch is the tip of a wooden stick that divides into three branches, like an enlarged version of a fork used for eating. Wooden shovels are used to raise dust, turn wheat grains and bag them. A rake is a bamboo farming tool, with a 90-degree bend at the top, that is used to pick up ears of wheat scattered in the ground, or to turn over the field when drying the grains.

In addition, the necessary farm tools are the rack cart and the stone stone. The cart is mainly used to transport the harvested wheat from the field to the wheat field, and the stone is dragged by the livestock to turn and crush the wheat.

Once you've got your tools ready, it's time to start building your wheat field. Most of the wheat fields are located at the head of large wheat fields, with small ones of more than 100 square meters and large ones of several hundred square meters. The land is hardened and polished to facilitate the threshing of the wheat.

After the wheat field is built, the wheat is harvested, and whichever wheat is ripe first, the wheat is harvested first. The harvested wheat cannot be kept lying in the ground, otherwise it will become moldy and sprout, and it is necessary to use a rack cart to pull the wheat to the wheat field to dry. First of all, the wheat should be picked up from the ground with a wooden stick, gently placed on the rack cart, and then slowly piled up until the rack cart is full, and then braked tightly with a rope to prevent the cart from overturning.

After the carts of wheat are pulled into the wheat field, they should be spread out evenly and spread over the entire wheat field, so that the sun can dry it fiercely to facilitate threshing. The next is to roll with a stone stone, the stone is a cylindrical stone weighing hundreds of catties, the center of the circle at both ends is carved with a groove, when the wheat is crushed, a wooden frame is put on the outside, and it is pulled by the livestock, and the wheat is repeatedly turned and rolled in a circle to achieve the effect of threshing.

After repeated crushing, the straw, ears and grains of wheat separated. However, in order to have a more thorough threshing effect, it is also necessary to turn over the wheat with a wooden branch and then roll it again, which is called "turning the field". After rolling the other side, it is necessary to completely separate the straw from the wheat kernels. This time, the straw was removed from the wheat field with a wooden branch and set aside, and in order to prevent the loss of grain, each straw was picked up and shaken vigorously to let the wheat fall through the cracks of the straw.

After the straw is removed, the wheat field is full of fallen wheat grains. At this time, the wheat grains should be piled together with a wooden shovel, and then the "lifting field" should be carried out, that is, a lot of dirt, dust and broken wheat husks mixed with the wheat grains should be removed. One person is responsible for lifting the wheat grains with a wooden shovel and using the wind to lift the dust away, which is a very technical and rhythmic work, and it is necessary to grasp the direction and strength of the wind. Another person uses a broom to gently sweep out the debris in the pile of wheat grains after the dust, and the person who sweeps the debris must move with the rhythm of the dust, and at the same time pay attention to the strength, otherwise the wheat grains will also be swept away.

Finally, there is the bagging, one person is responsible for opening the bag, and the other is responsible for filling it with a wooden shovel. In a short time, the shriveled bag swelled up and stood in the middle of the wheat field.

Li Zhiyun practiced and harvested wheat with the soldiers. He bent down, hunched over, grabbed the ripe wheat stalk with his left hand, and with his right hand the sickle went deep into the root of the wheat stalk, and then pulled hard, only to hear a clatter, and the wheat was cut off, then grabbed the cut wheat stalk with his left hand, gently lowered it to the ground, and repeated the above action hundreds of times......

At the end of the day, Li Zhiyun was so tired that his back hurt, he slept very soundly at night, and he had a dream. He dreamed that after the wheat was harvested, the wheat grains were husked and ground into flour to make white flour steamed buns. The steamed buns exuded an alluring aroma, and he reached out to grab one of them, and was about to open his mouth to bite them, but was woken up.

Li Zhiyun came to his senses and heard shouts coming from outside the tent, as if it was Yinggu's voice. He got out of bed, put on his coat and went out. In the hazy moonlight, I saw Yinggu standing anxiously at the door of the tent. As soon as Aunt Ying saw him, she said, "Lord Wang, Sister Feng is gone!" ”

"Gone?"

"She didn't come back all night, and she didn't know where she went. Since she came back from Nanyang, she has been in a bad mood, she doesn't like to talk to people, she always thinks about things alone, and I'm worried that something will happen to her! ”

Li Zhiyun listened, frowned and thought for a while, and said, "No, we have to go to her quickly!" He returned to the tent, called Zhang Zheng, Cai Hu and several other guards and told them about the situation. Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu called up the people in the tent next to them again, and gathered a total of more than 100 people. Everyone divided into several groups and went separately to find Zhu Feng'er.

Li Zhiyun estimated that Zhu Feng'er had entered the mountain, so he led Zhang Zheng, Yinggu and a dozen other people towards Xingshan. Some guards tied torches and walked at the front of the procession to shine the light. Everyone walked on the mountain road, shouting "Miss Zhu" as they walked. The shouts echoed through the valley, waking the wrens perched on the trees, and the birds fluttered their wings and flew away.

They had been in the mountains for an hour or two, and the sky was already dawning, and the morning sun was burning in the east. Everyone was walking on a mountain beam, Yinggu's eyes were sharp, and she suddenly pointed with her hand: "Lord Wang, look, where is it!" Li Zhiyun looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, he saw a person sitting next to the cliff.

Zhu Feng'er sat on a stone, and in front of her was the abyss. She was staring blankly at the valley below the cliff when she suddenly heard someone shouting, "Sister Feng, Sister Feng." She turned her head to see that the crowd was coming towards her, and she slowly stood up.

Everyone walked to a place more than a dozen steps away from Zhu Feng'er and stopped. Li Zhiyun wanted to walk over, but Zhu Feng'er suddenly raised his arm and made a stopping movement, shouting, "Don't come here!" Otherwise, I'll jump! ”

Li Zhiyun hurriedly stopped his steps and said loudly: "Miss Zhu, what are you doing here?" …… I know that you feel bad and that others have misunderstood you. But it's not your fault! Why should you punish yourself for the sins of others? Zhu Feng'er looked at him and said, "King Chu, what you said is right, I don't want to live anymore." There are so many ugly things in this world that I don't want to watch any more! ”

Li Zhiyun knew that Zhu Fenger was kind-hearted. However, kind-hearted people are emotionally fragile and prone to misanthropy when hurt. Therefore, she must be enlightened well. Li Zhiyun slowed down and said: "Miss Zhu, you must know that in addition to sin, there are many beautiful things in this world, aren't these worthy of our nostalgia?" ”

Zhu Feng'er looked at him, her eyes dark and confused. She was silent for a long time before she said, "I sat here all night, and the reason why I didn't jump off is because I haven't made up my final decision." I'm always looking for a reason to keep myself alive, can you give me a reason? ”

"Absolutely!" Li Zhiyun said, "You broke with Zhu Cang, this is the first step." You can go further and join us in destroying Zhu Can's army. Isn't it a very meaningful thing that only by eliminating Zhu Cang's army can more people be saved from their cruelty? ”

Zhu Feng'er listened to it and didn't squeak for a long time. At this time, Yinggu cried and shouted: "Sister Feng, don't go, I can't bear to ...... you" She walked forward while crying. This time, Zhu Feng'er didn't stop it. Yinggu walked up to her, hugged her and cried bitterly. Zhu Feng'er was infected and also cried. She cried very sadly, and her shoulders shook violently, as if she wanted to cry out all the pain in her heart.

Li Zhiyun breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Zhang Zheng next to him, and said: "She has too many things in her heart, and only when she cries will she be more relaxed." ”

The wheat harvest proceeded in an orderly manner. In the wheat field, on the wheat field, it is in full swing, a busy scene. Some of the soldiers of the New Army harvested wheat, some carried wheat, some crushed it, some raised the field, some bagged it, and some drove horse-drawn wagons to transport the fruits of the harvest to the city of champions.

Li Zhiyun waved the sickle, occasionally straightened up, and saw Zhu Feng'er not far away sweating and harvesting wheat, and the sun made her face red. Li Zhiyun believes that as long as she integrates into the collective and works with everyone, she will eventually come out of the shadows.

After more than 10 days of hard work, 3,000 soldiers of the New Army finally finished harvesting the wheat, and all the fruits of their labor were returned to the warehouse.

After the wheat harvest was over, Li Zhiyun led the new army back to Champion City. A few days later, the scouts sent back to report that Zhu Cang had sent 50,000 soldiers and horses to attack Nanyang City. It seems that Li Zhiyun's guess is not wrong, the so-called reconciliation reached between Zhu Cang and Yang Shilin is just paralyzing the other party. Now, he finally showed his true colors and raised the butcher knife to the people of Nanyang.

After careful consideration, Li Zhiyun decided to lead the new army to reinforce Nanyang. He brought up his idea at a meeting to convene Scarface and the other generals to conflate, but it was opposed by many people.

"Lord Wang, Yang Shilin refuses to join forces with us. Now that he's been attacked, let's go to his aid again, isn't that a hot face to a cold ass? A general said.

Li Zhiyun shook his head and said, "Definitely." Yang Shilin is unwilling to unite with us, because he fantasizes about maintaining neutrality, but now it turns out that neutrality is impossible! I'm sure this incident will wake him up! Besides, everyone understands that the fire at the city gate affected the fish in the pond. Zhu Cang's army is strong, and we can only defeat him in the end by uniting all forces against him! ”

Under Li Zhiyun's repeated persuasion, everyone finally agreed to send troops to reinforce Nanyang.