Chapter 117: Stone Mill

In the mill, there was a man and a woman, all of whom were not very old.

Girls are twelve or thirteen years old, and boys are up to ten years old.

The clothes on the two of them were patched one after another, and they were clearly ill-fitting.

The girl even had a pair of sandals under her feet, and her toes were exposed.

The two of them had yellow faces and thin muscles, and they were using their strength to push the beam stretched out by the stone mill, which was even much taller than the two of them.

In the grinding pan, most of the corn kernels have been crushed, but it will obviously take some time to grind them into fine noodles.

"Whose child?"

Li Weidong is trying to pull the memories of these two people from the memory of the original owner, but they are always vague and separated by a layer.

Obviously, they didn't have much to do with the original owner before.

"Brother Wei Dong."

At this moment, the two people in the mill also arrived at Li Weidong, and the little girl even showed a hint of surprise on her face.

"You are ......"

Li Weidong looked at the two tentatively.

"My name is Li Hongmei, my brother is Li Zhankui, and he said that the white noodles and pumpkins he brought back last time were all given to him by you."

The girl immediately said her history.

Although I don't know how she met Li Weidong, before the original owner entered the city, after all, it was a village, and it was inevitable that she would run into it.

It's just that Li Weidong in the past didn't care about the two poor sisters and brothers who were most of the village apart.

In addition, it was always the memory of the original owner, so Li Weidong couldn't 'remember' it in time.

"Where's your brother? How do you two grind the noodles? ”

Because of Li Zhankui's relationship, Li Weidong is obviously closer to the two sisters and brothers.

"My brother is on the dam, and before my brother came back, the two of us came."

Li Hongmei said proudly.

It was her younger brother, who was a little recognized, didn't speak, just looked at Li Weidong with curious eyes.

"Go to the side and play, I'll push."

Li Weidong rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to take over the other party's work, and under his push, the stone mill immediately turned.

Even if he felt a little heavy, you can imagine how hard it was for the two children to do this work.

And it's not a one-time or two-lap thing, it will take a long time.

After Li Hongmei persuaded a few times to no avail, she could only pick up the small broom that swept the noodles and swept the coarse grains on the edge of the grinding disc to the middle.

It took half an hour before Li Weidong stopped, rubbed his sore shoulders, and watched Li Hongmei carefully put the stick noodles into the bag.

The stick noodles in the bag add up to forty or fifty pounds, and the other party also has a satisfied smile on his face.

Li Weidong couldn't help but pick up the bag and went to her house with the two.

This was the first time he had come to Li Zhankui's house.

It's broken.

There is no courtyard wall at all, just a fence with some branches, and it was only recently made.

Even the houses are made of mud and are called mud houses.

In fact, this kind of mud house is the mainstream in the countryside today.

Like the so-called brick house, there is no one in the entire ten miles and eight villages.

The roof of the house is not tiled, but paved with wheat straw.

Compared with this house, Li Weidong's east house in the city can be regarded as high-end.

At this time, there was no one at home, not only Li Zhankui was on the dam, but even Li's mother, who was not in good health, was also doing what she could over there to earn some meager work.

Therefore, such a small thing as grinding stick noodles naturally fell on Li Hongmei and her younger brother.

"I won't go in, wait for my brother to come back, and let him go to my second uncle's house at night."

Li Weidong put the bag at the door and said to Li Hongmei.

"Okay."

Li Hongmei hesitated, and after all, she didn't invite Li Weidong to sit at her house.

It's not to avoid suspicion, but the family is too shabby and embarrassed.

Leaving Li Zhankui's house, Li Weidong went back to ride a bicycle and came to Shijia Village.

Shijia Village, not only because the people here are surnamed Shi, but also because there is a large quarry here.

For example, the stone mill in the mill he went to before was made by Shijia Village.

Therefore, the last thing that this village lacks is stonemasons.

If we go back in history, stonemasonry is probably the oldest profession.

Li Weidong inquired in the village and came to a house.

Before he could get closer, he heard a clanging bang.

It was a little old man, facing him on his side, with a pipe in his mouth, carved very intently on a tablet.

Li Weidong stood next to him and waited for a while, until the other party raised his head, and then approached.

"Uncle, I'm from a nearby village, come to you to see if there is a ready-made stone mill."

Li Weidong directly explained his intentions.

"Over there, take a look for yourself."

The other party didn't get up, and casually pointed into the distance.

The courtyard is full of large and small stones, but most of them have not yet been processed.

Without much effort, Li Weidong found the stone mill.

To be precise, there are three sets of stone mills here, one large and two small.

The large diameter is about one meter, and it is obviously not for individual households, because this kind of stone mill is a flat grinding thing, which is different from the kind of rolling stone mill, which is more laborious.

It is usually pulled by livestock.

Even a small stone mill has a diameter of fifty or sixty centimeters.

Li Weidong went up and tried it, and it was very heavy to push.

"Uncle, how much is that big stone mill?"

In contrast, Li Weidong pays more attention to efficiency.

He tried it in the game farm before, and some things that are not very complicated can be completely propelled with energy.

That is, he could expend energy to grind wheat into flour with a stone mill.

And, for some reason, his energy can be used to ripen plants, and even do things like wheat hulling, but he can't turn wheat into flour out of thin air.

It seems that there is a lack of some kind of medium, or opportunity.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to go to such trouble at all.

Although it is laborious and troublesome to grind with stone grinding, the flour milled cannot be compared with the flour mill processed, but in terms of safety, it is undoubtedly more secure.

Now that I think about it, in order to process flour, I wasted so much thought, and spent a lot of money to change a rosewood bed from Zhang Yunshang, so that I really had a way.

At that time, that kind of behavior was more or less stupid.

In other words, Li Weidong at that meeting was still a little floating and did not really integrate into this era.

His real change came when he went to work on the farm.

and then to Chang Qingbo's vigilance, so he had to think more about safety.

And his cooperation with Zhang Yunshang will be a hidden danger after all.

Now it's time to make amends.

"Thirty-five."

Hearing that Li Weidong really wanted to buy it, the other party became more serious and put down the hammer and carving knife in his hand.

"Uncle, you are slaughtering me as a fat sheep, some time ago, someone in our village was here, and he used thirty catties of stick noodles to change a set of stone grinding."

"The kind you are talking about is made of ordinary stone, half the size of a foot, and is worthless.

Since you came to my house, you must have inquired, and the stone mills I make are all processed from the best old materials.

Ordinary stone grinding, with a year and a half, has to reopen the pattern.

And what I do, I don't have to move for three or five years. ”

When the other party said this, he was obviously proud.

"How much effort does it take to open a pattern? You pay for it, or I'll have to go somewhere else. ”

"Thirty-two, it can't be less, if you're still too expensive, you can set a small one, eighteen is enough."

"Thirty, you are responsible for finding someone to help me deliver to the main intersection, and I made an appointment with someone to wait over there."

How much does a stone mill with a diameter of one meter and a thickness of twenty centimeters weigh?

According to the density of granite, it will cost 450 catties to say the least.

Then two pieces, plus the chassis, have to go up to 1,000 catties.

Anyway, Li Weidong himself can't resist going back.

"Medium!"

The other party didn't hesitate much, and agreed.

Obviously, this price did not reach his bottom line.

Li Weimin didn't bother with the problem of these few dollars, and happily took out three big solidarity.

Then the other party went to find three young men, and 'easily' loaded the stone mill on the ground row, and there was no livestock, and the three of them dragged Li Weidong to the intersection.

Li Weidong took out a cigarette, scattered two cigarettes, and waited for the other party to leave, seeing that there was no one nearby, he put it into the farm warehouse, and then stared at the bicycle and left quickly.

Back at the second uncle's house, it was still dark.

As soon as Li Weidong lay down on the small bed specially prepared for him, his consciousness entered the farm.

Here, as long as there is energy, Li Weidong doesn't dare to say that he can do anything, but it's like moving something heavy, it's not a problem at all.

Soon, there was an extra set of stone mills in the farm warehouse.

Then he tried to control it, a little awkward at first, but it really didn't have to be done by himself.

An hour later, he returned consciousness and sat down from the bed, his brow furrowed slightly.

This experiment, it can be said that it was successful, but it also failed.

Because pushing the stone mill to grind wheat into flour consumes a bit more energy.

Convert it.

He processed it through Zhang Yunshang's door, and he wanted to pay the other party one percent of the white noodles and the bran all to the other party.

And he himself uses energy to push the stone mill, and the energy consumed, if used to ripen wheat, is equivalent to paying 30% of the price.

There is no doubt about it.

But from a security point of view, it's definitely earned.

"Awake?"

By this time it was completely dark outside.

After saying hello to the second aunt who was cooking, Li Weidong sat down.

"This is the certificate of moving out of the household registration issued by the village, you can take it."

Li Shuquan took out a piece of letterhead, signed his name, and the official seal of the village.

In this way, the proof of Li Weidong's relocation of his household registration can be regarded as complete.

You only need to go back and take the household registration book at home and go to the street office to handle the settlement.

That's right, it's the street office.

Although, strictly speaking, it should be the police station that is responsible for the jurisdiction of the household registration.

But this will have a lot of power in the street office, and everything related to people's livelihood will be managed.

Marriage registration, childbirth and schooling, and all kinds of tickets are all handled by the neighborhood office.

To include it is birth, old age, sickness and death.

The police station is mainly responsible for law and order.

Li Weidong put away the proof, the two chatted again, and Li Zhankui walked in with a hare.

This rabbit looks like a set, and its neck is almost bald.

"Go back and take the rabbit back, come to my house and still lack a bite for you to eat?"

Without waiting for the other party to speak, Li Shuquan said impatiently.

Li Zhankui didn't refute, put the rabbit aside, and stepped forward to sit down.

"When I got home, I heard Xiaomei say that you helped push and grind, and sent it home, I'm sorry for you."

"What's the trouble, it's just that I'm idle, and I can eat more at night, but I don't think Xiaomei went to school?"

Li Weidong shook his head indifferently, and then talked about Li Hongmei.

In fact, this phenomenon is very common in rural areas nowadays, and many parents feel that it is useless for girls to go to school, stay at home and help with the work, and when they are older, they will get married.

However, in Li Weidong's view, Li Zhankui should not be this kind of talent.

"I sent her to school several times, and then she sneaked back on her own, and hit her several times, but it didn't work."

Li Zhankui's face was a little more helpless and guilty.

The children of the poor are in charge of the house early, not precocious, but forced by life.

Li Hongmei will definitely not understand the benefits of going to school, but the situation in her family, especially before Li Zhankui did not come back, her father died, her mother was not in good health, and she had a younger brother.

She had no choice but to take on all of this.

"You have to learn knowledge even if you don't go to school, I'll bring her some elementary school textbooks when I go back, if you don't know, find someone to teach her."

Li Weidong thought about it and gave a solution.

If he said that he wanted to pay for the other party's education, Li Zhankui absolutely didn't say a word, raised his ass and left.

"Thanks, if you leave later tomorrow, I'll go into the mountains."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

Thinking of hunting, Li Weidong's body straightened a little.

Some time ago on the farm, although he practiced pistol, he also asked for advice on how to shoot a rifle.

This is where you can do it.

Excessive chapters, writing about the trivialities of life in the sixties, the old men also relaxed.

A new story will unfold soon.

(End of chapter)