survival in the wilderness

Chapter 146 Grinding Wheat

It was already an hour after Lin Yan sat down at the table, and it was lunch time, and the people who came to eat walked into the yard one by one.

Seeing Lin Yan, everyone came together to talk to her and ask about road construction.

Lin Yan smiled and talked about interesting things on the road with everyone, and the atmosphere was very active for a while.

Shi Qiang walked in at this time, and before ordering food, he hurriedly said, "I just walked from the gate of the Civil Affairs Bureau and saw a new notice."

Someone hurriedly answered: "What did you say?"

People were immediately attracted by Shi Qiang, and Lin Yan also looked over curiously, wanting to know what announcement had been made by the Civil Affairs Bureau.

Shi Qiang didn't make a fool of himself, "Two things, name the newly built road Kuangshan Road."

As soon as he finished speaking, someone said: "Good name, as soon as you hear it, you know that you are going to the mine."

"What's the other thing?" Someone asked anxiously.

"The mine needs to build a house and build an iron factory. It needs to recruit manpower. From today, you can go to Minglan to sign up."

"Good thing, I can make money again."

"Yeah, I can still go to the mine to see if I can earn more money by working in the mine?"

Shi Qiang shook his head, "I don't know the details, let's ask Minglan after dinner."

When the people hurriedly finished their meal and left, Lin Yan was also full, thinking that the efficiency of the arbitration tribunal was very high, and the follow-up matters were arranged so quickly.

Minglan is in charge of the mine, and it seems that the material department is about to get busy.Lanyue should be busy too.

Now that the management mechanism is improving day by day, and the division of labor among various departments is becoming clearer and clearer, with Ah Lan, the hard-working group taking the lead, everyone else must work hard at their posts.

Jin Zai was carrying a sack of wheat ears to threshing, and Hua Hong was busy in the kitchen alone. Lin Yan walked over and asked, "Mother, how is the wheat harvest this year?"

"Very good. I planted thirteen acres of land this year, which is more harvested than last year." Huahong pointed to the wheat stacks in the yard, "Those are the ones that haven't had time to cut the ears of wheat."

Looking at the six stacks of straw, Lin Yan felt that threshing with a stone mill was too slow.Thinking of the situation of using stone wheels to crush the road surface this time, she thought she could give it a try.

So she said: "Mother, let's spread out the stacks of wheat and spread them out in the yard, let them dry in the sun first, and I'll go find Shigulu."

"What do you want to do?" Hua Hong asked hurriedly.Wheat is the most important food and cannot be wasted.

"Spread out the straw and roll it over with a stone wheel, which has the same effect as a stone wheel, and it's faster."

Hua Hong was dubious, "It's really possible?"

"It's definitely possible. A Niang will clean out the yard first, and I'll go find Shi Gulu."

Shi Gulu was kept in the material department, and Mao Mu and Lin Yun were asked to help, and they were pulled back with a shelf cart.

At that time, when rolling the road, human beings were used to pull the wheel. The wheel was not particularly heavy, weighing about [-] jin. It was cylindrical and had wooden handles on both sides for tying ropes.

Mogi volunteered to pull up the stone wheel and circle it on the straw.

There are other sundries in the yard, which can only be spread out over a dozen square meters. As the wood moves, the wheat stalks that have just been supported are getting thinner and thinner.

Lin Yan turned it over and looked, and there were already grains of wheat underneath, and he said happily, "It's really okay. After a few rounds of grinding, we will turn the straw over and then grind it. After a few more times, all the grains of wheat will be ground down." .”

Huahong also squatted down to look through it, "It's really possible. This method is good, and a lot of straw can be threshed quickly."

"It's much faster this way. At that time, the idea of ​​threshing with a roller was still limited." Lin Yan sighed, and the blind spots of knowledge couldn't afford it.

Mao Mu laughed and said: "When I go back, I will make more stone rollers, which can be used by every household. It is easier to make rollers than rollers, and it doesn't take much effort."

Lin Yun watched as he turned over the straw with a wooden fork, shook it a few times, the grains fell down and separated from the straw, and watched the thick layer of grains mixed with the leaves of the straw.

He said: "This kind of threshing is fast, but it is not easy to clean the wheat grains."

But Lin Yun chuckled: "It's very easy, I'll let you guys see how I did it later."

Two hours later, the wheat stalks were finished grinding, and the bottom layer was swept together. Lin Yan found a shovel for Lin Yun.

"What are you doing?" Lin Yun asked confusedly, looking at the shovel in his hand, and then at the pile of unclean wheat grains, not knowing why.

Lin Yan pointed to the cleared space in front of him, "The weather is fine today, and there is wind. If you shovel up the wheat and lift it up, the wind will naturally blow away the light debris. Try it."

Momu's eyes lit up, "I didn't think of such a good solution. Just now I was wondering if I should use a dustpan to clean up the debris. It's such a big pile, I don't know when it will be cleaned."

Lin Yun was also stunned. He didn't expect it to be like this. He was stunned, and immediately picked up the shovel and raised it into the air.

Seeing the light wheat stalks and leaves being blown aside by the wind, and the wheat grains falling in the middle, Lin Yun knew that this method was very effective.

Huahong opened her mouth in shock, never expecting to do such a thing.

"With such a good method, there is no need to cut the ears of wheat. Pull the wheat stalks back from the field, dry them and grind them."

Mao Mu smiled and said: "Isn't it? Lin Yan is smart enough to think of such a good method. We will teach others right away. After learning such a good method, the wheat in the city will be threshed soon."

Lin Yun seemed to be bewitched, he couldn't stop picking up the shovel, he raised one shovel after another, and after a while, a wheat bag was piled up in front of him, with blown debris on both sides.

When Jin Zai came back with the sack on his shoulders, he saw several people in the yard laughing and talking about something, and he also saw the pile of wheat for the first time.

"This, how did you do it?"

Hua Hong quickly explained the process, and finally said: "No need to wait in line for the stone roller, this wheel is easy to use. I just learned how to raise wheat, so you can learn too. Tomorrow we can do it ourselves."

"Is this how such a big pile of wheat was milled?" Jin Zai still couldn't believe it. He worked hard for several hours to grind out half of the bag, and they milled a whole lot in the same time.

Huahong nodded, "The wheat is here, you still don't believe it."

When Jin Zai came back, Mao Mu and Lin Yun bid farewell. They were going to publicize the new method and make more stone wheels.

Lin Yan stopped him and said, "Don't be in a hurry, Lin Yun, when you first harvested the wheat, was the shovel too heavy, making it more and more difficult?"

"Yeah, I didn't feel it at first, but as I kept repeating it, my arm became heavier and heavier." After Lin Yun finished speaking, he suddenly realized, "Do you want to reduce the weight of the shovel?"

"Almost, the shovel is still too heavy, and people can't bear it after a long time. It's better to replace it with a wooden one, which is lighter. The style is similar, and it's made thinner."

Lin Yun nodded to express his understanding.

With Mao Mu and Lin Yun around, Lin Yan didn't go out of his way to explain new methods to others. She helped put the wheat into sacks together, and it was getting dark.

(End of this chapter)