I am a primitive

"Ah."

The elder brother nodded dully, and then left, his whole person looked a little heavy.

Looking at the way the elder brother left, Han Cheng's heart also became heavy.

I even regretted saying these things to my elder brother...

Time passed quietly as the ears of corn became fuller and humbled day by day.

All the people who went out to build the Bronze Expressway were taken back. Looking at the large, large pieces of millet with their heads bowed, they were full of expectations.

In the threshing floor, someone is holding a copper shovel in his hand to clean up some weeds growing on it.

Some people lead donkeys or deer, and pull stone rollers around the threshing floor.

Behind the roller frame is a cluster of '栳子' made of twigs with leaves, and some copper shovels and some moist soil are buckled on it to increase the weight...

The carpenter's room also stopped weaving helmets, and Limp and a few others began to repair sickles, wheelbarrows and other things here.

Some people cut off bamboo poles as thick as little fingers, and tie them together densely. After making the shape, they roast it on the lit fire to remove the bamboo leaves and help them shape. .

Then they landed in groups of five and pressed down with a heavy stone slab.

After taking it out after a few days, the upper part of these bamboo brooms not only became fine and dense, but also flattened, and a bamboo broom that is very suitable for "plundering" and cleaning the raised grain was successful. manufactured.

In the shade of the tribe, many men squatted there, picked up some water from the earthen basin and poured it on the fine and smooth whetstone, and then held the sickle with both hands, rubbing it back and forth on the whetstone.

After rubbing for a while, I will stop and try the blade lightly with my fingers...

The women in the tribe have been busy preparing food these days, preparing to make a sumptuous sickle feast.

After all, once the autumn harvest starts, the whole tribe will be busy, and there will be no time or energy to cook these foods.

The deer and donkeys in the tribe can get some bean dregs when they are eating grass recently...

In the field, Han Cheng, Wu, and several people in the tribe who often tended the crops searched the millet field together, inspecting the first batch of millet planted.

From time to time, they would grab a few ears of millet and rub them in their hands, put the grains into the mouth, and bite them with their teeth to judge the maturity of the millet.

This is a very testing thing.

Millet takes several months from planting to harvesting.

In the few months, the most important thing is the last few days, because this is the critical time for Gu Zi's "changing benevolence".

At this time, if the harvest is early, the yield of the same mu of land will be reduced a lot, and the grains pounded out by the time will not be full and round enough.

But it can't be harvested too late. If the harvest is too late, once the weather is not good, the large amount of grain will not be harvested.

"It's ok, the stubble of millet will be harvested tomorrow, and the harvest should start from the west end."

After summarizing the opinions of several people and combining his own feelings, Han Cheng finally nodded and clarified the time to harvest the millet.

The reason for harvesting from west to east is because the terrain in the west is relatively high, and the moisture in the field is not as good as that in the east, so the crops here will mature a day or two earlier.

After such a decision was made and spread, the entire Qingque tribe suddenly became lively.

Those who had been preparing for a few days began to wash all kinds of food and put them in the pot. The smell of the food, mixed with the joy of everyone, spread throughout the tribe...

The next day was bright, and those who ate the scythe feast yesterday and had a good night's sleep had already gotten up, carrying sickles and other tools, talking and laughing with each other and leaving the tribe, heading towards the mature crop fields...

"Open the scythe!"

Han Cheng cut off the first handful of millet, held it up high, and shouted at the crowd, the crowd standing on the ground holding the sickle and getting ready bent down one after another, holding the mature millet in one hand, and the other The sickle in one hand stretched towards the root of the millet, and then quickly pulled it back, and a handful of millet was cut off.

As the morning wind blew, many millet surged with the wind in a golden wave. The rustling sound of the ears and leaves colliding with each other and the sound of the sickle cutting the millet mixed together, playing a wonderful movement...

There are many people and strength, and by the afternoon, a large area of ​​millet has been harvested.

So some men stopped harvesting millet, went back to the tribe, put on a donkey cart, led the donkey with two wheels, rolled over the stone road all the way, and then drove into the field along the cleared land.

The donkey cart is different from what I saw before, it is no longer a bare cart, but a "crown" shaped like a "field" is placed in the holes left before and after the donkey cart.

It is not very accurate to say that it is a matt shape. The borders on both sides of the matt shape go out from top to bottom.

The lower part is good for putting into the hole left on the donkey cart, and the upper part is to block more crops on it.

The reason why this tool is called "claws" is because the two tools that are tilted outwards are inserted into the donkey cart one after the other. When viewed from the side, they look like the ones on the top of the sheep's head. Two inverted 'eight' shaped horns.

With these two tools one after the other to block the donkey cart horizontally, a lot of crops can be loaded on the donkey cart.

Otherwise, it's just a bare donkey cart, which can't hold much stuff, and it can't hold it anymore.

"Put both ends first!"

After the donkey cart entered the harvested millet field, someone loaded the donkey cart with the harvested millet, but Han Cheng stopped it.

This kind of two-wheeled donkey cart is loaded with a lot of attention, and it can no longer be installed casually like a unicycle.

First of all, the donkey cart has limited space. If it is not well loaded, the biggest possibility is that there is not much loading, and the cart is already full.

The crops that such a cart can pull, two carts are not worth one cart.

In this regard, it is noticed that after the layers are arranged, there are still many places that need to be paid attention to.

That is to try to balance the car.

If there is too much load in the front, the weight of the donkey cart and a large amount of crops on the cart will be on the donkey, and the donkey cannot bear it.

But you can’t blindly load the donkey on the back half of the car in order to reduce the load of the donkey. The most likely thing that will happen in this way is that the donkey cart will be hoisted when it encounters an uphill slope.

If there are enough things in the back of the donkey cart and the slope is big enough, even the donkey pulling the cart in front can be hoisted together.

In addition, when the left and right sides of the donkey cart are loaded, they should be as balanced as possible.

Because if one side is concave and the other side is protruding, it is easy to overturn when encountering an unstable road.

Moreover, the protruding part is very likely to fail to reach the threshing ground, and it will collapse completely. In this case, the car needs to be reloaded, and that will be a big trouble!

Loading crops on the cart is called "turning the cart" in Han Cheng's place. Just the word "pan" can tell that this is not a casual thing, but a necessary skill for a farmer.

Han Cheng is not unfamiliar with these things at all, because when he was a child, he would go to the field with the adults in the family to harvest wheat and load cars when the "wheat vacation" came in summer.

Many times, in order to bring back more wheat for one cart, when the wheat is loaded to the same level as the 'horns', he will be asked to step on the cart, and at the same time be responsible for buckling up the wheat that adults use wooden forks Spread out layer by layer.

At that time, Han Cheng was often trained for this, but after receiving more training, he was able to install the car slowly.

Today, Han Cheng decided to pass on the skills he learned from training in childhood.