My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 138 Strange Interests

  The young couple heard Liang Hongyu's voice and walked outside the courtyard. When they got outside, they realized that the two had been brought by their son, but only Liang Yuemin was there, not his daughter-in-law and grandson.

Since it was not the first time that he met Chen Ling, Liang Yuemin didn't recognize his life. When he saw Chen Ling and Wang Susu coming out, he greeted him warmly. After standing at the door and chatting a few words, he started to carry Liang Hongyu down the big box and the small box. thing.

   "Uncle, auntie, there's nothing missing at home, why are you still taking all these things? It's not the first time I've come here."

   "Haha, my parents and my mother are regular customers, isn't this the first time I've come to the house? How can I come home empty-handed!"

   "I heard from my parents that we don't grow much rice here, so we brought some rice over here, and the two of us will move out later."

  Liang Yuemin rubbed his chin at the rice piled behind the car and smiled.

  Chen Ling took a look and saw that there were quite a few. He sighed inwardly, but it was not good to be polite, otherwise he would appear too raw.

   So he let the three of them go home: "Let's go home, it's time for dinner, let's eat first, I'm going to the reservoir to catch two fish."

  Liang Hongyu hurriedly grabbed him: "No, we ate it when we came, I'm afraid you will be tossing again."

   "Look at what you said, auntie, come to my house, shouldn't you have a meal? How can you call it a toss?"

   Chen Ling frowned slightly after hearing this.

   Not to mention that the second old man has never come empty-handed, mainly he has a good temper and gets along very well together. If he is polite, it will make him feel a little uncomfortable.

  Liang Hongyu was instantly happy when he saw this: "Susu, you are not happy when you see him."

   "It doesn't really mean anything. My uncle and I just came back from the city, and we've already eaten on the way. We were originally going to the countryside, didn't we pass by you, just brought the people of Vietnam to recognize the door."

   Then, while walking into the yard, he talked about the past few days.

  It turns out that Liu Yinhuan's father injured his waist and was hospitalized in the city.

   Originally, it wasn’t serious enough, but unfortunately, the township health center killed someone. It has been closed for a while, delaying the treatment. After a few days, I couldn’t hold it anymore, and I couldn’t get out of bed.

   It was Liang Hongyu and Qin Rong who sent someone to the city hospital first.

   Liang Yuemin and his wife have work to do, so it stands to reason that they will not be able to come back this year, because they all rushed back because of this incident.

   "No wonder when Susu and I went to the city last time, we saw that the house was locked! How is Uncle Liu, is it better?"

   "It's almost healed. In fact, it's not a big deal. It's just that the treatment was not timely, and I caught a cold at night. I don't need to do surgery. I take medicine and it will be fine for half a year."

   "That's fine, you have to be careful when you get older."

"Who said it wasn't, Huanhuan was also very frightened. He quit his job when he was about to go back. It took a lot of time to ask for leave this year, and he was busy at the end of the year, so he couldn't go back to his hometown for several years. Like this This time, if something is wrong, where will you regret it?"

   "Cough, Hongyu, why are you telling the child about this..."

   "Okay, let's not talk about that. You and Susu hurry up to eat, we will lead the Yuemin around, don't worry about us."

  Liang Hongyu smiled and waved his hand.

   "It's okay, we're not in a hurry to eat."

  Chen Ling brewed tea, and Wang Susu also went to wash the fruit left at home and bring it over.

   As a result, this place was ready, and before he could say a word or two, Qin Rongxian led Liang Yuemin to the grinding table, and looked around excitedly.

   "Fugui, do you want to grind noodles at home? I see that the wheat is drying."

   "Yeah, I'm running out of white noodles at home, I'm going to grind some."

   "Hahaha, that's just right. I haven't touched this thing for many years. I'll let our grandfather try it out later and push it for a while."

"Okay."

  Chen Ling responded, but he was not very optimistic about them.

This stone mill is not small. The grinding disc has a diameter of more than 80 cm and a thickness of more than 30 cm. The base is even larger, at least 123 cm and 15 cm thick. , This father and son are not the kind of people who can work hard, and it is quite difficult for the two to estimate together.

   But the father and son were very interested, obviously they didn't expect this.

  Liang Hongyu also went over to see this. The whole family gathered together to see the rabbits after watching the mill, and then the pigeons after watching the rabbits, especially Liang Yuemin.

   "This kind of life is good, it's what I yearn for."

  Liang Yuemin stood in front of the rabbit's nest and repeatedly praised him. In his bones, he had the energy of a literary youth.

   Soon his face filled with anticipation.

   "Just as Huanhuan is about to quit his job at the TV station, next year I will open a branch in the city, and I will also come to get a small courtyard, grow some land, and raise some things..."

   "I also enjoy the life of picking chrysanthemums and seeing Nanshan leisurely."

   Then there was another admiration.

  …

  Listening in the kitchen, Chen Ling and Wang Susu looked at each other and saw the smiles in each other's eyes.

  The customer came to the door, and Chen Ling didn't want to go out to fish again, so he simply fried a green vegetable and took a bite of rice.

As for Liang Yuemin, it was obvious that he had been instructed by Liang Hongyu and Qin Rongxian. It was purely regarded as meeting Chen Ling for the first time. He didn't say a word about Chen Ling's affairs in the village. wandering.

   Soon, Chen Ling finished eating and moved to the yard with the rice in Liang Yuemin's car, and then began to prepare the noodles.

  After a long afternoon, the wheat on the mat has dried. Originally, Chen Ling wanted to use a small white cow to grind it. Since Qin Rongxian and Liang Yuemin both wanted to get started, let’s try grinding first.

  Chen Ling and Wang Susu prepared the dustpan, dustpan, sieve, rice flour maker, and broom.

  Then tied the pole to the two grinding pegs of the grinding table and fixed it, and Wang Susu put the sun-dried wheat on a dustpan.

   "Alright? Can you push?"

  Liang Yuemin couldn't wait for a long time, rubbing his hands, looking eager to see through.

  A man in his thirties, like a child, looked at him eagerly, waiting for the grinding.

  Liang Hongyu glared at him: "What's the hurry, wait for the rich and noble to pack up."

  The grain cannot be directly poured into the grinding surface. Before grinding, the bottom needs to be spread out, that is, the top grinding disc is pryed open and two handfuls of grain are sprinkled in the middle.

   The reason for this is to prevent the upper and lower plates of the stone grinding from emptying when the grinding is started.

   Then it is to put grain and push the mill.

Put the wheat on the grinding plate, the wheat will follow the grinding eye of the upper plate and send it between the two plates, and then the bottom that has been spread out, push the grinding plate to rotate, the wheat is ground between the two grinding plates, and the ground wheat It flows down the lower plate to the big chassis.

  The particles on the grinding plate are then sieved and placed on the top of the mill, over and over again, and so on. It needs to be done slowly. One hundred kilograms of wheat can’t be ground in one day (4 hours).

   "Okay, Brother Yuemin, come and grind the mill."

  Chen Ling pried open the grinding plate, let his wife spread the bottom, and after spreading wheat on the grinding plate, he said to Liang Yuemin.

   "Okay, I'll try it."

   Liang Yuemin rolled up his sleeves, grabbed the big wooden pole, and grinned at Qin Rongxian: "Dad, then I'll be here first."

   Then began to push hard.

   It's just that he just started to work hard, and Liang Yuemin's face changed.

   He was pushing with all his strength, but the large grinding wheel hardly moved.

   "Fugui, look, why doesn't it move?"

   Before Chen Ling could speak, Qin Rongxian couldn't help but say, "This stone mill is too big and heavy, I'll push it with you."

   said that, he also stepped forward, and the father and son were holding the big wooden pole together with force.

result…

   is still not ideal.

   "This mill is so heavy."

  Liang Yuemin gritted his teeth and pushed with all his strength, but the grinding wheel was only turning very slowly.

   After finally pushing for two laps, he couldn't hold it any longer. He looked like he was exhausted. He stood there holding his waist and gasping for breath.

   Just now, I was sweating profusely.

   Qin Rongxian wasn't much better, so he waved his hand at Chen Ling with a wry smile.

  There is no way, people who often don’t work hard can’t push the grind at all.

   "Why don't I add another lever, Brother Yuemin, go to the outer circle, Uncle Qin, go to the inner circle, or one lever won't work."

  Chen Ling said.

   "Forget it, don't bother, this thing is too heavy, completely different from what I imagined."

  Liang Yuemin wiped his sweat: "I actually want to push it for a while, but I have to drive. I'm worried that if I lose my strength, I won't be able to hold the steering wheel later."

   "Fugui, will you still grind noodles in the future? I'll bring Huanhuan and Xiaoming over in two days, and come to your house to play for two days. Can we grind it again?"

   "Are you still addicted?"

Liang Hongyu said with a smile: "But this mill is really heavy enough. Now it's hard to find such a large stone mill. What's even more rare is that the stripes on the mill are quite clear. I used to think that I was in charge of a village's rations and had it. Come grind..."

"Yeah, but the electric grinder is rarely used in the village. Brother Yuemin, if you want to grind, you can use a smaller stone grinder, but grinding noodles is slow work, no matter how big or small the grinder is. Try it a few times and you'll know."

  Chen Ling smiled and asked them to fetch water and let them wash it.

  Liang Yuemin said, "It's okay, don't wash your hands first, you can't push the grinder, we can also help you with something else."

   Then he took the same tool as Qin Rongxian and stood next to Liang Hongyu, ready to fight.

   "That's fine, I'll go and bring the cow over here. This mill is big and laborious. It's better to grind it by an animal."

  …

   After a while, Liang Yuemin saw Chen Ling walking into the yard with a large white buffalo, and immediately couldn't help but widen his eyes: "It's actually a white cow, it's so beautiful."

   Looking at this white buffalo, which was all snow-white, with no variegation, and extremely beautiful lines, he immediately felt happy, and put down the sieve in his hand, ready to lean forward and reach out to touch it.

"Don't, Yuemin, stay away from Xiaobai. This white cow from Fugui's family is really beautiful and has a good temper. No one will let anyone approach it except the two of them. Your dad and I rode once last time. , I won't let you touch it anymore, I can't walk forward, and I'm getting angry at both of us."

   When Liang Hongyu saw his son's appearance, he stopped him immediately.

   "Ah? Don't they all say that cows are the most docile animals?"

  Liang Yuemin looked embarrassed when he heard this, and asked with a blink of an eye.

   Such a beautiful white cow, anyone who sees it can't help but like it.

   Qin Rong first glanced at his son: "Most of the cows are like this, but no matter what kind of cow, it is scary enough to get angry. You have a bad temper, do you think it's just a joke?"

   "Moo."

   Xiaobai Niu understands human nature, and when he heard these people's comments about it, he cried out in dissatisfaction.

   Then he lowered his big head and rubbed against Chen Ling's arm, his tail swung back and forth, and there was still a bit of grievance in his **** eyes, like a child complaining to his parents.

   "It's okay, everyone is complimenting you, saying that you are beautiful and very likable."

  Chen Ling stretched out his hand and scratched its side face, and comforted it, then it let out a breath through its nose, slowly followed behind Chen Ling, and walked to the stone mill.

  Rao was seen by Liang Hongyu and the two of them, and they couldn't help but be amazed, let alone Liang Yuemin. Judging from the expression on his face and the bright eyes, he probably thought about raising a cow.

   "Susu, blindfold Xiaobai, and I'll put a jig on him."

   "Okay, come on, Xiaobai."

   In fact, livestock are used to grind noodles in rural areas, and most of them use donkeys.

   Pulling the mill is a slow kung fu. Mules and horses don’t like to do this work. They pull the mill and never go well.

  Cow has a slow temperament, even if it hits, it can't walk fast.

  Only the donkey is the most suitable, it walks slowly and slowly, and it is not annoying to pull the grinding wheel in circles. Of course, before putting on the donkey for grinding, you must also feed the forage well, and those who are hungry can't work.

  Otherwise, it will also have a temper, and the donkey is also very temperamental, why don’t they all say stubborn donkeys and stubborn donkeys? !

   But their own cattle do not have these problems, they are only better than donkeys in their work, and they are definitely not worse.

   But, no matter what kind of animal you use, you have to cover your eyes with a black cloth, and the little white cow is no exception.

  Otherwise, it is easy to get dizzy if you pull and grind for a long time.

   "Huang Chengcheng dripped the wheat onto the mill, waiting to roll the noodles to eat steamed buns."

  The blindfolded little white cow pulled the stone mill and started to turn it. It was much easier and faster than a human.

So a few people and a cow were busy around the stone grinding. Until nearly four in the afternoon, they grinded three and a half buckets of noodles. From lunch to the official grinding, it took two and a half hours to fully grind the noodles, and more than 30 kilograms of noodles did not count. not enough.

   "Pingdou Maizijiandou noodles, the extra bran is not counted. The glutinous rice is the rice or the grinding, and the raw cooked rice is the rice..."

  I eat at home, and the grinding surface should be finely ground.

  If the flour is ground finely or not, more or less bran can be seen, and more bran is produced, which proves that the wheat is well ground and thoroughly ground. The less bran comes out, the more rough it tastes.

   In the past when there was a shortage of grain, we always tried to grind as little as possible from the bran. For more than 100 catties of wheat, about 10 catties of bran were produced, which seemed to have a lot of flour and could last longer.

  People generally call this 90 flour, as the name suggests, 100 catties of wheat produce 90 catties of flour.

   Now that there is no shortage of food at home, it is not necessary to do this. Generally, it is necessary to work hard at 70 flour, and at the end, if the flour is 75, it is almost good.

  For example, the well-known Fuqiang flour is 70 flour, and the flour yield of 100 catties of wheat is only 70, which is a very fine white flour. However, the daily cost of making steamed noodles is about 75 to 80 yuan.

  The flour is ground.

  The upper stubble will be white and the lower stubble will be black. After grinding, it is necessary to stir well.

  If it’s not evenly stirred, white is white, black is black, and steamed buns don’t matter. If you eat noodles, you will be in trouble.

   So once this thing is done, it will take more time, but today there are many people who help.

Qin Rongxian and Liang Hongyu had gone to the countryside and suffered hardships. They did a lot of farm work, so of course there was no problem. Liang Yuemin relied on enthusiasm and worked very energetically. I'm less busy, and I usually hang out in the circle of upper-class people. I can't get in touch with these. It can be said that it is very fresh and very enjoyable.

   When he left, he kept telling Chen Ling that he would pick up his wife and children later. Today was short and he couldn't eat the new noodles.

  Chen Ling naturally welcomed them and asked them to come over at any time, and then waved goodbye to him and Liang Hongyu.

   (end of this chapter)