Rebirth of Jiuyouyan

The weather is beautiful, the weather is very sunny for several days in a row, and there is no rain.

It's just that the sun was not enough in the next few days, there were more clouds in the sky, and the rice was exposed to the sun for a few more days before it reached the ideal state.

On the drying ground where Xia Yue and his brothers-in-law made snowmen during the Chinese New Year, there are two large drying racks with a height of six floors, and the rice is hanging upside down on them. Looking from a distance, Xia Yue feels like layers of thick golden tassel.

In the past, the rice of the Bai family could be dried by using these two large drying racks. This year, the increase in production is too much. These two drying racks are not enough, and the space for drying is also limited. We can only make new single-layer or double-layer Layers of drying racks are used to directly dry the rice in some fields.

Xia Yue stepped on the bamboo ladder, climbed up the high drying rack, took down the rice hanging on it, and handed it to Shi Yan under the ladder.Shi Yan had knotted the rice and piled it neatly on the big dustpan. When one was full, he picked it up and transported it to a corner of the drying ground.

Father Bai took Yi Ao Yile to bring back the rice drying in the field, and Xia Yue also brought a few servants from Yun's house to help. The rice was pushed back with a cart, so there was no need to carry it hard, it just had to go back and forth Make a few trips.

The rice on the big drying rack was all harvested, Xia Yue followed Shi Yan to the place where the rice was piled up, and watched Shi Yan push out a farm tool he didn't recognize.

"This one is called Qiantooth." Shi Yan told him with a smile when her husband looked at the thing she pushed out suspiciously.

Xia Yue looked at it with interest. Thousand teeth are actually two wooden boards built at an angle of about [-] or [-] degrees and fixed with wooden sticks. In particular, there is a row of long and dense comb teeth on the supported wooden boards. , the row of comb teeth is parallel to the ground, and the name of the thousand teeth probably comes from this.A large white cloth was spread under the comb teeth.

When Xia Yue was researching the thousand teeth, Shiyan pushed out another one from the warehouse, placed the two thousand teeth side by side, and covered the second thousand teeth with a white cloth.

"Is this for threshing?" Xia Yue guessed the purpose when he saw the row of comb teeth.

Shiyan nodded, grabbed a handful of rice, put the ears of rice between the teeth of the comb, and then gently pulled it up, and the rice fell on the white cloth one after another.

Xia Yue looked eager to try, and imitated Shi Yan's practice, picked up a handful of rice, and threshed the rice with thousands of teeth.This is really a job that does not require any skills, and he succeeded very smoothly.Xia Yue happily looked at the stripped rice in his hand, and saw that there were still some millet hanging on it, which were also round grains, but much smaller.

"Shiyan," he asked Fulang, "there is still millet on it, don't you want it?"

Shiyan plucked more than a dozen handfuls of rice swiftly at the side. Hearing her husband's question, he raised his head and looked at it, smiled and said, "No need, the millet that hasn't been knocked down by Qiantooth is immature." , or an empty shell."

"That's it..." Xia Yue was worried that there would be a fish that slipped through the net, but after thinking about it, Shi Yan cherishes the rice so much. Maybe he thought this way when he first learned to use Qiantooth. Shi Yan even asserted that there would be no maturity The rice is left on the tassels.

So he stopped looking at the rice slowly, and Fu Lang next to him was so capable, he was a little unwilling to lag behind, so he hurriedly concentrated on threshing the rice.

Originally, the two of them were working, and they planned to pile up a certain amount of rice on the white cloth before stopping to put it into the large round dustpan, but before that, they saw the twins running over.

"Brother, brother-in-law," the two children stood cleanly in front of them, unlike their usual muddy appearance, "Let's help you pack the grain."

Xia Yue and Shi Yan looked at each other, happy, they both patted the heads of their brothers and praised them a few words.

Qi Xihe and Yu Yu happily dragged Shi Yan's rice bag piled up in the corner, squatted down and used his hands to push the rice into the small shovel-shaped dustpan, and then carefully poured it into the large dustpan.

When Father Bai and the others transported all the rice from the field back to the drying yard, what they saw was the warm scene of the four people working together.

While helping to unload the rice from the cart, Yi Ao thought to himself that when the child in his brother's womb grows up, he might help the family in the same way.Then he shook his head and denied his imagination, why did the children of the Yun family need to come to do farm work, but his own children... could be taught to be so sensible.

Yile moved the rice to Shiyan's side. When he came back, he looked at Yi Ao and asked strangely, "Second Brother, why are you blushing? Is it hot?"

Only then did Yi Ao come back to his senses, touched his face, and quickly shook his head at his younger brother.

The rice that is taken off by thousands of teeth is also mixed with some rice leaves and grass clippings. The farm tool that removes these is called a grain cart, which can not only remove chaff and debris, but also clean the rice.On the right side of the Yanggu cart is a circular air cavity, which houses the wheel shaft and fan blades, and is connected to the crank handle. On the left side is a rectangular air duct with an open air port and a large funnel on the top.Shaking the hand can generate a strong airflow in the grain-making car, that is, the wind is formed. At this time, the rice is poured into the funnel, and the full and firm rice will fall directly into the first grain outlet, and the rice that is not full will fall. It is blown by the wind to walk some distance, and then falls into the second grain outlet, while the light chaff and debris will be blown out of the air outlet together with the wind.

When using a grain cart, you have to shake your hands all the time, and the speed is also very particular. If the wind is too small, the chaff and debris will not be blown out, and if the wind is too strong, the rice will also be blown up.This work can only be done by the experienced Father Bai and Shi Yan. Yi Ao and Xia Yue are only responsible for pouring the rice into the funnel, and the Xiaolang official of the Bai family will pack the rice from the two grain outlets separately. bag.

The family divides labor and cooperates, and the efficiency is good, but after all, there are too many rice, and it is impossible to finish it in a day.Fortunately, depending on the weather, there is no need to worry about rain in the past few days. The rice that is too late to be threshed and screened is piled up in a dustpan, covered tightly with a cloth, and there is no fear of birds pecking at it.

After five or six days of continuous work, all the rice was threshed and screened. After that, it took another three or four days to hustle the rice.

After husking, the Bai family left thirty catties of rice as seeds for the coming year, and the rest were divided into first-class and second-class, piled up in the warehouse, and sent to be milled after the first autumn rain fell.

Xia Yue finally saw Luo Yue's rice milling method.

The power is a waterwheel, and when the water flow is quite turbulent after the rain, the waterwheel is used to drive the rice milling device.This device was beyond Xia Yue's expectation, it was vertical.There is a funnel on the top, and the rice milling room in the middle is a cylindrical space, which contains some kind of roller made of stone, which is almost close to the inner wall of the rice milling room. The water wheel drives the roller to rotate, and the coarse rice that falls into it is Grinding back and forth, grinding off the surface layer, and grinding out polished rice.

This rice milling device must have been manufactured after very fine calculations. Xia Yue held the [-]% polished rice just milled and thought that the distance between the roller and the inner wall is just enough to grind [-]% polished rice. If this can be adjusted manually It may be possible to grind rice with a lower ratio, and perhaps [-]% of polished rice is not impossible.

But thinking of the hardships of growing wine rice, Xia Yue felt that it was too much to bear to grind half of the rice that the farm had worked hard for half a year.In the last modern age, machinery replaced human labor, and rice could be produced in large quantities. Here, at most, livestock can be used to plow the land, and most of the farm work must be done manually. If [-]% of polished rice is used to make wine, more rice is bound to be used.

Looking at the white polished rice in his hand, Xia Yue finally buried in his heart the idea of ​​using [-]% of the polished rice to make wine.

Even if [-]% of the rice is polished, it can produce good wine from Ganquan.

He let go of the polished rice in his hand, with a confident smile on his face.

In late September, a large amount of polished rice from the Bai family was bundled into barrels with grass leaves and transported to the Yun family's wine store.

After all the farm work is over, Shiyan finally has time to relax and is obediently raising her at home.Seeing that there are not a few days left before entering Tibet, Xia Yue has been with Fu Lang all the time.

Daddy Yun had already asked a tailor to make new clothes for Shi Yan, and changed the styles to looser ones. He also calculated the date when he would show his pregnancy, and pre-ordered both winter and spring clothes.This day the tailor brought some newly made thick clothes, and Daddy Yun sent them directly to the East Courtyard.

"It's too early, it's so wide." Shiyan tried one, and showed her husband.

Xia Yue smiled and tugged at the baggy robe, thinking that Shiyan looked so cute in a large dress.

"It's okay if you do it early, the clothes are thick, and you can still wear them in winter."

Shiyan looked down, tilted her head and thought for a while: "Even if you wear it in winter, it's still too wide."

"Then wear it in spring." Xia Yue went up to him and kissed him, coaxing him to change one.

The second one fits better, the color is light yellow, which makes Shi Yan's rounded face look pink and tender, Xia Yue likes it very much.

He picked up the remaining few clothes and looked at them. He didn't want Shi Yan to try them on. He just put them aside and looked at the newly made boots. Two pairs were obviously too big. Wear it when it swells up.

Xia Yue called the attendants to put away the rest of the clothes and boots, and hugged the husband who was still wearing the light yellow new clothes into his arms, and waited for the attendants to go out, then began to kiss the husband's face repeatedly .

Shi Yan let him kiss her, looked down at herself, then turned to her husband and asked, "Sister-in-law like this one?"

"Well," Xia Yue nodded with a smile, "Fu Lang looks good in clothes, how about wearing more light-colored clothes in the future?"

Shiyan blushed and said, "Those are all worn by teenagers."

"Aren't you a teenager too?" Xia Yue pinched his face.

"I'll be twenty next year."

Luo Yue's Qingguan has already agreed to someone after [-], and if she wears the color that Xiaoqingguan likes to wear, Shi Yan feels that she will be called young.

Xia Yue showed disapproval on his face: "So what about twenty, how is my family style Yan different from those teenagers? I let you wear it and you wear it. I like to see it. You are wearing it for me to see, not Wear it for others to see."

When her husband said he liked it, Shi Yan lost her resistance. Naturally, the clothes were for her husband to see. Although he still felt a little embarrassed to wear them too softly, but Xia Yue said, he obediently nodded in agreement.

As a result, after Shi Yan gave birth to the child, Xia Yue asked the tailor to make for Shi Yan, all of which were scarlet, pink, light yellow, blue, and primrose. Shi Yan couldn't laugh or cry when she saw it. She was fourteen or fifteen years old, and she had given birth to a child by herself, and she would be laughed at if she still dressed like this.

But these Shiyan can’t expect it now. He is a farmer’s child, and he rarely wears light-colored clothes since he was a child. Sweet, thought it would be nice to dress to please my husband too.

So on this day, Shiyan wore this new goose-yellow dress all day long, and only changed it at night when she took a bath.