Rebirth before the doomsday: I quietly emptied the city of supplies

An hour later, Chen Yu had installed the mill, and it looked quite functional.

Lin Mo drilled a small hole in the side of the stone wheel before firing. A bamboo pole can be inserted into it to turn the stone wheel. This saves more effort... "It seems to be quite useful."

After finishing the push mill, Chen Yu tried it and found it felt good. There should be no problem! And most importantly, it was labor-saving. In this way, he should be able to grind one or two cans of flour a day. At this time, Ling Qing's winnowing machine and sieve were almost finished!

Then their next job is to thresh the wheat, turn it into grain, and after drying it, grind it into flour. There are no special tools for threshing wheat now, so you can only make one by hand! In the countryside, it was not so advanced in the early 2000s, there were no harvesters or tricycles. So the magic tool for farmers to thresh wheat is something called a flail. It is very simple, but very practical...

The production principle is also very simple. First, you need a bamboo pole about 1.67 meters long, but not too thick! Because when threshing wheat, you need a bamboo pole that can be held by both hands. Next, it is a simple weaving process...

Eight thumb-thick bamboos were placed on the ground, and then they were all strung together one by one using the bark of the hibiscus tree.

This forms a bamboo raft similar to a fan, wide in the front and narrow in the back. Then drill a hole in one end of the long bamboo pole, and then carve a small wooden stick. One end is flattened, and the other end is left, shaped like a turtle's head...

This acts as a pivot!

Insert it into the small hole on the bamboo pole, and then tie the narrow end of the woven bamboo raft to the small wooden stick. The next step is to use the bark rope to fix the wooden stick, bamboo and bamboo raft! A flail is made... This kind of rough handwork was completed by Chen Yu in half an hour!!

"You can make this kind of thing?" Ling Qing looked at the flail made by Chen Yu.

It was undeniably ugly, but she could still recognize it. She had used this kind of thing a lot when she was a child. "Of course. My brother's skill in making this was so great that it dominated the surrounding four or five villages." Chen Yu smiled proudly and spoke arrogantly. They can probably harvest 300 kilograms of grain!

Although it sounds like a lot, if it is ground into flour, it is only enough for two people to eat for a year. And this is when they cannot eat flour every day.

"Okay, we can go and spread the wheat!" "Let's relive the happy childhood days."

Chen Yu tried his flail and found it very flexible and perfect. Then the two of them threw the wheat in the yard of the shelter. The place was not big, but they should be able to finish beating it all in two attempts.

After the wheat was spread out, it was already past ten in the morning, and the wheat that had just been spread out needed to be dried for a while. So they planned to finish their meal and work hard to thresh all the wheat today. At noon, Ling Qing simply cooked some wild vegetables and stir-fried meat slices, and cooked the only two catfish left! He also cooked some meat, mainly for Banban. After lunch, the two of them started their boring work, which took a whole day.

After lunch, Chen Yu started to thresh the wheat, and Ling Qing's job was to filter the wheat threshed by Chen Yu with a winnowing machine and a sieve. . In fact, wheat is a treasure from head to toe.

The wheat flakes can be used as materials for heating the kang, and the wheat straw, after being broken, can also be used as feed for goats in winter. Secondly, it can also be used to make fire!

"It's been a long time since I've done this kind of work, but I'm not unfamiliar with it at all." Chen Yu said with an interested smile while threshing wheat. And I don't feel the irritability I felt when I was cutting wheat!

"Well, to be honest, I haven't done this kind of work for a long time since I started working!" "It really feels a bit like childhood."

Ling Qing said this happily as he was turning over the wheat straw.

And most importantly, although this work is very tiring, it is not too tiring and not too boring. "Okay, then we will speed up and try to thresh all the wheat today." "Tomorrow night, maybe we will have noodles to eat!"

Thinking of eating noodles, pancakes, and dumplings, Chen Yu felt his confidence grow. I haven't eaten noodles for so long, and I miss the taste of noodles! "Yeah, let's do our best..." Ling Qing also encouraged himself, and in order to eat some noodles earlier, his hands also moved faster...

In this way, time passed little by little as the two worked passionately.

When the first game was over, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

After the second game, the sun has started to set!

Just because the wheat is threshed doesn't mean the work is done. The most important thing is to separate the wheat from the miscellaneous oats and straw.

"Chen Yu, after you take the wheat straw out, you can use the winnowing wheel while I sift it!" "It will be faster this way."

After eight or nine hours of working without a break, Ling Qing felt very tired. But in order to eat the food as soon as possible, he could only insist on the following... "Okay, I'll come in right away."

Chen Yu carried all the straw out of the shelter in arms, and then began to separate the broken straw and miscellaneous oatmeal from the grain. This kind of delicate work is the most challenging for one's patience! And this kind of work is exactly what Chen Yu dislikes doing the most. But even if he doesn't like it, he still has to do it! In order to survive, in order to live better in this year.

Fortunately, the two of them cooperated well, and talked about everything, talked about interesting things. Time passed quickly...

By the time the two of them had sorted out the wheat, it was already very late! As for what time it was, they still didn't know. But at least, it should have been past midnight... "Ah! Finally finished..." Ling Qing stood up, and suddenly he felt like his waist was not his own!

I was so sore that I could hardly stand.

His whole body was out of control, and it was obvious that he had been sitting for too long, so his body was a little numb. "Although it's not very clean, it's too late tonight, let's talk about it tomorrow!" Chen Yu looked at the granary in the room, which was basically full!

If I'm not mistaken, it's about 300 kilograms, at least 270 or 280 kilograms. "Yeah, I'm really tired, I can fall asleep while sitting now." Ling Qing closed his eyes, as if he was too tired to open his eyes. Then he walked into the room, lay down and fell asleep!