After the rebirth, I was held in my heart by the natural enemy

Naturally, the deal didn't work out.

Stall owners sell beans here also to make money. Part of the money they make has to pay taxes, and part of it goes to buy food and vegetables.But no matter what, Xuan Muzhi would not agree to exchange these poor-quality broken barley.

The barley rice of the Dong family was originally an ordinary variety, and the stone mill used for rice milling was very heavy and old, so a lot of rice was milled out.

The owner of the complete good rice took away, and the rest of the broken rice was divided equally among the farmers.Of the one hundred catties of barley rice that the Xuanjia brothers got, about twenty catties were broken.The ones that are not too broken can be replaced with other grains. The last few catties at home are very broken, and it looks really bad.

Xuan Muzhi walked through several stalls without exchanging broken rice, and was almost desperate. When he reached the last stall that looked small and eccentric, he had almost lost hope.

Even if the conditions are good, they are not willing to trade with him. Can someone who seems to be not much richer than his family be willing?

The result surprised and delighted Xuan Muzhi.

The stall owner agreed to exchange. In the words of the other party, the beans had not been sold for several days, and he also needed to sell grain.Rather than using money to buy, it is better to exchange beans, which is equivalent to selling.

However, the rice brought by Xuan Muzhi was too broken, and the stall owner was not willing to use the original exchange price.Originally, one catty of barley rice could be exchanged for ten catties of beans, but the other party was only willing to exchange this kind of broken rice for five catties.

Five catties is five catties, Xuan Muzhi decisively replaced the two catties he brought with beans.Two catties of broken rice were exchanged for ten catties of beans, but Xuan Muzhi did not exchange for a single type of beans.

Although they looked the same, they were not in the same world. He had to change several to see which one was more suitable.

Soy beans, mung beans, black beans, and white beans are almost exactly the same as those on the earth. These beans can also be made into bean sprouts. Xuan Muzhi also asked for two catties.There were several other types of beans, which Xuan Muzhi didn't know very well, so he hesitated and ordered another two catties of red beans.

Beans can germinate, but the bean sprouts usually sold in the market are mainly soybean sprouts and mung bean sprouts, of which mung bean sprouts are the most.Of course, this does not mean that other beans are not good. Black bean sprouts and red bean sprouts are said to have higher nutritional value, but relatively speaking, the germination rate of mung beans is the fastest and highest, so from the perspective of cost and benefit, mung bean sprouts are the best choice .

Xuan Muzhi didn't buy red beans to make bean sprouts. If the red beans had a high germination rate, he didn't mind to make red bean sprouts, but he mainly wanted to use red beans to make other foods.

Carrying five kinds of ten catty beans back home, the porridge in the pot was already cooked, but Xuanxuan didn't eat it first, but sat by the stove and waited.

"Brother, what did you buy?" Seeing Xuan Muzhi's return, Xuanxuan's eyes lit up, but as soon as he opened the bag, he was disappointed. After looking through the bags one by one, he found that they were all beans, and he was completely puzzled. "Why do you use so many beans? We don't have wildebeests."

Wildebeest is a unique kind of horse in this world. It is tall and strong, with strong limbs, great strength and patience. Although the speed is relatively slow, it has a very docile personality. It is a good helper for plowing or pulling carts. named after the corner.

Although this kind of wildebeest works hard, it also eats a lot, especially like fried beans and soybeans.That's why Xuan Xuan asked such a question.

"It's not for the horses, it's for us to eat."

Xuanxuan's eyes were moist instantly, it was so pitiful that it made people feel distressed.

It is already miserable to eat rice and broken barley, but now you have to compete with wildebeests for food?Although many poor people eat these beans, they taste bad and are uncomfortable to eat, so no one is willing to eat them unless it is absolutely necessary.

Xuanxuan had eaten it a few times before, and it was really uncomfortable. Later, they came here to find a job, and life got better.He didn't expect that now he would be reduced to eating beans for a living.

Xuanxuan's small appearance of enduring grievances made Xuanmuzhi's heart soften, and he sighed and patted the other person's head, "Don't worry, brother is not going to cook beans for you, let's eat first."

"Ah."

Xuanxuan took the initiative to serve two bowls of porridge and brought them. The two brothers sat on two small benches at the small table in the outer room to have lunch.

Xuan Muzhi took a bite, barley rice is similar to brown rice, but fortunately the broken rice is still soft after cooking.There seems to be some salt in it, coupled with the fragrance of wild vegetables, this meal is not bad.

The two brothers were so hungry that they almost swallowed a bowl of porridge quickly.After eating this bowl, neither of them was full.

"Is there anything else?" Xuan Muzhi asked, rubbing his stomach.

Xuan Xuan nodded.

"We both share and eat!"

"But, brother, we put extra rice in today's meal..." Xuanxuan was only seven or eight years old, but he had already learned how to live, and persuaded in a low voice.

Xuan Muzhi glanced at Xuanxuan, this child is so young, he has suffered so much to be so sensible.Think about those children of the same size on the earth, it is no different from being soaked in a honeypot.

Not to mention his child, even I, who has lived for more than ten years, have never suffered this kind of crime.

"Don't be afraid, if there is really not enough food, at worst... At worst, I will go and ask the owner for some barley. Anyway, I will harvest it soon, let him buckle it from there." Xuan Muzhi comforted the little guy with a few words.

"Hmm..." Xuanxuan thought about it, and obediently got up to serve the porridge.Although it was all served, it was only half a bowl for each person, but Xuanxuan took a bite, with a very satisfied look on his face.

What kind of suffering is this, to feel happy even after eating a full meal of vegetable porridge?

After eating and drinking enough, Xuan Muzhi was not idle, and went out to take out all kinds of beans and carefully selected some of them to soak.Even if these beans are worthless, they should not be wasted easily.

"Brother, why are these beans soaked in water?"

"Because it can turn into something good."

"Really?" Xuan Xuan didn't quite believe it.These are the cheapest beans, so bad, how can they be good?

Beans germinate very quickly, and it only takes a few days. Before that, the less than three catties of broken rice in their hands only needed to be enough to eat.If it fails, he can only find another way.

After soaking the beans, Xuan Muzhi started another task.

The rice in the northern area is dehulled with a stone mill, but the stone mill is thick and heavy, and it is fine to pull it with a horned horse, but it is very difficult to push it manually.I heard that there are machines in the west district and even in the south district to shell barley rice. After threshing the barley rice, you can put it in and white rice will come out. However, there is a fee for that machine, and the cost is not low.Not to mention him, even the boss can't afford to use it, or is unwilling to use it. After all, so many labors are available, it's better than spending a lot of money.

Xuan Muzhi gave up this idea when he saw the huge stone mill, let alone understand how to push it with his small body, even if he could push it, he might not be able to grind many meters in a day.But what he gave up was to grind rice with stones, not the opportunity to earn barley.

So he intends to make a relatively light hulling tool, rice rice huller.

Rice Huller is a rice processing tool before the invention of the rice rolling machine. It is mainly made of three materials: moso bamboo, wood and loess.A few years ago, when Xuan Muzhi was recuperating in a village, he saw an old man making rice hullers.

This kind of ancient machinery is not too complicated to make, and the things it needs are not expensive, and you can find them if you look carefully.But it is much easier to use than the heavy stone mill, and the efficiency is also high.It is a balance between heavy stone mills and expensive machines.

At the market today, Xuan Muzhi saw a lot of sacks and bamboo baskets. Generally, those who sell fruits and vegetables usually use bamboo baskets, and those who sell beans mostly use sacks, but the ones used for display in front of them also use bamboo baskets, which are not too valuable.So Xuan Muzhi deduced that there must be a large bamboo forest nearby.

Sure enough, although Xuan Muzhi couldn't find it in his memory, he asked Xuanxuan, and the little guy nodded.

"My brother, there is a big bamboo forest over there, and the uncle of the family closest to us weaves bamboo baskets."

Xuan Mu was stunned, the original owner had nothing in his memory because they were so close?

The place where they live belongs to the edge of the village, and except for these few sparse families, other people don't come here once.But since they are not too far apart, have they never visited each other?

Xuan Muzhi wanted to visit, but stopped after thinking about it.He wanted a few bamboo baskets for making rice hulls, but it was not good to go empty-handed, so he had to wait to collect other utensils.

The rice huller is composed of hulling feet, hulling cores, hulling discs, hulling loads, hulling bodies, hulling teeth, hullers, and hulling hands.In addition to making tools, loess and wood chips are also needed.Xuan Muzhi took advantage of the fact that he was full and strong, so he carried a broken bamboo basket on his back and planned to dig some loess back.

Loess is easy to work with, but it is not easy to find suitable wood chips.It took three full days to collect more than half of the suitable wood chips, but the good news is that the bean sprouts are almost grown.

After soaking all kinds of beans overnight, many beans were soaked soft. Just as Xuan Muzhi thought, the first thing with a small white sprout here was mung bean.

Seeing that the mung beans had broken their skin overnight, Xuan Muzhi quickly soaked a quarter of the remaining mung beans.The mung beans that had grown small sprouts before were simply rinsed and spread flat on a piece of clean and thick linen cloth, which was covered with a clean damp cloth.

For this, Xuan Muzhi took apart a piece of his clothes, washed them cleanly and tore them into several pieces.

Anyway, if the bean sprouts cannot be sold, there will be no money to eat, and if there is no money to eat, they will not be able to live, and there is no time to think about other things.

The growth of the mung bean sprouts was gratifying. When they got up the next morning, the bean sprouts were all one centimeter long, and the other four kinds of beans and the batch of mung beans that were soaked after last night were also showing signs of breaking their skins.

In the next few days, the bean sprouts showed new changes every day. I don’t know if the beans in this world are full of vitality, or all beans are like this. By the third day, the bean sprouts on the head are nearly five centimeters long, and they can be taken out sold for money.

Xuan Muzhi decided to hurry up and finish the work in the field today, and come back early to sell bean sprouts at the market.Because they have eaten up all the broken barley in their family today, and they can't sell it for money, so they can only go hungry.

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