God don't even try to stop me from doing infrastructure!

"Ah, the great stone mill."

After eating bread made of stone-milled flour for more than a month, everyone praised this big man with a simple appearance from the bottom of their hearts—the great tool brought by the Son of God from the Kingdom of God.

The most solid and delicate stone needs to be selected, and craftsmen carefully polish it.According to the size, it can be divided into manpower and animal power. With so many people in other courtyards, they must be pulled by animal power.

Curry's popular bread-making process in the past is as follows:

Put the sun-dried wheat grains into the earthen pot first, pound them with wood continuously, and use friction to shell them.

Then, put the husked wheat grains into a stone mortar and crush them with stones, pick out the fine grains of wheat flour, continue to grind them finer with stone hammers, add salt and natural baking soda powder to ferment and make white bread for the owner.The remaining coarse wheat flour was mixed with wheat bran to make dark brown bread for favored servants.

Yes, even if it is black bread, it must be a favored person to have this treatment.Others satiate their hunger with rice with peas and a little black salt.

Now the process of making bread is as follows:

Bury the earthen pot in the soil, make a seesaw, put wood on one end, and step on the other end, and use the principle of leverage to shell the wheat, which greatly improves the efficiency of labor.

The husked wheat is ground into a very fine powder with a stone mill pulled by a donkey.Then the owner's portion is finely ground twice, and then fermented with salt and natural baking soda powder to make relatively soft white bread.The servants are still ordinary bread, but the powder is fine, and there is no hard-to-swallow grinding feeling in the throat. It is actually better than the white bread sold outside with milk.

The wheat bran that comes off is mixed with other forages and fed to cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks.

"I heard that His Royal Highness Shenzi spent a whole bag of white shells to make this thing. This is a lot of money. Lord Menis gave all of it to the stonemason. The stonemason got the money, which is enough for the whole family to live a good life for two years. What's more, his family is being taken care of by Lord Menis."

"It is said that stone mills have also started to be used in other places. His Highness the Son of God allows the artisans to teach others this skill for free. Many people go to the artisans to learn, and the common people know about it."

"This stone mill was used for a month, and it was made after two failures. But now many people have used it. It is the credit of His Royal Highness, the priests, and His Majesty."

There are twelve months in a year, and the moon rotates once to count as a month. This is how people here record the date.

They use the corona to record the time of a day, and the moon corona to record the time of a month. The time of each month is not fixed, sometimes 29, sometimes 32, but there are about 360 days in a year.

Now is the coldest time in Curry, the kitchen in the other courtyard is very lively, the cook and the maid are chatting.The fire was burning vigorously, and the aroma of food wafted from the whole kitchen.

This year's winter is still difficult. The temperature difference between morning and evening in Taixi is large, the daytime is not particularly low, and people can freeze to death at night, and there is a lot of rain and snowfall in winter, which is cold and humid.But this year everyone is in good spirits.The temples all over the country are announcing the news that the Son of God has come to Taixi with the seed of the Kingdom of God, which is a golden seed.

In addition, the temple and the king once again distributed relief food to poor farmers, which greatly encouraged the increasingly depressed atmosphere.

The common people are looking forward to the new grain next year.

The rumors that Taixi had been abandoned by the gods spread around were self-defeating.If the gods had already abandoned Taixi, how could they send the Son of God to Taixi with the seeds of the Kingdom of God?The refugees who gathered immediately dispersed.Most civilians would not have participated in the riots if they had not been cornered.

In the past two months, wooden threshers and stone mills have been spread.

For the sake of publicity, the temple and the royal family asked their masons and carpenters to make a large number of stone mills and threshers, some of which were distributed to civilians, and some were sent to their own territories.The cost of these things is not high, but they need relatively strong stone.Even if it is a commoner, several families can buy one together, which greatly reduces the workload of housewives.

They use stone mills to grind fine wheat flour, and the strength of a woman can also turn a smaller stone mill, which can grind several days' weight in about half an hour.You can also add a little water, grind all kinds of beans, such as peas and chickpeas, into soybean juice, cook it and drink it - it is said that this is more delicious and nourishing, this is what the Son of God told them.

Before winter came out, the people in Curry had already felt the benefits of the Son of God. They were more willing than anyone else to believe that the arrival of the Son of God would make Taixi stronger and richer.

"Has His Highness the Son of God woke up?"

"Not yet, but it should be soon. Amei saw Master Meinis looking for His Highness the Son of God."

"Master Menis is too domineering. He forbids others to enter the room of His Highness Son of God without permission, but he himself goes in every day."

Seeing that the maids were talking more and more, the cook Assi tapped the bread board with a rolling pin, and the maids immediately shut up in fright.But after a while, seeing Mrs. Asi making vegetable soup, the maids discussed again in a low voice.Their eyes look in all directions, their hands are constantly working, and their mouths are small.

"It's no wonder that Master Meinis likes to get close to His Highness Son of God, don't you guys want to get close?"

While squinting her eyes and thinking, the maid peeled out the beans one by one: "His Highness Shenzi brought the stone mill to the warehouse and used livestock to pull it. The work that he had to do the previous day was done in half the morning. His body He must be full of wisdom. And he is so handsome, since he can have such an outstanding appearance, why does he still have such wisdom? If I can win the favor of His Highness the Son of God, even if it is only for a day, I am willing to die immediately."

The maids in the kitchen have a very good sense of Yunze.The appearance of the stone mill is the most friendly to them, because they used to grind the wheat, which was hard work.There are so many wise people in this world, but he is the only one who makes these tools for them, how can he not like it?

In the concept of Taixi people, they are as humble as slaves. Only by working day and night can they be forgiven by the gods. However, after coming from Yunze, they also have time to rest, and they can also eat delicious bread that does not choke their throats. .

bang bang!Aunt Asi, who was big and round, knocked on the stone slab twice with a kneading stick, raised her eyebrows, and shouted loudly: "Since you have time to talk here, you might as well work harder. If you have nothing to do, go squeeze some sheep." Come here."

She drove the two maids to the backyard to milk the goats, and looked back at the large stone mill pulled by donkeys that weighed several hundred kilograms in the yard: "Really, young girls are like this. If you are grateful, you should work harder. To actually secretly have unrealistic fantasies about His Royal Highness Shenzi."

Another older girl who was staying in the room laughed: "His Royal Highness Shenzi is extremely handsome, and he is attractive to young girls. He is also gentle and soft-spoken even to servants who are engaged in low-level jobs. some ideas.

"It's been so long, and I've never seen him whipping others. Even if he accidentally does something wrong, it's just a scolding, and the most serious thing is just a little more workload. Even if His Highness is ugly, there will be girls who are attracted by his gentleness." I am moved, not to mention that His Royal Highness Shenzi is also so good-looking. Even if you know that you are not worthy, you can always think about it, right?"

Asi also sighed, she thought of her daughter who was so proud of the sky, she loved His Royal Highness Prince Sham wholeheartedly, and now she is not doing well after several divorces.

She did not resent Prince Sham. Firstly, it was caused by long-term master-slave thinking. Second, Prince Sham had a principle that he would not attack the maids around him. Her daughter was not beautiful enough to make Prince Sham forget this principle.Asi prepared a generous dowry for her daughter. She has a beautiful appearance and outstanding talents, but she just refused to give up the idea of ​​becoming the concubine of Prince Sham, and she is still alone.

"When they get older, they will understand that it is best not to think about anything."

When Menis knocked on the door and came in, Yunze had already woken up, and was sitting at the desk with a quill pen to copy the few hieroglyphs written down yesterday.His long hair hung loose behind him, trembling slightly with the movement of his hands.

At this time, it was still very bright outside, because it had snowed all night, it seemed to be a little brighter than usual.There was a brazier in the room, and coals were burning in it, but now it has been extinguished.The only light source is the oil lamp lit on the desk, which is in the shape of a bronze maid bouquet.

Menis took a thick cashmere cloak from the hanger beside the bed, covered Yunze's body, and then tied the belt for him in an intimate gesture, with his arms around him: "Be careful of catching a cold."

After discovering that Yunze's approaching him was more of a feeling of strangeness and bewilderment than disgust, Menis pushed his limits a bit.Ever since he got the teacher's permission to serve and take care of Miko nearby, he seemed to be unable to restrain his desire to get close.

He longed for the warmth of another.

If Menes were a modern man, he would know this strange urge called 'skin hunger'.

Because he arrived at the temple at the age of four, and was completely trained as a future priest. The great priest is too serious, and the rest are too low-status to approach him. Menis has long lacked the kind of intimacy without distance like a family member, and he himself is very restrained. , so this desire arose.

However, because of his high vision and overly picky relationship, this inner desire has not found any suitable object, so it has not been revealed.Until I met Yunze, I felt that 'everything is not as good as my own', and I started to be touched unconsciously, looking for various reasons to touch it, it was almost uncontrollable.

"Menis, look, is it well written?" Yunze showed him the words on the paper, which he wrote with a pen made from the feather tip of a big goose wing, with a fine bronze tip, but It is much smoother to write than the previous straw pen. The quill absorbs water, and you don’t need to smear ink to write a word.

Meinis propped one hand on the table, pressed Yunze's shoulder with the other, looked down at the hieroglyphs copied by Yunze, and said with a smile, "This is written with your new pen? The strokes are more slender and smooth."

"More than that, a quill pen. It inks once and writes a line. It is more durable. It is the tip of the pen, which is fine and expensive. Ordinary people have no money." Yunze has learned Taixi's common language for so long, and ordinary short sentences are no problem. Long sentences will stutter.

"The clerks of ordinary people still use straw pens, but Your Majesty will like this kind of bronze quill." With such a low cost, even a little furniture would be willing to buy it. Poor people are not able to learn writing.

Only Yunze would worry that ordinary people would not be able to afford it—they would never buy it because they could not read.

Menis can often hear such uncommon-sense and natural words from Yunze. Obviously at this time, he should tell him that ordinary people will not buy, but he doesn't want to say it in his heart.If the world has always been this beautiful in Yunze's eyes, it would be fine.

"After writing this line, let someone bring hot water over to wash." Meinis looked at his loose hair, "I'll tie it for you."

Yunze directly covered his head, silently looking at Menis and the comb he had hidden in his sleeve at some point.

"It won't hurt this time." Menis coaxed him.

"Itchy." Where there is pain, it is obviously itchy, especially when other people's fingers touch the scalp, goose bumps will rise.

"I'm lighter."

Yunze didn't understand why he, the heir of a great priest, had to do these things that the maids used to do.If it was for the sake of profit, then he could do it with just a few casual words. Wouldn't it be too much sacrifice to take care of him like this?

"Why, comb my hair?" Yunze asked him.

Menis has already hooked a strand of hair with his fingers. The silver-gray hair is as beautiful as silver threads, with the light twinkling like stars, and it feels smooth and smooth to the touch: "Didn't you lose your temper last time because you were impatient? Do you want to cut it off? Why do you want to cut off such beautiful hair? If you find it troublesome to comb your hair, then just leave it to me.

"I like your long hair." I also like the way your hair falls over your shoulders.