After the Earthquake of Rebirth

After eating boiled corn and roasted corn for more than ten days in a row, after some of the eggs were consumed, Ning Qiyan stuffed a lot of fresh corn into the vacated refrigerator.

There has been no rain outside for two consecutive months. Without the obstruction of the trees, the climate in Cangyun Mountain is getting drier. If you want to eat fresh corn, you have to make room for it, otherwise it will dry out in a few days.

The previously harvested corn was piled up in the yard of Wang Yang's house after peeling off its outer coat. The dry environment, coupled with the sunshine and high temperature during the day, became very dry within a few days.

Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen finished watering the rice on the platform, then locked the cave door with the bucket, and went back and forth to the water station a dozen times before watering the two acres between their house and Wang Yang's house. land.

On the last trip to fetch water, Ning Xiaowen took a look at the situation in the col by the way. Huzi and his group had already watered almost three quarters, so he stopped going down and walked to Wang Yang's house with Ning Qiyan with an empty bucket.

When Wang Yang’s family surrounded the yard last year, they dug a big tree with luxuriant branches and transplanted it in the yard. The two girls, Liu Jia and Wang Yuanyuan, almost sat in the shade under the tree during the day. Sometimes, they found that no matter what work the two of them were doing, they kept talking.I really don't know how there are so many things to say when we live together 24 hours a day.

"Brother Xiaowen, brother Qiyan, have you finished watering the ground?" Hearing the sound of footsteps, Wang Yuanyuan raised her head and asked, rubbing corn with her hands non-stop.

Ning Xiaowen nodded, stacked the bucket in his hand with Ning Qiyan's and put it by the fence, and took it back with him when he went back, there was no need to make a special trip.

"How are your two hands?" Ning Xiaowen asked.

Wang Yuanyuan stopped, waved her gloved hand, and then took off a glove.

"So serious?" Ning Xiaowen was taken aback, and Ning Qiyan also stared at Wang Yuanyuan's hand wrapped in gauze.

A few days ago, they started rubbing corn. The hands of these two girls were the most tender, and blisters appeared in a short while. People like Wang Yang who had never rubbed before had more or less injuries on their hands.If it weren't for the fact that Ning Qiyan was so proficient in rubbing, Du Cheng and Ning Xiaowen didn't want Ning Qiyan to rub together.

In their opinion, Ning Qiyan is more suitable for holding a pen, and he is the one with the highest education in their family, so there is no need to grind his hands into thick calluses.And they are not in a hurry to eat. The work of rubbing corn is not too much for one of them, and it is not much for one of them.

But real proficient hands rub corn with ingenuity, just like Ning Xiaowen and Hu Zi, and Ning Qiyan, too. No injuries at all.Ning Xiaowen and Du Cheng didn't speak.

But after thinking about it, even if Ning Qiyan hurt his hand, unless their family brought the corn home, they would all sit in the courtyard of Wang Yang's house, and even the two girls would get their hands on it. How could such a big man like Ning Qiyan really do nothing.

Liu Jia glanced at the smiling Wang Yuanyuan and shook her head amusingly.

"Okay, stop making trouble, I didn't see Brother Qiyan and Brother Xiaowen taking it seriously!" Liu Jia finished speaking to Wang Yuanyuan, then looked at Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen; "Don't worry, the blisters from before have healed up long ago, But rubbing with gloves is a bit painful, so we wrapped a layer of gauze on the places that are easy to wear, not to mention, it works really well. With the gauze and gloves between, it doesn't hurt at all."

Ning Xiaowen breathed a sigh of relief.

Ning Qiyan nodded at Wang Yuanyuan, "Okay! Dare to scare us!"

Wang Yuanyuan put on the gloves with a smile, "Isn't it because my brothers love us both? If you change someone you don't know, even if the limb is amputated, it may not be able to scare them!"

"Nonsense!" Ning Xiaowen glared at her.I don't know if it's because they are young and have no scruples, or because they are studying medicine. These children opened their mouths, amputated their limbs and closed their mouths and dissected them very smoothly.Every time I hear Ning Xiaowen, I can't wait to glue their mouths.

Superstition or not, these are not good things, so it's best not to talk about them.

For this point, Ning Qiyan is more open-minded.When he was in college, he had a roommate and his girlfriend was a high school classmate, and later he was admitted to the medical university in their hometown.The roommate said that when she first started taking anatomy class, every night after the electricity in her girlfriend's dormitory was cut off, she had to turn on the rechargeable desk lamp, otherwise the whole dormitory would not dare to sleep.Afterwards, he got used to it, and when he went out to eat with his roommate during the holidays, he would talk about which part of the meat on the plate was similar to the human body. Very happy.

It can be seen from this that these things that sounded bad to Ning Xiaowen are really nothing in the eyes of these children!

Dragging two small stools over, Ning Qiyan and the two also sat down in the shade.Spread out the plastic sheet, and hold a corn cob in one hand and rub it against it.

The four chatted with each other one by one, and after a while, the others also came back after pouring the mountain.After wiping off the sweat, I sat down and started rubbing corn.

Although the rubbed corn is enough to eat for a while, the cave can't hold the remaining corn without rubbing it into corn kernels, so it can't be kept in the yard like this all the time.Although the nearby residents are familiar with it, if people from other places come up in the dark at night, as long as they move lightly, they may not be able to find out if they empty the corn in the yard.

Ning Qiyan looked around and found that Bai Chengyi and Zhang Wei were not there, so he turned around and asked Dong Wen'an, "Where are the two of them, Dabai?"

Dong Wen'an smiled mysteriously, "You will know in a while."

Ning Qiyan raised his eyebrows, "So mysterious?"

Dong Wen'an was still smiling, but didn't speak any more.

Ning Qiyan didn't have to ask why, let him just wait, maybe something good will happen.

After about an hour, I suddenly heard Bai Chengyi's shout from outside the yard.

"Beard! Du Cheng! Come and help me!"

Huzi and Du Cheng put down the corn cobs and stood up. Looking outside, Huzi couldn't help saying: "Hey! Dabai is really good!"

If he was sitting, he couldn't see what was going on outside because it was blocked by the fence. When Ning Qiyan heard Huzi's sigh, he couldn't help but stop what he was doing, and stood up to look outside.

"Damn it!" Wang Yang yelled when he saw what Bai Chengyi and Zhang Wei were carrying, and pulled Ke Chengwei and the others to run down.

What Bai Chengyi and Zhang Wei were carrying was a stone mill.

There is a mill provided by the government at the foot of the mountain, but every household has more or less [-] catties of corn, which is sent back and forth for milling, plus the waiting time, it is not enough for everyone to toss, and seeing the corn during the day It is getting longer and longer, and the temperature is getting higher and higher. It will take half a day to water the fields every day. Only when the sun is strongest at noon can you rest and rest, and then go down the mountain to grind corn. Think about it.

So when Bai Chengyi yelled, not only Wang Yang ran down excitedly, but other people who lived nearby also cheered after hearing the movement.

Although the stone mill was moved back by Bai Chengyi, if the neighbors came to borrow the stone mill for use, Bai Chengyi and the others would certainly not refuse to borrow it.Moreover, every family does not intend to borrow in vain. It is also appropriate to get some of the ground corn flour as a reward, which is much easier than going down the mountain.Now everyone is not short of food, although they are not willing to waste it, but no one is willing to pay some remuneration for borrowing stone mills.

When Shi Mo moved into the yard, Bai Chengyi and Zhang Wei collapsed on the ground from exhaustion, took the water glass handed over by Liu Jia, and drank it to the bottom after two sips.

Although seeing that the two of them didn't drink enough, Liu Jia didn't go in to pour it again. If you want to drink water, you can drink it after you recover. Now that you are so tired, it's not good to pour too much water directly.

Wang Yang couldn't stay idle, seeing the stone mill, he immediately went back to the cave and brought out a bag of rubbed corn kernels, and asked Zhang Pingguo to teach him how to grind it.

Seeing Wang Yang and the others chattering around the stone mill, Bai Chengyi took a rest and wiped his sweat with a towel, and sat next to Dong Wen'an.

"You're awesome!" Huzi gave Bai Chengyi a thumbs up.Whether it was from being able to get a stone mill or moving such a heavy thing up from the bottom of the mountain, Huzi always "respected" him.

Although few people have solar generators in their homes, others don’t know that Wang Yang and Bai Chengyi’s family has solar generators in their homes, and there are solar panels hanging on the cliff!Dare we get back a mill?It doesn't need to be as big as the one at the bottom of the mountain, a small one is fine too.Even if they can't get it, they can collect credits and go to the redemption point to exchange for one.

With such a big stone mill, does Bai Chengyi plan to be a donkey to pull the mill by himself?

Bai Chengyi rolled his eyes, and was too lazy to talk to Huzi. Dong Wen'an explained: "A relative of Dabai's family lives on the mountainside. He heard that we can exchange eggs here. I want Dabai to help you exchange for a cheaper one. Dabai didn't get it from the account before." Take away twenty eggs? It’s for them, and they don’t need food in exchange. The old people in the other party’s family have crafts and know how to grind stones, so let them make a stone grinder as a reward. After a while, then Just give them ten eggs. Thirty eggs can be exchanged for a stone mill. We don’t use it ourselves, but we can also rent it to other people nearby. This thing is not afraid of being put away, and it can be used for many years!”

"Can you push it?" Ning Qiyan glanced at Wang Yang who was pushing hard, and couldn't help asking.

Dong Wen settled down, and saw Wang Yang's difficulty. He had never seen a stone mill before, so he really didn't know how much effort it took.

On the contrary, Ning Xiaowen said: "It takes a little effort to push it." He said and glanced at Ning Qiyan, "You don't have to think about it, I'm sick too, I guess only Du Cheng and Hu Zi can use it in our family. A stone mill makes powder."

Ning Qiyan grinned, thinking in his heart that when his own corn was finished grinding, he should move home and grind it with a mill in the space.

He had discussed the mill with Du Cheng and the others at home before. According to other people's understanding of them, before the earthquake, there were only two big men in the house, he and Du Cheng. How could they use the mill? Materials, the chance of seeing this thing is too low.After much deliberation, I couldn't get it out.You can only close the door and use it yourself.

Huzi shrugged, thinking about the joy of the nearby families who saw the stone mill just now, maybe they really wanted to rent a stone mill nearby.

In fact, there are many people who are willing to rent.Before Wang Yang and the others had enough freshness, someone came over and asked if the stone mill could be borrowed, and how to borrow it, whether to collect grain according to the number of times it was used, or to collect grain according to the weight of the ground grain.There was also a family who was worried that the stone mill could not be moved, and asked directly if they could use the rubbed corn kernels to directly replace them with corn flour, even if the ratio was lower.

Ning Qiyan and Ning Xiaowen looked at each other, and then they both looked at Bai Chengyi.

Bai Chengyi glanced at his beard and snorted.

See it or not, even if it is a stone mill, there are many rare people.

Beard shrugged.