Age of asexual reproduction

Put down the bowl to show that you are full.

"Would you like to drink some water?" Yuan Hao pointed to the kettle on the tea table, beside which was the glass that Li Yi drank just now.

Li Yiru was relieved and left the dining table, and sat down on the sofa. Yuan Hao and Anping both lowered their heads and chuckled, An Xin was like this, he did this entirely on purpose to make Li Yi uncomfortable.And Li Yi was really fooled, if Yang Fei was here, he wouldn't care at all, and would still be smiling and bickering with An Xin.

Li Yi got his wish and took some sorghum peppers with meat that Yuan Hao gave him, and went home. Before leaving, Yuan Hao mustered up his courage and said, "Next time you come, can you bring a container that can be sealed, I will pack it Use sorghum peppers." Last time Yang Fei didn't finish the sorghum noodles he brought because there were no jars to store them in. This time Li Yi brought so many sorghum noodles, it was hard to do without jars.

"Okay, how big do you want? Do you want something else?" Li Yi was actually very easy to talk, and agreed without thinking.Yuan Hao made a circle with his hand, Li Yi nodded, took his things and left.

After seeing off Li Yi, An Xin said angrily, "This guy is even more annoying than that Yang Fei." If it wasn't because Li Yi had saved them, he wouldn't even bother with this guy.

"It seems that he can bring us so much food, I still hope he will come more times." Yuan Hao comforted him, and took everyone to work in the space.Before I had time to go to work today, Li Yi came.There is still a lot of work in the space now, the rice has to be checked every day, and the chickens can't be left alone.

Looking at the rice that has headed, Yuan Hao said happily: "There is hope. Although I don't expect to harvest much millet this year, at least the seeds next year will not worry."

"Great. We can eat more rice next year." An Xin smacked her lips, still reminiscing about the rice porridge she ate a long time ago.

"Well, a piece of field here can be dug up slowly now, and wheat will be planted after a while." Yuan Hao fantasized beautifully in his heart that there would be rice and wheat planted here, so that he would not have to worry about food problems in the future.

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By the time the rice was ripe, it was already very cold outside.Everyone gathered in the space to harvest rice.The harvested rice has been stored in the space for a few days. Because there are no tools, it is still in bunches. There is no thresher or rice thresher here.Fortunately, there is only so much rice. At first Yuan Hao thought that he could rub the millet down with his hands, but the reality is that this is too much trouble, and it is easy to hurt his hands.

"You stop. Let Awang and Afu do it." Anping watched Yuan Hao holding his hands and jumping.This millet is easy to pierce into the hand, even if Yuan Hao has rough skin and thick flesh, it still hurts and itches.An Ping and An Xin followed his example and rubbed them a few times, but they also felt that this method was not good.

Awang and Afu were not afraid of pain or itchiness, but they couldn't control the force at the beginning. They broke the rice when they used too much force. After adjusting the force, they felt that the speed was too slow.

"It seems that neither of them can do it." An Xin sighed.

"Let me think of a way." Yuan Hao tried hard to recall the handmade farm tools he used in his hometown.Although most are combine harvesters now.But there are some crops that really require hand tools.For example, sesame seeds are harvested by hand. The most troublesome thing is to beat the sesame seeds out of the sesame pods. People still use sticks to beat them directly. This is very slow. If you plant ten acres of sesame seeds, It was exhausting.So now very few people in my hometown grow sesame seeds in large quantities.Yuan Hao thought about it, trying to recall how the people in his hometown threshed the millet when he was a child.After thinking about it for a long time, I remembered that the big rolling stone was dragged by oxen and rolled over and over again in the threshing floor covered with rice, until all the rice was rolled down, and then the straw was turned aside, and the rice on the ground was rolled over and over again. sweep up.It is obviously impossible to make a stone roll in this place now, and there is no need for a stone roll for this little grain.

"Yes, yes, let me make a lotus eggplant." Yuan Hao remembered the oldest farm tool in his hometown, the lotus eggplant.This tool is usually used to beat peas, rapeseed, rice and wheat in my hometown, but now most of them are beaten by machines.Lotus eggplants are made of bamboo. Fortunately, there are many thin bamboo sticks in the space. This tool is also simple. He had seen his grandfather do it before, and it finally solved the problem of rice threshing.

Seeing Yuan Hao waving the freshly baked lotus tomato and patting the rice on the ground, An Xin was eager to try.

"Go, help turn over the rice." Yuan Hao directed them to do other work, because although this thing is simple, many people may not know how to use it.Even in my hometown, some people are not proficient in using this farm tool.What's more, the thing he made is not strong, if An Xin touches it a few times and it falls apart, it will be troublesome.

After turning over twice in a row, Yuan Hao asked everyone to carefully pick off all the remaining grains on the straw, but now they don't dare to waste even a grain of grain.The harvested millet weighed about two hundred catties.The plump ones were selected and kept as seeds, and the remaining half Yuan Hao really wanted to grind rice to eat, but there was no rice grinder here, so he looked helplessly at the pile of yellow millet.

"Why not turn it into white rice?" An Xin asked in bewilderment.

"There is no machine. There are special machines for shelling. If the yellow shell on the outside is not taken off, it is not good to eat." Yuan Hao told them.

"Then what should I do?" An Xin panicked.I thought I would be able to taste the new rice right away.

"Awang, look for information, see if you can find a sheller." Yuan Hao can't count on peace of mind and peace.

Since there are millet and sorghum here, there must be a shelling machine, but Yuan Hao has only grown rice before, not millet and sorghum, so he doesn't know how they grow and whether they need to be shelled.Speaking of which, he has only seen millet and sorghum, just like An Xin Anping has only seen rice.I don't even understand how they become ingredients that can be cooked.

However, one advantage of millet is that it can be stored for a long time without deterioration.Rice is different and cannot be stored for too long.So Yuan Hao was not in a hurry, and asked Awang and the others to look for information slowly, because even if they could find it now, they couldn’t buy one, and with such a little grain, they didn’t have much rice, which was barely enough. Forty or fifty catties of rice can be eaten for more than a month at most.

"Okay. Let's pick a pumpkin to eat tonight." Yuan Hao raised his spirits. The pumpkins in the field grew very well, and there were many round pumpkins, which grew bigger every day.Several of them are slowly turning red now.Originally, the pumpkins should be edible before the rice was harvested, but Yuan Hao planted them a bit late, and the pumpkins began to ripen slowly after the rice was harvested.He was reluctant to eat tender pumpkins at all, but old pumpkins had to be ripe to be delicious, so he looked at these pumpkins every day, but he never tasted any of them.

"Really." When An Xin heard that there were pumpkins to eat, her eyes lit up immediately.Although they ate well during this period, they had new food to eat, and it was the delicious food that Yuan Hao had said, which made him even happier.

Yuan Hao chose a big pumpkin with a slightly powdered exterior, which symbolizes that it is ripe.The other two are also slowly being powdered, so there is no need to worry about the rations for these few days.

This pumpkin weighed more than 20 kilograms. Yuan Hao cut off a quarter, revealing the orange-red flesh inside, and the pumpkin seeds on the flesh.

"Oh, are these pumpkin seeds?" An Xin called out.

"Yes." Yuan Hao picked out the pumpkin seeds first, put them in a clean bowl, and prepared to take them to the space to dry and save them as seeds.

"There are so many seeds in a pumpkin, so can't we plant a lot of pumpkins next year?" An Xin quickly calculated that there were only three pumpkins this year, and they produced a lot of pumpkins. It's not that there are endless pumpkins.

"There will definitely be more varieties next year." Yuan Hao laughed.Next year he will ask Li Yi and Yang Fei to buy this pumpkin seed. It is easy to grow, much easier than cucumbers, and it bears more knots and has a longer growth period. If it is purely for food, it is more cost-effective to grow pumpkins .

Peel off the thick outer skin, cut the pumpkin into small pieces, put it directly into a pot with water to cook, add a little salt when it is almost cooked, and add a few drops of sesame oil when it is cooked.A pot of delicious pumpkin porridge is ready to eat.

The three of them shared a big bowl, and Yuan Hao took a sip first, it was really delicious.It is the taste of the pumpkin in his hometown. When he was working in other places, he also bought pumpkins to cook porridge, but they were all small pumpkins, and they were all grown in large quantities. Compared with the pumpkins in his hometown, the taste was much worse. , he doesn't really like to eat.

"It's really delicious, sweet." An Xin praised.Anping also kept nodding on the side.

"Nan Shou has a sweet taste, adding a little salt will make it taste better. In fact, it will taste better if it is cooked with rice." Yuan Hao sipped the sweet pumpkin porridge.These days, he just ate sorghum rice, nutrient solution, and earthen eggs, which made him miss the most common grains he had eaten before.

Thinking about the past, many young people didn't like to eat staple food, whether it was rice or noodles, they didn't like it.Especially some girls, usually only eat vegetables, snacks and fruits, and say they want to lose weight. If these people know that they can no longer eat rice and flour in this age, I don’t know how they will feel?Oops, if only I could trade myself with them, I'll go back and eat a lot of rice, let