Self-clothing and adequate food and clothing through crossing

Now there is no need for Shang Chen to supervise or to do any high-level work. The orcs and men who participated in the construction of the tribe have fully mastered this series of technologies and key points. Finally, it is time for Shang Chen to get angry. up.Although my own house has been built, only the tables, chairs, benches, wardrobes and other things made of red sandalwood are missing. However, the newly completed house always needs to be placed for a period of time before it can be used. It is still very humid inside, and it is not good for people to live in. Well, it will take about half a month to air dry, and this half month is just right for doing other things.The urgent thing to do now is to quickly take back the wheat that was found in the first half month. As for a series of furniture made of sandalwood, such as tables and chairs, I can fix them later when I have time. The things in the cave can still be moved into the new house. Life.

Most of the people who came out this time were men, and only a quarter of the orcs, because harvesting the wheat doesn’t really take much effort, but the men are careful and nimble, and they cut the wheat faster than the orcs. Everyone used to use their backs, but now they have poles, so with the strength of the orcs, they can transport a lot of wheat back and forth.This time, besides the orcs and men, there were also some half-grown children. Of course, Zhuo Kai, Qi Kai, Xi Rui and Brown took the lead and led a group of child soldiers to follow behind.

The wheat is wild and weeds are not removed, so it is taken for granted that there are definitely a lot of miscellaneous things in the wheat. Therefore, the purpose of these children is to "completely eradicate the rat droppings in the granary", otherwise, they will wait until later. Sometimes, it's not just wheat that gnaws into your mouth, it's as bad as it is.

The easternmost part of the tribe is a vast flat land. It is time for a large piece of wheat to be harvested. The golden waves of wheat are swaying with the wind, and the salsa sounds like a piece. The heavy ears of wheat are like a shy young girl, waiting with her head down. Harvest home.Shang Chen saw the scene in front of him, standing in this wheat field, with the blue sky above his head, and occasionally a goshawk quickly passed by, it felt a bit like the vast grassland, as if the world suddenly became within reach , the mind unknowingly relaxed and happy.

This belongs to winter wheat, which is sown around October and harvested in late June and early July. Plants, leaves and roots can no longer manufacture and accumulate nutrients, but these nutrients still need to consume nutrients for respiration, resulting in a decrease in grain weight.Harvesting too early is also unfavorable. The fresh weight of winter wheat grains has not decreased but is still rising, which will lead to a greater loss of winter wheat yield and quality.Winter wheat is best harvested in the middle and late stages of maturity. At the end of maturity, the whole plant turns yellow, the stalks are still elastic, and the grains are yellow and hard.

"When you become yellow, you reap" has been common sense for thousands of years, but the actual situation is much more complicated.A few days before the wheat harvest, Shang Chen personally took the tribe members to the field several times a day to inspect the hard-won wheat, and kneaded the wheat in the ears to check the filling condition or hardness. If there was no rain recently, the harvest would be delayed one day. This can improve the quality of winter wheat; if it has been rainy in recent days and it is not too ripe, it has to be harvested, which has nothing to do with cherishing the harvest.The sky happened to be clear and cloudless these few days, so Shang Chen finally made up his mind to harvest until today.

"It's so beautiful, the golden wheat. This large area must have four or five acres?" Simu happened to follow behind Shang Chen today. When she saw the wheat for the first time, she couldn't help but marvel. This is food, and it will be the food for everyone to survive It's a good kind of food. As long as you work harder in the future, you don't have to worry about starving.Families without orcs have always relied on the distribution of food by the tribe to survive.It’s okay now, my orc child is still young, but as he gets older year by year, he will have to eat more and more food. I can't sleep thinking about it.Fortunately, this kind of deep worry is completely gone now. I can fully support myself and my children with my own strength, and I have a house to live in, and the life of the tribe will only get better and better in the future.

"Shang Chen, thank you, I thank you for my child." This person who brought happiness to all Luo should be thanked by all the clansmen.Happiness, yes, it turns out that this is happiness, some food, some shelter, and there will be other things in the future.

"It's nothing, everyone who understands this will do it, it's just that this person happens to be me, if you were me, wouldn't you do it! Maybe you can do it better than me." Shang Chen gently He smiled softly, and asked a word with calming power in his soft eyebrows and eyes.

"You are too good at talking, I can't refute it, but it shows your sincerity even more, and God will bless you." Simu believes that the reason why Shang Chen knows so many things must be God's entrustment, since God has chosen Shang Chen. Chen, then there must be his reason, this person's character, heart and mind are all good.When Danyang and Chunlin's family members slandered Shang Chen, he stood up to stop them. Facts have proved that his vision is very accurate.

"God will bless every clansman. Look, isn't our current life the best blessing?" Shang Chen is somewhat familiar with this man named Simu. He has been in contact with him a few times. He is a very assertive man, tough and independent It's just that his partner is dead, leaving behind an old and frail father and a two-year-old orc child. It's not easy for Simu to bear it alone. There are other orcs who want to form a partner with Simu, but Simu refused.It is said that Simu and his partner are very affectionate. If it weren't for the children and the elderly to take care of, Simu might have gone with him.

"Let's work quickly, I'm still waiting for the wheat to come out, let you teach me how to make buns and noodles." Simu blinked at Shang Chen, looking impatient.

"Okay, let's start working. Zhuo Kai and Qi Kai will lead everyone to pick out these weeds and pull them out, but be careful, the wheat awns are very itchy, so you must not roll up your clothes, or you will be in trouble." Sometimes you will be very itchy, and don't knock the wheat down."

"Understood, brother, don't worry about our work, you will definitely have nothing to say." Qi Kai and Zhuo Kai competed to reassure Shang Chen, patted their small bodies, and spoke loudly.

Wild wheat, no one takes care of it, the weeds regenerate, and the density is different. It is not very good that the wheat can grow like it is now.Tall orcs carry heavy loads of wheat and send them to the tribe non-stop. Whether it is a clansman who is building a house, an orc who is in charge of hunting, or an old man who is in charge of lunch, the smile on the face of the piles of wheat He couldn't stop, he was cheerful, and the movements of his hands became more and more vigorous, as if he had seen the white and tender buns and noodles being cooked, steaming.

After a few days of harvesting, the wheat was finally recovered. When everyone was thinking about how to shell the wheat, the people who went out to collect it found a lot of wheat one after another in other plots of the tribe. However, the wheat was not as luxuriant as the first field, and the area was not as large as that field. The size was inconsistent. The largest was only a little more than one mu, and the smallest was only three or four fen.Some fields are almost occupied by weeds for one third, some wheat grows short and thin, and some ears of wheat are sparse.

Although the harvest of wheat is not very good, some harvest is better than none. Besides, how can you expect wild wheat to be as good as the first piece of wheat? A never-ending harvest came back.Not to mention, there were quite a lot in the end. It was almost two acres of wheat. Looking at so much wheat, the men and children who found them stood tall and proud. This sense of accomplishment is very good. There are so many wheat You can also make a lot of buns and noodles.

When I think of this year's cold season, I no longer have to squat hungry in a cold cave or wait to die, but eat steaming white and tender buns and fragrant noodles, old people with wrinkled faces and children waiting to be fed Laughter came from far away.

People have harvested a lot of wheat, but how can so much wheat be shelled?It is obviously time-consuming and labor-intensive to use a roller. I don’t know if it will be finished in the Year of the Monkey.Farmers in previous lives used oxen to pull stone rollers, but here there are no oxen, but there are other animals that can be used.Although he hasn't been well trained yet, Shang Chen believes that the animals would not dare not pull them due to the orc's lust, so what is missing now is the stone roller.There are stones, but the stone rollers are not easy to handle. There should be a small hole at both ends of the round stone rollers to inlay the vines, so that the vines can be tied around the necks of animals, and the animals can pull them. go forward.

"Round long stones? Small holes at both ends? Well, we have a lot of stones here, and there are also round ones, but I haven't really paid attention to this kind of stones, but we can find a similar stone and polish it, anyway. It must be used in the future, this time I just grind some of them out, and the rice should be crushed after harvesting, right?" Qiu Hao, Tuo Lei and other orcs gathered together to discuss how to get the stone rollers.

"That's the reason. It's just that we all put in a little effort. We always need it. As long as there is something, I'm afraid it won't be crushed. Let's go now."

"That's right, isn't it just grinding a few stone rollers? Our tribe's stone tool processing is also good." Every larger tribe has a stone tool processing site, so this time I want to get a few stone rollers, and I also go there for processing. But you have to find the opposite stone in advance.

While the orcs were busy making stone rollers, Shang Chen, Long Che and the others were training the tribe's animals with large stamina and full of endurance. Even the most docile animals had to be trained before they could go to the battlefield.Shang Chen knew that when the ox pulled the stone roller, it walked according to certain rules, otherwise the rolled wheat or rice would miss some places, and that piece of crop would stay on the pole as it was, and not only the animals had to be trained , Even the people who drive behind the animals must be familiar with the sequence. Simply put, it is necessary to achieve harmony between humans and animals.Shang Chen has done this job several times in his previous life, and he has basically mastered the skills. The most telling thing is that the rice he crushed has no dead ends.

85th threshing

Because they don’t know when the wheat will be rolled out, and in order to prevent the rain from getting the wheat wet, the tribe has always decided to pile up all the wheat in the newly built house, even if they cannot live in the new house, they can’t let the wheat be ruined But the food for the whole clan in one cold season is definitely more precious than anything else.Therefore, everyone is not too anxious about the fact that the stone rollers have not been fixed for the time being. At worst, just use a wooden stick to smash out a little bit of wheat. As long as the wheat is safely piled up in the house, you can feel at ease.

Although there are many large herbivores in this era, there are many that Shang Chen doesn't know or know. Moreover, the test that Shang Chen has known his ancestors for thousands of years is absolutely reasonable.Therefore, for the sake of completeness, Shang Chen didn't pretend to be clever enough to get another bigger animal to replace the cow or the donkey.Fortunately, everything here has most of the similarities with another time and space, such as buffaloes and donkeys, which are not uncommon, and each family in the tribe raises a few.In the early days, Shang Chen asked the orcs to pierce a hole in the nose of these cows and donkeys, and tie them up with a soft leather rope. Maybe the orcs don't need to be so troublesome, but the elderly, children and partners at home should be careful. In the future, when these cows and donkeys are required to work, it is also necessary to restrain them so as not to hurt people.

During this period, the tribe sent [-] people to weed the sweet potato field again. At this time, the sweet potatoes are already very good, with branches and leaves full of vitality. Compared with the first weeding, this time is obviously much less troublesome, because The sweet potato vines are growing luxuriantly, and the weeds naturally have less place to stand, which is exactly half of the time since the first use.

This time, the oxen and donkeys who had their noses tied before came in handy.By the time the tribe has trained a lot of oxen and donkeys to pull stone rollers, those old people who are too weak to go out for work and children under the age of eight have smashed out no less than three hundred catties of wheat. At that time, ten days had passed, and the first stone roller was ushered in at noon that day, and the rest of the stone rollers were still being polished.Looking at the only stone roller in front of them, everyone wandered around the stone roller. They were extremely rare, and it turned out that this was the stone roller.No wonder Shang Chen said that he must use a stone roller. It is definitely faster to crush the wheat with such a heavy stone roller over and over again than to smash it with a wooden stick. It is really round.In fact, the stone roller is cylindrical, but people here are so surprised that there are relatively few such cylindrical things.Otherwise, depending on the speed of the stick, let alone, the whole cold season must be spent smashing wheat with a stick, five or six thousand catties of wheat.

Now that the stone roller is in place, the next step is to connect the cow and the stone roller with vines. A thing that is similar to a saddle is put on the neck of the cow. After a good training, let the animal pull the stone roller to walk on the wheat.Although it has been trained in advance, it is the first time for both humans and animals to officially start work, and it is inevitable that there will be a period of adaptation and adjustment.At the beginning, the buffaloes were still used to walking in a straight line. Only when they were hurt by the whip did they realize that they had to take a detour. Whenever they made a mistake, they would be beaten by the whip. After repeating this many times, they gradually got used to going around. Walk in detours, and walk in circles at the place designated by the master. Don't miss a single bit, otherwise the whip will be very painful. But if you walk well, the master will give you extra meals alone, so this job is not bad. .

The ox and the donkey have learned it, and the people are also proficient in being whipped, otherwise they will definitely be laughed at by all the people who say, "Look, even these ox and donkey have learned, you are a dignified person, and you have come to this day. If you haven’t learned it yet, it’s fine if you lose to a human, but if you lose to a donkey, you…forget it, I’m too embarrassed to say it.” Is this something people can hear?It's not as good as a beast, just bang your head against the wall and forget it.

Qiu Hao was the first one to really go into battle. He looked like that, walking around in circles, and slowly the wheat fell off the pole, spreading the ground full of wheat grains.When all the wheat on this side fell off, Qiu Hao stopped and asked the child to lead the cow to drink water and eat grass to rest for a while. After the tribe turned all the wheat, Torre led another cow to the field .When all the wheat on this side fell off, it was considered that all the wheat had been milled, and the work was done. It took a total of one afternoon, and the harvested wheat weighed [-] catties, and the effect was very good.

Long Che did not crush the wheat with everyone, but took Shang Chen and a group of people to check the sweet potato field, and found that the sweet potato vines had grown very luxuriantly. There are not many, which is very gratifying.Needless to say, Shang Chen asked everyone to turn over the sweet potato vines. When planting, they watered the manure, and also watered the manure twice during the planting process. That's why they grew so well. When they were turned over, some vines had already begun to take root. up.Long Che has visited twice, and he is very clear about these, and today is the right time to come.Except for turning the vines this time, there is no need to worry about the sweet potatoes, just wait for the sweet potatoes to be harvested.

The wheat has been crushed, but there is still a layer of husk on it, which must be removed, so the orcs of the tribe received another task to make stone mortars and wooden mortars for pounding rice or wheat.There are two types of stone mortars: pestle mortar and bucket mortar.Pestle and mortar, that is, a small stone mortar, can be operated with a mortar and pestle.The Usuki is a piece of wood, the thickness of the wrist, about one meter long, and two or three kilograms of flat round stones are placed on the upper end to increase the weight of the Usuki.The person pounding the rice with a pestle until the rice bran is completely peeled off from the brown rice, and then sifts the rice hull with a bamboo sieve, and the white rice is presented before the eyes.

It is also possible to bury half of the pot-bottomed wooden barrel in the ground, and then connect half of the wooden barrel to the ground.In this way, four or five buckets of rice can be pounded each time, and the way of pounding rice with the mortar and pestle is also different.Instead of directly pounding the mortar and pestle with your hands, you need to build a wooden frame behind the large stone mortar. There is a horizontal bar like a seesaw in the middle. The front end of the horizontal bar is connected to the mortar and pestle. Can not be removed, too heavy rice is crushed.When pounding rice, the pressure tester uses his own weight to step on the cross bar with one foot so that the front end is upturned. When the foot is released, the mortar and pestle will naturally fall to the center of the boulder. Rough and white.

This is a very primitive method of pounding rice. Whether it is a stone mortar or a wooden mortar, it is relatively simple. Based on the principle that having more tools is always a good thing, Shang Chen still taught everyone how to make both the stone mortar and the wooden mortar.There are different sizes, so even if some people don’t have orcs, or some old people may not be able to step on such a heavy stone mortar at all, there is no other way but to smash it with a wooden stick every day, so it can still be used. Slowly pounding rice every day with a smaller wooden mortar is faster than pounding rice with wooden sticks every day.Furthermore, a large stone mortar can be used to crush wheat into powder and turn it into flour, which is good for eating.

There is also a more advanced method of pounding rice, but this method is not called pounding rice, but using a tool called a stone mill to grind rice, which not only saves a lot of energy, but the most important thing is that the rice is produced much faster.Stone mills were found in many rural areas in the previous life, and they were not uncommon, and they were very simple to use.

White or cyan granite is generally used to make stone mills, and those with fine patterns should be selected. The stone mills are divided into upper and lower rows. The lower row of mills is about one and a half feet thick. The diameter of the grinding groove and the outer edge is three feet. The actual diameter of the grinding center Only about a foot and a half.

The first step: Make the lower row of stone mills, and cut a grinding groove around it, which is about five inches lower than the lower row of mills.In the middle, make a hole for grinding the heart, square, about one and a half inches in size.

The second step: Make the upper row of mills. After the completion, make a circular hole about 1 inches in size and half an inch deep in the middle of the mill, and then make a hole about 2 inches wide and [-] inches deep on the side. For the hole where the grinder is placed, a circular hole about two and a half inches in size for putting in objects should be made at one-third of the diameter of the upper row of grinders.There is a raised grinding lip along the grinding edge, and then gradually lowers along the grinding edge toward the direction of the opened hole for entering the article.Install the grinding head made of miscellaneous wood.

Step [-]: Finally, chisel the upper and lower rows to finish the grinding pattern.For the lines on the stone mill, first divide the mill into four rows of grinding lines, and then divide the four rows into eight rows of grinding lines. The chiseled grinding lines should be uniform in width, deep in the left and gradually inclined to the right, so that the powder can be ground smoothly. Go out, chisel the grinding throat in the middle of the lower row, and at the same time make the grinding rod, use a leather rope to connect the upper grinding bolt to the rod, and stand at the bottom with both hands holding the rod to circle the grinding rod.

Stone mills are much easier to polish than stone rollers, but the lines and grooves on the top take a little effort, and the rest are easy to say, but the lines and grooves are much easier than grinding stone rolls, so a stone mill only takes a few minutes to polish. It took less than two days, and it was the work of three people.This kind of stone mill tribal people say it is very good, and almost every family has made a stone mill one after another.However, everyone has stone mortars and wooden mortars in every household. It is always good to have more tools. In this way, anyone can remove the husks of rice and wheat. When the farming season is busy, the orcs and men in their prime will go out to work. , the elderly and children in the family can also pound rice for food, without worrying about their hungry stomachs.

A group of people are responsible for grinding stone rolls and crushing wheat, and some people are responsible for making stone mortars, wooden mortars, and stone mills, and then teach them how to use these tools.After half a month of busy work, all the wheat was finally crushed. The piles of wheat were full of golden color, and when they were lightly crushed by hand, the golden yellow wheat turned into white powder. All the clansmen They were all overjoyed, and the young children jumped up and down around the wheat pile, shouting in surprise.Some old people even had red eyes, clenched their fists and stared at the life-saving food, and wanted to say something to Shang Chen, but there were too many such scenes, and they could only pray to God carefully in their hearts again and again , I only wish this child a safe and happy life, and hope that the lives of all the clan members will be better and better!

The patriarchs and elders distributed the wheat according to the situation of each family. Of course, according to the old rules, the tribe still kept some of the wheat for use, and stored it together with other food for emergencies.As for when everyone’s wheat will be shelled, that’s not Shang Chen’s business to worry about. Anyway, I’ve already told everyone that wheat can’t be shelled all at once, or it may go bad after a long time. Of course, the rice in the future The same is true.