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Chapter 1160 Qizhuang's Wheat Harvest ([-])
Qi Ke chatted to express his heart, but at the same time, he was afraid that they would suffer from dehydration, so he set up a tea cart at each end of the farmland, supplying unlimited sugar salt water and iced sour plum soup.

With the experience of last year, the soldiers love to come to Siliu Village to work for Qi Ke. The food is delicious and enough. As long as it is not wasted, they can eat as much as they can, but how can the soldiers who are hungry all the year round waste food? So the meals are all pots and pans.

The soldiers who harvested the wheat spent two days to complete the task. Most of the work was done the day before, and the next day was mainly mopping up. The scattered wheat grains in the field were also carefully picked up. All were transported to the drying yard, the soldiers withdrew, and the farmland was returned to Qi Ke.

Qi Ke's estimate of wheat production has spread throughout the village in the past three days. Ding Rui and the others have not kept it a secret. In their view, there is no need to keep it secret. They have never thought about whether it will be embarrassing if the estimate is wrong. What I remember in my mind is five to sixty thousand catties of wheat that went into the warehouse. It turns out that this is a bumper harvest.

Bai Qing and the others were quite moved by the estimated output. It just so happened that the soldiers still took care of all the subsequent drying, threshing, windmilling, and drying again, without the villagers or Qi Ke's maids sticking a finger.

Although they haven't weighed before, the workers know how much effort they put in. Generals like the old general and Bai Qing are still waiting patiently for the wheat to dry before weighing. How many have already been speculated, and the output of [-] to [-] catties may be real.

When the old general and the others heard the private discussions of the soldiers, their hearts also blossomed.

The grain is turned over and over again to the next few times. In order to reduce the dust, sand, gravel and grass clippings mixed in the wheat grains, the drying ground is covered with drying mats woven by the craftsman. A large sieve is used when the grain is dried every day. Sieve the ash again to avoid a bag of grain and half a bag of waste when the bag is finally bagged.

Finally, after being lucky enough to spend half a month in the scorching sun, the wheat that has been sunning for many days can be returned to the warehouse under the judgment of many old farmers. It is time for weighing and bagging. On that day, the whole village, men, women and children, gathered around the edge of the drying yard to watch, and they couldn't persuade them to leave.

The sacks containing grain are five buckets in one bag, ten buckets and one stone, just like a shoulder pole.

These tasks are also done by the soldiers in groups of several people. Some of them put grain into bags, and some use poles to carry the grain to the bookkeeping office. Witnessed on the spot, Qi Ke finally came in handy at this moment and sent the accountant to make records.

In order to speed up the speed of bagging, Qi Ke also came up with a clever idea, using two stools to set up a long ladder horizontally, inserting the sack into the gap between the two short bars, turning the bag mouth, and then A broken pot with a broken bottom was pressed on it as a large funnel. Two soldiers cooperated to fill one bucket, closed their eyes and poured it into the pot without spilling anything. After filling five buckets, they took the broken pot away and stroked After the bag is tied tightly, it can be dragged away from the bottom. If you want to save trouble, you can put another basket, tie the bag tightly and drag the basket out together, saving the step of dragging out the grain bag and moving it into the basket.

Everyone is not stupid. After seeing this clever and labor-saving idea, the audience roared with laughter and clapped their hands. Every household has long ladders and benches. Several households near the drying yard gathered together and made several groups. Qi Ke Provide broken pots, pig food, cyclamen to cook food in the kitchen, she has a lot of broken pots, otherwise she would not have thought of this idea.

(End of this chapter)