Escape from the desert

Chapter 238 Grain Shelling

The sky was getting darker and darker, three piles of bonfires were set up in the center of the threshing ground, and the damp firewood was crackling, and the elderly people surrounded the fire, adding firewood from time to time to let the flames burn. more vigorous.

With the bright light of the fire, the young men were familiar with threshing the rice, and everyone's face was filled with the joy of harvest.

The construction team usually leaves in the afternoon, so all the servants of the Lin family will come to the threshing ground to help. Except for Song Tao's family, Tao Bai and the others are not very good at this kind of farming.

They used to be servants of wealthy families, and they mostly did laundry, cooking, cleaning or doing some coolies. Those with better lives would be arranged to serve the master's family personally, and the farming work in the fields was almost out of reach.

But a few people are talking nonsense, and if they don’t know how to learn from the master’s family seriously, watching Lin Dong and the others do it, a few strong men also follow along, and with the golden grains in their hands Lili fell into the bucket, and everyone couldn't help feeling a sense of pride.

Jiang Yan looked at the grains in the bag, she grabbed a handful and rubbed them, and the grains flowed out from between her fingers like quicksand as her palm tightened.

The product produced in the mall must be a high-quality product. There is no doubt about it. Jiang Yan is secretly happy. The rice this time is not only amazing in yield, but also in quality. There is no stomach, the autumn wind blows, and there are almost no empty shells in the air.

During the last autumn harvest, the entire threshing ground was full of broken chaff, and the threshed rice, after being sieved with a dustpan, could be less than half.

Jiang Yan roughly calculated that the crop of rice harvested in autumn, after sifting out the empty husks per acre of land, can produce about 250 jin per mu. But this season of late rice, Jiang Yan probably calculated that one mu of land can produce at least [-] or even [-] catties!
You know, even in peaceful times, without droughts, one mu of land can produce up to 400 catties of grain, and this season of late rice has directly doubled!It simply overturned the expectations of the whole village!

Jiang Yan was also a little excited, but not like the people in the village, who were so excited that they wished to cut the rice in the field overnight. In the past two days, he heard from Lin Dong and Lin Nan that many people in the village were so excited because of the good harvest. Couldn't sleep, and was still cutting rice in the dark in the dark, and the village chief was so happy that his mouth stiffened with laughter.

However, according to the book on cultivating late rice in the shopping mall, the yield per mu of land should be higher. I don't know if it is because of the soil quality or the weather. Looking back, I didn't find anything missing.

She remembered that in modern times, the yield of one mu of land in the field was basically as high as several thousand catties. She thought that this time the late rice would yield not only several thousand catties per mu, but about one thousand catties, although she didn’t know what it was It affected the yield, but it was a bumper harvest after all.

This batch of late rice is all seeds from the shopping mall. Jiang Yan plans to keep all the five acres of land in the village for her family to eat, and sell all the thirty acres of land outside the village to the county magistrate for seeding.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker, Jiang Yan urged the brothers of the Lin family to pack up their things and continue threshing grain tomorrow.

During this period of time, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the sun only came out every few days. Jiang Yan reserved an open space at the factory, covered with blue bricks. When it arrived, Jiang Yan transported all the newly harvested late rice, and it was convenient to store it directly in the cellar after drying.

"Jinhua, go to the village and borrow two small stone rollers, and our family will also take some new millet to eat." Jiang Yan waved to Wang Jinhua, who trotted over, and hurried out after listening.

After the millet at home is dried, the husks are not immediately threshed. Generally, some are taken out when it is time to eat, and the rest are stored with the husks, which can be stored for a longer time.

The way of threshing grain here is very old. During the previous autumn harvest, the Lin family stored all the rice after harvesting. Because the quality of the rice was not good, Jiang Yan did not plan to eat it at home, so there was no threshing grain.

She planned to husk the late rice this time, only to find that husks were harder than bending over to cut the rice. Most people in the village put some in a wooden basin or a stone mortar, and then pounded them with a wooden pestle, but this was not the case. Only a small amount can be removed, and the rice that has been pounded for half a day is enough for a meal. It is more convenient to use a stone roller.

The stone rollers are also divided into sizes. The big ones are placed in the threshing ground. Villagers can only go to the threshing ground to use them. The small stone rollers can be borrowed and brought home. Two people can move them home by lifting one side. The stronger ones A strong man can carry it home by himself.

These things have their own advantages and disadvantages. The stone mortar is the most primitive hand tool. Although it is less efficient and more labor-intensive, it has strong applicability and can be used by men, women and children. It can also be used to grind sauces, such as chili sauce. , soybean paste these.

The stone roller is more commonly used and saves labor. It can thresh rice in a large area. It is a stone body with a square hole drilled in the center of both sides, which can fix the shaft and install the wooden frame. When playing the field, use Horses or buffaloes and mules pull and roll back and forth on the millet to remove the chaff. Small stone rollers are generally dragged by human power.

There is no farm tool for threshing rice at home. In previous years, after paying taxes on the grain obtained by the Lin family brothers, they carried all the grain to the town to exchange for coarse grains. Since the family could not eat rice, there was no tool for threshing rice. .

In the large open space behind the factory building, Jiang Yan turned the millet on the ground back and forth with her claws, so that the sun could evenly dry the front and back of the millet.

While he was busy, a young man ran over in a hurry, he was a worker working in the factory.

"Aunt Jiang, the village head and Li are going to your house, but I haven't seen you, let me call you."

The factory building is some distance away from home. Except for the villagers who work in the factory, other people are not allowed to enter the factory.

"Okay, I'll go over now, you help me look at the millet for a while, and turn it over by the way."

The tail of autumn has passed, Jiang Yan is not worried that there will be birds stealing the grain, but she cherishes the sun that is getting less and less every day, so it is also very important to turn the millet.

The young man responded with a smile, excitedly picked up the millet and began to turn the millet. He could help Aunt Jiang's family, even if it was just turning the millet, it would be better for him than turning his own millet at home. Excited.

When Jiang Yan arrived, the village chief He Lizheng led a group of villagers to gather at the gate of the courtyard. Everyone in the Lin family was busy today, and Jiang Yan also went to the factory, so there was no one at home.

(End of this chapter)