Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 48

Xiuyao sat down and tried it, and it really worked. Qin Yang also clamored to try it. Xiuyao said: "You are still young, your arms are short, and you don't have much strength. I will help you when you grow up."

Although Xiuyao knows how to spin thread, after all, she is not as skilled as Liu Xu. She spun a few times, and the thread was either broken or uneven in thickness. Xiuyao can also spin two or three.

Xiuyao stood up and said with a smile: "It's really easy to see flowers, but hard to embroider them."

Qin Yang chuckled and said, "It's easy for me to help you, sister."

Liu Xu patted him on the forehead, "The more you help, the more helpful you are." Qin Yang chuckled happily.

Seeing that my aunt had been knitting for a while, Xiuyao went to put Qin Yang to sleep. Knowing that she was going to stay, Qin Yang didn't worry that she would run away and leave him, so she slept soundly.Xiuyao saw that he was still eating his fingers like his cousin's little nephew at such an age, so she took it out for him, patted it again, and went to the mill to watch them work when he fell asleep.

In order for Qin Xian to bring the noodles back early the next morning, Lao Liutou asked him to grind the two rollers first, but it was still slow.After all, this way of grinding noodles is slow work and meticulous work. The donkey walks around and around, the wheat is first peeled, cleaned and passed through the sieve, then pressed again, and then passed through the sieve, and finally pressed again to clear the field.

A donkey can grind two hundred catties a day. If it is too fast, the dough will be thick and not fine enough.

Xiuyao thought about the water mill again. In fact, it is really convenient to rely on the Daqing River. If it is not used well, it will be a waste.

Seeing that her grandpa was asking for a face, she hurried over to help, "Grandpa, my third grandpa is a carpenter, do you think he can do anything for everyone?"

Old Liu took a look at her, "How big is it? Your third grandfather's carpentry work is not very delicate, but it is not bad. The furniture in Siwai Village is made like him, and the farm tools are very easy to do. Look at us. He made all these Luo and frame of the house."

Xiuyao was overjoyed, and said to Old Liu: "Grandpa, you Luo, if you have too much noodles, you can use your feet to step on it. I think my aunt's loom and spinning wheel can be stepped on with your feet. You This Luo is even better."

Although Luo Mian looked simple, such a simple mechanical movement would break his arm after a day, and it was not done by humans.

Old Liutou took a look, he also has a locker here, but it needs hands, and you can't use your feet to step on it. If you can use your feet to collect noodles, it will be a lot easier.

When the noodle was collected, and the crushing started again, Xiuyao and Lao Liutou lay on the cabinet to discuss how to modify it and how to operate it.

Actually, Xiuyao doesn't need to go into details, she has only seen what she looks like, and she can't do it if she is asked to do it, but Lao Liutou has been doing this for many years, and he didn't think about it before. Speaking of which, I think it is very feasible.

He thought this way and that way, and he had a preliminary plan. When he was studying this, Xiuyao went to see the stone mill for grinding tofu in their house.

This kind of stone mill is different from a mill, with two upper and lower plates and a base, which can be used to grind flour or pulp.

Xiuyao measured it, and the disc mill was about one meter in diameter, which was definitely enough for grinding noodles.

The only problem is how to liberate labor. Now one donkey grinds the wheat, one person is responsible for watching the grain and cleaning, and another person is responsible for sifting the noodles.If she can use the ecological farm she worked on before, only one person can be in charge of several mills.

She saw that the edge of the chassis was raised to block the turbulent flow of pulp, and there was an inclined outlet in front, and a bucket was placed underneath to catch the pulp.

She can modify it slightly, and the mill does not need to be changed. A small bucket can be placed on the top to hold grain, and there is a small leak on the bottom of the bucket to connect to the grinding eye of the upper mill, so that grain can be fed easily.

When grinding, the grain enters from the grinding eye, the two discs are twisted, the grain enters the grinding chamber to be ground, and then it is thrown out from the side and falls on the chassis.

This grinding method is finer and more convenient than a mill. Xiuyao wants to install two small brushes on the lower plate of the mill to clean the flour and wheat bran on the bottom plate, and then install a foot-operated sieve under the grinding plate to separate the flour and bran. , the flour can fall into the bottom, and the bran will be sent to different outlets in the front by the Luo, and fall into some container below.

In this way, there is no need to laboriously arrange the noodles manually, and a large area has to be cleaned, which is prone to impurities.

"Yaoyao, I have a solution." Old Liutou suddenly ran over as excited as a child, and told Xiuyao the method he thought of, using movable brackets to set up Luo, and then swinging his feet, he can perform Luo. face.

Xiuyao was also happy for her grandfather, she pointed to the stone mill, and said excitedly: "Grandpa, it's more convenient to grind flour, let's get an automatic one."

Old Liu was surprised and said: "Girl, what is automatic?"

Xiuyao explained to him, "Grandpa, I was thinking that since the noodles can be stepped on, why can't I put the compass under the grinding plate? This way, the noodles will come out as soon as they come out, and then they will be grinded a second time and a third time." , wouldn’t it be more useful? One person is enough.”

Old Liutou was a little at a loss, "Can it be so easy?"

If one person could grind the noodles so effortlessly, then his family wouldn't have to work so hard day and night.

Xiuyao pulled him, and carefully expressed her thoughts. What she said was only based on what she saw, and she put forward her own ideas. As for how to do it, it is entirely up to grandpa to figure it out. He naturally understands better than her, a modern person who doesn't work hard and doesn't distinguish grains.

Sure enough, the more Lao Liutou listened, the happier he was, he nodded frequently, his eyes sparkled.

As for using this flour mill, they have used it before, but it is too small compared to a mill, and it is inconvenient to put grain in it. It is not as big as a mill plate, and it is not so convenient for a donkey to turn around.

Moreover, it was mainly used to grind tofu before, so I really didn't think about it carefully. Now that Xiuyao said that, he suddenly realized.

Old Liu hugged Xiuyao up, and shouted to the uncle and others who were busy: "I'll go out with Yaoyao while you're busy."

After speaking, he hugged Xiuyao and ran outside.

Xiuyao was so frightened that she quickly hugged his neck so as not to be bent over by his excessive speed.

Old Liutou said while running: "Hurry up and ask your third grandpa to make us that foot trample."

Xiuyao giggled, "Grandpa, grandpa, did you measure the size? Let my third grandpa take a look, and then add up the total. Try it first. If it works, we will change it to this."

Old Liutou agreed, "Your third grandfather knows everything, and he knows our things better than anyone else."

Even the small benches in the house were made by him. If he dared to ask others to do it, he would not knock on the door. All the carpentry skills were done by the third grandpa.

Soon arrived at the third grandpa's house.His house is not very far from Lao Liutou's house, two streets away.Because of carpentry work, the layout of the house is similar to that of Lao Liutou's house, with a large front and people living in the back.

There are two lanterns hanging at the door, and there is also a wooden sign with white characters on a black background, which reads: Willow Carpenter.

The beans on the wall in front of the door have all sprouted, swaying in the spring breeze, and behind the haystack next to it, a dog is urinating. When Old Liutou ran over, he startled it and ran away with a groan, peeing. Before he finished spreading, when Old Liutou entered the door, he turned his head and stared at his back with a sad expression on his face.

"Third Brother, Third Brother!" Lao Liutou hugged his granddaughter and ran as fast as a young man who was no less than seventeen or eighteen. The members of the third grandfather's family exclaimed again and again, "Fourth Master, what are you doing?"

The third grandpa was having dinner in the backyard. When he heard the movement, he saw his fourth brother, who had passed his [-]th birthday, rushing towards him with joy and flushed face as if he was going to marry a wife back then. He shouted as he ran: " Third brother, third brother, I'm going to marry a wife."

No, now the shout is: "Third brother, third brother, hurry up, make me something new."

The third grandfather put his hands behind his back, looked at Lao Liutou like a monster, and said with a smile: "Oh, oh, is this his fourth grandfather or his fourth brother, like a big horse monkey, he never looks the same. "

Old Liu put Xiuyao down, and said to the third brother: "Third brother, don't grind your teeth and have lunch?"

The third grandpa looked up at the sky, "It's no time to eat."

Old Liu pulled him back, "Come on, I have an idea, you can sum it up for me."

Xiuyao looked at her grandpa who was so excited that she had been beaten to death, she was a little ashamed, she couldn't get in a word to say hello to the third grandpa.

It was the third grandpa who looked at her first, "Yaoyao is coming to live at grandpa's house."

Xiuyao hurriedly said hello, but the third grandpa took out a piece of candy from the sleeve and handed it to her, "Take it and eat it, your third grandpa and I don't have anything to eat."

Xiuyao quickly caught it, "Thank you, grandpa."

Old Liutou added: "It's the third grandpa."

The third grandpa snorted, then smiled at Xiuyao: "Just call me grandpa, grandpa loves to listen, let's go, let's see what good things your crazy grandpa has, it's here like a lizard."

Old Liutou didn't mind him talking about himself, so he went to the front carpenter's workshop with his third brother with a hi-hi smile.

Old Liutou told the third brother his idea and asked him to help type it out. The third grandfather went through his statement over and over again in his mind, and then asked one question after another. The two old men each took a small stick Scrawling on the ground, you come and go, it's so lively.

A long time passed without knowing it, and when Lao Liutou turned around in satisfaction, he found that Xiuyao had disappeared, "Hey, where did the girl go?"

The third grandfather said: "Maybe she watched her uncles go to work."

Finally, Lao Liutou found Xiuyao under the big elm tree outside the wall of the third brother's house. She raised her head, pursed her mouth, her big eyes flickered, as if she was thinking about how to do it.

Suddenly, Old Liutou saw his skinny little granddaughter spit out her skirts, rubbed her hands, and climbed up the tree trunk.

This big elm tree has been around for decades, and the trunk is too thick for her to hold it, so she slipped down after climbing a few times.

Old Liutou and the third grandfather laughed, and the third grandfather said: "Go get the pole and let your brother give you enough."

Xiuyao was overjoyed, so she hurried to call someone, the third grandpa's grandson, Liu Hongmu, dragged a poplar pole over,
When he got under the tree, he salivated and said to the third grandpa: "Grandpa, let's eat more with elm purses. I haven't eaten buns for a long time. Anyway, it doesn't cost oil, and there is no need to put meat." Mammy had a fight, Xiuyao smiled and stepped forward to help hook the money.

The third grandpa glared, "You brat, how do you know how to eat it? Didn't you just eat yuqian cakes two days ago? Look at how well-behaved my sister is, just eat some yuqian."

Old Liutou smiled and said: "Third brother, you can make some food for the child. If there is no flour, take it home. If you are afraid that the child will eat too much flour, you can eat less flour. Mix it with yuqian pancakes, even if it is steamed. , look at the child's hunger."

The third grandpa snorted, "Oh, I know what to say, I see that you don't give the grandson of the Ye family what he wants to eat all day long."

Old Liu tilted his neck, "Which one won't you eat? The pastry we just ate at noon." He said to Xiuyao, "Yaoyao, take more, take it back and ask your grandma to give it to you." You make elm money and eat it."

When Liu Hongmu heard this, he hurriedly bought elm money. The fourth grandpa had it, so he could eat it. In fact, his grandfather was not so picky. He just ate a meal of elm cakes two days ago. Grandpa said that eating this seemed to save food. The result is more expensive, it is better to treat it as a thing, and whoever wants to eat it can eat it.

Xiuyao saw an iron hook on the top of the pole. Liu Hongmu stretched the pole to the branch of the elm tree she was looking for, hooked it with the hook, then held the pole with both hands and twisted it. The elm branch made a crisp sound and was twisted off When it fell, the elm coins fell with a clatter, like a rain of elm coins.

Xiuyao hurried to bring over the hooked elm money.

The third grandpa over there shouted: "You brat, lighten your hand, and all the elm money will fall away."

Liu Hongmu raised his head and laughed: "Grandpa, we can't finish eating anyway, and sooner or later it will dry up and fall off. What are you afraid of?"

The third grandpa said angrily: "You brat. Give your sister some more." Lao Liutou saw the children having fun, so he went to see the mill with the third grandpa, and wanted to measure it Customize a special set.

There is a lot of elm money for a big elm tree. Xiuyao went to get a dustpan, and then rolled down the elm money in handfuls. The elm money here has no pesticides, and it is crisp, tender and green, really beautiful, like a bunch of Like the small jade pieces on a string, it also exudes a faint fragrance of elm.

Xiuyao couldn't help but stuffed it into her mouth. After chewing, it was sweet and creamy, and her mouth was full of fragrance. People couldn't help but eat it. After eating several handfuls in succession, she finally stopped. down.

Liu Hongmu looked at it and said with a smile: "Little girl, elm bark is also delicious, it's sticky after chewing."

While rolling the elm coins, Xiuyao said, "Then I'll eat the elm coins, and save the elm bark for you to eat."

Hehe, she is not stupid, she has delicious elm money, why eat elm bark.

Liu Hongmu had enough, Xiuyao rolled a dustpan full, and another big basket, and when they were all full, she shouted: "Brother, that's enough."

Liu Hongmu said with a smile: "The little girl is not enough, and a big basket can only make that much, more enough."

Anyway, it was my cousin who spoke, not on my own initiative, no matter how many grandpas I have, I can't blame myself.

When he felt that the extended branch was almost folded, Liu Hongmu stopped, leaned the pole against the wall and said to Xiuyao, "Go, I'll send it for you."

Xiuyao hurriedly said: "I just want this basket. You take the dustpan home, and I can move it by myself."

Although she is small, she is quite strong. She picked it up by herself and staggered to grandpa's house.

Seeing this, Liu Hongmu snatched it up, "Let me do it."

Holding it in one hand, she ran briskly. Xiuyao saw that there were still some elm branches on the ground, and quickly picked up a large piece of branches to eat while walking, and gave them to eat when they entered the mill.

The uncles were busy, Liu Fei had already eaten and offered to Qin Xian.

Qin Xian was salivating when he saw Xiuyao carrying it, so he quickly took it, devoured the meal, and repeatedly called it delicious.

Liu Qi smiled and said: "Slow down, your grandma will make Yuqian rice for you, don't worry."

Seeing that the two masters were facing each other and studying around the mill, Xiuyao rushed to the backyard. Liu Hongmu had already poured the elm money into the big basket of Lao Liu's house, and was about to leave.

Mrs. Li folded two sheets of Harbin cakes for him, "It's freshly made at noon, it's delicious."

Mrs. Li still made a dozen ha pancakes. After all, Qin Xianlai had few chances, so he could improve.

Liu Hongmu smelled the fragrance, and was so greedy that she was so greedy that the fourth mammy cooked delicious food, especially when the food was improved, she was willing to eat it, unlike his grandparents, who were hesitant even to improve the food, which made people more anxious. The more hungry you eat.

He wanted to pick it up, but he was afraid that his grandpa would beat him, so he hesitated that Xiuyao had already picked it up for him and handed it to him, "If you are afraid that the third grandpa will talk about you, you can finish eating before leaving."

Liu Hongmu thinks this is a good idea, smiles foolishly, and eats it in big mouthfuls, it's really delicious, it's made of rapeseed oil, grandpa and mother, you don't want to learn from the fourth mother, you know how to let me learn all day long Brother can do it.

After eating, he hurriedly said his goodbyes and left, but was still seen by the third grandpa who was busy with work at home, and gave him a few more words of reprimand.

Dinner is cake and yuqian rice.

Xiuyao helped to wash the elm money, Liu Yun lit the fire, and grandma poured a pot of elm money into the boiling water for a while, scooped it up with a wicker strainer, and poured it on the grate beside it to control the water.

Then add a little flour and stir the rest, and save them into buns one by one.After saving, put the grate beams in the catastrophe, then spread the grates, and then spread a handful of straw grass to level the grass, and finally put the elm money nests in one by one.

With the water of Zhuoyuqian that was already boiling, grandma asked Liu Yun to continue to burn the fire. Once the pot boiled, she asked Liu Yun to stop the fire. After a short pause, she wiped the lid of the pot with a rag, and then quickly lifted the pot.

After the steaming of the fire, the elm money becomes more tender and juicy, with a jade-colored light, making people want to pounce on it and take a bite immediately.

Mrs. Li took a rough porcelain bowl and filled it with an elm money bun and handed it to her with a smile, "Eat slowly, don't burn it."

Xiuyao took a small bite while blowing, it was so tender, soft and sweet!Soft, creamy, sweet and fragrant, it is a delicious meal for a time traveler like her who eats porridge and black noodles all day long.

The yuqian is soft, and it looks like it’s actually a little big. Xiuyao finished eating quickly, and couldn’t help but take another one. Mrs. Li just asked her to eat slowly, and then boiled the hot water over the dried yuqian. Pour into a large glaze basin.

The black pot and the green vegetables are very beautiful.

Xiuyao ate yuqianwowo while watching her grandma work. She patted a head of garlic and mashed it into minced garlic with a garlic mortar. The spoon leaned on a little soybean oil, rolled finely chopped green onion in the hot oil, and then poured it into the glaze basin.

The hot oil rolls over the minced garlic, and it also emits bursts of aroma, which immediately makes people's index fingers move.

Liu Xu and Liu Xia also came out of the house, and said with a smile, "Oh, it smells so good, we don't have the heart to do any work."

Liu Xu picked up a piece of cake, scooped some of the elm purse into it with a spoon, and spread some of the bean paste from that year. This sauce is different from the sauce ball, and it is more delicious. She rolled it up and tore it in half and handed it to Xiuyao, " It's delicious."

Xiuyao Yuqian Wowo hadn't finished eating, she took the cake again, and said with a smile, "Why do I feel like I've become a landlady, just roll out the cake, it's delicious and filling."

Liu Xu laughed and said, "The beggar thinks that the emperor has a left-handed scroll and a right-handed scroll, but in fact, the emperor would rarely eat the scroll?"

Xiuyao asked curiously, "Auntie, what do you eat at the emperor's house?"

Liu Xu said solemnly: "I have to eat meatloaf anyway."

Xiuyao laughed loudly, at this time Qin Yang also ran out, "It smells so good, it smells so good, I want to eat elm money!"

Mrs. Li hurriedly handed him a piece of elm money, and rolled a piece of cake. Qin Yang also ate with his left hand and right hand, enjoying himself while eating.

Li Shi said: "Tomorrow, let Erxian take those back. Our family wants to eat them before we go."

Liu Xu objected, "Mother, don't get used to it too much. The mill is busy for her all day, and we don't charge money, and we have to build things in. If this is the case, she thinks we should."

(End of this chapter)