Travel through the ancient forest system

Chapter 73
"Okay, I'll remember." Wu Hao felt that it was very simple and no difficulty, so he responded readily.

In the next ten days or so, Wu Hao organized people who didn't need to hunt to harvest wheat.

And Wu Yu was thinking of a way to thresh wheat at home, but after much deliberation, he found that beating was the only way to do it.

So, Wu Yu asked Lin Yi to call everyone to take out the drying mat at home, and then put the wheat on the drying mat for a day, and beat it with a wooden mallet when the water was almost dry.

After the grains are completely threshed, spread them on a drying mat for a day before they are almost dry.

It took almost a month of harvesting, threshing, cleaning, and drying in the early stage to get the baskets of yellow wheat grains in front of Wu Yu. The next step is the most important step-milling!
The tool used for milling is stone mill, which can process rice, wheat, beans and other grains into powder or pulp.

This is a food processing tool that has played an important role in the family since ancient times. In Wu Yu's previous life, many people in his hometown used it to grind beans to make tofu.

Stone grinding tools can be made from stone and wood, which is very suitable for this era, but grinding stones is a bit laborious.

First of all, the stone should be ground into two short cylindrical stones of the same size, and then grinding teeth should be carved on the side where the stones meet to grind grain, and a grinding eye should be left on the upper fan for grain to leak out. use.

A wheel shaft is installed between the two mills to prevent the upper fan from falling when turning, a handle is installed on the side of the upper fan for pushing, and finally a wooden grinding disc is placed under the stone mill to pick up things and you're done.

After Wu Yu explained this tool to Wu Hao clearly, he immediately arranged for someone to make it. Since it was synchronized with the threshing step, it could be ground directly after the wheat grains were ready, without spending any extra time.

On the day of milling, many people gathered outside the warehouse to watch.

Because he was afraid that the wind would blow the flour dirty, Wu Hao arranged it in the warehouse. More than a dozen stone mills were neatly placed on the bamboo table, and there were people who were pushing the mill and scooping the wheat grain beside them.

Because it takes a lot of effort to grind the mill, Wu Hao chose men and arranged for replacements, and the ones who scooped the wheat were women.

Everyone is waiting for Wu Hao to issue an order.

After everyone was ready, Wu Hao let them start.

After a while, the sound of Zrazla sounded, and everyone saw a light yellow object falling from the stone mill onto the millstone. Wu Hao stepped forward and squeezed some for Wu Yu to see, "Is that so?"

"Daddy, the first time you grind it is like this. The yellow stuff is the skin of the wheat. After you grind it twice, you can use a bamboo sieve to sieve it out. The third time you just grind the flour finer."

Because the stone mill is slow to produce flour, and everyone is not skilled in using the stone mill for the first time, it took a day to grind all the wheat grains for the first time.

Another group of people started the next day, and this time it was finished a little earlier than yesterday, but it was almost evening.

The next step is to sieve the flour. Wu Yu specially selected bamboo sieves with different loopholes, and sifted layer by layer, hoping to separate as much wheat bran as possible. Still very satisfied, after all, the conditions are limited.

The amount of sifted wheat flour was much less, so it only took half a day to grind it.

Seeing the slightly yellowish flour, Wu Yu pinched some of it with his hands, and felt that the fineness was still acceptable, and it was considered finished flour, so he said to Wu Hao, "Daddy, this level is almost the same, and it can already be used to make food. gone."

(End of this chapter)