Chapter 238 Grain Huskers

The sky was getting darker and darker, and three bonfires were set up in the center of the threshing floor. The moist firewood was also burning and crackling. The elderly people gathered around the fire, adding firewood from time to time to let the flames burn.

of more vigorous.

By the bright firelight, the young men threshed the rice skillfully, and everyone's face was filled with the joy of harvest.

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

They used to work as slaves in wealthy families, and the most they did was wash, cook, clean, or do some hard work. Those with better fortunes would be assigned to serve the master's family personally, and they were almost unable to do farm work in the fields.

But a few people didn't talk nonsense, and they seriously followed the master's instructions. Watching Lin Dong and the others do it, several strong men also followed suit, and as the golden grains fell in their hands

Every particle fell into the bucket, and everyone couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction and pride.

Jiang Yan looked at the bagged grains. She grabbed a handful and rubbed them. As her palms tightened, the grains flowed out from between her fingers like quicksand.

The products produced in the mall must be high-quality products. There is no doubt about this. Jiang Yan is secretly happy. Not only is the yield amazing, but the quality is also pleasing. The grains are plump and round. On a rice stalk, there is no one that is flat.

There were no empty shells in the stomach, the autumn wind blew by, and there were almost no empty shells in the air.

During the last autumn harvest, the entire threshing floor was filled with crushed chaff. After being sifted with a dustpan, the threshed rice was reduced by less than half.

Jiang Yan roughly calculated that the autumn harvest of rice, after sifting out the empty husks per acre, can produce about 250 kilograms per acre. This is because there has been little drought and rain in recent years and the yield is high.

I can’t get up, but this season’s late rice, Jiang Yan has probably calculated that one acre of land can produce at least 700 or even 800 kilograms!

You know, even in peaceful times, without drought, one acre of land can produce more than 400 kilograms of grain at most, and this season's late rice has doubled! It has simply subverted the expectations of the whole village!

Jiang Yan was also a little excited, but not as excited as the people in the village, who wanted to cut all the rice in the fields 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 bumper harvest.

Unable to sleep, I was still harvesting rice in the dark in the fields. The village chief was so happy that his mouth stopped laughing.

However, according to the books on late rice cultivation in the mall, the yield per acre of land should be higher. I don’t know if it is because of the soil quality or the weather.

Jiang Yan re-studied the content in the book and carefully recalled the process of growing late rice, but found nothing missing.

She remembered that in modern times, the yield of one acre of land in the field was basically as high as several thousand catties. She originally thought that the late rice this time would not say 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 finally a bumper harvest.

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

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

During this period, the weather was getting colder and colder, and the sun only came out every few days. Jiang Yan left a special open space at the factory, which was paved with blue bricks. The place was large and open enough, so the sun could shine on it as soon as it came out.

, Jiang Yan transported all the newly harvested late rice there so that it could be stored directly in the cellar after drying.

"Jinhua, you go to the village and borrow two small stone rollers, and we will also get some new millet to eat." Jiang Yan waved to Wang Jinhua, who trotted over in a few steps. After listening, she hurried out again.

The millet at home is not husked immediately after it is dried. Usually, some of it is taken out when it is time to eat, and the rest is stored in the shell, so that it can be stored for a longer period of time.

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

This time she planned to thresh the rice husks for the late rice, and then she realized that husking the husks was more difficult than bending down to cut the rice. Most people in the village used a wooden basin or stone mortar to put some in, and then pounded it with a wooden pestle, but this was

It can only be removed in small quantities, and the rice that takes a long time to pound is enough for one meal. It is more convenient to use a stone roller.

Stone rolls are also divided into different sizes. The big ones are placed in the threshing floor. Villagers can only go to the threshing floor to queue up to use them. Small stone rolls can be borrowed and taken home. Two people can carry them home by lifting them from side to side. Those with stronger strength can

A strong man can carry it home alone.

Each of these things has its own pros and cons. The stone mortar is the most primitive hand tool. Although it is less efficient and more labor-intensive, it is highly adaptable and can be used by men, women and children. It can also be used to grind sauces, such as chili sauce.

, soybean paste and so on.

The stone roller is more commonly used and more labor-saving. It can thresh husks in a large area. It is a stone body with a square hole polished in the center of both sides. It can fix the rotating shaft and install the wooden frame. When playing field, use it

Horses or buffalo mules pull the grain and roll it back and forth in circles to remove the chaff. Small stone rollers are usually dragged by humans.

There are no farm tools for threshing chaff at home. In previous years, after the Lin family brothers paid taxes on the grain they farmed, they carried it all intact to the town in exchange for coarse grains. The family did not have rice to eat, so they did not have tools to thresh chaff.

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In the large open space behind the factory building, Jiang Yan used her claws to turn over the millet on the ground, so that the solar energy could dry the front and back of the millet evenly.

While I was busy, a young man hurried over. He was a worker working in the factory.

"Aunt Jiang, the village chief and Li Zheng went to your house and didn't find you. Let me call you."

The factory is some distance from my home, and the construction team has already built the fence. Except for the villagers who work in the factory, no one else can enter the factory.

"Okay, I'll go over right away. You can help me look at the grains for a while and turn them over."

The tail of autumn has passed, and Jiang Yan is not worried about birds coming to steal the grain. On the contrary, she cherishes the sunshine that is getting less and less day by day, so it is also important to turn the grains.

The young man responded with a smile, picked up the chopper excitedly and started to turn the millet. Being able to help Aunt Jiang's family, even if it was just turning the millet, made him feel better than turning his own millet at home.

Excited.

When Jiang Yan arrived, the village chief He Li was leading a group of villagers to gather at the entrance 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.
Chapter completed!