There are some things that you cannot think about, because once you think about them, your heart will start to stir.

Jiang Xue had no choice but to go find Ah San who had just laid down in the house.

As soon as Asan saw that it was Jiang Xue, he struggled to get up.

Jiang Xue was not pretentious: "Just lie down, I want to ask you something."

Ah San supported himself with his hands, looked at her, and said, "You say."

"Have you ever seen a black stone that breaks into pieces when you hit it?"

It is no exaggeration to say that coal is stone, and it does break into pieces when hit.

Ah San frowned and looked at her: "It's black? It breaks when you hit it?"

"Yes, have you seen it?"

Jiang Xue knew that coal mines are generally divided into two types, one is open-pit coal mines and the other is underground coal mines.

Judging from the current situation of the Snake Tribe, it would be best to find an open-pit coal mine for mining, which would be safer.

Ah San thought for a moment and tried to get up, but Jiang Xue pushed him down on the bed. "Alright, I just want you to tell me if you've seen it before. You don't have to get up."

"Then I really have to get up." Ah San forced a smile. "If I don't get up, you won't be able to find where my treasures are."

Jiang Xue's eyes lit up. Did he mean that he had seen coal?

Ah San climbed up, found an animal hide bag he used often, and emptied out the contents. "I don't know what kind you're talking about. Look at these stones; they're all collected by me."

Jiang Xue spotted the large piece of black coal immediately. She picked it up with surprise and joy and held it in her hand. "This is it! Where did you find it?"

Ah San thought hard for a long time. "I think I found this stone in the Bluebird Tribe before I came to the Snake Tribe. I didn't know what it was for at the time, but I put it in my bag out of curiosity. Snow Witch, could this be what you're talking about?"

"Yes, that's it." Jiang Xue's eyes were full of disappointment.

It is true that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. She never thought that he had picked up this coal in the Bluebird Tribe.

That would be a difficult situation.

If I pick it up somewhere else, I can go and explore it. At most, I can spend a few days digging there. If I can really dig out coal, I can have someone repair the road and then transport the coal here by ox cart or horse cart.

But it happened to be found in the Bluebird Tribe.

"Don't worry, Snow Witch. I only said I found it before I joined the Snake Tribe, not in the Bluebird Tribe." Ah San thought hard. "Let me think about it. It's been a while since I found it. Please don't mind if I can't remember it right now."

"Okay, I'm not in a hurry. You take your time to think about it." Jiang Xue knew that he was telling the truth.

Take herself for example, if she were suddenly asked to tell me what she did half a year ago, she would definitely not be able to remember it for a while.

"Okay, you take a rest first."

Jiang Xue had no intention of using any rejuvenation technique on him. If she didn't teach this kid a lesson, he would definitely not dare to fight in the future.

Jiang Xue came out of his jar and thought again and again. If soybeans were to be made into other things, a grinding wheel would definitely be needed.

This thing can only be carved out by hand, bit by bit. Well, let's go see how the stone mortar for pounding rice is made.

She arrived at the valley, which used to be bustling with people: Grass Maidens were cooking in the kitchen, naughty children were playing hopscotch in the open space, and women were training with stone spears by the river...

Now, only a few old men like Asongbo are sitting in the pavilion, skillfully weaving straw sandals, bamboo baskets, mixing clay, and shaping pottery blanks.

Even the carpenters have moved their tools to the townhouse. After they finish the doors and windows there, they don't have to carry them over anymore; they just need to install the door leaves.

Seeing her coming, Asongbo greeted her with a smile: "Snow Witch, it was someone from the Bluebird Tribe who came to cause trouble again."

Jiang Xue nodded. "Yeah, that's right. They're really rude. Beating them once wasn't enough, and they had to come to our door and ask us to beat them again."

Asombo said cheerfully, "I saw a few of them escape."

"Yeah, I don't know where Xiaobai ran off to today. If Xiaobai were here, none of them would be able to escape." Jiang Xue said as she looked around. She didn't see the stone mortar here, and she felt strange: "Hey, where is the stone mortar I asked you to make last time?"

"Oh, didn't that stuff get moved to the townhouse?"

"When was it shipped there? Why didn't I see it?"

"It was made last night and brought over in a wheelbarrow. It's right there in the kitchen."

Jiang Xue was very surprised: "Then why didn't anyone notify me?"

How come they didn't tell anyone about such a big thing?

She knew clearly that the rack for pounding rice was ready, but she always thought that the mortar was not ready yet.

If she had known it was chiseled out, she would have arranged for someone to pound the rice today!

It has been almost a year since she traveled here, and she can finally eat rice!

Jiang Xue excitedly ran to the kitchen on the other side of the townhouse and found the stone mortar.

Very good!

She quickly dug a hole under the eaves of the kitchen, put the stone mortar in it, and asked someone to bring the rice pounding rack over and set it up. Then she excitedly carried a basket of rice out from the warehouse, scooped a few bowls of rice into the stone mortar, stepped on the rack and began to pound the rice.

To put it simply, the rice pounding machine uses the principle of leverage.

A person steps on the lever at the end, allowing the wooden hammer at the other end to fall and hit the stone mortar to husk the rice. This is more practical and saves time and effort than peeling the rice grains one by one by hand.

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