Chapter 215 Wheat Harvest!

After Mu Xi drew the rough blueprint, he handed it to Zhao Yeqing to complete.

He went out to chop down trees.

"Are you sure your waist is okay?"

Zhao Yeqing was still a little worried. After all, the injury was to the waist and abdomen, and if there was a problem, it would not be a small problem.

Mu Xi twisted his waist left and right, "I don't think there is any problem."

Even if the problem with my waist was no longer there, I couldn't carry the wooden board back by myself. I had to use a ox to pull the cart.

In the past, whenever Mu Xi made something, he would chop down trees in the forest, cut them into planks with a saw, and then carry them back.

But this time the tools were more special and the production process was complicated. In order to avoid accidents, after he cut down the tree, he chopped off the extra branches and directly let the oxen pull the logs back, and determined the thickness and length of the board according to the drawings.

The wood cannot be too small. A cow cannot pull a whole tree at one time, so it has to be transported in two batches.

It took Zhao Yeqing a long time to finalize the drawings. Mu Xi had already removed the bark from the logs and was ready to start sawing boards.

"The sizes of the main wood blocks for the windmill have been marked out. As for the production of the remaining small parts, we will just have to wait and see how much wood is left and then plan how to use it."

Zhao Yeqing took out the inkwell from the tool room and marked the wood before letting Mu Xi start.

The structure of the windmill has an inlet and an outlet. Rice is poured into the top, and the rocker is shaken to make the blades inside the windmill flip, blowing away the impurities between the rice grains. The impurities fly away from the rear end of the windmill, and the clean rice will flow out from the funnel at the bottom.

The two were mentally prepared before making the tools, knowing that they would not be easy to make.

But unexpectedly, the difficulty exceeded their estimates.

There were two wooden gears in the middle that just wouldn't fit together. After they finally did, the connecting wooden bearing got stuck and couldn't move.

It was such a small place that it took the two of them two days to conquer.

As we get closer to wheat harvest time, the weather is getting hotter.

The wheat fields were already golden. Zhao Yeqing pinched a wheat grain with his hand and found it was basically full. It could all be harvested in the next two days.

It only takes one day to harvest less than half an acre of wheat. Plus threshing and drying, if you hurry up, two days will be enough.

The rice grains are already filled with pulp, and the last bit of water in the rice fields used to keep them moist has to be drained out, and the fields have to be dried for a week before harvesting.

Zhao Yeqing plans to harvest rice and glutinous rice immediately after harvesting the wheat tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

After the harvest, the fields are immediately plowed and prepared for the next round of rice planting.

If Zhao Yeqing hadn't been lying in bed for so long recently, he would have almost forgotten to raise rice seedlings for autumn sowing.

The two of them were lying in bed a few days ago, thinking about what else needed to be done at home. Then they remembered that the rice planted in autumn still had to be raised as seedlings, and the seeds had to be dried before raising them.

Now that the rice seeds have been almost dried, we dig out a small piece of land next to the fish pond and sow the rice seeds there.

She plans to use the dry seedling raising method for all autumn sowing this year.

There is no need to worry about the corn fields, as they can be harvested ten days later than the rice.

Now is the milky stage of corn, when the corn is the sweetest and most sticky. Zhao Yeqing walked into the cornfield and broke off five or six corns.

Leave two to cook and eat, and throw the rest to the cattle and sheep to eat for fun.

She is a fan of sweet corn and likes this kind of crispy, sweet and juicy corn the most. After throwing it into the pot and cooking it, as soon as she opens the lid, the rich aroma of corn hits her face.

She scooped out the corn with chopsticks and put it in a bowl to cool.

Mu Xi was putting the final touches on the windmill in the yard. Zhao Yeqing walked into the yard with a palm-leaf fan and fanned Mu Xi, whose forehead was covered in sweat.

He smiled and said, "After the harvest is finished and the road is explored, we can use the fan this summer with the power supply."

It's only March now and the temperature has already risen to 28 or 29 degrees. It will probably reach over 40 degrees in a while. If you have a fan, the summer will be much better.

In the evening, Mu Xi finished assembling the windmill. Zhao Yeqing turned the handle of the turntable, and the blades inside began to turn with a whirring sound.

Mu Xi stood at the tail of the windmill and could feel the wind rushing out from it.

"It's quite cool. If there's no electric fan, I guess I can make a manual one."

Zhao Yeqing washed his hands and handed him the corn. "No, it's over 40 degrees, and using a hand-cranked fan can kill you."

Mu Xi also recalled the nightmare last year when the air was shaking and deforming due to the high temperature. He took a bite of corn and said firmly, "Make the wooden pestle tomorrow and harvest the crops the day after tomorrow. Hurry and go back to Meishan to move the things."

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Plans could not keep up with changes, and Mu Xi spent the whole next day but still failed to assemble the wooden pestle.

The blades and teeth are really too complicated.

Zhao Yeqing decided not to wait for him. As soon as the sun rose, he changed his clothes and took out his shiny sickle.

"Take your time, I'm going to go harvest first."

Zhao Yeqing had rested too well recently and was now full of energy. He walked into the wheat field with a sickle in hand.

It only took half a day to harvest the entire wheat field.

Even Mu Xi was stunned. "Are you...are you tired? How about taking a bath tonight? I'm afraid you won't be able to get up tomorrow."

Zhao Yeqing felt that this time was not like last year. Although he was tired after the harvest, he did not feel uncomfortable.

"I think it's the accumulation of the past two years that has improved my physical fitness."

In order to avoid accidents, Mu Xi hurriedly assembled the wooden pestle before night and boiled a large bucket of herbal bath water for Zhao Yeqing.

Zhao Yeqing took a bath in the hot summer, and his face and ears turned red, but the effect was remarkable. Right after the bath, he felt like mowing two more plots of land.

Mu Xi hurriedly sent her to bed and didn't even let her do the subsequent threshing.

After the wheat is threshed, the straw is thrown on the ground and the wheat grains are poured into the windmill. Zhao Yeqing only needs to sit there and shake the handle.

The golden wheat grains slid from the windmill into the baskets placed on the ground in advance. A total of seven or eight baskets of wheat were harvested.

Mu Xi weighed it with his hand, "One basket probably weighs more than 60 kilograms."

That means we harvested nearly 500 kilograms of wheat.

Zhao Yeqing couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth; this number was beyond her expectations.

She squatted down, picked up the grains of wheat with her hands and put them down again, repeating this several times and never getting tired of it.

The depression in my heart was relieved at once.

This wheat was planted from last fall to this summer, and finally there was a harvest.

She smiled so much that her eyes curved into crescents.

"Once the flour is ground, I will eat pasta for two days!"