“Snap, snap, snap…”

After the sound of the wooden stick breaking through the air was heard, there was the sound of the wooden fork hitting the rapeseed, mixed with the sound of the rapeseed pods exploding and the rapeseed seeds bursting.

Mu Tou and several other people in the tribe were beating the rapeseed with great effort.

This is not an easy job. If it were easy, people in later generations would not use oxen and horses to do this work.

From noon until the sun was half way down, the rapeseed drying in the threshing floor was finally threshed.

Under Han Cheng's guidance, Mu Tou and others picked up the battered, bruised and empty rapeseed stalks with wooden forks and piled them at the edge of the threshing floor.

There is a small detail that you need to pay special attention to when doing this, which is that you need to shake the rapeseed stalks several times with a wooden fork before you can completely shovel them away. This is to shake out the rapeseed seeds trapped in the empty rapeseed stalks.

After picking the rapeseed stems, a layer of finely chopped rapeseed pods and tiny, dark-brown rapeseed seeds are left on the ground.

Han Cheng stepped on it barefoot. It was slippery and itchy.

Mu Tou and a few others began to use a tool to gather the rapeseed scattered all over the ground to the center of the threshing floor.

This tool is the common "raking rake" in later generations.

The so-called rake is generally made of wood, and its specific structure is similar to the nine-tooth rake of the second brother.

They are all sticks more than one meter long with a rake head attached to the front.

The difference is that Zhu Ganglie's nine-toothed rake can be used to exorcise demons and monsters, and can also be used to dig the ground in Gao Laozhuang, but this kind of wooden rake can only be used for "threshing".

Using a wooden fork can only roughly clean out the empty rapeseed stems, and a lot of fine pieces will fall down.

Because the wooden fork has few teeth, only three, and they are sparsely spaced, and the distance between each tine is nearly 20 centimeters, it is difficult to clear them.

This is when the rake comes into play. This rake has many teeth and they are densely packed, making it a great tool for dealing with these.

The rake has a simple structure and is not difficult to make.

You just need to cut a piece of wood with a diameter of about five centimeters and a length of half a meter, and then use a stone axe to cut out four sides little by little, and then on one of the sides, drill a hole with a diameter of about one and a half centimeters every four to five centimeters. About nine holes can be drilled.

Because the Qingque tribe already had a hand drill, and when Han Cheng was studying the wooden ladder before, he also came up with a method of using fire to enlarge the mortise. Now, drilling holes is not too difficult for the Qingque tribe. It just takes a little time.

These holes need to be drilled through.

After completing these, he went to find some hard, wet tree sticks with skin, about two and a half centimeters thick.

First, take a tree stick and put it into the fire, and roast the part about ten centimeters at one end. After waiting for a while, take it out of the fire, and then insert it into the crack of a large stone and bend it while it is still hot.

You need to bend it into an arc that is not too curved. Wait until it cools down, then release it. The stick will basically maintain this posture and will not go back.

Xunzi said in "Encouraging Learning" that "a piece of wood is straight and in line with the rope. It can be bent into a wheel and its curve will be in line with the rule. Even if it is dry and hard and can no longer be straight, it is bent to make it straight." This method is used to make wooden wheels.

Cut off the bent section, and then repeat the previous steps until nine pieces of wood of similar length and curvature are produced.

Of course, due to the immature technology, when Han Cheng was leading Bo to do these things, he made fourteen sticks before he got these nine sticks with similar curvatures and basically the same length.

This wooden stick is the teeth on the "rake".

Of course, such teeth cannot be used directly now and require further processing.

After peeling off the burnt black skin on the outside, make one end of it more pointed.

This was difficult to do in the past.

At least Lame, who often deals with wood, felt that it would take at least two days to polish one end of these nine bent wood pieces into the specifications mentioned by the Son of God.

However, what Han Cheng did next was far beyond Bo's expectations.

Because Han Cheng did not use stone tools or other tools to grind the stick as Bo had expected, but instead put the stick into the fire nearby and let the flames burn the end of the stick that needed to be ground.

Lame watched without blinking, with some worry but also some expectation, wanting to see another miracle from the Son of God and learn something new.

The temperature of the flames quickly turned the white stick black and it began to burn.

After waiting for a while, Han Cheng took it out and quickly polished the burnt part on the stone.

After the hard wood is burned by fire, the layer of charcoal left on the outside is very easy to deal with and can be easily removed with a little polishing.

Seeing that the Son of God had finished sharpening the stick in a very short time, which originally required a lot of effort, the lame man's eyes brightened up again.

This method is not complicated, but why can't I think of it?

Lame thought so with some distress and joined in this novel grinding process.

The sharpened rake teeth are passed through the wooden pillar with the holes drilled in it one by one, starting with the small end that has been ground to a finer point. This way, the large end will be stuck in the hole and will be more secure.

After the rake teeth are put in and secured with stones, the entire rake head is ready.

However, because the wooden handle needs to be installed, a flat round mortise is also needed on the side of the middle part of the nine rake teeth using a stone chisel and charcoal.

These days, Bo, who has been obsessed with making wooden ladders, has already mastered the technique of drilling mortise and tenon holes to perfection. For him, drilling such a mortise and tenon hole is no problem at all.

After the thicker end of the chopped wooden handle was trimmed and polished, inserted into the mortise, and wedged in place with a wooden 'splitter', what was probably the world's first 'raker' specifically used for agricultural production appeared.

Because the manufacture of a rake is quite complicated, and the rapeseed was about to mature when Han Cheng thought of this, the Qingque tribe currently only has one rake.

Fortunately, the Green Bird Tribe now has less land under cultivation, so one rake is enough to deal with current affairs.

After Han Cheng demonstrated how to use the rake himself, this new piece of farm tool fell into the hands of "Balloon".

The balloon is not really a balloon, but a person.

He was originally from the Pig Tribe. The reason why he got this name was not because he was particularly fat, but because he gained weight quickly.

When he first joined the Qingque tribe, he was very skinny and had hardly any flesh on his body. Now, only a few months have passed, and his flesh has grown like a balloon. In view of his condition, Han Cheng gave him this name.

Balloon once asked Han Cheng what a balloon was. Han Cheng resisted the urge to tell him that it was something similar to a urine bubble and just said it was a very good thing.

The balloon was very happy when it heard the great Son of God say that the balloon was a good thing.

Looking at the balloons that were full of joy, Han Cheng's face suddenly twitched, because he suddenly remembered that something that was not used for blowing seemed to be called a balloon...

(Thank you for the support of all the book friends, thank you for the rewards and recommendation tickets, thank you.

I would like to take this opportunity to tell my fellow book lovers about the plot of the past two days.

The plot these two days has been relatively light, and many book friends want to read **, but this kind of farming text is not easy to **. It is originally a relaxing farming text, and I can't force the plot to fight with others or something, otherwise the book may collapse, and it is easy to flip if there is too much driving.

I admit that I wrote a lot about rapeseed, which is also because I inserted too many things in it. If you remove the wooden fork, silkworms, rakes, etc., there will be much less about rapeseed. I wrote it in such detail because I have my own considerations. In time, the crops will gradually increase, and there will be a lot of crops that need to be processed in the threshing field with similar methods. When the time comes, I can simplify it.

I know everyone wants to make this book more exciting, and I am also trying my best to write it. As the performance of the book gradually improves, I become more and more anxious, always worried about not being able to write well, and worried about writing badly. To be honest, I have been unable to sleep well these days because of this. After so many failures, this book finally has some hope, and I unconsciously take it too seriously, and my concerns have become more and more...

I will finish this article about rapeseed as soon as possible.)