It seems like it's time to improve the tools for pounding rice.

Han Cheng was standing on the wall, looking around and taking in the situation around the tribe. After watching Zhuang and Qinghua pounding rice from a distance for a while, he thought so in his mind.

Pounding rice is not an easy job. It was not so difficult before because the amount of millet grown in the tribe was small. Although it was tiring, it was not a big deal as long as you didn’t have to do it for a long time. But now it is different.

The Qingque tribe had a bumper harvest of millet this year. Under Han Cheng's deliberate guidance, millet has become an important food for the Qingque tribe.

Moreover, as time goes by, millet will account for a larger proportion of the Qingque tribe's food.

This is because millet is grown in large quantities, harvested in large quantities, and there is enough millet to eat.

The second reason is that with the arrests that have lasted for several years, the number of fish in the small river in front of the Qingque tribe is far less than before. Even though after the floods in summer, some fish will swim upstream from the large river downstream, the number is still not as large as before.

A diet that relies on fish as the main food has become increasingly difficult to maintain.

In fact, starting a few months ago, the proportion of fish in the Greenbird Tribe's food has begun to gradually decrease.

Fortunately, with the presence of various wild vegetables and some seasonings from Han Cheng, the son of God who works part-time as a chef, the life of the Qingque tribe has not been affected much.

Third, the tribe’s population has grown rapidly in recent years, and the daily food consumption has almost tripled compared to before.

As the pressure on the river increased and that on the other decreased, the fish in the river were naturally overwhelmed.

Fortunately, with the buffer period of these years, the Qingque tribe's planting industry has developed, so they don't have to worry too much about food.

In the future, we should reduce the amount of fish caught in the creek. Han Cheng doesn't want to see the situation of fishing in a dry pond appear in his own tribe.

Moreover, the pits dug for taking soil to make bricks need to be expanded, and some fish fry should be put in for breeding.

As for the koi fish in the water tank outside the room, Han Cheng thought it would be better to keep it in the water tank. Firstly, it is pleasing to the eyes, and secondly, Bai Xuemei will like it.

The only thing that makes Han Cheng feel regretful is that he has not met Ou yet.

This made it impossible for his dream of fish playing among lotus leaves and toads jumping on the lotus flowers to be realized.

As the amount of millet consumed daily increased, pounding rice naturally became an indispensable task.

It would be fine if there were only a few people eating in the tribe and it would be enough to pound the rice for a while every day, but the current situation is that there are more than a hundred mouths waiting to be fed in the tribe.

In order to fill more than a hundred mouths, the amount of millet that needs to be pounded every day is not a small amount.

It takes almost two people, who dare not take too long a rest, to take turns pounding the rice in order to supply the rice.

It is impossible to do any work for a long time, let alone pounding rice which is not easy at all.

Of course, if there is no good solution, we will have no choice but to continue with the current method.

However, Han Cheng, who came from later generations, obviously knew more about pounding rice than this.

He wanted to get the water mill out.

The so-called water pestle relies on the flushing of water flow and uses the power of water to pound rice.

This method should be very ancient, but it is obviously not older than the era in which Han Cheng lives now.

He had always heard of water mills and knew that they were a kind of ancient wisdom, but his most intuitive feeling about them came from the TV series "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils".

There is a passage in which, in a mill by the river, Wang Yuyan is poisoned by the sad breeze and looks weak.

Duan Yu, who has always been in love with his sister, takes care of her in various ways. Then he encounters Murong Fu, who comes disguised as someone else.

What impressed Han Cheng the most at that time, apart from Wang Yuyan's words that almost made her cry, "Where are you touching~", was the water mill in the mill that was unattended and kept crashing down.

"Are you tired of pounding rice?"

Han Cheng, who came down from the wall and walked to the side of the stone mortar, looked at Qinghua and Zhuang, whose heads and faces were covered with sweat, and asked with a smile.

The two of them smiled naively and shook their heads repeatedly, saying, "Not tired."

"Not tired?"

Han Cheng looked at the two of them and asked back.

Without waiting for the two of them to answer, he shook his head and sighed, "Originally, I wanted to make a tool to pound rice for you. Since you are not tired, then continue pounding."

Han Cheng said this, of course, he was just joking. No matter whether they said they were tired or not, he would make the water mill.

However, seeing Qinghua and Zhuang looking at each other, standing there not knowing what to say for a while, Han Cheng suddenly felt like he had punched in the air.

I shouldn't have joked with them. Now it's embarrassing, right?

"Pound the rice well and eat millet rice in the evening."

Feeling very embarrassed, Shen Zi sniffed and left to find the carpenter Bo, leaving Qinghua and Zhuang standing there confused.

What did the Son of God mean by what he just said?

That kind of tool, should we make it or not?

After the two female primitives thought about it for a while, they continued to pound the rice.

Because the Son of God said that we should eat millet rice at night.

They remembered this sentence clearly.

"A tool that can pound rice without people?"

The lame man who was repairing a bone shovel there suddenly became excited after hearing Han Cheng's words.

Since making the wheelbarrow, Bo hasn't made similar difficult things for a long time. Instead, he has been dealing with doors and windows.

This made him itchy.

At this moment, he suddenly heard this thing from Han Cheng and immediately became excited.

You can pound the rice yourself without using any effort. This sounds interesting and challenging.

If this happened at the beginning, Bo would naturally not believe what Han Cheng said. However, after experiencing the fish cages that let fish enter by themselves, the traps that prey fall into by themselves, the plow carts pulled by deer, etc., Bo had already firmly believed what Han Cheng said.

After listening to Han Cheng, he immediately expressed his willingness to create this magical instrument under the leadership of the Son of God.

Then he looked at Han Cheng with a sharp gaze, expecting the Son of God to change the shape of the tool he needed to make for him as he did in the past.

However, it didn't happen this time.

As for the water pestle, Han Cheng only knew that it was driven by water, and then the lever on it rose and fell continuously to hit the stone mortar.

As for the specific details that he couldn't see, he didn't know.

This is what it means: 'It's easy for those who know how to do it, but difficult for those who don't know how to do it'.

With this in mind, Han Cheng told Bo little by little what he knew about the water mill, and asked Bo to work with him to find a solution.