Chapter 214 Mu Leizi
Mu Xi nodded, "When I come here again next time, I think I can reach the northern back mountain of Meishan."
He climbed up nearby and looked far away, but he still couldn't see the Houshan Lake. However, based on the location where the wild boar appeared, if nothing unexpected happened, he should be able to find it if he walked a few dozen kilometers forward next time.
Zhao Yeqing recalled the road conditions along the way, "If the road behind is cleared and the conditions are similar to the front section, then we can take Xiaohong back."
The mobile power bank at home weighs about 40 kilograms. It can be carried back and forth by human beings, but if you encounter danger on the road, you will be restricted.
If we can bring it back on horseback, not only will we be able to travel much faster, but we can also carry more other things.
After the two of them had eaten, they fried several pieces of wild boar meat without salt for the two dogs.
By the time it was time to go to bed, Huhu and Xuebing had already run to the tree next to them and lay down.
Zhao Yeqing slept very peacefully this time. He was supposed to take turns to keep watch, but when he closed his eyes and opened them again, it was already morning.
Mu Xi was sitting by the fire boiling water when she woke up suddenly. "I was so sound asleep, why didn't you call me? Did you not sleep all night?"
"I fell asleep." Mu Xi wet the towel with hot water, wrung it out, and handed it to her to wipe her face. "There were two dogs and two leopards. I fell asleep in the middle of the night and woke up not long ago."
Zhao Yeqing wiped his face clean and felt refreshed. Mentality is really important.
When Mu Xi didn't come back, on the first day she went out to look for him, the chirping of insects and the sound of water around her were very annoying, but last night, listening to the chirping of insects and the sound of water was like hypnotic white noise.
It's really hard to sleep.
After breakfast, they packed up and went home. Considering Mu Xi's back injury and sprained ankle, the two did not get home until midnight the next day.
When Zhao Yeqing went out, he re-set up the delay mechanism that Mu Xi had made last time, but he was still worried that the cattle and sheep would starve.
I put down my backpack and walked into the cattle and sheep pen to see the situation.
Although they were not starving, they were extremely hungry. Even the hay used as bedding was almost eaten up by the cattle and sheep.
Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to sit still and quickly walked to the hay room, mixed the silage and hay, and poured it into the cattle and sheep pens.
Xiaohong is the one that is least troublesome. She eats slowly and won’t eat all the food at once because of greed.
There was no need for even a time delay device. The fodder that Zhao Yeqing had put out when he went out had not yet been eaten.
The feed bottles in the chicken coop were filled with feed, and as expected, they were all eaten up. Zhao Yeqing mixed the remaining corn kernels with barley rice and fed them to the chickens.
"In about twenty days, you will have fresh corn to eat."
After taking care of all the animals in the family, Mu Xi finished his bath and filled the bathtub with bath water for Zhao Yeqing.
Before entering the bathroom, I made sure that all the blisters on her feet had basically healed, and only a few blisters were left that had not yet broken, and then I let her in to take a bath.
You can't take a bath if the blisters on your feet are broken, otherwise it will easily get infected. Mu Xi reminded you to be careful not to break them, and then went back to the room to look for ointment.
The ointments I brought into the mountains were not particularly effective, so I found two with good anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effects and applied them to Zhao Yeqing after she came out of the shower.
"Don't go to the fields for the next two days. Let's both lie down for a few days."
For the next week, apart from eating, feeding the chickens and horses, the two of them would stand at the door in the morning and afternoon, watching out for the cattle and sheep when they went out to graze and when they came back, to prevent the animals from running into the fields.
The two of them spent most of the time lying in bed.
Huhu and Xuebing are hardly at home all day now, and the dogs are all out.
Two dogs were herding the sheep, and two dogs were watching the pasture to prevent deer from grazing.
There were only the two of them in the whole house, and it seemed unusually quiet.
It is inevitable to feel sleepy when lying in bed. Zhao Yeqing's sleep pattern was a bit reversed, and he often woke up at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night, and then woke Mu Xi up.
"Are you hungry?"
The moment Mu Xi was pushed awake, he guessed that he would hear this sentence, "Well, I want to eat grilled sausage, grilled meat, grilled leeks and milk tofu."
Zhao Yeqing, "It's not good to eat too much. Just eat some roasted leeks in the middle of the night. It's light."
"you're right."
The two sat by the fire, eating fresh roasted leeks and welcoming the morning sunrise.
In less than a month, the first crops planted will be almost ready for harvest.
"The first crop to be harvested should be wheat, followed by corn and glutinous rice." Zhao Yeqing took out his notebook, "Then we have to prepare for threshing, drying, and pounding the rice..."
Probably because the original owner lived alone on the meadow and grew relatively little food, the tools used to process rice and wheat were also very simple and primitive. There was only a flail for threshing, and then a large stone for pounding the rice.
Now, there are only two of them to work on threshing the crops from these several fields. If they were to use flails to thresh them all, it would not only take several more days, but would also be very tiring.
The two decided to use the method they had used in Meishan to make a threshing barrel.
When we were in Meishan, there was only a little rice. After threshing, we would use a winnowing basket to throw the rice up and then let it fall again to remove the straw and hay mixed in the grains.
Now wheat, rice and subsequent rapeseed all need to be free of impurities, and manual labor with a winnowing basket is definitely not enough.
Last year, Mu Xi dismantled a windmill for removing impurities at the foot of the mountain. He originally planned to harvest the winter wheat after winter and then make one himself.
But unexpectedly, the wheat froze to death before the winter was over.
Mu Xi thought, "There aren't many tools at home. Now, in addition to the threshing bucket and windmill, I have to make a wooden pestle."
The wooden pestle is used to husk the rice, and after the husk is removed, the rice becomes brown rice. Finally, the large stone pestle and the matching large wooden pestle left by the original owner are used to gently pound the rice, and the brown rice can be turned into white polished rice.
A threshing barrel is not difficult to make, you just need to put some wooden boards together, but windmills and wooden pestles are more sophisticated.
Mu Xi took out the blueprint of the windmill he had drawn earlier, checked it to make sure there were no mistakes, and then started drawing the blueprint of the wooden pestle on paper.
The operation method of the wooden pestle is similar to that of a stone mill, which uses thrust to rotate the rice to peel the rice.
The only difference is that the stone mill is made of stone, which is very hard and wear-resistant, and can be used to grind rice and easily crush the rice grains.
The selection of materials for the wooden pestle is quite particular. Wood must be used as the main material so that the rice grains will not be crushed all at once. Wear resistance must also be taken into consideration. The wood material should be sandalwood, mulberry wood, and nanmu, which have relatively high hardness.
All the materials except wood also include yellow mud.
The wooden pestle is divided into two parts, the upper part and the lower part. The middle of the upper part is left empty for pouring rice. The bottom of the upper part and the top of the lower part have tooth grooves made of miscellaneous wood.
The empty grinding hole on the upper fan fits perfectly onto the grinding core in the middle of the lower fan. The grinding hole acts as a funnel, allowing the grain to naturally fall onto the teeth for easier grinding.
This tool is not easy to make. If they were not so poor in the mountain valley, they would have watched people in the villages below the mountain use these tools since they were young, so they would not have mastered some of the skills.
If anyone in the village had a little money to buy an electric rice mill, they would be at a loss now.
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