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Chapter 259 Windmills and Threshers
It's a pity that the seeds of the real world can't be brought here, otherwise, Wang Zhong wouldn't have to be so troublesome.

The county has already been liberated, and all order has almost been restored. Many folks from all over the world brought agricultural products to the county to set up stalls and sell them.

Now that the policy is better, there is no need to search and pay when entering and leaving the city, and there is no need to worry about getting into trouble when going to the county.

Wang Zhong went to the seed shop and exchanged some flour for peanuts, tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, eggplants, peppers, and leeks.

It's a pity that there are no fruit trees. Fortunately, the owner of the seed shop is easy to talk to. He promised Wang Zhong that he would find a way to get some fragrant pear saplings. Ton.

In addition to flour, there are several tons of rice, and many finished buns and steamed buns wholesaled from the wholesale market, as well as dried noodles, vermicelli, and a few cattle and sheep that have been slaughtered, and the bones have been removed and divided into small pieces. Mutton, the most important thing is salt and oil, which are all packed.

The system can't carry seeds, but processed things are not a problem at all.

Wang Zhong didn't intend to make himself suffer too much, what should be prepared is still to be prepared.

The outer skin of leek seeds is hard, and it is difficult for water to penetrate in. If you want it to germinate faster and have a higher emergence rate, you must germinate it in advance before planting.

Soak the prepared leek seeds in warm water for one day, then slowly scrub them clean; take them out and put them in moist gauze, and provide an environment of 15-20°C, spray water every day to ensure that the seeds are moist, about three to five days The seeds can be white at the right time, and the effect of sowing after the whitening is the best.

Now that the weather is neither too hot nor too cold, the seeds of peppers, tomatoes and eggplants can be raised in advance.

After Wang Zhong moved into the main house, one of the two rooms in the east wing was converted into a nursery by Wang Zhong, and the other was vacant. Of the two rooms in the west wing, one became a warehouse for storing grain. The remaining room became a tool room, with a large space of nearly forty square meters, and some carpentry work can also be done in the house.

Agricultural implements such as Qu Yuan's plow, hoes, and heads, as well as carts are all placed in the backyard.

Wang Zhong spent a lot of thought on raising seedlings. First, he prepared materials, made a dozen petri dishes, a few shelves, placed them in the house, and made a simple watering can out of clay.

Perhaps the climate and temperature were just right, and Wang Zhong's watering was sufficient. It took only three days after Wang Zhong started cultivating, those leek seeds were all white, and the others were not so good.

This day the king came to Lao Ganbang again: "Old Ganbang, I plan to make something recently, don't you know carpentry, how about helping me?"

The old Ganbang’s name is Niu Youdao, he is a kind and honest farmer. Because he is poor, he is almost thirty and has not married a wife. There is a millstone hanging around his waist all day long. People in the village have something blunt to sharpen. After a while, they will find him.

After Wang Zhong planted the leeks, while continuing to germinate them, he began to think about preparing tools for the summer harvest.

"It's okay to help, but what are you going to do?" Lao Ganbang was easy to talk to.

Wang Zhong said: "I'm going to make a windmill, and if possible, a pedal thresher!"

"Ah?" Lao Ganbang looked surprised: "Windmill? Pedal thresher?"

"You do not know?"

Lao Ganbang said: "I've heard of windmills, but I'm afraid I can't do it because it requires some craftsmanship! I've never heard of a pedal thresher."

Wang Zhong said: "I will, I can teach you, I have drawn the blueprints, you can help me with the carpentry part, and the rotating shaft, I need some iron."

"Then you can find the blind old Yin, he is a blacksmith! The job is not bad," Lao Ganbang suggested.

"If you don't tell me, I'm going to look for him too. The entire windmill has only one shaft made of iron. There are a little more threshers, but there are not many. Most of them are carpentry. I will go to blind old Yin when I have time. The key Still on us.

By the way, are you busy recently? If not, let's help me for a few days first. Let's make these two things as soon as possible. It will save a lot of trouble when the summer harvest comes. "

"I'm not busy, I'm not busy, tell me a time, and I'll come to your house to find you." Lao Gan stick agreed immediately.

"It's better to hit the sun than to choose a day. Today, right now, go directly to my house! By the way, bring all your guys with you." Carpenters have their own guys. But the basic guys have everything.

"Today!" Although Lao Ganbang was stunned for a moment, he didn't hesitate: "Success, I'll clean up."

Ma's mansion, in the courtyard, in the yard, looking at the logs and boards standing against the wall under the eaves, the two tripods in the middle of the yard, and the workbench that has been made.

"Drink your saliva first!" Wang Zhong ushered him into the main room and sat down. The tables and benches were newly made and unpainted. There were tea trays, teapots, and several tea bowls in the middle, "Wait a minute Come on, I'll get the blueprint!"

"It's okay!" The old man looked at the brand-new round Eight Immortals table and the round stool sitting under his buttocks, his eyes gleaming: "Da Chong, your craftsmanship is really good! This carpentry work is better than mine. Much stronger!"

As the saying goes, laymen watch the fun, and insiders watch the doorway. This is the truth. If a layman sees this set of Eight Immortals tables and round stools, they will probably praise it as beautiful. Insiders can tell the good from the bad.

As far as the workmanship of the table and stools, the smooth edges of the round table, and the seams that are almost invisible to the naked eye, these are all technical tasks, and the old man thinks that he has no such skills.

Wang Zhong came out with a few blueprints, and said with a smile, "This is an ancestral craft. If it hadn't been for the famine and the bandits, I wouldn't have left my hometown to come to Maixiang Village."

"No wonder Ma Datou knew you had such a big appetite, and still kept you as a long-term job at home, just this craft!" Lao Ganbang smiled and gave a thumbs up with a look of admiration.

"It will be ready to use soon, please take a look at the blueprint first!" Wang Zhong smiled and handed the blueprint to Lao Ganbang: "I disassembled all the parts, and marked the size clearly, let's do a little bit by ourselves , take a look first, let me explain to you if you don’t understand, and I’ll start working later!”

"OK, no problem!"

Taking advantage of Lao Ganstick's ability to read pictures, Wang Zhong took out a handful of steamed stuffed buns.

"Da Chong, you are very careful with your drawings!" Lao Ganbang seemed to see some rare treasure, his eyes were bright, and his face was full of surprise.

After all, Wang Zhong was born in civil engineering. He likes to draw drawings from big to small, splitting each part into parts, and then detailing each part. Anyone who knows a little bit can understand Wang Zhong's drawings.

"Eat something first, and watch while eating." Wang Zhong pushed the steamed stuffed bun in front of Lao Ganbang.

"I've eaten it!" Lao Ganbang shook his head repeatedly.

"Even if it's a war, the soldiers have to be fed first, and we will have to work later. If we don't eat a little bit, we won't have the strength to work."

Seeing that he couldn't resist, Lao Ganbang stopped being polite to Wang Zhong. He picked up a steamed bun and took a big bite. As soon as he took a bite, Lao Ganbang's eyes widened, because a strong smell of meat had already filled his mouth.

Meaty!

In this era when even oil and water are rare, the old and poor can't even afford to marry a wife, and they are still single in their thirties. In the past, they could barely eat enough.

Wang Zhong smiled and said: "This is the rabbit I caught during my patrol at night. The minced meat is made of rabbit meat. I specially marinated and fried the minced meat before. Is it still delicious?"

"Yeah!" Lao Ganbang couldn't utter a word of excitement, and nodded again and again: "This is too delicious!"

"Eat more if it tastes good, and work harder later!" Wang Zhong said jokingly.

Swallowing the steamed stuffed bun in his mouth, Lao Ganbang looked extremely moved: "Don't worry, big bug, I will do my best."

Lao Ganbang stopped after eating only two buns, and drank three bowls of water.

The two sat at the table of the Eight Immortals, and Wang Zhong carefully introduced the structure and components of the windmill to Lao Ganbang, so that Lao Ganbang could have a clear idea first.

After a while, the two of them were beating in the yard, processing wood.

The windmill looks simple, but it needs a lot of accessories, and the shapes are different. For a carpenter of this level, it is a bit difficult to process.

Fortunately, Wang Zhong also knew the level of Lao Ganbang, and he was assigned some simple tasks, and Wang Zhong himself was the one who did the really complicated core components.

The wood is very expensive, and the old man dare not waste Wang Zhong's good materials. Therefore, when doing work, he often takes a tape measure and a carpenter's ruler, repeatedly determines the size, compares it with the drawing, concentrates on it, and works carefully. Live, extremely fine.

Wang Zhong is very satisfied with the rigorous attitude of the old man. Like some people in later generations, they do have skills, but they are self-willed. Like some old masters who have been making bricks for many years, they are confident. They don’t need tools and work with naked eyes. It looks good when you are doing it, but when you look at it after it is formed, some of them are not as good as those who have just started out, are cautious, and work carefully.

Although Wang Zhong's speed was much faster than Lao Ganbang's, the quality did not drop, and he was also very rigorous. Watching the parts gradually take shape, both of them had smiles on their faces.

In the evening, Lao Ganbang's dinner was also eaten at Wang Zhong's house. It was buns stuffed with rabbit meat and egg drop soup.

After dinner, Lao Ganbang took Wang Zhong to find Blind Lao Yin, and Wang Zhong gave the blueprint directly to Blind Lao Yin.

It's just a rotating shaft, it's very simple for the blind old Yin Laoyan, there is no difficulty at all, the blind old Yin agreed on the spot, and said that it was ready and sent to Wang Zhong's home.

It took the two of them five days to make all the accessories, and all the preparations were done. Seeing that more than two-thirds of the parts were made by Wang Zhong, Lao Ganbang felt a little ashamed. I didn't help much, I'm sorry for Wang Zhong's rabbit buns and Jiantian's white flour steamed buns.

In these days, the news of Wang Zhongzhong building a windmill and a wheat thresher has also spread like wildfire. Knowing that today is the final assembly day, Niu Bold, Ma Renlian, Ma Renli, Qiao Yue and others came to watch the fun, even Wang Wanchun He and Zhou Yihu also came after hearing the news.

"Comrade Wang Zhong, can your windmill and thresher really work?" Zhou Yihu was very surprised. It was Wang Zhong's marksmanship and skill that surprised him.

Wang Zhong smiled and said: "The windmill is definitely fine. I have made it before, but I have only seen this thresher and seen the drawings, but it is the first time to actually use it. I don't know if it will work."

"Whether it works or not, you'll know when you make it." Zhou Yihu said impatiently: "Hurry up and assemble it!"

"That's right, Brother Wang Chong, hurry up and assemble it, and let us see what the windmill looks like."

"it is good!"

The inner structure of the windmill is actually not complicated. The windmill is composed of multiple parts such as the driving drive, the wind blower fan, the feeding bin, the adjusting flap, the material outlet, the air outlet, and the material outlet.

After a few days, Lao Ganbang basically knew the composition of the windmill, but he just wanted to make it alone. I am afraid that he is still unable to do it. The windmill looks really simple, but it takes years of carpentry to master the details. live.

Lao Ganbang's current craftsmanship is still a bit lacking, but it is not difficult to help Wang Zhong assemble together. The two of them held a mallet and tapped, slowly assembling the parts that were ready. The windmill is all made of The mortise and tenon structure does not have a single nail. If Lao Ganbang were to do it by himself, it would take a few days to assemble it.

But Wang Zhong had already understood all the components of the windmill, and the assembly process did not stop at all. In just two hours, a four-legged windmill was completely formed.

Everyone looked at the formed windmill, and their gazes changed.

"Brother Wang Chong, your craftsmanship is really good!" Xiao Zhuan was the one who spoke. The girl's facial features are actually not bad, but she is dark all day long, just like someone who came out of the stove every day, and she has a lazy temper. But the tongue is very sharp.

"Fortunately, nothing went wrong." Wang Zhong said with a smile.

"Quickly try to see how it works!" Everyone walked to the windmill, formed a circle, and watched curiously with wide-eyed eyes.

Zhou Yihu and Ma Renli are both well-informed people and are no strangers to windmills, but no one else in the village has seen this thing.

"Just try it!"

Wang Zhong turned around and entered the room, and brought out a bag of wheat, "Give way!"

Everyone quickly moved away.

"That's the air outlet, bran, wheat straw and grass clippings will come out from there later, don't stand there." Wang Zhong directed everyone.

The three monkeys were very active in helping Wang Zhong put the new wooden barrel, which had just been hooped for a few days, at the exit. Wang Zhong did not do it himself. Seeing that the three monkeys were so interested, he let him operate it. Pour into the large funnel.

Under Wang Zhong's guidance, the three monkeys twisted the handle, moved the fan blades, and lowered the underground opening of the funnel one step lower. In a short while, there were strong winds blowing some dried straw and shriveled wheat husks at the air outlet. There is also dust whizzing out, and the heavy wheat falls into the wooden barrel along the outlet.

The three monkeys adjusted down one level, and the speed of turning the handle in their hands remained the same, and the speed of the wheat flowing out was obviously accelerated. As the outlet was adjusted to the third level, the speed of the wheat flowing out became even faster.

The grains of wheat fell into the wooden barrel, and the few magazines left in the wheat flew out with the wind from the air outlet.

In just a few minutes, tens of catties of wheat passed through the windmill.

"Bold brother, this windmill saves a lot of trouble than raising wheat!"

Niu Bold was squatting in front of the barrel full of wheat at the moment, holding the wheat in his hand, subconsciously nodded and said: "The wheat that has passed the windmill is indeed clean."

Yangmai can indeed remove impurities, but it is greatly affected by the weather, and it is difficult to get rid of it completely, and the speed cannot be compared with that of a windmill.

"This windmill is well done!" Even Zhou Yihu couldn't help nodding when he saw the exquisitely crafted windmill in front of him.

"Brother Wang, when we harvest the wheat, you can also lend us your windmill!" Xiao Zhuan's address had changed.

"That's no problem. This thing is made for use, but when the time comes, anyone who wants to use it will have to do it himself."

"Brother Wang Zhong is a character!" Everyone gave Wang Zhong a thumbs up.

After a few excuses with everyone, Wang Zhong said to Zhou Yihu cheekily: "Secretary Zhou, the village head, you have seen my craftsmanship, you two can help me promote it in our neighborhood!"

Zhou Yihu shook his head with a smile and said, "Well, you are waiting for us here!"

Wang Zhong rubbed his head, with a simple and honest look: "Isn't my appetite too big? If I don't try to earn some money, I won't be able to fill my stomach."

"The sky is big and the earth is big, eating is the biggest!" Zhou Yihu suddenly said with a serious face.

"This is a good thing. We don't have the habit of using windmills here. If it can be popularized, it can indeed save the villagers a lot of trouble. Later, I will help you talk to the militia captains in the surrounding villages."

Wang Wanchun also said: "I will talk to the village chiefs of the other villages later."

"Thank you, Captain Zhou, and thank you, the village chief!" Wang Chongzhong and Wang Chongzhong cupped their hands in thanks.

There is no way to try the thresher now, so we can only wait for the summer harvest to try again.

The next day, the villagers came to the door one after another carrying grain, and borrowed Wang Zhong's windmill to sift the wheat and corn stored at home. Most of the wheat and corn in the hands of the villagers were originally distributed from the warehouse of Ma's house. The folks came here to try something new, and wanted to try the windmill that Wang Zhonggang had just made.

Naturally, Wang Zhong had nothing to do with it, but doing it like this every day is not a problem. Wang Zhong went to Wang Wanchun and wanted to apply for a place to set up a windmill, so that all the villagers could go there to sift grain, and there was no need to mess up Wang Zhong's yard. It was full of dust and debris.

It happened that the original warehouse of the Ma family was vacant, so Wang Wanchun asked Wang Zhong to move the windmill to the warehouse of the Ma family. If the villagers wanted to use the windmill at that time, they didn’t need to bother Wang Zhong, just talk to Wang Zhong. .

Zhou Yihu and Wang Wanchun's actions were not slow either. Within a few days, people from the neighboring villages came to their door. After personally using the windmill made by Wang Zhong, they all praised it greatly.

It seems that the summer harvest is coming soon. If there is such a windmill, instead of the step of raising wheat, I don't know how much effort and time it can save.

Immediately, someone asked Wang Zhong to order a windmill.

Wang Zhong didn't respond to anything, but he said that the materials had to be prepared by himself, Wang Zhong didn't have any extra here, and the cost of craftsmanship was indispensable, everyone naturally said that it should be so.

Wang Zhong took Lao Ganbang and slowly started the windmill, and the reward he got was divided into Lao Ganbang. At first, Lao Ganbang refused to accept it, saying that Wang Zhong took him with him and asked him to follow along. He was already content with learning the craft, but was blocked by Wang Zhong whether he wanted to marry a wife or not.

The reason why Lao Ganbang can't marry a wife is because his family is poor. Now that the land is divided, and he can earn money by making windmills for others with Wang Zhong, the days are getting better, if he finds a matchmaker Let's talk about it carefully, maybe I can really get a wife.

Time passed without knowing it, and the vegetable seedlings cultivated by Wang Zhong were planted in the ground one after another.

In a blink of an eye, it is the fourth month of the lunar calendar, and the wheat in the field is bent over by the heavy wheat ears, and the mountains and plains are all dyed golden yellow.

The wind blew the earth, and the golden wheat waves surged along with it. One wave after another, Maixiang Village has entered the tense summer harvest.

"Wang Zhong, what are we going to do?" Watching the villagers start harvesting one after another, Wang Zhong and Ma Renli are also ready to start harvesting. Ma Renli is good at harvesting, but the key is that the speed is not enough, and Ma Renli's body does not believe it. With thin skin and tender meat, he had never done any farm work at all.

Wang Zhongdao: "Collect my house first, and then go to your house. I will be in charge of harvesting the wheat, and you will help me clean it up later. It should be almost finished in two days."

"what?"

"Ah what! Hurry up."

Wang Zhong went into the field, took a sickle, and buried himself in the wheat.

As the martial arts entered the fifth level, Wang Zhong began to gradually change the way of practicing, no longer sticking to fixed moves and routines, but slowly integrating practice into daily life, wanting to move towards the martial arts novels That kind of state transformation where walking, sitting and lying are all practicing qigong.

Needless to say, Wang Zhong really found out a little way.

"Brother Wang Chong!"

"Wang Zhong!"

As soon as Wang Zhong started to fight, Three Monkeys and Lao Ganbang came over with sickles!
"What are you doing here!"

"Help you cut the wheat."

"Go, go, cut your own wheat. I just need your help?" Wang Zhong impatiently waved his hand to drive the two away: "Don't delay when the weather is so good, hurry up and get your land The wheat in the yard has been harvested, if Renli and I are still busy after harvesting, you will come to help."

"Hi! The weather is fine. It's okay. We'll help you first, and you can help us tomorrow. There are so many people, pack it up quickly!" The two insisted on helping Wang Zhong, and their heads were buried while talking.

Looking at the two people working hard, Wang Zhong couldn't help feeling that the people nowadays are really simple, and he secretly said in his heart: After collecting the wheat from the field, he will help them collect the wheat in the field first, and finally go to collect the horses. In the land of benevolence.

"Brother Wang Chong, why don't we compete?" Three Monkeys grinned.

Lao Ganbang also stood up: "That's a good idea."

Both of them looked at Wang Zhong with great interest.

"Bibi is Bibi, today I'll let you two see what a real crop handle is!"

Wang Zhong also smiled.

"I'll be the referee!" Ma Renli said with a smile while raising his hand.

"Okay, then you start shouting!"

The three stood side by side, leaning over, ready to strike at any time.

Ma Renli raised his hands high and shouted: "Three, two, one, let's go!" At the same time as the words fell, he waved his hands, and the three people who bowed their heads moved immediately.

After a while, clusters of wheat fell down.

It was not obvious at first, but as time passed, Wang Zhong gradually left Lao Ganbang and the three monkeys behind.

At first Ma Renli was still watching the show with a smile on his back, but Wang Zhong yelled all over his body. Only then did he realize that he still had work to do, so he hurriedly cleaned up behind him.

The three of them worked together, and it took only half a day for Wang Zhong's own family to cut more than two acres of land, and sent it back to Ma's warehouse, where the threshing machine and windmill were placed.

Seeing that it was still early in the afternoon, everyone went to Lao Ganbang's field again, harvested a piece of land of more than one mu late, and sent it back to the warehouse, and then rested.

(End of this chapter)