Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 33 The Secret of the Flour Machine
In fact, Li Muyang knew what was going on.

It's just the village chief who keeps stealing faces.

The flour machine has two openings, and the lower opening comes out of the flour or the final bran.

Light debris came out of the opening above.

But the village chief secretly added a bag in the middle of the flour machine. Every time the flour machine was started, part of the flour would slowly seep into the bag.

He knows how to control volume.

Ordinary people can't find it at all.

For example, under normal circumstances, for 100 kilograms of wheat, the best flour can produce 60 kilograms, which is called 60 kilograms. Logically speaking, if the flour is 60 kilograms, the weight of the bran will be close to 40 kilograms.

In the same way, if it is slightly darker flour, 100 pounds of wheat will yield 70 pounds of flour, and about 30 pounds of bran.

However, because some impurities will be removed with the top exhaust fan, the sum of bran and flour should theoretically be slightly less than the weight of wheat.

Then the problem is coming.

In fact, no one knows how low the top is.

The impurities coming out of the top will go into a large cloth bag, which is rarely replaced. It is said that it will not be cleaned until it is full, so there is no way to re-weigh it.

The village chief took advantage of this rule.

On average, he could steal 100 jins of flour out of 2 jins of wheat. No one would ever suspect it, and everyone would think that it went into the impurity cloth bag along with the top.

Two pounds of flour costs close to two yuan.

By grinding 1000 kilograms of wheat every day, he can steal 20 kilograms of flour, and the money he earns is 20 yuan. In a month, he will earn 500 yuan no matter what.

How can their family not be rich?

What's even more disgusting is that he also copied this pattern to his sister-in-law.

My sister-in-law runs an oil shop.

In recent years, people don’t buy finished oil. Instead, they grow their own rapeseed or flax to extract the oil.

Based on the "wool harvesting" method learned from her brother-in-law, the sister-in-law also quickly rose to become the second richest person in Lijia Village after her brother-in-law, the village chief.

Li Muyang knew these things because he was overthrown by a serious thunderstorm in the end.

At the moment, he didn't think about exposing it immediately. His own life was not stable and he didn't want to cause trouble.

These bad things in the village are like this. If you don't say it, no one knows about it, and no one cares. If the trick is really revealed, the village chief will not be able to face it, so he will definitely not let him go easily. Then it will be difficult to contract Taoshan later.

The power of the village chief is much greater than imagined in this era, and he controls almost all the resources for a villager to live a good life in the village.

The key is to use formal and reasonable means.

In addition, even if Li Muyang tears open this fig leaf, not many villagers will really appreciate him.

As long as the village chief finds an excuse to excuse himself, the villagers will still go to his place to grind flour when they should. Instead, they will think that Li Muyang is just looking for trouble all day long.

In the end, it turned out that he was no longer a human being.

Purely good people simply cannot survive in the mountains.

There are no bones left that will be eaten by the world.

Even if you want to be a good person, you must pay attention to means. Just don't take action. Once you take action, you will kill the opponent completely and never be able to stand up again.

Li Muyang has been a human being for two generations, and he already knows this basic truth no matter how clumsy he is.As soon as Li Muyang arrived at the door of the village chief's house, he heard the sound of motorcycles coming closer and closer behind him. He stood on the roadside and was about to give way. Unexpectedly, the motorcycle stopped beside him.

The owner of the car was a middle-aged man, wearing a gray suit that was rare in the village at this time, and it fit him well.

His hair has experienced the strong northwest wind, but it still maintains a neat hairstyle, probably with hair wax or mousse.

It was the glorious era of Hong Kong and Taiwan film and television that inspired the aesthetic appreciation of many people in the mainland. This kind of mousse-fixed back hair is one of the typical men's hairstyles.

"Fellow, may I ask if Li Jianshe's family is nearby?"

The visitor took off his sunglasses and held them in his hand, revealing a pair of shrewd eyes. He looked smiling, but Li Muyang saw the philistine and cunning hidden behind the smile.

This kind of look might not be noticed by ordinary people, but they might feel a little flattered. It is an honor to be able to talk to a man riding a Honda 125 and wearing a suit.

People in the village are like this. They like to compare, sometimes for no apparent reason, as if talking to such a rich and powerful person will elevate their status.

Li Jianshe is the village chief.

Li Muyang pointed to the tall gate compound in front of him, "Hey, isn't this it?"

The man turned around and looked at the gatehouse in front of him, smiled slightly, and stepped forward to knock on the door.

Li Muyang does not need to enter Li Jianshe's yard. If he wants to buy flour, he only needs to go to the small house next to the mill.

Li Jianshe's wife Wang Juhua is responsible for selling noodles.

There are two houses, one big and one small. The big house is a mill, with a flour mill, a rice mill, and a peeling machine inside.

A rice mill can be used to remove the husk of millet, and the rice milled out is yellow rice.

Millet is a unique crop in the northwest. Li Muyang has never seen it in other places. He has told people about millet before, but people from other places don't seem to know what it is.

I can only tell others that it is a kind of rice, probably larger than millet and smaller than rice, that is, rice.

It doesn't taste as good as millet, but it's not unpalatable. Millet can also be ground directly into flour, which is rice noodles.Used to make various pastries, it is much more delicious than cornmeal.

The peeling machine is specially used to remove the husk of rice, and the result is golden millet.

These three grains are basically the staple food that people in Longdong eat. As for the remaining corn, sorghum, and buckwheat, they are basically made in the same way as wheat and ground directly into flour.

It is worth mentioning that when Li Muyang later went to the south, he saw that people liked to crush corn into small particles and eat corn paste, which seemed to be very exciting.

He felt sour in his stomach.

No matter which kind of these coarse grains he had, as long as he took a look at them, he would immediately have a conditioned reflex and feel a terrible stomachache.

When Li Muyang walked towards the mill, he saw Li Jianshe opening the door. The man standing outside the door said something to Li Jianshe. The voice was not very loud, so Li Muyang did not hear it clearly.

I just vaguely heard someone say that he was a medicine merchant.

Li Muyang hadn't paid much attention before, but when he stood at the door of the small room dedicated to selling flour, he suddenly felt excited, and the past flashed into his mind.

Isn't this person the Cordyceps merchant who comes to buy Cordyceps?

No wonder he always felt that this guy looked familiar, as if he had met him before.

It turned out that it was because I had sold cordyceps to him in my previous life. Because the amount collected was very small, this guy had severely reduced the price.

At that time, this guy had a cigarette hanging sideways in his mouth, squatting on the table, looking down at Li Muyang, and looking bossy, just like the grain store clerk in the movie.

Li Muyang will never forget it.

(End of this chapter)