Back to the Good Life of the 80s

Chapter 48

Hearing that Wang Ting wanted to draw a ghostly talisman on her face, Dabai flapped her wings and laughed at her, but when Wang Ting saw it, she glared at it, and said it was her brother?Is there a little brother and sister love?

Dabai rolled his eyes, flapped his wings and went downstairs. Young Master, he is going to visit the ancestral hall. Is that vicious woman Liang Honghua introspecting?
Bullying Young Master and its sister, they really think that there is no one in the Long family, and watching it pretend to be a ghost scares her to death.

"Where's Ah Da?" Wang Ting looked around, but couldn't find anyone to ask.

The sun was out last night, and it was drizzling today. There is nothing to do in the countryside on rainy days, and cats are moldy at home.

"You Ah Da is distributing grain seeds downstairs, call him up to eat." Qian Xiaofeng didn't lift his head, and carried the washed vegetables into the kitchen.

Fat grain?
Will the grain seeds still be issued?Shouldn't it just be sprinkled in the fields?

After Wang Ting washed her face and cooled the towel, don't run downstairs, she is afraid that she won't be able to see it if she runs too slowly.

Don't look at her living in her 17s in her previous life. She was imprisoned at the age of [-]. She was imprisoned for decades. She didn't know anything about the outside world. In the prison, she could watch the news except for meal time, and there was no TV to watch on weekdays.

I was thinking about how to survive all day long, and the prison was also not peaceful, and there were bullies, and I had to learn all kinds of knowledge, so I was very busy.

When she came out, the world would have been turned upside down long ago. She was completely out of touch with that era, and it took a few months to get used to it. Because she had been in prison, it was hard to find work, so she worked on the construction site.But she also has a lot of girls' curiosity, that is to say, she still has a childlike innocence.

People or things she has never seen or heard of can arouse her curiosity.

"Ah, it's breakfast."

When Wang Ting went down, she saw Liang Shan carrying a snakeskin bag and putting it in the half-worn bathtub. Wang Ting rushed over in three steps at a time.

The bathtub was filled with half a barrel of water, and the big snakeskin bag was completely soaked in the water. A straw rope was tied up at the mouth of the bag, and the rope was hung outside the tub.

Wang Ting guessed that the big snake skin bag contained grain seeds, glanced at Ada, stretched out a finger, and probed into the water.

"It will be ready soon." Liang Shan saw her curious, and smiled on that dark and rigid face.

"Huh? The water is hot." Wang Ting was very surprised when she put her hand into the water, and then put her whole hand into the water.

"Ada, are there grain seeds in here? Soak the grain seeds in hot water, won't it spoil?" Wang Ting turned into a curious baby, wandering around Liangshan.

"No, that's how it was passed down from our ancestors." Liang Shan's smile deepened. He also asked this question when he was a child.

"It was passed down by the ancestors, how do the seeds of the grain grow? Isn't it like planting the corn, and the seeds are directly sprinkled on the field?"

"The grain seeds are first blown with the threshing windmill, and the empty grain husks are blown out from the other side of the outlet." Liang Shan said while taking Wang Ting to the windmill, pointing to a strange-shaped thing.

That thing is called a threshing windmill. The top of the funnel is like a funnel. At the bottom of the funnel, there is an opening about three fingers wide, and the opening is about a palm long.There is a small board under the opening, which Wang Ting guessed should be used to block the opening.

There is a big round belly under the windmill. There is no board on the front of the big round belly. You can see a wooden windmill inside. There is an opening on the left side of the windmill, and there is another opening under the big round belly. The back of the windmill is sealed.

The right side is a long frame about one foot wide, the front and right sides are sealed, and there is a wooden handle on the front, and there is a two-finger-sized log on the handle.

Liang Shan saw her eyes glowing as she walked around the windmill, picked up a bag of broken rice from the ground and poured it into the funnel.

Wang Ting saw that Ada turned the upper log, and the wooden block under the opening in the funnel was turned up, just blocking the opening, and the corn was poured in without falling, and it was all in the funnel.

"Shake the handle like this first, then open the mouth of the funnel, the grain husks will float out to the window on the left, and the rice will fall out from below." Liang Shan shook the handle a few times, and then slowly turned the log above.

Then Wang Ting saw that there was a grain husk floating out from the left, and the grain fell out from below, and fell into the basin with a thumping sound.

"Ninny, do you want to try?" Liang Shan asked.

"Can you?" Wang Ting looked at him with bright eyes.

"Yes." Liang Shan closed the mouth of the funnel, stepped aside, and looked at her encouragingly.

Wang Ting was a little nervous, took a deep breath, and walked over. Like what Ada said just now, first hold the wooden handle, shake it in circles, and then slowly turn the round wooden peg on it, and then see Grain husks floated out of the left and right windows, and there was a thumping sound under the windmill.

Wang Ting smiled and asked Liang Shan for credit, "Ah, I can shake a windmill!"

"My daughter-in-law is really smart." Liang Shan patted Wang Ting's head, boasting without blushing at all.If Liang Mei'e saw it, she would laugh at Wang Ting again. How clever is it to shake a windmill? There is no technical content at all. That kid in the village can't be seven or eight years old.

There was not much broken rice in the funnel, and it disappeared after shaking for a while.

Liang Shan continued to explain.

"Grain seeds are pumped with a windmill, and they have to be sieved several times with a sieve. The small ones and the ones that are not plump usually fall through the holes of the sieve. Pick out the good ones, and only the good ones can become grain seeds.”

Wang Ting nodded while listening, picking a grain seed is so complicated.

"After the grain seeds are picked, germination is the most important thing. Soak the grain seeds in warm water for half an hour to raise the temperature. After soaking in warm water, the grain seeds can germinate in two to three days."

"What is the temperature of warm water? Is there a standard?" Wang Ting was like a curious baby, breaking the casserole and asking.

"Yes, about 45 to [-] degrees. This temperature is the best. If the temperature exceeds this temperature, it is easy to scald the grain seeds. If the temperature is low, the grain seeds will not germinate."

Wang Ting was dying of curiosity. During this period, there were no thermometers in the countryside, so how did they measure the temperature.

"Ada, how do you know that the water is exactly 45 to [-] degrees?" Wang Ting squatted beside the tub, adoring him, looking up at him with admiration, and her studious appearance made Liang Shan laugh.

"Generally, cold water is twice as much as boiling water. Mix one pot of boiling water with two pots of cold water, and then try it with your hands. If it is not hot, add some cold water. If the temperature is low, add some hot water."

Wang Ting: "..."

Wang Ting was so embarrassing, she patted her head in annoyance, such a simple method, she didn't expect it.

Qian Xiaofeng cooked the meal, came out with the rice bucket in her arms, didn't see their grandpa and grandson, shouted at the entrance of the hall, then went back to the kitchen to serve the food, still didn't see anyone, went downstairs and saw her daughter patting herself head of.

　About the procedure of growing grain seeds, I asked several old people in the countryside, and they all said so, hehe...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)