Traveling through ancient times, I led my family to prosperity

After the wheat straw was burned, the wheat in the yard dried up before Sheng Xuan and his men could start turning the soil.

When the wheat is dry, it needs to be threshed.

The so-called threshing is to thresh the wheat. Xiaolan's way of threshing is to spread the wheat on the field flat and then press it in circles with a stone roller.

Xiaolan's family has livestock, so there is no need for manual labor to pull the stone mill. All they need to do is use a rope to tie the stone mill to the livestock and use it to replace manual labor.

Of course, it's not that there is no need for manual labor at all. After all, the stone mill pulled by animals operates in a relatively mechanical manner, and some grains on the wheat ears cannot fall off completely, so manual labor is required to turn them back and forth with a fork at all times. Even those that are difficult to fall off need to be knocked off with a mallet.

After being pressed again and again by the stone mill, the wheat grains fall out of the husk. At this time, the husk and the wheat are mixed together. In order to completely separate the wheat grains and husk, winnowing is required.

After winnowing, due to the difference in weight between wheat grains and bran, the bran is scattered farther away, while the wheat grains fall nearby.

At the junction of wheat bran and wheat grains, you need to use a winnowing pan to collect it, and then shake out the wheat bran. There are many impurities mixed in these wheat grains, and small stones and small pieces of soil cannot be winnowed out, so they need to be picked out manually.

Then the wheat grains are stored separately, because when scooping the wheat, they need to be rinsed with water several times and impurities need to be picked out again, but this is a story for later.

As soon as the wheat was winnowed, Xiaolan begged Zhang to pick up the wheat. Xiaolan insisted that the wheat that had been picked up was not disgusting.

Xiao Lan naturally wanted to taste the new wheat from her own farm. After Sheng Xuan caught the wheat and weighed it, he took the dried wheat to the mill and ground it into flour. When the flour was ground out, the family couldn't wait to taste the fine grains produced from their own fields.

Soon, Sheng Xuan came back with the ground flour. Xiao Lan opened the bag happily, and a faint wheat aroma wafted out, which made her very satisfied.

Zhang, Xiaoting, Shengxuan, Zhang Shanfeng, Shen, Liu, Fu and others all gathered around. Although the flour ground from the wheat grown at home was not as white as the flour sold in the shop, it had a strong wheat aroma.

"It looks really good." Sheng Xuan said.

Now that the flour has been ground, it must be eaten. "Mom, let's try steamed buns with this flour tonight," Xiao Lan suggested.

"Okay." Zhang nodded happily and agreed, then started to scoop flour with a ladle and started kneading the dough.

Xiaolan washed her hands and helped.

At dinner time, a large steamed bun was served on the table. Zhang made the buns by mixing white flour and black flour together, so the buns didn't look that good, but they were full of wheat fragrance and smelled particularly good.

Xiao Lan's mouth was already full of saliva, she picked up a steamed bun and broke it open. This wheat flour steamed bun, although it didn't look as delicate as the white flour steamed bun, and when she bit it, it was indeed not as delicate as the white flour steamed bun, but the taste was excellent.

"It's delicious." Xiaowen, Xiaohu and other children commented one after another.

Brothers Sheng Xuan, Zhang Shanfeng, Zhang Qingfeng and Zhang Qingnian also said it was delicious.

Zhang, Shen, Fu and Liu also took the steamed buns and took two bites, and then they all had smiles on their faces.

"Yes, it's delicious. The wheat we grow ourselves is better and more fragrant than the wheat you buy," Zhang said with a smile.

After the meal, the family all thought the wheat noodles were delicious.

In the next few days, Zhang, Shen, Xiaolan, Xiaoyan and Xiaoting used the flour ground from the new wheat to make steamed buns, dumplings, noodles, steamed rolls and other foods.

After a few days of tasting, Xiao Lan became more certain that as long as this flour was sold cheaper than white flour, it would have a good market because it had such a strong wheat flavor.

The wheat at home has been threshed these two days. All the wheat grains have been threshed, weighed, and stored in the warehouse.

A total of 8,360 kilograms of wheat was harvested from 30 acres of land.

Xiaolan planted wheat on medium-quality land. Although the land was of medium quality, Shengxuan was willing to use fertilizer and the rabbit manure at home was used to fertilize the land. In addition, with the careful care of Shengxuan and the farmhands, the harvest would definitely be good. If it was planted on better land, the yield would be even higher. This wheat is definitely worth promoting.

Because Xiaolan's family was the first family in Shengjia Village to grow wheat, and they also ground wheat flour at home. This fresh food grew from the fields of Shengjia Village, so Xiaolan's family naturally wanted to give it to their close relatives to try. This was a common form of social interaction between farmers.

Xiaolan's family steamed some buns and sent some to various households. Before the family took any action, people in the village got the news. In the past few days, people came to the house one after another to ask Shengxuan about the planting and harvesting of wheat. Some of them were so interested that they asked for her wheat seeds on the spot.

Xiao Lan had expected this and was no longer surprised by this situation. After all, the village was so small that any disturbance in any household would be known to everyone in a short time. Moreover, her family had already received a lot of attention when they were planting wheat.

Now that everyone saw that her family had a good wheat harvest and the flour they ground was delicious, they all wanted to grow wheat themselves.

Even if you don't sell wheat in the market, you can still improve your life by keeping it for yourself. After all, wheat flour is a fine grain. Besides, the price of wheat is much more expensive than millet and beans. If you don't want to eat the wheat you planted in the field, you can sell it in the market and use the money from selling wheat to buy millet and beans. In this way, you can definitely buy more coarse grains and fill your stomach.

In the past two days, many people came to his house to ask about the wheat seeds, so Sheng Xuan asked his family for their opinions.

"When I bought these wheat seeds, I spent 40 coins per pound," Xiao Lan thought for a moment and said, "Let's sell them at 45 coins per pound."

If you go to other places to buy this wheat seed, including the round-trip fare, the price Xiaolan set is already very favorable. And she only sells it at this price because we are from the same village.

After deciding the price of wheat seeds, Sheng Xuan led the farmhands to start screening the wheat seeds. After all, when harvesting wheat, all the wheat was harvested together regardless of whether it could be used as wheat seeds or not. Not all wheat was suitable for making wheat seeds.

When planting wheat before, the villagers told Sheng Xuan to save the wheat for seeds. At that time, Sheng Xuan just listened for fun. Who would have thought that he actually stimulated the enthusiasm of Shengjia Village to plant wheat.