A Farm Girl Traveling Through Time: Raising a Stunning Husband

Thresholding wheat grains is a simple task, but when Shen Wu was young, his grandmother's family used a wheat harvesting truck and charged by the acre. The cheaper ones were over 90 yuan per acre, while the more expensive ones were over a hundred yuan.

But in ancient times there were no wheat harvesters, so this job had to be done manually. Apart from threshing by hand, there were also human-powered rice machines.

Their family didn't harvest much wheat, and Shen Wu didn't know if there was a rice thresher in the village, so he could only thresh it by hand.

I found a piece of cloth that was not used at home. It was not big and fortunately it was not torn. Shen Wu boiled water and washed it repeatedly several times before drying it and preparing to use it.

First, spread the cloth on the small piece of land in front of the yard gate, and then spread the harvested wheat pile on it.

The wheat must be spread evenly, it can be made a little thicker, but it must be dried.

One piece of cloth was not enough, so Shen Wu found another one. Although it was slightly smaller, it was enough. After the two pieces of cloth were also treated with boiling water, they were placed together at the door, and all the wheat was placed on top to spread evenly.

Under the high temperatures of June and July, the wheat became brittle in just half a day. Shen Wu was too lazy to make tools for threshing the wheat, so he went to the firewood field, found a large wooden stake and started chopping it.

First it was divided into two, and then it was further divided into several wooden boards.

She modified the wooden board into a thin wooden strip the size of an arm. She slightly trimmed the handle, changing the width to a level that was comfortable to hold in the hand, and then started threshing the wheat.

Gu Zhou took another dose of medicine last night and slept soundly until the afternoon. When he woke up, he heard banging sounds outside the door.

Following the sound, I saw Shen Wu squatting and threshing wheat at the gate of the yard.

Shen Wu was so tired after working for more than ten minutes that he dropped the stick onto the wheat with a sudden slam and sat beside it, panting heavily.

"You? Threshing wheat?"

Gu Zhou didn't understand what she was doing, but he could guess a little from her actions.

"you're awake!"

Shen Wu was so tired that he couldn't speak, but when he saw the patient, he suddenly felt a surge of energy and stood up with the help of the ground.

While wiping the sweat off his face, he asked, "Are you feeling better? Are you thirsty? Would you like to drink some warm water or eat something?"

Gu Zhou shook his head. He felt better now and was not that hungry.

Seeing him shaking his head, Shen Wu stopped asking and instead asked how their family used to deal with the harvested wheat.

"What did you do with the wheat you harvested before?"

Gu Zhou took a look at the scene she had created and answered truthfully, "When my father was alive, he would usually take the wheat to the threshing ground and borrow someone else's donkey or ox to pull the mill. After grinding, he would take me to sell it to the wheat collector. After my father left, my mother was pregnant with my younger brother, so I was the one who took the wheat to thresh. After threshing, I would send it to the collector to sell."

"So that's how it is. Then do the wheat harvesters have any standards for wheat?"

"One thing is that the price of wheat with full grains and more husked grains is slightly higher, while the price of wheat with shriveled grains and less husked grains is lower."

Shen Wu pondered over what Gu Zhou had said, and suddenly realized that there was a place to process the wheat in the village, but would it be a hindrance if she did it like this?

"I...I'm in such a mess, can I not go to the threshing ground?"

Shen Wu was terrified, fearing that he had done something wrong and caused others to lose the wheat and then be unable to sell it.

Gu Zhou noticed her fear and explained to her seriously: "If you want to thresh wheat, you really have to go to the threshing ground, but the harvest is late this year and the villagers have already finished it. It might be a bit difficult to borrow a donkey or ox threshing machine. Also, the harvest is small this year, so it's a bit of a waste to borrow such a small thing."

"Indeed, I'll just do it myself. There aren't many things, so I can just take a break. Although the wooden stick is heavy, I can just work for a while and then take a break."

Shen Wu thought he was smart. Although he said he would not make tools, he made a wooden stick and it worked really well.

Gu Zhou couldn't figure out what this man was thinking and why he used a wooden stick as a tool to thresh wheat.

"Wood doesn't sink? Bamboo from the back mountain can also make it."

!!! "Yes! How could I have forgotten about the bamboo? I was so busy that my brain was no longer able to work. I will go get a knife and cut one down now."

"Don't," Gu Zhou quickly spoke up to stop him: "You can't go to the back mountain by yourself. Wait until I go back and tell my little sister that I want to go with you."

"That won't work," Shen Wu immediately refused: "You haven't been feeling well for half a day, you can't go out, and you haven't eaten yet, so it's not possible."

Gu Zhou insisted on going, and Shen Wu tried to persuade him for a long time, but seeing that he was unmoved, she had no choice but to go along with him.

The two of them said goodbye to Gu Wei and the little brother who was playing on the child's bed, and went to the back mountain with machetes.

She took the path she always took, and took Gu Zhou through the back mountain with ease. Soon they saw the bamboo forest.

The sea of ​​bamboo was so vast that you couldn't find the end at a glance. She picked a bamboo that looked pleasing to the eye and started chopping it down.

Bamboo is very easy to cut. If you don't cut it from the joints, you can cut a bamboo tree in just a dozen or so cuts.

Afraid of bumping into Gu Zhou, Shen Wu turned back and asked Gu Zhou to hide before falling down.

She waited until Gu Zhou hid well before she chopped him down with the last few blows.

The bamboo broke with a snap and fell to the ground. Shen Wu quickly ran to the side to avoid it before it fell, fearing that it would hit him on the top of his head.

Clean up the twigs growing on the fallen bamboo joints, collect them, find a piece of grass to weave them into ropes, take them back to dry, and make brooms.

He cut the bamboo into several pieces at one-meter intervals, tied them up with straw ropes, and dragged them home.

Gu Zhou wanted to take over and help. Shen Wu originally didn't want to let this patient of his do the work, but after spending the past few days with him, he realized that this man was stubborn, so he gave him the bundled twigs.

The two of them walked home one after the other. Fortunately, the yard was covered with grass, so there was no resistance when pulling the bamboo. With a little effort, the bamboo followed Shen Wu obediently along the grass.

Gu Zhou followed behind with Xizhi in his arms. Shen Wu would slow down and look back from time to time, fearing that he would get tired.

When I got home, I threw all the bamboos at the door, with one end against the wall and the other facing me. I used a machete to split the end facing me in the middle, but because the split was too long, I couldn't move forward without cutting through a bamboo joint.

Shen Wu asked Gu Zhou to help get some firewood, and then he used whatever was in his hand to hit the back of the machete.

Bamboo is a fibrous plant, so with a little force the knife will cut downwards and in a few strokes the whole bamboo will be split into two halves.

The tools for threshing wheat should be thin and light. One part of the wheat should be split again and the thick half should be kept for later use. The remaining half should be divided into four parts as the main body of the wheat grains.

Place five thin bamboos at equal distances. There are a lot of cloth strips at home, so you can just find a few and cut them to use.

Tie the cloth strips onto the bamboo strips one by one. You don't need to be so particular about the distance between the strips, just make sure they are roughly equal.

The thickest and widest bamboo strips are cut into about 80 to 90 centimeters, which is a comfortable length for a person to swing. Then use the tip of the machete to drill a hole in the bamboo strip. A slight drill will create a gap. Then drill a little more carefully until the cloth strip can pass through.

Connect the thick bamboo strips that pass through the cloth strips and the thin bamboo skins tied with the cloth strips, and you will have a usable threshing tool.

After finishing it, Shen Wu tried it out immediately. It was a little bit not smooth, but it was much easier to use than before.