Chapter 741: Grinding

The old patriarch looked confused: "Really..."

Then he pulled Su You and said, "Then Wan Chun, how did you find us? Have you passed the Jinshi examination? It's useless to just pass the state examination. The regulations of the imperial court require you to pass the Jinshi..."

The local accent was difficult to pronounce, and Su You could barely understand it now, but he still couldn't speak it well.

Su You had no choice but to follow the words of the old clan leader and speak in official terms: "I passed the exam. The imperial court also rewarded our clan with a piece of land because of my merits in expanding the land. In the first quarter of this year, more than 4,000 stones were dug."

Food! Grandpa, don’t worry!”

"Hey! Okay, okay..." Grandpa was happy now: "Finally, there is a good boy in our village! Finally, you have lived up to the family's contribution to your travel expenses to Beijing! Just pass the exam, go, go and honor the pillars for your ancestors.

Fragrant, thanks to their blessing..."

Liu Wanchun secretly wiped his tears on the side and looked at Su You pitifully.

Su You, however, felt no pressure and readily agreed: "Okay, this is what it should be!"

After lighting three sticks of incense and placing them in front of the ancestor of the Liu family, Liu Wanchun quickly brought a cup of fragrant tea to temporarily replace the wine.

The ritual cannot be abolished. No one named Su came to perform the ritual of worshiping the ancestors of the Liu family, so Liu Wanchun cleverly changed the sacrificial ritual into a sacrificial ritual.

Su You expressed his admiration for Liu Wanchun's clever brain, otherwise he would be embarrassed.

Picking up the tea cup, Su You thought for a while, and then said: "The ancestor of the Liu family, please forgive Wanchun for leaving the mountains and rivers, moving the clan and disturbing the spirits."

"The population is so prosperous that it is difficult for the people to feed the people in the mountains. In accordance with the orders of the court, Huwei chooses a peaceful place."

"Respect your spiritual position and establish your ancestral roots."

"I hope our ancestors will protect the descendants of the Liu family, spread their branches and leaves, and prosper the village; auspicious battles will come again and again, and auspicious celebrations will always be there."

"I have accumulated millet for three years, I have fished and cultivated fields; I have passed through hundreds of disciples, and I have praised the soup of Yao, Shun and Yu;"

"Men farm and women weave; the young are educated and the old are supported;"

"Filial piety, harmony and obedience to one's family, benevolence to one's country; spreading incense, great honor and kindness."

"Weixin, Shangxi!"

After saying that, he poured the tea on the ground in front of the spirit.

The certainty was so high that Liu Wanchun burst into tears, his lips pursed, and he was so excited that he could not speak: "Shaobao, I...I don't deserve this praise..."

Su You smiled and said: "I can afford it. I have the vision and courage to cultivate myself, improve my family, and lead my people out of poverty. Why can't I afford it?"

The old patriarch was very satisfied: "This article is very good, Wan Chun is really talented!"

Liu Wanchun's face turned red with embarrassment. If I had the ability to do what Shaobao said, why would I have been elected officials for so many years?

After bidding farewell to the old patriarch from the ancestral hall, a group of men, women, and children from the village gathered around him. After such a ceremony, everyone looked at Su You with a different look.

Su You pointed to a small construction site on the edge of the lowland lotus pond and swamp: "What is done there?"

Liu Wanchun said: "I want to test whether I can build a house in the swamp."

Su You asked: "Did it succeed?"

Liu Wanchun said: "Uh...not yet. The foundation has been laid but the earth wall cannot be placed. It will sink."

Su You touched his chin: "I seem to know a way..."

In later generations, in Yunshuiyao Ancient Town, Nanjing, Fujian, there was an earth building named "Hegui Building" that was included in the World Cultural Heritage List.

Su You visited the intangible cultural heritage tourism industry in his previous life and saw the earthen building built entirely on the swamp.

The entire building is like a large ship moored on the swamp, and is known as the "Noah's Ark" among earth buildings. The first floor is the kitchen, the second floor is the warehouse, and people only live on the third floor. There are about 170 rooms in total.

Hundreds of years of wind and rain have passed, but it still stands tall.

And the most amazing thing is that the middle patio of Hegui Building still retains a swampland that is only paved with a layer of stones.

When you stamp your feet there, you can see the pebbles under your feet vibrating like ripples, and there is slight water seepage, proving that this is an earth building built entirely on the swamp.

Su You opened his schoolbag, took out a pen and paper and began to draw: "To build a building in a swamp, the first step is to lay a good foundation. If it is like this, first lay the timber in vertical and horizontal layers, and then lay the stone foundation to isolate the moisture.

Just build the house in the normal way and it will be fine."

Liu Wanchun was a little surprised: "What should I do if the pine wood rots?"

Su You said: "It cannot rot. After the house is built, the pine wood will fall into a low-temperature and low-oxygen environment in the swamp, and then the surface will carbonize, and then it will naturally stabilize."

"Aren't you doing an experiment anyway? Then try it."

Liu Wanchun cupped his hands and said: "Don't dare, don't dare, what Shaobao said is definitely true."

After inspecting animal husbandry and fisheries, Su You returned to Liu Wanchun's home and took out a set of books and an artifact: "These two are gifts from my visit."

Liu Wanchun stood up: "I can't do it, I can't do it..."

Su You laughed loudly: "You don't even know what it is, so you can't do it! This is a set of "Southwestern Agricultural Book", which contains the methods of planting various crops in the southwest, as well as how to realize mulberry fish ponds, household poultry and livestock sets.

The method of nurturing and co-nurturing is also part of the knowledge.”

"Now there are more than 100 people in the village, but the population is only twenty or thirty. It is really hard to cultivate thousands of acres of rice fields."

"So rice beds, rice horses, and all kinds of small machinery that facilitate farming must be built;"

"Broadcasting and harvesting must be organized into a collective model, and everyone's responsibilities should be assigned and managed;"

"The elderly and children can also do simple tasks such as raising livestock, feeding fish, and weeding;"

"The planting of oil crops is very important. A pound of rice can not only replenish physical strength and strengthen the body, but also save a lot of food."

"There are also some medicinal plants that need to be planted to prevent and treat diseases;"

"Fish farming is also very important, especially with oil and salt vegetables, the fish can be cooked very delicious. It is close to Taihu Lake. Every year, we scoop out water and put it into the fish pond, and regularly feed some grass and leftovers.

With leaves, you can get a lot of meat in a year;"

"By the way, there are many swamps around here. You must pay attention to mosquitoes. Water is a dead order. You must drink boiled water. Vegetables must be processed and cooked thoroughly;"

"The effect of mosquito coils is not very good now, so mosquito nets must be used."

"I will give you some snail shells in a while. Those snails are called snails."

"According to Tianshi Mansion's research, mosquitoes are the source of malaria; and the snails are the source of miasma. After eliminating these sources, malaria and miasma will be under control in the areas around Taihu Lake."

"There will be more and more villages like your Anhewei in the future, and there will be fewer and fewer swamps. Eventually they will all turn into polders, villages, and towns..."

"The rural construction model in the Taihu Basin is still being explored. What I just mentioned were all collected and sorted out by the Jinghu Guangrui Army."

"They are from northern Shaanxi. A mix of Tibetan and Han people can carve out a living space in the forests of Jingnan and build a Yuanzhou city. I believe you can too."

"When conditions improve in the future, we will build bridges and ships. I am here this time to help you solve some difficulties and make your life easier."

Liu Wanchun burst into tears with gratitude: "Then, on behalf of the whole clan, I would like to thank Shaobao for his kindness."

Su You smiled and said: "Actually, I also have itchy hands. This time I want to guide you in making a rice grinding tool so that you can get rid of the pain of pounding rice by hand. Are the bamboo materials ready?"

Liu Wanchun was overjoyed: "It's ready, it's been ready for a long time!"

Su You smiled and patted a tool at his hand: "And this, a wonderful food will definitely become popular in Jiangnan in the future."

The rice grinding tool Su You brought was called rice milling, and the delicacy he mentioned was actually rice noodles.

A mill is a kind of mill, but what is different from a stone mill is that it is a mill with mud embryos and bamboo teeth.

Making a stone mill is also a science.

First of all, you need to cut the wood to get the materials, use a curved ax to break the wood to get the blanks, repair the blanks, connect the wooden blanks with bamboo nails, fix them with bamboo hoops, and make the hulling barrels and hulling plates.

Then, use hardwood such as tea wood and green gangwood to make the core and burden.

Two small holes are drilled on both sides of the rice-hulling burden to place the rice-hulling hands, and a small rice-hulling burden is placed on the core.

If the rice padding is too heavy, loosen the brown rope slightly and loosen the small rice padding, or place the rice padding hand in a small hole on the outside.

On the contrary, perform the opposite operation to ensure that the grains are shelled without too much broken rice.
Chapter completed!