It seems it is time to improve the tools for pounding rice.
Han Cheng, who was standing on the wall and looking around, constantly sizing up the scene around the tribe, thought to himself after watching Zhuang and Qinghua pounding rice from a distance.
Rice pounding is not an easy job. In the past, it was okay to grow less millet in the tribe. Although it was tiring, it didn't have to be done for a long time, so it didn't matter. But now it is different.
This year the Qingque tribe had a bumper harvest of millet. Under Han Cheng's deliberate guidance, millet has become an important food for the Qingque tribe.
Moreover, as time goes by, millet will account for a greater proportion of the Qingque tribe's food.
This is because more millet is grown and more harvested, and there is enough millet for food.
The second reason is that after several years of arrests, the number of fish in the small river in front of the Qingque tribe is far less than before. Even if the floods in summer bring fish upstream from the downstream river, there are still no fish.
Not as big as before.
The diet that relies on fish as the staple food has become increasingly difficult to maintain.
In fact, starting from a few months ago, the proportion of fish in the Qingque tribe's food has gradually begun to decrease.
Fortunately, there were all kinds of wild vegetables and a few seasonings from Han Cheng, a part-time cook, so the life of the Qingque tribe was not affected much.
The third is that the population of the tribe has grown rapidly in the past few years, and the food consumed every day has almost tripled compared to before.
With the fluctuations and fluctuations, the fish in the river are naturally overwhelmed.
Fortunately, with the buffer period of the past few years, the planting industry of the Qingque tribe has also developed, so there is no need to worry too much about food.
From now on, we need to appropriately reduce the amount of fish caught in the river. Han Cheng doesn't want to see fishing in the river dry up in his tribe.
Moreover, the earth pit dug out by using earth and burning bricks needs to be expanded and some fish fry put in for stocking.
As for the 'koi' kept in the water tank outside the room, Han Cheng thought it would be better to keep it in the water tank. Firstly, it is eye-catching, and secondly, Bai Xuemei likes it.
The only thing that makes Han Cheng regretful is that he has not met Lotus Root until now.
This made it impossible to realize his dream of fish playing among the lotus leaves and "a toad on the lotus, poking and jumping".
Because the amount of millet consumed every day has increased, rice pounding has naturally become an indispensable thing.
It would be fine if there were only a small number of people eating in the tribe, and it would be enough to cook for a period of time every day, but the current situation is that there are more than a hundred mouths waiting for food in the tribe.
If you want to keep more than a hundred mouths full, the amount of millet you grind every day is not a small amount.
It almost takes two people to take turns pounding rice without taking much rest to be able to supply it.
No job can be done for a long time, let alone rice pounding which is not easy at all.
Of course, if there is no good solution, then we have no choice but to continue in the current way.
However, Han Cheng, who came from later generations, obviously knew more than just this about rice pounding.
He wanted to get Shui Lei out.
The so-called water mill relies on the erosion of water flow and water power to grind rice.
This method should be very old, but it is obviously not as old as the era Han Cheng is living in now.
He has always heard about Shuizui and knows that it is an ancient wisdom, but the most intuitive feeling about Shuizui comes from the TV series "Dragon and the Eight Parts".
There is a section in it, in a mill by the river, Wang Yuyan is so sad that the breeze is so poisonous, with a weak look on her face.
Duan Yu, who has always been in love with his sister, takes care of her, and then encounters Murong Fu who pretends to be someone else.
The thing that impressed Han Cheng the most at that time, apart from Wang Yuyan's words that almost made her cry: "Where are you touching~", was the water hammer that was being smashed down by no one in the mill.
"Are you tired of pounding rice?"
Han Cheng, who came down from the wall and walked to the edge of the stone mortar, looked at Qinghua Hezhuang, who had sweat flowing down his head and face, and asked with a smile.
The two of them smiled sincerely, shook their heads and said, "I'm not tired."
"Not tired?"
Han Cheng looked at the two of them and asked.
Without waiting for the two of them to reply, they shook their heads in regret and sighed: "Originally, I wanted to make a tool to pound rice instead of you. Since you are not tired, then continue pounding rice."
Of course Han Cheng was just joking when he said this. No matter whether they said they were tired or not, he would still bring out the water trap.
But seeing Qinghua and Zhuang looking at each other, standing there not knowing what to say for a moment, Han Cheng suddenly felt like he had been punched in the face.
I shouldn't have made fun of them. Isn't this embarrassing?
"Pound the rice well and eat dry millet rice at night."
Feeling embarrassed, Da Shenzi sniffed and left to find the carpenter Lame, leaving Qinghua and Zhuang standing here puzzled.
What did the Son of God mean by what he just said?
Does that kind of tool work or not?
After the two primitive women thought for a while, they continued to pound rice.
Because the Son of God said that we should eat dried millet rice at night.
They remember this sentence well.
"A tool that can grind rice without anyone?"
He was repairing the limp of a bone shovel there. After hearing Han Cheng's words, he suddenly became excited.
Ever since he got the wheelbarrow out, Lai has not made anything similarly difficult for a long time, but has been dealing with doors and windows.
This made him quite itchy.
At this time, I suddenly learned such a thing from Han Cheng, and immediately became excited.
You can grind rice by yourself without using any force. This thing sounds interesting and challenging.
If this was the first time, Han Cheng would naturally not believe it when he said it. However, after experiencing the fish cage that let the fish enter by itself, the trap that the prey fell into by itself, and the columbine pulled by the deer, etc., Lame said to Han Cheng
Yes, I was already convinced of it.
After hearing what Han Cheng said, he immediately expressed his willingness to get this magical instrument out under the leadership of the Son of God.
Then he looked at Han Cheng with bright eyes, expecting the Son of God to give him the shape of the artifacts he needed to make, just like in the past.
However, it didn't happen this time.
As for the water mortar, Han Cheng only knew that it was driven by water, and then the lever on it kept hitting the stone mortar one by one.
As for the specific details that couldn't be seen, he didn't know.
This is "it's not difficult for those who can learn it, but it's not difficult for those who can't."
With this calculation in mind, Han Cheng told Lai little by little what he knew about Shuidi, and asked Lai to work with him to find a solution.
