"Brother Zhong is really, come and come, and bring something."

Heifu's sister's name is "Huan", she is twenty-five or sixteen years old, and her appearance is somewhat similar to their mother's, but her skin is darker. Although she was polite, the joy in her eyebrows and eyes could not be hidden, and she kept holding the piece of fine arrowroot cloth given by Heifu and turning it over and over, and praised the workmanship in the county town was better than in the countryside.

"My brother was lucky to get a reward, how can I forget my sister, my sister added a new dress to herself and her sister-in-law."

Sister Huan smiled from ear to ear, pinched the eight-foot man who poured water to Heifu and the heartfelt voice, and said angrily: "Look at my brother, you can talk more, and then look at you, I didn't know how to buy a piece of cloth for me for a year and a half, I was blind and had to marry you." ”

"Wife, the day before yesterday in the township market, but you said that you still had enough to wear, but you were not allowed to buy it."

Dahan hurriedly smiled honestly and moved away, not because he was afraid of pain, but because he was afraid that the sawdust and dust on his body would stain his wife's hands.

This is Kuroo's brother-in-law, named "橼", although he also lives in the sunset, but unlike other people, he is a "craftsman", and he has been a craftsman for generations, doing carpentry, stonemasonry and other work, and making a living by beating stone tools and instruments for the people in it, and repairing houses.

Although the Qin State did not have the bad habit of discriminating against craftsmen after the Han Dynasty, the countryside also had its own chain of contempt: those who had lords looked down on the soldiers, the scholars who farmed the land looked down on the people of the hundred workers, and the people of the hundred workers looked down on the city of Shangjia, and the merchants looked down on the sons-in-law, and the sons-in-law could only look down on the concubines......

So when Sister Huan wanted to marry Lu, the parents in the family did not agree with a hundred, but in this era, love is very free, and in the end, the two of them came out to cut the first and then play, and did it in advance in the haystack, and waited until the children were about to be born, and in desperation, the Heifu family could only agree.

Heifu thinks that his sister is a very good person, although he is silent as a stone and illiterate, he knows that he feels sorry for his wife and daughter, and he has a good handicraft.

When I first married Sister Huan, I often went to Heifu's house to work for nothing, making orange trees for his family, erecting roof beams, and hitting stone mortars, which was really hard work. In the end, the mother was also moved, recognized the son-in-law, and asked the two to take the child to live at home every once in a while. Lu also treated her like a mother, and some time ago her mother was sick, and he and Sister Huan ran home a lot.

It's a pity that even if the craftsman is good in these years, he is trapped by the household registration, and he can't get out of the village, so he doesn't have much financial resources. Looking at the small courtyard of my sister-in-law's house, most of it was full of wood and stone, and the most valuable things were hammers, copper saws, etc., and life was quite tight.

Heifu was not verbose, and when Sister Huan was talking heartily, he explained his intention to his sister-in-law.

"Do you want something like an orange?" As soon as he mentioned his own work, the taciturn whirlpool suddenly became energetic, and most of the orange trees that drew water in the vicinity were made by him.

"That's right."

Hefu pinched a stick and drew on the ground: "Like the orange tree, a long piece of wood is attached to a fixed wooden frame, but the top of the stick is attached to a stone hammer, and a stone mortar is placed under the hammer to connect the head." In this way, if you can step on the tail of the wooden stick with your foot, you can drive the stone hammer to rise and fall like drawing water, and repeatedly smash it into the stone mortar, so that it can be used to scoop rice! ”

Using the feet instead of the hands to move can save a lot of effort and improve efficiency, which is why the name "stepping on the ground" gets its name. Although it is also necessary to waste strength to trample, it is not as good as grinding and stone grinding, but it is also much more advanced than simple rice, the focus is on low cost and easy to promote.

This thing should have been born in the Han Dynasty, and then quickly spread, every household can not grind, grind, but can not do without stepping on the mill. You must know that the gradual disappearance of "licking" as a kind of torture for female prisoners may have something to do with the invention of this object.

"That's a good idea! In the future, there is no need to lift the wooden pestle, just step on it, and a half-old child can also step on this thing! ”

Lu is knowledgeable, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he patted his thigh and said, "Brother Zhong, how did you think of it!" ”

Heifu prevaricated: "When I went to bed in the morning, I heard the sound of rice and the sound of water, and unconsciously dreamed of these two things together, and when I woke up, I felt that maybe it would work, so I wanted to ask my sister if I could do it." ”

He smiled and said, "This is simple, when I find all the materials, I can make it for you in two or three days." ”

"I don't know how much it costs......"

As soon as he heard Heifu mention the money, his face suddenly darkened, and he got up and said, "Family, what money are you proposing to me!" Are you still treating me like an outsider? The voice was so loud that Sister Zhen and Huan on the side were startled.

Seeing that her husband's stubborn temper was committed again, Sister Huan hurriedly pinched him again and scolded: "You talk to my brother well, what are you yelling, sit down!" ”

He listened to his wife and sat down again, but he was still angry.

"It's my little brother's fault."

Heifu had to apologize for a long time, and said with a smile: "I also know that my sister-in-law is not that kind of person." In fact, I wanted to make this thing, but I also felt that my mother, sister-in-law Qiu, and my sister were too tired to make rice every day, and I wanted them to save some effort and spend less time. My sister-in-law might as well make two, one on each side of the two families, if you need to cut down trees and gravel, call me and startled. ”

"You see, my middle brother still knows that he feels sorry for his sister, you learn some."

Sister Huan smiled, deliberately bumped her elbow twice, and her face relaxed, and nodded: "If this can be the case, it will naturally be a good thing, Heifu rest assured, I can do it in three or two days." ”

"Sister, don't make a noise about it, if others ask, you can say that you are making oranges."

Before leaving here, Heifu also repeatedly explained to Sister Lu and Huan, and this matter was kept secret for the time being.

Because although it was not invented until the Han Dynasty, it was simpler than a stone mill, and the cost was cheaper, and it could be imitated by just a few glances.

By this time, he understood what Heifu wanted to do, and kept praising him for having a heart.

In fact, I don't know that the reason why Heifu wants to do a step on the mill is not only to let the female relatives of the family do less hard work, but also because he has a vague idea in his heart, or he can make profits for his own family. But if it can be done, he still has to ask the legal experts, so for the time being, let's cherish the broom for the time being.

My sister-in-law's house is in the north, and here is the end of the sunset, and beyond the wall, there is a large field of fields. Now that they were all here, I asked Heifu to take a look at the hundred acres of land he had been allotted.

Out of the inner gate, they walked along the Qianmo at the junction of various fields, and walked nearly a mile to the east, the terrain gradually higher and higher, and closer and closer to the mountains and forests.

I was a little ashamed and sighed: "I have no ability to do it for my brother, although your house is not far from home, but I have not been able to fight for the best land for you, this land is too high to draw water, you can't grow rice, you can only grow millet." ”

"It doesn't matter." Heifu smiled: "If I can successfully become the pavilion chief, most of them will be on the Huyang Pavilion, and I won't have time to take care of the fields." ”

"You can't say that."

But he looked at the long-term: "You are the pavilion chief, and you will earn 72 stones a year, but if you hire someone to help you plough this 100 acres of land, even if you sow seeds all over the world, you can get at least half of the harvest of 180 stones a year." Excluding the rent and endowment handed over to the government, it is almost time to catch up with the pavilion chief for a year. ”

"My brother has a point."

Hefu is right to think about it, even if he doesn't farm, it's not bad to hire people to help plough, but there are still hired farmers who have no land and can only work hard these days. Alas, I just don't know where the little farmer named Chen Shi is now? Heifu really wanted to invite him to help him farm the land, so he sat on the ridge and talked about the land together, and talked about the ambitions of the finch and the bird......

As he spoke, he stopped and pointed forward: "This piece is your field." ”

Heifu looked left and right according to the heartfelt gesture, and couldn't help but gasp! I scolded in my heart!

"It's so big!"

The newly cultivated field in front of him was the size of five or six football fields as far as the eye could see!