Chapter Sixty-Six: Transforming the Rice

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"Report."

A guard hurriedly ran into the hall, knelt down on one knee and said, "Master Youyi, the sentry rider has come to report that the Yellow Turban Thief has just gone to attack Zhao Feng again." ”

You Yi put down the bamboo slip in his hand and asked, "Did you fight?" ”

The guard shook his head and said, "Not for the time being, and we need to continue to report later." ”

Hearing that there was no fighting, Youyi was obviously not very interested, and reached out to pick up the bamboo slips on the case, and said in his mouth: "Got it, go down." ”

The guard arched his hand and said, "Huh." With that, he turned and left the hall.

Less than a cup of tea.

The guard ran in again, knelt down on one knee and said, "Master Youyi, the sentry rider has come to report, Zhao Feng and the Yellow Turban Thief Kou have fought two battles." Zhao Feng personally played, won both battles, and captured the two generals of the Yellow Turban Thief, who exchanged more than a dozen horses for the captured general, and then retreated. ”

Youyi was very surprised after hearing this, but his face remained unchanged, and he said indifferently: "I know, let's go down." ”

After the guards withdrew from the hall, You Yicai said to Sun You next to him: "Tianci, I order you to go to Zhao Feng and ask why you captured the general of the Yellow Turban Thief and let him back privately, is it to covet a dozen war horses." ”

Sun You arched his hand and said, "Huh." Then he turned and walked away.

When Sun You walked to the door of the hall.

Youyi shouted: "Slow! Tianci came back and was looking at what Zhao Feng wanted to do. ”

Sun You was puzzled, walked to Youyi's side and asked in a whisper, "Master Youyi, why didn't you let me go." What to see? ”

Youyi sighed and said, "What if you go?" I can't ask anything at all, as long as Zhao Feng doesn't collude with the Yellow Turban thief, let him go. ”

Zhao Feng Zhuangzi.

Zhao Feng knelt on the main seat and said with a smile: "This battle is a big victory!" Jevin is indispensable. You can choose one of the thirty war horses and give it to your brother. ”

After hearing this, Huang Shao knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "Xie family master gives the horse." ”

Zhao Feng raised his hand in the void and said, "My brother, don't be polite, get up." ”

After Huang Shao got up, Zhao Feng looked at Zhao Goudan, Zhao Tiezhu, Xu Fei and others, and said: "War horses are limited, a few of you train well, the next team competition, if you get the position of centurion, one person will get a war horse." ”

The crowd bowed their hands and said, "Yes." ”

Zhao Feng nodded and said to Zhao Yun: "Zhao Yun! Twenty horses will be allocated to you, and the cavalry will be formed. You can draw someone who can ride from each team, and you need to add one person from your own team to go back. ”

After a pause, he continued, "I think it shouldn't be difficult to choose twenty out of more than five hundred people who can ride." ”

Zhao Yun stood up and said bluntly: "What if you can't get together twenty people who know how to ride?" ”

Zhao Feng smiled: "Then practice by yourself!" Don't you boast that you don't have any better riding skills than you in the whole Changshan Mountain? ”

After a pause, he continued: "I know that cavalry training is not easy, the Trojan horse bicycle has been built, and in the future, it will be trained in batches every day, and excellent personnel will be selected from it for riding training." ”

Zhao Yun arched his hand and said, "Yun Ling." With that, he took a step back and retreated into the queue.

Waiting for Zhao Yun to retreat from the queue, Zhao Feng looked at Zhao Wuqi again and said, "Zhao Wuqi, allocate four war horses to you and train the sentry horse." Later, the Sentinel and the Dark Sentinel cooperate with each other. If you don't understand, just ask me. ”

Zhao Wuqiyi arched his hand and said, "Huh." ”

Zhao Feng thought about it, and said to Zhao Goudan again: "Zhao Goudan, get more meat at noon and add more food to the brothers." ”

Zhao Goudan arched his hand and said, "Obey." ”

Seeing that there was nothing to explain, Zhao Feng said: "Okay, let's go and rest separately, and continue training in the afternoon." ”

Everyone bowed their hands at the same time and said, "Wow." "Yes." With that, they each exited the hall.

After everyone withdrew, Zhao Feng was bored sitting on his knees, so he also walked out.

When I came to the courtyard, I found that the carpenter Lu was cooking rice with four maidens.

Rice is the process of putting the beaten grain in the rice bucket and smashing out the shell with the rice pestle.

The husk that comes out is the rice bran, and the rest is the edible rice.

Chungmi's tool is like an enlarged version of a pot.

Two maidens each hold a rice pestle and are in charge of a rice bucket. The other two maidens are in charge of selecting the chestnut rice that has been shelled.

Seeing Zhao Feng approaching, Carpenter Lu stepped forward and shouted, "I've seen the head of the family." ”

As soon as Carpenter Lu shouted, the four girls hurriedly put down the work in their hands, gave Zhao Feng a blessing, and said softly: "The maid has seen the master." ”

Zhao Feng felt strange when he heard them call themselves servants. But it's a little better than before, and they used to call themselves.

Zhao Feng nodded and said, "Let's be busy, I'll take a look." ”

The four maidens made a blessing and said, "Oh." After that, they went to work.

Carpenter Lu walked up to Zhao Feng and said, "The rice bucket and rice pestle that were just made today, see how the effect is, if there is no problem, we will start making them in large quantities in the afternoon." ”

Zhao Feng nodded, didn't answer, just looked at the girl and the girl.

Zhao Feng didn't know anything about the tools used by Chung Mi, he had only heard of it in the village before, but he hadn't seen it. Not to mention in the future generations, few people probably know what the Chungmi tool is.

After looking at it for a long time, Zhao Feng realized what the so-called loss meant, that is, in the process of scooping rice, a lot of chestnut rice was smashed, and some could not be shelled.

It took a cup of tea to finish a stone of grain.

Carpenter Lu went up to check it, then returned to Zhao Feng's side and said, "The effect of the rice is almost sixty percent, there is no problem, and it can be made in large quantities in the afternoon." ”

Zhao Feng felt that this was too wasteful, and forty percent of the grains were lost, and asked, "How are these lost grains generally handled." ”

Carpenter Lu didn't think much about it, and said bluntly: "If the year is good, these broken rice and grains will be sold cheaply to pig and horse breeders, and if the year is not good, the broken rice will be kept for himself to eat. He who is really hungry cannot eat the grain that cannot be hulled. ”

Zhao Feng didn't have a good way to solve this problem for a while, but he felt that it was too wasteful of manpower, and said, "You follow this and rebuild a rice pestle." After speaking, Zhao Feng picked up a branch on the ground and drew it on the ground.

In fact, it has not changed much, it is still the rice pestle to smash the chestnut rice to remove the shell, but the principle of lever is added, and the current two girls take turns to take turns to smash the rice, and it has been changed to a girl who steps on it with her feet.

In this way, you can work in pairs, one to scoop the rice with your feet, and the other to pick out the shelled chestnut rice.

Compared with the current two girls who use the rice pestle by hand, and the two girls who choose from the hair, it saves twice as much manpower.