Chapter 435 Don't Make Jokes

It seems that it is time to improve the tools for pounding rice.

Looking around on the fence, Han Cheng kept looking at the surroundings of the tribe. After watching Zhuang and Qinghua pounding rice from a distance for a while, he thought so in his heart.

Pounding rice is not an easy job. It’s okay to say that there were few millets planted in the tribe before. Although it was tiring, it didn’t take a long time to do it, so it didn’t feel like much. But now it’s different.

This year, the Qingque tribe had a bumper harvest of millet. Under Han Cheng's intentional guidance, millet has become an important food for the Qingque tribe.

Moreover, with the development of time, millet will account for a larger proportion of the food of the Qingque tribe.

This is because more millet is planted, more is harvested, and enough millet is available for consumption.

The second is that after several years of arrests, the fish in the small river in front of the Qingque tribe is far less than before. smaller than it used to be.

The diet that relies on fish as the main food has gradually become difficult to maintain.

In fact, since a few months ago, the proportion of fish in the Qingque tribe's food has gradually decreased.

Fortunately, there are all kinds of wild vegetables on top, and Han Cheng, the son of a part-time cook, has a few seasonings, so the life of the Qingque tribe has not been affected much.

The third is that the population of the tribe has grown rapidly in the past few years, and the daily food consumption has almost tripled compared with before.

With this ebb and flow, the fish in the small 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 about food.

In the future, the fishing of fish in the small river should be appropriately reduced. Han Cheng didn't want to appear in his tribe about fishing in the dry lake.

Moreover, the pits dug out by taking soil and burning bricks have to be expanded again, and some fish fry are put in for stocking.

As for the 'koi' kept in the water tank outside the room, Han Cheng thought for a while that 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 regret is that he hasn't met lotus root yet.

This makes his dreams of fish playing among the lotus leaves and "there are toads on the lotus,

The scene of poking and bouncing can't be realized.

Because the daily consumption of millet has increased, pounding rice has naturally become an indispensable thing.

If the population in the tribe was small, it would be fine, and it would be enough to pound it for a period of time every day, but the current situation is that there are more than one hundred mouths waiting to eat in the tribe.

If you want to fill your mouth with more than a hundred, the amount of millet you pound every day is not a small amount.

It takes almost two people who don't dare to take a break to take turns pounding the rice before it can be supplied.

No job can be done for a long time, let alone pounding rice, which is not easy at all.

Of course, if there is no good solution, then we have to continue in the current way.

However, Han Cheng, who came from later generations, obviously knows more than that about pounding rice.

He wanted to get the water peg out.

The so-called water pestle is to rely on the erosion of water flow to use water power to pound rice.

This method should be very old, but it is obviously not as old as Han Cheng's current era.

He has always heard about water reels, knowing that it is an ancient wisdom, but the most intuitive feeling about water reels comes from the TV series "Dragon Babu".

There is a section in it, in the mill by the river, Wang Yuyan is saddened by the poison of the crisp breeze, and her face is weak.

Duan Yu, who is always in love with his younger sister, takes care of her in various ways, and then meets Murong Fu who pretends to be someone else.

At that time, what impressed Han Cheng the most was that Wang Yuyan was about to cry: "Where are you going to touch~", that is, there was no one in the mill, and the water reel was thrown down every now and then.

"Are you tired from pounding rice?"

Han Cheng, who came down from the fence and walked to the edge of the stone mortar, looked at the blue and white He Zhuang with sweat dripping from his head and face, and asked with a smile.

The two showed simple smiles, shook their heads repeatedly and said, "I'm not tired."

"Not tired?"

Han Cheng looked at her and asked back.

Before the two of them could answer, they shook their heads in regret and sighed, "I originally wanted to make a tool to pound rice instead of you. Since you are not tired, let's continue pounding."

When Han Cheng said this, he was only joking of course, no matter whether they said they were tired or not, he would get out the water mould.

However, seeing Qinghua and Zhuang looking at each other, standing there for a while not knowing what to say, Han Cheng felt as if he had punched nothing.

I shouldn't be joking with them, is it embarrassing now?

"Pound the rice well, and eat millet rice at night."

Feeling embarrassed, Dashenzi sniffled and left to find the carpenter to lame, leaving Qinghua and Zhuang standing here puzzled.

What did the Son of God mean by what he said just now?

That kind of tool, is it to be done or not to be done?

After the two female primitives thought dizzily for a while, they continued to pound rice.

Because Shenzi said, to eat millet rice at night.

For this sentence, they remember it firmly.

"A tool that can pound rice without a human being?"

He was repairing a shovel lame there, and after hearing what Han Cheng said, he became excited all of a sudden.

Since getting out of the wheelbarrow, Lame has not made similar difficult things for a long time, but has been dealing with doors and windows.

This made him quite itchy.

At this time, I suddenly learned about such a thing from Han Cheng, and immediately became excited.

You can pound rice by yourself without using force. This thing sounds interesting and challenging.

If this happened at the beginning, Han Cheng would not believe it when he said it, but after experiencing the cages where the fish enter by themselves, the traps where the prey fall by themselves, and the cart pulled by the deer, etc., what Lame told Han Cheng Yes, already convinced.

After hearing what Han Cheng said, he immediately expressed his willingness to get out this magical instrument under the leadership of Shenzi.

Then he looked at Han Cheng with piercing eyes, expecting Shenzi to change the shape of the utensils that need to be made for him like in the past.

However, not this time.

As for the water pestle, Han Cheng only knew that it was driven by water, and then let the lever on it hit the stone mortar continuously up and down.

As for the specific details that he couldn't see, he didn't know.

This is "it is not difficult for those who meet, but not for those who are difficult".

Thinking this way in his mind, Han Cheng told Lai little by little what he knew about Shuidu, and let Lai figure out a solution with him.