Thinking of this, Chen Xiaobei could only say perfunctorily, "Okay, Brother Dacheng, I am discussing this matter with Brother Dayong. After all, we are the only ones registered with the government, and the rest are just false names."
Chen Dachun said nothing more and said goodbye to Chen Xiaobei with a smile.
Chen Xiaobei didn't come up with any good plans all the way. When he came to the vegetable field, the villagers had already started harvesting cabbage. He asked several villagers to climb up again along the route that Boss Mao and he took yesterday. When they reached the cave, the villagers sighed that after living in Hetou Village for so many years, they didn't even know there was such a place.
Chen Dayong got into the cave and looked around, and couldn't help but admire, "Okay, it's really a geomantic treasure. This is really a big natural warehouse."
Chen Xiaobei pointed towards the corner, "By the way, there are some dried prey there. They were left here by an old hunter. He is keeping an eye on me. Please don't let others touch them."
Chen Dayong waited until he realized that Chen Xiaobei also found this place after being instructed by an expert.
Soon someone passed the radish basket down with a long rope. The person below put the cabbage into the radish basket, and the person above used more force to pull the radish basket up.
After pulling a few times, Chen Xiaobei discovered the problem. This was too inefficient and very laborious. The villagers worked in teams of two and could only pull up four or five cabbages in one trip, and they were exhausted and panting. You can't collect much in one day.
In Chen Xiaobei's mind, he thought about all the ways to save energy that he learned in physics classes in his previous life, such as lever principles, pulley combinations, and so on.
After much deliberation, Chen Xiaobei finally thought of the simplest way.
That is, pulleys must be installed, and manpower cannot be used. Manpower is too slow, so it must be pulled by ox carts.
Install a pulley on the cave, wrap the rope around the pulley, and lower it to the ground again. After another set of pulleys change direction, the old cow only needs to pull the rope forward on the ground. The radish basket naturally rises up, so that after changing the direction of the two sets of pulleys, it is easy for Lao Niu to pull up more than a dozen cabbages at a time.
Just do it. Lin Yangba told Chen Dayong his thoughts and asked him to take people to cut some wood nearby and use this short cave to make a frame. As long as the wooden frame can be fixed, no matter how hard it is, As for falling apart, that's fine.
After all, the pulling force is straight up and down, and the force pulling forward is not that big.
As for the pulley, it took a lot of thought. After Chen Xiaobei went down to the ground, he returned home to get a piece of paper, briefly drew a few words, and then went to find Carpenter Zhang.
Logically speaking, it would be best to make it from cast iron, but time is running out now. Of course it's too late to get cast iron, so I can only make a wooden one for temporary use, and I can make a few more as backup.
After reading the drawings, Zhang Carpenter smiled slightly and said, "This is simple, just make a few wooden wheels. I often make the wooden wheels for our plowing. Don't worry about this."
Carpenter Zhang gestured with his hands. The wheel must be as big as a millstone no matter what. Lin Yang originally wanted him to make it smaller, but after thinking about it, Carpenter Zhang would do it.
After struggling all morning until lunch, they quickly completed this simple pulley combination. Chen Xiaobei looked at it carefully. Not to mention Chen Dayong and the others were very smart. At the entrance of the cave above, they first used The wooden frame makes a crescent shape.
A piece of wood protrudes from the cave to the ground, and the pulley is fixed on it. Another piece of wood is used to fix it in the cave, which is equivalent to pressing it down.
On the ground, a multi-layered wooden frame was used to fix the pulleys.
The villagers brought the old scalper over and tried it. It was easy and pleasant to raise the basket, and it could hold more than a dozen cabbages at a time.
This time, the efficiency has been greatly improved.
While everyone was busy working, Chen Xiaobei took two cabbages home.
Chen Xiaobei is going to experiment with making kimchi.
As he walked, listening to the chants of the village guards at work, Chen Xiaobei was not as happy as he imagined.
After planting so many cabbages, I am afraid that after all this trouble, let alone making money, there is a possibility of losing money.
This proves that it is too difficult to get rich just by growing vegetables. If I hadn’t relied on the silver rewards I earned from working for various forces, I would be selling a cabbage for only two cents. I couldn’t afford the wages of helping others, so I had to find other ways out.
As he walked, he thought about the scenes that kept flashing through Chen Xiaobei's mind, which was the scene of Boss Mao drying chicken and snake for himself.
Yes, you should consider this kind of high-priced and high-value-added product.
In this era, raising chickens, pigs, and sheep, and being close to Daqingshan are a lot of conveniences.
Therefore, all these must be taken into action after the beginning of spring. Then, after the industry in the entire village increases, more labor will be needed now.
These have to be solved.
After returning home, Chen Xiaobei removed two layers of cabbage, then took a knife and cut it into several pieces.
Then put a little salt on it, put it in the ceramic basin, arrange it neatly, and add some dogwood leaves. Chen Xiaobei has read some history books and found that dogwood leaves were the best choice for making spicy food in ancient times.
Seeing Chen Xiaobei struggling here, Cui Hongyu looked surprised.
"Husband, what are you doing?"
Chen Xiaobei chuckled, "Well, didn't I meet the cat boss yesterday? He told me a new way to eat cabbage. I don't want to experiment with it."
After saying that, he brought another basin over and covered the cabbage.
Suddenly looking up, Chen Xiaobei saw Cui Hongyu looking like he was hesitating to speak.
"Kuyu, do you have anything to say?"
Cui Hongyu nodded, "Brother Xiaobei, tell me the truth. Will Miss Liu be traveling far away in the next few days?"
Chen Xiaobei was stunned. Soon he understood that Cui Hongyu was worried about Liu Rumei going to the front line.
"Probably not. She told Zhou Quan two days ago."
Cui Hongyu sighed slightly.
This sigh shocked Chen Xiaobei's heart.
"Kuyu, why are you sighing?"
"Brother Xiaobei, I have a hunch that Miss Liu will still go to the front line."
Chen Xiaobei looked at Cui Hongyu and said, "Hongyu, what you said is possible, but it shouldn't be possible in a short time."
Cui Hongyu stepped forward and said, "Brother Xiaobei, you, have you and Miss Liu not yet..."
Seeing that she hesitated to speak, Chen Xiaobei certainly knew what she meant.
Several days passed in a flash, but I still had not consummated the marriage with Liu Rumei.
Of course, this is what Cui Hongyu said.
Thinking of this, he said with some embarrassment, "Well, Rumei has been at his residence these days, I..."
