Besides, this floor clamp can be used repeatedly, then...?
When they thought of this, the villagers' eyes became intense.
The whole village shared the pork, and soon the aroma of pork wafted over Forsythia Village.
For most villagers, it is impossible to finish the several kilograms of pork they have been given in one sitting.
They would be very careful about cutting some of the meat into cubes, frying it and adding salt. They would add a little every time they ate, and the taste would be gone.
More meat is salted and preserved for later enjoyment.
As for the few pork bones that I got, they were boiled into soup and added with some wild vegetables. The aroma alone was enough to make passersby stop in their tracks.
Fang Xiaoyue has been eating at the brigade headquarters these days.
The meat was divided, but the internal organs, intestines, etc. were left at the brigade headquarters.
Accountant Zhao Xiangdong once worked as an apprentice in a high-end restaurant in a big city. Although he didn't learn much about the essence, he was good at frying pig meat.
Clean the pig intestines, fill them with salted pig blood, cook them, slice them, and sprinkle with chopped green onions to make a delicious dish.
The pig intestines and pig tails are marinated together in a small pot. After they come out of the pot, they are golden and translucent. The aroma of the marinade can make most of the dogs in the village bark around the brigade headquarters.
As for the pig heart, pork belly, etc., they are cut into thin strips and stir-fried with ginger, garlic, and pickled peppers. The taste is needless to say.
Fang Xiaoyue returned to the thatched cottage and lay on the bed, touching her bulging belly, feeling that Zhang Fugui's obsession was probably satisfied.
Many times, happiness is not about having more and better things, but about being able to enjoy them when they are scarce.
The floor clip made by Fang Xiaoyue was not only effective this time.
In the next two months, the traps arranged at the foot of the mountain successively captured many wild boars that came in search of food.
This made the villagers of Forsythia Village feel happy for a long time.
However, as time went by and summer arrived, signs of drought appeared in the Forsythia Village area. The whole village had to enter the busy farming season under the leadership of Zhang Daniu. Every morning when they got up, a large group of people carried buckets to clear water near Forsythia Village. River, carrying buckets of precious river water back and pouring it into the fields.
Fang Xiaoyue felt the hard work of farming for the first time at this time.
Although with the fusion of body and soul, his strength has reached the peak of his body. Carrying a bucket filled with more than 60 kilograms of water was like playing, but soon his whole body was completely tanned, and even his shoulders were pressed. There were streaks of blood.
Every day when he returned to the thatched hut, he lost the energy to wash his face, feet, and bathe, so he fell into bed and fell asleep. Within a few days, a strong smell began to emit from his whole body.
Fortunately, it didn't take long for the good news to come.
In order to support the drought relief in Bencao Town, superiors specially allocated a batch of water pumps and oil, and the Eighth Brigade was allocated two!
There is no doubt that this is a good thing when drought meets manna.
Relying on manpower to carry water can only alleviate the drought. If this situation persists until the summer harvest, rice production will be reduced by at least one-third.
For Forsythia Village, such losses are huge.
And with a water pump, there are so many benefits.
At least the group of educated youths were the happiest.
For those who have just been exposed to farm work, fetching water every day is undoubtedly the most terrifying thing.
For this reason, several educated youths were so tired that they collapsed from heat stroke.
With the two water pumps in place, a steady stream of river water is pumped into the ditch and into the farmland, nourishing the thirsty rice seedlings.
Some naughty children were still jumping back and forth in the ditch, playing happily with the water, but soon they were called back by their mother, who was beating and scolding them.
Happy time is always short-lived.
Within a few days, a water pump broke.
Although Zhang Daniu had a headache, he wasn't too worried.
After all, if a water pump pumps water for 12 hours, it can barely supply enough water.
But the quality of the water pump didn't seem to be very good. It broke down just after 10 hours of pumping the next day.
Two water pumps in a row were broken, which made Zhang Daniu anxious.
This is the time when rice is blooming. Once the water supply is insufficient, a reduction in rice production will become a foregone conclusion.
At first, a few educated youths with a little knowledge volunteered to repair the water pumps.
In their opinion, the water pump may have been used for too long, and the wiring connectors inside were burned out.
After all, when they were at home, they had dismantled some radios and other things, and the faults were all caused by these places.
But when they took the trouble to take apart the two water pumps and took a look, everyone was dumbfounded.
Neither of the two water pumps had a so-called wiring problem, but the bearings connecting the blade fans were broken.
This thing is broken, and a few educated youths don't know how to fix it at all, which is completely beyond the scope of their knowledge.
Fang Xiaoyue, who was standing aside and watching the excitement, couldn't help but laugh. This was exactly his strike zone!
The bearing is broken, it's easy, just make one yourself.
In fact, before Fang Xiaoyue could stand up and volunteer, Zhang Daniu, who was a little sick and rushed to seek medical attention, saw him at a glance, stretched out his hand and pulled him out of the crowd: "Fugui, can you fix this thing?"
In the eyes of everyone, the captain did not seek medical treatment in a hurry.
Can repairing a hoe and sickle be the same as repairing a water pump?
This water pump is a high-tech product in the eyes of the villagers!
Letting Fang Xiaoyue fix it is just a joke.
Several villagers who thought they had seen the world in the city began to murmur in a low voice, which seemed to be mocking Fang Xiaoyue.
This is not surprising. Some villagers have long been dissatisfied with Fang Xiaoyue's salary of ten work points a day.
Now when I see Zhang Daniu asking Fang Xiaoyue, can I not taunt him as hard as I can?
"It should be repairable."
In a modest and cautious manner, Fang Xiaoyue did not speak so full of words.
Humility makes people progress, pride makes people fall behind.
But what he didn't expect was that his words immediately made those educated youths dissatisfied.
This is normal, after all, these educated youths were high school students when they were in the city!
High school students are considered intellectuals in most people's eyes.
In addition, after they came to Forsythia Village, they always looked down upon the villagers of Forsythia Village, feeling that they had no knowledge and culture and were just old haters.
Now hearing Fang Xiaoyue's words, one of the male educated youths named Li Honggang sneered: "It should be repairable? Do you know what a magnetic field is? Do you know the principle of this water pump? You are not ashamed of your words."
Before Zhang Daniu could do maintenance, Fang Xiaoyue smiled: "I don't understand, but it's enough that I can fix the water pump. Just wait and see, don't waste time."
This sentence left Li Honggang speechless.
As soon as Fang Xiaoyue said this, if Li Honggang wanted to entangle with him, it would be seen by everyone as interfering with the overall situation of drought relief.
He knew the seriousness of it.
So he held his breath and did not continue to speak. Instead, he stood aside and thought about what he should say when Fang Xiaoyue failed to repair the water pump. In short, he would not let this little kid have an easy time!
Fang Xiaoyue did not expect that she would offend Li Honggang unintentionally.
Of course, even if he knew, it didn't matter to him.
Fang Xiaoyue came to a water pump.
The water pump had been disassembled by those educated youths, which saved him a lot of trouble.
Picking up a blade fan bearing, Fang Xiaoyue ran her fingers over it and inspected each one.
Under the effect of the item-making expertise, he can detect a certain depth inside metal objects, which is probably only three or four centimeters.
This range of three to four centimeters is completely sufficient for a bearing of a water pump.
Probably because the water pump has been used for too long, cracks appeared inside the bearings, and a small section of the other two bearings was broken.
Fang Xiaoyue asked Zhang Daniu and received a regrettable answer.
There are no spare parts for this water pump at all.
In other words, the bearings could not be replaced directly as he originally imagined.
Well, actually he wasn't counting on that.
Carrying the two broken bearings, Fang Xiaoyue returned to the thatched house.
In the absence of spare parts, he was able to exert his technical strength.
Throw the bearing plus some slightly good rotten iron into the stove, pull the bellows, and calcine it with fierce fire.
After a while, the bearing became red and soft.
Fang Xiaoyue clamped all the junk onto the anvil, swung the hammer and smashed it, and then threw it into the furnace to continue calcining.
After repeating it dozens of times, the tatters turned into two flaming red iron blocks.
After another period of violent beating, the iron block turned into two iron bars.
After Fang Xiaoyue used tools to continuously beat, file and trim the iron bars, they gradually turned into two embryonic bearings.
Then throw it into a small bucket to quench.
As the bearing was thrown in, fire suddenly appeared in the keg.
This is not surprising, this thing was quenched with a little bit of vegetable oil that Zhang Daniu brought from home.
If quenched with cold water, the bearing steel will become brittle and completely unsuitable to withstand the high-speed rotation of the water pump.
Of course, the next step is tempering.
Fang Xiaoyue put the quenched bearing back into the furnace for heating.
The standard approach is to heat to 400 degrees and then cool naturally.
But he doesn't have a special thermometer in his hand now. He can only rely on the effect of alertness expertise to observe the color changes of the bearing with the naked eye to determine the temperature.
Finally, after Fang Xiaoyue carefully polished it with fine sand, two shiny silver bearings came out of the oven.
After reassembling the water pump, Fang Xiaoyue handed over the power to start the water pump to Zhang Daniu.
Although Zhang Daniu was the captain, he became slightly nervous under the gazes of the villagers.
He wiped away the sweat that came out due to nervousness and the heat, grabbed the rope, and pulled hard. After going back and forth several times, the water pump roared to life, and the rapidly rotating blade fan formed a vacuum and negative pressure, and the river water continued to flow. Extract it and send it to Qian Che's fields.
As the water pump started running, the villagers became happy.
