Wheat harvest can be roughly divided into eight steps: preparing farm tools, building a wheat field, harvesting wheat, pulling it into the wheat field to dry, crushing it with stone rollers, separating straw and wheat grains, raising dust from wheat grains, and putting them into bags.
The first farm tool to prepare is the sickle, and the sickle's companion - the whetstone. Sharpen the sickle so that you can cut the wheat quickly and effortlessly. Other necessary agricultural tools are forks, shovels, rakes, pockets, etc. A fork is a stick with three branches at the top, like an enlarged version of a fork used for eating. The wooden shovel is used for dusting, turning wheat grains and bagging. A rake is a bamboo agricultural tool with a 90-degree elbow at the top, which is used to pick up wheat ears scattered in the field, or to turn over the wheat grains when drying them.
In addition, necessary agricultural tools include frame carts and stone rollers. Rack trucks are mainly used to transport harvested wheat from the fields to wheat fields. Stone rollers are rotated to crush the wheat under the drag of livestock.
After preparing the farm tools, it’s time to start building the wheat field. Most wheat farms are located at the edge of large wheat fields, ranging from more than 100 square meters to several hundred square meters. The land was hardened and polished to facilitate smooth threshing of the wheat.
After the wheat field is built, the wheat harvest begins. Whichever piece of wheat ripens first will be harvested first. Harvested wheat cannot lie in the field forever, otherwise it will become moldy and sprout. The wheat needs to be hauled to the wheat field one by one using rack trucks to dry. First, pick up the wheat from the ground with a wooden fork, place it gently on the cart, and then slowly pile it up until the cart is full, and then brake it tightly with a rope to prevent it from overturning.
After cart after cart of wheat is pulled into the wheat field, it must be spread out over the entire wheat field to let the sun shine hard to facilitate threshing. The next step is to crush the wheat with a stone roller. The stone roller is a cylindrical stone weighing hundreds of kilograms. There is a groove carved in the center of the two ends. When the wheat is crushed, a wooden frame is put on the outside and pulled by animals. The wheat is repeatedly rolled and rolled in circles to achieve the threshing effect.
After repeated crushing with stone rollers, the straw, wheat ears and wheat grains are separated. However, in order to achieve a more thorough threshing effect, the wheat needs to be turned over with wooden forks and then crushed again. This is called "turning over." After turning over and crushing the other side, you need to completely separate the wheat straw and wheat grains. This time, a wooden fork was used to clear the straw from the wheat field and put it aside. In order to prevent the loss of grain, each fork of wheat straw was shaken vigorously to let the wheat grains fall from the cracks in the straw.
After the wheat straw was cleared away, the wheat field was full of fallen wheat grains. At this time, the wheat grains must first be piled together with a wooden shovel, and then "winnowed" is carried out, which is to remove a lot of garbage, dust and scattered wheat husks mixed in the wheat grain pile. "Lifting the field" requires two people to cooperate with each other. One person is responsible for lifting the wheat grains with a wooden shovel and using the wind to lift the dust away. This is a very technical and rhythmic work, and the wind direction and strength must be grasped. Another person uses a broom to gently sweep out the debris that is still in the wheat grain pile after the dust is blown. The person sweeping the debris must move in accordance with the rhythm of the dust, and at the same time, he must be careful, otherwise the wheat grains will also be swept away. .
The last step is to pack the bag. One person is responsible for opening the bag, and the other is responsible for filling it with a wooden shovel. After a while, the deflated bag bulged up and stood in the middle of the wheat field.
Li Zhiyun took action and harvested wheat with the soldiers. He bent down, arched his body, grabbed the mature wheat stalk with his left hand, inserted the sickle deep into the root of the wheat stalk with his right hand, and then pulled hard, only to hear a squeaking sound, the wheat was cut off, and then grabbed it with his left hand and cut it off. of wheat straw, gently place it on the ground, and then repeat the above actions hundreds or thousands of times...
At the end of the day, Li Zhiyun was so tired that his back ached. He slept very soundly at night and even had a dream. He dreamed that after the wheat was harvested, the wheat kernels were shelled, ground into flour, and made into white-flour steamed buns. The steamed buns exuded an alluring aroma. He reached out and grabbed a steamed bun. Just as he was about to open his mouth to bite it, he was woken up by someone.
Li Zhiyun woke up and heard the shouting coming from outside the tent, which seemed to be Aunt Ying's voice. He got out of bed, put on his coat and walked out. Under the dim moonlight, I saw Aunt Ying standing anxiously at the door of the tent. As soon as Aunt Ying saw him, she said, "Your Majesty, Sister Feng is missing!"
"Gone?"
"She didn't come back all night, and I don't know where she went. Since she came back from Nanyang, she has been in a bad mood. She doesn't like to talk to others and always thinks alone. I'm worried that something will happen to her!"
After hearing this, Li Zhiyun frowned and thought for a while, then said: "No, we have to find her quickly!" He returned to the tent, called Zhang Zheng, Cai Hu and several other guards, and told them the situation said. Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu called the people in the tent next to them again, gathering more than a hundred people in total. Everyone divided into several groups and went to look for Zhu Feng'er separately.
Li Zhiyun estimated that Zhu Feng'er had entered the mountain, so he led Zhang Zheng, Yinggu and a dozen others towards Xingshan. A guard held a torch and walked at the front of the team to light up the procession. Everyone walked on the mountain road, shouting "Miss Zhu" as they walked. The cry echoed through the valley, waking up the wrens perched in the trees, and the birds flapped their wings and flew away.
They wandered in the mountains for an hour or two. It was already dark, and the morning glow was burning in the east. As everyone was walking on a mountain ridge, Aunt Ying suddenly pointed with her hand and said, "Your Majesty, look where it is!" Li Zhiyun looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough he saw a person sitting next to the cliff.
Zhu Feng'er was sitting on a rock, with an abyss in front of her. She was staring blankly at the valley below the cliff when she suddenly heard someone shouting "Sister Feng, Sister Feng." She turned around and saw that everyone was walking towards her, and she slowly stood up.
Everyone walked to a place more than ten steps away from Zhu Feng'er and stopped. Li Zhiyun wanted to walk over, but Zhu Feng'er suddenly raised her arm to stop her and shouted: "Don't come over! Otherwise, I will jump down!"
Li Zhiyun quickly stopped and said loudly: "Miss Zhu, what are you doing?... I know that you feel bad because others have misunderstood you. However, none of this is your fault! Why do you use other people's How about punishing yourself for your sins?" Zhu Feng'er looked at him and said: "King Chu, you are right, I don't want to live anymore. There are too many ugly things in this world, and I don't want to see it anymore!"
Li Zhiyun knew that Zhu Feng'er was kind-hearted. However, kind-hearted people are emotionally fragile and can easily become world-weary after being hurt. Therefore, she must be enlightened properly. Li Zhiyun slowed down and said, "Miss Zhu, you have to know that besides sin, there are many beautiful things in this world. Aren't these worthy of our nostalgia?"
Zhu Feng'er looked at him with dark and confused eyes. She was silent for a while and then said: "I sat here all night. The reason why I didn't jump is because I haven't made up my mind yet. I have been looking for a reason to live. Can you give me a reason? "
"Of course!" Li Zhiyun said, "Your break with Zhu Can is the first step. You can go further and join us to destroy Zhu Can's army. Only by destroying Zhu Can's army can we Isn’t it a very meaningful thing to save more people from being harmed by them?”
Zhu Feng'er listened and remained silent for a long time. At this time, Aunt Ying cried and shouted: "Sister Feng, don't leave, I can't let you go..." She walked forward while crying. This time, Zhu Feng'er didn't stop him. Yinggu walked up to her, hugged her and cried bitterly. Zhu Feng'er was infected and started to cry. She cried very sadly, her shoulders shaking violently, as if she wanted to cry out all the pain in her heart.
Li Zhiyun breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Zhang Zheng next to him and said, "She has too many things in her heart. Only by crying will she feel more relaxed."
The wheat harvest work is proceeding in an orderly manner. In the wheat fields and wheat fields, it was a lively and busy scene. Some of the New Army soldiers cut wheat, some transported it, some crushed it, some raised it, some bagged it, and some drove carriages to transport the harvest to Champion City.
Li Zhiyun waved the sickle, and occasionally straightened up, and saw Zhu Feng'er harvesting wheat in a sweaty way not far away, the sun burning her face red. Li Zhiyun believes that as long as she integrates into the collective and works with everyone, she will eventually come out of the shadows.
After more than ten days of hard work, three thousand New Army soldiers finally finished harvesting the wheat, and all the fruits of their labor were returned to the warehouse.
After the wheat harvest was over, Li Zhiyun led the new army back to Champion City. A few days later, the scouts sent out came back to report that Zhu Can had sent 50,000 troops to attack Nanyang City. It seems that Li Zhiyun's guess is not wrong. The so-called reconciliation reached by Zhu Can and Yang Shilin is just to paralyze the other party. Now, he finally showed his true face and raised his butcher knife to the people of Nanyang.
After careful consideration, Li Zhiyun decided to lead the new army to reinforce Nanyang. He put forward his idea at a meeting convened by Scarface and other generals for discussion, but was opposed by many people.
"Your Majesty, Yang Shilin refused to join forces with us. Now that he has been attacked, and we go to help him, isn't that putting a hot face on a cold butt?" said a general.
Li Zhiyun shook his head and said: "No. Yang Shilin didn't want to unite with us because he fantasized about remaining neutral. But now the facts have proved that neutrality is impossible! I believe this incident will wake him up! Besides, the fire at the city gate will affect Chiyu , everyone knows this truth. Zhu Can has a strong army, and only by uniting all the forces that oppose him can we finally defeat him!"
After Li Zhiyun's repeated persuasion, everyone finally agreed to send troops to reinforce Nanyang.
