Chapter 038 Delicious Wheat Bread　

Alfalfa with a yield of about 1600~1800 catties per mu, the total harvest (fresh grass) is about 2.8 million catties. If such a tonnage of forage is equipped with modern processing equipment, even a small forage straw processing plant, it only takes a few days of working hours to handle it; but in a different world where there are no tools, this " The troubles of happiness are really troubles—all members go out to dry, bundle, and stack the forage. As long as the ground around the tribe can be set off, all the forage is piled up, and the empty space in the tribe where people can walk is also full of grass; after the harvest is completed within a few days, almost everyone could smell the scent of alfalfa in their dreams, and a nightmare would be the shape of alfalfa...　　

It's not that the grassland dwellers have never seen so many pastures. In fact, the forages prepared by each tribe during the winter, it's more than this number, but the work of accumulating forage is spent a whole autumn slowly accumulating of small amounts-who has seen the harvest of alfalfa this time, rushing to complete the harvesting, drying and drying in ten days, the whole process of bundle storage is really shocked them.　　

It's all like this, Ayun, the cub, kept urging to saythat they were too slowly and delay time all day long. If it weren't for the excuse to beat him, the patriarch wanted to beat him very much!

Finally finished the alfalfa storage work, and when they were rushed to build waterwheels, to dig ditches and ponds. The tribesmen carrying hoes silently lined up in front of them, and Ayun behind was there with his fingers muttering some cannot understanding or just listen to the scary words that can be understood: "Twenty-six first-level labors, twenty-three second-level labors, seven third-level labors..." 　　

"First-level labor plus second-level labor to bulid water conservancy, it is barely enough to finish farmland water conservancy hastily, but the excavation of artificial river is a bit can't be done on time..."　　

"No,no,no, I can't expect no water in summer and autumn this year. In any case, the river on the north bank has to be reinforced artificially..."　　

"We have to sen someone to get some salt right now.." 　　

"Oh My God, the work schedule doesn't seem to be enough. Do you have more night shifts..." 　　

Hongye who is in front of Xiao Yun suddenly stopped, using her hard as iron back muscles hit Xiao Yun, and he turned his head stiffly, "A Yun, how much work do you want us to do?"

Xiao Yun rubbed his nose and pushed Hongye forward: "You are wrong. , Hongye, it's not how much work I want to find for everyone, but how much work we can prepare before the peak of the water issue. No matter how much we sweat now, as long as we can avoid flooding the farmland and let the flood run everywhere , It's all worth it, right?"

　　Yu was walking in front couldn't help turning his head: "Our tribe has lived in this area for many years. I haven't heard that water will flood where we live?" 　　

"Of course not, your tribe's location is upstream of this river, if the upstream is flooded, then the place where we are living now should be regarded as a vast marshland. There will be watery swamps everywhere, and there will be not even a place where people can stand as well." 　　

Xiao Yun raised his hand and pointed to northwest: "Did you not notice when you were active near this river? To the north of the upper part, the water of the river is relatively shallow, and the river surface is not wide, and the width is about ten meters. But over there, it is near the exit of the underground world, the width of water surface of the river suddenly doubled, and the deepest part of the river is invisible. What does this mean?" 　　

The warriors on patrol usually don't care about this, so nobody knew what Ayun wanted to express, they all turned around and looked at him blankly. "It shows that the water source of the tributaries of the main river does not only come from the main river. After the tributary bypasses the area in the northwest, there is an additional source of water." Xiao Yun said, "Last year we went to get stones near the Underground World. When I found out that the water level in the upper and lower reaches of the river was weird, although I could not follow the tributary to see what stream of water came from, the increased water source made the downstream part of the river more turbulent and more water volume, I can sure about this point."　　

"In other words, our downstream position is twice as likely to be flooded as the upstream position of Maomao's (the nickname Xiao Yun gave to Yu) tribe. "Xiao Yun looked at the people of the tribe, "Now, do you still think that river water conservancy is dispensable?" 　　

"..." Hongye and the others were expressionless. Although they didn't understand, Ayun seemed to make sense.　　

Yu: "...Wait, who is Maomao?"(Maomao=Yu=feather)

Xiao Yun pretended not to hear, and still sternly said: "We have often heard about which tribe's pastures were flooded and which tribe's cattle and sheep were washed away by floods. In the final analysis, it's the two main rivers on our grassland, then they have countless tributaries, and these tributaries don't have stable river channels. When the water volume is small, it is okay, the rivers will only flow along the low-lying places, but when there is a flood of water, the river channels will be rerouted anywhere . "　　

" So where you want to live and work in peace and where you want long-term stability, you can't ignore river water conservancy. For example, build artificial lakes, dig artificial channels to divert river water, build artificial dams on both sides of the river bank to block water. Tamig the rushing river from uncontrolled beasts into obedient domestic animals, let it flow wherever you want it goes, then there will be no more floods." 　　

Although there are some terms in his words they don't understand the meaning, but everyone can understand the general meaning. The main reason is that he used the word "domestication" to make the snow werewolves understand more intuitively, so it includes the new member Yu and lazy girl Dahe, everyone's mood became complicated again—they obviously had enough of the bitter days of sunrise and sunset, but they felt that Ayun did make sense, that they should suffer more and do more work to achieve his goal, what's up on they mind! !　　

Adult snow werewolves dig a row of water-storing ponds in the lower part of the vegetable field and above the marsh. This location is relatively low. It can store water in times of drought and drain the water into the marsh when floods occur. The cubs dig around the entire farmland. The remaining part of the canal is transported to the bank of the river by the way; during the day to repair farmland and water conservancy, at night, use the soil dug out during the day, add water and reed poles, step on the mud bricks, and build artificial embankments in advance. Of bricks.　　

Manuls... the manul adults make waterwheel and busy tribe include daily tasks such as raising cattle and sheep, cleaning sheep pens, managing newborn lambs, cooking food, and so on. The manul cubs work hard to process wool products for business activities in the autumn...

　After the farmland water conservancy was basically completed, Xiao Yun drove the adult snow werewolves of the first-level labor to repair the river embankment, and the cubs of the second level labor "return" to agriculture: the wheat enters the heading and flowering period, and top dressing and watering are required to ensure soil moisture; The seeds left in the vegetable fields can be harvested. After the seeds are harvested, plowing, applying basal fertilizer, and re-sowing are needed. In the case of insufficient manpower, Xiao Yun thinks that grow two or three times of vegetables every year will be enough to ensure the tribal supply. Planting continuously, there is no place to sell after planting.

The cattle and sheep that are raised provide an endless supply of livestock manure, the endless humus layer outside the jungle, the animal bones obtained by scouring the nests of predatory beasts, and the fertile black mud that has been fermented for many years in the swamp... …These natural fertilizers are no problem to take and use, they only need to be fermented one month in advance (extended to more than three months when the temperature is low).

When the wheat matures (the growth period of spring wheat is short, the planting cycle is about daytime, and winter wheat only needs more than 200 days), the weather on the grassland also comes to the hottest time of the year... Well, this heat is only relatively speaking. Judging from the fact that Sal needs some animal skin to cover his belly at night, the highest temperature in a day is around 30 degrees, and at night the temperature drops to about 20 degrees.

Because the overly exhausted people have developed the resting technique of falling asleep wherever they fall, Xiao Yun directly chose a corner of the square in the middle of the tribe to spread a rattan mat so that the group of people could not live in the house at night. The snow werewolf stayed overnight. However, when the wheat is harvested, the relatively flat square will not sleep, and it must be used to dry the wheat.

Xiao Yun ran toward the wheat field when he was free after the wheat entered the heading period. Now the wheat ears are full, the wheat stalks are yellow, and the harvest time is near. Xiao Yun ran the wheat field more frequently and took a piece of sheepskin while observing and record with charcoal.

After many days of observation, he found that the relationship between the number of wheat tillers and the number of ears seemed to be a bit metaphysical... He thought that the batch that grew vigorously and had more than 30 tillers had only three to five wheat on average. Sui, it's almost the same as the batch that he thinks is average and has a number of tillers around 20.

As for those with relatively few tillers, the number of hanging ears is one to two on average, which is a bit hurtful...　　

"I took it for granted before, but 30 tillers are considered prosperous in this situation, so we should use more snacks when deep cultivation."

He gently squeezed the somewhat prickly ears of wheat with his hands, and the decent grains were full of texture, which gave him some comfort, but... Randomly folded the ears of wheat and knead the husks and counted the grains. Xiao Yun felt it again. To the blow-the number of grains per ear is actually more than 30? ! Is it poisonous! Shouldn't the number of grains per ear of wheat be around fifty? !

The patriarch who accompanied Xiao Yun originally looked at the wheat field with excitement, but he didn't expect that Ayun suddenly changed his face, and the patriarch leaned back in fright.

"By the way, it's a matter of variety." Raising his hand and pinching his eyebrows, Xiao Yun found a reason to stop himself from exploding. "The wheat seeds on the earth can extract 50 wheat ears on average. The hard work of the family...the tauren is so awesome. After all, it is the copycat version of Minke Yuan Longping. The requirements cannot be so high." 　　

You must look forward to being a man and doing everything. Xiao Yun does not have so much time and energy to be annoyed anyway. You have to use your energy as much as possible to think about the countermeasures: "...In this case, next year, we must aim for effective tillers that can head ears. More ears can offset the disadvantage of fewer ears. Um... Idle in winter is also idle anyway. So, you can also open a trial field of winter wheat and try to cultivate wheat seeds that are resistant to freezing. Whether it works or not, there is still a rush to try. If you don't try, there will be nothing." 　　

Wrote down what he thought of, and Xiao Yun returned to normal color, continue to observe the wheat field.　　

Saw his patriarch who quietly changed his face without saying a word: "??" 　　

Ayun is really a weird person!

During the wheat harvest, if it hits a rainy day, it will be blood mold. Fortunately, the rainy season on the grassland is mostly after midsummer. At this time, it will rain every three to five. Choose a sunny day for harvesting. Not too worried.　　

Sixty fields and about 600 acres of wheat were harvested in two days. Thanks to the previous exercise when harvesting 1,800 acres of alfalfa in one go, everyone became skilled workers and the efficiency was greatly improved.　　

The work of picking up the wheat ears in the wheat field is given to the manul cubs and Sal (yes, after the cat paws of the manul cubs, the human paws have to be borrowed for use), and the others all participate in the wheat threshing work.

There is no thresher. Xiao Yun has seen a traditional wooden pedal thresher in the countryside, but he is so busy as a top that he has no time to ponder this matter, so the wheat threshing work can only be more primitive... …Hand beaten and fang threshing.

Spreading the harvested wheat on the square in the tribe, the powerful adult snow werewolf grabbed the bale of wheat stalks and threw it on the stone. He almost threw it with the wooden yoke...well, this yoke Not only the weapon of the Paladin in Diablo 3, but also the original threshing tool used by the farming people. Two wooden sticks of different lengths are tied at both ends with cane and grass. The person holds the long stick and swings the shorter stick. When beating on the wheat stalks spread on the ground, the mature wheat grains will fall off the wheat ears during the beating process.

Take the wheat straw, and the smashed wheat grains have to face the wind to "raise the wheat"...Use a long stick tied with a wooden tool in the shape of a shovel to lift the wheat up and let the wind blow away the impurities in the grain.

The next step is to dry it, put it in straw buckets made of cane and reed poles, and store it in a temporary warehouse...　　

Xiao Yun took out a field of wheat separately to thresh and raise the wheat, and roughly calculate the total output. , Calculating the yield per mu, the results obtained made him worry... Such a fertile land, so careful to serve these uncle wheat, the harvested mu yield is only four hundred catties per mu, which is still unshelled yield-Hyundai The world's unintentional farming for three days, fishing and two days of netting, the lazy guy who grows casually has at least 500 catties of acres! It is still planted on the barren mountain land, or the yield after shelling! The sweat and tears spilled on the wheat fields really fed the Husky!　　

The 100 times return rate of good wheat! It's too much to cut half directly, my god!

The snow werewolves & manuls wiped the big sweat on their foreheads, and looked at the straw buckets piled up in the five hayloft warehouses with a contented smile. Their smiles were full of satisfaction and satisfaction... Most of the people have never eaten wheat at all and don't know what it tastes like, but they are happy as long as they know that these are edible foods.　　

"I have eaten wheat bread in the tauren tribe, it is delicious!" The horns that have been eaten show off to the people who have not eaten them.　　

"How delicious?" The cubs bit their fingers curiously.　　

Oxhorn thought for a while: "It's delicious anyway!" Thumbs up.

Yu on the side: "..." 　　

"Ah~~~~" The happy cubs rushed to surround Xiao Yun, who was deep in the whole person, "Ayun Ayun, eating wheat bread!" 　　

Xiao Yun gave this group of snow werewolf cubs who are stronger and taller than him swayed like a kite: "Okay, okay,eat wheat bread, stop and shake me out of a concussion~~~~"　　

... In order to avoid being shaken into idiots by cubs of the same race, Xiao Yun casually agreed to these guys, but the harvested wheat had not been hulled and could not be eaten.

Ancient Western farmers would send wheat to a mill, coarsely grind it into wheat flour with a lot of wheat bran, then knead it and bake it into a hard bread in a bread oven (sometimes with sawdust or something, it's such a rough operation) eat directly; Chinese farmers, Qin Dynasty and Qin before would eat wheat rice...that is, rice cooked with hulled wheat, said to be better than dead bread, but it is not much stronger, it is unpalatable In the Han Dynasty, the use of stone mills began to spread (tofu was invented during this period), and Chinese farmers mainly used wheat flour to eat wheat. Various pasta cultures have been carried forward to later generations.

Large stone grinders cannot be made without processing tools. For small stone grinders, heating by fire, cooling with cold water, using the principle of thermal expansion and contraction to make the surface of the stone brittle and then processed into the required shape, it can be completed.

Made a round rolling stone with a diameter of about 60 cm and a thickness of about 20 cm. Looking for a larger piece of stone with a relatively flat side, cut out a length slightly shorter than the stone surface and a depth of Four to five centimeters, a width of 21 to 22 centimeters, and a rectangular groove that just fits the rolling stone to roll. The most primitive stone mill is made out.

Sprinkle the sun-dried wheat kernels into the grooves, and any person can hold the rolling stone to roll in the grooves, and use the weight of the rolling stone to roll back and forth to achieve the effect of shelling the wheat kernels. Wheat grain milling-of course, this kind of over-primitive stone milling is not as good as a serious two-piece stone milling, but it is simple and easy to make. It can't manage so much when it is urgently used.

Use this simple and easy-to-make original rolling stone to grind wheat flour that is not fine and contains a lot of wheat bran. It is fermented with Xiao Yun's yeast to make soy sauce and kneaded into a fist-sized dough; spread out the dough and wrap it with vegetables and radishes and a small amount of meat, then made into a very innocent giant steamed bun, which was then steamed in a square steamer made to steam animal bones...　　

Because of the wheat field yield, Xiao Yun, who had no energy, was too lazy to make the wheat steamed bun too many, this giant steamed bun was made by counting the heads of people, and then there was a big problem...The grown-up snow wolf man only had enough to eat. After eating, all the members stared at Xiao Yun.　　

"..." Xiao Yun just took a bite of the wheat bran steamed bun.　　

Qingyan, who had eaten a little and a half, silently divided the buns in his hand in half, and handed them to Dahe.　　

The manul cub who is good relationship with Oxhorne shares his bun with Oxhorn. The other three have a similar behavior and share them with the adult snow werewolves nearby.　　

The manul adults looked at the snow werewolves salivating, and although they were reluctant to bear it, they also took out their buns to shear.　　

Sal... it was the first time that Sal came to the grassland for so long to eat the food that he was used to in the human kingdom, and he reluctantly gave half of it to the patriarch.　　

The appetites of the snow werewolf cubs are not much worse than that of adults. They couldn't give it to others, and they stuff their mouths hard before they finish eating.　　

The adult snow werewolves who did not share the buns continued to stare at Xiao Yun.

"..." Xiao Yun couldn't help it, and laughed out loud, "Oh, my Jesus, I'm really defeated by you all, and if you want to eat, turn around and help grind more wheat flour and steaming a lot of buns at night until you can't eat it! "

"Nice, nice!" Oxhorn immediately ran toward the millstone.　　

"I'll take a bucket of wheat out!" Dahe ran toward the warehouse.　　

"Then I will wash the vegetables." Hongye also moved.　　

"I'll help." Yu got up and followed.　　

"——If I usually call you to work and you could take out half of the energy for eating, how good it should be!" Xiao Yun twitched the corner of his mouth and thought, after this complain, the haze in his heart was also swept away. He just doesn't feel that the per mu yield of wheat is not proportional to the cost. Xiao Yun is actually very satisfied with the fact that the tribe can have staple food other than meat...After all, the time and output of meat is worse than efficiency.

"Forget it, think about the ancient Europeans who planted wheat with a yield of only 200 catties per mu. Our shelled wheat can produce 400 cattkes and it is considered a winner... Besides, this yield is not to be the upper limit. We will try to increase it to 500 catties is hopeful next year. Chinese farmers were not good land, otherwise people's intensive farming was definitely not the yield."

In the final analysis, Xiao Yun is very not satisfied. Although the yield per mu of 400 cattis is indeed low, but it is planted a lot as well. A time of wheat harvested more than 200,000 catties, no matter how big the snow werewolf belly is, if come another 100 more people can be raised until next year.　　

They don't have to pay taxes yet...No one collects taxes here.

After passing this time and cheering up, Xiao Yun continued to ponder the task arrangement for this year: the wheat that involved his greatest energy and made him dare not leave has been collected into the warehouse; the vegetable planting and the care of alfalfa were handed over to the experienced people of the tribe, the traditional manure collected before are fermented to support the next vegetable field and alfalfa topdressing. There is no big problem (the vegetable field and alfalfa topdressing were not taken care of last time...). If the field is sprinkled with water, the water channels will be filled with snow werewolf cubs; the embankment on the north bank of the river bank is also repaired for a section, and it is not difficult to continue to build it until it reaches the swamp.　　

"...In this situation, I temporarily leave for half a month and there shouldn't be a big problem." Xiao Yun touched his chin and looked up at the clear sky. It is the hottest time of the year, and the temperature in the past few days when harvesting wheat should be around 30 degrees Celsius. This kind of good weather wouldn't be wasteful.

That night, all the members enjoyed a meal of wheat food, steamed buns and scones in a two-pronged approach to stuff everyone full and burp again and again. After eating, Xiao Yun called the patriarch and the eight soldiers, and proposed his next work arrangements... to arrange out some of the tribe to cook salt by the beach.

Um, when proposing an unfamiliar project, it is necessary to communicate with your immediate boss first. In the afternoon, Xiao Yun caught the head of the patriarch for a long time and fooled the head of the patriarch first... Uh, get the support of the patriarch, 　　

"Cooking …salt?" Hongye was inexplicable when he heard the word, "Don't the salt disappear when you put it in the water? How do you cook it?" 　　

"Patriarch went to the beach when you were young, and the sea tastes salty, right?" Xiao Yun smiled and looked at the patriarch.

"Yes." The patriarch nodded with a deep face, "At that time our tribe was still very strong, and the human caravan was afraid of the tiger tribe. We asked us to send them out of the middle of the grassland to the dock in the inner sea by boat."

"The sea is salty. It's because there is salt in the sea water." Xiao Yun looked confidently, "We just need to find a way to get salt from the sea water and bring it back. Not only do we don't have to pay the horned horns to exchange the salt with the caravan, the extra salt can be used. Come pickled vegetables." He deliberately licked his tongue, "The pickled vegetables are delicious, the taste is very special, and it is better than our current way of eating." 　　

The sound of "Gululu" continued, including the black panther soldier Qingyan who was listening to it. , Tuqiu Warrior Qiu, everyone swallowed their saliva... A Yun said that delicious things must be delicious, much more reliable than horns.　　

"Can I follow along?" Yu asked anxiously and nervously.　　

Xiao Yun glanced at him. He believed that Mao Mao was definitely not greedy, but wanted to know how to get salt... For the poor Snow Werewolf tribe, trading green salt with caravans every year was a big burden. The caravan only accepts horned cattle in exchange instead of sheep. If the tribe's cattle are not enough, it will take a lot of effort. The long-haired sheep will be exchanged for cattle with the cat clan at an absolute loss.　　

"Of course." Xiao Yun smiled and smiled. There is nothing to hide, such as cooking sea and salt, which has no technical content. There are more things that can make Maomao fascinated. As long as this soldier can stay smart, Xiao Yun promises that this group of compatriots will never get away his hand.