"This was originally a threshing farm in Heping Village. Later, our villages were merged. The land in our village was developed, but the villagers still couldn't adapt to living in buildings. Our village committee decided to use the barren mountains on the east to plant some crops or cash crops, and grow wheat and corn on the flat ground. If it is not easy to make, plant something else.

Now that the wheat is ripe now, it is not possible to have no threshing farm. As soon as we put together, we turned the abandoned land in Heping Village into a threshing farm. But now we have money, and there are fewer people who grow wheat, and they are all old guys."

The two were talking and had already arrived at the place. After stopping the car, a group of people surrounded him.

"Yeah, Lao Xu, have you bought a car?"

"Buy it's someone else's."

After chatting with a group of acquaintances for a while, Director Xu began to make trouble and pointed to a wheat field behind the threshing farm to introduce Song Zhong.

"This is our wheat. Look, if you don't cut it, the wheat will be ripe... But no matter how hard you work, the flour we grow ourselves is still better than the flour we bought."

"Uh...yes, the director is right, but the ground flour is delicious."

"Well... it's just that harvesting wheat is too troublesome. These are all flat mountains and harvesters can't get in..."

"Then...this..."

Before Song Zhong could understand, he saw Director Xu take out a shiny sickle from his bag and hand it to Song Zhong with a smile.

"You know, uncle's waist is not very good, otherwise... you cut it for uncle. Anyway, you're fine in the afternoon, and it's just right to exercise. Uncle told you, you young people are not good at sitting in the office every day, they are all sub-healthy. Go quickly, after cutting, grind it into flour and give it to you to taste it, it's fragrant."

"I……"

Song Zhong was stunned. He looked at the sickle in his hand, then looked at the wheat fields behind him, and he was almost vomiting blood. He thought to himself, "I haven't harvested wheat even though I have grown so big, okay?" Are you afraid you are teasing me, right?"

Director Xu pushed him, smiled and pointed to the pile of bundles of wheat next to him.

"Go quickly. I have to grind out all the wheat I harvested a few days ago when the weather is good... If I pile it up, I am afraid that it will sprout."

Song Zhong was pushed into the wheat field, and cried with a sickle. He slapped his mouth in his face and cursed in a low voice.

"Let you be cheap! Let you do it!"

He is from the south. Not to mention harvesting wheat, it is the first time he meets him. How can he cut it?

He was walking around the wheat field with a sickle, and there was no place to start. He didn't know whether to cut from the middle or from the bottom. He was in trouble, so he heard Director Xu's voice coming from behind.

"What's wrong? Can't cut it? Come on, give me the sickle, I'll teach you."

He was as if he had been amnesty, and quickly handed the sickle to Director Xu. He saw Director Xu take the sickle, then clamp it into his armpit, then spit on his palms, rubbed his hands and grabbed the sickle!

Then he squatted in a horse stance and shouted at him with a tilted head.

"Look at it, your left hand sags naturally, use your arm to squeeze the wheat, and then cut it with a sickle... Be careful, your legs must be separated, don't cut your feet."

"Try to cut the wheat stubble lower as much as possible, otherwise the rotary tillator will not be able to cultivate the land."

"After cutting, put it on the ground, and when you finish it, you will be carried over and piled up. Okay, you can try cutting it!"

After Director Xu finished speaking, he handed the sickle to Song Zhong again. Looking at the sickle that had been spitted just now, Song Zhong was unwilling to do so.

Seeing that Song Zhongche was pretty good, Director Xu smiled and added some oil to him, then turned around to get the wheat he had harvested a few days ago.

After the wheat is ripe, there are still very troublesome procedures.

If you have a harvester, it will naturally be very convenient. You can harvest it directly, sift off the dead branches, leaves, and then you can dry it.

If the sun is good, it only takes one or two days to dry the wheat, and the wheat will remove the moisture from it, thus drying and hardening, making it easy to store.

If you eat it yourself, you will put it in the granary. If you want to sell it, you will wait for the second dealer who collects the grain to come and find a good price to sell it.

But if there is no harvester, or if the harvester cannot enter due to terrain and other problems, it will only be manually cut.

After more than ten years of pushing up, many places in the north have not yet been mechanized. Every year from May to August, there are many other places rushing over to harvest wheat. This group, like the Shancheng Bangbang Army, also has a resounding title. They are called Maike!!!

The logo of Bangbang Army is Bangbang and rope, while the logo of Maike is the sickle and straw hat.

Squatting on the side of the road, stoking idle articles in groups, waiting for the bosses who need to hire people to arrive. The old-fashioned mackers can cut three acres of wheat a day by one person!

Because these cut wheat are to be transferred to the threshing farm and are far away, they are afraid of sprinkling the wheat grains when transporting. Therefore, ordinary wheat tourists will twist the wheat straw into knots, tie them up in units of thickness, and stand in the ground, in order to prevent the wheat from getting damp next to the ground.

Then use a rack and truck to pack the sturdy wheat bundles and pull them out, and send them to the threshing yard for the next step of processing.

Wheat without a harvester is the most spectacular. Let the children now go through the process and will never waste food in the future.

When the strapped wheat is sent to the threshing farm, if there is a threshing machine, the wheat grains will be removed with the threshing machine. The process will be easier. If there is no threshing machine, it will be painful.

First, untied all the strapped wheat, then spread it evenly into a circle, hang a grinder with a tractor, and grind around the circle.

While grinding, a man stood inside and had to flip the wheat while turning it open. He continued to grind until the straw was as thin as paper.

Then use three forks to flip the wheat grains, shake the wheat grains down, and pick the wheat straw that has been removed from the top to the side. This is wheat straw.

Wheat grass is also an important raw material for making paper. It is purchased every year. Some farmers do not want to sell it, so they pile it into wheat hay stacks and keep it for cooking in the future, or burn the kang for heating in winter.

What is left below are all wheat grains mixed with wheat peels. At this time, you have to use a broom and use skill to sweep off the top wheat shell.

If the remaining wheat is not clean, it will be blown with a fan, or shoveled with a wooden shovel and thrown to the other side. During the sprinkling process, the wheat shell will be blown to the other side by light, and the wheat will fall to the feet because it is heavy, perfectly achieving the separation of the wheat and the wheat shell. This process is called "Yangmai".

The wheat straw is good for cooking, and the wheat shell is kept burning for a long time because it has a small density, so it is mostly used to heat the kang in winter.

The wheat you cleaned up must be removed with a sieve and dust trap inside, leaving the cleanest wheat grains before it can be put into bags and pulled back.

After drying and dehydrating, you can pull the wheat seed coat in the mill. The wheat seed coat that is removed from the ground is called wheat bran, also called wheat bran. The so-called bran that eats bran is this thing! It is useless to people, but for pigs, it is the staple food. The wheat bran is pulled back by the locals and tripped to feed the pigs. That is the most economical thing.

Until here, farmers who have been working hard for a year can only eat fresh flour.

Nowadays, most people in the north no longer plant wheat, because the economic production capacity of a mu of wheat is too low. After deducting investment in seeds, irrigation, pesticides, fertilizers, and machinery, the remaining profit is only three or four hundred yuan. Even so, it is not included in labor.

Young people are better than this when they go to do odd jobs, so only middle-aged and elderly people in Pancunzhai and Sihuan Village are now farming.

They were reluctant to let the land be wasted, and they could not adapt to the life of eating and waiting for death every day. They used these mountains to cultivate some of their own plants.
Chapter completed!