Chapter 49 After harvesting rice and planting rice
"Xu Hongyun! I like you! I just know that I don't deserve you at all!" Liu Quanwang plucked up his courage and looked at Xu Hongyun, his eyes were sincere and calm, but there was an indescribable bitterness in his tone.
"There is nothing worthy of unworthy in the world of feelings, only willing or unwilling. I like you, you like me, and that's enough. Hearing that Liu Quanwang finally revealed his heart, Xu Hongyun's heart was indescribably happy.
"But the gap between us is so big, what will your family think if they know about it? What will your relatives and friends say when they find out? Have you considered all of this?" After all, Liu Quanwang is in his forties, and he has seen and heard a lot of things, and he can be regarded as having experienced vicissitudes. Understand that falling in love can be a very romantic fairy tale, but getting married can never live in a fairy tale world.
"You idiot, you seem to be very thoughtful, but in fact, you are completely cranky, family, relatives and friends can only accompany you for a while, and the one who will accompany you for a lifetime is always your lover. Marriage is a matter for the two of us, as long as we recognize each other and identify each other, there are always more ways than difficulties, and there is no hurdle that cannot be overcome. Xu Hongyun had already thought it through, and he thought more long-term than Liu Chuanwang.
"Hey, hey!" Liu Chengwang was happy, moved and embarrassed, and he couldn't stop smirking for a while.
"Look at your stupidity!" Xu Cuiping chirped on the side. "Alright! I'm leaving. You two are slowly having fun here!, but I'll tell you Uncle Quanwang, I don't want to miss that red envelope when you get married!"
"Hey, no, no. When the time comes, you will definitely be given a big red envelope, which will definitely satisfy you. Liu Quanwang sent Xu Cuiping out of the yard in a hurry.
"Hehe!" Liu Quanwang turned around and came back, seeing Xu Hongyun's face full of shyness and infinite joy, he couldn't help but hold Xu Hongyun's hands affectionately forward.
"Look at your stupid look, you know how to smirk!" Xu Hongyun was stared at by Liu Chuanwang all the time, his heart was shy, he couldn't help but take a sip, and then he was also stupid.
"Hongyun! I like you, I want to be good to you for the rest of my life. Liu Quanwang hugged Xu Hongyun into his arms.
"I didn't hear clearly, say it again. ”
"Xu Hongyun, I like you, I like you, I like you, I want to be good to you for the rest of my life!" Liu Quanwang shouted loudly with all his strength, and his voice seemed to carry the power of the soul, penetrating people's hearts.
"Okay! I believe in you! Remember what you said yourself!" Liu Quanwang and Xu Hongyun hugged each other tightly, unwilling to part for a long time.
The rice is ripe, and it's time to cut it.
On this day, the genius was bright, Liu Wen and his father carried the rice threshing machine, and Liu Wen's mother and the old man and Qing'er followed behind with a sickle and kettle.
The rice threshing machine consists of three parts, one is a bracket, which is equipped with a drum full of thick iron wire folded at both ends, a pedal and a conveyor lever, and the pedal drum rotates rapidly to thresh the rice. One is a large wooden barrel for the threshed paddy, and the other is a cover on top of the drum to prevent the rice from splashing outside during threshing.
Generally speaking, if you want to harvest rice, you must first plough the ground. In reality, many people do not have cattle at home, so in order to save money, they have to use a rake to manually plough the ground.
Next, the paddy fields are leveled, and many people use rake heads to rake the mud blocks, and then make a large wooden board to press the soil on top of it, and manually pull the large wooden blocks to level the field.
Before transplanting seedlings, fertilizer should be applied once, which can be chemical fertilizer or farmhouse fertilizer. After the seedlings grow for more than a month, they should pull the weeds once and then apply fertilizer again.
During the period, depending on the pest situation in the paddy field, the pesticide should be sprayed two or three times. There are leeches in many rice fields, and as long as people go out of the field, the grasshoppers will pounce one after another, and as long as they are not paying attention to the work, they will be bitten by the grasshoppers. The wound soon became painful and itchy, and for a long time, the scar from the bite of the locust would not be erased, and sometimes the locust bit hard, and when the locust was torn off, the wound would still bleed.
There is also a scorpion-like aquatic insect in the rice field, with a poisonous stinger on its tail, and after a person accidentally steps on it and is pricked by a stinger, it hurts very much, it is a very penetrating pain, and it lasts for a long time.
In addition, there are other pests in the rice field, and after people are bitten, red and swollen buds will grow on their legs and arms, which are numb, itchy and painful, in short, very uncomfortable.
When the early rice is harvested, it is often July, when the weather is at its hottest, and the sweat cannot be stopped by doing manual labor under the scorching sun.
If you cut the rice with a sickle, if you don't pay attention to your face, your arm will be scratched by the sharp rice leaves, and after the wound is cut, it will be soaked in sweat, and the taste is really sour.
This is still a normal situation, and extreme weather, a flood, and a major drought are enough to undo all the hard work.
Therefore, it is not easy to say that the farmer friends who grow rice are really special and special, and it is no exaggeration to say that one grain is one sweat.
Gossip without mentioning it, let's get down to business.
Before breakfast, the one-acre and two-point paddy field had been harvested, and the stacks were stacked well, just waiting for the rice threshing machine to thresh.
After breakfast, the three little ones and the family's pets stayed to watch the house, and the adults went to the rice fields to harvest rice.
In order to prevent their hands and faces from being scratched by Inaba, all of them wore straw hats and long sleeves, except for Yang Yong.
"After being scratched by that straw leaf, will it bleed?" Yang Yong was afraid of the heat, so he asked Liu Wen last night.
"Not really, it's just a little bit of skin, and there will be a red mark on the hand. Liu Wen told the truth.
"Okay, I see. I heard that it was just a red mark, so Yang Yong didn't care.
"Brother Yong, Brother Yong, don't blame me for not reminding you in advance when you suffer!" Seeing Yang Yong wearing short sleeves, Liu Wen snickered in his heart.
The three little ones also wanted to go, but they were sternly rejected by the adults, the weather was too hot, the sun was too hot, and the children couldn't stand it at all in the unsheltered rice field area.
Liu Wen and Yang Yong are responsible for stepping on the pedal for threshing, and Xue Fangqinger is responsible for passing handfuls of rice. Liu Wen's father was responsible for transporting the rice, the old man was responsible for loading the rice into baskets or bags, and Liu Wen's mother, Yang Yong's parents, and Professor Lin and his wife were responsible for harvesting the other paddy fields.
They also had to transport the cut rice stalks one by one to the field where there was no water, because the field was filled with rice and fish, and it was impossible to do without water, and the water was deep and the rice machine could not be carried out. It won't be long before the muddy water from the pedals turns people into mud monkeys, and the stripped rice is also covered in mud.
"Brother Yong, you are optimistic about my movements, put the rice handle on the drum, it should be as light as possible, if you press down slightly, it will be very difficult to turn the drum, such a threshing method will not last long. Liu Wen pressed the pedal hard, and when the drum was spinning fast, he took a handful of rice stalks handed over by Qing'er with both hands.
Liu Wen held the root of the rice stalk in his hand with both hands, and flicked it with his left and right hands by the way, spreading the rice handle as thin as possible, and then gently put it on the drum.
After the sound of "Zizi", the grains splashed and fell into the big wooden barrel, Liu Wen turned the rice handle up and down on both sides, and knocked all the grains into the wooden barrel as much as possible.
"Brother Yong! You see it's very simple! Come up and try it! Oh! Remember to change your foot when you are tired of pedaling, change your left foot to your right foot when you are tired, and change your left foot when you are tired with your right foot. Otherwise, if you step on one foot, you will soon lose your strength and you will not be able to step on it!"
Liu Wen saw that Yang Yong looked interested and full of confidence, so he tried to stand on the side and give up enough positions for Yang Yong to express himself.
"Okay!" Yang Yong stood on the rice threshing machine, tried to step on the pedal first, and found that it was not difficult at all, so he stretched out his hands and asked Xue Fang to hand over the rice handle.
After Yang Yong took the rice handle, he also learned Liu Wen's movements, held the root of the rice handle with both hands, and tried to thin the rice handle, and then put it on the roller.
"Hiss!" The rotational speed of the drum became slow, Yang Yong almost couldn't grasp the rice handle in his hand, and when Liu Wen stepped on the pedal, he suddenly felt strong resistance, and he almost couldn't step on it.
"Lightly, lightly!" Liu Wen immediately reminded and then pressed the pedal hard, Yang Yong heard the reminder, and immediately lifted the rice handle up, and the speed of the drum returned to the normal level just now.
"Brother Yong! Most of the millet that can't be beaten down is mostly empty shells, so you can leave them alone. Seeing that Yang Yang was holding the rice pole upside down and repeatedly. Liu Wen took a look at it and reminded that some empty chaffes are not strong and very difficult to beat, especially those green empty chaff are especially difficult to beat.
"I don't know. Yang Yong threw the rice handler in his hand and took the other handful handed over by Xue Fang, and did it with some excitement.
In front of one or twenty handfuls, Yang Yong became more and more excited to step on the roller, but then it became slower and slower, and he hadn't been liver for an hour. Yang Yong ran out of strength, panting, and sat on the straw pile to rest, not wanting to move.
Yang Yong's hands were scratched by straw leaves, and now the hot feeling stimulated Yang Yong's brain one after another, especially after being soaked in the sweat, it hurt and itched, Yang Yong frowned and made his eyes uncomfortable.
Liu Wen has been steadily stepping on the pedal when his left foot is tired, changing to his right foot, and changing to his left foot when his right foot is tired, always keeping the drum above a certain speed, which can quickly thresh the rice without making himself too tired.
"Get up, don't play dead, get to work. Seeing Yang Yong paralyzed on the grass and lazy, Xue Fang kicked Yang Yong's ass.
"Got it!" Yang Yong wailed, poured out two glasses of water and drank it first, then howled as a wolf in his spirit, and walked on the rice threshing machine, just like a warrior stepping on the battlefield.
Seeing that a thick layer of rice had been piled up in the wooden barrel, the old man skillfully pulled the rice under the drum to the edge of the wooden barrel, opened his hands and five fingers to pound in the grain pile, roughly picked out the rice leaves and some empty rice stalks and threw them away, and then filled the rice with a small wooden bucket and transported it to the basket on the ridge.