Qi Lei laughed, patted his shriveled and thin chest, and said, "Mercedes-Benz, right? No problem, no problem!"

Zhenhua also smiled and pulled Qi Lei into the table to drink.

Qi Lei's mother and Zhuang Xiaodie are also here today, and they were specially invited by Zhao Chenghai and his wife. Zhuang Xiaodie held the child again, and with Qi Lei, it was equivalent to four people drinking here.

Lan Yuzhi said to her son: "Qi Lei, you drink a little less wine, the family is still cutting rice, and you still have to work in the afternoon." ”

"I know, I know. Qi Lei nodded in agreement, but he still drank heavily, elated.

After the dinner, Qi Lei pulled Zhenhua into the kitchen, took out five hundred yuan in cash, and said: "Zhenhua, this is my little heart, it is your wedding gift." Wait for your son to get married later, and the Mercedes Benz will be wrapped around me!"

Zhenhua was a little embarrassed, and excused himself: "This is too much, isn't ......it?

Five hundred yuan is still very valuable in this year, and it is Zhenhua's salary for half a year.

"My mother is my mother, I am me, if you don't accept it, don't be a brother in the future!" Qi Lei couldn't help but say, putting the money in Zhenhua's pocket.

It was difficult to resist the hospitality, and Zhenhua had to accept it.

After Qi Lei left, Zhao Chenghai immediately came to ask Zhenhua: "Zhenhua, did Qi Lei give you a gift?

"He gave too many gifts, five hundred yuan, I was embarrassed to ask for it. Zhenhua took out the five hundred yuan just now and handed it to his father.

"Hehe, Qi Lei is so generous, he is really a good brother with you!" Zhao Chenghai was so excited that he took the money and counted it, and said with a smile: "You are brothers, closer than other people's brothers." He gave it to you himself, why are you embarrassed to accept it? Qi Lei has made a fortune as a boss, and these five hundred yuan is nothing to him!"

Zhenhua smiled faintly and didn't want to say more.

Zhao Chenghai said again: "You rest for a while and go to help Qi Lei work." There is nothing going on at home for us, and there is no rush for these two days. ”

got a gift of 500 yuan, which made Zhao Chenghai excited, so he took the initiative to ask Zhenhua to help.

Zhao Chenghai's family has sufficient labor, and there are only three acres of rice left, which are not yet ripe and are raised in the ground. At Qi Lei's house, the rice harvest is not yet half completed.

"Okay. Zhenhua nodded and went back to the room to take a nap.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun converged a little, and it was not so scorching.

Zhenhua got up, drank a big pot of herbal tea, carried the flat burden, and took the rope to help Qi Lei.

On the threshing floor of Qi Lei's house, there is a thick layer of rice handles, which were just picked up from the field yesterday.

"Drink, drink!" Qi Lei was wearing a broken straw hat, driving the old cow on the threshing floor, crushing the grain off the straw.

The old cow dragged a stone stone behind his buttocks, and the stone stone squeaked between the wooden frames.

Lan Yuzhi took her second son Qi Gui to the field to cut rice, and Zhuang Xiaodie carried her son Qi Shuai on her back with a cloth belt, holding a straw fork, and took care of the surrounding areas of the threshing floor, tidying up the corners.

Zhenhua walked over and took a look, took the straw fork from Zhuang Xiaodie's hand, and said, "Fluttershy, you take the child to rest for a while, the sun is too hot, and it's not good to bask in the child." I'm fine in the afternoon, I'm here to help you with your work. ”

Qi Lei drove the old cow around and said, "Zhenhua, you help me play, I'll pee!"

Zhenhua nodded, threw away the grass fork, and drove cattle for Qi Lei.

The lazy cow is on the field, and the and urine are busy. The old cow of the Qi Lei family had the same virtue as Qi Lei, and after not taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped, his two hind legs were forked, and his tail was cocked.

"The cow is peeing, get the dung spoon!" Zhenhua shouted.

When the floor is beaten, the dung scoop will be placed on the edge of the threshing floor and waited. Qi Lei rushed over with a dung spoon, but after all, he was a step too late, and most of the cow urine was poured on the straw.

"This brute!" Qi Lei scolded, removed the piece of straw, swept the pee-soaked rice into the dustpan, and poured it aside to feed the chickens.

Zhenhua saw that Zhuang Xiaodie was not in front of the door, and smiled evilly: "Qi Lei, what did you do to your old buffalo when you came back? I see that your old cow can't hold back his pee!"

Qi Lei rolled his eyes: "I haven't asked you yet, why did my old buffalo his tail when he saw you? When did you two hook up, tell me honestly!"

The two of them were idle and unclean, framing each other, just like the boredom of their youth.

An hour later, Zhenhua's fight ended, tied the old cow to the side, and came to turn over again. The so-called "turning" is to turn over the rice handles in the threshing floor. It's like this in the game, if you can't play it cleanly once, you have to turn it over and fight it again.

After the second play, it was already dark.

The threshing of the paddy is basically over, and now the straw on the threshing floor is cleared and the paddy is piled up.

There are more than three acres of straw in this field, and the amount of labor involved in stacking grass is very large.

Qi Lei pulled the electric light in front of the door and fought at night. Lan Yuzhi also came back from the field with her second son Qi Gui, and she didn't have time to eat dinner, so she got busy in the threshing floor.

It wasn't until about nine o'clock in the evening that the straw on the threshing floor was cleaned up, leaving the ground full of rice and broken grass.

Zhuang Xiaodie puts the child to sleep and cooks dinner for everyone.

Qi Lei asked the second brother to go to the small shop in the village to buy a few bottles of beer and drink with Zhenhua.

There was no food for dinner, just a handful of peanuts, a few salted duck eggs, plus a plate of salted beans and a pot of fried pumpkin.

But Zhenhua and Qi Lei were hungry and tired, and they tasted delicious.

Qi Lei was so tired that his back hurt, and he sighed: "Zhenhua, I want my mother to stop farming, it's too tiring, and I don't make a lot of money, and it delays my time...... But my mom won't listen, alas, it's really hard for her and Fluttershy, and my second brother. ”

Zhenhua shook his head: "If the croppers don't farm, can they go and buy rice to eat?" Wait until next year, when your second brother grows up, Qi Shuai can throw away his hands, and your family's farming will be easy." The most difficult, only these two years. Looking at the long run, your two younger brothers have grown up, married wives, and have a lot of labor in the family.

Qi Lei smiled and shook his head, "You are too naïve to think about it. Suppose all three of us brothers become a family, each of four people. With my mother, there are thirteen people in the big family. At that time, farming was easy, but the income from these ten acres of land could support this big family?

That's the same thing. Zhenhua thought for a while and said with a smile: "I don't care, I'm just a brother, and my family has ten acres of land, which can feed a family." ”

Qi Lei and Zhenhua clinked glasses, and said:

"And this way of farming is too backward and tiring. The way we farm and the tools we use are the same as they were thousands of years ago. This old cow, this stone stone, at most a neolithic tool, this ...... It's hilarious! Satellites are in the sky, humans are on the moon, and we're cavemen!"