Chapter 133: Peanut Picking

Zhou Heng's family planted more than one acre of peanuts, every year.

Since the beginning of the year, the peanuts have been harvested manually, and the family digs them with shovels, then picks them and hauls them back to dry.

Zhou Heng invited a flower digging machine to help dig this year, not wanting to make people so tired.

At first, my parents disagreed, saying that they dug it out every year, so why should they hire a machine this year. There was no income in the first place, and now I have to pay for the machine, and I can't get it.

Zhou Heng said a lot of things, so he decided this matter.

He hired the kind of small harvester, which was powered by the tractor head, which was actually only easy to dig on, but it still had to be picked up by hand, and it took time.

The really large one, the car drives to the ground, and the peanuts are dragged home, which is comfortable. It's a pity that it needs to be planted on a large scale, and only others want to come.

They planted half an acre of peanut land in the east and half an acre in the west, and the land was uneven, and the cart was inconvenient, so they had to give up.

Early in the morning, the harvester that had been arranged drove over, and Wang Zhihong also drove a family over to help, and the two children also came.

Wang Rui's summer vacation is not much left, and he can't hold on for a few days. But today I also wore a straw hat and followed him to the ground.

Even Wang Siqi was wearing a small flower hat, looking like he was going to help with the work.

The family had eaten breakfast and went to the field with their tools.

On the way, I met a neighbor's woman, and when I looked at this battle, I knew that I was going to dig peanuts.

The women carried hoes and had to go to the fields to hoe weeds, and the road was the same, so they chatted all the way.

"Yunlian, are you digging peanuts today?

"Don't wait, take advantage of the fact that someone has someone to help pick it now, and get it back as soon as possible to save trouble. Li Yunlian replied.

Another one, also taking advantage of the sunny weather.

The work on the ground is the most important thing to watch the sky and eat, especially when it comes to harvest.

If you have been busy for a year, how much you receive depends on these days.

Some people want to let the peanuts grow in the ground for two more days, hoping to harvest dozens of catties more.

However, once it rains, it is too late to harvest peanuts, or it is not dried thoroughly and it is rainy and rainy, it will be easy to mold. The peanuts that were taken back were moldy when they didn't dry, and they could only look at them dry, and they couldn't do anything.

Moldy peanuts are poisonous, no one collects them, and even pigs can't feed them, so it's equivalent to a busy year.

So, take advantage of the sunny weather and take it back quickly.

Wheat and rice are the same, it depends on the sky.

When they arrived at the field, the harvester walked "suddenly" in front, and after a while, a large area was dug up, and they began to prepare for work.

First put up a big umbrella on the ground to open the shade, then put a basket, everyone sit on the horse to dry, and throw the peanuts picked into it.

The work is simple, but the quantity is large, and it feels like there is no end in sight.

Watching Wang Rui work, Zhou Heng thought of his former self, who did a very fine job, it was like fishing in troubled waters and mixing with foreign workers.

I used to feel that the work was too tiring, and I didn't have any passion at all, and I didn't want to do it. I always think that even if I don't do it, my parents will do it anyway.

But now, Zhou Heng thinks that if he does more, his parents will be able to do less.

It's a pity that the big harvester can't get in, otherwise they wouldn't need to do it.

Li Yunlian looked at Wang Rui's work and said with a smile: "It's too much work to do, and too little to eat." ”

However, she was just talking, she didn't scold Zhou Heng at the beginning, and she won't scold him now.

Speaking of which, life is much better now than it used to be. In the past, when Zhou Heng's two sisters and brothers were young, the family still paid public grain and taxes for farming, and they had to pay their tuition fees after deducting these.

All year round, the children can only eat meat when guests come.

Now that life is better, the family can eat meat every meal, and the food they grow is also delicious, except that the son has not yet married a daughter-in-law, there is nothing else to worry about.

For her, she's a lot better off than before, and that's good.

Do some peanut picking, where is the matter.

Last year, I still dug peanuts by myself, but this year I don't have to dig them, which saves a lot of physical strength and makes people much easier.

After picking some peanuts, Zhou Heng directly raised the thin seeds in the ground and dried the peanuts on the spot, taking advantage of the good sun now.

Before noon, Hu Jinhua also came and said that he wanted to help.

Zhou Heng said: "Why do you need your help with this matter? Let's just take it slowly, you better go and rest." ”

The 6,000 chicks are getting bigger and bigger, and the work of feeding the chickens and cleaning the chicken coop every day is getting heavier and heavier.

Hu Jinhua said: "It's okay, I went to bed early last night, and I asked Lili to guard it alone." ”

Yesterday at dinner, he heard them talk about picking peanuts today, and he paid attention.

With the addition of one more person, the efficiency is even higher.

At noon, it was time to eat.

If it used to be every year, I would cook more food in the morning, and after breakfast, I would take the rest to the field, eat the cold food at noon, and then work until I was out of sight.

But after Jiang Xiaoxuan heard about this yesterday, she patted her chest and took down the Chinese rice, after all, she is a chef.

With so many people today, it can be regarded as a big pot of rice, but it can't be difficult for her.

Zhou Heng was quite embarrassed, but Jiang Xiaoxuan said: "What does it matter? I have eaten so many idle meals at your house, it doesn't matter if you cook a meal!"

Just as she was busy working in the kitchen, Li Li came down to help her, and the two women were talking and laughing in the kitchen. Li Li is not very good at cooking, but it is no problem to help out.

After the meal was ready, they had a bit of a hard time, how could they get the food to the ground? And it's not easy to take, I'm afraid of tipping it over if I'm not careful.

At this moment, Zhou Heng came back. He felt the time to see and felt that he should come back to help.

Jiang Xiaoxuan is trying to find ways to pack rice and vegetables.

On a hot day, the girl's white forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and the broken hair on her forehead was stuck to her face, but she was still smiling.

I don't know why, Zhou Heng feels that this is really the most beautiful side of her he has ever seen.

He said, "Why don't you just eat at home?" It's cool at home, and there's no place to sit in the field. ”

He put the soup in two baskets, which he could carry to the ground, and covered it so that it would not spill out.

Who knew that the two women said: "No, we have to go too, we have never eaten in the field in our lives, we also want to experience it, and have a good time." ”

So, each of them took a mazah.

Li Li also joked to Jiang Xiaoxuan: "You see, our boss Zhou is quite good at caring about people in details." ”

Jiang Xiaoxuan smiled lightly.

When they all walked out the door, they remembered something, and went back to take her drone with them.

The two girls were smiling and holding hands, as if they were going shopping.

Quickly walked to the peanut field, and the people who were busy over there saw Zhou Heng coming with food from a distance.

Zhou Faqiang greeted: "Okay, okay, you guys rest for a while, wash your hands and eat, you're all tired today." ”

Peanuts grow in the mud, and when they are dug up, they have mud on their roots, and you have to pick peanuts from the mud, so your hands are full of mud.

There was a small pond in front of the peanut field, and he went to fetch a pot and wash his hands.

Ready, the dishes that Zhou Heng picked up also came.

The big pot of rice is not like a banquet, a small bowl and a small bowl are very exquisite, there are so many people here, only four dishes are made, but the portions are very large.

A pot of duck stewed potatoes, a pot of stewed pork with beans, a pot of home-style tofu fried fungus, a pot of fish-flavored eggplant, and a pot of tomato and egg soup, the staple food is rice.

Because these people are here to help with the work today, they must be entertained well in terms of eating, and the duck was bought yesterday at the neighbor's house in the village, and I plan to stew it and eat it today.

The rest of the vegetables are grown in the field, and they are delicious when they are cooked.

Zhou Heng picked up the food, and the parents over there also hurriedly laid out a place, but then there was no way, so they turned the two baskets upside down, with the mouth facing down and the bottom facing up, which was a relatively flat place, and the vegetable pot was just right on it.

In the past, when his family harvested peanuts, he didn't have to be so particular, he just held his own bowl, and the vegetable bowl just found a clean place to rest.

However, there are many people today, and there are a few guests, so we have to pay attention to it.

The basket is so spread, and the food is put on the table, and it has a bit of a picnic taste.

Zhou Ying said to Wang Zhihong: "It's quite formal to have a meal in the field today, just because of you, a guest." ”

Wang Zhihong went to get a bowl of rice, and was completely unstruck, and said: "You also said that I, aren't you also a guest?"

Wang Siqi felt that today's meal was so interesting! So many people are eating in the field, and if they don't eat at home, today's meal must be the most fragrant.

Before the food could be prepared for her, she was so anxious that she stomped her feet and said, "Mother, eat...... Mom, ...... eating."

Zhou Ying teased her and said, "Mom knows what to eat, so you don't need to say it." ”

Wang Siqi smiled and said again: "Mom, I want to eat...... Mom, I'm going to eat......"

It didn't take long for everyone to sit down on the pony with their food in their hands and eat.

Wang Rui exaggeratedly said: "Mom, this meal is delicious! If there is such a dish every day, I am willing to pick peanuts every day, really." ”

This guy can always use one sentence to amuse everyone.

Zhou Heng added a bowl of rice, sandwiched some vegetables on it, and then said to Jiang Xiaoxuan: "Come, you can eat first." ”

Jiang Xiaoxuan was a little embarrassed: "Give it to me?"

"Of course, you've worked hard today. ”

Jiang Xiaoxuan's heart was a little sweet, but at this time, she was holding the aerial photography remote control, so she whispered: "Why don't you ...... Shall you eat first? I want to take a picture......

Before going out, she thought that today's meal would definitely be unique, so she wanted to take advantage of it to shoot a video.

She even brought a drone.

The harvest season, the food in the land, this is more interesting.

You can shoot close-up shots with your mobile phone, and then make up some aerial shots of the long shots, stretch the idea, and the picture sense will come out.

It can be said that she really likes photography, and when she sees this, she can form a picture in her mind, and even come up with post-production, soundtracks, and subtitles.

Zhou Heng added another bowl of rice, but didn't eat it, waiting for her to come along.

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