Since the wheat in other villages has been harvested, the tractor station of Zhangji Commune sent all five tractors in the station to help transport the wheat, plus the people in the village, the scene of the wheat harvest was extremely lively.

Although the wheat holiday was over, the school still organized the students, all of them wore red scarves, carried baskets, and followed behind to pick up ears of wheat.

Uncle and grandfather arranged for each family to leave one person to cook mung bean water at home, and distributed two catties of mung beans to each family, and more than a dozen young men picked up the boiled mung bean water into the field and sent it to the wheat harvest field to quench everyone's thirst.

There are many people and great strength, and in one morning, more than 200 acres were harvested, and all the wheat fields were pulled down. The wheat fields were piled high on all sides, and they were spread out thick in the middle.

At noon, the staff participating in the wheat harvest were resting under the forest in the village, and the uncle and grandfather under the tree had already sent someone to clean up and spread many mats on the ground.

There were many basins around, buckets of freshly drawn well water, boiled mung bean water, and a basket of washed wheat apricots.

There are people with apricot trees in the village, and their uncles and grandfathers have arranged for them to pick their own ripe yellow apricots, clean them, and collect them according to the ratio of one pound of wheat and three pounds of apricots.

The canteen of the supply and marketing cooperatives sent a cage of big steamed buns, plus buckets of mung bean water boiled in the village, and the village cadres boiled their own salted eggs and sent them over, a total of more than 200, each of which is enough for two. A few braids of new garlic were also sent, and the cadres who came to participate in the wheat harvest were very satisfied.

Although there are not many things and they are not valuable, he is intimate and represents the hearts and respect of the masses.

Secretary Li of the county party committee sat on the ground with everyone, ate together, and truly mingled with the masses. After lunch, everyone cut the wheat all morning, and when they were really tired, they lay down on the mat spread on the ground, and slept like that, and rested until about three o'clock in the afternoon.

The wheat in the field is exposed to the sun, and it will be threshed at the touch of it, and it cannot be cut in the afternoon. All the people who came gathered in the wheat field to help the field.

Several tractors dragged the stones, crushing back and forth on the field, and dozens of people followed behind to turn over the field. The strength of the crowd was great, and before five o'clock in the afternoon, a large field of wheat was pressed out in less than an hour.

Secretary Li of the county party committee came to be interested, and he personally raised the scene, and he actually did a good job, it seems that he was born as a farmer, no wonder he is so pragmatic. Looking at the piles of new wheat, my uncle and grandfather discussed with several village cadres and handed over the first new wheat to the patriotic grain.

The pound was pushed out on the spot, and the comrades of the county grain bureau and the commune grain office weighed the sacks on the spot. A total of five tractors came to the commune, one pulling 4,000 catties, and a total of 20,000 catties of wheat.

Secretary Li of the county party committee happily instructed the comrades of the Agricultural Machinery Bureau and the Grain Bureau to come to help every day and pull away 100,000 catties of grain. And patted his uncle and grandfather on the shoulder, "I will personally bring you saffron at the commendation meeting." ”

At six o'clock, everyone left, and my uncle and grandfather gathered the people in the village to divide the wheat, 30 catties per person, and the remaining 10,000 catties of wheat.

In the next three days, the commune organized personnel to come to help, and five tractors came for four days in a row, pulling away 20,000 catties of wheat every day. 100,000 catties of wheat were pulled, saving the village the trouble of delivering public grain.

Although this year's wheat harvest has been abundant, with the help of the county and the commune, the villagers do not have the tractors that they used to transport and work in previous years. Although Shimiao Village started four or five days earlier than Hantun, the wheat harvest in Hantun Village was over, and Shimiao Village had not finished the game.

This year's wheat harvest, the food of the Youyou family is very good, every day for breakfast, grandma will make a large stack of white flour mille-feuille, each layer has oil, salt and pepper noodles, the outside is charred and the inside is tender, and the bite is fragrant. Grandma said that when she ate oil cakes, Mai Tianren contributed a lot, and she had to eat to prevent hunger, and she boiled more than a dozen salted eggs every day.

For lunch, in addition to stir-fried vegetables, grandma took out all the bacon that was drowned after the New Year, and fried it once a day. Cut the bacon into thin slices, hang batter on the outside, put it in a pan and fry it with oil on both sides until golden brown.

You didn't know at first, but when you went up, you took a big bite, and it was so salty that you quickly spit it out, leaving a mouthful of bacon. So he learned from Haohao's appearance, and ate the bun with a small bite.

For dinner, my grandmother also fried a few dishes, scrambled eggs without meat, and boiled a big pot of millet mung bean soup. The family sat under the big tree in the yard and ate slowly, and Grandpa and Dad also drank two taels of white wine to relieve fatigue.

Chapter 80 May Dragon Boat Festival Eat Jujube Stew

When the Dragon Boat Festival arrived in May, everyone was busy harvesting wheat, and no one mentioned the festival. Yoyo asked grandma why no one said the Dragon Boat Festival. Grandma told her that the Dragon Boat Festival was just in time for the wheat harvest, and who could take care of the festival. It turns out that the big families who have a good life have made pot jujube stew during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Now, it's good that people can eat enough, who still bothers to celebrate the holidays. Besides, during the busy wheat harvest, there is no time to do it. There is an old saying here: eat new wheat during the Dragon Boat Festival in May.

Youyou really haven't eaten jujube stew, so he pestered his grandmother to make it. Grandma couldn't see her gluttony, but nodded in agreement.

The first night was soaked in millet rice and red dates, and at five o'clock in the morning on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, my grandmother got up and began to make jujube stewing, putting the soaked sticky rice and red dates into the pot and boiling slowly.

Stir with a spoon while boiling to prevent the pan from sticking. After boiling for about an hour, I couldn't stir it anymore before I stopped, added brown sugar and stirred well. Cover the pot and simmer for more than an hour.

When the lid of the pot is opened, the sweetness of the jujube spreads, and the fragrance of sticky rice spreads.

The golden rice is evenly inlaid with red dates, which are sticky and solidified. Grandma used a knife sticky with oil to cut the jujube stew into two-inch squares and put them in a basin, but they didn't stick or scatter.

Grandma gave Yoyo a piece of the bowl, Yoyo tasted it, the jujube stew is no longer hot, the entrance is warm, the fragrance of sticky rice and the sweetness of jujube are mixed together, fragrant and sweet, the taste is excellent, much better than the special zongzi of later generations.

A large pot of jujube stew filled two pots, and grandma asked my mother to send one pot to my uncle's house. and took a big bowl and put a bowl and sent it to the second grandmother's house. The second master tasted it, "It's delicious, but I haven't eaten this thing for years." ”

Gui Ping ate and asked, "It's so delicious, why haven't we ever eaten it, what is this?"

The second grandmother said to her: "This is jujube stew, eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, don't talk about you, your sisters haven't eaten it, and we haven't seen anyone in our village do it over the years." ”

Grandma's statement is: "There is a little sticky rice left over for the Chinese New Year this year, and the red dates are kept for Grandpa Yoyo as medicine, and in the spring of this year, he didn't work in the field, and he helped me at home, and he didn't get sick."

Seeing that the weather is hot, the jujubes are about to give birth to insects. Besides, our village is not busy with the wheat harvest this year, so I remembered to make jujube stew, and let the children eat a rarity. ”