In this way, the two girls worked together and matched well until noon.

Such a busy work makes Shaofen work hard every day, striving to gradually get used to it.

Shao Ke, who is still in his hometown, has already helped to dry the peanuts and rice, and after drying, his grandfather and he blew the millet clean with wind foil.

The next day, his grandfather asked him to pay the public grain, and the land of the four people in the family had to be paid four shares, and he nodded and said yes.

In the past, my sister was at home, and the two siblings went together.

Now I and my grandfather have to pick by themselves at home, and my grandfather wants to choose, so I don't let him laugh and say to my grandfather: "Grandpa, we will all go out in the future."

You really plant less at home, and when the time comes, I'll come back to help you when the school holidays come.

It takes a lot of effort to plant and harvest, you pay attention to your body yourself, don't get too tired. ”

Grandpa nodded and said okay, yesterday afternoon, the grandfather and grandson picked up all the peanut vines in that field.

The peanut vines had been dried, and I wanted to pick them up and feed the two rabbits, and I had been busy with other farm work.

Now it can only be used as firewood, and the peanut vines at home have been fed in the past few days.

The grandfather and grandson picked back and forth several times, and each time he asked the grandfather to pick a little less, he picked two baskets by himself.

Dried peanut vines are not as heavy and are slightly better picked up.

Put some in the kitchen and pile it up, so it's easy to take it when you burn it, and put some under the eaves.

Cover it with plastic tape in case it gets wet when it rains.

After picking in the afternoon, the grandfather and grandson also went to cut the rabbit grass.

If you don't finish the vegetable leaves that you usually cut back, you can feed them to the rabbits by drying them.

In the past few days when my parents came back, half of the vegetables in the vegetable field had been eaten, and there was already less planting.

Shao can also cut before, at that time, the two siblings will help cut after finishing their homework.

Most of the time, it was the grandfather who cut because they helped cook the rice and do other chores at home.

Every time the rabbit grows up, it will kill the family to eat, raise less, and it is a bit troublesome to mainly cut the rabbit grass.

It's better to have vegetable leaves at home, and weeds grow on the edge of the soil outside, which not every kind of rabbit will eat.

Only children who have lived in the countryside know that there are several kinds of fish, dandelions, empty dragon vegetables, etc.

On this day, Shao Ke carried the millet to the street to hand over the grain, and picked it back and forth twice, about 80 catties each time.

The sun in the morning is not so hot, and there is no market on the street today, only the uncles and aunts who carry the grain to pay the grain.

Walking on the road, he called them with a smile, and the uncle and aunt said while carrying the grain: "Baby, do you come to pay the public grain personally?"

Shao Ke nodded yes, and walked on the road and stopped three times before getting to the street.

There are already villagers queuing at the entrance of the supply and marketing cooperatives on the street, and everyone is standing there waiting patiently.

Wait for the village chief and secretary to weigh the grain, pour it on the ground, write down the amount they have handed in, and sign their names.

After Shao Ke arrived, he put down his flat shoulder and gasped, wiped the sweat on his face, and waited patiently.

When it was his turn, he hurriedly picked it up, and the village chief and the secretary helped to carry it onto the scale, and wrote the number of catties after the scale.

asked Shaoke to sign, the village chief knew that there were four people in his family, and it was not enough to ask him to go back and pick two more buckets, Shaoke nodded and said yes.

Hurriedly went back with an empty basket, and it didn't take long to pick two more buckets, and waited patiently when he arrived.

After weighing this time, the village chief said to him with a smile: "Shaoke, it's enough, thirty catties more, you can pick it back." ”

Shao Ke smiled and nodded yes, wiped the sweat on his face, and picked up the rest of the grain.

Now I am missing dozens of pounds, it is not heavy to carry, and I can walk very quickly, and it didn't take long to arrive at my home.

Grandpa fed some food to the chickens and ducks at home, and also fed the pigs and rabbits.

After seeing Shao Ke come back, he immediately laughed loudly and said, "Shao Ke, have you paid enough?"

Shao Ke put down the flat burden and nodded yes, grandpa smiled and said that it was good, and immediately said: "Let's go cut a little lamp grass and come back, weave some straw hats to sell, while you haven't left yet, okay." ”

Shao Ke smiled and said okay, my mother used to make it up when she was at home.

At that time, the two siblings were still young, and their mother was reluctant to let them go, for fear that they would be disobedient at home, and grandpa would not be able to control them. When they were in junior high school, they were relieved to come out to work with their father.

However, at that time, it was not easy to find a job, and my mother planted lamp grass on half of the land in her house, and she would cut it back every year when the lamp grass grew taller.

At that time, straw hats were still very easy to sell, because there were few people who went out to work in the countryside, and they basically bought them when they were doing farm work at home.

My mother planted the lamp grass and watered it so that it could grow taller.

Children in the countryside only know what the lamp grass looks like, and its leaves resemble the thin tubes of the kind that are used to hang needles.

It's just that it's green, and after being exposed to the sun, it will turn light green, and when it is processed by the factory and dyed with color, it will become light yellow.

After the lamp grass grows tall, it is almost as tall as a human and matures in about five months.

There can be no lack of water when the main growth is grown, otherwise it will not grow tall.

So I had to plant it on the edge of the paddy field, so that it would be better.

Chen's mother has been planting for more than ten years, and she planted it in the fourth year of marriage, when the two siblings were only more than two years old.

At first, the father had not gone out to work, and the couple worked very hard at home, thinking that the two children would use more money, and the couple tried their best to earn money.

In the beginning, the family raised more chickens and ducks than now, and raised two fat pigs every year.

The grandparents helped bring the two grandchildren, and the two couples and the grandparents would weave straw hats.

The two husbands and wives were also taught by their grandparents, how much does it cost to make up a good one?

My grandparents are very good at knitting, and they will knit five or six in four hours a day, and my parents will be slower when they first learn to knit.

It takes two hours to make one, and both fingers are sore and numb.

If you do this many times, your hands will blister at first, and then they will grow calluses.

Later, a few years later, my grandmother died of illness, and my parents were already very familiar with it, and they could basically make one in an hour.

Other people in the village will also make it, but there are very few people who plant it, and some uncles have to weave back baskets and baskets, buckets, and dustpans to sell, and there is no time to make this.

After making up dozens of them, Chen's father and Chen's mother will pick them up and sell them on the street, and the boss who collects straw hats will go to the countryside to collect them.

Their factories are generally in the town, and the boss has a good eye, and he can tell at a glance which ones are well organized.

The woven lamp grass should be neat, and the gaps between them are very small, and this straw hat can be considered qualified.

If the weaving is not good, the boss may not accept it, because it may not be sold after receiving it and taking it back for processing, so it will lose money.

So when Chen's father and Chen's mother were learning, my grandmother demonstrated many times on the side, telling them to make it up.

Chen's father and Chen's mother nodded and said okay, make up one for grandpa to see, grandpa said it's okay, and then start making up another one.

In this way, a straw hat will be woven for a period of time every year, and the lamp grass must be wet before weaving to prevent it from breaking.

Every year, I would sell a little straw hat for money, until my grandmother died and my father went out to work.

When they were about eight years old, they saw their mother and grandfather weaving straw hats at home, and the two siblings watched carefully. Ask Mom what she made up?

My mother said while knitting: "This is a straw hat, which we rural people use for work." We will make it up and sell it, and the money after the sale will be used to pay your tuition. ”

The two siblings watched from the side and wanted to learn to weave, thinking it was very fun, but their mother and grandfather didn't let them, for fear that they wouldn't make it well and waste the lamp grass.

And it takes two fingers, for fear that the child's hand will hurt.

When they were ten years old, they grew taller and saw their mother and grandfather knitting straw hats again, and they asked their mother to teach them.

Mom looked at the two brothers and sisters who had grown taller and smiled and said okay, but grandpa didn't let him, Shaoke said it for a long time next to him before he agreed.

In this way, my mother taught Shaofen, my grandfather taught Shao Ke, and taught them hand in hand, the two brothers and sisters learned seriously, and the two little hands held the lamp straw like adults.

After her mother taught Shaofen to make one, she asked her to learn to weave it by herself, and helped her weave her head, and Shaofen took it and sat on the small bench to weave it.

After Grandpa taught Shaoke to finish knitting one, let him learn to knit it himself, help him make up the beginning, and Shaoke sat on the small bench to weave.

The two adults watched while weaving, after all, the two brothers and sisters had just learned, and their hands were too busy, and the lamp grass was kneaded into a shape by them, but fortunately it was not broken, and my mother and grandfather stopped.

I took what they made up, corrected it, and asked them to make it evenly, so the two brothers and sisters finished making it up, and the two adults helped change it many times, otherwise it wouldn't be sold.

Mom and grandpa told them not to make it up, and the two siblings had to nod and say okay, the two little hands were already in pain.

At the age of eleven, the two adults were making it up again, and the two siblings asked to learn to make it.

Mom and grandpa nodded and said yes, patiently taught one to make it up, let them make it up themselves, this time the two brothers and sisters made it better, and the two adults didn't help to correct it.

It took several hours for the two siblings to weave a straw hat by themselves for the first time, three hours less usable, and three and a half hours for Shaofen.

After making it up, the two brothers and sisters breathed a sigh of relief, and said loudly: "It's so difficult to make up, Mom, Grandpa, don't your hands hurt?"

The two adults had to laugh and say, "If you get used to it, you won't be able to do it." ”

The two siblings had to start learning to make it up again, this time it was done, it took less time, that year Shao Ke made up five, and after Shaofen made up four, the two of them didn't want to make it up.

At the age of twelve, the family knitted straw hats again, and this time the two brothers and sisters also helped to weave, this time the speed was a little faster, it would take two hours to make one less, and it would take two and a half hours for Shaofen to weave one.

That year, Shao Ke made up ten, and Shaofen didn't want to make it up after he made eight.

At the same time, I feel that it is really hard to earn some money in the countryside. The two siblings are very diligent in other jobs.

When they were thirteen years old, their mother said to them, "Mom and Dad are going to work outside, and you should be obedient at home." ”

The two siblings nodded and said okay, when weaving straw hats that year, Shao Ke insisted on weaving twenty, and Shaofen insisted on weaving eighteen.

After knowing that it was grandpa and them who made it up, the two siblings worked hard.

At the age of fourteen, they made up a lot of them.