There is a lot of work before the wheat harvest.

For example, tidying up the warehouse, and mending sacks.

Zhou Shujie spent a day cleaning up these things.

First, the barn was cleaned up, and everything was put on one side, leaving room for stacking wheat.

He also found all the bags of wheat from previous years, and looked through each one carefully.

If you find something bad or something that has been bitten by a mouse, you will take it out and put it aside, and when you are done, you will sew it up, and continue to put it in the warehouse.

She sat directly at the door of the barn and mended them one by one with the rags cut from those old clothes.

Zhou Shujie sat there mending the sack, and the two children were very curious about what his mother was doing, and they also squatted there to watch carefully.

Because they were running back and forth, Zhou Shujie had to avoid them with a needle, for fear of pricking them when pinching the needle and pulling the thread.

Later, it was the mother-in-law who came over and led the two children to play under the sand fruit tree on the side.

Now the fruit of the sand fruit tree has grown bigger than the copper coins.

If it grows two or three times, it will not be far from ripeness.

As soon as the two children arrived at the foot of the sand fruit tree, they looked up at the fruit on it.

Sometimes I can't hold my balance when I look up for a long time, and I just sit on the ground with my buttocks.

I don't cry when I sit on the ground, and when I get up, I will pat the dust on my buttocks, and play with other things as if nothing happened.

On the third day of Zhuzi's departure, Zhou Shujie's family began to harvest wheat.

This year's wheat harvest is still the same as in previous years, and the three companies are in partnership.

Of course, it was mainly Uncle Zhou's family and Uncle Guo's family who helped her a lot, and there were several people in each family, only Zhou Shujie was herself.

The work is not as fast as others, and it is basically the one who fights the wolf in the back.

As they wielded their scythes and sweated, the pillars over there were where he was going.

They first arrived at a unit outside the mountain, and this unit was the unit that sent them supplies every time.

Before he could enter the mountain, the phone from above came again,

Let him go straight from here.

After that, the pillar got on the troop carrier and rushed to the battlefield day and night to meet up with his comrades who had already set out.

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The original golden wheat fields in the small mountain village were divided into various uneven traits by the industrious people.

In the golden gold that the wind blows, are the peasants sweating like rain, wielding the sickles in their hands, reaping the fruits of their year's labor.

Each strong laborer can harvest about three to four acres of wheat in a day.

Even women do not harvest less than three acres of wheat a day.

Zhou Shujie's family is harvesting in partnership with her uncle and Aunt Guo's family, and there are many of them.

Uncle Zhou's family, in addition to Sister-in-law Zhou, who was watching the children, came with four people.

Uncle Guo's family is even more, only Guo San's sister-in-law is at home with the children, and the other seven people have gone to the ground.

plus Zhou Shujie, these are 12 people.

Each person is counted as a minimum of three acres a day, which is more than two acres of land!

The first to harvest was Zhou Shujie's wheat, and her family had a total of two acres of land, that is, more than 30 acres. (15 acres)

These 12 people can easily cut it in one day.

At the beginning of the first day of the first month, I was afraid that I would not be able to finish the harvest, so I made great efforts, and by the afternoon there was not much wheat left.

When the brother arrived at the ground, Uncle Zhou straightened up and looked at the wheat field that was not much left.

He greeted everyone loudly: "She, Uncle Guo, come and rest for a while, the rest of this little will be done in one go."

Uncle Guo heard the cat's waist hum, cut off the last two handfuls of wheat, bundled them into a bundle and put them behind him, then straightened up and said, "Okay, there is not much left, let's rest and rest, this is just starting to work, don't use too much force at once." ”

Uncle Zhou said with a smile. "Isn't it, it's really old, when I was young, I didn't take a break from doing anything, but now I feel that this waist is not my own after doing it for a while." ”

Uncle Guo smiled and said, "Hahahaha, haven't you heard a word, it's called old and strong." In the future, there is work waiting for you to do, and now you are old, ah, you want to be lazy. ”

Uncle Zhou smiled and said. "Pull it down, are you boasting about it?" ”

After speaking, he greeted the women who were picked up by Brother Zhou and them. "Don't rush to get a ridge at the end of the day, come and rest and drink a few sips of water." After a while, the rest of us men will do it, and you women will chop up the wheat in the back. ”

Today's day is good, at least, it won't rain for three or four days.

Therefore, these cut wheat are not in a hurry to be transported to the yard first.

First stack them in the ground into small piles of one man high, and let them dry here. When it's almost done, pull it to the yard and pull it out of the car. In this way, it also saves the yard from piling up in a large pile, and wasting food back and forth.

This stack of wheat is considered a light work in the wheat harvesting, that is, the wheat that was placed in the ground when the first wheat was harvested, picked up one by one, stacked a small round pile with a hollow middle, and turned all the ears of wheat outward, the higher the stack, the smaller it became, until it was pointed, and erected a bundle of wheat on top of it.

As soon as he heard that he could rest, Zhou Shujie felt that his steps were two points brisk.

She's not really the kind of person who is particularly capable.

I didn't do much of this kind of work in the field before, but now I am married to someone and become a daughter-in-law, and I use it as an adult no matter how old I am.

Doing geography work every day made her feel a little unbearable.

Fortunately, these lands will be planted for Uncle Guo's family next year.

At that time, Zhou Shujie can be regarded as liberated.

When they got to the ground, all the people sat on the ground and rested, smoking and drinking, and sharpening knives with whetstones. There were also a few women who went to the toilet in groups.

You can rest for half an hour!

got up again and continued to work, just like Uncle Zhou arranged, and the men went to cut the rest of the wheat.

Aunt Zhou and Aunt Guo led this group of female generals to stack wheat stacks.

When the yard, Uncle Zhou also said. "Sister-in-law Guo, let's make the stacks bigger, we have an ox cart for him to load a cart, and it will save effort to load the cart when the time comes." ”

Aunt Guo nodded when she heard this. "Okay, just do as you say." ”

In this way, they formed a flowing operation line.

Young and strong, such as Zhou Shujie, Guo's sister-in-law and Guo's second sister-in-law, they took the farthest wheat to the middle.

Aunt Zhou and Aunt Guo were commanding while holding the nearest wheat stack.

When I want to say that I am doing this work, I really don't realize how fast the time is.

Sometimes I can get busy, and I even forget about my life.

No one remembers.

Zhou Shujie's wheat was cut for a day.

Uncle Zhou's family spent a day and a half.

Uncle Guo's family has a lot of people and a lot of land, and it took two and a half days to harvest wheat.

Fortunately, it has not rained during this time, and the wheat stacks in the field have been dried and can be played directly.

Several families have formed an assembly line together.

There were those who loaded carts in the field, those who drove ox carts to the yard, and those who played in the yard.

This year is a good year, and it can be said that it is a bumper harvest, at least this wheat is.

It's a lot more than two bags of land to hook one acre!

The first to be counted was the wheat of Zhou Shujie's family, which was the first to be recovered.

Their family had a total of 36 acres of land and 85 sacks of wheat.

As soon as they calculated how much grain there was in one acre of land, they were so happy that they couldn't see their teeth.

Zhou Shujie now looks at the people in the village, and his eyes are smaller than before.

That's when they were all happy, and they were all smiling when they saw everyone.

This year, the team has given more work than in previous years, in previous years, a manual count of 20 catties of grain, and this year, a manual count of 25 catties of wheat.

In this way, everyone is very motivated.

Some of the half-grown children were half-working, and they all went to the fields to cut wheat.

To say that this is also a phenomenon of the times, few children of peasant families go to school.

It doesn't cost money to go to school now, and there is no and no homework that will be done in later generations.

But there is one thing, far from home.

Many children can't endure this hardship and don't go to school for a few days.

So in this village, there are still a lot of half-grown children, at least two in each family, and many of them are four, five, six, seven.

Who made this time. There are a lot of children.

Zhou Shujie also went to work, counting twenty-five catties of wheat a day, and she worked for eight days, that is, she earned two hundred catties of wheat.

These two hundred catties should be packed in a bag, which is a full bag of hemp.

I was very tired when I was dry, and I was happy for Zhou Shujie for a long time after I finished doing it.

There is still a period of time before the wheat is harvested, which also gives everyone some respite.

After a day of relaxation, I was relieved after two days of rest.

The people in the village began to check the fire of three or five families, pulling the newly fallen wheat to make new noodles.

Zhou Shujie's family did the same, took out two bags of new wheat, and put them on the ox cart that had already filled seven or eight bags, and asked Brother Zhou and Brother Guo to drive the ox cart to make new noodles.

After this busyness, Zhou Shujie looked in the mirror and felt that he had been tanned as an African. The whole face is black and red.

Even the two children of her family were sunburned outside and were sunburned, which is not lacking in calcium.

If you want to say that this child is the fastest-grown, I haven't paid careful attention to them for more than half a month.

Now that he takes a closer look, Zhou Shujie feels that these two children have grown two inches.

Didn't you see that the clothes and pants were short, showing your feet and necks and exposing your wrists?

Now the child walks very steadily, and rarely falls when he runs and jumps in the yard.

Zhou Shujie's mother-in-law, as long as she sat at the door and watched them, she didn't let them go out of the gate, didn't let them go to the well, and dangerous places. Just let them run and play in the yard, that's why these two children are tanned like this.

Now it seems that the bodies of the two of them are no different from normal children.

It's just that this mouth is a little slower, and when I first learned to speak, grandma, mother, or something would often call me.

I often make a mistake, either I call Nana or I call a wolf.

Now it will scream, but it has become a gourd, and it is easy to be silent, what you want, what you want to do, you also point with your hand or ah.

The afternoon sun was shining brightly, and the village was quiet.

Only occasionally there were two dog barks, and the rooster could only hear some movement.

Every noisy child in the house also fell silent.

Either they are sleeping, or several children are muttering and playing together quietly, for fear of disturbing their sleeping parents.

Zhou Shujie didn't sleep, she sat under the fruit tree and used a fan for the two sleeping children to chase away the mosquitoes that flew over.

Now the two children are running away from the wilderness, and even if they go to bed at noon, they don't like to be in the stuffy house, but have to run outside to sleep under the trees.

Zhou Shujie spread two sacks on the ground, put an old sheet on them, and then laid a mattress for them.

Now, the saliva of the two children is flowing from sleep, and the little face is flushed.

Zhou Shujie only put a thin pillow towel on their stomachs.

There's a little breeze blowing lightly outside.

Don't say it, it's quite comfortable to sleep here.

It's just that there are more mosquitoes, so Zhou Shujie didn't dare to sleep, and sat here to watch the two children.

She doesn't care about this, waiting for the two children to wake up, she will have to be bitten in the bag.

While fanning the banana fan that I bought for five cents in the market, I was thinking about my thoughts.

"The pillar has been gone for more than half a month now, and it must have arrived at the battlefield a long time ago. I just don't know how he is doing over there, whether he is injured or not. ”

When the pillar came back coldly, Zhou Shujie was very unaccustomed to it, and after getting along for several days, he found the familiar feeling he once had.

When the pillar was gone, she felt unaccustomed again.

But this time there was no time, let her get used to it herself.

The wheat harvest was so busy that he forgot everything.

Opening her eyes is working, closing her eyes is sleeping, and she is so tired every night that she can't wait to pull the cat's tail on the kang. I really don't have that kind of cranky thinking.

I've heard someone say something while watching TV. "Time can smooth everything. ”

Now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense.

Zhou Shujie raised his hand and slapped him on the head.

The Tao of self-talk. "The two lives before and after are seventy or eighty years old, and it's really hypocritical to think about these useless things here. ”

If you want to think about it, you should also think about what you want to do in the next few years.

For example, children go to school.

People in this era don't think it's of much use for this child to go to school.

Zhou Shujie knows that if this child has no culture, there will be a lot of restrictions on their development if they don't go to school.

No matter what happens to other people's children, these two in her family have to go to school.

If you don't learn this, the glory of your son in the previous life will not belong to him.

The first thing that comes to mind now is that when the children reach school age, they may have to move to the county seat.

The village is so far away from the school that she can't pick up and drop her off every day.

She couldn't bear to put her two children in someone else's house.

So she decided that she would follow her child to the county seat like she had done in her previous life.

The child goes to school in the county seat, and she lives in the county seat.

When her children go to school in other cities, she will also follow her children to live in other cities.

If you want to say that the focus of her life is on these two children.

At least that's what he decided now......