Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Autumn Harvest Begins

Autumn is always a season to look forward to. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Regardless of the literati, looking for red maple and chrysanthemum, or the farmer, harvesting a year's hard work.

The rooster crowed three times, and the people in the village got up early and rushed to the field, cutting the rice, cutting the rice, and breaking the corn. Even the children went with them, helping the adults herd the cattle and handing out water and so on. But the old Han family waited until the sun was bright and the dew dried before they came to the field to work.

Luo Qinian was sweating hot when she was only halfway there, and she wiped it dry casually with her sleeves: "Dad, why don't we come early, it's cool in the morning, you can cut a little more grain." It's almost noon now, and the sun is shining, so I can't do much. ”

Father Han sat on the side of the ox cart, shook the cigarette stick, and said with a smile: "You don't know, right?" At this time, it is just right to cut the grain. When the dew dries, the rice stalks become brittle, and they can be easily cut without force. And the millet is not afraid of being stuffy and moldy if it is not sunburned in time. ”

"And this is exquisite. Dad, you're amazing. ”

Father Han accepted Luo Qinian's compliment. He looked up at the sun, which was white and burned like a fire on the ground: "Old man, go to your house." Cook something for us to eat. ”

Luo Qinian was stunned: "Dad, I just came." I'll be back when it's almost noon. I cook fast. ”

"Sunburn, your skin is white and tender, and you can't stand it. ”

"Hehe, Dad, you've lost your eyes, I've been the least afraid of the sun since I was a child. In previous years, my father and I got up early and greedy for the autumn harvest, and we almost grew up in the ground, and we didn't see a tan. ”

Father Han laughed: "That's good, let's save more manpower." ”

Luo Qinian is indeed a good worker. The little figure drilled in the rice field half as high as her, pulled a handful of rice with a sickle, and then cut the knife edge slightly obliquely upward, easily cut a handful of rice, and then stacked it neatly on the open space, so that it was easy to carry it and load it.

Han Jie has always been pitiful and cherished, and when he saw Luo Qinian working with them, he always paid attention, for fear that she would accidentally cut her fingers. But then I saw that she was skillful, and her speed was not inferior to theirs. couldn't help but laugh: "Women are as numb as us when they go to the ground, and we have known that we have brought the second sister-in-law and Xiaofeng in the past, so we don't know how much to save." No, I'm going to call Xiaofeng tomorrow. ”

When Han's father and Han's mother heard this, they pouted in unison. They really don't look down on Zhang Guihua and Zhang Xiaofeng's lazy appearance. Not to mention the hard work of going to the ground, even the things on the stove are too lazy to touch. Asking them to cut the rice, and waiting for them to come up like a wooden pestle, it makes people even more angry to watch.

Han Yu understood them, and sneered: "You daydream, she can send us lunch at noon and burn high incense." ”

Han Jie was depressed and didn't answer his words.

Luo Qinian worked hard to cut the grain, and her right foot only entered a small puddle, feeling that she was stepping on something soft, slippery, and round, and it would move around, making the bottom of her feet itch. Curiously looking down, "Snake-" hurriedly dropped the sickle and ran away! The speed was very fast, and he also paid attention to the choice of road, and the barefoot girl only stepped on the mud, not half of the straw root!

"What's wrong, old man?" Han's father and Han's mother worried. Han's mother dropped her sickle and chased after Luo Qinian, while Han's father ran to the place where Luo Qinian was standing just now. Han Jie rarely saw Luo Qinian's panicked appearance, and he couldn't support it. And Han Yu followed Han's father to see what was going on.

Han Xuan was on Luo Qinian's right side, and when he saw this, he quickly caught the "snake." "Wipe the mud off its body, it turns out to be a yellow eel. Turning his head and looking at his daughter-in-law who ran away a little speechlessly. shouted loudly: "Luo Qinian, don't be afraid, it's not a snake, it's an eel." ”

"Hahahaha-" Han Jie laughed and whistled: "Sister-in-law, we have a good mouth tonight." Heck, there's a lot of eels in our field. I didn't touch it when I started in the field, and my sister-in-law stepped on one without looking, good luck!"

"Really, really?" Luo Qinian was shocked, holding Han's mother's hand and panting.

Han Xuan pinched the eel and walked over, turned out the fish basket specially prepared in the morning, and put the eel in and covered it. Then dig a pit on the spot, draw some water, and half-bury the fish basket in it.

Luo Qinian asked Han Xuan in a low voice, "Are there a lot of eels in this field?"

"Quite a lot. In previous years, when we were harvesting rice, we would step on a few stripes. Basically, after we finish cutting the paddy, we come here to dig for eels. You can dig up to three or five buckets. ”

"That's a lot. That...... Will there be snakes? I, I'm talking about mud snakes and water snakes. ”

"No ......" Han Xuan just wanted to say no, but he glanced at Luo Qinian, who looked scared, recalled that she had played tricks on herself the day before yesterday, and swallowed the words that came to his mouth, and then spit out a lie that he thought was incredible: "Not much, there are both mud snakes and water snakes, but not much." ”

Luo Qinian looked at the field worriedly, for fear that one or two mud snakes and water snakes would emerge from the small puddle that had never dried up. That kind of soft, slippery creature, she was most afraid of.

"Let's go, Dad, they've cut the boss again. ”

"Oh. Luo Qinian cautiously agreed, but her little feet were grinding and she didn't dare to step on the field. In addition to snakes, there are also leeches in the fields. The kind of thing that sucks people's blood is also soft, and she's afraid of it. She remembered that when she was sucked by leeches, it was numb and painful, and when they were not sucking blood, they were small and couldn't see if they didn't pay attention. By the time they were full of blood, they would be many, much larger, as thick as a grown man's fingers.

Han Xuan walked out more than a dozen steps, but he didn't hear Luo Qinian's footsteps coming up. When I looked back, I saw that her little face was tangled, and she was about to cry. A little remorseful, she shouldn't have teased her, girls are timid. But the lie is difficult to fulfill, and he is afraid that after telling Luo Qinian the truth that there are no mud snakes and water snakes here, Luo Qinian will be angry again.

He fumbled anxiously to his head, and suddenly looked up and saw that the sun was overhead, well, it was time to tell her to go back to making lunch. "Luo Qinian, it's noon, you go home and bring us food. ”

Luo Qinian also looked at the sun, squinted his eyes, gave himself courage, and followed him to the ground: "No need, Xiaofeng said that she will cook during the autumn harvest, and she will come later." We wait. ”

Han Xuan smiled dryly, and decided to confess leniently: "Daughter-in-law, there are no mud snakes and water snakes in the fields." ”

"Well, I know. ”

"Ah......" Han Xuan sneered, rubbing his hands: "How do you know?"

Luo Qinian pouted in the direction of Han's mother, and said, "Oh, my mother is in the field." My mother is most afraid of snakes, if there are snakes in the field, she will not come to cut the grain. She wouldn't tell him that she had told Han's mother that she had stepped on the eel when they went to catch fish as a joke, and then Han's mother told her that she was also most afraid of snakes.

Han Xuanlang smiled: "Did that mother tell you that she loves to drink snake soup the most?"

Luo Qinian's head was stuck, and Han's mother really hadn't told her. However, the thought of colorful poisonous snakes getting out of the pan of oil and then tumbling in boiling water makes her can't help but regurgitate.

"I have time to make it for you to taste, it's delicious!" Han Xuan touched Luo Qinian's head, accidentally pasted Luo Qinian's clean hair into mud, and hurriedly fled before she could react.

Luo Qinian shook his head and followed quickly, now grabbing is the king.