For the next two days, I was fully focused on my bamboo raft.

The bamboo material has been processed, and the next thing is to tie it into a whole.

On the first day, I took two women to the bamboo forest on the right side of the coast, cut some bamboo, and came back.

The six-meter-long raft body has two horizontal bars at the head and tail, and one is added every one meter or so, making a total of five horizontal bars, and tying a rope to connect the entire raft body together.

On the third day, two pairs of simple baskets were made of bamboo, and on the fourth day, they set out to harvest the grain.

The night before, with the help of the women, I had taken the big bamboo raft to the river and into the water.

On this day, I originally wanted to leave one person to guard the house, because harvesting grain is a hand-to-, and the more people there are, the better, so I hope that more people will help.

But when asked, no one wanted to stay at home, and they all said they were afraid.

When I think about it, I also think that a person died in the house not long ago, and it is really difficult for the women to let a person guard the house with the courage of the women.

In addition, I am not very comfortable leaving a person at home, and I don't take care of it. If a rival emerges from nowhere, the consequences will ...... I don't dare to think about it.

So in the end, it was decided that the family would not be kept, and all of them would go together!

Anyway, there is nothing to guard, just close the courtyard door and prevent snakes and insects.

He brought one Acre for self-defense, and the other two were hidden very secretly.

We really have to guard against the red-haired Yuri's enemies coming to the door, although this possibility is very small, but it doesn't mean that there is none, just like that Qi Guangfei, who could have predicted it?

We can give them everything, but guns.

But Xin fell behind, hugging and leading her little wolf cubs: "Hey, wait for me first! What about my little dog? What should I do, do I want to stay at home?"

I blurted out, "Take it with you, too!" We all have to work, how can we be lazy for them! Let them carry the grain too!"

Su Wu also likes to play with these little wolf cubs, and said, "Then take them into the mountains and exercise." ”

So I took the lead, six people, followed by four little wolves, and drove into the mountains.

The bamboo raft, because it was necessary to harvest the grain in a hurry, could not be roasted to dry, so it did not expect to carry a ton of weight.

However, it is barely possible to carry more than 1,000 pounds of one or two hundred catties.

There are six of us, add some tools, and the four little wolf dogs don't count, that is, less than seven hundred pounds, so it's easy to carry.

When I went there, it was against the current, and I had to paddle hard, so I made three pennies.

The women have experience rowing with boards on the beach, and now they have changed to penny, and under my guidance, they will soon be able to get started.

A group of people, giggling, like they were rowing and playing in the water, not like they were going to work at all.

Especially my cousin was bored for a few days before, which made the big guy worry, but now it's finally getting better, and everyone's mood has become quite good.

After some water, it took more than two hours to stop the raft and go ashore into the valley and find the rice field.

"It's so big, it's so much!" In addition to Tian Qiuqiu, the other four girls who saw the rice field for the first time couldn't help but marvel at the golden eyes.

I gave a few women a handful of eyes, and then urged: "Okay, okay, it's not early, hurry up and start work!"

The basket is not easy to carry, you can only carry the bamboo basket, a total of three bamboo baskets, divided into three groups, two people walk together, a bamboo basket together, filled with it, and then poured into the basket.

Although it is the work at hand, the threshing of millet is a difficult problem.

The women, with their fingers with fine skin and tender flesh, felt pain when they touched it twice.

But there are no gloves to protect the hands.

As a result, I don't know who came up with an idea: the women pack the ears of rice, break them off the ears, put them together, and then give me a man to pack and thresh!

This method can indeed protect the palm of a woman's hand.

It is...... It hurts me so much!

My hands, they're not made of iron!

I gave my hot fingers and complained, "Who came up with this bad idea? Who came up with it?"

The women held back a wicked laugh one by one, and no one paid any attention to me.

In the end, it was my reliable cousin who thought of a good way and said: "I remember, in ancient times, when people didn't have harvesters, and when there was no kind of threshing machine, they used threshing buckets to thresh. I think we can also get a piece of wood instead, and learn from the methods of the ancients, so that our hands don't hurt. ”

I said dissatisfiedly, "Why didn't you say it until now?"

My cousin said, "Didn't I just think of it?" I read it in a book, and I haven't farmed a field. ”

So I went and cut a piece of wood in the vicinity, and according to my cousin's instructions, I made two branches, and made the wood in a jagged shape, and then shoveled out a flat piece of land, and compacted the ground, and drove the branches into piles, and put the log on top of it, so that I could make a rudimentary threshing tool.

I took a small handful of rice stalks and tried it, and the effect was good, although it was hard, at least it didn't hurt my hands.

The grain that was laid down from the ground was collected in the basket when it had accumulated in abundance.

This kind of hard work is naturally my man's business.

The women, on the other hand, were responsible for collecting rice stalks and bringing them in a steady stream.

Several people worked together until noon, and only then did they fill a pair of baskets.

It was a long way to go, and it was impossible for us to rush home for dinner, so when we came in the morning, we prepared cooked meat for lunch.

After lunch, in the afternoon, the other two baskets and the small bamboo baskets were filled before arranging to transport the millet home.

This part of the way to the river needs to be carried on the shoulder.

The basket is a little too big, and two loads of grain, each weighing one hundred and twenty pounds, the women naturally can't pick it up, so it's all my business.

I can't get rid of it, this is the responsibility of a man.

We don't have the strength to raise several women, and we don't have the face to ask people to be your daughter-in-law, right?

……

When I brought the grain home, it was already dark.

Each of us is tired, but in the tiredness, we all have a smile of harvest.

With this grain as the staple food, I don't have to eat meat every day in the future, and this day is becoming more and more normal.

Next, we went into the mountains to harvest for a total of seven days, harvesting more than 300 catties every day, and recovering a total of more than 2,000 catties of millet before stopping.

We calculated that there were more than 2,000 catties of millet, which was enough for the six of us to eat until the next batch of millet was ripe next year.

It's useless to collect too much, we don't have good storage conditions, and it will be broken by then.

The next main task is to find a way to dry the millet.

(End of chapter)