Chapter 17 Crossing the River and Demolishing the Bridge
When the group returned home, Shen Zhuang was busy directing Li and Yang to cook, and Li was better, after all, she deliberately went late in the morning and only worked for half an hour. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Although the Yang family is lazy while working, where has she suffered all this, she is so tired that she can't do it, and her heart is really miserable, but she has the heart to behave in front of Shen Zhuang's family, she has always been well-behaved and obedient, and if she doesn't do it at this time, her previous efforts will be wasted, so she also secretly endured it, and prayed in her heart that her eldest brother would let someone bring a message as soon as possible.
During the cooking period, Mr. Shen and a few men could not rest immediately, they also had to thresh the rice pulled back, and then take it to the grain field to dry, of course, this noon break time can not do much work, but Mr. Shen is hard-working, and he can do as much as he can.
Until lunch, everyone rested for half an hour and started to work again. Shen Chengyao stayed to thresh, this work is more hard, and it is more difficult, except for the old man in the Shen family, only Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu do it well, so they all take turns to do it.
It is best to thresh the freshly harvested paddy as soon as possible and then spread it out to dry, otherwise it will be easy for germination due to heavy moisture.
After cutting for a while in the afternoon, Shen Yuzhu and Shen Bao'er both shouted dizziness, Xiao'er saw that their faces were normal, their eyes were rolling, how could they look dizzy, they obviously wanted to be lazy. The old man also saw it, but he didn't say anything, just told them to go back to rest. Shen Zhuang also said that he was too tired to do it, so he went back to rest, and cooked a meal in the evening and waited for everyone to go back to eat. Old man Shen thought that his wife was old after all, and she was usually less busy, and she was all commanding her daughter-in-law to do it, and she couldn't stand it when she did such heavy work all at once, so she responded, and the Lan family also took the opportunity to say that she wanted to help Shen Zhuang's family go back, and several people helped each other to leave.
The harvest in the afternoon was getting cooler and cooler the more it was cut, so it was not until it was dark that Old Man Shen shouted to stop. Old Man Shen felt that he could cut for a while, and he felt much more energetic this year than in previous years, but it was dark and he couldn't see clearly, so he gave up.
When he got home, the meal was ready, and two large pots of hot water had been boiled, and the old man Shen was satisfied: when he came home tired and tired outside, what he asked for was to have a hot meal to eat immediately, a bucket of hot water to take a bath, and just a little warmth. I don't know how many people don't want to go to the ground to suffer anymore, so they behave well at home, so that they don't have to go to the ground in the future.
Sure enough, after eating, Old Man Shen said, tomorrow they will go to cut for a while in the morning, and when the sun comes out, they will go home to prepare meals, and they don't have to go in the afternoon, just go to the drying field from time to time to turn over the rice.
Several people were overjoyed when they heard this, but Li secretly regretted it, thinking that he would do the same tomorrow. However, Old Man Shen didn't give her such treatment, but just asked her to go to the shade of the tree to rest and cut again.
After eating at night, the others went to bed early after taking a bath, only Old Man Shen, Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu were still doing threshing work in the drying field. The threshing floor is also lively, and many villagers are threshing. Half of the work was done, and the two brothers persuaded Old Man Shen to go home and rest, and they just finished the rest. Old Man Shen was also tired, so he responded, and the two of them didn't finish until after the hour. During this period, Xiao'er boiled a pot of porridge with space water and sent it over to them to replenish their strength, and asked Shen Zhuang if he was still troubled when he took rice to make porridge, or did Old Man Shen have rice when he opened his mouth. At night, Shen Chengyao stayed in the barn to keep vigil, and at night the barn had to be guarded, and there would be some chickens and dogs in all parts of the world, or people who were greedy for small and cheap people, which was inevitable, so every household would keep people to keep vigil in the barn.
After another two days, on the third day, Old Man Shen and the others came back from the field, it was already very late, and the food of every household was fragrant, which made their group even more hungry. Everyone unconsciously accelerated the pace of going home, who knew that when they returned home, they would be cold pots and cold stoves. Shen Zhuang and Shen Yuzhu, Lan and Shen Bao'er are all sleeping, they are so tired these days that they all sleep to death.
Old Man Shen was so angry that he couldn't stop shaking his fingers pointing at them. Let them go down to the field together tomorrow, and cook only after everyone comes back together. It was originally the last autumn harvest of a large family, and he still wanted to work together as a family, leaving people with the impression of unity, harmony and friendship, but neither of them cooperated!
Seeing that the old man was really angry, Shen Zhuang didn't dare to refute it, so he could only spill his anger on the Lan family. Lan He had been wronged like this, and he really couldn't wait to pack up his baggage and fly back to the town immediately.
Three nights ago, Shen Chengzong's three brothers all kept vigil, tonight it was Shen Chengguang's turn to keep vigil, and when he woke up the next day, he found that two sacks of rice had been stolen, and he was so angry that the old man Shen was smoking. But it's not good to attack in front of people, after all, the eldest grandson will be an official in the future, and he has to save some face for his father. Only I can endure my temper and work harder with a bitter face, as if I can harvest the lost rice.
The family went to work in the field for a while, and the person that the Lan family had been waiting for finally appeared, and the person who came said that the eldest brother of the Lan family had to go to the county for a while, and he could not continue to help take care of the shop, so that they must rush back to the town tomorrow.
After Old Man Shen heard this, he asked the people from the big house to go back to the town in the afternoon, anyway, they couldn't do much work, so it was okay to make trouble. He hadn't even come out of the two sacks of rice that had been stolen, and they were gone, out of sight, out of mind.
After three days of busy work, the land of the second house was also collected. When she went home in the evening, Li suddenly broke her foot while walking, and Shen Chengzong had to carry her home, and when she took a bath at night, Shen Chengzong fell again, saying that she fell and couldn't get out of bed. The family in the second room was either hurt or hurt, and by the next day, no one got up to work in the field. Old Man Shen was so angry, Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu were also a little disappointed, but they were not angry, they were all used to it, just let Old Man Shen rest at home, they just went to collect it, Old Man Shen didn't agree, and went to the ground with him.
Xiao'er regretted it even more, she knew that she wouldn't go to work a few days ago. has suffered a loss, and she will never have a next time.
Shen Jingrui and Shen Jinghao were so angry that they couldn't wait to plant all the grain they had harvested before.
Today, I will first receive the land of Shen Chengzu's family, because his family's land is relatively close to the village, and when the family was divided, Shen Chengyao deliberately chose the farthest and worst field from his home, and he also wanted to leave the better ones to this younger brother.
At dawn the next day, it rained heavily, and the people in the barn were busy moving bags of rice to the ancestral hall. The threshing floor was built in front of the ancestral hall, which was also a precautionary measure, and there was no place to shelter the grain.
It rained overnight, and the next day it continued to fall, but not so much, or intermittently. Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu were so worried that they didn't sleep all night last night, and they got up the next day and went to harvest in the rain, Old Man Shen originally wanted to go together, but the two brothers said that they didn't agree with anything this time, in case Old Man Shen fell ill because he helped them harvest, then they would all regret his death, and Old Man Shen gave up.
Xiao'er and Jing Hao couldn't follow, Jing Rui said that he was the eldest son, and he was not too young, so he insisted on going, but Shen Chengyao couldn't stop it.
Since she didn't have to go to the ground, Xiao'er didn't plan to be idle, she thought that according to Shen Zhuang's temperament, it was estimated that she would no longer prepare their meals. Yesterday, the Erfang family didn't go to harvest and let them eat by themselves, and now that Old Man Shen didn't go either, it is estimated that he won't even care about their food anymore.
She asked Jing Hao to take care of her cousin Jing Jie, who was only three years old, and she went to the place where the Liu family put the silver to get a hundred wen, and went to the town to buy some rice when the rain stopped, and then went up the mountain to see if there were pheasants and hares.
I was really lucky, I didn't go far to catch two pheasants, the recent autumn harvest, there were few people going up the mountain, and it rained again in the morning, and the chickens on the mountain also just came out to feed. It's so unlucky that Xiao'er ran into it.
Xiao'er grabbed two chickens and left, the sky was gloomy, and it was estimated that it would rain again. Sure enough, it rained again halfway through.
When I got home, I had already eaten in the upper room, and the people in the second room also cooked and ate by myself. Jing Hao and Jing Jie were burning a fire in the kitchen of the West Wing, and hot water was boiling in the pot.
Jing Hao was very happy to see Xiao'er come back: "Sister, you are finally back, Jing Jie and I boiled a pot of hot water, can you take a bath first?"
Xiao'er touched the heads of the two: "Hao'er Jie'er is so good, my sister didn't wash it first, I caught two pheasants, my sister killed the chickens first, cooked the meal, and my father and four uncles and aunts should come back." ”
Xiao'er went back to the room to change out of her wet clothes, put them on clean again, and then came to the kitchen to kill the chicken, Jing Hao and Jing Jie wanted to help pluck the chicken feathers, so Xiao'er cut some ginger shreds, put them in a clay pot, added space water, and let the two of them boil ginger soup in the small stove.
He killed the chicken, chopped it well, put the rice in the pot, let Jing Hao watch the fire, and then went to the vegetable garden to pick some cabbage and cucumbers and wash them. At this time, the rice was almost cooked, so Jing Hao was asked to recoil, and the remaining temperature baked the rice.
She plans to make three dishes: chestnut chicken, garlic cabbage and chicken offal with stir-fried cucumbers.
Halfway through the dish, Shen Chengyao and the others came back, and several of them were soaked. Xiao'er asked them to take a bath first: "Dad, fourth uncle and fourth aunt, brother, you go take a bath first, Shui Jinghao and Jingjie are all burned." They also boiled ginger soup, and after you washed it, you drank a bowl of ginger soup, went to get rid of the cold, and then ate again.