As soon as Li Xia left, Xia Zhi felt unaccustomed. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info However, because the little black fish next to him was about to cry, everyone didn't notice the strangeness of the summer solstice.

Everyone is persuading the little black fish.

Mrs. Xia sighed and said that the little black fish and Li Xia were used to being together. As soon as Li Xia left like this, he shook the little black fish coldly. But children, it'll be fine in two days.

In the past two days, everyone has cared more about the little black fish, played with him more, distracted, and slowly got better.

There are too many things to do on the summer solstice, enough to be distracted.

Autumn is the harvest season.

There are a lot of things in the Xia family this year, and the old man Xia doesn't care about it, so only wheat, soybeans, some adzuki beans and mung beans are planted in the field, and other crops are not planted (this was not the case in the past). Old Man Xia is an anxious man, so when the autumn harvest comes, he wants to change some other food.

This year, the life of the family is better, but the coarse grain still has to be changed, and some large yellow rice and small yellow rice have to be changed, and they are kept for the winter moon. There are also peanuts and other things to be replaced, mainly for the children to eat, and there are also for hospitality.

Old Man Xia was optimistic about which family's things were good, and discussed with Uncle Xia and Xia Zhi how much each family should change, and then went out to Zhang Luo.

Uncle Xia San is at home, and most of the vegetables in the garden have been shelved, which needs to be further cleaned up, and then the land has to be spent in the winter, leaving it to be planted again in the spring next year.

Xia Qiao set up the car, moved a few bags to the car, and planned to go to the oil mill to extract oil.

There is a relatively large oil mill near the left of Daxingzhuang, which is called Shijia Oil Mill. The owner of the oil mill is surnamed Shi, and he has been making a living as an oil extractor from generation to generation. The Xia family generally squeezes oil, and they all go to the Shijia Oil Mill.

Everyone has been talking about oil extraction for a long time, and once they want to go, several children want to go with the car. Even if you don't go to see the oil extraction, it's good entertainment to go out for a walk in the car in such a cool autumn.

Old Man Xia and Old Lady Xia knew it, so they didn't stop it, but just blessed Xia Qiao and Xia Zhi, and looked down on their younger brothers and sisters. Of course, this kind of thing is naturally indispensable to the little black fish.

Xia Qiao piled up the soybean bags on the car and let the children get on the bus.

Xia Zhi, Little Black Fish, Layue, Little Shuer, and Little Xia Lin all got on the car and sat on the bag. Daqing saw that there was a vacant place, so he also jumped into the car and lay at the feet of Xia Zhi.

Xia Qiao sat on the car board in front of him, waved his whip, and drove the carriage to Shijia Oil Mill.

All the way is a country road, because the crops have been harvested, and the fields are endless, which makes it look particularly empty. Seeing this scene, Xia Zhi felt that his mind had also broadened a lot.

The children came out alone, sat in the car as if they were in heaven, screaming and laughing. Layue was a little quieter, just chasing Xia Zhi and asking her about various experiences along the way to harvest cotton.

I have said all these things about the summer solstice, but Layue just wants to listen to it over and over again, and it seems that she never gets tired of hearing it.

"Fourth sister, if you don't take me next time, you can also take me. Layue said carefully to Xia Zhi.

The people of Beizhen Mansion are relatively civilized, for example, it does not prohibit widows from remarrying, and for example, women show their heads outside, as long as they do the right thing, everyone will not resist, and for particularly capable women, everyone will also admire them.

But there are still very few women who really walk outside, such as harvesting cotton on the summer solstice.

Xia Zhi smiled when he saw Layue like this: "If you are not afraid of hardship, the third uncle and third aunt are willing to give you, I will take you." ”

When she said this, Layue was embarrassed. "I don't dare to tell my father and my mother. They've got to say I know how to mess around. ”

Xia Zhi smiled, silently calculating in his heart. Xiao Shu'er also expressed her willingness to follow her out, and now Layue also said the same. Xia Lin is still young, and looking at Xia Qiao's appearance, he should be looking forward to going out to practice. In this case, she should be careful and give everyone some opportunities in the future.

If they can stand alone in the future, then she can do more and bigger things.

Shijia Oil Mill is not far from Daxingzhuang, only twelve miles away. Everyone talked and laughed and arrived at the place. After the autumn harvest, more people come to extract oil. However, Xia Qiao had already greeted the oil mill in advance, and he parked the carriage at the door of the oil mill, and the guys in the oil mill came out and helped Xia Zhi move soybeans inside.

Today, Xia Qiao brought a total of about 500 catties of soybeans.

The young owner of the oil mill came to greet Xia Qiao, obviously acquaintance. He asked Xia Qiao if he wanted bean cakes. The so-called soybean cake is the bean dregs left after the soybean oil is extracted.

In this era, oil extraction was done using the most primitive pressing method. Therefore, the bean dregs after oil extraction are in the shape of round cakes, which are called bean cakes.

Now there are three animals at home, a big green mule pulling a cart, a big gray resting in the house, and a little gray carrying Old Man Xia out. Three-headed animals have to eat a lot of food a year, and soybean cake is a good feed for these large animals.

Xia Qiao told the truth that he would leave the bean cake to feed the livestock.

The young owner of the oil mill nodded and said that he knew.

The rules of the oil mill, if you don't want to leave the bean cake, then you don't collect the manual money for oil extraction. If you want to take away the soybean cake, you have to pay the oil mill for oil extraction according to each catty of oil.

A few children came from afar to see how the oil was extracted. Xia Zhi also curiously walked into the oil mill to look at it for a while, but she only looked at it for a while before she came out.

"It's still cool outside. Xia Zhi said while standing outside the oil mill.

This will work, Xia Qiao led the little black fish and Xiao Xia Lin to come out. "There's something nice to see, it's stuffy and hot inside, let's play here. ”

Little Black Fish and Little Xia Lin were a little unhappy, but when they saw Xia Zhi, they all laughed again, and then they all ran over and asked Xia Solstice to take them to play.

What to play, catch grasshoppers. At this time, there are not as many grasshoppers as Futian, but the rest are all big ones, or they are particularly difficult to catch when they have wings.

Xia Zhi sent Little Black Fish and Little Xia Lin to catch grasshoppers, and watched by himself.

After a while, Layue and Xiaoshu'er also ran out. They all said that oil extraction was fun. Xia Zhi also saw it just now, and oil extraction is definitely a hard job. Although the Shijia Oil Mill also uses water power, the oil extractors still have a lot of strength.

"It's not easy. Xia Qiao said. He was born with a compassionate heart.

The little black fish felt bored after catching the grasshopper for a while, and ran back with Daqing to find the summer solstice. Xia Zhi took the little black fish around the neighborhood.

Shijia Oil Mill is very large, and it also sells oil, in addition to soybean oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil, and small grinding sesame oil on the spot.

The Xia family didn't grow sesame seeds this year, and Xia Zhi thought that the sesame oil at home was running out, so he went to get a pound of sesame oil and bought another jar of sesame oil blank.