Chapter 22: Carrying Corn

September in the countryside is a busy season, but it is also a hard season!

Every September, corn, millet, soybeans, and other crops in the fields are waiting for people to harvest. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although a good harvest is a joyful thing, the process of a good harvest is not a pleasant thing!

Take corn harvesting as an example, in the countryside there are two ways to harvest corn, no, three kinds of harvesting.

One is to break it straight from the corn stalk. This method of harvesting is relatively convenient, but there is a point, walking in the corn bushes, it is inevitable that the corn leaves will not scratch the skin. The skin that gets scratched is itchy, itchy, and it makes you feel the urge to knock all the corn stalks down.

The second method of harvesting is to use a sickle to cut down the corn stalks first and spread a long road. Then go to break the corn. However, these harvesting methods are more troublesome, after all, cutting corn stalks with a sickle is also a lot of physical work! It is also a technical job!

Finally, the corn harvester is used to harvest it. To be honest, there are not many people who are really willing to use corn harvesters. Because when the corn harvester harvests corn, it will break off all the corn kernels on the top of the corn cob and sprinkle them on the ground. Can farmers not feel distressed when they see the corn they have grown for a year being sprinkled in the ground like this?

Therefore, the second method of harvesting is basically the mainstream method of harvesting in rural areas. And that's how Fang Wen's family harvests corn.

Fang Wen really doesn't like to harvest corn, and it can even be said that he hates harvesting corn. When he was young, his parents asked him to open his pockets. Putting corn cobs into bags is a very boring job! Fang Wen often gets bored after a few bags.

When he went to high school, although he said that his studies were very hard, every harvest season, he could avoid the pain of harvesting corn on the grounds that he had too much homework.

And Fang Wen really felt the hard work of harvesting corn last year when he was a freshman.

At that time, there were no piles of homework, and naturally there was no excuse for refusing to harvest corn. I can only obediently follow my parents to the field.

At first, he thought that breaking corn was a simple matter, wasn't it just to tear off the husk of the corn and unscrew the cob?

However, when Fang Wen really did it, he found that it was not so easy.

Not to mention that some corn husks are tightly wrapped and it is never easy to tear them off, so it takes a lot of effort to unscrew the corn cob.

And it's just a corn cob, and there's only one corn in the field? That's thousands of corn stalks!

So, Fang Wen, who was tired of breaking corn, took the sickle from his father and learned to cut the corn stalks.

Cutting corn stalks is a fun thing to do, but when you actually do it, you realize that it's definitely not easy. Because you're not just going to cut down the stalks, you're going to lay them out. Let's not talk about how hard it takes to cut corn stalks, but it is also very tiring to put corn stalks on them!

Fang Wen had only cut six rows of ten-meter-long corn stalks at that time, and he was so tired that he sat there.

And that's not all, the corn cobs are broken off and packed into bags, and they have to be carried to the side of the road one by one before they can be loaded into the car and transported home!

Carrying corn is definitely the most painful thing of all the things that do to harvest corn!

Therefore, whenever the authors of those farming essays wrote about harvesting corn and saying that a few people would harvest a few acres or more than a dozen acres of corn a day, Fang Wen would scold the author in his heart for being an idiot! Four people harvesting one acre of corn a day is already very good!

Moreover, some farming texts wrote that the corn stalk should be pulled up, and Fang Wen laughed miserably at that time! It was already very tiring to cut down the corn stalk, and pulling the corn stalk was definitely the biggest joke in the world!

If Fang Wen was still the same as before at this time, he would definitely listen to his mother's words, stay at home obediently, and wait for them to come back. That way, you can start the hard process of harvesting corn a little later.

But now Fang Wen has some strong physique and strong strength, does he still have to stay at home and let his parents work hard in the fields?

Soon, Fang Wen rode an electric donkey and took the little girl to the field. From a distance, Fang Wen saw his mother Gu Li picking corn there, and his father was also carrying a bag of corn to the side of the road.

Fang Wen hurriedly ran to his father Fang Changzhi and easily took the corn bag on Fang Changzhi's shoulder, "Dad, I'll carry it." ”

Fang Changzhi looked at Fang Wen, first stunned, and then said, "Are you Wenwen?"

"yes, Dad, you won't recognize me. Fang Wen said with a smile.

"Yes, I haven't seen you for more than a month, you have changed so much that I can't even recognize my father. Fang Changzhi said with a smile, obviously he was very relieved to see Fang Wen like this.

"Who is this little girl?" Fang Changzhi also found Xiaoya.

"This is Xiaoya, about her, let's talk about it when we get home. Dad, I'll carry the corn out first. Fang Wen said and turned around and ran. And Xiaoya seemed to be a little afraid of Fang Changzhi, so she also ran out with Fang Wen.

"Slow down, slow down!" Fang Changzhi saw Fang Wen like this, and instructed again and again. Apparently he was worried that Fang Wen would fall.

But will Fang Wen listen?

Seeing Fang Wen like this, Fang Changzhi sighed and shook his head helplessly.

Soon, Fang Wen ran back again. At this time, Fang Changzhi opened his pockets. Guli is filling her pockets with corn.

Fang Wen immediately ran over and pretended together, "Mom, why don't you wait for me to come back and then harvest the corn?"

"What can you do when you come back? Half a labor at most. In the end, it's not about me and your dad?" Gu Li said and stopped what he was doing and looked at Fang Wen, "Your dad said that you have changed a lot, let me see." ”

Fang Wen immediately stopped what he was doing.

"Well, I've become a lot more handsome, much more handsome than your dad. Guli smiled and nodded. What mother doesn't want her child to be better. Even if it just makes her look a little better, she will feel satisfied.

"He's not only getting handsome, he's growing a lot taller. I just saw that he was as tall as me. Fang Changzhi said.

"Oh, yes? Guli urged.

"What's so nice about this. Fang Wen said, but also stood up.

Gu Li looked at Fang Wen, "Well, it's true that you've grown a lot taller." But it's unbelievable that it's been like this in half a month. ”

"Mom, it's okay, isn't it just getting bigger? Others are still growing in their twenties! I'm nineteen years old and tall is nothing, maybe I'll grow taller! And my strength has grown a lot. Look!" Fang Wen said, easily picking up the half bag of corn with one hand.

"Yes, since your strength has increased, I will help your father carry the corn and let your father rest. Guli said with a smile.

"That's for sure, I'll do all the physical work at home in the future. Fang Wen said unyieldingly.

Looking at Fang Wen like this, Fang Changzhi and Gu Li both laughed.