Chapter Seventy-Five: The Beauty of Golden Autumn
Autumn is the most beautiful season, like a beautiful woman with heavy makeup, exposing her brightest side in her greedy eyes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info so the literati and ink writers' clear words and beautiful sentences, the autumn talent is elegant and noble, gorgeous and dignified, gorgeous and solid, graceful and grandiose. How beautiful! The charm of autumn is condensed in the ordinary lines of poetry, and there are also fruits, the fields are golden with rice, and the air is filled with the fragrance of harvest.
Unconsciously, time passed, the leaves on the side of the road quietly turned yellow, swirling and falling, and the rice ears in the rice field were already golden and full, bending down their slender waists deeply, waiting for people to harvest them home.
In more than ten days, after the efforts of several uncles, the mushrooms in dozens of villages around the town were almost harvested by them, and if they went out, there was no harvest, unless they went farther.
Moreover, since the autumn harvest was about to begin, Ma Xiaodong also stopped the mushroom harvesting business. and called Yu Xiaoyu to inform her that she had time to come and transport the mushrooms away.
The autumn harvest is undoubtedly the most important time of the year for a farmer, they have reaped a year's sweat, they have reaped a year's hard work, they have reaped the joy of the autumn harvest, and they have reaped the harvest of the autumn harvest. In the usually endless fields, human figures began to slowly appear.
People hold sickles, bend over, little by little to bring home the joy of the autumn harvest, although sometimes tired even do not have the strength to eat, but the heart is joyful and excited, the fruits of a year's labor, seeing that it is about to be harvested, everyone is unconsciously full of smiles.
At this time, the autumn harvest was not like the later mechanization, not to mention the harvester, even the transportation tractor was not available in every family, and most people still used horse-drawn carts and ox carts at home.
The first ripe grain in autumn is corn, but the first harvest is soybeans, because soybeans are the most anxious food, soybeans are ripe, as long as the weather is dry and sunny, if more than a week is not harvested, then its pods will naturally dry and crack, and the golden beans inside will collapse all over the ground, at that time, the loss will be great, so farmers generally choose to harvest soybeans first, threshing, return to the warehouse, and then rice, because the rice harvest is late, the rice ears are easy to break, and finally corn, Ripe corn is not afraid of anything, even if it is covered by heavy snow, it still does not delay the harvest.
At this time, the fields are full of threshing machines, and there are adults, children, and old people standing next to them, busy with the harvest, tired and sweaty, no one says that they are hard, their hearts are happy, and their faces are as sweet as honey.
On the narrow ridge road, you can see adults everywhere carrying a load of heavy harvest grain. Although they were out of breath, they were all happy, laughing, greeting each other, saying that this year's harvest was good, and the joy of the harvest bloomed into golden flowers on their faces.
The time to harvest soybeans is very short, only a few days will be completed, relying on a family of three or four people is definitely not possible, generally a few relatives or neighbors and friends are good, agreed to help each other when the grain is fetched, of course, some people's land is too much, then you can only spend money to hire people.
Threshing is lively, the old man who can't work in the field and the hostess of today's threshing house will prepare lunch and dinner for dozens of villagers who come to help, because the whole family goes out when threshing, so there are a lot of old people and children, all the families have to eat at this house, and there are a lot of things to prepare.
A large pot of washed potatoes, home-grown Chinese cabbage, green peas, cucumbers, eggplants, fortunately the dishes at this time are quite rich, otherwise it is a big expense for each family to buy vegetables.
Most of the hosts will prepare a few good dishes for the villagers who come to help, such as a fish, chicken stewed potatoes, sausages, in the eyes of people now, this may be an ordinary dish, and some people have even begun to dislike it, but in the countryside at that time, it was definitely a generous family to prepare a sumptuous dish.
Children's favorite is this season, because at this time there is a special holiday in the countryside, called "farm leave", look at the literal meaning to understand, that is, when the farm is busy, give students a holiday, let them go home to help, this special holiday, is the teacher's helplessness. Because even if the school is not closed, there will be many students who are unable to come to class and are left at home to help.
Although they can't do any heavy work, but during the autumn harvest, the adults are busy and dizzy, sometimes it is inevitable to lose everything, and some small things are naturally busy and have no time to deal with them, and children are the best errand helpers.
When there is no need for work, these bear children will crawl and wrestle in the straw of the stripped.
Ma Xiaodong clearly remembers that every autumn, he and his friends would go to the bean stalk pile or straw pile to build a house. Whenever a house is built and can be successfully settled, it is the time when everyone has the most sense of accomplishment and pride. This kind of fun game will keep everyone playing until the snow falls, when the straw will be burned in the field to make fertilizer for the following year.
In the evening, the bear children who have played for a day will enjoy a sumptuous dinner with their adults, and dozens of people will have a dinner, everyone eats and drinks, and talks about it, and the atmosphere is warm. Whether it is a beer that is usually reluctant to drink, or Lao Baigan, which Northeast people can't live without, the host will take care of it.
And most people will prepare soda for the children, in fact, this thing doesn't cost a few dollars, a large box of soda is only 8 yuan, enough for these bear children to drink. If any of them are not prepared, they will inevitably be scolded behind the backs of these bear children, and even their children will be despised.
This kind of autumn harvest is busy and lively, full of laughter and strong human feelings, unlike the later mechanical harvesting, although a lot of labor is saved, everyone only needs to move bags of millet from the field to the side of the road, and pull them home by motor vehicles or board trucks. Only the harvesters are busy shuttling in the fields, and the farmers are no longer busy, and there is less noisy scene of the autumn harvest in full swing. Naturally, there is also a lack of crisp laughter crawling in the straw pile.
In this year's autumn harvest, Ma Xiaodong did not let his home operate completely according to the previous model. In the past, it was all three people, parents and eldest sisters, who went out early and returned late in the field for more than ten days, and the tired and unhuman white grain was transported to the family. This year's family conditions have improved, Ma Xiaodong naturally won't let them work so hard without night or night, otherwise wouldn't the money they earned be useless?