October, late rice
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"Qiu'er girl, take all those straw ropes with you"
"Grandma, take it all"
"Okay, Hua'er, go and see your father, when will this oxcart be set, it's going to be noon..." Yang Li stood in the yard and was directing the family to work, Chunqiu stood aside with the somewhat messy straw rope in his hand, and secretly glanced at the sun in the sky, her milk can be exaggerated, this is just seven o'clock in the morning.
"Old man, don't grind, hurry up and get the sickle" After Yang Li finished speaking, he saw that Gu had been glancing at Yang Weibai, who was not working, with his eyes, and immediately scolded angrily, "What are you looking at?" You are envious of the broken arm, do you need my help to let you rest, ah? Quickly work for me."
Gu shrank his neck after being scolded by Yang Li, and then took a few sickles and picked up his tail and left.
The spring and autumn that witnessed everything:... Grandma's daily slap is done!
"Old man, you haven't pulled anything down, have you? Look at the hoe or something, there is no shortage of it" As soon as Yang Li finished saying this, he shouted to the old man Yang who was smoking a big cigarette on the other end.
"Eh, okay, you old woman, what's the hurry" Old man Yang was disturbed by his smoking, a little unhappy.
"Why don't you worry, hurry up and take a look, you old goods" Yang Li went back directly, Old Man Yang looked at it, and finally got up, knocked the remaining half of the cigarette pouch against the wall on the side, and then pinned it to his waist and walked to the door.
Yang Weimin and Yang Weisong were moving things to the car, Yang Weimin saw his father walking slowly behind his back, and hurriedly greeted, "Dad, why are you here too?" We're all packed."
"Well, your mother asked me to come over and take a look, have you brought all the things?" Old man Yang was a little hunchbacked, and his eyes were stunned as he looked at the two brothers in front of him.
"Bring it all," Yang Weimin nodded.
"That's good, you guys should rush over first, I'll go with your mother and them in a while" Old man Yang waved his hand at his two sons, and then walked back with his little hands behind his back.
Yuan is in the kitchen with the food that he ate at noon today, before the girl said that the white flour steamed buns were a little dry, Yuan thought about it, this time it was a bacon and cabbage bun, and with the white water brought over, he could also have a full meal at noon.
"Mother, are you done? Grandma is shouting in the yard" Chunqiu stood at the door of the kitchen, shouting a little anxiously.
"Eh, come right away," Yuan replied to the door while picking up the buns.
When Yuan went out with the basket, he saw Yang Li talking to Yang Weibai, Yang Weibai couldn't do this farm work because of his arm, so he was naturally left at home by Yang Li to take care of the house.
Yang Chunjun Yang Chunming's brothers did not come back this time because the master did not have a holiday, and he did not come back from farming, of course, even if he came back, Yang Li would definitely not let her two precious grandsons go to work in the field, Yang Li instructed Yang Weibai on the side, and shouted on the rising tiger and small stone that were squatting aside to play, counted the people around, and found that there was no shortage of one, and the family went out.
The Yang family met a lot of villagers with hoes or sickles in their hands along the way, and the Yang Li family greeted them with a smile, and by the way, they talked about the shortcomings of the east and the west, and the spring and autumn followed the center of the team with relish.
By the way, yesterday's newlywed Brother Niu and Aunt Xiu'er also came out to work with Aunt Da Niu, Aunt Da Niu's family has a lot of land, and every year when the farm is busy, people are hired to do it, and now every household in the village is also busy with farming, and now it is naturally impossible to hire people, so today a few of them first came out to work by themselves, and when the people in the village were busy, they hired to help her family harvest rice.
When Yang Li and a few people walked to the entrance of the village, they happened to pass by Aunt Da Niu's house, Chunqiu secretly glanced inside, and found that her cousin Xiu'er was wearing a navy blue shirt and pants, combing the woman's head, and was helping Aunt Da Niu to clean up the straw rope.
The further she goes, the narrower the road becomes, and the water in the rice fields on both sides of the road is almost dry, Spring and Autumn look carefully, although she has no experience in farming in her previous life, but this does not prevent her from observing with her eyes, compared with the previous early rice, the late rice is simply like the stepmother's raising, how to say? For example, if a fat person stands with a thin person, the first feeling is that the thin person does not eat well.
This is the problem of rice in front of us, although the rice has matured, but whether it is from the rice seedlings or the rice ears, it is like malnutrition, not only the ears are small and deflated, the color of the rice seedlings is not golden, but the kind of earth yellow mixed with a trace of green, many of them are poured into the mud, spring and autumn frowning... I am afraid that the harvest of late rice this year is not as good as the previous breakfast.
Yang Li was at the front of the team, and the eldest lady in the village was talking on the same side, Chunqiu vaguely heard the two of them mentioning rice or something, and just wanted to hear a little clearly, they were covered by the sound of Huzi and Chunhua in front of them.
Yang Li was talking on the side, his cold hand was held, and he didn't care about talking, so he quickly looked back, and saw that her good granddaughter was looking at her with her smiling round face, Yang Li smiled and patted Chunqiu's little head with his other hand, and then continued to talk to the eldest lady on the side.
"Sister Hu, I won't tell you, my second son went to Qingshan County to buy goods before, I heard that ah, I'm afraid that the harvest there can't be harvested, this year's rain is too much, the rice in the rice fields are waterlogged, when it rained before, although the fields were opened, but it didn't play a big role, today's harvest, our old Yang family can harvest sixty percent, even if God opens his eyes"
Yang Li said that in the end, he looked embarrassed, and after speaking, he raised his eyes and looked at the surrounding rice fields, and sighed distressedly.
After listening to Yang Li's words, Aunt Hu also nodded in agreement, "Not only can I collect sixty percent, but I can also collect fifty percent in my field, Sister Li, what you said is good, not only Qingshan County, just like Yushan Town next door, the harvest is also not good, before my son who came back from a short-term job in Yushan Town, said that the price of rice and noodle shops in that town has increased."
"Really? It's normal to raise prices, but this year's late rice harvest is not good, and I don't plan to sell the remaining grain after paying the official tax before, and there are still several months left in the early rice harvest in Liming. Yang Li's family has a large population, and there are a few children who can eat in the spring and autumn, Yang Li's family plans to sell some of the leftover grain of early rice, but now looking at this posture, Yang Li would rather let those grains be moldy in the warehouse than sell, this rice and noodles can be washed and eaten in two bites, if they are all sold in the end, there is nothing left, and their lives will be gone! When there was a war and famine, Yang Li had seen many people starving to death.
"Sister Li, you're right, my family doesn't plan to sell it, otherwise when the winter passes, what will I eat?" Aunt Hu also agreed with Yang Li's statement, although she is stupid, but her son is not stupid, and her daughter-in-law is even more rape can not be raped anymore, although the two of them are moved by the price of grain, but more also see the things behind the price of grain, her son came back and said, it is said that the big family in Yushan Town is busy stockpiling grain, this must be something big to happen.
"But speaking of food, Sister Li, do you know the old Zhang family next door to you?" Mrs. Hu took Yang Li's arm, looked up and glanced at it carefully, and then leaned into Yang Li's ear and whispered, "That old Zhang's mother-in-law, I heard that the price of the rice noodle shop in Black Mountain Town has risen, and she directly sold all the grain that his family had beaten earlier, what a loser, there is no food left, you say, just these harvests this year, winter can be survived, but what about next spring?" That old guy doesn't have this calculation, it's really an old thing with shallow eyelids" Aunt Hu's tone was still a little disdainful, obviously looking down on the Zhang Li family who has been doing everything in the sky. Of course, the two families still have grievances, remember what Spring and Autumn said before? The old Wang family who lost the firewood is the current husband's family of Aunt Hu, if Aunt Hu can speak well to Zhang Li's family, it would be strange.
Yang Li lowered his head and listened to Aunt Hu's words, did not speak, Yang Li also understood in his heart, these trivial things are also known clearly, originally he and Zhang Li did not deal with each other, but now Hu Aunt said bad things about her, Yang Li was also happy in his heart.
"Sister Hu, you, take a good look, she will understand when the spring of the next year begins" After Yang Li finished speaking, Aunt Hu also went to her own land, and the two talked kindly, and Yang Li pulled Spring and Autumn to her own field.
The land of Hu Damiang's house is not far from the Spring and Autumn family, there are two people in the middle, and when the Spring and Autumn period arrives, Yang Weimin and Yang Weisong have already cut down a piece, Yang Li first let go of the Spring and Autumn Period's hand, and then stretched out his hand to beckon the Gu family and Yuan to work in the field, and the Spring and Autumn period stayed on the shore to sort out the rice on the side.
Rice seedlings are well bundled, just like the wheat stalks of later generations, and in spring and autumn, the rice that has been cut and put on the shore is first stacked into a stack, and then tied with straw ropes.
After tying it, she was waiting for her uncle to load the car in a while.
Because the ears of rice have not yet dried, and rice seedlings can still have many uses after drying, they can be used as mattresses, can also be used as fertilizer, and future generations can extract the cellulose in it to make artificial cotton.
The adults were cutting the rice in the rice field, and the children were tying the rice on the shore on the side, and after the spring and autumn bundles were tied, there were already a lot of sweat beads on their heads, and the sweat beads were getting bigger and bigger, and then they were talking about the rollers on both sides of their cheeks. Some even rolled into the eyes.
The sweat is a little salty, and it is naturally uncomfortable to get into the eyes, and the spring and autumn hands are busy bunching rice, so they can only blink to relieve it, but the more they blink, the more uncomfortable they become, and finally they can't open their eyes.
"Second sister, come here" Chunqiu shouted at Chunhua who was closest to her with her eyes closed.
"Huh, what's up?" As soon as Chunhua finished bunching a bundle of rice, she heard a voice behind her, and she didn't care about tidying up the freshly bundled rice, so she hurriedly turned her head and replied.
"I can't open my eyes, second sister, come and help me blow it," Chunqiu said.
"Okay, you wait a while" After Chunhua finished speaking, Chunqiu heard the sound of footsteps from far and near, and felt that the sunlight in front of him was covered, and Chunqiu looked up and asked, "Second sister, is it you?" ”
"yes, what am I going to do?" Chunhua squatted down and looked at it curiously.
"I have a handkerchief in my arms, and the second sister can just help me wipe my eyes" After Chunqiu finished speaking, the handkerchief in his arms was taken out by Chunhua.
Chunhua directly pasted the handkerchief on Chunqiu's face, and the tip of Chunqiu's nose was a little sour.
"Second sister, move on the right... Hey, hey, left and left, yes, that's it, second sister, you make a little effort..."The next thing is the process of Chunqiu directing Chunhua with his eyes closed, the hardships and hardships in it, others don't know, anyway, after Chunhua left, the handkerchief in Chunqiu's arms can no longer be used.
Fast in the morning, Yang Weimin and Yang Weisong first loaded a cart of bundled rice and transported it home, and the Spring and Autumn Festival also took the buns that Yuan had just made today and ate lunch.
Although the buns are a little cold, they are not delicious when they are hot, but the meat-filled buns are better than the steamed buns in the cold, because the spring and autumn consumes more physical strength in the morning, even if Yuan's buns are cold, they have become a delicacy in the mouth of the spring and autumn, and the spring and autumn have eaten two large meat buns, and drank half a pot of white water, which is considered full.
A few people rested on the edge of the ground for half an hour, and then when Yang Weimin's brothers came back, the old man Yang and a few people went down to the ground again, while Yang Weimin and Yang Weisong stayed on the shore to eat Yuan's leftover buns.
Sunrise and sunset are the rules of work and rest for thousands of years.
When the sun set, the Yang family no longer continued to work, but put away the sickle, took the basket, and went home to prepare for dinner.
Dinner is usual, after eating, Chunqiu and Huzi were also carried back to the house by Yuan's early, and they will continue to work tomorrow, Yuan's looked at his daughter, for fear that the two of them would be too tired to play and wouldn't be able to get up tomorrow.
Early the next morning, it was still yesterday's configuration, Yang Weibai stayed to watch the house, and everyone else went to harvest rice, Chunqiu slept early yesterday, and the fatigue of that body had long disappeared, waiting for Yang Li to finish speaking, Chunqiu followed her milk and went out again.
For three days, the family got up early every day to harvest rice, ate food brought from home at noon in the field, continued to work in the afternoon, and went home to eat in the evening before the sun set.
After the rice is cut, it is hulled, and the rice ears of the first two days have already been thrown into the yard to dry, but the newly cut ones have not dried today, Yang Li stood in the yard and commanded the men of the family to turn over the rice ears, and she is now waiting for two days to go to the stone mortar at the east end of the village to shell and enter the warehouse.