Chapter Seventy-Five: Autumn Busy
In the blink of an eye, September is coming, and the weather is slowly starting to change. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe land of Qinzhong is golden and light brown. Everywhere there is a scene of jubilant harvest.
In the past two days, the production team began to harvest potatoes and sweet potatoes (sweet potatoes), which can be done by men, women and children, and before this time, you can see a large field where the members are squatting in the field to pick potatoes.
And the children have an important task, which is to pinch the red taro leaves in front. The tender red taro leaves are pinched back and copied with boiling water, which is a very delicious cold dish.
Of course, what is even more tempting is the red taro that has just been steamed out of the pot, and the sweet and glutinous red taro makes people bite off their tongues when they eat it.
It's a pity that these can't be eaten with their stomachs, red potatoes and potatoes have to be dried in the sun, and when the food is cut off, these are all used to save lives.
This year's rain is good, the southwest of Beishui Village near Xijian Village is relatively thin, and the yield of corn is not high, so it is used to hit potatoes and red potatoes, but I didn't expect the amount to be beaten is still very good.
The potatoes and red potatoes were harvested in the field, and except for a part of the village that was left to make vermicelli, the rest were weighed in the ground on the spot. Families find a way to get it back and then store it back.
In this way, the team will save trouble, and there is no need to transport it back, of course, there is no place to put so many potatoes and red potatoes.
This year, each household can divide 70 catties of red potatoes and 50 catties of potatoes, and the number of children under the age of six is halved, He Yue's family has a total of nine people, and they have divided so many red potatoes and potatoes.
Then the whole family sorts the good and uninjured red potatoes and puts them in the cellar or in the yard and piles them in the sand.
The rest will be left behind to make dried taro or potatoes that are bruised or too small when digging. When the green and yellow are not harvested, put the dried red taro or dried potatoes in the pot and boil it with water, which is another life-saving meal.
At this time of year, the yards of every household in Beishui Village will be full of these things. The mat made of sorghum stalks is placed on a shelf made of thick branches, and dried red taro, dried potatoes, autumn cowpeas, dried radish, etc.
Sometimes, the dug wild vegetables such as purslane and mother-in-law are dried together and put in a bag, and in winter, they are scalded with boiling water and mixed in a pot to cook green vegetables.
Drying these things is not something that can be dried in a day or two, and you have to turn the dried red taro every once in a while while while drying, so as to ensure that both sides can be dried.
Sometimes God jokes that the sun is still shining in the morning, but it starts to rain in the afternoon, and it is miserable, and the whole village runs back from the field, and the scene is simply spectacular.
What are you doing running home? Harvest the dried red taro, otherwise this year will be in vain.
At this time, the most feared is the autumn rain, a few days, the home on the kang, on the ground, on the cabinet can put things in the place will be full of dried red taro, people will accidentally knock over a plate.
If it doesn't clear yet, you'll have to find a way to dry them in a pot, or you'll soon find them moldy. Sometimes the dried red taro that I didn't have time to deal with is moldy when I'm unlucky, so the staple food I eat these days is this moldy dried red taro.
After harvesting these red potatoes, it is the busiest time in Beishui Village, that is, breaking corn, which is not an easy job.
It is so hot and stuffy that it is easy to get scratched on the corn stalks on your face and hands, and the corn that is brought back will be piled up in several piles on the village field.
The corn that was broken back was the same as the red taro, and it was distributed to the members according to the catty, and each family used a rack cart to pull it back and pour it into their own yards.
In the evening, by the moonlight, the whole family, men and women, young and old, gathered in front of the corn pile and began to peel the corn, and the peeled corn was hung on the shelves set up in the yard the next day.
After all these are taken care of, the whole family can breathe a sigh of relief, and this is the time when the rain is most feared, because the corn will germinate if it is not peeled in time.
After being busy for a while, the little meat that He Yue had just grown back was returned, and Yao Zhutao, who saw it, was very distressed, "Ya'er has lost weight again." ”
"Mom, I'm not thin, it's a long strip." He Yue poured the chopped green onions into the pot, plucked them a few times, poured the chili peppers into it and fried them for a while, and poured the red taro leaves into the pot together.
Such red peppers are accompanied by green leaves, and they are not only good looking, but also delicious and delicious.
"Your brother has also lost weight recently, and this baby is very stubborn." Yao Zhutao remembered that Song Mocheng had been running on both sides in the past two days, and her heart was even more distressed, "Your Aunt Zhao didn't even have a smile on her face when she saw me today." ”
Song Mocheng's aunt Zhao Qiaoqiao saw that Song Mocheng always ran to He Yue's house to help with the work, and felt uncomfortable, there was still a pile of corn in his yard that had not been peeled, but Song Mocheng was good, and went to someone else's house to help.
"Mom, don't worry, my brother and I will go over to help at night." He Yue quickly put out the dishes, brushed the pot and added water, "You just have a good rest at home." ”
He Yue has been going to Nanshan every morning to collect dewdrops since he met Mr. Xu that day, and then mixed the dewdrops with spiritual water for Mr. Xu to drink, half a month later, Mr. Xu's body really improved, he couldn't get up from lying on the kang before, and now Song Mocheng can still help Mr. Xu walk around the yard twice in the morning.
Xu Xuanliang was very happy, and praised He Yue for being well-behaved and sensible, and he was the benefactor of their Xu family. But because of this incident, Xu Zhouni was even more jealous of He Yue.
"Look at it, if you continue like this, don't say that you are in the Xu family, even in Beishui Village, there is no place for you to stand." He Juan looked at Xu Zhouni sympathetically.
"But no, that's my father, not her He Yue, what do you want her to dedicate to courtesy?" Xu Zhouni said angrily, "Now everyone in the village knows that she is good, and then they all say that I have no conscience." ”
Xu Zhouni said that tears flowed down, "My grandfather is sick like that, of course I don't feel good in my heart, but I am a little girl, not a doctor." ”
"Who's to say it isn't?" He Juan sighed, "If it weren't for the things He Yue did, who in our village wouldn't say that you were filial?" ”
But compared with He Yue, Xu Zhouni seems heartless.
"Why do you think she's so bad?"
"Alas, it's all my fault, I didn't take her well." He Juan lowered her head, and the thick bangs on her forehead blocked the hatred that flashed in her eyes, "You said that she was so clingy to me in the past, but since your brother came, she stopped playing with me." ”
"That's a cheap* hoof, shallow eyelid goods." Xu Zhouni snorted, "Seeing that my brother Mocheng's family is in good condition, I want to slap him." ”
"Phew, don't look at what she is, you look at it, I will definitely teach her a good lesson, let her know how many eyes Lord Ma has." (To be continued.) )