It is the busy season of farming, the sun is stronger than a day, the family has just planted the seedlings, Geng Qiu and the third uncle will go down to the field every day to observe the growth of the seedlings, and the wheat next to it has been filled, and it will not be long before the wheat will be harvested. Their wheat is growing well now. may be because this land is extraordinarily fertile, and he and the third uncle take care of it with all their hearts. His family only has this one piece of land, and he and his third uncle stay in the field almost every day, of course, they are better than other people's homes, so his family's wheat grows exceptionally well.

Geng Qiu looked at the ears of wheat that began to turn yellow, and he was in a particularly good mood. Because of his family's wheat, the people in the village have the idea of this field, especially the people who dug less land at the beginning, and now there are some rumors, but the suppression of the village chief has no impact on Geng Qiu and A Hao. There is no way to do it, who told you to dig more ground in the first place. Now I can't dig much ground if I want to. After all, there are so many places to dig. Geng Qiu had deliberately divided the scope at the beginning.

However, these words also gave Geng Qiu an idea, this time to go hunting, try to get as many things as possible, and sell half and give them to the people in the village, so as to stop everyone's mouths. Or simply bring another group of people into the mountains, otherwise, just a few acres of their fields will be too dazzling.

Other people's land is one in the east and one in the west, and there is even less fertile land, so others can take more time and more tired than them to farm, but maybe the harvest will not be as good as his family. Their family's field, now the wheat alone has attracted the attention of the villagers, and it is really impossible to find such a neat and large piece. Such a gap is the most jealous of people.

Before Ah Hao was admitted to Xiucai, Geng Qiu didn't want anything to happen at home. Therefore, we still have to do more things that win people's hearts. He told the village chief about it. Of course, the village chief is satisfied. Ah Hao can take everyone to hunt, he knows that everyone will never come back empty-handed, if he is lucky, he can't say that the family can get a few pheasants, or hares, let alone take them out to exchange for silver, even if they eat at home, it is also excellent.

This season is the time of lack of food, every household is basically wild vegetable batter soup, even if the family is good, it is just to let the strong laborers drink an extra bowl and a half bowl, every day outside the mountains and down the field, everyone is hungry and panicked. If you can eat two pieces of meat, you will have more strength to work. Or take the meat to exchange for a few catties of thick noodles and come back, which is enough for the family to eat for a few more days.

On the third day, Ah Hao and Uncle Geng Qiu brought more than a dozen young adults into the mountain. This time, he made up his mind to get more prey, so as soon as he entered the mountain, Ah Hao was extremely attentive, and he didn't have time to sharpen his kung fu here. And this season, it is also the time when wild animal activities are vigorous, it took four days to go back and forth, and they brought back six large wild boars, four small wild boars, nearly 100 pheasants, wild rabbits, and a lot of wild eggs.

There are many things, and everyone who goes gets a lot, and the family that no one goes to also gets some meat, and such a family is because there are really no young men in the family, and the life is worse for others. It can't be that most people are eating meat, so these few families have no meat to eat, so the village chief also gave each of these families a pheasant and a piece of wild boar.

Geng Qiu and Ah Hao also left only half a big wild boar, a small wild boar, five pheasants and five hares. Eating is enough to eat for a while. But when he said he was satisfied, he was not satisfied. Because most of the stuff is out. According to Ah Hao's plan, this time the family should get 300 catties of meat for the family to save and eat slowly. But now it has barely reached the plan of six or seven percent.

After that, it was summer, and he had to travel far to catch the exam, and it was impossible to have time to go into the mountains to hunt. In addition, even if you catch a lot of prey in summer, you can't store it. You can't take it out and sell it, it will stink when you go and come. So he didn't plan to go hunting in the summer. At least in early autumn before you can go hunting again.

Because the whole village has been given meat, the most is seventy or eighty catties, after all, it depends on everyone's efforts. The few also got twenty or thirty pounds. So the whole village is like the New Year, and every family is very excited. This kind of good life was unimaginable before. After all, there are no three Ah Hao, and no one dares to go into the mountains to hunt. So everyone is still very grateful to Ah Hao's family.

Seeing Ah Hao staring at the prey at home with dissatisfaction, Geng Qiu persuaded: "Okay, there is so much meat, enough to eat." Our family has the most meat, which one can compare to ours. "Because of the three of them, most of the strength has been contributed, and of course his family has the most. Some people, following the past, just helped to carry some things back. Hunting doesn't help at all. However, Geng Qiu originally had the idea of letting everyone follow suit, so he didn't care about these things.

"Actually, you still have to train a few people. In the future, there will be more hunting helpers, and we will not always be counted on as they are now. Ah Hao said thoughtfully. He doesn't have time now, and when he has free time, he still plans to train a few people. Now that people have been trained, it will be better to hunt or do other things in the future.

At night, every household is cleaning up the meat, and this time Ah Hao shot harder, and most of the prey was directly shot at the place where the injury was killed. Mainly to buy time, he didn't have much time to waste, so as soon as these wild things were transported home, they were basically dead. It's unlikely to be sold anymore, so every household is busy marinating meat. As long as a few pheasants and hares are still alive.

The family was really poor, and they were more and more reluctant to eat it all in two or three days, so some people began to borrow salt all over the village. In the end, the village chief had to come to Geng Qiu's house with a thick face, weigh three catties of salt, and take it back and distribute it to a few people who had no salt at home. It is impossible for the village chief's family to store ten catties and eight catties of salt, and at most only two or three catties of stock, where can they afford to borrow one and a half catties from others. Geng Qiu, who is also at a loss, likes to save salt, and his family has always maintained an inventory of more than ten catties.

If it weren't for the fact that the meat couldn't be stored in hot weather, it is estimated that many people would want to take it out and sell it for food or money. After all, not everyone is like Ah Hao, who is specially left to eat as a family. At this time, there is a shortage of food, and several families rely on wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger. The family is good, but a little thick noodles are added to the wild vegetables and cooked together. If you can exchange it for thirty or fifty dollars, it will be enough to buy ten catties of rough noodles.

Sure enough, early the next morning, several families rushed to the market together, and they were all the ones who had been given live pheasants and hares. At this time, the weather is already hot, and the dead prey is not easy to store, so you can only marinate it at home and eat it slowly, as long as there is still a breath left to hang and not die, you can take it out and exchange it for money. They were very happy when they came back from the market, and it was very rare for them to go to buy wild things, so they sold them for a good price. Ah Hao Gengqiu's action finally made the eyes of the villagers no longer stare at his wheat.

At the end of May and the beginning of June, families in the village began to harvest wheat. People in the village only cut the ears of wheat and carried them home, because the fields are on the mountains or far away from home, and the wheat stalks are piled up in the ground first, and they can carry them back when they have time, or they don't want them at all. Now is the time to harvest, where can I still take care of the wheat stalk.

When Geng Qiu first cut the wheat, he directly left only the finger-length stubble, and even the rod with the ears of wheat were cut, which was very long. Later, when others saw him, they all told him, "You didn't cut it like this." As long as the ears of wheat are good, take the ears back first. It's easy to grind out. ”

It turns out that people are not entirely for saving effort, or because it is better to grind.

In fact, Geng Qiu hadn't figured out how to get the wheat grains down, and then how to grind it into flour. He only had a general impression of these jobs in his mind, knowing that it was impossible to have modern machines such as threshers and flour machines in ancient times. The third uncle understands better than him, but he has an inexplicable trust in him, and he follows his actions.

Geng Qiu was embarrassed to say that he didn't understand, anyway, their home was relatively close to home, and there were three young and strong laborers, so he said: "Our family is also short of firewood and grass, and these wheat stalks must be brought home." ”

It's hard for others to say anything, after all, most people will also carry the wheat stalk home, and the wheat stalk has a lot of functions, in addition to being used as firewood, it can also be used to cover the roof, as a bed and grass, and so on.

Geng Qiu and the third uncle first cut down the wheat, spread it on the ground and dried it, after all, the drier the sun, the better it is to store, if the weather is good, it will be dried for three or four days, if the weather is bad, you have to quickly bundle it up and pick it up and go home.

On the morning of the third day, it was cloudy, and everyone thought it was going to rain, and basically all the people who were working went out, and all the people went to harvest the wheat. Even Ah Hao went down to the ground with him. However, he only had to pick, Geng Qiu's third aunt and third uncle, all of them harvested wheat in the field, gathered them, and tied them into a bundle weighing about fifty catties with ropes. Tie up the two bundles, and Ah Hao will pick them home. Because the family of four adults has been dispatched, they have only planted less than three acres of wheat, even if they grow better than other people's families, in fact, there are not many. Most of the day, they all returned home. Ah Hao actually just went to help pick five loads.

Although it rained heavily for three days, every household had their wheat snatched home, and some people who were in a hurry, or who had no grains left at home, began to beat the wheat grains by hand to make wheat rice to eat. The third uncle had nothing to do, so he also learned to get a few catties of wheat out and let the third aunt cook wheat rice to eat. Fresh wheat grains, not very dry, cooked rice eat very tough and chewy. Geng Qiu didn't think it was delicious, maybe he wasn't used to it, because he hadn't eaten this kind of rice since he was a child, and wheat was in his impression that it was ground into flour and eaten as steamed buns and noodles. But obviously, the third uncle and the third aunt, and even Ah Hao think that wheat rice is delicious.

Ah Hao also said: "This rice cooked with fresh wheat tastes very fragrant." ”

"Of course, this wheat is not completely dry, and it can still be cooked and eaten, in fact, it is more tender, and it is still delicious, but it is a little older now." The third uncle smiled.

"yes, I knew we should have made some cooking a few days ago." Geng Qiu said.

"Although it is delicious, only people who really have no food to eat will make it, and when they are old, the yield will be larger. The tender ones haven't grown well yet, so who is willing to take them to eat. The third aunt smiled.

Brother Ning only ate half a bowl, and Ah Niu still ate rice porridge, he couldn't digest such a meal, but he saw that the food in his family was different from what he had in the bowl, so he had to eat it. Geng Qiu said a few words, but he didn't listen to them at all. Ah Hao directly clamped a small ball and stuffed it into his mouth, the little guy didn't have any teeth, chewed for a long time, swallowed it, and choked in a panic. When Ah Hao gave it to him again, he shook his head and hugged his small bowl, indicating that he would rather eat porridge.

"This kid, now I know that you eat better than we eat." Ah Hao laughed.

Ah Niu actually rolled his eyes and said slowly: "Daddy, bad." ”

Everyone was laughed out loud by his facial expressions and words. Especially this little white eye, it is almost tearful to laugh.

"Stinky boy, if you don't learn to reunite, you will scold your father, and this is worth it." Ah Hao couldn't help but laugh and slapped his fat ass lightly.