The two of them have been digging the ground for more than half a month, and the grass on the ground that Geng Qiu circled has been all cut, and they take all the grass back when they go home every day, and they throw it in the open space behind the house to dry. But the progress of digging is very slow, it is too difficult to dig, because the roots of the grass are very deep, it is difficult to clean up, and you have to turn all the ground over and clean the roots carefully, otherwise the grass will take root and sprout again.

"I'm tired, when will this work be done?" Ah Hao threw away the shovel in his hand, ran to the side, poured a bowl of tea with a teapot, drank it with a coo, sat down, and refused to move again. He felt that this kind of work was more tiring than when he went to the mountains to hunt.

"If only there were oxen plowing the fields." Geng Qiu is also tired, doing this kind of life with his face facing the black soil and his back to the sky every day, not only has his body grown stronger, but the exposed skin has turned into black charcoal, and his hands and feet have become a lot rougher, even Ah Hao is the same. The two of them are really not much different from the villagers now.

Because the mud was wet, and there was even a little water in some places, he couldn't wear shoes at all, so he and Ah Hao were working barefoot. In fact, it is hot now, and most of the people in the village are barefoot, who makes everyone poor, and shoes have to be saved. And most people are also used to life with bare feet. Only Geng Qiu and Ah Hao wear shoes when they go out every day, and they take them off when they get to the field, and when they go home after work, they wash their feet and put on their shoes to go home. Others are not as particular as they are, and most of the time they are barefoot. Many of the children in the village are □□ all over their bodies. It's better to wear a pocket or shorts to cover important areas. Everyone was tanned, and all that was seen was the eyes and teeth.

"Oxen ploughing the fields? How to plow? Ah Hao asked again and again when he heard it.

"It's just to use a cow to pull a pear to the pear field, but it's much faster than digging like this, and it saves a lot of effort." Geng Qiu recalled the appearance of the old cow pulling pears he saw when he was a child, and at that time he had not yet realized mechanization, and it was all purely human. But every family in the village has a cow, and several families raise one cow together, and today they work in your house, and your family is responsible for taking care of the cows, so they take turns. He still remembers the appearance of the pear very clearly, that is, a wooden shelf with an iron pear head. But in this place, because it is all mountainous, and the land is not a piece, a small piece here and there, even if there is a pear, it is estimated that it will not be able to make it, so everyone works with all their strength, and they use shovels to dig the ground.

The land that Geng Qiu and they reclaimed is a whole piece, with cow pears, which must save a lot of time and effort. But the problem is that he doesn't know if there is such a pear in this dynasty, and even if there is, he estimates that it is very expensive. With their current ten taels of silver, he didn't dare to buy valuables.

"So where are we going?" Ah Hao asked again, he can't wait to finish cultivating these fields now, and work hard every day, but he is tired and tired, and he is bored to death. He really wanted to go into the mountains and hunt some wild animals to improve his life.

"Where are you going? I've never seen it anywhere, huh? Besides, do we have silver? That's not something you can buy back with one or two halves. After Geng Qiu finished speaking, he went to the ground again.

Ah Hao heard what he said, so he had to obediently follow him to work in the field. The two of them worked for a while, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, in the summer, it was almost noon and it was too hot to stand, no one had to stay in the scorching sun to work, and the two packed up their things and went home.

Now the two of them get up every day as soon as the sun is exposed, Geng Qiu is busy pancakes and boiling tea, and Ah Hao takes Ah Niu to Ah Qing's house. Neither of them had time to eat breakfast at home, but carried it in a basket and ate it as they walked. Just to do more work. When the sun is strong, the ground is turned out and dried, and the grass roots in the mud are easier to clean up and die. At noon, I went home and rested until the sun was in the west, and then I came out to work. At night, I walked on the moonlight before going home. The days are long in summer, and only those who get up early and are greedy for darkness can do more work. If Geng Qiu hadn't worked in the countryside since he was a child, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to do it.

Geng Qiu remembers that when he was a child, this was how people lived in his hometown, and he also helped his family do a lot of farm work since he was a child, such as herding cattle, such as cutting rice and wheat, and even planting rice and hoeing. I didn't do it until high school, and then I went to college, and my grandparents stopped farming, but they still planted a large vegetable field.

After nearly two months of such hard days, the two of them were so tired that they shed a layer of skin, and both of them became black and thin, but they were also very energetic. Looking at the fruits of his labor, Geng Qiu was filled with emotion, he couldn't imagine that he could dig up five or six acres of land with just two hands.

The hottest summer is almost over, the fields are very dry, the grass roots are almost cleaned, and the people in the village are blushing when they look at the fields divided into three pieces. However, because there was something to say first, it was difficult for everyone to say anything, and the people in the village had more or less received the favor of Geng Qiu's family during these days. Ah Hao basically went to the mountain once in five days, and from time to time he could get back three or two rabbits, and occasionally he could get back a few big birds and pheasants, but they couldn't store them because of the heat, and they couldn't eat them all in a day, most of them were exchanged for the villagers. The villagers' families did not save grain for exchange, and basically they were all on credit.

Some people promised to give food after the autumn harvest, some promised to take care of children, some promised to help make clothes and shoes, like Amu was a carpenter and promised to help make wardrobe tables, Azhu family made bamboo, promised to make a big bamboo bed, plus a few baskets and sieves, and so on. The so-called cannibalistic hands are short, although everyone is jealous of such a large field, but it is still too late to process and add points.

Therefore, after seeing Geng Qiu's land opened, the people in the village were as excited as if they had beaten chicken blood to open fields here, according to the scope of their respective circles, some could open one acre and two acres, some could open two or three acres, and some could only open more than one acre. There are more than 20 families in the village, and this piece of land is also very large-scale. There must be forty or fifty acres in total. Of course, everyone has opened all the positions that can be opened.

Now Geng Qiu's field has become the largest and best piece. In the autumn, about three acres of winter wheat have been planted, and the remaining half has been planted with cabbage, radish, rape, garlic and other vegetables. In this way, in winter, Geng Qiu's family no longer has to worry about running out of food. The small vegetable plot in front of their door is now planted with chili peppers and a few rows of green onions, because the people of this dynasty do not love to eat chili peppers as much as modern people, and every household only grows a little, and after harvesting, it is dried, or made into sauce, or directly used as a seasoning, so everyone does not plant much.

And Geng Qiu likes to eat chili peppers, so he grows more, and sometimes he also gets a chili fried rabbit meat or something, so fragrant that Ah Hao has always vowed to eat chili fried meat every day when the days are good. Of course, the chili dried loach is also very delicious, but they don't dare to make more because there is no oil. Most of those loaches are boiled to eat, put a little oil to fry it, then add water, and sometimes add some cucumbers to cook soup, although less oil and less seasoning, but it is also a good dish, the most important thing is nutrition, to make up for the vacancy of meat. But that's it, this dish is also an excellent dish in the local area, other people's loaches are basically boiled, and no one is willing to eat them after a few meals.

Fortunately, the two people's homes are at the very edge of the village, and they have to walk for more than a quarter of an hour to the nearest neighbors. Adults are embarrassed, but children can't resist the deliciousness. Like the black boy of Aqing's family, he is a frequent visitor. However, the village chief obviously explained to him, and asked him to bring some vegetables over every time, so that others thought that he really came to deliver vegetables, rather than just to rub the rice, and followed him. If there are more children here, Geng Qiu's family's life in Heiyan Village is good, and it will be unbearable. So the one who can come to his house to eat is the black boy alone.