Not long after Wu Xiaojun and Bai Lingyan arrived home, Wu Pingshun came back, washed his face, ate a few bites and drank a bowl of soup, squatted aside and lowered his head to smoke.

Wu Xiaojun and Bai Lingyan had already had breakfast in the county seat, and they didn't eat anything, so they quietly squatted beside Wu Pingshun and asked in a whisper, "Dad, how many acres of wheat have we harvested?" Now they are all using a thresher to remove wheat, why are you still drying wheat stalks? ”

Wu Pingshun said with a depressed face, "A few days ago, I cut two acres in advance, and before I got to the field, it rained at night and it was all wet, and the next day I pulled it back and put it on the stack, and I had a fever overnight, and I spread it out to dry." Lingyan is also back this time, how many days can you two be at home? ”

Wu Xiaojun said worriedly, "She said she wanted to come back to see, and I couldn't stop her, so I let her come back." Now the hospital is strictly controlled, and you can stay at home for up to five days! ”

Wu Pingshun's face showed a hint of light joy, "I don't know what, this year's body bones are obviously not as good as in previous years, I feel tired and have no strength, my hands and feet are stiff and inflexible, I have been worried about the wheat harvest, worried that my body will not be able to hold up, and the ripe wheat will fall into the ground." The two of you came back just in time, our wheat is hopeful, and now is the time for a big harvest, the wheat shearing machine is very nervous, and everyone is fighting like a fart. I didn't have the time to keep an eye on the machine, and I couldn't keep up, so after a while we went to the field and cut the two pieces of earth first. ”

Wu Xiaojun lowered his head and listened quietly, feeling very uncomfortable in his heart, this is an indisputable fact, and he can't change it, and said sullenly, "Well! The land in the south of the village is more than three acres, and it is easy to cut, and it will take almost a day to pull it back. ”

Wu Xiaojun and Bai Lingyan came out of their homes and went directly to the land in the south of the village, that is, the land where Wu Xiaojun's sister-in-law's mother-in-law and the old lady were buried a few years ago. At that time, Wu Pingshun felt very sorry for his second sister Wu Lian, and couldn't bear to embarrass her, so he agreed to bury Mrs. Ma there on the spot. However, it was strongly opposed by his eldest son, Wu Xiaofu, who had been salivating over the land, and he obstructed it despite it. In the middle of the night, Wu Xiaofu went to the eldest daughter Wu Xiaoyun's house to beat her, and the next day the father and son fought again in the field, and in the end Wu Xiaofu did not resist Wu Pingshun and had to compromise. But the effects of that incident are still alive today.

In the second year, brother-in-law Ma Wencheng and second sister Wu Lian were worried that Wu Pingshun would not be able to bear the wheat, so the whole family went out to help, which immediately aroused Wu Xiaofu's strong dissatisfaction. Because there was no excuse or reason for directly clashing with Ma Wencheng, the two families quarreled for a long time and even tore together on the grounds that Uncle Wu Pingchun had come to his house to find corn in his field. The angry Wu Pingshun couldn't wait to break Wu Xiaofu's leg with a fork, and Ma Wencheng's family was very faceless, and he never came to do such a thankless thing again.

Wu Xiaojun was also present at the time, and witnessed the scene with his own eyes, and it still looks back on it as if it had just happened yesterday.

Wu Xiaojun and Bai Lingyan walked to the entrance of the village, and looked at the endless golden wheat waves in the ground, which was gratifying, and it was another bumper harvest year. In a marked departure from the past, the yellow straw hats dotted around the land have become scarce, replaced by electric tricycles and rack carts parked on the side of the country road, and the villagers gather in groups of three or two on the roadside to chat and wait for the wheat clippers.

Wu Xiaojun clearly remembers that in the first year when the wheat shearing machine appeared in the field, everyone thought that the wheat stubble left was too long, the most basic ration straw of livestock was wasted, and the estimation of the wheat grain throwing process was underestimated. In the second year, there was a significant change, and everyone valued speed and labor-saving, and the universal use rate reached 60%. In the third year, it was fully rolled out, and the traditional harvesting tools, sickles, and shovels were all laid off, and no one wanted to do that kind of labor again, so they squatted in the ground with sickles and sweated profusely to cut wheat.

Compared with manual wheat harvesting, the fastest is less than three acres a day, and it takes less than ten minutes for the wheat shearing machine to put down one acre of wheat, which saves time and effort. This is another new change brought by mechanization to rural people after the emergence of threshers and tractors in the past few years, and the loss of the role of ploughing cattle, mules and horses in agriculture and the gradual withdrawal from the stage of history.

Although Bai Lingyan was also born in the countryside and grew up in the countryside, she is no stranger to the countryside at all, but she has been in a remote mountainous area since she was a child, and it is the first time she has seen such a spectacular picture and beautiful scenery on the plain, and she is extremely happy and excited.

Wu Xiaojun touched the scene and thought about the past all the way, and the abnormal reaction of his parents has already explained that although he doesn't know what happened in Yichun's family, their health is getting worse, their mood is very dull, and life is not happy. I have just arrived home, it is the critical moment of the wheat harvest, not the time to delve into these things, I can only temporarily press it in the bottom of my heart, try my best to complete the wheat harvest, so as not to let my parents feel distressed and disappointed.

Besides, Bai Lingyan is still an outsider after all, and she still knows less about these messy things at home, participates less, and gets less involved.

Looking at Bai Lingyan's carefree appearance, Wu Xiaojun asked with a smile, "The harvest picture in the countryside in front of you is very beautiful!" ”

Bai Lingyan nodded excitedly and said, "Well, it's rare!" I've never seen such a spectacular scene, but unfortunately I don't have a camera, and it would be a good memory to be able to take a few photos. I wonder how your wheat grows? ”

Wu Xiaojun looked at her happy face, and said with a smile, "Didn't you say the wrong thing, what is your family, that's our family!" ”

Bai Lingyan said with a smile, "I don't speak in tune, your home is your home, what does it have to do with me, who is with you!" ”

Wu Xiaojun teased slyly, "Hey, hey, I'm still pretending, aren't you and I already here!" ”

Bai Lingyan glanced at him and said coquettishly, "you!" Don't call your aunt, call your aunt and grandma and don't talk to you, and then talk nonsense, I'll kick you! ”

Wu Xiaojun smiled and said, "Okay, okay, don't say it, I'm afraid you won't make it!" ”

The two were laughing, and suddenly someone in front of them exclaimed, "Oh, Xiaojun, when did you two come back?" Your eldest sister Bai has fine skin and tender meat, such a smart person, and she also came back with you to help your father and mother harvest wheat? Can Sister Bai stand the rough work of basking in the sun on the top of the sun? You kid doesn't know how to feel sorry for others. ”

Wu Xiaojun and Bai Lingyan hurriedly restrained their smiles, and when they raised their eyes, they saw that ten meters in front of them, their neighbor Aunt Wang was wearing a straw hat, a white towel on her shoulder, leaning on the tricycle with her hands and arms, staring at the two and giggling.

The locals more formally call the young daughter-in-law the surname eldest sister, Bai Lingyan didn't know what Aunt Wang meant, she didn't answer, just turned her face and looked at Wu Xiaojun shyly.

Wu Xiaojun asked with a faint smile, "Aunt Wang, we just came back, how did your family get it?" ”

"Hey, there are few wheat shears, it's not easy to stop, and it hasn't started yet."

"It's all mechanized now, it's much easier than before, don't worry!"

"Like, look at it, everyone is squatting on the ground, and no one is pouting anymore, and they are tired and sweating like urine."

Bai Lingyan couldn't help but laugh when she heard Aunt Wang say foul language.

Aunt Wang saw Bai Lingyan laughing, and said hahaha, "Sister Bai, you may not know, you feel that your body is a little rough to speak." A few years ago, he pouted his ass in winter to pull dung into the field, and when the wheat was harvested, a cart of wheat was pulled into the field like ants moving, and he didn't forget to stall for your father, wearing a dirty little coat and a rotten straw hat, and driving the old white cow that depended on your family under the scorching sun to press wheat, not to mention it in summer and autumn, soaking in the ground with your father and mother all day long, often tired and yellow, listless, and like a gray ghost. I have to say that after so many years, she has been trained into a rare and authentic worker in the neighboring villages. A few days ago, your father's old guy was still talking about the two of you, and he had been worrying about the wheat harvest, and the two of you came back, and now he was steady! ”

Bai Lingyan quietly listened to Aunt Wang talk about Wu Xiaojun's past, and smiled at him.

Wu Xiaojun said embarrassedly, "Aunt Wang, look at what you said, you don't need to learn what to do with other people's crops, more people are better than fewer people, and you can do something." ”

Aunt Wang is not a very talkative person, maybe the joy of the harvest fills her heart, maybe she has a good impression of Wu Xiaojun and Bai Lingyan, she chatters endlessly, without any intention of braking, "Xiaojun, you are really a good boy, you are right!" Your father and mother are in their sixties, and without a helper, they raise livestock day and night to wait for more than ten acres of land, swallowing their anger, not having enough food and clothing, it is really too difficult. The situation of your family is very special, we are neighbors in the township, watching the old couple have a spring of life, no less sin, no less work, physical and mental exhaustion, getting thinner and thinner day by day, special distress, but the energy can not be used. Auntie knows that both of you have public office and are not free, it is not easy to come back, time is very precious, and when the wheat shearing machine comes over, let him cut it for your house first. ”

Wu Xiaojun heard what Aunt Wang said, and smiled bitterly, "Thank you Aunt Wang first, let's go to the field and have a look, and come back later!" ”

Aunt Wang said happily, "Well, your wheat is growing the best this year, go and have a look!" ”

Wu Xiaojun and Bai Lingyan walked into their own fields, looking at the flat wheat field with full and dense grains and gathered by yellow ears of wheat, they were extremely happy, "Xiaojun, you see how beautiful this is, it's like a yellow carpet spread on the ground, like this, there will be about seven or eight hundred catties per acre of land, right?" ”

Wu Xiaojun laughed, "Girl, you underestimate the energy of our land, don't hide it, our ten acres of land are powerful, at most I sold more than 1,200 catties of wheat per acre, and the ground flour is whiter than adding whitening agent." ”

Bai Lingyan pursed her lips, "Blow nonsense, the best one we have there is four or five hundred catties, I don't believe you can exceed a thousand catties." ”

Wu Xiaojun fiddled with the ears of wheat and said very seriously, "Don't believe it, think about it, do you have such a dense crop there, are the ears of wheat so big, and are the wheat grains so full, just compare it and know that a thousand catties will only be more and not less." Oh, I won't tell you, there's a wheat shearing machine over there, I'm going to have to stop it quickly. ”