In the blink of an eye, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li had already wrapped the zongzi a few days ago, the zongzi had no tricks, that is, the glutinous rice was soaked for three days, and the glutinous rice was soaked white, wrapped in a basket leaf and then tied with a rope, and cooked in a pot to eat.

The family is usually wild vegetable porridge against corn tortillas to eat pickles, finally looking forward to the festival, eating glutinous rice, the family is happy, waiting for the dumplings to cook, with a basket of ten, to the main house to send, even if the family moves out of the house to live, Li is afraid that the village people say that she is not filial, every New Year's holiday, the same things that should be sent are not less, but this does not satisfy the appetite of the mother-in-law, or from time to time in the village chewing the root of the tongue, saying bad things about her family, Li does not care, anyway, her mind arrives, the village can see the discerning people, No matter how much she says, no one will believe it.

Tang Tiezhu stood in his yard for a while, got up and went to the field to see the rice and buds, in the spring, every morning before dawn he heard the cry of "cuckoo-cuckoo", Tang Qinger is very familiar with this call, whenever he hears the cuckoo call, it means to spring ploughing, there is such a sentence in the textbooks of the previous life: cuckoo cuckoo, grinding sickle and hoe. But now it's autumn, and I can't hear it anymore.

Tang Tiezhu had already prepared the loquats, wooden rakes, brooms, and sickles at home, and harvested them with sickles when the rice was yellow. Shi got up early and gathered around the kitchen door, waiting to eat the first pot of pancakes, and Li also smiled happily, and sat under the stove to light the fire.

Tang Qing'er took out the rapeseed oil, saw that her mother had mixed the noodles, and the leeks had been washed and cut, so she handed the oil to her mother.

"I'll spread the pancakes, you go and break some vegetables, and blanch them later." Thinking of being able to eat pancakes at noon today, Tang Qinger excitedly carried the basket outside the kitchen to the backyard to pick vegetables, and when she came back, she saw Jiao'er wearing Li's newly made pink yellow flower clothes and pants, sitting on the pu mat at the door of the West House and playing with puppets.

Recently, everyone has lived a very peaceful life, no one in the main house came to her house for trouble, this kind of quiet life Tang Qinger is very yearning, smelling the smell of pancakes all over the yard, she took a big breath, and thought, this kind of taste is the farm life she imagined: small bridges and flowing water, dead vines and old trees, faint crows, and then with the cooking smoke of the farmhouse, the fragrance of oil, and the fragrance of food...... What a farmhouse.

After feeding the chickens in the house, he also saw Jiao'er hugging the puppet, staring straight in the direction of the kitchen, the corners of her mouth were flowing, she smiled and pinched her little nose, and turned to help in the kitchen.

Before breakfast was ready, Tang Tiezhu came back from the field, strode towards the kitchen, and said to his mother-in-law with a smile on his face: "The rice fields in the south are dry and can be cut, or we will open the sickle today!" ”

Li was too busy with pancakes to answer him.

After breakfast, the Tang Tiezhu brothers took out the big broom, wooden fork, and wooden rake from home, first turned to the rice field to unload the farm tools, and then took the sickle to the field.

After four or five days of busy work, the two families finally finished cutting two acres of paddy fields, and hired ox carts from the same village to pull them to the rice field.

Tang Qing'er brushed the pot at home to prepare for lunch, wood and stone did not go to Zhou Fuzi these days, went to the field to help her father and mother tie rice, Tang Fei'er of the second aunt's family took care of a few small ones at home, and Li and Sun went to the rice field, a few days ago to grind the site, today you have to sweep the floating soil, and later Tang Tiezhu brothers will pull the cut rice here, pull a cart to spread out a cart, take advantage of the good weather, you have to hurry up to harvest.

On the edge of the site, the grass shed for watching the site has long been erected, and there is a poplar tree sixty or seventy years thick on the side of the grass shed, and the thick green branches and leaves block the sunlight outside, and when the wind blows, I can hear the rustling of leaves.

Wood and stone study every day, there is very little time to play during the day, this time the farm is busy, Tang Tiezhu asked his two sons to help at home, not only to let them know the hard work of farming, but also to make them understand that only by paying hard can they reap a bumper harvest, but they don't know that the two have already played wild, and as soon as they arrived, they ran wildly, and Li shouted at them for a long time before they came back reluctantly.

In the afternoon, the ox cart pulling the rice came back and then pulled the rest of the fields, and the Li and Sun families spread the rice, one cart after another, and when there was no idle time, the scorching sun made the rice crackle.

In addition to paving the newly pulled rice, it is necessary to turn over the rice that has been spread out at noon every other hour, so that it can be dried thoroughly and save effort when beating rice.

The rice field is used by several families, and it is very large, and the rice of the Li family was harvested early, and they occupied the entire field in the past two days. Although the stone and wood are small, they can still be used to turn the rice with a small fork.

On the morning of the third day, the rice in the north field was cut, and the rice in the field was also scorched.

After a few laps, the fluffy rice stalks are compacted and suffocated, and the women take forks to loosen in the back, and then press again, threshing the rice is a slow job, and women and men can also take advantage of the time between the rice to rest.

Two acres of rice are the same as in previous years, each mu yields four stones (one stone is equal to one hundred and twenty catties), which makes the Tang Tiezhu brothers very happy, so that half of the rice is levied in two acres of paddy fields, and these provinces can eat until the beginning of spring next year, not to mention the budding rice field at the foot of the mountain.

Not to mention anything else, this year's foot of the mountain at the foot of the bud rice field according to the girl's method of fattening, I didn't expect the fertilizer to be so big, the bud rice pole is thick and green, the bud rice stick each has a little baby's arm so thick, there are many old people who go to their own home to look at the bud rice stick and say: "This stick grows really gratifying, Donald is really good at farming, than our old people will serve the land, this year his land is a bumper harvest,"

It took more than half a month to harvest rice and buds like this, looking at so many buds and rice in the yard at home, Tang Qing'er couldn't help but flirt lightly, now she doesn't have to worry about not having enough to eat in winter, watching her father turn over the buds in the middle of the yard, walked up to her father and said: "Dad, there is still so much food left at home, do you plan to sell it?" ”

Tang Tiezhu never thought about this problem, in addition to paying taxes, the rest of the grain was not enough to eat at all, and it was the first time that there was such a grain left when it grew so big, and he was stunned for a while and thought deeply, and said after a while: "How can these leftover grains be sold, I am going to dry them, put them in a cloth bag and put them in a ventilated place on the second floor, and keep them for my own food," When I was a child, there was a drought in the village, and there was no rain from spring to autumn, and there was no harvest during the autumn harvest, and even the wild vegetables on the hillside did not grow, even if I had money, I couldn't buy food, Everyone can only gnaw on the bark to boil soup and drink, only the landlord's family in the village has not died, and more than half of the people in the village have starved to death, and the people who survived are thin into pipa bones, and they fall into skin if they don't die.

Tang Qing'er meant this, so when she heard her father say this, she patted her ass happily and said: "Dad, you are really raining before the sky is over, and you are planning for the household,"

"What does this mean," Tang Tiezhu didn't understand the crepe words.

Tang Qing'er cleared her throat and said: "This sentence is a poem in the Book of Songs entitled "Feng Feng&8226;Owl", which describes a mother bird that has lost her young birds and is still working hard to build a nest. This means that while it is still raining, quickly tie the nest firmly with the skin of the mulberry root to protect it from harm. Afterward. Everyone extended these lines of poetry to "plan for a rainy day", which means that everything should be prepared in advance, so as not to be rushed in an impromptu manner. Birds still know how to plan ahead, and people know it. ”

"Why do you still chew words when your daughter talks to her father, you don't know that your father doesn't understand this, next time you speak simply and clearly," Tang Tiezhu knew that his daughter was praising herself, and she still looked unhappy on her face.

Tang Qing'er couldn't see the corners of her father's mouth, obviously happy in his heart, but he had to make it look angry, her father worked in the field all the year round, his face was dark, and there were some wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, he deliberately looked a little nondescript just now, of course, he couldn't say this to her father.

Li Shi came out of the house and saw that the two of them were talking to each other, and walked over curiously, and heard that the girl was coaxing the housekeeper, and the corners of his mouth smiled: "You made your father angry again?" ”

"Where? Where? Tang Qing'er didn't hear her mother's footsteps, and when she heard her mother's voice, she was so frightened that she hurriedly leaned back, and hurriedly retorted in her mouth.

"Really? Then how did I hear you apologize to your father just now? ”

"Mother, you eavesdropped on me talking to my father,"

"Where have I eavesdropped, and you are not talking in the house, and you are not covered with boards, how can you say that I am eavesdropping? I'm obviously listening to you two in the open,"

"Dad, look at my mother, it's so unreasonable to eavesdrop," Tang Qing'er deliberately raped against her mother, after the autumn harvest, her mother's mood has been very good, probably seeing that there is still surplus grain in this year's granary, she laughs every day, and occasionally jokes with her father and younger siblings like this.

Every time she quarreled with her mother, her father would be so noisy that his ears hurt, so he said to the mud like now: "You're all right, it's all my fault, okay!" Tang Qing'er and her mother glanced at each other, and the corners of their mouths tilted incredulously.

Tang Tiezhu wiped the sweat from his forehead, saw his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law secretly laughing there, and said innocently: "Wow! You two actually put together a fire to amuse me,"

Li Shi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Are you stupid, and you still rely on us, are you not a girl?" ”

Tang Qing'er didn't answer this, walked over and shook her father's arm and said, "Dad, I listen to you the most, and I am the most intimate with you, I will never laugh at you." ”

"That is, my daughter is most eager for me, how can you laugh at me? The only one who laughs at me is your mother. ”

"Yes, I can see it, your daughter is a wall grass, which is stronger, where to fall," Li looked at his daughter speechlessly, was this girl born to her? How can you be so cunning!