39. Drying field
39. Drying field
"Mom, pomegranates aren't rare in that stone! It was Pomegranate who first proposed to withdraw from the marriage. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info And pomegranates can do anything. Aren't you going to work these days? ”
Qin Baoqiang said: "Okay! Why are you talking about people? I don't think Pomegranate is bad, she has the right idea, so don't worry about her. ”
Qin Yanfang hurriedly ate, washed the dishes, and went out with a needle and thread.
Liu Cuilan said to Qin Baoqiang: "It's okay to let Yanfang and pomegranates have more contact, pomegranates can't work, it's good to take care of housework, cooking, raising chickens and growing vegetables, women have done these well, and when they get married in the future, they can't be wrong with the designated days."
"You just said that pomegranates can't do heavy work, what's the use."
"Our family can also do heavy work. Wouldn't it be better to learn these from pomegranates? ”
When Qin Yanfang arrived at Pomegranate's house, Pomegranate and Jiang Hongxiang were in the vegetable garden, Jiang Hongxiang carried water, and Pomegranate planted vegetables.
Qin Yanfang said enviously: "Pomegranate, your dish is the best in the entire Peach Blossom Village."
Pomegranate smiled, "It's Jiang Hongxiang who helps me carry water every day, otherwise how could I grow so well." ”
As soon as Jiang Hongxiang put down the bucket, he wiped a handful of sweat, "I'm just a little coolie, and you do all the fine work." ”
"What delicate work? It's all manual work. ”
In the past few days of contact, Qin Yanfang is also familiar with Jiang Hongxiang, and she said with emotion: "Jiang Hongxiang, you have never done these things when you were at home before, right?"
"Yes! Carrying water, hoeing, planting, nothing has been done, and now there is no problem with any farm work transformed by labor. Jiang Hongxiang said self-deprecatingly.
Qin Yanfang remembered that in the past, when Jiang Hongxiang first came, because he couldn't do anything, he used to make many jokes, leeks and wheat seedlings couldn't be distinguished, seedlings and barnyard can't be distinguished, rape and greens can't be distinguished, not to mention work, can't use all kinds of farm tools. Shi Kailiang taught him hand-in-hand, and now that Shi Kailiang is gone, Jiang Hongxiang continues to help his daughter, this is a blessing!
Because Qin Yanfang and they went to Pomegranate's house to play every night, and then they came to check several times, but they didn't catch any handle of Pomegranate, and then they never came to Pomegranate's house to check.
Pomegranate and Jiang Hongxiang's hearts relaxed.
Soon, the weather became hot, the wheat was ripe, and the harvest began.
When the division of labor, pomegranate and Jiang Hongxiang automatically formed a group, they asked for one mu at a time, the two of them worked together, pomegranate was responsible for harvesting, and Jiang Hongxiang was responsible for picking the wheat to the drying field.
The sun is very dry, pomegranate bent over in the field to cut wheat straw, as if in a steamer, fortunately, during this time, she practiced yoga before going to bed, because of the hard work, the amount of food is large, and the physical work is also a lot, so the body is much stronger, otherwise like the physical strength when she just passed, she must faint.
Both of them scrambled to do it, hoping that they would do more and the other would do less, and they came early in the morning, rested more when the sun was big at noon, and worked a little more in the evening when the sun was behind, so the acre of land they were allocated was originally planned to be finished in five days, but they finished it in three days. More and faster than any other strong laborer.
After finishing it, I continued the task of dividing one acre of land.
After the wheat is harvested, the broad beans are cut again.
In those days, everyone was so tired that they were about to collapse, pomegranate in order to replenish their strength, every day they either stewed chicken or braised rabbit meat, Qin Yanfang came at night, pomegranate was also generous, get a little meat out for them to taste.
Because they finished their work late, they didn't do any more needlework, so they sat under the pomegranate tree, drank some chicken soup, said a few words, and went to sleep.
Just like Qin Yanfang said, no matter how tired she is, every night when she goes to Pomegranate's house, everyone sits together and talks, and the fatigue dissipates a lot.
No matter how tired she is, Pomegranate still insists on practicing yoga every night, Qin Yanfang, who sleeps with Pomegranate, was very curious at first, she also practiced with Pomegranate, and after practicing for a while, she found that her body shape and energy have changed a lot, before, Qin Yanfang was a little fat, but after practicing, her body was slimmer, her skin was tighter, she walked lightly, and she was more energetic. She finally knew why Pomegranate was so different.
Qin Yanfang asked Pomegranate where she learned these exercise methods, and Pomegranate said nonsense: "Because she has been in poor health since she was a child, there is a traveling doctor who taught her to exercise."
Pomegranate has not been in good health since she was a child, and Shi Kailiang has invited many people to see her doctors, regardless of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, formal or informal, so Qin Yanfang believes it to be true.
After the wheat and broad beans were harvested, the next thing was to dig the field, at that time there were very few agricultural machinery, most of them relied on manual labor, digging the field is to turn over all the land that harvested wheat, this is a heavy physical work, pomegranate did not go again, in fact, since pomegranate began to go to work, she and Jiang Hongxiang teamed up, all the heavy work was done by Jiang Hongxiang, she really couldn't do this, she didn't force herself, so she didn't go.
The reason why she went to work was because she didn't want to be underestimated by others, she knew that in a few months, when the turmoil was over and the national policy allowed to buy and sell, she would be able to make money, and she didn't need to work so hard with others to fight for physical strength.
The pomegranate didn't work, so Jiang Hongxiang desperately wanted to do more and did the pomegranate's share.
Pomegranate persuaded him that there was no need for this, his body was important, and the gains outweighed the losses if he was tired.
Jiang Hongxiang said: "It's okay, I'm tired, I wake up from sleep, and I am full of energy the next day."
But Pomegranate only stayed at home for one day, so Captain Qin assigned her an easier job to do, which was to dry wheat on the drying field.
Also drying wheat with her were Qin Yanfang and Qin Xiaojuan, which was assigned by Captain Qin to take care of them on purpose. Of course, some people are unhappy, but there is no absolutely fair thing in this world, so everyone is not surprised, and can only secretly complain.
That afternoon, the sun was about to set, and the people who were digging in the fields came home one after another, and the pomegranates began to collect the wheat, fearing that the wheat would be stolen at night.
On the last trip, Shi Qiang ran over from the crowd of people passing by the drying field on his way home from work, stopped Pomegranate who was pushing the cart and said, "Pomegranate, daughter-in-law...... Woman! Daughter-in-law...... Woman! ”
The pomegranate, who was caught off guard, was startled, and deftly avoided Shi Qiang's outstretched hand and ran behind Qin Xiaojuan.