When Liu Tianming returned home, Liu Lin was just cooking, and Du Yue helped take all the dishes and chopsticks to the hall. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The family sat and prepared to eat.

"Didn't you talk about locusts when you gathered in the village just now?" Liu Lin also heard the sound of gongs and drums in the village, but the child's father had already been called by the Li Zheng family, so she didn't go over anymore.

"Yes, the people in the village think that the situation is not optimistic, and most of them want to take back the crops first, as I thought." Liu Tianming said with a heavy face.

"Well, let's take back the rice tomorrow, I've already taken out all the tools, and after I'm done eating, I'll fix all those tools." Liu Lin handed the bowl of good rice to Liu Tianming.

"Oh, Yueniang, Li Zheng confessed, don't go to school tomorrow, those children will also go home to help with the autumn harvest, go to school, wait until the autumn harvest is over." Liu Tianming took the rice bowl handed by Liu Lin, remembered that there was still this matter, and hurriedly told Du Yue.

"Okay, let's talk about it after the autumn harvest." Du Yue looked at the heavy atmosphere at home, even if she hadn't experienced this, she knew the seriousness of the autumn harvest, it seemed that she would have to help together tomorrow, but she couldn't just stay at home.

After eating, Liu Tianming looked at the sickle that Liu Lin found out, and after the harvest every autumn, the sickle was basically useless, so it was put away, and at this time he had to see if the sickle was damaged by rust.

Fortunately, it may be stored properly, these scythes don't have much rust, and they can still be used, just sharpen them.

There was a stone standing at the door of the kitchen, which was usually used to sharpen knives. Liu Tianming went to the door of the kitchen, went into the kitchen and came out with a basin of water, squatted there, and began to sharpen his knife.

Liu Lin took a duster and swept away the ashes of the threshing bucket, and tomorrow the threshing bucket will have to be moved to the field for use, and then the grains will have to be thrown into the bucket, so the threshing bucket must also be cleaned.

Early the next morning, Liu Lin's breakfast was cooked early, and after the family had eaten, they were ready to leave for the field. Du Yue and Yuan Ping also went together, the two wore straw hats and held sickles, Liu Lin carried a pair of empty baskets, Liu Tianming and his son carried the threshing buckets, and the family went to their own fields.

Because of the locusts, the villagers are afraid that there will be no harvest, so each family basically called out the people who can be dispatched to be busy with the autumn harvest, Du Yue saw many villagers along the way with tools to their own fields, it seems that the situation of the locusts is really serious.

When a few people came to the field, the rice in the field was also golden, and a gust of wind blew, like golden waves, swinging and waving. Although these rice looks golden brown, they are still not fully ripe, and some rice can still be pinched out of rice milk by hand. There are already a lot of locusts crawling on the seedlings of these rice, and if the rice is harvested in a few days, I don't know how many more locusts will come, and it is estimated that there will be no leaves left in this rice. When Liu Tianming saw this situation, he was even more worried, obviously when he came to see it yesterday, there were not so many locusts, and it was only one night, and there were a lot more locusts, and the leaves on many rice stalks had been gnawed off by locusts. Therefore, even if the rice is not fully ripe at this time, everyone has to harvest it ruthlessly.

Many people have already arrived in this area, and some villagers have already started harvesting. Du Yue came to Liu's field, looking at the scene of autumn harvest everywhere, obviously the autumn harvest season, everyone is happy, but now the faces of all the villagers are dignified, no one has a smile on their faces, and some ignorant babies are making trouble. Everyone has to harvest rice in advance because there will be a locust plague, and they know that the yield will be reduced a lot, so where can they laugh.

Liu Tianming and his son put the threshing bucket on the field stalk first, and several people did not speak, picked up the sickle and began to harvest the rice. Although Du Yue had not done farm work in his previous life, harvesting rice was not difficult.

Don't look at the harvest, it's easy, but you have to change your waist or squat, so it's not easy. Du Yue squatted in the field, grabbed a handful of rice in his left hand, and cut the rice with a sickle, although he was not used to doing this farm work, but Du Yue still began to harvest the rice very quickly with his hands and feet.

With a handful in his hand, Du Yue put the harvested ones on the ground and began to continue cutting. It can be regarded as a lot of people and great strength, the Liu family counted five people from Du Yue, and it didn't take long for them to cut a lot of rice. Liu Tianming, father and son, moved the threshing bucket to the field, and they were ready to start throwing the grains, and the rice had to be threshed when it was cut.

In previous years, these things were done by Liu Tianming, and this year is no exception, Liu Lin took his two children and Du Yue to continue harvesting, Liu Tianming moved the rice that everyone had cut to the edge of the threshing barrel, and picked up a handful of rice with both hands. began to shake up. The grains fell into the grain bucket one by one as Liu Tianming shook them hard. Although the threshing kernel is good standing, not bent over there like the harvest, but it is also very laborious to shake it hard.

Du Yue also kept harvesting, but after a while, she felt that her feet were a little numb, she stood up and bent over to continue harvesting. Yuan Qing saw Du Yue standing up, and knew that she must be tired, but he couldn't help it, after all, there would be more and more locusts, and it would be safe to finish collecting it early. Du Yue, a person who had never done farm work at all, suddenly had to help with the autumn harvest, although it was all effortless, he was also tired enough, and there were locusts that would fly from time to time. Those rice leaves will also cut the skin on their hands, and a scar will appear from time to time, but fortunately, these scars are shallow and will not leave marks, but the body will also be tickled by these rice.

Du Yue couldn't help it, put down the rice cut in his hand, and grabbed it with his hands, but the more he scratched, the more itchy it became.

"Yue'er, don't scratch it, just wash it with water when you go back later, you will scratch it more and more itchy." Yuan Qing was harvesting on Du Yue's side, and when he saw Du Yue standing up, he was scratching the itch, so he hurriedly stopped Du Yue's movements, but it was still a little late, and there were already a lot of red marks on the back of Du Yue's hand.

"Ah, I can't scratch it, but it's very uncomfortable." Hearing Yuan Qing say that he couldn't catch it, Du Yue also quickly stopped, didn't dare to continue to catch it, and could only endure it hard.

"There's a stream over there, why don't you go over there and wash it first, it won't be too itchy." Yuan Qing was very distressed when he saw Du Yue's hard work, so he hurriedly asked Du Yue to wash. (To be continued.) )