Chapter 9 Busy farming
The Qingming Festival passed quickly, and the festive atmosphere here was happier and more lively than the Qingming Festival elsewhere. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info But Lin Yujuan was a little depressed, there were too many people in the town in the past three days. There are so many people, this represents consumption! Even if you sell something simple, you can make a lot of money. The family is so poor, just selling vegetables costs a few hundred dollars a month. If you want to accumulate money, you can't let go of the slightest opportunity to make money. Thinking about it, I am only seven years old now, and I am a daughter, but when I grow up, I can only earn this little money at the door.
The more Lin Yujuan thought about it, the more depressed she became, forget it, there is still next year, if you do a good job this year, save some money, and you won't miss it next year. It's just that I haven't figured out what to sell yet. Well, there's still a year to go.
The four sisters and brothers of the Lin family started selling vegetables again, and they usually did not forget to go to Mr. Lin to learn to read and write. It's not easy to sell vegetables, and it's not always rainy after Qingming. The mud roads in the countryside are so difficult to walk that you can get a pound of mud when you step on it. There are no suitable shoes, but they are not modern rain boots. I can only rub Gu Boss's boat. In this way, more than a month has passed, and there are still more than ten days before the Dragon Boat Festival.
It's been almost three months since I sold vegetables, and the average monthly price is five or six hundred yuan. In front, the Qi family bought livestock, and the sisters also took in five or six hundred Wen. Now there are only about 1,000 wen in the money box, because the four sisters and brothers have to take charge of their own money, Qi said that the four sisters and brothers will have to be responsible for their own expenses in the future. Think about the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, and grandparents have to spend some money to send some Boxing gifts. After all, he also taught his sister and brother a few literates. In order to learn literacy, he also taught some neighbors around him to laugh at him for several days. The uncle's family is two girls, and a woman is virtuous if she is not talented, and it doesn't matter if she learns or not. A few boys from the third uncle's family can't do it, and they don't hurry up to play after they are busy with the things their parents have explained. In this country, it is also a scourge to divide the land, make bricks, and learn to read. Unless you can read a famous name, you must at least be a talent. But Xiucai is not so easy to get into. One less laborer doesn't count how much money you have to put into it.
This is the common idea of most rural people, and everyone knows that only when they pass the exam can they get ahead. If you can't pass the exam, just like Lin Yongde? It's stupid to read, can't keep the family business, and can't even learn the family handicraft. I don't know how to plant the earth, I only eat and drink with people. This is not the only example. Lin Yujuan, who was harmed, spent a lot of words to brainwash them. Fortunately, after Mr. Lin finished the course, he would occasionally tell a few stories. There is no entertainment in the countryside, so it's not bad to learn words and listen to stories, so I persevered all the way. I bought two more brushes, and the sisters and brothers took turns to practice writing on the green bricks with water. Sometimes I also get some pot ash and write and play, but that thing doesn't dissolve in water, so I can only do it.
Now the four sisters and brothers are divided into two groups, Yukou and Yujuan go to the street to sell vegetables, and Xiujuan takes the younger brother to do some housework and take care of the livestock at home. There was no shortage of pigs or sheep, but there were still a few ducks and twenty-three remaining. When the ducks changed their wool and could go into the water, they taught Qi to cut off the same duck webs of each duck to make a mark. It is not uncommon for neighbors to quarrel over this chicken feather.
It's almost the Dragon Boat Festival, and Lin Yujuan also picked reed leaves to sell. This family has to make zongzi, and there is always something to sell. Two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, calamus and mugwort were also bought, and Lin Xiujuan took Lin Xiaodi to cut two large bundles back. Lin Yujuan sold every penny, and also made dozens of dollars.
Hitting reed leaves is not as easy as cutting calamus, you have to pick a good big one. This time there are not enough people, but Lin Yujuan gave an idea. Fifty reed leaves for a small piece of maltose for the price of the children around the purchase.
After a Dragon Boat Festival, I also made a small profit of one or two hundred wen. I sent two catties of wine, two catties of meat and one catty of sugar to my grandfather's house, which cost dozens of yuan. As soon as the Dragon Boat Festival ended, I was busy harvesting wheat. After the wheat was harvested, the ground was dug up and irrigated to prepare for transplanting. The next ten or twenty days were not easy. The sale of vegetables was suspended, and they all went to the fields to help. Lin Guilu and his wife were cutting wheat in the field, and the four sisters and brothers also went to work in the field.
Lin Yujuan tried how to cut the wheat, and she had to straddle her legs (otherwise she would cut herself). He holds the wheat in his left hand and the sickle in his right hand. But the wheat is all long on the heel, which is not easy to grasp and easy to scatter, how much Lin Yujuan grabbed with her hand. I can only cut a little and run to the ground, and the back and forth is half the effort. The sun was fierce, the sweat kept falling, and the throat was itchy and itchy. After drinking water, it can only be a matter for a while, and Mai Manzha hurts and itches so uncomfortably.
Lin Yujuan felt that her waist was sore after a while. I really don't know how tired others are so tired all the time. This peasant's work is really not done by people, and he only has a harvest of two or three hundred catties per acre of land. When he couldn't cut the wheat, he threw down his sickle and went to pick up the ears of wheat. At this time, the children of the peasant family let the adults help with the work. First, I can watch the children while working, and secondly, I have been learning to farm since elementary school. If you can't do heavy work, you can pick ears of wheat and help run errands or something. At this time, the girls have to prepare the family's meals and wash the family's clothes, and they are not idle.
The weather is hot, but fortunately, I brought a pot of boiling water in the morning, and now it is almost cold. Lin Yujuan poured good water and called her parents to come and drink some and take a breath. The children are already tired, and it is not comfortable to bend over there and let the sun shine all the time when they don't do anything. While drinking water and complaining about the hard work, Brother Lin took the opportunity to play. Lin Guilu and his wife put down the bowl as if they hadn't heard it, and hurriedly went back to work. It's not their business to coax the little ones now, it's a few older children. In fact, they are more tired, but if they want to live, they can't be lazy. The sun is poisonous and spicy, and although everyone can't get sunburned, they are happy in their hearts. If you have to rush to harvest on a rainy day, then it will be unlucky.
Lin Yujuan was also tired, and when she saw her little brother making a fuss, she said, let's go home and drive the ducks to the ground to let them go. "No, the ducks go to the river early in the morning. I can't find them back now, so I think it's better to not let them go down to the river tomorrow morning and bring them here. When you two are tired, go mow some pigweed. The eldest sister Lin Xiujuan commanded.
Lin Yujuan thinks about it, it's not a bad thing to be able to help with some work. After all, it's an adult's heart, and it's still guilty of being lazy. took the basket and led Brother Lin to beat pigweed.
With a straw hat on his head, it's out of the sun, but it's even hotter with the hat on his head. It's not hot, Lin Yujuan threw away the straw hat, to hell with what is not black. The heat kills me. As a result, when I went home at night, my whole face was red all the time, and I didn't go down.
The next day, Lin Guilu listened to the children's suggestion to use a basket to pick the ducks into the wheat field and eat the broken wheat grains on the ground. There was always food on the ground, and the ducks didn't run around much. Just have Lin Xiaodi to watch, and when you run away, you will shout that everyone will help you rush back.
The family was busy for two days before they cut all the wheat and put it on the field, and this is not over, and they still need to thresh. is to fall the stone wheel, and Lin Yujuan is very tired to watch. Yes, I feel tired to look at you. Although I was prepared, I still couldn't accept it because I was so inefficient. Let my ducks go. In the middle, his father and two uncles were also interspersed with time to help their grandparents collect a few acres of land.
The incident of the siblings releasing the ducks attracted the attention of the villagers. The people around looked around, okay, those who have chickens and ducks at home have taught their children to rush to the field to gouge. Those who raised less felt that they were losing, and those who did not raise chickens and ducks regretted it even more. Since then, every family has raised a lot of chickens and ducks, and it is because of this incident.
When the wheat is threshed, the people are not so hurried, and when the sun is good, they hurry to dry. But the wheat field still had to be dug deep again, and the wheat straw was dug up with a shovel and turned down the straw roots. There are few cows, and the cattle in the village have been waiting for many days, so they can only be dug manually. This means that there is not much land, and the labor can still catch up. Then you have to hurry up and release water into the ground. Fortunately, this is a water town, and there is water everywhere, although it is hard, there is no need to worry about water. On the other side, the seedlings are almost grown, and the seedlings are about to be planted.
When the farm is busy, the children don't have time to go to the streets. Unless you go to buy some meat every few days, there is nothing that meat people can't stand when they are busy farming. When planting rice, the children also rolled up their trouser legs and ran around in the paddy fields. I always saw a few people who accidentally fell into the muddy water and got wet all over. Fortunately, it's hot, what's the matter, so let's play in muddy clothes. Lin Yujuan saw that rice planting was very fun, so she went down to try it too. I learned well, and when I was proud, I heard my brother Lin Yu shouting, "Xiaoyu, hurry up to the ridge of the sky, shoot the leeche on your leg, and it's about to get into your flesh." ”
Hearing this, Lin Yujuan felt that her right leg was a little itchy. When I saw that it was really a leech, "Oh Mom, leech!" "Jumping while shouting. Jumping on the ridge, he dragged the leech out with his hand, and at this time, he didn't care about being afraid to use his hands directly.
"You can't drag, you have to pat your legs with your hands." said that the eldest sister Xiujuan also came to help. In fact, Lin Yujuan also knew that leeches couldn't be dragged by hand, but she forgot about them in a hurry. The adults didn't react when they heard it, they just thought that the little girl was making too much fuss. The two filmed for a long time, and the leech finally fell. Lin Yujuan refused to go into the paddy field. The villagers and children in the nearby fields laughed at her.
Lin Yujuan is not afraid of leeches because of a few jokes from the villagers, and when she thinks of the soft insects sucking on her skin and drinking blood, her heart is creepy. She did all the other work she could do at home, as long as she didn't go to the ground. In the ridicule of a group of hairy children, he took this little brother Lin Suo'er home to cook.