Thinking of the good of the Du family, many clansmen in the Du family's autumn harvest village came to help this year, compared with previous years, the laborers of the family this year are much easier.

Rice is the top priority in the autumn harvest, and before a good breath to take a breath, all kinds of grains are piled up and mature, and the entire Dujia Village is once again in a continuous rotation.

The bud valley under the east mountain is old, the sorghum on the southern slope is bent over, the beans in the southeast have cracked their mouths, and the lotus roots in the small river ditch can come out of the pond.

Every household got busy, the Du family went to the ground, and only Grandma Du took Du Xiaoxi Liu Yao and the little nephew of the third sister-in-law's family to the family.

The family was so busy that they came back at night and slept on their heads, so naturally no one noticed Liu Yao who came to the house as a guest. After a few days of work, under the leadership of Du Xiaoxi, Liu Yao was already familiar with the Du family.

Du Congyun's children pouted their butts and played in the mud in the yard, while Du Xiaoxi took Liu Yao to help Grandma Du break soybeans.

The plump and round soybeans fell into the dustpan, and Du Xiaoxi thought of the delicious tofu and soybean pig's feet soup.

Grandma Du is too old to be idle, and the theme of the gossip is that this rice field fish farming is really good, and the little girl is a blessed one. Sometimes it is also necessary to talk about the harvest of other crops in the field.

"There are still too few people in our family who can work, after this while, let your mother hurry up and give your fourth brother Zhang Luo's daughter-in-law, and the family can be a little more relaxed when multiple people work."

Du Xiaoxi was counting the beans with his head down, and his mouth opened wide when he heard this.

Du Zhizhong, the fourth brother of Du, is eighteen years old this year, and Du Xiaoxi, who married his daughter-in-law at this age, did not feel how devastating the flowers of the motherland, after all, in the previous life, many people around the Du family got married before they were twenty years old if they did not go to school.

Fourth Brother Du is Layue's birthday, and he said that he was eighteen years old, but in fact, he was less than seventeen years old. Since the Du family and the Liu family have become in-laws, there have been a lot of people who have come to Du Xiaoxi to say goodbye to their brothers, and Du Zhizhong, who is just the right age, is naturally a good son-in-law candidate in the hearts of the mothers-in-law and mother-in-law of Shili and Eight Villages. Grandma Du and Du Niang have been slowly picking for more than a year, and they feel like they are picky.

Du Xiaoxi was stunned, grandma, your grandson is coming to the house to work in a daughter-in-law tone, so it is so natural.

Du Xiaoxi glanced at Liu Yao, who was obediently picking up beans.

Fortunately, fortunately, we will marry a local tyrant in the future, and we don't have to work in other people's homes.

After half a month, the Du family's grain was finally returned to the warehouse.

After a few days of rest, Daddy Du took a few older sons back to the county to continue to open a butcher shop and grocery store, while Du Niang took Du Xiaoxi to stay in Dujia Village to continue the finishing work of the autumn harvest.

The Great Shang Dynasty caused a very sad fact because every family was crazy about giving birth, the labor force was unusually cheap, and the food, clothing, housing and transportation also became tense because of the large number of people.

The large number of people has caused all kinds of deficiencies in ancient times when the productive forces were backward, one of which is the "food" that people in the world attach the most importance to.

After three years in ancient times, Du Xiaoxi slowly learned that there was a legendary high-yield corn in the Great Shang Dynasty, but the yield was not ideal, reaching five or six hundred catties, and the remaining rice, wheat, and sorghum were only a few hundred catties a year. As for the legendary other high-yielding sweet potato, Du Xiaoxi hasn't seen it yet, so he shouldn't have come to the Great Shang Dynasty.

A family can also receive one or two thousand catties of grain a year, but after paying forty percent of the taxes to the county, the remaining grain is simply not enough to provide a year's ration for a family of dozens of people at every turn. As a result, all kinds of vegetables and grains are indispensable materials in life.

Autumn is a good season for all kinds of wild things to mature in the mountains, and Du Niang's task is to take her sons to stock up on the family's supplementary food for the winter.

Dujia Village is close to the county seat, and there are many large and small villages around. When there are more people, there are fewer mountains.

In addition to the mountain bags where grain is grown and the hill where the ancestral tomb is located, there are less than 20 people left in Dujia Village who can enter at will. It looks like a lot of them, but it's not enough to divide them at all.

The eldest sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law, and the third sister-in-law are going to the mountains to pick up chestnuts today. Zhang Qiaoer reported to her mother-in-law, and after getting the approval letter, she set off with a row of small radish heads.

Du Xiaoxi wore a modern version of the straw hat processed by the fourth brother Du and beascularized by Du Niang, and was dragged forward by the sister-in-law, and Liu Yao was dragged up the mountain by the fourth uncle.

Du Zhizhong pulled Liu Yao's struggling arm, not feeling that he had done anything wrong.

He heard his father say that Master Xile let Liu Yao come from home to cultivate manhood, and his sister-in-law's husband will not say that he can be literary and martial in the future, so he can't be a weak chicken who can't resist and can't lift his hands. Ignoring Liu Yao's plea of 'slow down, slow down', Du Zhizhong strode forward.

"Zhili's family, go to the mountains? Hi girl looks better if you don't see it for a few days! ”

"Yo! This is the young master of the Liu family, right? What a rich life! ”

Since the autumn harvest, the county decree said that he would ask for credit for the Du family, and the clan elder and Li Zheng treated the Du family better, and the villagers had to boast about Du Xiaoxi even more when they saw him. It's best for Master Joy to point out something to Dujia Village, and they will follow suit.

The wisdom of the ancient people should not be underestimated, although Dujia Village does not have a special fruit production of Huaguo Mountain, but after dozens of generations of efforts, there are still a lot of good fruits planted on several mountains. What the Du family is going to today is a small chestnut forest on the mountain.

Walking and stopping along the country road, I saw a few strong young men lined up in a row not far away, one holding a bamboo pole and slapping the peanut cotton field that had just been harvested, and walked quickly in one direction.

Du Xiaoxi saw this kind of posture for the first time, and immediately asked curiously: "Sister-in-law, what are they doing?" ”

Du Ba leaned his head forward and hurriedly showed off: "I know!" I know! They're chasing rabbits! They drove all the rabbits to one place, and blocked them with a big net in front of them, so that they could collect a bunch of rabbits later, which was fun! Fourth brother! Fourth brother! Shall we go catch rabbits tomorrow too? ”

Du Basan jumped to Du Zhizhong's side in two steps, shaking his body and "Okay?" Okay? Pleading.

Du Zhizhong couldn't help but be entangled by Du Ba, and said angrily: "I've been busy for the past few days, I'll talk about it in a few days." Du Baqi screamed twice and ran away.

After climbing a hillside overgrown with miscellaneous trees for the villagers to chop firewood, the group also reached the chestnut forest.

There are many fruit forests in Dujia Village, the largest and most precious of which is this chestnut forest that occupies almost half of the mountain.

Chestnuts are sandwiched in the rice to the top, and it is a favorite snack for children, and it is a life-saving food in drought and flood years, and slowly, this chestnut forest has become the most important of all the forests in Dujia Village.

The chestnut forest is the public property of the village, and the village will fight it in a unified manner, and finally distribute it to each family according to the head. The Du family divided three baskets this year, and today Du's sister-in-law took Du Xiaoxi and they came to pick up the chestnuts left over from the beating.