Chapter 419: Picking Peanuts
Han Chuxue had no choice, so she had to stand aside and teach her how to smoke the main bones of the yellow meal, and cut it into small pieces, leaving half of it to be stir-fried, and the rest were mixed with oil, salt and wine, sprinkled with ginger slices, and spread on top of the rice when it was half-cooked. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
When they were busy, the three little babies of Han Yuhai came back, and because they remembered the yellow food baked rice that their little cousin said, the three of them drove the chickens and ducks back early.
drove them to the backyard, and heard Aunt He say that Xian had already gone to the vegetable yard to pick vegetables, and hurriedly locked up a group of domestic animals, so he rushed to the small kitchen.
I smelled the fragrance at the door, and in the thick rice fragrance, there was an unfamiliar fragrance, and the eyes of the three little babies lit up.
Han Yuhai rushed in, "Little cousin, have you cooked the yellow meal baked rice?" ”
Looking at their coveted little appearance, Xiuniang and the eldest girl couldn't help laughing, Han Chuxue touched this, shook that, and said with a smile, "It's almost, go and see if grandpa has come back, and when everyone is ready, they can start eating." ”
The little baby blew, turned around and ran again.
The yellow meal baked rice that night was greatly appreciated, and the stir-fried yellow meal section with green peppers made the people's jaws oily, and Han Yuhai and Han Yuxiao even shouted that they would catch Huang Shan tomorrow.
This time it is the eternal daughter-in-law who will not stop it, during this time, the descendants of the Yongbai family want to have lunch at their place, they are here to help with the work, the food is too bad, they don't want to go, but if they want to have meat for a meal, their family can't afford it, this yellow meal tastes good, if you can really catch some every day, you don't have to worry about meat dishes.
After a few days of hard work, except for some paddy fields that needed to be harvested a few days later due to the late seedling, the paddy fields in Xiatang Village have been harvested.
But don't think that living until this is done, there is still a lot of follow-up work to cut this rice until it can be put into the warehouse, and this work still has to be busy.
After the rice is cut, the first thing to thresh is to separate the rice from the straw, there is no threshing machine or anything in ancient times, this process can only be completed by manpower, and the hard beating makes the rice fall, which is also a physical work.
After threshing, select some full rice grains to send seedlings, and the rest must be dried and sieved out of the shriveled and useless rice, which can be used to pay taxes, otherwise it will be punished, and it is left for their own food and needs to be dried, otherwise it will be moldy and sprout, which can not be eaten.
Even after taking off the rice grains, the straw grass will not be lost, but bundled into a bunch of dried and put up, which can be used to light a fire, or can be spread in the chicken coop and pigsty and the ground in winter to keep warm, that is, the jacket and quilt worn in winter, the poor people are to choose some fine straw grass to fill in it to keep warm, anyway, it is very useful, so every yard will stack a stack of grass.
Therefore, even if the rice is cut, every household is still busy, and no one has to be idle, and when the rice is ready, after paying the summer tax, it is time to prepare for autumn planting, so this period can be said to be the busiest time for farmers.
However, after helping the grandfather's family cut the rice, the descendants of the Han family had no way to help with other work, because the Han family's seventy acres of peanuts were about to be harvested.
In fact, peanuts can generally be harvested in mid to late June, but the dozens of acres of peanuts of the Han family were planted later, so they were not harvested until July.
Because the farming in the village has not yet passed, Xiuniang did not ask the long-term workers in the forest to come back to help, but organized all the labor that her family could use and went to pick peanuts together.
Of course, women like Liang Juan and Liu's daughter-in-law who are responsible for weaving did not go to the ground, so as not to make their hands rough and affect the quality of weaving.
However, Han Chuxue Xiuniang couldn't stop it, so she had to follow her.
So on the day when the Han family harvested peanuts, the whole family, young and old, except for the weaving and Xiuniang who was not suitable for work, all came to the ground, and the two old men Ding Laohan and He Laohan made a slight distribution, the man was responsible for dialing peanuts, and the woman was responsible for loading them into the bamboo basket, and then mentioned it on the Tianji, transferred to the donkey cart on the other side, and when it was full, it was pulled home and piled up in the front yard, and after accumulating a bunch of peanuts over there, several women went back to pick peanuts, and fought for the peanuts that were allocated that day, and they were processed on the same day.
Soon, a group of people were busy in full swing.
Han Chuxue also learned a peanut in his last life when he was studying, but he didn't expect to have the opportunity to be there in person today, not to mention that he was really a little excited.
Following Ding Laohan into the peanut field, he only saw clusters of green plants, and although peanuts are fruits, they do not grow on them, but after the flowers fall, as the flower stems burrow into the soil, peanuts will grow, so they are called peanuts again.
That is to say, if you want to harvest peanuts, you have to pull the whole plant out of the soil, and this work, not only has strength, but also needs to have certain skills, otherwise the plant is set out, but the peanuts are still buried in the soil, and you have to dig the ground to really collect the peanuts.
Ding Laohan happily explained to Han Chuxue, while bending down, a pair of rough hands firmly grasped the whole peanut, only to see his waist slammed hard, the muscles of his arms bulged, poof, the peanut broke through the ground, more than ten or twenty peanuts pendant below, full of soil, swaying.
Ding Laohan stretched out his hand and pinched it, and said with a smile, "It's quite full, it's quite big, girl, this stubble of peanuts looks very good." ”
Han Chuxue was happy to hear it, there are two big problems in this land, one is the lack of fertility, the other is the lack of water, since she and Yan Jun worked together to lead the groundwater out, the latter problem is solved, as for the fertility can not be solved overnight, but because I know the problems of this land, so I bought manure a few times later, and I can top dressing on time every time, and now it seems that this hard work has not been in vain.
Watching Ding Laohan pluck several more peanuts up, the cold and early snow couldn't help but itch, and he also learned to pluck it.
It's just that she is young in the end, although she has a body of spiritual power, but the actual strength is not much, if you have to use spiritual power to pull a peanut, no need to say that others, she herself feels drunk, and the result of not using spiritual power is that she was stunned and blushed, and the green tendons were tensed, so she finally pulled out a plant, and because of the excessive force on the upper limbs, when the peanut finally left the soil, she was stunned and took several steps back, and almost rolled over directly.
On Tian Jishang, a certain donkey who was forced to return to service as a donkey cart silently turned his head, while Xiao Huang, who was standing on the donkey cart, couldn't bear to look at it directly and covered his face with two small paws. (To be continued.) )