In July, the afternoon sun was especially hot, and the earth was scorched like a hot boiled egg, and everything on the ground was languishing and listless.

"The heat is dead, the heat is dead."

He shouted hoarsely.

At this time, even the most industrious farmers have to rest for a while to avoid the scorching sun. If you work in the field under the sun, it is easy to get pesticide poisoning or heat stroke, and the gains outweigh the losses.

After eating, Xiao Yang and Xiao Fei carried the shovel and wanted to go out a little sneakily.

The father looked at them and asked, "You don't stop, what are you going to do?" Xiao Yang smiled and said: "Dad, we are going to do a big thing, a big thing that is very beneficial to our family, this thing, before it was done, I am embarrassed to tell you, now I will keep it secret for the time being." ”

"Stinky boy, I really don't know what I've been doing all day." The father did not doubt him, smiled and scolded, and did not ask again. He knew the nature of his two sons, and knew that they could not do anything bad that angered people.

The two brothers sweated out of the village under the sun.

Xiao Fei looked up at the fire-like sun and muttered, "This ghost weather!" Walking in the sun, it probably won't take long to be roasted. ”

When he arrived outside the village, with a series of dirt hills in sight, Xiao Yang asked, "Where to start?" ”

"Go farther." Xiao Fei ** the farthest section of the hill from the village, "Let's start from there and shovel out all the posts." ”

As he spoke, he handed his brother a cigarette.

Xiao Yang lit the cigarette, smoked it, and said, "Isn't it a little too much?" How much bran do you have to use? You have to use oil, salt and wine to fry wheat bran, and our mother should pout again. ”

"If you complain, let her complain a few words first, and when she sees the harvest, she should be happy." Xiao Fei said.

The two brothers walked and talked, and they arrived in front of the mound.

I didn't see anyone along the way.

Xiao Fei felt that his face and neck were hot and painful, and he estimated that he was going to be sunburned, he sighed, it was really not easy to earn some money.

The vegetation on the mound is dense.

The sour jujube trees have sparse branches and leaves, and the leaves are almost eaten by cotton bollworms, but there are a lot of jujubes on them.

Underneath the jujube tree, there are thorns, and clumps of thatch, whose leaves are like blades, can cut through the skin if you are not careful.

The two brothers went to work, and used shovels to open up terraced fields horizontally, and shoveled out a small piece of flat land at intervals on the side of the road. After Xiao Fei explained the method to Xiao Yang, Xiao Yang picked up his arms and began to work hard, Xiao Fei was just following him and was responsible for shoveling out the small flat land where the wheat bran was placed at intervals.

Xiao Fei saw it behind him.

His brother's clothes were torn from time to time by thorns, and the sharp thatch cut across his bare arms, making bloody marks, and in some places fine beads of blood appeared.

But Xiao Yang didn't pay attention to it as if he was fine.

Soon, his clothes were soaked with sweat, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his face and smashed on the ground, smashing into small pits.

Under the bright and dazzling sunlight, there was a rising steam rising from Xiao Yang's body.

Xiao Fei's heart was sour.

This elder brother of mine has been working in the fields with his parents since he was five or six years old, and by the time he was 14th or 14th years old, he was used as a strong laborer.

He has a lot of strength.

He is not afraid of hardship, and he is completely in a desperate posture when he gets to work.

Such a diligent brother has suffered all his life, and God is really blind sometimes!

After a break, more than two hours, the brothers cleaned up this section of more than 300 meters of dirt hill, Xiao Fei estimated that the area of this section of the post should be five or six thousand square meters. When they came down from their posts, the two of them were more embarrassed than the other.

Their clothes were covered with dirt.

The earth and the sweat were mixed into mud again.

The blood on my brother's arm was shocking. The clothes on his body were already tattered, and now they were almost strips of cloth hanging on his body.

Xiao Fei followed Xiao Yang, and the situation was much better.

However, it is only a little better, and it is a little worse than the beggars in the city.

The two brothers were laid off, stripped naked and took a bath in a small ditch at the edge of the village, and by the way, they also washed their clothes and hung them on a small tree by the river to dry.

On the way back, there were more people going into the fields.

Along the way, from time to time, villagers asked them what they were doing.

Xiao Yang told them that he wanted to stop a section of the river to see if he could catch a few fish, but as a result, he didn't even get a single shrimp.

By the time they got home, it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon.

Parents and Xiao Yan have gone to work in the fields.

This made Xiao Yang a little uneasy, he had grown so big, and he had never been lazy.

"Fly, I'll go up to the ground too, and you can fry the wheat bran at home by yourself." He casually took a small shovel for weeding and said to Xiao Fei.

"Brother, what are you going to do in the field with the medicine you just took in the morning?" Xiao Fei sat on a small stool under the shade of a tree, stretched out his legs comfortably, looked up at his brother and asked.

"The grass in the field grows quickly, and it has to be removed every day or two, otherwise the grass can make the land wasted, and we croppers can't be idle!" Xiao Yang, who was in rags, scratched his body and said.

At this time, in the rural areas of H province, part-time work is not popular, or there is no habit of going out to work, for farmers, uprooting from their hometown is the most difficult thing, in the history of China, only when they can't survive, farmers will help the old and young to leave the village, commonly known as fleeing famine. If life can be passed, most people still think that planting a few acres of land to guard their homeland is a serious life.

Because of this, the peasants were very religious about the land.

They believe in the principle of "people are diligent and not lazy", and as long as they can move, even if they are sick, they must work in the fields.

After a day at home, they fidget, as if they had committed a great sin.

Xiao Fei thought that he had to reverse the concept of his brother as soon as possible.

In later generations, farming has almost been regarded as a sideline business by farmers, and the income from part-time work is the majority. How much money can you earn with your back to the loess facing the sky?

"Brother, it's past four o'clock now, we have to fry the wheat bran now, and then, when it's past five o'clock, we have to hurry up and go to the post to scatter the wheat bran. There's a lot of work! ”

"But ......"

"Brother, think about it, if we do a good job tonight, we can earn a thousand eight hundred in one night, if you delay the night's work because you go to the field to weed, the loss is very big."

After listening to Xiao Fei's words, Xiao Yang was silent for a moment and said, "That's okay, I won't go to the field." But, Fei, I don't think we should say hello to our parents? ”

"There are a lot of people, and before I saw the effect, I told them, I'm afraid there will be extraneous branches, so let's talk about it tomorrow morning." Xiao Fei said.