Chapter Forty-Six: Summer Harvest

readx; Finally, the tense summer harvest began, every household was busy, and the peach blossoms had only been harvested by machines on TV before, and it was the first time to see manual harvesting up close. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info The Peach Blossom family doesn't need her to go to the ground now, but she is still willing to watch the excitement, this kind of scene is spectacular that she couldn't imagine before.

The fields are crowded with young men bending over and waving their sickles in their hands, and children follow the harvested wheat stubble and place a hemp rope made of straw at intervals. The old man would carry the wheat to the hemp rope in the back, and when it was enough to tie it, he would press it tightly and tie it tightly. The bundled ones should also be carried to the threshing floor to dry and thresh. The rest of the children will be in the field picking up ears of wheat that have been accidentally pulled down.

The wheat in the field is actually just sparse, not like the harvest of those fertilizer wheat seen on TV before, there are three or four hundred catties of an acre of land are now called good, most of the wheat harvest is used to pay taxes, and there is very little left, and every household is not willing to eat, so it is used to exchange for bud rice and miscellaneous grains to maintain the life of the family.

All with manual labor, is the peach blossom can not imagine the hard work, but this year the peach blossom family has several ox carts for free to make bamboo blocks and make puppets for the first use, to solve the boss's manpower, almost every family in the village is within this range.

Everyone was smiling and working, and there were many hired short-term laborers in the fields, and everyone was talking from afar, nothing more than how many catties of grain could be harvested this year, how much wheat and how much silver would be handed over this year.

In addition to paying the minimum amount of grain, the rent tax in the field can also be supplemented with money, and in addition to the actual confiscation in the field, a part of the grain must be paid, which is to ensure the state's grain storage, and if there is money, it will not collect all the money. Peach Blossom praised this, at the moment it is really not possible to buy enough food with money, once there is a war and regional disasters, a large amount of food is needed, if the national reserves are not enough, it is the life and death of the country.

If there are more people in the family, they should also prepare to store some food to prepare for emergencies, which will not be controlled by manpower. Having money and storing more grain is everyone's plan, this year the village in addition to the minimum amount of grain to hand in, the other parts are willing to use silver to make up, everyone is not going to sell the rest of the grain, there was no way before, this year the hand is not tight to want to open, who is willing to eat something good, taste the taste of the big white steamed bun.

Not to mention that since the beginning of making bamboo blocks, the money saved in more than a month has caught up with the rich households in other villages for a year, and it may not take a few years to be landlords.

Peach Blossom stood on the ground and looked at it for a while, and she also had an itch in her hand and wanted to try it, but before she waved the sickle a few times, she scratched the skin on her hand, and under everyone's ridicule, she had to watch them do it. In fact, this year, the Li family doesn't have to go to the ground, there is not much land, and there are many people in the family, so the women also cook at home and boil some boiling water for everyone to drink.

It's too hot, and the clothes will be soaked after a while, and the peach blossoms are also very helpless, it's very hot, and I haven't seen anyone wearing short sleeves, so naturally she doesn't dare to start, who knows if this will be a hot short-sleeved shorts.

If you can't help in the field, you can go to the wheat field to see, with the ox cart pulling the wheat bundle to the wheat field, the wheat of each family is placed here, a family spreads out to dry in a place, and the dried ones are rolled by a cylindrical stone roller pulled by the ox, and the wheat is rolled flat and neat in a circle, and the wheat is rolled flat and neat, after the rolling is done, the wheat stalks should be picked up with a big four-toothed wooden fork, and the wheat grains below are piled together, and when the wind rises, the wooden shovel is raised with a flat head, and the wind will blow the wheat husks away, leaving the key wheat grains, spread evenly in the drying for a few days, Put it in a cloth bag and pull it home.

Xia Shui is so tired, this work is still very dirty, everyone's face is dripping with sweat, and they become a big flower face when they wipe their hands, laughing at each other. It's very happy to think about the majestic harvesting of those people with large machines in the previous life. I saw the summer harvest on TV and felt that the farmers were tired, but now I am really tired.

"Peach blossom, you also use the ground, it's great that there are so many people in your family, my mother said, next year my brother and your sister will get married, and my family will also have someone to do it, and then our family won't have to go to the ground in person." Chunliu is still so straight.

Peach Blossom just understood Aunt Qin's plan, but she didn't want to debunk it, as long as the eldest sister was good, "I haven't seen you for many days, what are you busy with." "Where am I busy with you, my mother said that there are several families who come to propose marriage to me now, and they don't let me go out, for fear that people will see jokes, I still envy you, I can go out every day." "You've said you've got married, how old are you." "I'm almost thirteen, and I'm not young, my mother said that the two families I talked about this time are still from the town, and I guess I won't even let me go to the town in the future."

Peach Blossom couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, only thirteen was about to be married, and it was not small, so would it be like this in two years, it was terrible to think about, this is the age when I just graduated from primary school, and the current person can be several generations different from the same age and previous life. Forget it yourself or don't want it, why do you have to wait until after the age of eighteen, the peach blossom who is already not too old in her heart still can't accept such an early marriage.

"How nice the town is, so many people want to get married." "Well, my mother also said that this is your family's light, your family is rich now, your eldest sister can make money, many people want to climb the relationship, and as soon as my brother gets married, our family is also a rich family, and Peach Blossom will marry you in the town in the future." Peach Blossom is speechless, it's not that your family has money, it's that the eldest sister's money becomes their family's money.

No matter what Aunt Qin does, Peach Blossom doesn't hate Chunliu in her heart, she can feel Chunliu's sincerity to her, but Peach Blossom is really not enthusiastic about her.

"I'm still early." Peach Blossom feels that he and Chunliu really don't have anything more to say, the two of them are definitely not at the same level, I really don't know what else to talk about, and now they are going farther and farther. Peach Blossom still remembers the relationship of a bud rice noodle cake at that time, but it is really almost to the point where there is nothing to say, and her only best friend here is also going to be lost. Maybe I've been lonely all along.

When Peach Blossom came home, let the cooks add more meat and vegetables, boil two large pots of mung bean soup, put white sugar, and carry a load to the field for the work, and let them rest longer at noon, and everyone was given a straw hat to prevent heat stroke. Let the workers of the summer harvest be moved, don't want it.

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