After a few autumn rains, the scorching hot weather has been far away from people, and everyone feels a faint coolness. Some of the deciduous trees on the mountain have begun to change into autumn clothes, and the fallen leaves are flying in the air like butterflies.

Autumn leaves begin to appear among the mountains, and this is when people feel more intuitively about autumn. There are not many species of red-leaved trees in the south, and the number is very small, and they are not as contiguous as in the north. The scent of maple scattered in the mountains and forests began to become more dazzling, burning like torches in the green mountains.

The pace of autumn is getting faster and faster.

After a few frosts, the vast fields seem to be dyed with a layer of gold at once, announcing the arrival of the harvest season. Unlike the green and yellow appearance of early rice, the field of late rice is full of golden, and even the rice stalks have turned yellow.

Now, every family has been preparing for the harvest of late rice, and everyone is doing their own thing in an orderly manner.

After the rice harvest, there are soybeans, corn, mung beans, etc., and people have to continue to be busy again, as a group of people who work hard to beg for food from the land, farmers always have endless work.

Of course, it's not just humans who are busy, but also the animals that live in this blue sky with humans are also starting to take action. The squirrels that live in the mountains have recently started to spend their days collecting pine towers for winter food.

Compared with the animals living in the mountains, several pets of the Liu family are also living an extremely nourishing life, and they play with Liu Rui every day, and there is still delicious food when they are finished, so they don't have to worry about livelihood.

Time passed day by day, and the autumn harvest was also unexpected with people.

The roar of machines resounded in the tranquil mountain village, cutting the boundaries of time and space, and making people realize that it is now the age of electrification.

In Liangcun's barning field, several electric threshers line up like monsters to devour bales of rice, and then lift the straw far away, leaving behind golden grains. Driven by 380 volts of agricultural electricity, the three-phase electric motor emits a deafening roar, showing amazing power.

Liu Rui remembers that when he was a child, there were not many electric threshers in the village, and there were frequent power outages, and the villagers often used soil methods to thresh rice, which was not as efficient as it is now.

At that time, the villagers laid the harvested rice in a circle on the drying field, and then put yokes on the oxen, pulled heavy marble stones, and crushed and threshed. Not only is it inefficient, but it's also tiring, and after a few rounds, the straw has to be turned over so that no grain is left behind.

Generally, the rice of one acre of land can be threshed clean in one morning, even if it is very fast, if the old cow does not cooperate and cheats, it will be even more troublesome. Sometimes, in order to prevent the cows from stealing the rice, they have to put a bamboo cage on the cows, so that they can only watch and not eat.

There is now a huge stone stone about one meter two long and two feet in diameter on the Liujiayuan dam, but now it has no use, and it is left there to be blown by the wind.

Thinking about the previous inefficiency, and then looking at the roaring machine in front of him, Liu Rui couldn't help but feel a little emotionally the progress of the times and the improvement of efficiency. At present, the rice of one acre of land can be threshed in about half an hour, and then it can be bagged and transferred to the drying field for drying.

However, Liu Rui knows that this is not the most advanced production method, and according to Liu Rui's understanding, other machinery that can replace electric threshers has begun to appear in some places.

There is a diesel engine thresher, which can be driven by a small walk-behind tractor and pulled directly to the field, after threshing, the straw is left directly in the field and turned into fertilizer. The use of such a thresher can improve the efficiency of eliminating the need to move a large amount of straw back to the village barnyard, and the direct threshing of the field can save a lot of manpower.

Of course, the most labor-saving and efficient is the combine harvester on TV, but the fields here in Liangcun are all small plots and many terraces, which are only suitable for intensive cultivation and not suitable for mechanized large-scale production.

"Brother Shaojun, you can buy such a diesel thresher, and when the time comes, it will be charged at 30 yuan per mu, and you will definitely make a lot of money!" Thinking of the agricultural machinery described in the newspaper, Liu Rui gave Wang Shaojun an idea.

"Thirty yuan per acre, can the villagers give it up?" Wang Shaojun was a little skeptical and asked: "Can that kind of threshing machine be cleaned, don't be bad if no one is willing to pay at that time." ”

"There should be no problem with this, I saw in the newspaper that the countryside near the provincial capital has begun to use it, and the advantages are still obvious." Liu Rui thought for a while and said: "You should go and inspect it when the time comes, tens of thousands of yuan, if it works well, it will return to its original cost in one season!" ”

Although the efficiency of the electric thresher is good, it also has many shortcomings, which have been criticized by the villagers.

First of all, the thresher is too dependent on electricity, and the rural power supply is unstable, which often causes time delays. In addition, the thresher is not safe, almost every year someone is injured during threshing, and the history of the threshing machine is actually a history of blood and tears. There is also the use of electric threshing, which requires more manpower, requires a fixed site,......, and so on.

Listening to Liu Rui's analysis, the more Wang Shaojun listened, the more excited he became, and he couldn't wait to leave to buy it immediately.

"Your kid's mouth is getting more and more able to speak, if you go to work as a salesman, the business will definitely not be bad!" patted Liu Rui, Wang Shaojun was a little surprised.

"These are obvious facts, if it weren't for the fact that I had a lot of things at home, I would have really bought one and come back, and I would have made a lot of money in a year!" Liu Rui, who has read a lot of reports, is convinced that the diesel thresher is an epoch-making product that can replace the electric thresher, and he is very confident.

"At the beginning of spring next year, let's find time to go to the provincial capital to have a look, and then call Wu Mingkai, isn't he an agricultural machinery expert? When the time comes, we have to let him check for us! Wang Shaojun smiled, pointed to the pile of rice in front of him and said, "No matter how good that thresher is, we still have to work hard now!" ”

Today is the harvest of rice for the Liu family, not only several uncles have come to help, Wang Shaojun's family has also come, and even Wang Huaguo is a veteran, turned into a coachman, and used a hand-held tractor to transport the Liu family's rice to the grain drying field.

With the help of so many people, Liu Ruisuo harvested all six acres of land in his family in one day, saving him trouble.

It seemed that overnight, the rice in the fields around Liangcun was ripe, and the straw that was still a little green turned golden in a blink of an eye. As far as the eye can see, the entire Liang Village seems to be surrounded by a huge golden carpet, as if living in a cornucopia.

There was no need to greet them, and no one was announced, almost unanimously, and the villagers sharpened their sickles and rushed to the fields. However, at this time, the disadvantages of too many young people in the village going out to work were revealed, and only the old, weak, sick and disabled were left in the village, and it was not so easy to work.

As the saying goes, if there is demand, there is also a market.

Perhaps because of the topography and temperature, the late rice harvest season in Liangcun is about a week later than in Jiangbei, so the situation in Liangcun has created a lot of employment opportunities for many farmers in Jiangbei. After harvesting the rice at home, many farmers from Jiangbei stepped on the sickle and came to Liang Village in groups to help the villagers of Liang Village harvest rice.

Thirty yuan a day, these peasants, affectionately known as 'Soviets', greatly alleviated the shortage of labor in Liang Village, and made the autumn harvest go smoothly.

The word 'Soviet' has several origins, one is that after the poor masses participated in the revolution before liberation, the Soviet power was established, so it was called 'Soviet'. In recent years, some peasants have begun to take advantage of their slack time to go to the cities to work, gathering in front of the square where the Soviet political axe was located in Castle Peaks, waiting for their employers to come and pick up people.

Over time, people affectionately called these laborers working in the countryside 'Soviets', which had historical precipitation and were quite vivid.

With the addition of this group of new forces, the autumn harvest work in Liangcun was naturally in full swing, and soon only bare rice stubble was left in the field.

Compared with the busyness of the summer harvest and seed grabbing, the autumn harvest is much more leisurely, and there is not so much tension. Even when drying rice, it can be very easy, and you don't have to worry about the downpour falling from the sky at any time.

After the rice was threshed and returned to the yard dam at home, Liu Rui had more work every day to turn over the rice, basically rummaging on the yard dam every day, hoping that it would dry as soon as possible. Compared with the fierce sun in summer, the sun in autumn is much gentler, even if it is dried for two or three days, the rice still has a lot of moisture, and it does not meet the storage standard.

Late rice should be eaten from November to July of the following year, and in this half year, if the rice is not dry enough, it is easy to mold and insects, resulting in losses.

Therefore, when turning and drying rice, you must be diligent and turn the rice evenly, so that each grain of rice can fully feel the temperature of the sun. However, these jobs are not too high-tech jobs for Liu Rui.

Living in the countryside since he was a child, Liu Rui is not very good at farm work, at least he is presentable, and his physical fitness has increased significantly in recent times, and his physical strength has increased greatly, and he is like a calf when he works. A bag of more than 100 catties of rice, Liu Rui ran fast on his shoulder, and when he threw it on the barn, it was as easy as throwing a toy.

Sometimes Zhang Guizhi was still a little worried that Liu Rui would work too hard and get injured, so he advised him to take it easy, but Liu Rui also felt good and didn't care too much. In the past, he used to stand by and watch his father go about his work, but this year it was finally his turn to become the main force, and there was a feeling of pride in his heart, - I also became the main laborer of the family!

Perhaps, this is also Liu Rui's harvest season!

(To be continued)