With Liu Momo's words, Du Qiyue was going to Zuifulou the next day, so that night he began to rummage through boxes and cabinets to find clothes and shoes suitable for work.

The Dafeng Dynasty has a relatively detailed rule on dressing, gentlemen must wear robes and boots on formal occasions, the hem of the robe for people with higher status needs to be long to the top of the feet, and the right side of the leg is slit, and the sleeves of the robe need to hang down to the hips when the hand is raised, and the bottom of the boots must be at least four inches thick. The robe of ordinary people is a little shorter, and the hem has three lengths, namely calf, knee, and thigh, in order to facilitate movement, the robe is split to the hips on both sides, and the length of the sleeves is waist, chest and small sleeves according to the length of the robe. There is no specific thickness for the soles of boots, but literati generally wore boots with soles two inches thick, while most common people and martial artists wore thin-soled boots.

As a serious scholar, Du Qiyue wears a calf-length robe and two-inch boots with soles on weekdays, which is definitely not suitable for working in the kitchen of a restaurant.

However, Du Qiyue searched in the house for a long time, and only found two sets of short shirts that were pressed under the box by the original owner and had not been worn for a year or two. Fortunately, in order to facilitate the activity, these two sets of short shirts were made relatively large, and Du Qiyue lost a lot of weight due to the illness some time ago, so now he can wear them. The shoes were really missing, so Du Qiyue had to remember to buy a pair of shoes on the street to wear before going to Zuifulou tomorrow.

The next morning, Du Qiyue got up as usual, but the room was still dark. He rubbed his eyes and got up to open the window, and saw that the weather outside was gloomy, and the thick dark clouds looked like they were pressing down on the roof, and it seemed that it would rain heavily at any moment.

"What the hell!" Du Qiyue scolded with some annoyance, the ox cart will definitely not go to the town in this weather, if he is allowed to go to the town by himself, then forget it, when he walks to the town with this body, it is estimated that he will arrive at noon, what else is he doing.

Standing at the window for a while, Du Qiyue closed the window with a "snap", anyway, this kind of weather is not suitable for going out, he simply lay back on the bed and fell asleep. But he didn't sleep long before he heard someone knocking on the door outside.

"Brother Xiao Yue, Brother Xiao Yue, get up quickly, it's going to rain, and the rapeseed in the field hasn't been harvested yet!" Brother Liu hurriedly banged on the door and shouted into the house: "Brother Xiaoyue, get up and help, there is still more than half an acre of land that has not been harvested!" ”

Du Qiyue slept drowsily, lying on the pillow for a long time before he reacted to the meaning of Brother Liu's shouting, he jumped up from the bed, took the clothes and put them on, and stretched his neck and shouted: "Hey, hey, I'm up, I'm up!" ”

"Brother Xiaoyue, I have to go to the field to help first, come over quickly, don't forget to take the coat and hat!" Brother Liu stood outside the door and shouted, and without waiting for Du Qiyue to respond, he turned around and ran to the field.

Du Qiyue didn't care about washing his face, so he casually wrapped his hair around his head and ran out with his coat and hat. The sky outside was much darker than when Du Qiyue woke up before, and it was cloudy and pressed on people's heads, making people's hearts as dull as pressing a stone.

There were people around who had also not finished harvesting the rapeseed in the field and ran through Du Qiyue's side and pulled their legs to the field, seeing their anxious appearance, Du Qiyue couldn't help but speed up his pace.

When he ran to his own field, Liu Momo's family had already harvested a lot of rapeseed, and Brother Liu couldn't cut the rapeseed stalk, so he quickly piled up the cut rape behind the family and tied it with a straw rope, and then laboriously carried it to a board truck at the edge of the field.

Du Qiyue stood on the ridge and slapped his thigh and shouted, "Ah, I forgot to bring a sickle!" ”

"Brother Xiaoyue, you're here, hurry up and help me tie the stacks, you don't have the strength to cut the rape." Brother Liu gasped and said, and the work in his hands did not stop. But his little brother's family has never done much work in the fields, so his hands and feet are not very neat.

Du Qiyue thought about it, and if he went to cut rape on his body, he could only add to the chaos, so he ran to Liu Ge'er and helped him tie up the rape together.

There are all good fields here, and there are more people with such fields at home, so there are several families next to them who are also busy harvesting, and there is a tense atmosphere everywhere. Du Qiyue hurriedly took the time to look up, everyone standing in the field at the moment was anxious, they were all racing for time with the sky, one by one desperately and quickly dancing their arms, trying their best to do the work in their hands quickly.

It was the first time for Du Qiyue to experience this situation, when he was still in the countryside in his previous life, crops such as rape in the fields were harvested by machines, and a harvester could harvest the fields of the whole village in a few days, and there would be no such rush to harvest. Besides, at that time, everyone didn't rely on the fields to eat, even if the crops in the fields were really lost, they wouldn't care too much, where like the people here, facing the upcoming rainstorm was like facing a disaster.

"Brother Xiaoyue, what are you looking at?" Brother Liu asked.

"It's nothing, I'm just worried that it will be too late, what will happen if it rains." Du Qiyue said.

"If you go down...... That's all gone. Brother Liu tied up the hemp rope vigorously, buried his head and said: "When I was six years old, there was a heavy rain during the rice harvest, and the rain fell for six days in a row, and all the rice in our family was destroyed. If it weren't for Uncle Fugui borrowing my family's grain, our family might not be able to survive that year. ”

"Brother Liu, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked this kind of question." Du Qiyue apologized, this kind of problem is too heavy, he can imagine the difficult situation of the Chen family at that time, all the rice was flooded, there was no food to eat in the second half of the year, and he couldn't pay taxes, it was simply a desperate situation.

"It's okay, let's get to work quickly." Brother Liu shook his head, in fact, his memory of that time was also a little vague, but the desperate atmosphere that lasted for a long time in the family at that time made him unforgettable.

Most of the acres of land were harvested in less than an hour under the efforts of Chen Youqing, Liu Momo and Huzi, and when they returned to Du Qiyue's house with a cart full of rape stacks, the raindrops of beans suddenly fell without warning, but everyone was relieved, and sighed in their hearts Fortunately, they caught up.

"Thankfully, fortunately." Liu Momo sat on the stool and patted his chest and said.

"Ah, I'm so tired today, I'm going to eat steamed eggs with meat foam later, and I want two eggs!" Brother Liu pinched his sore arm and said coquettishly.

"You know how to eat." Liu Momo stretched out his hand and poked Brother Liu'er's head, looking at his youngest son's tired appearance and said with some heartache: "Wait a while for everyone to do, now you go and wash your face first, you are about to become a little flower cat." ”

"Oooh!" Brother Liu answered, smiled and nodded his head and ran to the kitchen.

Chen Youqing and Huzi piled the rape stacks into the firewood room of Du Qiyue's house, and the two began to put on their clothes without resting. ”

"Huzi and I went to Xiaoshan's house to have a look, and yesterday I heard Uncle Chuan say that Xiaoshan's land doesn't seem to have been harvested yet." Chen Youqing said with a hat.

Chen Xiaoshan is Chen Youqing's cousin and nephew, he is only fifteen years old this year, his father went early, and there is a sick mother and two at home

A young brother, the work of the family is on him, Chen Youqing used to help him do a little when he was busy farming, but this year their family was busy helping Du Qiyue, but they didn't have time to help him.

"That kid is also a pitiful one, then you go quickly, it's slippery in the rain, you guys be careful." Liu Momo sighed, this year's rain came a little earlier, and I don't know how many families in the village have suffered, if I haven't had time to finish harvesting rape, I can't find a place to cry.

Because Liu Momo wanted to make steamed eggs with meat foam, Du Qiyue simply took out a little more meat and prepared to chop it to make soup dumplings to eat, who knew that as soon as he touched the meat that had been marinated for a few days, there was a sharp pain in his hand, and Du Qiyue almost threw the meat to the ground. He hurriedly put down the meat, ran to the water tank and rinsed his hands with water, and after the pain in his hands was relieved a little, Du Qiyue raised his hand in front of him and looked at it, only to find that he had several small cuts on the palms of his two hands.

"Oh, Xiaoyue, why did you make so many cuts with your hand, it doesn't hurt!" Liu Momo noticed Du Qiyue's movements, walked over and looked at it, and immediately shouted.

Du Qiyue's heart twitched in pain, but it was more of a grievance. What he cares about most as a chef is his own hands, which he didn't before

I know how delicate the protection is, and I never let myself do things that will hurt my hands, and I can't take good care of my hands since I came here, and now I have so many cuts.

"It's okay, it hurt a little bit of salt just now, but now it's much better." Du Qiyue held his mouth and said, in fact, he wanted to say that he was in great pain, but in the face of Liu Momo and Liu Ge'er, he still couldn't help it.

"Do you have any medicine at home, hurry up and apply it. It's also my fault, let you go to the field to help, where have you done some farm work with these hands. Liu Momo took Du Qiyue's two hands and looked at them with some heartache.

Du Qiyue is long and delicate, his two hands are also good-looking, his skin is white and tender, his fingers are long and thin, and his nails are red.

"Well, I'm always going to do it in the future, and it's okay to get used to it now." Du Qiyue looked at his hand and whispered, as if comforting himself.

After the pain in his hands basically disappeared, Du Qiyue took the medicine in the room, carefully applied it to each wound, and then wrapped two handkerchiefs around his hands. The rain was getting heavier and heavier outside, and a strong wind was blowing, and the cold people who were blowing into the house shivered. Du Qiyue found a thick coat to wear on his body before leaving the room, walking in the corridor A few drops of splashed rain hit his face, and the cold Du Qiyue shivered again. He couldn't help but think of Chen Youqing and Huzi, who were running around in the cold rain at the moment, and some worries rose in his heart.