This year was a bumper year, and the wheat harvest in the fields was better than usual, which can be described as a record high. When the days are poor, not only is the food at home not enough to eat, but some of it has to be sold in the market for money.

This year is good, there is no shortage of money in hand, and the uneaten food does not need to be sold, and it can be used directly on the Xiangyuan restaurant, which can save a lot of costs.

Xiangqin, Duan Yongyuan and Duan Xiang discussed that as the owner of Xiangyuan Restaurant, they each temporarily took out 500 catties of wheat and grinded these wheat noodles, so that Xiangyuan Restaurant would not have to buy noodles outside.

Having agreed on this result, Parsley felt that it was even more urgent for her to go out and collect wheat.

She is not like Duan Yongyuan and Duan Xiang, she has not farmed herself, and she is embarrassed to ask for five hundred catties of grain in one go.

Picking wheat is also particular, that is, "seeking the near and far".

The cultivated land area of Ping County is very large, and the aisle leading to the next city is almost all fields, which is particularly refreshing.

No matter how far or near it is, every acre of land must have an owner. In some villages, the land is allocated to the doorstep, which is very convenient. In some villages, the land can be more than ten miles away from the door, and it is not possible to find a place for half an hour by driving a tractor, and the location is very remote.

In the past, parsley picked up wheat, all in the field of Li Laosan's house in Lijia Village, and last year's wheat picking was shelved Duanjiazhuang.

If you really want to go to other people's fields to collect wheat and let people see it, you will definitely fall into the hands of others. Therefore, people who specialize in collecting wheat do not go to the fields close to the villages, but mostly run to remote places. The hard work is a little harder, and the harvest may be not small.

The weather is hot, the place is remote, the village households can't wait to return after harvesting the wheat, many ears of wheat fall into the ground and have no time to clean up, and most of those ears of wheat go into the big pockets of the wheat pickers.

Parsley followed the flow, rode a tricycle, and ran for more than ten miles with the autumn lotus.

During the summer vacation, a bag of wheat should be handed over to the school as soon as school starts, which is the practice of autumn every year.

She heard that Xiangqin said that she wanted to pick up wheat, so she shouted that she wanted to go together.

But now that she came out and was halfway up, the little girl regretted not listening to her brother Duan Xiang's words, this day is so poisonous that it can peel off a layer of skin, even if she wears a straw hat that shades the sun, she still can't stand it.

At that time, Xiangqin came out of the house, and Hong Cheng and Hong Fu were unwilling, saying that she was full of food and went out on a hot day to find guilt.

It's not that she hasn't retreated in her heart, but when she thinks of five hundred catties of grain, it's like beating chicken blood in an instant, and she is full of energy.

Xiangqin prepared two pots of herbal tea, which was originally a pot for her and Qiuhe, and it was time to deal with it when she went back in the afternoon.

Qiuhe shouted hot and thirsty all the way, and before he reached the place where he picked up wheat, he drank two pots of herbal tea alone.

Parsley was sweating hard and pedaling the tricycle, and she was so thirsty that she couldn't stand it, so she stopped to take a breath and drink tea, and saw that there was not a drop of tea in the two pots.

Qiu He's face was flushed, but it was still good compared to the sweaty parsley.

She twisted her face and begged bitterly, "Parsley, let's go back." ”

Parsley was tired and thirsty, and after listening to the complaints all the way, she immediately became irritable, "If I don't ask you to come, you have to jump into my car and come over, you said that you have land at home, you won't go to your field to pick up wheat, what are you going to do here!" I won't leave a sip of tea! ”

She really didn't want to speak in such a heavy tone to a child, but Qiu He was too willful and didn't know how to understand the hard work of adults!

Qiu He had long regretted coming out with Parsley, she thought it was fun, but where she thought of it, she would be guilty.

The little girl was also very annoyed in her heart, when she was in school, the teacher always praised her for being so hardworking and sensible in school, where had she suffered this kind of grievance, so she said to Parsley: "Isn't it just a sip of tea, you are the same as the lord and the noble, I will compensate you a big pot when I go back!"

Boss Xiangqin was unhappy, when she was as old as Qiuhe, not to mention that the work at home was the work in the field, she was all hard-working.

"When I get home, I still need you to compensate me! Anyone can do it, you can drink two pots of tea along the way, and there is still so much time in the afternoon, what do you drink when you are thirsty? ”

Qiuhe Nunu's mouth was full of unconvinced, "I didn't come out with you if I knew it!" ”

"I knew earlier, so what did you do earlier? Didn't I tell your brother earlier that I wouldn't let you come with me, but now I said that I knew earlier, why were you disobedient at that time? Celestry pedaled on the tricycle angrily, ignoring the oil bottle sitting in the back of the car.

The weather affected the mood, Parsley forced her anger to get back on the road, and didn't go far when she came across a stall selling watermelons, so she stopped to buy a few melons to quench her thirst.

In this season, there are more people on the road than usual, most of them go to work in the fields, and some come back from work, and the melon farmer will do business, and set up a stall on the spot under the shade of the tree.

Parsley parked the tricycle in front of the melon stall, got out of the car, squatted in front of the stall, and patted a green-skinned watermelon nearby.

"Bang bang bang", crisp with a sound, you know it's a good melon when you hear it.

The melon farmer was an old man, with a kind face, wearing a yellow straw hat, a gray vest, and a banana fan in his hand, sitting on a stone pier that he didn't know where to move, and there was a donkey cart not far from him, and the donkey was quietly gnawing on the grass growing by the tree.

"Girl, my melon is sweet, not sweet and doesn't need money." The old man smiled happily and said without a little impatience.

Seeing that there is a watermelon next to it is opened, revealing a lovely big red pulp, it should be for people to try, parsley is not polite, reach out and wave away the flies attracted by the sweetness of the melon, and pick up a piece of watermelon under the small blade next to it, put it in your mouth and taste it, the taste is really cool and sweet.

Xiangqin scored ninety points in her heart about the quality of this watermelon, and when she asked the price again, she couldn't help but gasp, and asked again with wide eyes: "How much!?"

For a moment, she thought she had misheard.

The two fingers stretched out by the melon farmer didn't have time to retract them, "Eight cents a pound." ”

Eight cents a pound!? Isn't this a trick!

No matter how good the melons in the city are, they only sell for two cents and five pounds!

It's more than three times more expensive!

To make sure she heard correctly, Xiangqin couldn't help but say: "The most expensive in the city is only three cents a catty, uncle, your watermelon is not made of gold, why do you sell it?"

The melon farmer shook his fan unhurriedly and smiled, "I can't control how much money is sold in the city, I just care about what I sell." If you don't want to buy it, then you can go. ”

Xiangqin was speechless for a while, seeing that this melon farmer is very kind, I didn't expect him to be so treacherous in his bones, blatantly raising prices, what is the difference between robbing in broad daylight?

There is no shop in front of the village in this place, and it is estimated that this melon farmer deliberately put his stall in such a remote place, and the passerby made black money.

It's unreasonable to talk to this kind of person.

Parsley thought that she had walked so far that she hadn't even picked up an ear of wheat, so she went back empty-handed, but unfortunately she had to pick up a bag of wheat and go back after sweating so much along the way.

She picked three small watermelons, she had never bought such expensive watermelons before, if Qiu He hadn't drunk the tea, she wouldn't have spent such unjust money at all.

Parsley will carry the watermelon to the tricycle, and Qiu He will hold one with joy on his face.

"That's not a knife, kill one!"

That has a knife, she can't see it when parsley?

Xiangqin was already pressed with an evil fire in her heart, and when she saw her foodie face, she immediately exploded, "Why do you eat positively, and you just think about yourself!" ”

Seeing that Parsley was really angry, Qiu He was honest now, and obediently sat in the car, holding Parsley's straw hat as a fan.

Parsley pulled the straw hat in her hand over and put it on her head, thinking that this kid really can't get used to it! Once she gets used to being pampered, she really thinks that she is more expensive than others!

Carry pedaled on the tricycle and hit the road again. She looked at the places she passed along the way, and many of the fields had not been harvested, but they were still golden, and the ears of wheat could still be clearly seen swaying in the wind in the rolling heat.

Finally, I saw the ridges of the field where the wheat had been harvested, and at a glance, I saw a piece of wheat straw standing in the field, and the highest wheat straw was only more than my ankle. There were not many people gathering wheat, and Parsley saw a few women in straw hats moving slowly in the ground.

There are a few unlocked tricycles parked under the trees on the side of the road, and the cars cannot turn into the fields from the main road, and the wild poplars and willows are on the side of the road, and a little further is the tree ditch.

Deep and wide, a tree ditch cut off the road from the fields, and when Parsley went to collect wheat, she had to pull over to the side of the road, just like everyone else.

Parsley took out the stacked four snakeskin bags from the car, and then instructed Qiuhe, "You stay here and watch, and I'll go down to collect wheat." ”

As soon as Qiuhe saw the heat wave rolling over there, she couldn't stand the scorching heat for a long time, and she was definitely unwilling to go to pick wheat with Parsley, she would rather stay in the shade.

Picking wheat is not a technical job, the most need for people's patience and carefulness, is an acre of land, even if someone has already picked it up, the second person can still have a harvest if he goes to slip it again.

Parsley moved quickly, and before she had gone far, she filled the bottom of the snakeskin bag with ears of wheat.

Those ears of wheat are mixed in the pile of wheat straw, and if you are not careful, it is really not easy to be found, but fortunately, the eyes of parsley are good.

When I first went into battle, I did have energy, but this energy quickly evaporated under the scorching sun, and it became less and less for a while. Parsley wears a straw hat and a long-sleeved shirt, and she is fully armed to this kind of Cheng dù on such a hot day, and she can still feel the spicy heat of the sun.

After enduring the torture of the scorching heat, I don't know how long it took, Parsley picked up a snakeskin bag of ears of wheat, compacted them, and carried them into the hands of about three or four kilograms. It looks like a big bag of ears of wheat, but in fact, there is not much wheat to grind, and it is good to grind a kilogram of wheat.

Xiangqin and the two struggled to carry the heavy bag to the road, staggering along the Qianmo path along the way, and when she crossed the tree ditch and touched the place, she saw several tricycles parked in the shade of the trees, and the tricycle she rode and the autumn lotus were nowhere to be seen.

Parsley looked around blankly and found that there were several unsightly slices of melon peels in the place where she had parked her tricycle, and it was not difficult to find that there were also watermelon seeds.

Leaving a mess, why is Qiu He gone?

Xiangqin looked at both ends of the road, but she didn't see Qiuhe, but a few small trucks and tractors hit her past.

Xiangqin thought to herself, Qiu He shouldn't ride back alone, right?

This girl is really, she runs back alone and doesn't say hello to her in advance!

Xiangqin had long known Qiu He's willful temper, so she didn't care much at this moment, thinking that this girl would definitely tell the adults when she went back that someone should come to pick her up in the afternoon.

After being relieved, Parsley slowly carried a bag of ears of wheat back to the place where she picked up the wheat, but she didn't expect Qiu He to leave her behind.

When the sun went down, Parsley began to get anxious, and when it got dark, she was completely dumbfounded.

Parsley stood alone on the side of the road, surrounded by the sound of insects and the whistling of cars, and it was easy for her to go back alone, but what should she do with five bags of wheat in front of her? There's no way she's going to leave the success of an afternoon's hard work here, right?

Seeing no familiar people coming, Xiangqin became nervous, she was not afraid of the dark, but worried that things were not what she originally thought, Qiu He should not have run back, could something have happened......

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, and she was scared and blamed herself deeply, she shouldn't have let Qiu He sit on the side of the road alone and watch the car, there were so many people coming and going on the road, maybe someone saw Qiu He A little girl without an adult in front of her, so she moved her mind......

Xiangqin went to the terrible place uncontrollably, if something really happened to Qiu He, how could she explain to Duan Xiang after she went back?

The more panicked he became, the more he was at a loss, and at this moment, a dazzling light came, which was particularly abrupt in the dark night, and the parsley was bright and swaying, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to cover it.

When she saw the car with the lights on, she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it was Hong Cheng who drove here, and there were still people sitting in the car.

Santana slowly drove to Xiangqin and stopped, and the two people who got out of the car were Hong Cheng and Duan Xiang.

At this time, the lights were on in the car, and Xiangqin saw Qiu Lotus sitting in the back compartment, and her hanging heart finally settled.

Through the lights in front of the car, Hong Cheng saw that Parsley's entire face was red and black, and it was estimated that she was sunburned during the day. There is also parsley's chapped lips, and a small blood crust at the corner of the lip.

Hong Cheng immediately became angry, rushed to the side of the car and opened the car door, and dragged Qiu He, who was hiding in the car, down, and scolded him during the whole process, "You come down for me, I really didn't find out that you little girl is not very old before, but she has a lot of eyes!" Come on, come on, see for yourself what the parsley has become! Speaking of seniority, you are still the elder of Parsley, you aunt is very good, leave her here alone, and you run back alone! ”

Qiu He's face turned pale with fright, and he howled and cried.

Xiangqin hurriedly stopped Hong Cheng, "What are you doing!" ”

For a child, as for such a big temper?

Hong Cheng threw Qiu He in front of Duan Xiang, his eyes were full of anger, and he didn't relax for a moment to stare at the frightened Qiu He.

If this little girl is unintentional, forget it, the key is that she deliberately left Xiangqin here alone!

Hong Cheng gestured to Qiu Hebi, "Come on, you come to Xiangqin and tell us again what you said to your brother today!" ”

Qiu He dragged Duan Xiang's hand for protection, how could he dare to go to Hong Cheng?

Hong Cheng returned to Hong's hotel from Dongyuanling before dinner in the afternoon, knowing that Xiangqin was going to collect wheat today, thinking that she would come back before dinner, but Xiangqin did not come back until the evening.

When he went out, he saw Qiu He playing in the Xiangyuan restaurant opposite Qiu He, and he felt that something was wrong, because he knew that Xiang Xiang was taking Qiu He to pick up wheat together. The autumn lotus is back, why don't you see parsley?

He walked to the door of Xiangyuan Restaurant, and heard Qiu He complaining to Duan Xiang that when she went to pick up wheat today, how did Xiangqin treat her, saying that Xiangqin yelled at her and scolded her, and didn't even let her eat a watermelon......

At that time, Hong Cheng pressed the anger, and when he stepped forward to ask carefully, he learned that Qiu He had left the parsley in the place where she was picking wheat, and she ran back by herself.

In the evening, when Xiangqin didn't come back, Hong Cheng couldn't sit still, so he stuffed Qiuhe into the car and asked her to show her the way to find someone.

When Xiangqin heard this, she felt incredible, and the little girl Qiuhe couldn't stand the slightest grievance. But now she felt collapsed, and she didn't have the strength to regain her breath.

Qiu He did such a thing, so that Duan Xiang, who was an elder brother, was embarrassed to face Xiangqin, he shook Qiu He's little hand and accused: "Qiu He, how can you do this? Parsley is so good to you, I will give you New Year's money during the Chinese New Year, and I will send food to your school when it rains......"

Without waiting for Duan Xiang's words to fall, Qiu He complained unconvinced: "Who asked her to scold me, and didn't give me watermelon to eat!"

Xiangqin suddenly felt that the ground in front of her eyes was dark, her blood was surging, and she was dizzy.

Xiangqin steadied her breath and said weakly: "Before I came, I told your brother that I wouldn't let you come, and you had to jump into my car." On the way here, you drank the herbal tea I was going to drink in the afternoon, when I was riding, you took off my straw hat, you took it in your hand as a fan, I bought eight cents a pound of watermelon before I had time to eat a bite, you took it away without a sound, do you know that I didn't even drink saliva all afternoon, I didn't eat anything, I asked you how noble you are, you didn't do it right, I can't say two words to you? ”

Hong Cheng was out of breath when he heard Xiangqin say a few words, and he was very distressed, but his anger towards Qiu He never decreased.

He held the crumbling parsley, and waved his big hand to Qiu He and Duan Xiang, "Needless to say so much, with relatives like you, we will recognize it!" Duan Qiuhe, let me tell you, whoever is the lord of you, you go to whom, don't deal with us in the future! Even if it's good for a dog, it will wag its tail at us, and it's a waste of feelings to be good to you! ”

Hong Cheng first let Xiangqin sit in the car, and then loaded the bags of wheat ears that Xiangqin picked up into the car, and glared at Qiu He with warning eyes before getting into the car, and then drove away, leaving Qiu He and Duan Xiang on the side of the road.

Duan Xiang is not angry, is it easy to take a taxi at night in this wilderness?

He shook off Qiu He's hand, thinking about what Hong Cheng said before leaving, he felt uncomfortable in his heart, and finally lost his temper, "Look at what you are doing!" ”

At this moment, he couldn't wait to beat up the ignorant Qiu He, but when he saw Qiu He crying so pitifully, he couldn't bear to do it.

Sitting in the car, the sunburn on Parsley's face became clearer, her cheeks and forehead were purple-red, there was a red rash on her neck, and there were mosquito bites on the side of her face.

Distressed to distressed, Hong Cheng still couldn't help but say to her, "My feet are just hot, this is starting to do it again, you said that on such a hot day, you ran out to pick up wheat!" ”

Xiangqin's voice was weak and fluttering, "Isn't it okay for me to leave it at home, there are a lot of ears of wheat in that field, and it won't take a few days to pick up those five hundred catties of wheat." ”

Hong Cheng knew that Xiangqin had discussed with Duan Xiang and Duan Yongyuan, and everyone took out five hundred catties of grain for Xiangyuan Restaurant. Without Parsley opening this mouth, he can get the food together, and he still needs her to work so hard?

"We lack that little bit of food at home, let alone 500 catties, I can give you 1,000 catties! Look at the sun on your face, pick up wheat and run so far, you are a woman, why don't you know how to cherish yourself! ”

Hong Cheng muttered to himself, but he couldn't hear Xiangqin make another sound, thinking that she knew she was wrong so she had nothing to say, but when she turned her head and saw that Xiangqin was asleep, she suddenly felt angry and funny. R1152