In autumn, the weather is not sultry, but cool. Under the clear blue sky, the peaceful village of Tianjia was broken by the chirping of flocks of geese flying south. The Shili Mountain in the north of the village also began to appear a piece of gold, and the golden rice in the south of the village made the people of Tianjia Village happy, and it was another year of harvest. The river in front of the village and the river behind the village are surrounded by several unknown wildflowers.

In the evening, Xia Zhi walked with his father on the road to the field of the village south Tian's house. The autumn breeze gently swept through Xia Zhi's neck with a hint of coolness, which suddenly made her feel excited, and she unconsciously approached her father's side. When he arrived at the place, Tian Laosi asked Xia Zhi to stand on the edge of the field, and walked forward to check the ripeness of the rice.

Xia Zhi stood on the high ground at the head of the field, watching the yellow, orange and orange rice fields churning over the golden waves, and his own father or checked the degree of bending of the rice ears; or a little rice grain to observe the color; Or chew the rice grains, estimating that the Tian family should harvest the rice tomorrow. Sure enough, Tian Laosi, who had inspected the situation of rice, went back and mentioned the rice harvesting to Lao Luotou at the dinner table.

"Daddy, I see that the rice at home can also be harvested, many families in the village have begun to harvest rice, and I am afraid that the weather will not be good if it is late."

Lao Luotou listened to his youngest son's words, was silent for a while, and said, "Okay! If you can, you can take it, but I thought that I would go to the field if my leg was better, but now it seems that I can't! ”

"It's not like we, you just rest at home and take care of your legs. This time to harvest rice, my sister-in-law will not go, and take care of the fetus at home. ”

"Then which is it, isn't it just pregnant, it's not a big deal, I'll go, otherwise it's going to be something! Before talking about the fourth sister-in-law, didn't you also go to the fields when you were busy with farming? She was already four months pregnant, and the Wang family, who had a slightly convex belly, heard what the uncle said and immediately refused.

Li, who was eating on the side, didn't intend to speak, but after listening to Lao Luotou's words, he said worriedly: "Don't toss people if you are a dead old man, as for the sister-in-law, she will help Lichun cook rice at home and do some housework!" ”

Lao Luo Tou naturally won't refute Li's words, he still wants to get good as soon as possible, but he doesn't want to be lame, as for the matter of the eldest daughter-in-law, isn't this an old woman, and it's not his turn to take care of it, so he didn't make a sound.

And although Boss Tian was worried about his daughter-in-law, he knew that A-Niang was good for his daughter-in-law, so he didn't say anything, and listened to A-Niang. Tian Lao Er and Tian Lao San have no opinion on this matter, and the children of the Tian family have nothing to say.

For Li's words, Wang's language stopped, and she should have listened to her mother-in-law's words, but the Tian family never had a daughter-in-law who was pregnant, so she didn't go to the field to work, not to mention that the Tian family was the entire Tianjia Village, and such a person could not be found, not to mention that there was a mother-in-law who would definitely have to go to the field when the time came, and how could a daughter-in-law enjoy happiness at home, and the mother-in-law went out to endure hardships, which is unreasonable.

Li Shi looked at the expression of the eldest daughter-in-law, understood what she was thinking, and then said: "I know what you want, the Tian family has no such thing, but isn't this a special situation, you are also old, and you also had fetal gas before the addition, although you raised it well later, you must also be careful, your younger siblings will not care about these, and there is no shortage of you in the family." What people want to say, why don't they care, they can still eat you! ”

Xia Zhi heard Grandma say, 'You are also old', I felt full of black lines, the twenty-four-year-old aunt has become an age, this is estimated in the previous life has just joined the work, but in this Dawu Dynasty is already an eight-year-old child, when I think of facing such a thing in the future, Xia Zhi can't wait not to marry for the rest of his life.

"Yes! Sister-in-law, isn't your situation special, before me, my mother didn't let me stay at home, I couldn't sit still, so I had to go to the field. Seeing that Wang still wanted to speak, Zheng dissuaded.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry about this, the child in the belly is the important thing right now," Liu gently persuaded.

"Sister-in-law, there are few fields at home and there are many people, are you still afraid that you won't be able to finish harvesting the rice!" Lin also persuaded.

"That's okay, I'll cook a meal for everyone at home and hand you some water" Wang saw that several concubines said this, so he simply nodded and agreed to be at home.

After the autumn harvest was discussed, the Tian family ate and went to bed early after washing. The next day, Lao Luotou got up early, polished the sickle used at home on the stone, and waited for everyone to get up early and use it in the field after breakfast. Generally, the dew is heavy in the morning, and it is easy to wet people's clothes, so the Tian family only goes to the field to harvest after breakfast, and this is how the dew also wets everyone's trouser legs, and waits until the sun comes out to dry, and so on.

Tian Si brothers took advantage of the sunny weather, the first day of harvesting rice on the night of the moonlight in front of the Tian family to splash water on the open space in front of the Tian family, Xia Zhi heard that this is to make a rice field, used to stack rice handles, for the threshing of rice ears. It is necessary to pour water on the flat ground, and then wait until the next morning, sprinkle the straw ash burned in previous years evenly on it, and then roll it with a stone roll to make it flat, and then let the sun dry, but it should not be too dry, otherwise it is easy to crack the land and lose food.

Knowing this, Xia Zhi nodded, no wonder the people of Tianjia Village, every house has a cylindrical shape in front of the door, one is big and the other is small. Originally, the stones with holes at both ends could be attached to the stone slings with a special square rack and dragged by cattle to facilitate the crushing of the scattered rice handles to help them break away from the ears.

However, Xia Zhi's family had no livestock, so Tian Boss and his brothers had to go together. One pulled a rope with his back to the stone and pulled hard.

Therefore, after the rice field is done, every time the family comes, the Tian family has to pick some rice and put it on the rice field to prevent the sun from cracking the ground, and the Tian family is afraid of rain, so they always threshing the rice they picked up overnight, and then the next day they will thresh the threshing rice grains on it, so that they can take care of it at home during the summer solstice.

Looking at the way the brothers of the Tian family were so tired that they were so tired that they were so tired that they were so tired that they were bored with green tendons, Xia Zhi sighed that he had already known that he was like this, so he went to buy a cow, and his father and uncles would not be so tired. But I heard that the cow is very expensive, about twenty taels can, and there must be someone who knows how to do it, otherwise there is a black-hearted person who sells the sick cow to you, and there is really no place to cry.

Farmers sometimes treat cattle better than people, so they won't buy cattle unless they have to, and it is conceivable that the cattle are valuable and unmarketable. But now it can't be done, we can only wait until next year, the Tian family is now focused on harvesting rice, and nothing else is as important as it.

After a few days of busyness, the rice in the field of the Tian family was harvested, and the Tian family also picked all the rice that had not been threshed to the rice field and piled it up, and began to thresh the rice ears with all their might.

Sometimes at the end of the day, there are three fights, each of which includes two times of rolling and one time of raking, and when everything is done, the rice must be pushed down with a wooden shovel and put in one place.

If there is a windy weather, the field will be raised, so that the grass clippings mixed in the rice grains will be blown away by the wind. You can imagine how onerous this is. Especially in Yangchang, the four brothers of the Tian family took turns to fight. Fortunately, the weather was fine this year, and everyone happily harvested the grain. Some years are not good, and maybe it rains while you are harvesting grain.