Although star fruit has always been a girl who grew up in the city, she still loves rural life very much.

Every time she goes to her grandmother's house, she is very excited, she likes to watch her grandmother and aunt feed the chickens and ducks, use the sewing machine to make clothes, and like to run crazy in the vegetable garden of her grandmother's house, and she prefers to follow her cousin, humming a song while walking on the country road. At that time, she felt that the sunset in the countryside was more beautiful than the city.

It's just that she has never done farm work, which makes her love look a lot like the legendary "Ye Gong Hao Dragon" type.

After three days of embroidery with the eldest aunt and three days of embroidery and telling stories to her friends, she ushered in her first farm in this small mountain village.

When I was a child, I also saw the wheat harvesting at my grandmother's house, the kind of large combine harvester in the boundless golden wheat waves, followed by a car used to load wheat grains, only a few moments of work, a large wheat field will be harvested, that scene is quite spectacular.

But in this space, it is clear that there will be no combine harvesters in this era, not even small ones.

Star fruit got up early with grandma and Pei Yifan to eat something, and prepared dry food and water to use, in order to cut wheat today, grandma got up early and baked a lot of flatbread, star fruit knew that this was already the only white flour in the family, fortunately, the wheat will be harvested soon, there will be white flour, everything will be there.

When I came to my home after a long hike on the mountain road, I knew that even if there was a small harvester, it would not be needed here. The fields on this hillside are very small, and they are not as big as the small vegetable garden that is only used by my grandmother's family.

Along the way, grandma told Carambola and Pei Yifan that the land of each household in this village was opened by themselves, and it was very late when grandma took Pei Yifan to the village, and basically the decent places that were closer to home were opened. Fortunately, at that time, my grandmother's body was still strong, so she went to a place far away from home to pick up a dozen plots of land, although it was a little smaller, but it was not scattered, and almost all of the people in the vicinity were their families.

Carambola looked and found that only three of the larger plots were planted with wheat, while the others were planted with potatoes, sweet potatoes and spring sorghum and spring corn. But they are all very small pieces, and there are not many in total, so I am afraid that I will have to catch up with a good year and the wind and rain will be able to eat.

Moreover, this land is on the slopes of the mountains, and it is usually not watered, so it depends entirely on the sky, and even if the star fruit does not understand, it can guess that the yield of wheat must not be very high.

Carambola sat on a big rock with her grandmother and rested for a while before she got up and walked around. Although my grandmother said that her land was still dense and she didn't have to run around to harvest, it was actually just relative to other families.

The soil on this mountain is loess, and in addition to many wild trees, there are many stones, and not every place is suitable for growing crops. The land is also uneven, separated by many large and small stones, and from a distance, it looks very much like the "terraced fields" she saw in Chinese language books when she was a child.

No wonder grandma never brought her and Pei Yifan here, before I thought about it, grandma herself rarely came to see it. At least for a few of them, it took two or three breaks along the way with water and food, and corn seeds, to get here.

As soon as the star fruit was finished looking up and down, Aunt Lu and Aunt Liu came, obviously Aunt Feng was pregnant and did not dare to travel long distances to this mountain.

The three men who were with them, all dark-skinned, looked like they were often working under the sun.

"Uncle Lu, Uncle Liu, Uncle Feng." Although Pei Yifan still has a small voice when talking to people, he is still very polite.

Carambola also immediately followed and shouted, although it was the first time to meet a few uncles and uncles, but everyone was no stranger to her, and there was a sincere smile on her face, this is the real loyalty and honesty, much more real than that Qingcang sale.

Lu Dahei actually came, which made the star fruit slightly surprised, but then relieved, even if the kite wanted to teach Lu Dahei martial arts, after all, he didn't want the villagers to know that when the farm was busy, of course he would give Lu Dahei a holiday.

Although there is not a lot of land, but because of the long road, everyone gets up very early, it is estimated that when Aunt Lu and they go out, the two girls have not gotten up yet!

"Grandma Pei, your old man is blessed, and his grandchildren can help with the work." Aunt Lu and Aunt Liu were not surprised to see that the star fruit was also there, in the past two days, the star fruit asked this and that when they were embroidering, they already knew that this child would definitely follow.

Anyway, everyone didn't expect her to help much, she was willing to follow and take a look, so let her see.

Uncle Lu first cut some wheat that was still green, and handed it to Lu Dahei, only to see Lu Dahei take two small handfuls of green wheat, the ears of wheat were opposite, and neatly twisted the wheat straw.

"What is this for?" Carambola asked curiously.

"Stupid, sheaves of wheat!" Lu Dahei pouted at the star fruit, it seems that this little girl is really not omnipotent, there are still many things that she doesn't understand!

"Really? I'll try it too. ”

Carambola was too lazy to worry about Lu Dahei, so she immediately learned from Lu Dahei's appearance and wanted to beat Mai Yaozi. She herself thinks it's not very stupid, but how can this be screwed left and right, and it can't be screwed well! However, star fruit is not a big black road, obviously you want to learn and have a hard mouth, you don't have to learn modestly, this is a good child's paper.

"Brother Big Black, how the hell do you get this? Why can't I screw it well? The star fruit came to Lu Dahei and became sweet again.

Lu Dahei obviously knew everything about star fruit becoming well-behaved in front of adults, glared at star fruit, and in order not to make everyone think that he was bullying his sister "again", he had to pretend to be patient and instruct.

"Look, in this way, twist it, twist it again, and it's good." Lu Dahei slowed down so that the star fruit could see more clearly.

Pei Yifan also stepped forward and clumsily followed Lu Dahei. Star fruit glanced at Pei Yifan and knew that her brother had never done farm work before she came, and he was really pampered and raised.

With the help of Lu Dahei, the star fruit finally screwed a Mai Yaozi, but no matter how you look at it, it is not as good as Lu Dahei's screwing, it seems that this is really a jishu job, but it is not easy to look simple and do.

"You don't need to twist it too much, it won't work well when it dries." Lu Dahei said, seeing that the adults had already cut several hucs of wheat, he hurriedly walked over to tie up the wheat, and carried the wheat to the ground, and put the ears of wheat facing up.

This is a hard work, star fruit is not even willing to try, it is estimated that the wheat has not moved, and it will be laughed at by Lu Dahei. Seeing that her grandmother did not cut the wheat, but followed to pick up the fallen ears of wheat, she also joined the ranks of picking up the ears of wheat.

Pei Yifan looked at it, and it seemed that there was still a sickle, so he actually picked up the sickle, followed the example of adults, and cut the wheat.

For star fruit, picking up ears of wheat is a very fun thing, so close to the land, but also makes her feel a different sense of steadiness, but Pei Yifan is miserable, only a moment of work, sweat also came down, and his arm was also scratched painfully, so he had to sit down on the spot and gasp for breath.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the little face of the star fruit is also beginning to sweat, look at the few adults who are still working in the bow, from time to time with the sickle handle to hit the sweat-soaked back, but refuse to stop. In the past two days, she has heard from her grandmother and Aunt Lu that it takes a few days for wheat to ripen, and if it rains, it may be impossible to get a year's worth of rations.

It seems that life in this countryside is really not as poetic and romantic as she imagined.