"Rush! Let's compete to see who finishes first, and I'm going to pull the one on the edge. Li Chenggang was like an energetic pony spreading his hooves and rushing into the ground first, picking a place that was convenient for both hands to hold the flax pole with both hands to exert the strength of suckling, and pull it out vigorously.

"Okay, let's compare who pulls it out faster and more, haha!" Li Chengqiang rushed to the ground after him, pulled up the flax next to Li Chenggang, and heard that the two naughty boys were so energetic, and the others were infected, so they followed them to the field to find a place to work.

The sound of the flax pole rubbing came and went, Li Yangqing bent down, stretched out his hands to grab the flax pole and pulled it up hard, the flax was yellowish brown after it matured, and at a glance, it was a large piece of yellow.

The key to pulling hemp is to pull out the hemp, pick the grass, drop the pure soil, and dig the roots, and the pulled flax is bundled into a fist in size, and the flax is full of mature oblong flax balls, which are spherical, brown and yellow after drying, and the top is slightly pointed, and the flax seeds are wrapped inside, and everyone is very careful to pay attention to the flax balls on it.

In stark contrast to the relatively low flax is the kudzu vine, the green kudzu vine is tightly wrapped around the wooden pole inserted in the ground, coiled and grows, the growth height can grow to about three meters, the cylindrical stem is flexible vine-like, can be woven into a basket, from which the fiber can be spun and weaved, the root of the kudzu vine is hypertrophied, called "kudzu", which can be directly cooked or made into starch and medicine, and the leaves of the kudzu vine can also be used as feed for livestock to eat.

After the old men Li first cut off the kudzu vine, they received it in the back basket, and dug deep into the ground with a hoe, and they could see the light brown skin, longitudinal wrinkles, rough lumpy roots, and kudzu roots ranging in size from two to ten inches.

The time of labor always passes quickly, unconsciously, Li Yangqing has already pulled out half of the flax, and the progress of the old man Li is slower, after all, he has to cut and dig, Li Yangqing straightened his body and wiped the sweat on his head, "Let's rest for a while!" Drink some water. ”

Li Yangqing ran to the ground, opened the bamboo tube filled with water in the back basket, raised his neck and poured a few mouthfuls of water, some water spilled out and wet his clothes, it didn't matter, it was just cool, the hot sun had risen very high, shining on the top of his head made people dizzy, looking up at the sky, the sun was a little dazzling, he raised his hand to cover it, and took out another bamboo tube of water in the back basket to the old man Li.

"Daddy, third brother, drink saliva! Quench your thirst. He handed the water to Old Man Li's hand, and Old Man Li took it and poured a big sip, "Well, I'm a little thirsty, damn it, you can drink it too." Old Man Li raised his hand and fed the bamboo tube to Li Qiu's mouth, and fed Li Qiu's water to drink.

Li Yangqing handed another bamboo tube in his hand to Li Yangming, "Brother, you can drink it too!" Li Yangming put down the hoe and took it and drank it in a big gulp, and after the old man Li and Li Yangming drank the water, they returned the bamboo tube to Li Yangqing.

Li Yangqing took the bamboo tube and ran to the flax field again, and saw that a group of small people were already tired and sat directly on the ground, all of them were flushed, panting with their mouths open, and fanning the wind with their hands.

"Do you drink water? I feed you. ”

"Sister-in-law, I'm thirsty, I want to drink water, you feed me!" Li Chenggang opened his mouth and waited for someone to feed, Li Yangqing raised the bamboo tube in his hand and fed the children sitting on the ground one by one, and after feeding, he also sat on the ground to rest.

Labor is to be energetic, when the body is a little tired, the more you rest, the more you don't want to move, "Okay, just rest for a while, get up, let's continue." Li Yangqing encouraged the children who were still sitting on the ground to rest, and took the lead in pulling up the flax.

I don't know how long it has been pulling, anyway, Li Yangqing's arms and hands have been mechanically repeating the actions of "pulling", "binding", and "putting", the sweat on his face has flowed into his eyes, blurring his vision, the sweat on his back has never been done, and his hands have been a little broken because he has been pulling out the pole, the sun has set, and the people in the field have finally finished packing up the food, and they almost packed it and carried it home.

"Daddy, we have come back from Wenjia Village, and we know that you are busy working in the fields, so we will help." It turned out that the eldest couple who went to Wenjia Village went to the ground with Wenshan and Wenshui.

"It's great that you're here, so let's help carry the grain back from the field!"

"Okay, mother" Li Yangde and his family squatted down, each carrying a basket of kudzu and kudzu vine and got up and walked home.

"Cousin, cousin, you are here, come and help us get the flax from the field into the basket and basket." Li Wenqiu waved his hand and beckoned the Wenshan brothers and sisters to come over to help.

"You've worked hard, we're coming back late." Wenshan and Wenshui walked to the ground and helped the pulled linen into the basket.

"It's not too late for you to come, you've packed your things?" Li Yangqing said with concern.

"Sister-in-law, everything has been packed, just some clothes, food and daily necessities, and the two acres of land at home were sold to the village chief's family, and we were given ten taels of silver." Wen Shui said happily.

When Li Chengqiang heard this, he jumped on the ground happily, "Great, we can live together in the future and play every day." ”

"O you! Just know how to play. ”

"Sister Wenqiu, it's supposed to be, it's so lively!" Li Chenggang agreed with Li Chengqiang's words very much, and shook his little head in a daze.

Joined the eldest couple and Wenshan brothers and sisters, half an hour to receive the grain in the field into the yard, flax was tiled and dried to the yard, and when there are seventy percent dry, it is necessary to seize the time to threshing flax, can be manually dropped on the wooden board or wooden square, flax threshing should be done with the shedding, with the sieve, with the storage, to avoid the seeds after the rain heat and mildew, loss of germination ability, kudzu vine put aside need to remove the leaves, the vine left processing spinning, kudzu was received in the utility room put.

"Daddy, we're back too, and the food has been recovered, you're pretty fast." When Li Sun entered the courtyard, he saw that the courtyard was full of flax and kudzu vines, so he quickly put down the basket and joined the team to remove the leaves of the kudzu vine.

Li Yangde and Li Yangwu took out the square bucket at home and put it in the courtyard, and the two of them prepared to go to the river to pick up water and pour it into the bucket, and it took several trips back and forth to fill more than half of the water into it.

The kudzu vine that has been removed is thrown into the hemp, so that the gum on the kudzu bark is decomposed, the fiber is scattered, taken out and torn off the kudzu bark, and a wisp of milky white silk-like fiber material is gradually separated by hand rubbing, which can be made into yarn weaving cloth after spinning and sinking, and the flax should be processed in the same way after threshing to make linen.

"The eldest daughter-in-law, the second daughter-in-law, you two won't do the work of picking leaves first, anyway, you can't finish it today, so let's do a good job of the skewers that will be set up tomorrow! I'm going to cook dinner, I'm going to cook kudzu today, I'm tired of the day, it's time to eat. After Li Qiu's order, he got up and took his two daughters-in-law into the kitchen, and the others continued to fight with Kudteng.

"Boss, you went to Wenshan Village today, have you done anything?"

"Dad, the matter is done, we got all the things of the Wenshan brothers and sisters back today, and talked to the village chief Wen about the future arrangements of the Wenshan brothers and sisters, and the land was sold to the Wen village chief's family, and the land deed was transferred to the official office of the town, and the two acres of land were sold for ten taels of silver. Li Yangde replied.

"That's okay, next time I go and ask Village Chief Li, who needs to sell the land, we will sell it, this matter is not urgent."

Old man Li looked at the grain harvested today, "This year's harvest is not as good as last year, I look at flaxseed can have 100 catties, about 250 catties of flax, 1,500 catties of kudzu, 500 catties of kudzu, it depends on how the rice yield is, and I have to pay all kinds of taxes, and there is not much grain left." ”

"It's time to eat, you guys are coming into the house." Li Qiu entered the hall with a large basin of kudzu, and when the others saw this, they put down their work and stood up to wash their hands, and the large and small entered the hall one after another and sat down at the table.

Li Qiu's is responsible for cooking for everyone, Li Wen's and Li Sun's are responsible for serving it to everyone, what they eat today is the kudzu that has just been harvested from the ground, and it is rotten, Li Yangqing picked up the chopsticks and put a yellow-white kudzu in his mouth, soft and glutinous, and the taste is slightly sweet, "Well, this fresh kudzu is delicious, soft and sweet." ”

"It's delicious, it's the result of a day of digging!" Li Yangming also sighed.

"Tomorrow we are going to collect the family's three acres of rice, the eldest and the second, you will go to your second uncle's house tomorrow morning after dinner to borrow his family's bucket, by the way, call your second uncle and father and son to our house to help harvest rice together, tomorrow by the third and your mother to go to the town to set up a stall, the eldest and the second child, a few male children in the family plus me and your second grandfather and a family of three all go to the field to harvest rice, I told the second brother a few days ago, first accept our family, and then help to collect your second grandfather's family, Yangqing took Wenqiu, Wen Shui cooks at home and delivers food to the fields. Old Man Li put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and talked about tomorrow's arrangements.

After listening to this, Li Yangqing continued: "Dad, when the rice harvest is finished, we will go to the sand on the slope behind the house, dig some houttuynia cordata, and salted duck eggs can also be eaten. ”

"Okay, so be it! After eating, I went to the courtyard to clean up the kudzu, and the autumn harvest will be busy for a long time! ”

After eating quickly, Mr. Li left the table and began to toss the kudzu vine again, except for Li Wen's who washed the dishes, the others also went to the courtyard to pick up the leaves, until the middle of the moon, half of the kudzu vine was cleaned up, and it should be done tomorrow night, everyone is very tired today, wash up and dip the pillow and fall asleep until dawn.

Before dawn, the Li family got up, Old Man Li and Li Qiu were drying flax, Li Sun was doing morning food, and the others were busy working around a pile of kudzu.

After the Li family finished eating, Li Qiu and Li Yangming rushed to the town to set up a stall, and the eldest and second went out to Li Zhongshun's house.

"Big brother, we're here." Li Zhongshun took two thirteen-year-old twin sons Li Nian and Li Si into the courtyard, Li Nian and Li Si looked completely opposite to their names, their physique was a little like Li Yangwu, tall and sturdy, with thick eyebrows and big eyes like their father, their skin was a little dark, and they were wearing a short patched Gebu clothes, they were very energetic, and they looked like they were good at doing farm work, followed by the boss and the second child who carried the bucket.

Everyone in the Li family greeted each other with Li Zhongshun's father and son, and then rushed to the rice field at home with the farm tool, which was a busy but harvesting season, and the fields were full of people who collected grain.

"Sister-in-law, what do you think we should cook for lunch and send them something?" After the others left, only Li Yangqing, Li Wenqiu and Wenshui's three aunts and nephews were left in the courtyard.