Autumn Fu, also called "Autumn Gong" in the Song Dynasty, is a kind of selection examination for local states and counties to recommend provincial examinees to the imperial court, because it is held in autumn, so it is called.

Autumn is not only the season to harvest talents, but also a good time to harvest crops.

The grains planted in spring and summer should be harvested in the autumn, so the agriculture-oriented dynasty, this period is naturally a holiday, except for some particularly important posts, other personnel all go home for the autumn harvest on vacation, therefore, the academy is suspended, such as the county school, the academy under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, professors and gentlemen will organize students to go to the field to help the old farmers harvest crops, but private schools like Luyuan Academy, of course, are each back to their own homes.

"Dog, will you come with me to Qingshui Village?" Wang Hou, who was riding on the horse, turned around and shouted to the dog who was tying the saddle horse to the big green mule.

"It's so far away that I won't go!" The dog pouted and replied to him.

"That's it, there's nothing fun in Qingshui Village, it's better to go to Huazhai with me, I'll invite you to eat Azu's stuffy bamboo rat!" Hua Fourteen hurriedly interjected: "I also heard that the tea workshop built is very large, and there are more than a dozen carriages to pull flower tea every day, but it is lively, come on!" Come with me to Huazhai, right? ”

Autumn is the season when the big animals stick to the fat and grow meat, so the big green mule that the dog rides eats a little fat, and it is not tied twice for a while, and the huge lang behind can't stand it, so he hands the reins to the dog, and he stepped forward to help the dog tie it.

"If I don't go, I just have a seven-day holiday, and I still want to go back to Youchuan, where will I have time to go to Huazhai again! Why don't you two go back to Yuchuan with me? ”

Holding the reins, he stood aside and watched the huge saddle dog, and the corners of his mouth twitched and said a word to the two of them.

Wang Hou hesitated when he heard this: "I've been out for a long time, I have to go home to take a look, I think my grandmother and mother kissed!" ”

Hua Fourteen also nodded in agreement.

The dog rolled his eyes, "Then why don't you two hurry up and get on the road, why are you guarding me for long-windedness?" ”

"You Zhao Dagou, it's really annoying, ignore you!" The two of them glared at the dog, raised their whips in their hands, shouted in their mouths, and ran away with a few soldiers who had been invited to protect the safety.

The dog laughed and watched the two leave, handed the reins back to Da Da Lang and said, "Let's go, let's go too!" ”

Dang Lang nodded, turned around and gestured to the mute man driving the two carriages, and the group staggered out of the city gate.

In the ten-month season, the green is a little yellow, and in the fields around the official road, the industrious peasants have cloth pads or turbans wrapped around their heads, and bend down to harvest their crops with iron sickles.

In the busy farming season, the children who are playing crazy on the street are naturally caught by the strong men, and the smaller ones carry a bamboo basket to pick up the ears of grain that fall on the ground, and the stronger ones use straw to bundle the stacks.

Although the weather was cool, it was not pleasant to work under the sun, and after a while, beads of sweat flowed down from his forehead, and at this time, the grandfather, who was sitting under the shade of the tree at the head of the field, called his grandson to the field to rest in distress.

Xiao Lang, who was tired and had no strength, turned his head to look at his father, who was still cutting crops, and as soon as his eyes rolled, he jumped up quickly, ran to his grandfather in three or two steps, took the water handed over by his grandfather, and drank it all in two or three sips, and drank three bowls in one breath before relieving his anger.

The next generation has been there since ancient times.

So the ancestor saw that his grandson was sweating profusely, and quickly shook the bamboo leaf fan in his hand as fast as a wheel, and a cool breeze came immediately.

In addition to having a fierce father, but also because of the autumn harvest day, the work is urgent, the crops have to be transported back, and the grains have to be beaten down and husked, taking advantage of the sun to dry and load the warehouse, a little slower, an autumn rain down, a year's good fortune can be in vain, when the official of the yamen comes to collect the autumn tax, if the tax is not paid, the cattle and sheep at home will be taken away, and even the iron pot for cooking rice will be moved.

Farming and paying taxes are justified, and if you dare to resist, you are ready to eat in prison, and if you owe too much tax, the family will be pulled by the government to fill the labor, open mountains and build roads, dig ditches and dig wells, and you have to offset the number of accounts.

The young man's strength is cheap, just like a leek in the field, cutting stubble after stubble, the kung fu strength of the confused tea returned to his body, and he heard the call in the haze, his body rolled, snapped, and the mud lump did not hit the target, and it was regretfully broken into a handful.

"You lazy baby, don't you come over to work and still fall asleep, can't you sleep at night? Do you have to sleep while you work? Get the hell out of here! ”

The boy stuck out his tongue, sighed at his grandfather, who was smiling at him, took the straw hat he handed over, returned to the field, and squatted on the ground to continue tying straw stalks.

The straw hat is worn on the head, and the hair is so stuffy that it sweats after a while, but the shade of it blocking the sun can make the face less hot and hot, this kind of thing has advantages and disadvantages, but overall, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, after all, exposure to the sun can easily make people suffer from heat stroke.

In ancient times, when I was sick, there was a saying to describe it, called: one point of medical skills and three points of medicine, and the remaining six points look at yin virtue.

The farmer's work is all about selling physical strength, and no matter how fast the young man's strength comes, when he runs out, when he is tired and sweaty, his palms are full of blisters, and on the field ridge road in the distance, the little sister dressed like a flower and butterfly runs over all the way shouting to Brother and Brother.

In addition to worrying that her daughter would be scratched by the stubble if she fell into the field, she was also worried that the grain drying in the wheat field at home was being pecked by the birds and birds that were stealing from the family.

Two plates of vegetarian dishes and a plate of meat dishes, plus a dozen fragrant hot cooking cakes are a lunch at noon, and after eating, drink a bowl of mung bean soup to relieve the heat, which can also relieve the tired body a little.

Since ancient times, children like their mothers more than their fathers, because their mothers can not only feed your belly, but also soothe your emotions.

Lychee paste water, a kind of cold drink that is sold on the street nowadays to relieve heat and relieve fever, just by listening to the name, you know that it is very expensive, and take it out as a reward for today's son's hard day, which can naturally win him loud cheers.

The main ingredient of lychee paste water is lychee, with icing sugar and ice cubes on the outside, and it is sweet and cool to drink, and it is a drink that is very popular among the people.

But in ancient times, the transportation was inconvenient, resulting in lychees being very expensive, and fresh lychees were even more difficult to preserve, but no matter how difficult it was, they couldn't resist the brains of foodies, and I didn't know that the gourmand came up with a way to boil lychee paste, first peel off the flesh of the lychee, wash it and put it in the jar, add licorice, ginger and various spices, and then put it in the pot to cook, and cook until the long filaments can be picked up with chopsticks.

Put half of the cool spring water in the palm-sized bamboo tube, add frosting and ice cubes, dig a little lychee paste into it and stir it, and this bamboo tube can be sold for seven or eight yuan.

Seven or eight cents is a lot for a pure peasant family, so the vicious father disagreed, even if the grandfather persuaded him, he only agreed to buy his son a bowl of bayberry water or sweet pear water for three cents.

Of course, the young man was not happy, and the chopsticks were attached to his mother's back as soon as he flicked them, and put his arms around her neck to ask for lychee paste to drink, but her husband was the head of the family, and she couldn't refute it, so she had to secretly tell her son that she would give him a few pennies and buy some sweet beans to eat.

Comforting the angry son, the family continued to sit around the shade of the tree on the ground for lunch, listening carefully to the shouts and shouts for people to stop eating lunch everywhere.

Oh, and the sound of horse-drawn carriages on the way.

"This old man, how far is this place from the county seat of Yuchuan?"

The huge lang who was sent by the dog to ask for directions jumped off the panting horse, arched his hand and asked the old man who was drinking mung bean soup.

When the old man was young, he was a small servant for others, and he went to many places in the north and south, not to say that it was the distance to Youchuan County, and he knew the distance from here to Chengdu Fucheng, and he listened to the sound of asking for directions, and was just ready to point out happily, but when he looked up and saw that the person who came to ask for directions was a military man, and he was carrying a steel knife on his waist, and he was a little afraid in his heart.

After stammering fifteen miles away, he lowered his head and continued to drink the mung bean water in the bowl.

Panglang rushed to the road all morning under the sun, and the water in the water bladder on his waist had already been drunk, and when he saw that his father-in-law's family was drinking mung bean water, he was a little greedy in his mouth, and licked his lips with his tongue and said:

"Uncle, a few of us have been walking all morning, and we have finished drinking the water, can you let us taste your mung bean water."

The farmer family is simple and generous, don't say that drinking a bowl of mung bean water is the cooking cake you are eating, as long as you open your mouth, you can give it to you.

So when the big man ran back to the team proudly carrying a wooden bucket of mung bean water, the dog asked.

"Brother Pang, you didn't snatch this bucket of mung bean water, right?"

Da Da Lang rolled his eyes and ignored the dog, turned around and brought a stack of bowls from the carriage behind, scooped one bowl per person and handed it back, saying:

"Drink quickly, I'll have to return the bucket in a while."

The barrel was originally not big, and the old man's family drank half of it, so the rest was only enough for a few people to drink a bowl each, well, Gou'er, as the owner of the group, was naturally an exception.

Belch......

Three bowls of mung beans under the water, a comfortable burp, the dog touched his stomach and said: "Mung bean soup can only satisfy thirst, and you have to eat when you are hungry, Brother Pang, you go and ask that family if there are any leftovers for us to eat?" ”

Da Da Lang turned his head to look at his father-in-law's house from a distance, coughed and said: "His family is not enough to eat, where is there leftovers to eat, you better eat dry food honestly!" ”

For the sake of convenience, the dog did not bring a pot stove, stayed in the inn at night, hurried during the day, and bought some nest cakes made of flour ground from beans or corn when they set off, put them in a bamboo basket, and took them out to eat when they were hungry at noon.

The toothache of the hard and cold nest cake is naturally reluctant to eat the greedy dog, but there is no hot food to eat, and the dog has no choice.

He asked again, "How many miles are there?" ”

"Fifteen miles!" Panglang carried the empty barrel and turned around to return the barrel.

The dog suddenly said, "Why don't we go to his house and cook some rice in the pot under the pretext of eating?" Anyway, it's okay to go back, don't rush to the road! ”