Chapter 20: Harvest
When he went to bed at night, Sun Chen gave his sister the only set of bedding in the house, and he himself covered himself with old clothes to make do all night.
Sun Chen and Da Zhuang made an appointment that day, and they would go up the mountain to hunt the next day, so he had a day to spare the next day. When he got up early in the morning, he took the initiative to go to the kitchen to cook, and there were buns left over last night, he just needed to heat them up and boil some soup.
The second girl cleaned up her kang, took out the fabric and cotton that she pulled in the town yesterday, and fumbled around to make the bedding herself.
After eating, Sun Chen went to the field to hoe the grass, and the second girl continued to struggle with the quilt at home.
When Sun Chen came home exhausted in the evening, he really let her make a bed.
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The days lived so peacefully, and Sun Chen slowly got used to this kind of life.
He would follow Lin Tieli up the mountain to hunt with Da Zhuang and Da Zhuang every two days, and he not only learned to use a bow and arrow, but also became more and more proficient in using a dart in one hand. Whenever he darts, eight times out of ten. Jiuhui hits the prey, so every time there will be a big or small harvest, and slowly a lot of money has been saved.
When he was not hunting, he would carry a hoe and work in the two acres of land he had been allocated, and the crops in the two acres would grow happily.
Every time Sun Chen goes to the mountains to hunt, the most uneasy thing is the sister of Erniu, who originally means that there is nothing valuable at home, and Erniu lives directly in her own house to be with the swallows, Sun Chen also feels that this is more reassuring.
But Erniu thinks that it is not a way to do this all the time, and insists on living at home alone. Sun Chen couldn't, so he could only ask Lin Tiezhu to help find a weaned watchdog in the village to raise.
Every time Sun Chen goes out, he prepares as many things as possible that the second girl is about to use, so that he can walk with peace of mind.
Erniu also knew that her brother was worried about herself, and when Sun Chen went out hunting, she would stay at home and try not to go out, so that he could travel lightly without worries.
Anyway, every time my brother comes home, he will take him to the town to go shopping and buy things, and there is absolutely no possibility that she will be suffocated like this.
Busy and repetitive days always fly by, and Sun Chen has less and less time to think about the past every day. In the blink of an eye, it was time for the autumn harvest, and after all, I had already traveled here and lived here for four months.
The main crops in this area of their Zhuo County are wheat and corn, and occasionally some high-yielding and hungry-resistant sorghum and sweet potatoes are grown. Before Sun Chen came here, he had already harvested a crop of winter wheat, but now he mainly harvested corn and sweet potatoes, as well as sorghum.
Because Sun Chen took good care of it, the harvest in these two acres of land was really good, with a total of more than 1,100 catties of corn harvested, and another seven or eight hundred catties of sweet potatoes.
On the ridges on both sides of the ground, Sun Chen also planted sorghum with stitches, and the harvest was not much, only fifty or sixty catties, but he took back the sorghum stalks, and the second girl used them to make two baskets for steamed buns and vegetables under the guidance of Aunt Zhuzi, and four or five curtains of different sizes, and small brooms for sweeping the floor, Sun Chen tried to tie one, although it looked a little ugly, but it could also be used.
On the day she moved back, Erniu planted a circle of loofahs, bitter gourds, gourds, kidney beans and other vegetables under the courtyard wall. In addition, the two-point vegetable field in the backyard was also full of planting, and the harvested vegetables were a little uneaten by the two of them in the end.
She tried to pickle a little first, and found that the taste was quite good, so she simply pickled half of the unfinished vegetables, and the other half was dried into dried vegetables, ready to be saved and eaten again when there were no vegetables in winter.
If there are gourds or loofahs that have not had time to pick and become old, let them hang on the seedlings and keep them as seeds, and then pick them to make scoops and dishes when the seedlings are finally pulled.
They also built a chicken coop on the courtyard wall, in which a few half-sized chickens were raised, and Aunt Zhuzi said that it would be time to lay eggs in another month. The second girl is fed carefully every day, and I hope that they can eat eggs that don't cost money as soon as possible.
Next to the gate of the courtyard is Lao Bai's kennel, God knows, it's obviously a dog that can't be blacker anymore, why does the second girl have to call it Lao Bai. But just look at its black and shiny coat, you know that it's living well in this home.
These are all groped out by the two of them with the help of their mother's practices in their memory, and with some guidance from Aunt Zhuzi, the two of them have lived a more and more enjoyable life.
When his father Sun Zhou came, he rushed to work every time, as if he wanted to make up for them. Every time Sun Chen went up to the mountains to hunt, he would come over from time to time to take care of the second girl, which became a tacit habit between their father and son.
Of course, there will always be one or two people who don't like them, and Sun Yang is one of them.
After a while, she would deliberately accuse Sang and scold Huai for corrupting Sun Chen's brothers and sisters in front of the neighbors, and forced Sun Zhou to work non-stop in his spare time, so that he would not have time to take care of the second girl.
even once proposed to let Erniu help her father fulfill her filial piety, and Erniu had to follow him if he couldn't finish the work. Fortunately, the second girl is not a muddy character, and categorically rejected her, causing her to stand at the door and scold.
Sun Chen is not often at home, and he is also a little out of reach for Sun Yang's troubles, so he can only tell Erniu not to ignore her when he leaves home, and wait for him to come back if there is anything. However, Sun Yang seemed to be afraid of Sun Chen's sharp teeth that time, but after seeing him, he became honest and stopped talking.
Sun Zhou's remarried Wang and her daughter Fennel are simply a copy of his mother Sun Li's, two live buns, Sun Chen just shook his head at this.
They are very kind to Sun Chen's brothers and sisters, but Sun Yang is afraid that they will learn badly, so they watch it very closely, and the opportunities for several people to contact are also very rare, so Sun Chen has no chance to wake them up, so he can only hint that his father Sun Zhou usually cares more about them.
Regarding Sun Chen's reminder, Sun Zhou thought that his son had completely accepted the Wang family and was only happy for her, how could he think of anything else, Sun Chen's hard work was in vain.
As for the indispensable Jiaohuang grain, the situation was so good that Sun Chen was a little unexpected.
Because the Apocalypse Dynasty has not been at war in recent decades, the tax is not heavy, and this year it is only necessary to pay the Ding tax and the field tax.
The two brothers and sisters of Sun Chen handed over a total of 340 catties of corn plus 50 copper plates, which was within the range they could bear, and the remaining grain was enough for the two of them to eat until next summer's harvest.
After the work in the field was done, Sun Chen wanted to go up the mountain to hunt again, but Lin Tieli told him that he would not go up the mountain again during this time, and Da Zhuang would stay at home to help.
Only then did Sun Chen react, and Aunt Zhu had also told him earlier that the day when Lin Yao and the two families agreed to get married was approaching.
Wanting to give a big gift to this benefactor, Sun Chen took the tools and went up the mountain alone. Of course, he didn't dare to say anything to his sister Erniu, so he only explained to her that he had made an appointment with hunters from other villages.