Chapter 121: Cutting Wheat
Uncle, uncle, look at what this thing is, I just caught it in the back for less than a day, Zhang Qian's little nephew can't be affectionate to Liu Junhao, basically Liu Junhao follows him wherever he goes, a little heel who is alive.
Zhang's mother was very helpless and secretly told her grandson several times to change his name to Uncle Liu. But this little guy didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he didn't change his words.
Children have a lot of play, and after coming to Liujiagou, the little guy seems to have entered another world, and he is curious about everything. And Liu Junhao is also like a hero in his eyes, almost omnipotent in hunting pheasants, rabbits, hedgehogs, etc.
"This thing is called the big green head, that's what the book says. Why did you break its leg, I'll catch two good ones for you and play with them in the cage, it sounds good. Liu Junhao glanced at the half-dead insect in his hand and said.
The big green head has a reputation as a musician, its call is pleasant and crisp, and the hotter the weather, the happier it is. It is a very popular toy for rural children, and in summer and autumn, those half-grown children will go to the field to catch a few and keep them at home.
Lying on the mat at night and listening to the sound of the ears, there is naturally an indescribable comfort and self-satisfaction.
The food of this thing is also very miscellaneous, and you can feed it with shihu luobu skin, beans, vegetable leaves, chili peppers, etc. In particular, the chili pepper is the best, and the big green head screams very loudly after eating it.
"Okay, then let's go, there's a lot of it in the back, I just can't catch it" Xiao Zeyu heard him say this, and hurriedly pulled Liu Junhao to the backyard to catch it.
In fact, the big green head is not easy to catch, things are responsive, have strong bouncing ability, and will immediately stop and hide at the slightest breeze.
Intuitively sensing that there is no danger in the outside world, it will speak again. Therefore, it is necessary to have a strong patience to grasp it, and it is necessary to achieve "I am still when the enemy is quiet, and I am also moving when the enemy moves." Once you have reoriented, you have to pounce on it.
Even so. Seven or eight times out of ten, it's a punch. This thing will often run through gaps in the ground with its fingers on its fingers.
The big green head likes to eat sweet potato seedlings. Therefore, there are many in the courtyard. As soon as Ozawa Yu entered the backyard, he heard another "" cry coming from under the corner of the wall. Hurriedly pointed with his finger.
Liu Junhao naturally heard the movement. Let him stop where he is. I tiptoed past by myself.
He followed the voice. Soon I found the one that was crying happily on the sweet potato leaves. But I haven't waited yet. The guy had taken refuge in the leaves.
It took more than ten minutes for Liu Junhao to catch two big green heads. Then he went to the door and folded a few sorghum stalks on the firewood stack. Tear open the top ground grate and weave two small and delicate ground cages.
A child's interest shifts quickly. This guy just played for a while. But he was also interested in the small fish and shrimp in the lotus root pond. He looked itching. Finally, simply take off your shoes. Grab your trouser leg and jump into the water. But he was pulled tightly by his mother.
Xiao Zeyu couldn't stop anyone when he came, so he had to catch small fish to play, so Liu Junhao had to make him a water wrench.
The water wrench cage is a simple and easy-to-use fishing tool, and the production process is very simple, which is to cover a layer of window screen on the bamboo basket, canned food bottle or steamed bun sieve, and then tear a round hole as thick as a hemp rod in the middle.
The basket is tied to a bamboo pole with a rope, and some bait such as steamed buns is placed in it and thrown into the water to wait for the fish to take the bait.
Zhang Qian has seen this fishing method a few times after coming to Liujiagou, so she doesn't feel unusual. But Zhang's mother and daughter-in-law were very curious, and they also squatted by the water to watch.
After five or six years, Liu Junhao carried the embroidery pole ashore and opened the gauze on the top of the bamboo basket, and there were already twenty or thirty more pieces of meat and wheat in it.
Now several people are interested, and they have tried the pleasure of fishing one by one.
The morning passed like this, although Zhang Qian and Liu Junhao tried their best to stay, but after lunch, Zhang's mother still had to lead her daughter-in-law and little grandson away.
Before leaving, she didn't explain too much to the two of them, only said that you should do it first.
Although it was not a definite answer, it also made Liu Junhao happy, at least let him see the dawn of victory.
When he returned home, he was completely relaxed, and in order to cope with the censorship of his mother-in-law, his spirit had been tense all the time, and he did not dare to relax at all.
Lying in the courtyard, Liu Junhao secretly opened the stone lock to observe. Unexpectedly, he immediately discovered the abnormal situation, and those melon seedlings seemed to have fallen a lot of yellow flowers. Except for a few watermelons that I saw at first, no small watermelons ever grow.
What's going on here? Liu Junhao was surprised. When he looked at the little honeycomb, he found the reason. The dozen or so bees he caught at the beginning have now fallen on the beach and are dead no longer enough.
It seems that keeping bees in the stone lock is just wishful thinking, and the bees may not be able to adapt to the environment inside. After thinking about it, he couldn't find the reason, and finally had to look it up on the Internet.
After checking the relevant information, he realized what he was wrong, and it turned out that a bee colony relied on it alone
Unable to survive.
Since it's not the stone lock, then things are much easier, so let's bring in some earth bees, they will definitely be able to adapt.
Liu Junhao did what he said, risking being stung and squatting by the reed stack to wait, and as soon as he saw a wasp burrowing into the reed pole, he hurriedly broke the reed and threw it into the stone lock.
The Tian family has few idle months, and people are busy in May. The south wind rose at night, and the wheat was covered with yellow.
The wheat is said to be ripe, and it is rare that the weather has been good these days, so every family is busy cutting wheat in the field.
Liu Junhao is still at leisure. After eating, he was just about to move a chair and sit under the poplar tree. said that, Zhang Qian told him to cut wheat for the sixth aunt's house.
If his girlfriend has an order, he naturally has to obey it, not to mention that the sixth aunt's family is indeed difficult. Don't look at her family, she has only planted six acres of wheat, but she is busy enough for the first half of the month.
Although Zhang Qian came out: she waved a straw hat in her hand before, and swore to show her determination, but when it came to cutting the wheat field, she was bitter, so she couldn't stop beating her waist after cutting four wheat bundles, saying that her waist was sour, and even Xiao Aqin was not as good.
At the beginning of the assignment, the three adults each cut five rows of wheat. In less than five minutes, Zhang Qian was left far behind, and she told Liu Junhao to slow down.
There is no reason to do less work for the family, so Liu Junhao had to come back and help her cut a section again. How do you know that Zhang Qian's matter has just been finished and she has come again, and she has cut her hand.
Liu Junhao frowned when he saw her in pain, thinking that it was a big wound, so he hurriedly threw down the sickle and found a few thorny foot buds to knead into a soft ball to bandage Zhang Qian's wound. Who knew that when I took her hand, I realized that it was only a little cut of the skin, and now even the blood is gone.
"Will there be any scars?" Zhang Qian asked very worriedly.
"It's okay, as long as you pay attention not to touch the water, the wound can grow in half a day." Liu Junhao smiled and comforted.
Come on, now she is a wounded, so naturally she doesn't have to cut wheat anymore.
Liu Junhao was afraid that she would be too hot, so he deliberately piled a small stack of wheat bundles for her to sit in the shade to cool off, while he continued to wield the sickle.
In fact, cutting wheat is also a technical job, the first is to be fast, and the second is to hold the sickle correctly.
Liu Junhao has a big shelf, and his arms are thick and long, and he can hold a few ridges.
Therefore, when he wields his scythe, he naturally moves quickly.
He did the work of two people alone, chased all the way, caught up with Ah Qin, and then caught up with the sixth aunt.
"Brother Xiao Hao is an automatic harvester," Ah Qin exclaimed after seeing it. Even the sixth aunt couldn't stop persuading him to slow down and not get tired.
Cutting wheat is a momentum, and Liu Junhao is like a tireless old ox at the moment, rushing all the way forward.
Ah Qin was also full of energy at first, but after a while, he began to envy his teacher sitting in the shade and drinking tea leisurely, and soon his movements slowed down.
Liu Junhao didn't let her cut the wheat at all, and only asked her to make the wheat waist for tying wheat for herself.
When Ah Qin heard him say this, he immediately threw down his sickle and ran over. This work is very easy, a large bundle of wheat can be done with only one loin.
At first, she was able to keep up with the rhythm, but as Liu Junhao cut more and more smoothly, she couldn't keep up with the rhythm, and finally had to call Zhang Qian over to help.
Saving the time of making wheat waists, Liu Junhao's speed is even faster, and a big hug can just make up a wheat waist when he cuts it at a time.
The weather was already hot and dry in early June, and his shirt was soon wet, and sweat was running down his cheeks and rushing out of the streams.
Zhang Qian screamed a few times in distress to make Liu Junhao stop, but it was useless, and finally she was embarrassed to see it, put on gloves, and then began to cut wheat.
In this way, everyone chased after me, and after a morning's effort, the wheat in the eighths of the land was actually cut to a clean light.
Then loading and stacking, Liu Junhao has lived in the countryside since he was a child, and he is naturally no stranger to these farm work. He and his six aunts were busy in the wheat field, while Zhang Qian took Ah Qin home to cook.
Lunch is actually very simple, two salted eggs per person, and the dish is mellow and cool. Liu Junhao exerted his strength for a long time, he was already hungry, and he didn't pay attention to the quality of the food, so he took the steamed bun and ate it in a big gulp.
In the afternoon, although he was still full of energy, Zhang Qian's movements completely slowed down.
It's no wonder that the morning is full of energy, but after a break at noon, people's muscles become sore, and the sun after the morning is scorching, and people who are sunburned are dizzy and can't lift their strength at all.
Even so, they still cut more than seven cents of wheat in the afternoon.
"I'm tired to death" As soon as Zhang Qian arrived in Liu Junhao's yard, she immediately collapsed on the chair and didn't want to move.
"Now I know that it's not that easy to do farm work, right?" Liu Junhao is still in good spirits at the moment