12. The end of the autumn harvest (the first day of the eighth lunar month)
The next day, at dawn, the Su family brothers and sisters had not woken up. They were all tired yesterday, and Su Rui didn't plan to wake them up, anyway, the rice was all recovered, and they only needed to be dried and threshed.
As for the ears of wheat that fall from the ground, it is the same when they wake up.
Su Rui cautiously got up and dressed and went to the stove room, hurriedly entered the space, drank a large sip of undiluted spiritual spring, and suddenly felt comfortable all over her body, and the soreness disappeared.
After boiling the wild eggs last night, Su Rui can't always say that she can pick up wild eggs in the mountains, so she can't take wild eggs from the space.
Su Rui said secretly, "It's better to find a suitable excuse to take out the eggs and eat them......"
A bucket of water was lifted from the space, poured into the water tank, and another bowl of rice was filled to prepare for cooking rice porridge.
Recently, eating corn paste or polenta every day is really enough.
Seeing the cabbage, radish, leeks, and watermelons in the space but not being able to take them out and eat them, Su Rui's heart was like a cat scratching.
"Alas, what a sad day."
As soon as Su Rui put the rice in the pot, she heard that Su Chennan's child in the back room woke up, and she was afraid of waking up her younger siblings, so she hurriedly went in and dressed and hugged it out.
"Ah, ah" Su Chennan didn't see her eldest sister for a day yesterday, and she danced excitedly.
"What are you, why can't you speak?"
"It's called eldest sister, eldest sister." Su Rui teased Su Chennan.
"Ah, big, big, big" Su Chennan grabbed Su Rui's fingers.
Su Rui was pleasantly surprised, "Yes, it's the eldest sister"
"Big, big"
Maybe sister's pronunciation is more difficult for him, and he will only shout big at first, but Su Rui is very satisfied, "big" will be shouted, is "sister" still far away?
Su Ying heard the movement, got up and saw that the eldest sister and younger brother were not there.
"Eldest sister, why didn't you wake me up." Su Ying walked into the stove room and saw that the eldest sister was holding her younger brother behind the stove and cooking the pot.
"Why don't you sleep more? I was so tired yesterday, take a good rest," Su Rui pointed to the spiritual spring water she had received and said to Su Ying.
"Drink some water."
Su Ying picked up the bowl and drank it.
She never contradicted the eldest sister, even if she wondered why she was about to eat, she still had to drink a bowl of water.
Su Ying smashed her mouth, it was a little sweet, and it was quite delicious...
The porridge was almost cooked, and Su Rui extinguished the fire stick.
"You go wash up, drink rice porridge this morning, don't steam Erhe noodles steamed buns."
"Okay, big sister"
Su Rui carried Su Chenrui to the hall, spread the straw curtain and mattress, and put Xiao Chenrui up to play by himself.
The sun will come out, and Su Rui will take the wheat out of the granary to dry.
Su Qiao saw that the eldest sister began to move the rice, and she also began to move.
At this time, Su Qiao, Su Chenrui, and Su Wan also got up.
The wheat is all bundled and easy to carry. The four sisters and brothers of the Su family were all dried in less than half an hour.
After breakfast, the Su family sisters and brothers were ready to go out. Su Chenrui was not happy that the eldest sister threw him at home again, and he cried.
Su Rui sighed. "Alas...... Don't cry, don't cry, will the eldest sister take you there? ”
When Su Chenrui heard that the eldest sister was going to take him, he immediately stopped crying. However, the little hand squeezed Su Rui's shirt tightly.
"Wan'er, you put on your shoes. Let's go to the field together. Su Rui motioned to the eldest brother to bring the straw curtain up.
When he arrived at Su's house, Su Chenrui spread the straw curtain under the tree.
Su Rui handed Su Chenrui to Su Wan and admonished. "Watch my brother, don't let him climb out and fall into the stubble. It's going to hurt..."
"Well, Wan'er will be optimistic about her brother." Su Wan nervously pulled Su Chennan's clothes.
Su Rui's four sisters and brothers put on their bibs and went to the ground.
"Rui girl, on such a hot day, why did you bring Chen Nan out?" Aunt Hua's loud voice came.
Su Rui approached. "Auntie, you don't know that Chen Nan can't make trouble when you go out in the morning, and you don't want to be at home. I can't bring it with me. ”
"Haha, you take him day and night, and it's right that he can't see that you're anxious." Aunt Hua looked at Su Chennan and looked at Su Rui from time to time, and then she understood.
Gleaning ears of wheat looks easy, but it's actually very tiring. Keep bending over, the sun in the sky will shine on the earth enthusiastically, and people will be roasted...
It was too hot at noon, so the Su family sisters and brothers went home.
"The eldest sister decided to spend money on winter wheat to hire someone to sow seeds, we are young and do not move the plow, in case the sowing is delayed and affects next year's harvest."
Su Rui felt that the family had money, and it would be too much to spend on copper plates to hire people, and she was half dead from being tired by herself, and she might end up in poor health in the future, which would be too much of a loss.
"Listen to the eldest sister." Su Chenrui and the others naturally have no reason to say no, after all, the eldest sister is all for the good of the family.
After Su Rui had lunch, she went out to find Aunt Hua.
Su Rui knocked on the door and shouted, "Auntie, open the door." ”
"Here we are, girl. What are you doing here? Is there something wrong? Aunt Hua hurriedly welcomed Su Rui into the house.
"Qin'er, go pour a glass of water for your sister Rui."
"Hey"
Su Qin got up and took the water. "Sister Rui, you drink water."
"Sister Qin, the needlework is good." Su Rui looked at the small purse sewn by Su Qin and said enviously.
Su Qin said shyly, "I just learned, and the sewing is average." ”
"That's good, sister, I don't know yet."
Su Rui remembered the purpose of coming today, and hurriedly said, "Uncle Changle, we don't plan to plant our own winter planting. Can you help us find a few people to help? I don't have 15 wen a day. ”
Su Changle thought for a while, "I'm still discussing with your Uncle Chang Ying that when we're done, I'll sow seeds for you first." ”
Su Rui shook her head, "Uncle Changle, we can't rely on you to help us with everything. Anyway, we will have three acres of land, find four people, plow the land and sow seeds for two days. It's only one hundred and twenty texts. ”
Su Changle nodded, "Okay, I'll find it later." ”
There are many families in the village who have few people and many people, and this year's harvest is not good, so many people go out to look for work but have no work.
"Don't worry, we'll finish picking up the ears of wheat in the field this afternoon, and we can start working tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." After speaking, Su Rui did not disturb the rest, said goodbye and left.
After a busy day, the ears of wheat in the field were finally groomed.
The wheat in the yard was almost dry, and the Su Rui sisters and brothers rolled the stones, found them, washed them, and prepared to start threshing them tomorrow.
At this time, Su Rui missed modern mechanized production.
"Alas...... What a sad day. ”
Early the next morning, Su Changle brought four uncles with different surnames in the same village.
Su Changle whispered to Su Rui, "Rui girl, these people are all down-to-earth workers, not cheating and tricksters. You can use it with confidence..."
"Uncle Changle, I believe in you."
In less than two days, the Su family's three acres of land were busy. Su Rui was paid according to the salary she had agreed before...
Among them, Uncle Man Yin said, "Su family girl, next time you need help, you can find us." ”
Su Rui smiled, obviously satisfied with them. "Definitely, next year's summer harvest and summer planting will definitely invite someone."
The land was planted, and the wheat in the house was almost gone.
Su Rui took a deep breath, and the entire autumn harvest was finally coming to an end.