Chapter 18: The Harvest
"Brother Liu, they are also here, we have a lot of family this year, we have worked hard to harvest in three days, and we have planted the land for a year, only when we enter the warehouse, this heart can be settled."
This is really the truth, when harvesting wheat, I am most afraid of wind and rain, after a year of hard work, who wants to reduce the yield at the last moment?
Qing Niang went back to discuss with Mama whether she needed to buy some meat back, on such a hot day, and she had to dry it continuously, and whoever got sick again would be miserable.
"The girl doesn't know, when this is a big effort, you can't eat meat, let's grind a lot of noodles, just enough to eat dry rice, and wait for the last day, buy some meat to treat."
Qing Niang looked at the jubilant grandmother, and the mood was also very good, Ye Zi entered the inner courtyard to serve, and the big stone in Mama Liu's heart fell to the ground, she didn't raise this child since she was born, she was thin like a kitten since she was a child, and she always thought that she couldn't raise it, and she stumbled and grew to ten years old.
"Miss, don't drink cold water, my mother said, let me look at Miss Dian." Ye Zi was a little timid, but she remembered what her mother had explained, and she couldn't let Miss drink cold water.
Qing Niang saw that she was afraid to death, and she was still trying to block herself, so she couldn't help laughing:
"In the future, you will be like Moxiang and them, just call me girl, why can't you drink cold water on such a hot day? The hot water is so hot, how can you drink it! She drank ice water in her previous life!
"Aunt, girl, it's been warmed, and I will have a stomachache when I drink cold water, I didn't have hot water to drink when I was a child, and I often have a stomachache." Ye Zi's eyes were very big, and she looked at Qing Niang seriously at this time, thinking about the mother who was supposed to take care of her, she was holding her love, and she felt a little guilty about her.
I couldn't bear to disappoint her, so I had to pick up the warm water, and Mo Xiang on the side pursed her lips and smiled, when did the girl be so obedient? In previous years, when it was summer, I just drank cold water and didn't listen to persuasion at all.
"Tomorrow I sacrifice my ancestors, let Ye Zi accompany you, I and Shuxiang will also go to the stove to help, and you will also eat in the big stove tomorrow,"
In order to prevent heat stroke, in addition to cooking, Dazao also has to boil some mung bean soup, so they all have to help.
She had never seen such a scene, so she made up her mind to go to the field to see the excitement, and told her to put some sugar in the mung bean soup.
The next day, Qing Niang gave incense to the ancestors, saluted, held a simple sickle opening ceremony, and went to her own field by Li Da, and today the harvest began, and everyone was pinned with a snowy sickle behind their waists, and even Su San also went to the ground.
Liu Xiaosong got instructions, in addition to working today, he was looking at him, this guy was obviously coerced, and now the only idea he can fight is Maizi! Because Qing Niang didn't have a few taels of silver.
Qing Niang also went to the field, only to see that no matter how big or small the man was, one person and one line were all cut, and the wheat was golden, and after a while, it was piled up on the ground in bundles.
"Girl, the crops here are growing so well, and when they are finished, I want to go down to the field to gather ears of wheat, and you see, there are many on the ground." The leaves regained their childlike nature at the edge of the field and became lively.
After a while, the mung bean soup was delivered, she asked Ye Zi to beckon everyone to take a break, and when everyone came, she found that Su San was gone, and it was only an hour after that, Xiao Song came over and said to Qing Niang:
"Just now, the man inquired about the yield and asked Uncle Li how much grain could be planted in the field."
"Got it, if he reappears, you take the pillar and follow him, the pillar is familiar with the terrain here." Xiao Song is the eldest son of Mama Liu, he is eighteen years old, he has a calm personality, very ideas, without his father's cowardice, Mama told him everything that happened here.
They all understood that Su San was going to sell grain, and that day she told her uncle about her plan in front of the lieutenant chief, just to prevent this.
But Su San's family was gone, Qing Niang asked someone to check in the room, and the soft was gone, this was running away, she invited her uncle and the chief at the moment,
"I was still there on the day I opened the sickle, but when I got busy, I don't know when I ran away." Fugitive slaves are to be reported to the police.
With this case record, Qingniang harvested wheat with peace of mind, in the past few days, everyone has only slept for two or three hours, working day and night, I am afraid that it will rain.
In the past few days, the sun has been good, and the wheat husking has been very smooth, and they have specially left an acre for weighing, and they have received nearly 300 catties.
"Li Da is the formula, this grain is grown, how much can your family give you this year?" The flower branch father next door asked Li Da.
"Sancheng, this year is the master of our eldest lady!" Everyone smiled meaningfully, and the whole village knew that Su San had become a fugitive slave.
Sure enough, just when the wheat was about to enter the warehouse, a team of mule carts came to Sujia Village, and people went straight to the drying field, threatening to load the wheat!
"You see, this is the contract of the three major stewards of Su, and there are his fingerprints on it, a total of 15,000 catties of wheat, come on, put it in a bag."
"Wait, when is Su San the big housekeeper? How did I not know? "Qing Niang happened to be in the drying field.
"You little girl, what do you know? Go, go and load it, this bag is full of 100 catties, and you don't need to weigh it. ”
"Joke, this is the eldest lady of our Bofu, and the wheat is from our Qingwen Bofu, you can pretend to pretend, who are you?" Komatsu asked him with a bull's eye.
"Ah, eldest miss, no, I bought this wheat, no, Su San's housekeeper sold it, and the silver was taken away, a full fifty taels!!"
Fifty taels? The sale is really not low, but it's a pity, Qing Niang glanced at the man with pity, it seems that he is a grain merchant,
"Su San is a slave in my house, but he is a fugitive slave, the uncle has already reported the case, if you don't believe it, you can go to the county government to check, you will believe what he says?"
"No, he used to sell grain, so I didn't go to the field to see it, isn't this a bumper harvest?" Qingniang was too lazy to tell him, and when she turned around, she saw Mama hurriedly running over,
"Oh no, girl, there has been a thief in the house, you, your jewelry box is gone."
Everyone is busy today, so there is no one in the inner courtyard, it must be Su San's doing, fifty taels, I'm afraid I can't buy someone else's five-year prison.
The second uncle also arrived when he heard it, and when he heard that it was stolen, he sent someone to report to the official, the grain merchant sat on the ground, he wanted to cry without tears, and the catch came quickly, and he first asked about the theft of the uncle's mansion, and hurriedly said that he would track down the thief well, please rest assured that Master Su and Miss Su.
After listening to the grain merchant's confession, he said impatiently:
"You are also old in business, and you dare to buy tens of thousands of catties of grain before you come to the master's house, who do people deceive if they don't lie to you? Anyway, the county is also arresting this person, so if you have nothing to do, go to the county office and ask. ”
The grain merchant had no choice but to drive the mule cart away, Li Da and they were hurrying up, they were almost scared to death just now!
It was dark, and all the grain was put into the warehouse, and Qing Niang gave Li Dasan grain as she said, but the Li family was so happy, this year, they finally won't run out of food.