The harvest is imminent, Shi Dayong's father, Shi Youtian, as the head of the family, commanded his five sons to make preparations, and the production was delivered to the household, and the family's thirteen acres and six points of land ushered in the first bumper harvest.

Shi Youtian's yard is not small, when he applied for the homestead, it was also because of the many sons, the application was relatively large, and the area was six points, but the house was less, and there were only three and a half houses, half of which was a grass house used as a kitchen in winter, and the house was few, so the yard was particularly spacious.

I didn't have money to build a house, and I couldn't let the yard be idle, so I planted a few trees in the yard, a jujube tree, a locust tree, and the others were poplars. Poplars grow quickly, and they can be used to build houses and furniture. When the locust tree is in bloom, you can fill the house with vegetables. The reason for planting jujube trees is that the family is poor and reluctant to buy snacks for their children, and every year when the dates are ripe, the children can satisfy their hunger.

Under the poplar tree in the middle, a simple shed was built, and an earthen stove was built under the shed, under which cooking was done in spring, summer and autumn.

It was nearly noon, Shi Dayong's mother Sun Xiufang led her second daughter-in-law He Xiaoxia to cook under the shed, the family has a large population, and they are all young men who can eat, they all say that half the size of the child eats the poor old man, the family is not only a half size, that is a small group of boys, eat, like a wolf, no matter which meal consumes a lot of food, it is good to say at night, the habit of the hometown is to drink soup, drinking soup is really drinking soup, basically no thick, because after eating and sleeping, no need to work hard, eat thick at night is a waste of food, The food was eaten in the morning and at noon.

Boil a pot of water, Sun Xiufang poured half a pot of dried melon noodles out, scalded it with boiling water, the two began to roll noodles, the noodles rolled out of the dried melon noodles diverged, if boiled water, it can't be boiled when it goes down to the pot, and it will be broken when cooked, so it needs to be steamed, and the dried melon noodles after steaming are slightly cooled, mixed with chili peppers and garlic paste, and adjusted to eat.

On weekdays, Sun Xiufang uses dried melons to steam nests, stir-fry cabbage, radish or something, and then burn a pot of mush, but she is reluctant to make this steamed noodles, although they are all made of dried melons, but this one is more appetizing, so eat more, steam a pot is not enough to eat, at least two large pots, often the second pot has not been steamed, the first pot has been eaten clean, a room of old men holding a bowl waiting for the second pot to cook, and then she is also troublesome, these two large pots of noodles are rolled out, tired wrists hurt.

Isn't it about to harvest wheat, Shi Youtian has arranged it, the food during this period must be done well, and he has saved enough strength to work well.

He Xiaoxia put her daughter on the small bench and asked her to sit there peeling garlic, where the little girl could sit still, peeling a few petals, she had to get up and run and turn around.

Chunmei is six years old this year, and at this time she was sitting on her mother's lap watching her mother fold the noodles and cut them into rows with a knife, she swallowed her saliva and looked at He Xiaoxia pitifully: "Mother, when can our family eat white noodles?" ”

"When can I eat it?" He Xiaoxia accosted her and didn't even look at her daughter: "Don't ask me about this, go ask your grandmother." ”

Chunmei ran to Sun Xiufang's side again, leaning her little body on her grandmother's lap: "Grandma, I want to drink white noodles, when will our family be able to drink white noodles." ”

"I want to drink white noodles." Sun Xiufang squatted down and pointed the tip of Chunmei's little nose with her index finger: "Little gluttonous cat, if you want to drink white noodles, hurry up and peel garlic, and when the adults are full of food and strength, tomorrow you will come back from the field to harvest new wheat, and grandma will roll out white noodles for you to drink." ”

"Really!" Chunmei was pleasantly surprised, it wasn't that she would be able to eat white noodles soon! Chunmei's eyes were all delicious made of white flour, and she immediately had to ask inch by inch: "That grandma, I still want to eat white steamed buns, and I still want to eat sugar buns, can I eat them?" ”

"Yes, as long as you are obedient, when you receive the new wheat and grandma will make it for you to eat, go ahead, peel the garlic."

"Hey!" Chunmei was happy and ran back to the small bench to start peeling garlic.

Sun Xiufang has raised six sons, and she doesn't know what's going on, but she has no fate with her daughter, and she even had a miscarriage back then. He Xiaoxia is Sun Xiufang's first daughter-in-law who married home, she has never seen her daughter in her life, she has always treated He Xiaoxia as her daughter, Chunmei is also the first grandchild, of course, she loves this granddaughter the most in her heart.

It stands to reason that the son married a wife and started a family, and he wanted to build a house for his son to divide the family, the family was poor, there was no money to build, and the money earned was not even full of the family's stomach, that is, the only three tiled houses were built with the help of the boss, and the second son Shi Ercheng and He Xiaoxia married a house to let the small family live.

The three rooms in the family are arranged in this way, Shi Ercheng is a family in a room, the old two are in a room, the four sons sleep in one, and Shi Dayong's family comes back every New Year, either squeeze with the old two, or go back to Wang Yingniang's house to live, but usually go to Wang Yingniang's house to live, Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day can not go, his son and daughter-in-law will go back to their mother's house to live in the New Year, what is that like? Dayong is not a door-to-door son-in-law.

The women in the family are busy cooking, and the men are idle and tight, a bit like the darkness before dawn.

Since the package production has been delivered to the household, there is no work in the field, Shi Youtian has to go down to the field to inspect a circle, contentedly appreciate his own field, and watch the crops grow from seedlings to maturity little by little.

This piece of land is the foundation of the family, and it is the hope that with the harvest, the money will be slowly saved, and with the money, they can build houses for their sons and marry daughters-in-law.

Today is no exception, early in the morning, Shi Youtian went down to the ground to walk, look around, the field is golden, a gust of wind blows, the wheat waves roll, make a "whoosh" sound, the ripe wheat ears are full, pinch a few ears of wheat and rub them on the hand, grasp it, put it in the mouth and chew it, the mouth is full of the fragrance of wheat, the old man nodded with satisfaction, the wheat is ripe.

said that he was an old man, and his actual age was not very old, less than sixty years old, and I don't know if it was because he had many sons and worries, or he looked too old.

His hair was gray, his skin was bronze with a dull yellow, deeply carved wrinkles, and his two deep-set eyes had long since lost the black and white of his youth, and had become a little cloudy. He is not too tall, less than 1.7 meters tall, thin and capable, with two big hands like small fans, with prominent bone joints, full of calluses and cracks.

There is a square table under the jujube tree, and Shi Youtian and his three sons, Ercheng, Sanmin, and Sifu, drink tea and chat together. Shi Youtian coughed lightly, he ate too many pickles in the morning, he was a little flustered, and his throat was uncomfortable, so he picked up the tea bowl and drank half a bowl of tea in one go. The boss knows that he likes to drink tea, and every year when he goes back to his hometown, he will give him a few catties, and when there is no tea, he will drink the dried jujube buds, which are also very fragrant after frying, and the dandelion tea in the field is also very delicious.

Shi Youtian wiped the water stains on his mouth with the palm of his hand, and said, "Our family will start harvesting wheat tomorrow, and the things haven't been pulled down, right?" ”

Ercheng lifted the big teapot and filled his father's tea bowl: "No, I checked it several times, and if it was not pulled down, the threshing floor would have been leveled a long time ago." ”

Shi Youtian nodded: "That's good." He moved his gaze to Simin and asked, "Fourth, you don't have good eyes, do more during the day, and you won't need you at night, and you can rest as soon as it's dark." ”

Simin nodded, "Hmm".

For this son, Shi Laohan was full of guilt, Simin was sick when he was young, and he had a thick sore, and the family had no money to see it, so he found some herbs to paste on his head according to the words of the older generation, and after a long time, the sores were better, but he couldn't grow hair anymore, plus he had the problem of chicken eyes, and he couldn't see anything clearly when it was dark.

He is bald, Simin is very inferior, wears a hat all the year round, people are not social, he always likes to sit on the side, he has resentment in his heart, there are six brothers in the family, how can he be like this, he complains that his parents do not give him medical treatment, and let him become a joke in the eyes of others. He thinks he has a bad eye, and he cheats and cheats when he starts working, and after a long time, his brothers have opinions, so they ridicule him if they have nothing to do, saying that he can't do anything, and he is the first to eat.

There is too much negative energy in his body, which gives people the feeling that the whole person is gloomy, especially when he looks up at people, that vision seems to be a cloudy day in winter, thin and cold.

When the children are older, the other healthy children can't be said to be daughters-in-law because of the poverty of the family, what can Simin do in the future? Shi Laohan tried his best to compensate for this child, but he was an old man in the countryside, what could he do! The only way out is still in Da Yong, he has already discussed with Da Yong's mother, and when Da Yong comes home, let him find a way to take the fourth child out and find a job for the fourth child, which can be regarded as a way out.