Chapter 40: The Harvest
"Dayong's family, you have a good relationship with the Wang family, what's the matter? Are they willing to borrow bullock carts? Someone grabbed the Lin family, who had just walked out of the gate of the Wang family.
Lin said with a smile: "Then the expensive ox cart, people just bought it, where is the reason to borrow it for nothing, I came to rent it." ”
As soon as they heard that it was going to be rented, two of them quietly took two steps back.
But one of them cautiously asked, "Rented?" How much is that day? ”
"Five cents a day, I said okay, use it for two days, and then the corn and soybeans will be pulled home by car." Lin said his plan, and it was also to help Chu Yan explain it.
"Hiss~" The five cents made people gasp.
For the current Lin family, five cents is really not much, and they can save a day or two of time as a family, and these times to dig yams can earn dozens of five cents.
But for other ordinary people, they can't wait to break a penny into a few petals, and they are distressed and reluctant to rent an ox cart for five pennies.
"The work in the fields should be finished early, so I can go to work early, the same, but people said that the ox cart should be used by itself, and I finally agreed to rent it." The Lin family was afraid that the Wang family would have a bad reputation because of the ox cart, so he helped the Wang family speak in front of everyone.
No matter what, no one in the village gossiped.
Didn't the Wang family lend this or that? If you have such a good relationship, you have to spend money to rent, so others don't have to think about it.
Chu Yan heard Lin's explanation in the house, and a trace of warmth surged through her heart.
Stirring the batter into the pot and asking Tian to help watch the fire, she washed her hands, pushed the door and walked out.
"Hello aunts and sisters-in-law, everyone must know the situation of our family, the ox cart was bought, but it also borrowed money, and you have to earn money quickly after the work in the field is done, and you have to go to the town every day, not deliberately not to lend it to you."
"It's just that if the big guys really want to use it, we can't be thin, so it's five cents a day, and if the ox carts in other villages are used, they have to pay ten cents a day."
Chu Yan is telling the truth, five cents a day is indeed a conscience price.
The strength of the morning, and the justified explanations now, make it impossible to say anything dissatisfied.
So the remaining few people lowered their heads and discussed: "Let's think about it again, will we not be ranked when we turn around?" ”
"Then it depends on how many people use it, and we have to use it ourselves to go to the town in the morning, so we can only rent it in the afternoon, and two afternoons are counted as a day." Chu Yan thought for a while and answered.
If you buy a cow, you can't use it vigorously, and it will hurt the root of the body.
I happened to run to town in the morning, and the cattle rested during the middle of the noodle selling time, so I wouldn't be too tired.
After a while, the news that Wang Laoshi's ox cart was rented for five cents a day spread throughout Jinshan Village.
Some people are angry but have nothing to say, and some people want to go out early to work and plan to spend the day.
This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.
Now it is imperative to get the crops harvested quickly.
The two acres of land of the Wang family, which have been served carefully in the past few months, coupled with the smooth wind and rain, have a good harvest, and occupy the entire small courtyard.
Chu Yan and the second elder each moved a small stool and began to peel the buds around them.
I saw her fingers flying, quickly peeling off the outer layers of skin, leaving a few white pieces inside, and putting them aside.
Waiting for a small peel to be rolled out, Wang Laoshi is responsible for braiding it up, hanging it under the eaves in strings, and waiting for it to dry.
The soybeans are evenly spread, exposed to the sun, and one by one they open their mouths, and they are sprinkled on the ground one by one without much effort.
In this way, I was busy for six or seven days, and the two acres of buds and soybeans were almost cleaned up.
Chu Yan went from being tired and sore all over, and in the end she was used to it, this was the first time in two lifetimes that she had really done farm work, and the working people were really hard.
This is still the king's land, and there are ox carts, so it is too early to end.
It's just that the work of autumn has not yet been completed, and after the harvest, how can there be less sowing?
Immediately after ploughing the ground and planting the wheat of the next season, it was several days of busy work, Chu Yan finally raised some white skin, even if she paid attention to sun protection, she once returned to the pre-liberation period.
Alas! Running a construction site in the previous life, planting crops in this life, when can you live a well-off life, if you can lie at home and count the money, it will be more beautiful.
The ideal is plump, the reality is the backbone, and working hard is the last word.
Looking at the yellow buds under the eaves, the two bags of soybeans in the stove room, and the seeds of hope in the field, it seems that all the efforts are worth it.
Every harvest, every seed, is hope.
And then there are some families who are still busy.
For example, Shen Yulan's house.
Don't look at the fact that there are a lot of people in a big family, none of the concubines are willing to contribute, and the brothers are not diligent, otherwise they would not have been pushed on Wang Facai in case of trouble.
Not half a month has passed, and the autumn harvest of more than half of the families in the village has come to an end, and Wang Facai's family still has a large piece of corn confiscated.
"A few of you, you can eat anything, you can't do anything, other people's families have already done it, I'm a lot old, and I have to follow you to the ground." Yang's scolding was spittle.
Other people's daughters-in-law can enjoy it when they become mothers-in-law, but she is good, and she has to go to the ground.
But what is the way not to go to the ground? The rations of a large family, seeing that the sky is about to change, will be in vain if you don't take it home.
There was no way to mobilize the whole family, and none of the women could escape.
Shen Yulan often works on weekdays, but she doesn't feel too tired.
Sun in the second room couldn't help it: "No, no, no, I can't do it, my hands hurt and my feet hurt, mother." ”
She said the voices of Zhao Guiying, the daughter-in-law of Wang Shengcai, and Yang Ling'er, the fourth room.
Yang spat over: "Lazy donkey grinding, you have a lot of business?" Don't hurry up and get me up. She was so angry that she sprinkled it all on Sun, who she liked more on weekdays.
How could Sun stand it? She muttered: "Mother, other people's families have ox carts, so let's carry them little by little, how can we get it quickly." ”
"Ox cart ox cart ox cart! Do you have the money, you also pay off the ox cart! ”
"I don't have any money, but isn't it good for my second sister-in-law to play with that little widow? But I heard that the little widow is amazing, she is in charge of their family, let my sister-in-law say it, let's use it too! As he spoke, Sun squeezed his eyebrows at Yang.
The hard-working Shen Yulan suffered from the sky and suffered an unwarranted disaster.
The Yang family didn't want to work either, and gradually turned his gaze to Shen Yulan: "The second family, what do you say?" ”
"Mother, I haven't been to their house much in the past few days, I can't borrow it!" How embarrassed Shen Yulan was to make trouble for Chu Yan, she couldn't understand the character of this big family.
Besides, she quietly dug yams, and recently saved a lot of money, all of which were secretly hidden in her mother's house, so she didn't want to affect her relationship with Chu Yan because of the bad things on her mother-in-law's side.
A small ox cart caused a lot of turmoil in Geumsan Village, so there was a better one in the future, what about other things? What should it look like?