The reason why today's dinner is waiting for this time is to wait for Hu Dacheng.

After the homeless man removed the plaster, Ji didn't bother the Hu brothers so much.

But in the afternoon, the homeless man said that he wanted to take a bath, so Ji had to go to Hu's house again.

Hu Liang definitely couldn't get out, so she said hello to Hu Ximei, who was staying at home, and asked Hu Dacheng to come back and go to the earth house.

Anyway, Hu Dacheng has gotten along with the homeless man a lot these days, and he didn't dare to look at the homeless man's face from the beginning, but now it is commonplace.

It's like this, carrying an oil lamp and a food basket, and going to the earthen house first.

When Ji arrived, Hu Dacheng was sitting at the door of the earthen house waiting for her.

"Why don't you go in?" Ji asked deliberately.

Hu Dacheng scratched his head: "That ......"

Although he is used to the face of a homeless man, there is still a little difference between looking at it during the day and at night.

And the homeless man didn't say a word when he went in, but he wanted to say it, but for some reason he was panicked, so he put the food on the table and ran out.

Ji nodded at him, didn't say anything, and went into the stove room to boil hot water.

Hu Dacheng followed up and wanted to replace her, but Ji didn't let him.

"You've just taken a shower, go outside and stay so you don't get sweaty later."

Hu Dacheng didn't care: "What are you afraid of sweating, the drying field is not far from the ditch, it's a big deal to go down and swim two laps." ”

Ji's attention was on other aspects: "Are you going to go to the drying field later?" ”

"Go!" Hu Dacheng nodded, "The wheat is piled up in the drying field, how can no one guard it?" If someone steals it overnight, or accidentally starts a fire, then it's over, what will we eat as a family. ”

The so-called drying field is usually a group of several families together, choose a wide field on the side of the road, and then put a stone on the cow, let it turn around in a circle, during which the water is constantly sprinkled to moisten the wet ground, until the field is flat and hard, and can be used as a place to collect grain.

Widow Xie's drying field is still south of the village entrance, but it is not close.

However, it is easy to catch fire when the weather is dry, and the straw of crops is the most flammable.

As for stealing...... At first, I didn't believe it, but in fact, there are a lot of them.

The main reason is that there are many poor people, and even if they drop a grain on the ground, they must pick it up, otherwise there will be no ears of wheat everywhere in those fields that have been harvested.

Some even put the whole family in battle, carrying some dry food in their pockets, going out before dawn and coming back after dark.

If you spend the whole day outside, you just have to have a pocket and a half pocket, and when you get out of your shell, there will be nothing left.

After all, no one is stupid, after cutting the wheat and pulling it away from the field, their own family will first sweep it, and how many fish can slip through the net after the sweep?

There is a lazy one, and he doesn't want to suffer that hardship, so he simply steals from others at night.

The owner touches a bundle, the west family carries a hug, and the results of one night can be picked up by others for at least a few days.

Therefore, almost every household will arrange people to keep vigil on the drying ground.

"Isn't your brother guarding there?"

"I'll go and bring him food later, and I'll sleep there by the way, it's cooler in the field than at home. Besides, he couldn't last the whole night alone, so we worked in shifts, I kept watch for the first half of the night, and he kept watch for the second half of the night. My second brother said that there were many thieves in the second half of the night. ”

As he spoke, the water boiled, and the homeless man's meal was finished.

Ji mixed the water, let Hu Dacheng bring it into the hall, and instructed the daily instructions again.

"I'll watch him, don't let him move, don't let him get wet......"

Hu Dacheng closed the door of the hall, muttered and walked to the homeless man, and handed him the dry towel handkerchief.

"Hurry up, I won't tell Miss that you washed it yourself."

When the homeless man's left hand was still wrapped in gauze, he washed his face and took a bath, and he didn't need to use him if he could, but now that the gauze has been removed, it is impossible for him to help.

In this regard, Hu Dacheng is very conscious.

The homeless man sat down on a stool, took the towel and threw it into the water, and sure enough, he washed himself.

Hu Dacheng sat on the kang and was bored, so he had the courage to chat with the homeless.

"When the rest of your plaster is removed, I'll take you to the river to bathe, right?" You see that on such a hot day, you have to take a bath and the lady has to boil hot water for you, it's really troublesome, big man, you can't wash it with cold water. ”

Don't speak? Hu Dacheng scratched his head.

"Hey, when are you leaving? Miss said that you will leave when you are injured, so when will you be injured?"

Or don't speak? Hu Dacheng scratched his ears and cheeks.

"That, that's not what I want to ask, it's my mother who asked me to ask! She said that Miss wants to you all day long, and she can't finish it, and she sees that people have lost weight again...... And as the days go by, the people in the village will notice, and the young lady will say ...... in the future."

The sound of the hula water suddenly stopped.

Hu Dacheng didn't notice it, and continued to nag.

Anyway, there is only one central idea, to persuade the homeless man to know his kindness, hurry up and leave, and don't trouble Ji anymore.

By the way, he also sold the black history of Ji in the past, such as being dismissed, being sold Chongxi, and so on.

It wasn't until Ji knocked on the door that Hu Dacheng covered his mouth after realizing it.

The door of the hall opened, and Ji looked at him suspiciously: "What are you doing, so long today?" ”

Hu Dacheng giggled over, Ji didn't take it seriously, but when he leaned over to carry the basin, the homeless man glanced at her.

His gaze circled over her thin cheeks and thin waist, and then quickly looked away.

The summer harvest is in full swing.

At this time, there were no automatic harvesters, and it was all human and animal power.

Man bends over in the field and does it for a day. And the families with livestock are a minority, and often one family has cattle and ten families.

Not only people are tired, but so are cows.

Fortunately, during this period, the weather was mainly sunny, and there was no obvious rain, so everyone seized the opportunity to harvest, and the progress was smooth.

The entire summer harvest lasted for more than ten days.

By mid-July, there were still sporadic families still working in the fields, and those were all families with more land.

Widow Xie's family has little land, and she is done with her tail and July head.

At the end of the summer harvest, the summer planting was immediately in full swing.

This stage is different from the previous stage.

During the summer harvest, the common people begged the Buddha to worship Guanyin, and did not want to be patronized by rain. After the summer harvest, the people immediately changed their temples, looking forward to a timely rain day and night to improve the moisture, so as to ensure that the summer corn and other crops that have just arrived in the ground can emerge normally, and the seedlings can grow rapidly.

God didn't accept the incense of each family in vain, and the rain fell from the sky overnight, and he was not stingy at all.

But it's too generous, after five or six days of heavy rain, Gan Lin is about to turn into a flood.

It is true that precipitation is beneficial for sowing, but continuous and widespread precipitation can have a very negative impact.

And some people's food is still spread out on the drying yard to dry!

The voice of gratitude immediately turned into a scolding.

Li Zheng summoned the young adults in the village, dressed in hats, carrying shovels and pickaxes, to the fields in the wind and rain to investigate, and work together to reduce water and drainage.

Fortunately, God also knew some colors, and by the eighth day, the rain gradually stopped.

Everyone wiped a handful of sweat, and Ji also deeply realized why there is a metaphor of "dragon's mouth grabbing grain" in agricultural production in summer.

From harvest to cultivation, farmers sometimes look forward to the rain, sometimes look forward to the rain, when grabbing the sky, grabbing the land, all of which are the first to grab words.

It's not easy to eat.

However, the common people don't have time to sigh, vacate the stubble and prepare the land, take advantage of the moisture to sow seeds, and they are still busy.

By mid-July, the summer planting work was basically coming to an end.

The noisy village became quiet and leisurely again, and at this time, the Hu family suddenly heard the news