Chapter 6: Rice Hunting

Summer in the Northeast is very short, and it is October in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Lin Yue was dragged up from the bed by Liu Li early. Because he didn't wake up, he had a very big temper. After Liu Li slapped her little ass twice, Lin Yue was honest and obediently got up to wash her face.

"Hurry up and wash your face, after washing your face, go to your uncle's house to help with the threshing of your uncle's house, and when his family finishes shedding, he will take it off for our family." After her mother finished speaking, she handed Lin Yue and the others eggs, and then filled the kettle with hot water. The kettle is a green military kettle, and its round belly can hold a lot of water. Lin Yue wiped her face inkblotted, took the kettle handed over by her mother, slung it on her body, and followed Liu Li out with an egg in one hand.

Lin Yue's family lives in Shanggou, and Uncle Tian's family is in Xiagou, although the names are very close, but they are actually quite far away, five or six miles away.

Lin Yue shouted tired after following her mother for a while, took Liu Li's hand and pulled it back, and let Liu Li carry her back. Liu Li took a deep breath, looked at the woman in front of her who didn't want to take a step, helplessly nodded at her little head, and said angrily, "You little enemy, you know that you are tired, aren't you your mother and me tired." Why don't you hurry up and wait for the two of us to go to your Uncle Tian's house for lunch? Although Liu Li said this, she still bent down, picked up Lin Yue, and walked quickly in the direction of the ditch.

The two of them have already set off late, and if the ink goes down, it will be noon, and it is not enough to be ashamed to go.

Uncle Tian is the accountant of Xiagou, and he is usually kind to people, and the villagers like to deal with him. His family lived in five large tiled houses, and two flower beds were built in front of the house, in which the moon season was planted, but now there are no flowers.

As soon as Liu Li took Lin Yue into the door, Aunt Tian took Lin Yue's hand and led her into the back room.

"Xiao Yue'er, come, eat a piece of orange candy" Aunt Tian took out two orange candies from a small box, which were crooked and looked like orange petals.

"Thank you, Aunt Tian" Lin Yue took the candy with a smile, and then took one and put it in her mouth, she narrowed her eyes and curled the corners of her mouth.

"Girl, you stay in the house and play by yourself, Mom has gone to work in the yard, it'll be over in a while, and we'll go home then." After Liu Li finished speaking, she changed into her work clothes, tied a headscarf on her head, and turned around and walked out.

"Don't run around!" Liu Li gave another uneasy order, and then hurried to the hospital.

Lin Yue was very bored, she leaned in front of the window, watching the adults who were busy threshing outside the house doing their work in an orderly manner, listening to the noise of the threshing machine, and her head was buzzing. Lin Yue poked her toes on the ground, thinking, when will I be able to go home and watch TV.

"Huh? This thresher is amazing, so a large bundle of rice is put in, and after a while, all the rice grains on it will fall. Did it eat the grains of rice in its stomach? Hey, it's Damia from the bottom of the mouth! The more Lin Yue looked at it, her eyes widened, and she was slowly attracted by the thresher outside the window.

Uncle Tian's family is an old-fashioned threshing machine, there is a mouth under the mouth of the rice mouth, connected to a small slope, the threshed rice gushes out from there, someone holds a dustpan there to continue, after the full will change to an empty dustpan to continue to pick, full of get up and pour into the bag next to it. That's what Liu Li did.

The sound of the threshing machine finally stopped. As soon as Lin Yue saw that it was over, she immediately ran out, found Liu Li who was patting the dust on her body, and stepped forward to hug her mother's waist and clamored to go home.

"Mom's body is full of soil, you let go first, I took off my clothes and trembled" Liu Li's hands covered with soil were half raised, for fear of soiling her daughter's clothes, and then lowered her head and said to Lin Yue a little tired.

"Lin Yue's mother, come into the house and wash your hands, don't go back at noon, just eat here, save you from going home and cooking." Aunt Tian took a cabbage, stood in the house and said to Liu Li, who was still standing in the courtyard.

"Sister-in-law, no need, there are still two boys waiting to eat at home, it is estimated that school is almost out at this time, I have to hurry back to cook" Liu Li replied briskly.

"Chengjia, I'll take the machine to the ditch to thresh your house in the afternoon, you let Chengzhi wait at home," Uncle Tian shouted from outside with a smile.

"Okay, Brother Tian," Liu Li replied as she washed her hands.

On the way home, Lin Yue sensibly didn't let Liu Li carry it, she knew that her mother was very tired from working all morning. She pursed her lips and followed her mother closely, walking briskly home.

Finally home. Lin Yongtian and Lin Yongfeng had already finished school, and the brothers were reading villain books on the kang in the hut. Liu Li asked Lin Yue to go to the yard to play by herself, and she went into the house to prepare for cooking. The lunch at noon was very simple, Liu Li boiled corn porridge, boiled four eggplants, pounded half a head of garlic, poured it into the torn eggplant strips, and mixed it to eat.

"Xiao Yue, you go to the bottom of the bud rice building and get me two green onions," Liu Li opened the door and shouted at Lin Yue outside.

Lin Yue was watching the ants move, and when she heard Liu Li calling her, she didn't raise her head and said, "Ao, I know."

Lin Yue quickly ran downstairs to Baomi, took two green onions casually, and then ran into the house, threw the green onions to the ground as soon as he entered the door, and then turned around and went to the yard to continue to watch the ants move, and Liu Li, who was angry, wanted to beat her little buttocks.

After a while, Lin Chengzhi also came back from working in the field, and saw his daughter squatting in the yard, poking the ground with a branch in her hand, so he walked up to him and squatted down to see what her daughter was doing.

"Hehe, you broke the ants' homes, and when it rains, where do you let them go?" Lin Chengzhi asked with a smile.

After Lin Yue listened to Lin Chengzhi's words, he immediately threw away the branch in his hand, stood up and gave his father a big look, and then turned around and entered the house without saying anything. Lin Chengzhi looked at his daughter's irresponsible attitude of doing bad things, smiled helplessly, and then followed into the house.

Liu Li saw that Lin Chengzhi was back, so she told Lin Chengzhi that Uncle Tian was coming to help with threshing in the afternoon. Lin Chengzhi nodded to indicate that he understood. Afterwards, the family of five began to have lunch.

"Sudden~Sudden~Sud~" Uncle Tian drove a walk-behind tractor and pulled the thresher from afar. Lin Chengzhi hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, handed over a cigarette, Uncle Tian took the cigarette and pinned it behind his ear.

"Brother, my family is rice for five people, and I have to lay it well for a long time" Lin Chengzhi lit a cigarette, took a puff, and said to Uncle Tian.

"What's this, I will definitely be able to take it off in the afternoon, if you don't want to go, we will have two mouthfuls in the evening" Uncle Tian laughed.

"Okay, that's it," Lin Chengzhi also laughed.

Because Lin Yue's family has a lot of rice bales, so when threshing, Lin Yue also helped, although he didn't make much effort, but his spirit was commendable. The villagers who helped together all praised Yue'er for being sensible. After Lin Yue listened to the praise, she worked harder. I saw her happily holding a small bundle of rice, handing it to Lin Chengzhi again and again, and she didn't feel tired at all. When all the rice was removed, Lin Yue's head was already gray, and his dirty little face, because of wiping sweat, wiped like a little flower cat, which was very funny, not to mention the clothes, all soil. Liu Li saw that her daughter was dirty like this, so she hurriedly went to boil water and bathed her.

And after they sat in the courtyard and rested for a while, they went home. Lin Chengzhi left a few good buddies behind and prepared to take two sips in the evening. Seeing this, Liu Li went to prepare the appetizers.

Lin Yue was so tired that she fell asleep before she could eat dinner.

In the evening, Lin Yue's house heard the lively sound of fist strokes, clinking glasses, and hearty laughter. The crowd drank until late and dispersed, and after the two of them saw them off, they washed and slept.