Chapter 263: A Great Harvest
After the second beating, Mu Xiaocao and Mu Xiu hurriedly stepped forward to clean up the straw and sweep the soybeans together, and Mu Shui and Chen Xuhui used the windmill again.
After the windmill was cleaned, Chen Xuhui and Mu Shui continued to go to the side to continue beating, while Mu Xiu and Mu Xiaocao picked up dustpans and brooms, poured soybeans into a curtain tied with sorghum stalks, and then put them on a shelf to dry.
Three and a half acres of soybeans, it took 11 days to thresh out, after the soybean grains were dried, they were packed in sacks, and there were 1,700 catties in total.
"Grandma, second aunt, I also have soybeans here." Li Pandi saw that the adults were weighing soybeans, as if offering treasures, and took out a small cloth bag.
Mu Xiaocao opened it and saw that it was full of soybeans, and after weighing it, it was almost ten catties.
"Where did it come from?" Mu Xiu asked.
"This is me who took the straw and pulled it out of it." Li Pandi raised his little face and said proudly.
Crops such as soybeans and sesame seeds will indeed leave some residues on the straw, but everyone is too busy and has no time to deal with the missing pods.
"Brother Pan is good, these soybeans are Brother Pan's, and the second aunt will fry them all for you into spiced beans and make them your snacks." Mu Xiu said with a smile.
"Okay, fry it for everyone to eat." Li Pandi clapped his hands and said.
"Brother Pan is really sensible." Zhou Shuilian hugged Li Pandi and kissed again, and everyone covered their mouths and laughed on the side.
After all the soybeans were collected, a third of the yard was vacated, and the sweet potatoes were loaded.
A total of 8,000 catties of sweet potatoes were harvested on four acres of land, Mu Xiu picked out the best and largest, kept them for sale money, and then put the medium-sized ones that could be stored for a long time without scars, some of them went down to the cellar, kept them to eat slowly, and some of them were kept to make dried sweet potatoes, and finally those that were damaged when they were harvested and could not be stored for a long time, or those that were too small, were cleaned up and made into sweet potato noodles together.
Peanuts were planted for one acre, and this time 700 catties were harvested, and after drying, they were directly put into sacks and put into the cellar.
There is no more work in the farmland now, and on weekdays, they go to water and fertilize every three or five times, and Mu Xiu's land has been cleaned up, and the other families in the village have only begun to invest in the mighty autumn harvest at this time.
Mu Xiu's bumper harvest this time, so that many people in the village are envious, looking at so many harvested crops, piled high, really feel comfortable when you see it, everyone looks at the freshness of the three or five groups in front of Mushui's house, watching a car full of crops pulled into Mushui's house.
Liu Yumei also blended into the crowd and secretly went to take a look, her eyes were very red after reading it, she rolled her eyes, and ran home.
"Oh, you don't know! The Mushui family has collected a lot of food! Liu Yumei shouted at the rest of the Mu family, who were sitting in the courtyard to enjoy the shade after finishing the farm work.
"Sister-in-law, your voice is quieter, our Hongxia is doing her homework." Wang Guiying said to Liu Yumei indifferently.
"Hey, didn't you hear me? The yard of Mushui's house is going to be full! Liu Yumei saw that Wang Guiying interrupted her, and she emphasized it again.
"Sister-in-law, what are you doing, what are you doing in their field, they are either sweet potatoes or potatoes, or corn cobs, what is there to envy." Wang Guiying said disapprerovingly.
"What happened to sweet potatoes and potato corn on the cob? That's also food! It's better to eat something than nothing! Liu Yumei said unconvinced.
"Sister-in-law, you just watched that the Mushui family had collected so many things, but it was not difficult to cultivate these lands? The land has worked so hard to grow, it can't grow wheat and rice, it's difficult to pick up, the rent is expensive, you don't see it when you put it away, more than a dozen strong laborers.... I heard that I was also paid, but I don't know if these worthless things I received are enough to pay the rent! Wang Guiying looked at Liu Yumei like an idiot.
"That's right, eldest daughter-in-law, you have lived a lot of years, and you might as well see it as clearly as the third family, your eyelids are a little shallow, and it is rare to look at the things that feed the pigs, how much can their family collect in a serious way?" Liu Yumei also looked at Liu Yumei with disdain.
"I ......," Liu Yumei was speechless for a while.
Indeed, the Mu family also harvested wheat this spring and got a bumper harvest, and after the family's grain was handed over to the public grain, Liu Qimei's small warehouse couldn't be piled up, and finally put the extra grain in the house where Mu Shui lived before.
Seeing that the rice harvest was about to be harvested, Liu Qimei was naturally inflated, and she didn't look down on those sweet potatoes now......
"Grandma, where do you say they got so much money? I saw Mu Xiu riding a bicycle the other day! Mu Yonghui said suddenly.
"That's right! Mother, you said that they are just like us, not all of them are digging in the field, Mu Shui has been in the hospital for so long, and they have built such a magnificent new house here, and they have bought cattle and bicycles, and they have hired people to harvest, how much does it cost! Where did they come from! Liu Yumei asked suspiciously at this time.
"Didn't you say that Mu Xiu made pickles and sold them in the city? That's not right! Just sell a pickle, can you sell it for so much money? Mother, where did they get the money? Wang Guiying calculated the account in her heart, and immediately jumped up in shock.
"Grandma, you go and ask the second uncle, if you make pickles so profitable, teach us too!" Mu Aijun was also jealous of the bicycle, and he began to encourage Liu Yimei to come.
When Liu Qimei heard Mu Aijun say this, her eyes suddenly widened, and then she slapped her thigh and said to everyone: "Yes! This fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, and we can earn it together if we have money. ”
Wang Guiying said with some hesitation: "Mother, I drove Mu Shui out last time, he won't necessarily tell us." ”
"Fart, that's my son, how can mother and son have an overnight feud, Mugen Musheng, you say yes?" Although Liu Yimei said this, she was a little lacking in confidence in her heart, and she asked about Mugen and Musheng as if seeking affirmation.
"Yes, mother." Mu Sheng nodded hurriedly.
Mugen hesitated, but he nodded.
"That's it, after we harvest the rice in the past two days, I'll take the time to ask." In the eyes of Liu Yimei, the autumn harvest that is about to start is even more important.
"Okay, grandma, when you find out, I'll buy a bicycle when I go back and take you around, but it's pompous!" Mu Yonghui rubbed his hands with joy and said.
"I want a bike too." Mu Aijun hurriedly answered.
"Work hard, there will be in the future!" Liu Qimei's face smiled like a chrysanthemum.