"Don't delay, let's hurry down to the ground now." Mu Xiu heard that Mu Shui and Chen Jianqiang had already started picking cotton, so she hurriedly put her satchel on the stone table in the courtyard and was about to go to the ground.

"Your father and Uncle Chen went to the field at five o'clock, driving a tractor, you can drive the ox cart over." Zhou Shuilian said.

"Well, mother, you cook at home, I'll come back at noon to get it." Mu Xiaoshu explained.

Chen Xuhui, the commander of Mu Xiu, picked up a few farm tools, and suddenly remembered something, Mu Xiu turned his head and said to Zhou Shuilian: "Mother, find one of us with long sleeves, as well as a hat and a mask, otherwise it will be uncomfortable for cotton wool to get into the nose." ”

"Or you are careful, yesterday your father came back and sneezed a dozen times, I still wonder if it is a cold, it seems that eighty percent of the cotton wool has entered the nostrils, we don't understand, as soon as you say it, it must be like this, you wait, I will take two more long clothes and masks, you bring them to your father." Zhou Shuilian entered the house and quickly took out a few worn-out and patched clothes.

Mu Chunfeng stayed at home to play with Xiaohua, Zhou Shuilian cooked, Mu Xiu, Chen Xuhui and Mu Xiaoshu drove the ox cart and soon came to the field.

"This cotton is really beautiful to bloom." Chen Xuhui saw so much cotton for the first time, he exclaimed, only to see the cotton peaches grinning one by one, spitting out white and fluffy cotton, and there were so many cotton peaches on the cotton branches that the cotton branches were bent over.

"Sister, Brother Chen, you put on your clothes, bring masks and hats, let's start picking them off from here." Mu Xiu pointed to the ridge next to him.

"Okay, it's just that I've never picked cotton, how can I pick it." Chen Xuhui asked curiously while getting dressed.

"Come, I'll teach you." Mu Xiu did a good job of protection, carried the basket, and walked into the cotton field, only to see her pinching the four cotton petals with her fingers, and then pulling them out, just like that, the whole cotton was picked without reservation.

"It's a good flower, just pick it like this." Mu Xiu turned to the two of them and said.

"Good flowers??" Mu Xiaoshu looked surprised.

"Yes, when picking cotton, it is necessary to pick good flowers, stiff cotton, and landed cotton separately, dry them separately, store them separately, and not mix them together, so that they can be sold at a good price in the later stage." After Mu Xiu finished speaking, he picked up the stiff petal cotton and the floor cotton and told the two of them.

Mu Xiaoshu and Chen Xuhui also began to learn from each other, grabbing a handful in the east and grabbing a handful in the west, at first the two of them were a little unskilled, but after picking a few times, they found the feeling, and the speed of the two of them was also faster.

"Sister, Brother Chen, you can't pick cotton like this, you have to pick it line by line, so it's not easy to pick messy, and it won't be wasted." As soon as Mu Xiu's words fell, he heard Mu Xiaoshu exclaim.

It turned out that her hand was cut by the shell of a cotton flower, Mu Xiu quickly took out the complex iodine and adhesive tape, disinfected her and pasted it, and at the same time, Chen Xuhui also hung the color.

People who have never picked cotton are easy to be cut at first, Mu Xiu bandaged their wounds and demonstrated again, "You see, when picking cotton, you must act quickly so that your fingers will not be cut." ”

Mu Xiaoshu and Chen Xuhui picked up the cotton again, the speed became faster and more proficient, Mu Xiu walked to the side, stood on the ridge and began to shout: "Dad, Uncle Chen, where are you?" ”

After shouting several times, in the cotton field about a hundred meters away from them, a white towel was waving, and scattered sounds came.

Mu Xiu walked over there quickly, and walked for about ten minutes before he reached Mu Shui's side.

After Mu Xiu saw Mu Shui and Uncle Chen, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.

I saw that both of them were gray-faced, their hair and beards were covered with white flocculents, and there were several wounds on their arms, which were cut by cotton shells.

"Ahh Mu Shui couldn't help but sneeze.

"Dad, Uncle Chen, you pick cotton like this, and you don't know how to do some protective measures, look, you have to be like me......" Mu Xiu took out clothes, masks and towels, helped them put them on, and the towels covered their hair.

"Hey, that's good, my nose doesn't itch anymore." Mu Shui took a hard breath and didn't sneeze like he had just done.

"The first time I picked cotton, I had no experience, I thought about forbearance and passed, and I will know next time." After Uncle Chen was fully armed, he also felt much more comfortable, except for a little heat, there was nothing wrong with the rest.

"Dad, it's best to pick this cotton after the sun rises, otherwise after a night, it will be a little damp and unclean." Mu Xiu stood up and looked around, seeing that the cotton field had been picked, but it was messy, and there was still cotton on some branches that had not been picked.

Mu Xiu taught Mu Shui and Chen Jianqiang how to pick cotton again.

"Xiu, you're still amazing, you can do anything." Mushui has been picking cotton for two days, and it is all picked randomly, always not cleanly, and some bits and pieces are left.

"Dad, let's pick it quickly, we can only stay at home for two days." After Mu Xiu finished speaking, he walked to the side and began to pick it up.

Mu Shui and Uncle Chen have been picking cotton for two days, and more than one acre of land next to them has been picked, Mu Xiu and a few people came back, and the five of them picked it all day, and it was almost eight o'clock in the evening before dragging their tired bodies back home.

After eating in a hurry, everyone rested after washing, Chen Xuhui was so tired that he couldn't open his eyes, but he still started to write his homework with a strong spirit, Mu Xiu didn't have handwritten homework because he was right, but there were tasks that needed to be memorized.

Mu Xiu took out the instant coffee, brewed two cups, drank one by himself, picked up the other one, arrived at Chen Xuhui's door, and knocked on the door.

Chen Xuhui held the pen and looked at the topic, he was already very tired, and now there is no electricity in the village, all of them are kerosene lamps, his eyes are smoked by kerosene and he can't open them a little, and his head begins to face down little by little, just when he is about to fall, he suddenly hears a knock on the door,

Chen Xuhui stood up and rubbed his eyes vigorously, then opened the door, and when he saw Mu Xiu outside the door, he immediately felt a little more energetic.

"Brother Chen, drink this, and you won't fall asleep." Mu Xiu handed the coffee to Chen Xuhui.

"What's this?" Chen Xuhui took the coffee and asked, without waiting for Mu Xiu to respond, he raised his head and drank all the cups, but after drinking, his brows furrowed.

"It's so bitter, is this medicine?"

"This is coffee, it can refresh me, I'm too tired today, but I don't do my homework, and I don't have any other time to write." Mu Xiu said helplessly.

"That is, I am tired for the past two days, but fortunately there are not a lot of homework this week, but there are a few questions that I don't understand very well." Chen Xuhui felt that it was inappropriate when he spoke.