Early the next morning, Zhou Shuilian and Mu Xiaocao got up and started cooking, and the task of eating more than a dozen people was still quite arduous.

In the morning, it was still baked egg pancakes, and soon, the person who made the appointment came, Zhou Shuilian hurriedly beckoned everyone to eat, and after eating, she followed Chen Xuhui to the field.

Today's first harvest is corn, more than a dozen people came to the field, at a glance, green corn leaves, big corn cobs, a bumper harvest scene.

Breaking corn is not a simple job, it is one of the more tiring farm work.

Everyone wears long clothes and trousers, and enters the cornfield with a bamboo basket, and people are in the cornfield more than two meters high, surrounded by the corn stalks, and the work of breaking corn is not easy to do.

One person in a row of ditches began to break corn one by one, each corn needs to be broken down by hand, each picking one, and then the corn stalk is broken, the picked corn is full of bamboo baskets, and then it is taken out of the ground, all the baskets of corn are poured into the big wooden barrel behind the ox cart, and then the empty basket is carried into the ground to break the corn.

Mu Xiu also participated in breaking corn, but as a result, he only broke a dozen trees, and he was cut three wounds on his face, and he grinned in pain.

Although it is already autumn, it is still very hot during the day, and I can't cover my face completely, otherwise I will work and breathe.

Mu Xiu couldn't stand it anymore, turned around and went to the field, and happened to meet Chen Xuhui who came out to drink water.

Chen Xuhui was taken aback when he saw her face, and said anxiously: "Mu Xiu, don't break corn, this girl doesn't value her face the most, what if she has a scar." ”

"It's all shallow, just apply some medicine." Mu Xiu said nonchalantly.

"Don't break it, you're just watching the ox cart from the outside, and we've got it." Chen Xuhui said a few words and went to work in the field.

Mu Xiu didn't brace hard, she couldn't do this job well, she sat on the ox cart and began to miss the corn harvester infinitely.

Soon, everyone came out one after another to fill the ox cart, Mu Xiu drove the carriage back to his home, and then came to load a cart, just like that, basket after basket, cart after cart, everyone worked together, and was busy all morning, and only then did he finish picking all the corn on half an acre.

Everyone's clothes were already sweaty, and after Mu Xiu returned from transporting the corn, he brought lunch, and after eating, he took a little rest and began to harvest the corn again.

In the evening, when she went home from work, Zhou Shuilian had already boiled a large pot of corn on the cob, and the yard was full of the sweetness of corn.

In the past, the land was planted with wheat and rice, and sweet potatoes were planted at intervals, and there were not many people in the village who planted corn. In contrast, the yield of sweet potatoes is high, easy to harvest, and the yield is not worse than corn, and the dried sweet potatoes are better than corn, and they are more resistant to putting some of them.

"This corn is delicious." Zhou Shuilian held a half-gnawed corn in her hand.

"No, it's just this time of year when you can eat fresh corn and eat a few more." Mu Xiaocao is scooping corn out of the pot.

The ten workers also washed their hands and began to eat.

Mu Xiu nibbled on the sweet corn, but he was thinking in his heart, it would be a pity if so much corn was made into cornmeal, and after it was dried, it could be left to make popcorn in the future, and the threshed corn cob was also the most suitable place for fungus and shiitake mushrooms to grow.

The corn was planted for three and a half acres, and it took twelve strong laborers six days to harvest it, and after the harvest, the corn stalks and the part that was left in the ground after being cut were cut out had to be removed.

The corn stalks are tied together, and the roots that remain in the ground carry a large amount of soil, and it is necessary to carry one in one hand, and the two of them violently knock each other violently, and after the soil is cleaned, they are also tied together, and these can be fired.

A total of 1,900 catties of corn were harvested this time, and the harvested corn was spread on the balcony on the second floor, dried on the roof, and the roofs of the three bungalows were covered with corn cobs.

The next step is to harvest soybeans, just cut all the soybean straw and pack it, take it back to tiling and expose it to the sun first.

Because peanuts are very difficult to pick after being exposed to the sun, so at five o'clock in the morning, everyone went to the field to pull peanuts, when the sun rose, Mu Xiumu Xiaocao and two workers picked peanuts at home, and the rest of the workers went to dig sweet potatoes, and in the evening, everyone continued to go to the field to pull peanuts, and the peanuts of one acre of land were pulled out in one day.

Peanuts need to be picked one by one, quickly dried, otherwise there is a lot of water, the fruit will grow buds and can not be wanted, the next day, the family left five people to continue to pick peanuts, Chen Xuhui and the remaining five people went to the ground to pull sweet potatoes.

Before digging sweet potatoes, you need to cut the sweet potato leaves first, and three people cut the sweet potato leaves all the way forward, leaving the three people to dig the sweet potatoes in the back.

The ox cart went back and forth two or three times, and now the courtyard of Mu Xiu's house is almost full, and even Chen Xuhui's house is full.

"So many sweet potato leaves, Xiu, hurry up and dry all the sweet potato leaves, dry them and feed them to the pigs in winter." Zhou Shuilian shouted.

This sweet potato leaf is a very popular green vegetable in later generations, but now, it is used to feed pigs, but now in the countryside, there is less oil and water to eat, not to mention what kind of green vegetables are available, so Mu Xiu will not bother to pick sweet potato leaves to eat, take them to feed the pigs, feed the pigs.

More than a dozen people were busy for more than 20 days before harvesting all the crops, and then everyone began to enter the final cleaning process, turning over all the fields, fertilizing, and waiting to plant winter wheat.

Mu Xiu settled the wages of the ten people, a total of thirty-six yuan, and sent them away, and the rest of the finishing work needed to wait for all these crops to be dried before they could be carried out.

In autumn, the sun is strong and the air is dry, which is the most suitable for drying things, and the wood water has built a lot of simple shelves in the courtyard, so that everything can be used and every place can not be wasted.

"CIFI, the soybeans are almost ready to be threshed, and then dried after they are removed." Mu Shui squatted next to the soybean straw and rubbed it with his hands.

"Okay." Chen Xuhui turned around and went to the back of the house to get tools.

Mu Shui and Chen Xuhui each took a lid and began to beat the straw, which is a kind of agricultural tool used to beat rice, wheat threshing grains, and beans.

When you use it, you can lift it high and hit it hard, and it looks simple, but it still requires technology to operate it well. The two of them hit the soybeans face to face, beat it once, and then turn it over and hit it again.