Chapter 97: On the Threshing Floor
"Three singing without competition, Yijia will not commit." Ye Dan's family was originally in the calligraphy and painting business, and singing and selling to him was a common method.
In other words, Ye Dan got five puppets from Du Mei, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he took them back to Yanwang's Mansion the next day. When the prince saw it, he didn't show his likes or dislikes on his face, but just rubbed the puppet with his hand, and he liked it in his heart.
When he proposed to open a shop in Jiangling City to sell puppets, the prince didn't ask the reason and agreed without hesitation.
can sing and sell the method, the prince has never let go, so that he has delayed time. These days, his tongue bloomed with lotus flowers, and it took a lot of work to finally move the prince to let him give it a try. But the prince has one condition, that is, it must be agreed by the owner of the embroidery, that is, Du Mei.
"That is, multiple people bid, and the highest bidder wins." Ye Dan saw that Du Mei was still at a loss, so he picked up the key points and said briefly.
"I'm just a plaything, and it's not food in a famine year, how can everyone buy it?" Du Mei shook his head.
"Meizi, do you know that looking at the Great Shun Dynasty, only you have this thing, and others don't?" Ye Dan sat up straight and said seriously.
"It's not a difficult thing, anyone who has seen this puppet can do it." Du Mei disagreed.
"They are made in your form, but not your God! What's more, these puppets have been modified by you, and they are not exactly what they were. I think you have more unmade puppets in your head. Ye Dan stared at Du Mei eagerly.
"That's right." Du Mei was a little embarrassed by him, and lowered his head and said.
"Meizi, Aunt Shi said, your family's embroidery method is novel, and you can't find five people in Jiangling City!" Ye Dan looked away and said another full reason.
"Huh?" This surprised Du Mei a little. Her mother's embroidery work is famous in ten miles and eight towns, although she is not stingy with professors, but others just can't embroider with the same look as them. Is there anything else going on?
"Also, these puppets of yours, filled with plush wool, have the effect of calming the nerves and calming the nerves, relieving the heat and cooling the blood, which is suitable for the elderly and children." Ye Dan looked at Du Mei as if he was looking at a treasure.
"Pu velvet, rice husks, grass seeds, what's so strange about this, the countryside is full of these." Du Mei only took these things for granted.
"Your whimsy, embroidery, charm, efficacy, plus my singing and selling. Du Mei, your puppet will become another rare item to be chased by the wealthy families in Gangneung City. "Ye Dan has another advantage that he didn't say, and that is the prestige of the Yan Wangfu.
"Shopkeeper Ye is too mysterious." Du Mei rubbed her head, she was just a child's puppet, why was it so complicated?
"Just do what I say, and that's it. If I'm not sure, I can also pay a deposit first. Ye Dan said sincerely.
"No, no, forget the deposit, when will I ask for this puppet?" The duck food at home has been settled, and she still doesn't have the ability to keep the money, so don't bring trouble to her. Besides, she was worried that she wouldn't be able to deliver the goods.
"The shops in Gangneung City still need to be decorated, I'm afraid it's going to be summer." Ye Dan lowered his eyes and thought about it.
"Oh, that's a bit more time. When I go back, I'll have to do it when I'm free. The words were almost over, and Du Mei estimated that the hour was not early, so he planned to go back.
"You don't want to do too much of each piece, three or two pieces are enough, and scarcity is expensive." Ye Dan said another word of advice and stood up.
"Got it." Du Mei agreed, and wanted to go out.
Meng Feifei's words replayed in her head, "Because it's rare, it's precious!" I'm just going to be the first to have it! "Maybe Ye Dan's words are right, this singing may be worth a try.
"Whoa,
Meizi, I haven't signed a contract yet! Ye Dan raised his voice.
"When I embroider the puppet, you are satisfied with it, and it is not too late to sign it." Du Mei looked back.
"I believe in you, are you still afraid that I won't succeed?" Ye Dan smiled.
"The most important thing in doing things is to pay attention to integrity, I am empty-handed, and it is always not good for you." Du Mei said with a serious face.
"Then you remember, we agreed that we must not sell his house instead." Ye Dan did not sign the contract, and he had a sense of crisis.
"That's nature." Du Mei waved his hand and walked over the threshold.
Du Mei walked briskly back to the market, where the old man was cleaning up his stall.
"Meizi, it's not too early, we should go back." The old man said a little anxiously.
"Whoa." Du Mei looked up at the sky, and when he went out in the morning, the sky was still clear, and at this moment, the clouds were piled up.
The two of them were anxious, and the wind was blowing under their feet, and they soon returned to Dujiagou.
The village seemed to be in a posture of being ready for battle, and every family began to sharpen their sickles and find flat ropes. In a hurry, he has already taken the guy and the whole family to the field to cut wheat.
"Sister, you're back." Du Ying took the burden and said to her as usual.
"What's wrong?" Du Mei also felt a sense of tension.
"The people in the village are busy cutting wheat, do we want to cut it at home?" Du Ying asked a little worriedly.
In previous years, the busy season was the hardest time for the strong laborers in the family, and although their sisters were tired from delivering water and food, they were not as overwhelmed as they were this year.
"I see that the wheat is still green, and when I have eaten, I will ask Uncle Zhong, he is a veteran of farming." Du Mei didn't know the bottom of his heart.
"Meizi, are you at home?" Du Zhong asked across the courtyard.
"Here, Uncle Zhong, come in." Du Mei was eating, and hurriedly dropped the bowl and came out to answer.
"I won't go in, look at this day, I'm afraid there will be heavy rain in two or three days. Let's go to the field first, your grandmother doesn't have labor, I'll help them cut first. Cut your own first, or you will not be able to catch up, and you will rot in the fields and be wasted. Du Zhong hurriedly finished speaking and left, followed by Du Shu with a sickle.
"Hey, we'll come after dinner." Du Mei should be down.
Du Mei wanted to cut tender wheat a few days ago, and he had already sharpened his sickle. The flat rope, Xu also found it at home. The four sisters dropped their bowls and went down to the fields. Du Mei and Du Ying have one ridge, Du Tao and Du Guixiao, two of them have one ridge.
Clouds were piled up in the sky, and the wind rose in the fields, blowing the waves of golden wheat tumbling. With the click of the scythe, the wheat wave pushed forward little by little, until the ground was exposed.
Du Mei's family only had three acres of wheat, and when night fell, more than half of them were put down by the four sisters.
The wheat in the field couldn't afford to delay, and Du Mei had already talked to Niu Er about the stall, so he decided not to sell Ruyi soup and braised bean rolls for the time being.
The next day, the four sisters got up early in the morning, and the clouds in the sky became thicker and thicker, and they felt that the sky was close. They had to speed up and wield their scythes, and in one hour they were able to cut off all the wheat.
The four sisters did a good job of cutting the wheat, but it was not an easy task to pick the wheat stalks to the grain field to beat.
Du Zhong and Du Shu not only had to cut five acres of the old couple, but also six acres of the three-room family. Du Zhong called Sanjin to help in the field. But Sanjin has never done farm work since he was a child, and he can't lift his hands and shoulders, so he can't count on it. Du Jie and Du Xingxing said, but Xie Shi didn't know how to do it and didn't want to do it, so he just blindly hid at home.
Every household in the village was so busy that their feet did not touch the ground, Du Mei and Du Ying could only grit their teeth and pick them by themselves, and Du Tao and Du Gui gathered the wheat stalks into a pile in the field
Pile it up, bundle it, and make it easy for the two sisters to pick it up.
Du Mei's wheat is more than the people in the village, and the ears of wheat are so long and big that they are heavy, even if they only carry half of the adults, it is extremely difficult.
"Plum, Sakura, I'll pick it, you go and help Du Shu cut wheat." Du Zhong rushed over sweating.
"Thank you so much, Uncle Zhong." The Du Mei sisters had already reluctantly picked an acre of land, and their shoulders were red.
"Go ahead." Du Zhong waved his hand, picked up a large burden, half a person tall, and strode away.
Only Du Gui was left in the field to guard, and the three sisters rushed to the three-room field to help Du Shu cut it.
On the huge threshing floor, all the families spread out one by one, and even if they didn't pick up wheat straw for the time being, they all occupied a piece of land with stone stones.
The freshly cut wheat is still full of moisture and needs to be spread out to dry. The sun occasionally peeked out of the clouds, and in the blink of an eye it was obscured by thick clouds.
Cut until noon in one go, and finally put down all the wheat, and Xie didn't even send saliva.
Du Mei's forehead was full of sweat, Du Ying's hands were blistered, Du Tao was small after all, and Mai Mangza's hands hurt.
Xu's went to the field to deliver food and water, and naturally there were Du Zhong's father and son.
After eating, he didn't care about resting, Du Zhong continued to pick wheat stalks. The Dumay sisters went to the threshing floor to dry.
Du Mei spread the dried wheat straw into a thick circle and went to look for her family's stone stones.
The stone stone is made of large bluestone, round, with holes at both ends. This is also handed down from the ancestors, and when not in use, it is placed in the corner of the threshing floor. Although the stones of each family look similar, the villagers never use them wrong, as if they recognize their own children.
Du Mei searched back and forth a few times but didn't see it, and wondered in his heart.
"Sister, here!" Du Gui lifted a handful of wheat stalks, pointed to the stone and said excitedly.
"This must be the uncle's family taking a seat with it, but why should it be covered with wheat straw, really." Du Ying pouted.
"Bring the rope, let's drag it first." A hint of uneasiness slipped through Du May's heart.
The Dumay sisters had just dragged the stone to the wheat stalks and walked twice with great difficulty. Du Xuan drove the ox cart and pulled a cart full of wheat straw.
"Who the is this, Lao Tzu's stone." As soon as Du Xuan saw that the stone stone he had hidden was gone, he immediately shouted.
"Sister!" Du Mei was hunched over with Du Ying pulling the stone stone, and Du Tao approached and screamed worriedly.
"Ignore him!" Dumei Khan rained down, but his feet did not stop, and he only cared about crushing in circles.
"Dead girl, give me back the stone!" Du Xuan ran over angrily.
Du Mei didn't pay attention to him, and only cared about his own work.
"I'm talking to you, you can't fucking hear me." Du Shu, who was completely enraged, rushed into the wheat straw circle at once.
As everyone knows, after the wheat stalks were crushed by the stone stones, they became extremely smooth, Du Mei and Du Ying had stone stones falling, and they were still very careful under their feet, and Du Zhu was completely unprepared, and his feet slipped and he directly planted a mouth to gnaw mud.
"Phew, bah, bah." A mouthful of Maimanza people, Du Shu spit out in embarrassment.
"You stop me, I can't cure you anymore?" Du Xuan was jealous and hated Du Mei in his heart. I was jealous that she got so much food, and hated her stubbornness in refusing to admit defeat.
Seeing that Du Mei ignored him and only cared about his work, he got up and snatched it directly.
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