Chapter 213: Harvest rice and make bamboo mats
Li Zijing didn't care whether Zhu Caixia would really change from now on, she just saw that Zhu Caixia was gone, so she followed her to learn to read and write.
After recognizing the word for half a month, I finally wanted to harvest the early rice.
The division of labor between Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan is very clear, Li Zijing cuts rice, and Gu Ruohan beats rice.
There is no rice threshing machine here, only the backward rice beating, a handful of rice on the rice bucket, you have to beat it hard several times to beat all the rice on this handful, it is very laborious and very hard.
It takes several days to make rice in an acre of paddy field.
Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan have two and a half acres of paddy fields, and it took nearly half a month just to harvest early rice.
As soon as the early rice was harvested, Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan rented a cow to plough the field and then planted seedlings. That is, the two and a half acres of paddy fields are planted with late rice.
Because Li Zijing had two acres of paddy fields before marrying Gu Ruohan, so, in comparison, Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan now have more paddy fields than Gu Ruoshu and Gu Ruoniu, but because Gu Ruoshu and Gu Ruoniu were reluctant to rent cattle to plough the fields, when Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan finished harvesting the early rice and planting late rice, Gu Ruoshu and Gu Ruoniu were not busy yet.
Then, Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan went to help Gu Ruoshu and Gu Ruoniu.
Zhu Caixia saw Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan coming to help, because she felt that she owed Gu Ruohan very much, she was very enthusiastic about Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan now, and even in the past few days when Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan helped Gu Ruoshu and them, she boiled eggs and gave Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan two each.
Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan both knew that Zhu Caixia wanted to make up for it, but the two of them didn't need Zhu Caixia to make up for it at all, and it was not uncommon, but they didn't want Gu Ruoshu to be caught in the middle, so as long as Zhu Caixia was no longer the same as before, they naturally wouldn't embarrass Zhu Caixia.
After helping Gu Ruoshu and them, the weather became hotter, and as soon as they went out, they were sweating, and Li Zijing and Gu Ruohan rarely went out.
But sleeping on the straw mat is too hot, Li Zijing remembered the bamboo mat, how can this bamboo mat be cooler than the straw mat, but unfortunately the people here don't know this, they all sleep on the straw mat.
In fact, Li Zijing misses the modern air-conditioned room more, it is really warm in winter and cool in summer, the problem is that there is no such condition here, and the bamboo mat can be realized here.
So, Li Zijing spoke: "Xianggong, let's go to the mountains to cut some bamboo and come back, get a bamboo mat, it's much cooler than a straw mat." ”
Although Gu Ruohan had never slept on a bamboo mat, when he heard that it was cooler than a straw mat, he responded: "Hmm." ”
"Let's call Ruoshu and them to go with them, let them make one too, anyway, there is twine at home, and bamboo doesn't need money to buy it, they should be willing."
"Hmm."
"Quandong they don't call it now, our family makes two bamboo mats, one is kept for our own use, and the other is sent to the uncle, they saw it and knew that it was cooler than falling asleep on the straw mat, and they should also cut bamboo to do it, so we don't need to say it specifically."
"Hmm."
When Li Zijing and the others went to the mountain to cut bamboo, they met many people in the village and asked them what so many people were doing, Li Zijing told the truth, saying that they felt that the straw mat was too hot to sleep on, and they felt that sleeping on the bamboo mat should be cooler, so they went to the mountain to cut some bamboo and came back to make bamboo mats.
Those people didn't believe it at first, but when they saw that Li Zijing had woven the bamboo mat, they touched it, and they felt that it was indeed much cooler than the straw mat, so they also went to the mountain to cut bamboo and came back to make a bamboo mat to sleep.