God has mercy on the peasants with their faces facing the loess and their backs to the sky, and since the locust plague, the weather has begun to be smooth. The first stubble of rice ears in the field was ruined a lot, the farmers did not have time to complain, they went to the ground in time to top dress, the axillary buds of the second section grew up rapidly, and the heading and flowering filling were completed almost overnight, and the rice ears at this time had some weight, bending down and swaying in the wind.

Du Mei's cotton field had already produced large patches of cotton peaches, some of which were impatient, and they had cracked in the sun, revealing snow-white cotton. Cotton is harvested for a particularly long period and lasts until the frost season.

It's not the heyday yet, so every time it's just when Du Ying is herding ducks on the river beach, he goes to the field to collect it. Cotton harvesting is very particular about time, it must be when the sun has just risen, go early, the dew is not dry, the cotton is wet, if you go late, the sun will dry the dead leaves, when harvesting, the debris is easy to stick to the cotton.

Rao is Du Ying saves a little every day, and there is already a piece of sun in the second courtyard, and under the sun, there are white flowers and flowers, flashing straight to the eyes.

The ducks of the Dumei family have entered the heyday of egg production, picking up more than 130 duck eggs every day, and there are more than 20 double yolk eggs. Du Mei was free during this time, and carefully observed the duck flock, and it turned out that it was not which duck laid double yolk eggs, but that each duck would occasionally lay double yolk eggs.

After the heat, it rained a few times, the weather began to divide into morning and evening, the heat gradually dissipated, there was a coolness in the morning and evening, and I began to add clothes when I went out.

The soybeans and corn in the field are getting old, Du Mei in addition to delivering duck eggs every five days, almost every day at home busy harvesting, although there is Du Shu to help, but he also has to be busy with grandpa's land, Du Mei does not want him to be scolded by his grandmother often, so he has to do more to reduce his labor.

The threshing floor was lively again, the bean stalks of each family were spread out in a row, the sound of the flail was very rhythmic, accompanied by the crisp sound of soybeans breaking free of the pods, and the faces of the farmers bloomed with the joy of the first harvest after the locust plague.

Du Mei's fields were well fattened, the locusts were exterminated in time, and the beans were hardly affected. When she carried home four bags full of soybeans, there were many envious or jealous eyes behind her.

After basking the soybeans in the sun for two days and blowing in the wind, Du Mei was relieved to put the beans into the granary. The bean stalks were pulled back to make matches, and the deflated bean residues were kept by Du Mei to feed the ducks.

The corn cob was directly broken off from the pole, and it was dried for two days, and the family was busy for a few days, and finally all the corn kernels were peeled.

The corn stalks are still in the field waiting to be completely dried, the sweet potatoes in the field are ready to eat, and the families who lack food have begun to plan. Du Mei also dug half a ridge for her sisters to taste, although the sweet potatoes at this time were large, they had not yet been frosted and were not sweet enough. After they had eaten and quenched their hunger, they did not worry about it, but only stayed in the ground to grow slowly.

Half a month passed quickly in Du Mei's busyness, seeing that it was early August, Du Mei remembered the agreement with Song Jiu, and saw that the farm work at home was almost busy, and she began to go to the grain store in Sheshan Town every day.

Du Mei waited in the grain shop for three or five days, and went to the dock every day to inquire, but he didn't see Song Jiu's grain ship coming.

Niu Er couldn't hold back a little, and inevitably nagged: "They all say that there is no hair on the mouth, and the work is not firm, that kid is sick and crooked, and I don't know if he can do it." ”

Du Mei was also very worried, after all, they had nothing but a contract, and he didn't even confiscate her deposit, if he really didn't come to the appointment, she couldn't complain about him.

Now there is not much rice in the grain shop, and she also boasted about Haikou, saying that she would lend grain to Shen Zhanghua for disaster relief, if Song Jiu's grain does not come, her grain shop is afraid that it will go out of business.

Liang Ji has closed the door, and it is feasible to wait for the purchase of autumn grain from ten miles and eight towns, but it will take a month. After all, the second crop rice is far less good than the first crop rice, and the peasants pay taxes and leave the rations, and what can be sold is very limited.

Du Mei was anxious, but he couldn't show it like Niu Er, for fear that the people in the grain store would panic. When she had nothing to do, she went to Yujitang to help Zhong Yu, because of the duck flock to exterminate locusts, she met many people in the villages near and far, and they were more willing to chat with Du Mei, so Du Mei tried to order autumn grain with them.

Zhong Yu was thoughtful, and when he saw Du Mei Lao spinning around on food, he understood a little more in his heart. There were few patients that day, and when cleaning up the consultation room, Zhong Yu pretended to ask casually: "You always help me here, how is it in the grain store?" ”

"There are Brother Niu and the big girl in charge of the grain store, so I basically don't need to worry about it." Du Mei said lightly, she didn't want Zhong Yu to worry about her.

"If it's too hard, don't do it, I can support your mother and sisters as much as I practice medicine." Zhong Yu saw that she refused to speak, so he had to comfort her like this.

"Thank you, uncle, I'm not afraid of hard work, whether it's opening a grain shop or raising ducks, I'll do my best to do it." Du Mei's gaze was firmly fixed on a certain place, and this was said to Zhong Yu, but also to herself.

"Hey, you girl, let it be, if you encounter difficulties, you must come to me, okay?" If it was in the past, Zhong Yu would definitely be angry when he heard this, but this time, he just sighed and discussed it with her.

"That's for sure, who made you my uncle. Hee-hee. Seeing that he was obviously unhappy, Du Mei still endured his temper, so he laughed and coaxed him, like coaxing his mother who was occasionally angry.

Du Mei couldn't wait for Song Jiu day by day, but she waited for Ye Dan, she had lunch from Yu Jitang this day, and was looking down to go back to the grain store thinking about her thoughts, but was stopped by Ye Dan halfway.

"Meizi, I'm looking for you, I just went to the grain store to look for you, and they said you went to Yujitang." Ye Dan hurried towards him.

"Huh? What's wrong? Du Mei's mind was still on food, and he asked a little blankly.

"What kind of clothes did you make for Qingwu last time?" Ye Dan asked anxiously.

"What's wrong with Sister Wenlan? Downcast? Du Mei was shocked and hurriedly asked.

She has been busy since she came back, if it weren't for Ye Dan mentioning it today, she almost forgot about the Oiran Contest of Light Dance, it has been a few days.

"Let's go to the shop." Ye Dan suggested that the two of them should not stand on the street and talk about business.

"Okay, you haven't told me yet, what happened to Sister Wenlan?" Du Mei and Ye Dan walked side by side, still asking.

"Miss Qingwu's piano skills are exquisite, and the guqin is accompanied by the ancient song "Flowing Water", which has won the appetite of those literati, and she is already good at dancing. As for the poems and songs, those people have long thought that the light dance is an oiran, and they pity the fragrance and cherish the jade, but they just go through the motions. Ye Dan said, and had already climbed the stairs and entered the Yunshang Embroidery Village.

"That'...... What happened to Mei Niang in Yihong Courtyard? Du Mei regarded Mei Niang as Du Xing in her heart, and couldn't help asking.

"That girl is a 'list eye', but I heard that she was very unconvinced, and she said that the dance clothes of the light dance were poisonous, do you think it is ridiculous?" Ye Dan let Du Mei into the house and said with a smile.

"I heard Sister Wenlan say last time that Mei Niang will ...... after this competition" Du Mei's chest was stuffy and she couldn't say that word.

"Oh, I heard that someone ransomed her out at a high price, she is no longer in Yihong Courtyard, but it is a good fate, but recently there has been a lot of noise in the market to re-elect the 'Bangyan'." Ye Dan poured a cup of tea and handed it to Du Mei.

"That's it." Du Mei held the teacup, secretly thinking in his heart, this time, there was no news. In this way, I don't know if it is her luck or misfortune.

"Let's get down to business. Since you made those three sets of clothes for Qingwu, Luo Meixuan's business has become popular, there are three or five orders every day, originally just the girls of Chunxiang Pavilion, and recently even the families of high-rise buildings have come to customize. Ye Dan mentioned business, and his whole eyebrows danced.

"Isn't that great?" Du Mei looked at Ye Dan and couldn't understand why he was in such a hurry just now.

"But they can't wear a light dance, we just say that we gave them one less piece of vital clothing!" Ye Dan's brows tightened, and he was also embarrassed by him, an unmarried man dealing with these women all day long.

"This ......," Du Mei thought secretly, except for the three skirt dresses she made for Qingwu, there was only underwear. Do all these women need underwear?

Need underwear in large quantities? Du Mei's heart fluttered somewhere.

"What do you remember?" Ye Dan didn't know what was going on, and still asked.

"This ...... I can't say this in a sentence or two, I'll go with you another day. Du Limei blushed, how could she say the word underwear to a man in a girl's family.

"That couldn't be better!" Ye Dan was naturally very happy to hear her say this.

Du Mei came out of Yunshang Embroidery Village and went to the dock to inquire again, but there was still no news. She sat on the embankment for a while.

She went to Gangneung City to make underwear this time, and it was impossible for everyone to keep trying and changing it, she had to make a buckle that modern underwear could adjust. And here it is impossible to make such a delicate thing, so she can only sew two more rows of buttons, but the buckles are too big must be awkward, she suddenly remembered those pearls on the sky blue dark pattern fragrant cloud veil, if you take small pearls as buttons, wouldn't it be beautiful and exquisite?

Thinking of this, Du Mei couldn't wait, and immediately turned back to find Ye Dan. asked him to send someone back to Jiangling City, and asked Taohong Liulu to inquire about Xiaobai in Sanniang's store and buy small pearls from him.

Ye Dan didn't know what Du Mei said was useful, but he still did as he said, and soon left Sheshan Town and galloped towards Jiangling City.

After making an appointment to set off the day after tomorrow, Du Mei went back to the grain store. She was going out again, so she naturally handed over the shop to the eldest girl and Niu Er, they had long been used to her running around, but they didn't care, they were only worried about whether Song Jiu would come.

"If he comes, give him a thousand and one for each stone, and if he increases the price within a hundred, you will be the master and agree." Seeing that they couldn't make up their minds, Du Mei gave them a reserve price.

"Got it, more than one thousand two, we don't have to make any money." The eldest girl pulled down the abacus and said.

"What I give is a market price, as long as he is willing to come, he will definitely agree." Du Mei looked out the door, and she was looking forward to him even more.

Du Mei is going out again, Xu is busy cleaning up, and the three little ones are looking forward to what new things the eldest sister will bring back.