Chapter 351: Farming
As the days passed, the road leading to the outside of the village was almost repaired, and now there was only a little tail left to be repaired, and the work was completed, and it was connected with the road built by the other two villages. In this way, the road in the village is opened, and it is convenient for the three villages to travel back and forth, and it is much easier for the villagers to go out in the future, especially sometimes when it is late outside, they don't have to worry about being in a hurry or not catching up with the fishing boat to come back.
In the evening, Lichen and Xiaoxiao chatted while eating.
"The days are really fast, it's October, tomorrow we will cut winter wheat and late rice, the weather forecast says that it may rain heavily in the next few days, the opinion of everyone in the village is to quickly grab the grain back, and I will sharpen the sickle after eating. The key is that the area of each piece of land is not large, and the village does not confiscate rice machines, so everyone can only collect it by themselves.
"Lichen, do the women in the village have to go too?"
"Yes, whether you are young or old, as long as you can go to the ground, you don't have to go, right! And Lijuan, she also has to go this time, and try to get it back in the past three days. β
When the farm is busy, it is very busy, and it depends on the weather changes, so you must put the grain into the warehouse before the rain, otherwise the grain of the season will be wasted, and everyone will work hard for so long in vain.
"Then I'd better go with me." Shinoshio. He decided. She is not a squeamish woman, when the village is busy, she will also help, not to mention food, that is very important, in such a year, food is more important than anything else, and you can survive if you have food.
Seeing that she insisted, Lichen didn't refuse again, he knew that Xiaoxiao was a very kind girl.
After eating, Xiaoxiao went to wash the dishes, Lichen sharpened the sickle there, the sickle blade is not sharp determines the speed of cutting rice, so you must sharpen the sickle before cutting rice, Iwamura is poor and does not have a rice harvesting machine, so everyone cuts the grain in the field.
Because Xiaoxiao is also going, so Lichen is very careful to wrap several circles of cloth on the handle of the sickle that Xiaoxiao is going to use, so that it is not easy to blister when cutting wheat, Xiaoxiao has never done heavy work, I am really afraid that she will not be able to bear it, especially it is the first time to go to the field to do such farm work, he is a little worried, if she can't do it tomorrow morning, he will not let her go to the field.
At night, Xiaoxiao went to bed early, and Lichen sharpened his sickle and went to sleep. The next morning, before dawn, the two of them set off for the field.
There are already a lot of people going to work, everyone has not bothered to go to the union earlier, anyway, there are so many points of work a day, but it is very important to collect food, a flood in the summer before, the village was flooded very seriously, and now every household has no food, especially during this time, the family has no money and no food, and the people who have no money and no food are living by borrowing food and going to the sea to fish and dig wild vegetables.
When Lichen came to the field, many people had already started working.
Lichen put Xiaoxiao in the next place to work, and everyone was separated by a partition, and he had to quickly finish cutting the piece that helped Xiaoxiao when the time came.
An hour passed, even though it was not hot in October, but Xiaoxiao sweated a lot and his clothes were half wet, and then look ahead, oh my God! Why is there so much that hasn't been cut yet, and only a small piece is cut behind her, which is simply turtle speed! How could she be so slow, I can't watch it!
Looking at Lichen next to him, his area has been cut in half by him, it is simply a god speed, obviously she has a lot of strength, why is she always not good at housework, even in the field......
Lijuan in the next field looked at Xiaoxiao's lost expression and comforted: "Sister-in-law is not ashamed, and me, don't worry!" And I'm padding behind the back. After speaking, pointing to her own field, Lijuan cut wheat not much faster than Xiaoxiao.
Xiaoxiao looked at her piece, and sure enough, like her, only one-third of Lichen had been cut in an hour, and they were both useless and useless for farm work
"Go for it!" Shino said.
Looking at other rural women who often work, the skillful speed of cutting wheat is a little bit faster than Lichen's, the two of them are really ashamed! So he couldn't lose Lichen's face, and Xiaoxiao continued to work desperately.
Another hour passed, and Lijuan finally couldn't support it anymore, so she refused to work anymore and ran home to rest. Su Heng was angry and helpless when he saw her like that, knowing that Lijuan was usually squeamish, and he didn't like to do the work at home, he often had to help her clean up when he went back from work, but now was the time to grab the grain, and she couldn't be lazy at this time, and besides, the older mothers all went to the ground, so she ran back like this, thanks to her brother is the captain, otherwise others have opinions, and then look at Xiaoxiao, although she is also very tired, but she is still persevering, first, Xiaoxiao can endure hardships than Lijuan, Another reason must be that Xiaoxiao doesn't want Lichen to be laughed at and said that his wife is too squeamish, and he only does a little work and quits.
Thinking of this, he could only sigh, Lijuan was a little lazy, but it was still good, so he didn't want to dislike her anymore, so it was a big deal to wait for him to finish cutting this piece and cutting her part.
Everyone was assigned to cut a piece of land, and the day's tasks were completed after the mowing. In order to motivate everyone, if someone finishes cutting their own piece and can do more, each person will be rewarded with two more points, so many people come to work early.
Xiaoxiao wiped the sweat from the corners of his eyes, even if the person kept bending his back very sore, and his hands were blistering, he didn't dare to stop, but the speed of cutting wheat was much slower.
It wasn't the height of summer, and if she had harvested the grain at that time, she would have fallen from exhaustion by now.
It's just that when she was about to get up, she suddenly heard a voice not far ahead, and when she looked up, she saw that there was a person not far in front of her who was helping her cut wheat.
"Lichenβ"
Xiaoxiao was very happy, sure enough, it was him, he had already cut his own piece, and now he came to help her work.
Lichen, who was not far away, praised Xiaoxiao and said: "You see that you have cut so much wheat, it is very powerful, let's continue to work hard, and soon we will be able to go home and rest after this harvest." β
It is not easy for Xiaoxiao, who usually doesn't do heavy work, to support until now, seeing that her sister has run home, Lichen is speechless, knowing that her sister can't endure hardship, but he doesn't blame, in the end, it's a girl who grew up in the city, she has never worked in the field, she can just do it, and Xiaoxiao is stronger, she is also afraid of dragging herself down, afraid of being told that she is the bill wife, so she is lazy and didn't work for a long time and ran home to rest, so she will persevere, but he thinks in his heart that it would be good if she behaved like Lijuan and went back to rest.
Since she stayed, then encourage her, anyway, there is not much wheat left, and he has come to help, so that she will feel a sense of accomplishment when she returns today.
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