On the second day, Zeng Ruixiang went to the old house to take the cattle to the field, Shen took Zifu to Baitang Village's mother's house to pick up seedlings, or Shen Wanfu helped send them back, originally Shen Wanfu said to stay to help for a day, Shen did not agree, and said that his family only had one acre of paddy field, how could the two of them make do with it. Shen Wanfu listened and hurriedly went back. The Shen family still has more fields, and the Shen Jianshan family currently has only Shen Wanfu as the main laborer.

With seedlings, I have to be busy planting seedlings, even Zifu went to the paddy field, Zilu didn't go, I helped Ziqing cook at home, and caught up with a rainy day, although I was wearing a coat, I was still wet when I went home, Ziqing asked Zilu to buy a few bones every day, and boiled some hot soup to ward off the cold, but fortunately, it was finally inserted in two days.

Looking at the green rice fields in the slanting wind and drizzle, and the peasants working in the drizzle, they are really a poetic pastoral oil painting, but only those who have really experienced it can know the hardships.

Ziqing is busy in the yard every day, watching the cucumbers are about to bloom, and at the end of next month, she will almost be able to eat the first stubble, watching the leaves of the watermelon grow bigger and bigger, the vines growing longer and longer, watching the flowers of the potatoes bloom, Ziqing's joy is getting bigger and bigger.

The continuous spring rain has been falling until Zeng Ruixiang leaves, the family has not gone out much in the past few days, Zeng Ruixiang is at home to point out Zifu's homework, Zilu and Ziqing have also learned a lot of new words, Shen In addition to cooking, he has been doing needlework on the side, and also found some broken socks for Ziqing to teach Ziqing to mend, saying that he wanted to teach Ziqing needlework. Ziqing is also very serious about learning, she is not a rich lady, these are all necessary life skills to live, Ziqing is also counting on learning how to embroider after learning Shen.

Zeng Ruixiang put on the new clothes made by Shen and left, and said before leaving, it's a pity, if only the wheat could be harvested. Shen comforted him that he would go to his mother's family for help.

On the first day of the first month of April, it was also the second day of Zeng Ruixiang's departure, the weather was clear, Shen went to the field to see a trip and came back and said that the wheat should be ripe for half a month, fortunately there was no heavy rain, otherwise the ears of wheat would have fallen and should sprout, however, Shen was also worried, and it was not easy for her to live as a woman to collect the wheat on three acres of land.

After more than ten days, Shen saw that the sky was clear, and took Zilu to cut wheat, the progress of the two was very slow, like cutting rape, picking it back every day, Ziqing turned it at home, and Zifu also went to help after school in the afternoon, the three of them were busy for two days, with little effect, and Shen said that he had not cut an acre of land.

Who knew that early in the morning of April 18, He came with the whole class from last time, and it took less than a day to harvest all the remaining wheat, Zilu went to the old house to fetch cattle, and Shen Wanfu also ploughed the ground a little.

At this time, the Shen family was really relieved. At dinner, Shen deliberately went to the vegetable field to pick a few slightly larger cucumber scrambled eggs for everyone to try, and also fried a large plate of vegetarian cabbage.

Shen Jianshan saw it and said: "It's better to keep the expensive dishes and sell them, sister, you have a lot of places to use money now, we can make do with a meal." ”

Shen Shi smiled and said, "Look at what the eldest brother said, you have worked hard all day, and I can't even give up a few cucumbers, what has become of me?" When something is planted, it is meant to be eaten. ”

Before leaving, Shen picked a few cucumbers for each family and brought them back. He stayed for one night, and let Shen Wanfu pick her up the next day, and plough the rest of the land.

So a difficult wheat harvest with the help of Shen's mother's family, very smoothly completed, the rest is to dry wheat and knock wheat, which is similar to making rape pods, the general planting of wheat here is not very much, so there is no kind of large wheat harvesting site and mill in the north, every family is dried with a mat, beaten with a mallet, and then kneaded down by hand, and finally used a windmill to go through it, and it can be stored in the sun. It's easy to say, but it's not easy to do, Ziqing watched Shen Shi busy for several days, tired and dirty, but Shen looked at how there were hundreds of catties of wheat, and felt that everything was still worth it, so he hurriedly went to the carpenter shop to set up a barn.

The wheat harvest is over, and it is too late for Shen to think about some peanuts, in fact, Ziqing knows that it is still necessary to rush to plant cultivated sweet potato seedlings at this time, but unfortunately Ziqing didn't find it in the city last time, and then he didn't have a chance to go out again, so Shen naturally didn't know about this, so this matter could only be stopped. Shen decided to rest for a few days, wait for the wheat to be dried and enter the warehouse, and then go to some soybeans after the Dragon Boat Festival.

Early in the morning of the first day of the new year, Shen took Zilu to the city to sell vegetables, saying that the vegetables must be easy to sell when the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching, so he picked a few large baskets of vegetables and asked a familiar donkey cart to come to the house to pick them up.

Ziqing settled her younger brothers, fed the chickens, swept the yard, piled up the chicken manure, saw the watermelon seedlings blooming small yellow flowers, and suddenly remembered that the potatoes were almost ripe at this time, and the flowers had already fallen clean, and I forgot about it for a while, so I took a small hoe and was about to dig it up, at this time, I heard someone shouting at the courtyard gate, Ziqing went over and asked, it turned out that it was grandma and sister-in-law who came, Ziqing opened the door reluctantly, and didn't know what to lose today.

"Grandma, sister-in-law, you're here."

"Ziqing, you're at home, what about your mother?" Qiu Yu asked first.

"My mother took her second brother out to do something, and I don't know when I'll be back." Ziqing didn't dare to say that she was selling vegetables.

"Then forget it, let's not go in, Ziqing, remember to tell your mother when you come back, let your mother send a stone of wheat during the Dragon Boat Festival, your grandfather loves to eat pasta, and then pick it up when your father comes back." Remembered. After Tian finished speaking, he and Qiu Yu turned around and went back.

Ziqing had no choice but to say: "Grandma walks slowly, sister-in-law walks slowly." When they left, Ziqing hurriedly tied the door. I really don't like to deal with the Tian family, there is really no reason to talk about it, the Shen family has worked hard to feed the pigs for a year, and only sent a few bones and a pound of meat after killing the pigs, a total of 20 yuan. And the Tian family asked the Shen family for something, and when they opened their mouths, it was a stone of wheat, and a stone of wheat was worth almost one tael of silver. The loss was also a bit too great, and when the wheat was harvested, there was no one to help, and it was really hateful enough to know that the family had put the wheat into the warehouse, so they came to ask for the wheat. Ziqing said in a broken heart.

Ziqing was sorry for the stone of wheat and was glad at the same time, fortunately they didn't come in, otherwise they saw the watermelons blooming all over the yard, and the cucumbers and beans in the vegetable field over there were all hanging on the shelves. This is to worry about the summer watermelon, and it will be even more troublesome to come over two times in three days.

Thinking so, she just picked up the hoe to dig potatoes, and heard someone shouting outside, Ziqing was startled, thinking that the Tian family was back again, and when she walked to the door, she realized that Xiao Xiushui was coming, it turned out that Xiao Xiushui didn't look at Ziqing anymore, so she came to look for Ziqing.