Chapter Twenty-Nine: Rice Harvesting
After that afternoon passed, Yuxin felt that Xiaoya was different from Xiaozuo. She couldn't say the specifics, but Xiaoya never refused Xiao Zuo's courtesy, and gave him a sweet smile from time to time. Anyway, it's a good thing, everyone just knows it.
The next day, there was a rumbling sound on the side of the rice fields in Xixia Village, and the people in the village were busy harvesting.
Duoduo was interested, so he pulled a few of them to the uncle's house. Said that since we bumped into it, let's go and join in the fun! For this kind of farm work, they felt quite fresh, and nodded happily.
When the uncle heard their intentions, he shook his head like a rattle and refused: "Don't listen to the girl's nonsense, harvesting rice is not an easy job, and you are tired to death." ”
Duoduo was suddenly unhappy, pouted his mouth high, and said unconvinced: "How tired!" It's not like I didn't do it when I was a kid. ”
When the uncle heard this, a black line suddenly appeared, and he poked the index and said, "You are embarrassed to say that when you were a child!" Before I cut a few stacks of rice, I cut my hand first, and I was so bad that I served you with good food and drink for a week. ”
Duoduo suddenly laughed, and then used a trick of stalking, saying all the good things, and repeatedly promising not to repeat the mistakes of the past, the uncle agreed quite unwillingly.
The uncle led them to the house, took each of them a shiny sickle and a piece of plastic film, and repeatedly instructed them on the details.
The sickle was used to cut the rice, they could understand; But what is that plastic film for?
The uncle looked at them proudly and said, "There are a lot of leeches in the field!" That thing is bloodsucking! If you don't put on the plastic film, you just wait to give them breakfast! ”
When everyone heard this, their hearts were suddenly cold! They all retreated.
As soon as Duoduo saw that the "revolution" had not succeeded, the comrades were frightened by the opponent's bluff and retreated, and their mouths were crooked in anger! The Red Army's Long March also walked 25,000! When they arrived, they didn't take a single step before they were so frightened that their legs went weak. How can such a team achieve the final victory of the "eight-year war of resistance and three-year civil war"?
Therefore, for the sake of the final victory, Duoduo hurriedly reassured: "Don't listen to his nonsense!" They weren't that scary, and with the plastic wrap on them, they could basically ignore their existence entirely. After speaking, he kept glaring at the uncle, and there was a tendency to disagree with each other, and immediately "draw the knife to each other".
When everyone heard Duoduo say this, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Duoduo saw that their "revolutionary" will was quite firm, and they also showed a smile.
When the uncle saw that they were determined to go, he pursed his lips and didn't say anything to scare them. While packing up the tools with his aunt, he instructed them on the details of the harvest, and then took them on the road together.
When she walked to the village road, Yuxin found that the village was much more lively than before. In the streets and alleys, from time to time, some strong villagers carried a load full of rice and passed by them "creaking". Even some of the half-year-old children, like them, rushed to the side of the grain yard with scythes in their hands, and they were not ashamed to see it.
The uncle and aunt worked together to lift the threshing machine to the tractor at the entrance of the village, and then beckoned them to get into the car. Everyone looked at the uncle's old-fashioned tractor and got into the car with strange faces.
The moment the car started, Yuxin felt like she was being dragged to the slaughterhouse and was about to be sold.
When I arrived at the grain field, I looked around, and I saw that in the large grain field, there was a cluster in the east and a cluster in the west, and there were busy figures everywhere. The adults held the rice and stepped on the threshing machine; The children are responsible for harvesting the paddy; Even the children who couldn't help were chasing and frolicking around the grain field, so it was not lively.
After the uncle stopped the car, he walked in front with his aunt carrying the threshing machine, and the villagers he met joked with him: "Hengshan!" Where can you find so many helpers? This year you're going to have an easy time. ”
Uncle smiled and responded, "That's it!" Is that! When I'm done here, I'll call them to help you." ”
The villagers were immediately happy, and they all quipped: "Who is it!" Those babies, at a glance, know that they have never been in the field, and it would be good if they didn't help you! Haha......"
Uncle didn't care, and laughed with them.
Duoduo was not happy when she heard it, she stared at those uncles and uncles fiercely, and looked a little unconvinced.
After arriving at the destination, the uncle personally demonstrated and taught them how to harvest the rice hand in hand, and then left with a thousand instructions.
"Alright! All right! Got it! Go get busy with you! ......" Duoduo pushed the uncle, constantly urging him to get busy.
As soon as the uncle left, she announced energetically: "This field is just about one acre, and we will harvest two fields by ourselves." If you can't complete the task today, you won't have anything to eat at noon! ”
"Isn't it!" Everyone immediately complained bitterly.
"That's it! Let's get started! Duoduo said, and suddenly jumped to the place where the uncle had harvested a small piece and got busy, and everyone rolled their eyes. It really confirms the old saying: if you have a cheap advantage, you don't take advantage of it, that's a bastard!
At the beginning, Yuxin thought it was quite fun! But as soon as the freshness passed, I felt back pain. glanced up and found that Duoduo was already far ahead; Su Mu and Xiao Zuo are on par, slightly behind; Only she and Xiaoya hung behind as if they were stepping back.
As soon as Yuxin saw this situation, she was unspeakably deflated, and she really had the urge to drop the sickle and leave with a shake of her hand. It's just that when she saw that on the grain field, many of the children who were half the age were happy and working very energetically, she felt that she couldn't afford to lose this face, so she had to hold on.
The scorching sun climbed higher and higher, and her whole body was covered with sun, and beads of sweat the size of beans kept sliding down her cheeks, and it was like sweat like rain. At this time, Yuxin completely understood what it meant to "hoe the day of the noon, sweat drops into the soil"; also completely understands why Xiaokui is sad when she mentions the holiday.
Just when she was fully enlightened, the uncle's cry crossed her ears like a heavenly sound: "Children! Come and take a break! Uncle bought you a frozen watermelon to quench your thirst. ”
At that time, Yuxin felt that her legs had not yet received instructions from her brain, so she reflexively stepped out first. As soon as she walked up to her uncle, she felt like she had been freed from the eighteenth layer of hell. My whole body hurts, and my bones are about to fall apart, as if my body is not my own.
The uncle was cutting watermelons on the shore, and the few of them sat on the ridge without any image, panting for breath like cows dying of exhaustion.
Uncle handed them the watermelon and asked, "Are you tired?" ”
Everyone nodded in unison, they were really tired and didn't even have the strength to speak.
"Yes! It's really tiring! The uncle raised his head suddenly, looked at the sky and sighed: "But our ancestors have been passed down from generation to generation in this land, making cattle and horses, and working hard!" We are farmers! But we are glorious! ”
At that moment, Yuxin and they were all in awe! So, they rested for a while and went back to the rice fields to harvest.
The sun is scorching and the sun is shining.
When Yuxin was unconscious in pain, Duoduo suddenly cheered, as if she had won a battle, and announced: "Haha...... My mission accomplished! Everyone was immediately envious.
Duoduo threw the sickle on the shore, then sat on the ridge, took out his mobile phone, and hummed a song leisurely. While humming, he muttered, "You go on!" I'm going to take a picture of you as a souvenir? Everyone suddenly rose with a black line.
Then Duoduo really started taking commemorative photos for them, laughing while shooting. Sometimes he kept pointing at them, thinking that their posture was wrong, so angry that everyone gritted their teeth, and really wanted to grab a ball of mud and throw it on her face at once.
Duoduo patted for a while, and then became interested. Put away her phone and keep wandering around the ridge, who knows what she's doing.
Duoduo turned around a few times, and then came back with a slap in his hand. When you look closely, it is full of bright red wild fruits the size of glass beads.
"Duoduo! What is this? ”
"This one!" Duoduo took a wild fruit, handed it to them and said, "This one we call it Tianberry, which is in the same family as strawberry, and it is very sweet." Come! Taste it! ”
Yu Xin and Xiao Ya were very curious about this wild fruit, and each picked up one and threw it into their mouths, which dissolved when they touched it. Suddenly, a fresh sweetness flowed down the esophagus into the stomach.
"How? It's delicious! Duoduo squinted, like a child who had won an award certificate and hoped to be praised by adults.
"Uh-huh!" They nodded in unison.
As soon as Duoduo got their affirmation, her vanity was satisfied at once, she pulled Yuxin and Xiaoya, and said, "Go!" Let's go berry picking together! ”
"What about the rice that hasn't been harvested yet?" Xiaoya worried.
"That's not easy!" Duoduo turned his head and shouted, "Su Mu! Xiao Zuo! We're going to have a show! Yuxin and Xiaoya's share will be handed over to you......"
After saying that, Duoduo pulled them and ran away laughing. Leaving Su Mu and Xiao Zuo stunned in place, as if they had been stupefied by lightning.