Chapter 248: Harvesting Grain

After more than half a month of heavy rain and moderate rain, the villagers of Shangu Village are now sighing and sighing, one by one unable to sit still, and the rice in the paddy fields has been completely submerged.

After half a month of fermentation, the rice has sprouted again, and the germinated rice cannot be eaten, and the rice that comes all year round cannot be harvested.

Many villagers have already scolded the heavens and the earth, and are crying at home.

At this time, it was still raining heavily, and other crops such as sweet potatoes and corn in the dry fields were still there, but the villagers of Shangou Village were also afraid that the corn would sprout, and the sweet potatoes were buried in the soil for too long, and they were soaked and washed by water for a long time.

Now the villagers of Shangou Village can't take care of the heavy rain, and when it is time for the autumn harvest, the villagers of Shangou Village braved the heavy rain, and the young strong men began to harvest the corn in their dry fields one by one.

The head of the family who had enough manpower also picked up a hoe and went to dig sweet potatoes.

It's another problem to get this grain back.

There was no sun, and it was raining, so it was very humid.

Corn cobs are not dry, they will be moldy and smelly, sprout, once they are not dried, they cannot be ground to make food, but sweet potatoes are easy to handle, directly wipe clean water, and then put them in the cellar, which can be put for a long time.

However, some villagers have come up with a way to dispose of corn cobs to dry.

Now many villagers have burned floor heating in their homes, and put dried corn cobs and sweet potatoes on the kang to dry.

Once this method is used, it does not have to be dried slowly under the eaves of your own house, or even more than that.

Some villagers were watching, hoping that the rain would stop as soon as possible, but the villagers who were just waiting for two days had been raining, and they couldn't wait, so they began to brave the heavy rain to harvest grain.

Seeing that it was raining heavily, and the time for the autumn harvest had arrived, the rain did not stop, and after seeing the crops in the fields sought-after by many villagers, Liu Li couldn't sit still.

Liu Li beckoned the Liu family sisters and brothers and Zhou Hao to go to their fields to harvest grain.

After the Xuandan family saw that the Liu family braved the heavy rain to harvest the crops in their field, the Xuandan family also knew that the Liu family had more than a dozen acres of land and planted a lot of grain.

In addition, the Liu family did not have many people to collect the grain, and they braved the heavy rain to harvest it, so the Xuandan clan instructed the Xuan steward to arrange for the subordinates of the family to follow the Liu family to collect the grain in their fields.

The Liu family had more than a dozen acres of land, and it only took three days to harvest all the grain.

It's just that it is not yet the best autumn harvest season, and the output has decreased, but the loss of the Liu family is not large.

After the grain is harvested, the sweet potatoes are directly washed and dried, and then sent to the cellar, melon seeds and peanuts are even simpler, and after washing them directly, the Liu family directly opens the fire and cooks spiced melon seeds and peanuts.

It is a little troublesome to dry the corn, but fortunately, the Liu family has many rooms, each room is covered with floor heating, burned with firewood, the kang is hot, and these corn cobs are spread on the kang in the room, and the corn cobs harvested in two or three acres of land are just spread on the kang of several rooms, which is not worrying about the Liu family.

However, after the Liu family finished harvesting the grain in their fields, Liu Yiyu wanted to make friends with the Wang family, the Huzi family and the Zhang Langzhong family, and they were all grabbing the grain.

Liu Yiyu asked Zhou Hao and Zhang Cheng to go to Wang's house to help, the second sister took the third sister and Huang Qing to Huzi's house to help, and Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhang took the fourth sister to Zhang Langzhong's house to help.

Originally, the Xuandan clan saw that Liu Yiyu arranged for his own family to go to the Wang family, Huzi's family and Zhang Langzhong's family to help, and the Xuandan clan wanted to ask Xuan's steward to arrange some people to help the three of them, so as to reduce the burden of the Liu family.

But this matter was stopped by Liu Yiyu, saying, there are more than 40 families in Shangou Village, and one family after another comes to help, but they can't help so much, your Xuan family helps my Liu family, that is your intention, plus, your Xuan family's young master fell into the water, I saved it, and the people in Shangou Village know that your Xuan family helped my Liu family to harvest food, that is to repay the favor, and others will not say anything.

Once your Xuan family helped the Wang family, the Huzi family, and the Zhang Langzhong family, but did not help the villagers of other mountain valley villages to harvest grain, this may mean that the people in the village will have to make irresponsible remarks.

Xuandan's family said that he was not afraid, and let others say it.

'Words are terrible'. Liu Yiyu only said four words.

After hearing this, the Xuandan clan was silent for a while, nodded, and did not say that he would help the three families who had made friends with the Liu family to harvest food.

Zhou Hao and Aunt Zhang helped the three Wang families to harvest food, and after no one in the town did anything,

Liu Yiyu and Liu Li's six sisters, Xun'er, and eighth sisters, plus the eldest and second sisters, Huang's sister-in-law, and Zhou's younger brother are on top of the business in the town.

The Wang family and the three of them have the help of the Liu family, and although the grain harvested is much faster, it is still much slower than in the past, and the grain harvested is about seventy percent of previous years.

This is considered high, and many villagers are at most sixty percent, or even four or five percent.

The rain didn't stop until October.

There are many villagers whose grain has not been harvested, especially the sweet potatoes, which are buried in the land, and after such a long time of rain, the sweet potatoes that have not been dug up have rotted in the soil and cannot be eaten.

By this time, it was already very cold, and it began to frost.

By the halfway point of October, it was slowly starting to snow.

On this day, the Liu family was alone in the ten acres of medicinal herbs planted by their family, and even the noodle restaurant in the town stopped working for a day, because, today, the Liu family had other more important things to do.

"Master, how about this medicinal herb? Can we collect it? ”。 Liu Yiyu saw that Xun Lao pulled out a root at random from the ten acres of medicinal herb field planted by his family, wiped it on his clothes, and chewed it carefully in his mouth after putting it in his mouth.

Goodbye Xun Lao one after another in the acre of land, randomly extracted a few places, picked a few planted rhizomes of prince ginseng and northern sand ginseng, and tasted them one by one.

Originally, Prince's Ginseng and Beisha Ginseng were planted in March and harvested in November, but this year's disaster is not a single line, either insects, or rain, and now it is snowing again, and there are still a few days away from November to be able to harvest these Prince's Ginseng and Beisha Ginseng, Liu Yiyu is afraid that there will be a case, I am afraid that I will not be able to wait for such a long time, so I will call to look for the old and see if these medicinal materials can be harvested.

Liu Yiyu was looking forward and worried in his heart, waiting for his grandfather's reply.

Everyone in the Liu family is no exception, with a pair of bright eyes, staring at Xun Lao, for fear that Xun Lao will say something bad.