Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Harvest Continues
Speaking of building a cellar, after the decision had been made, the fifth brother hurriedly went to the firewood room to look at the terrain and began to dig the cellar.
"Fifth brother, don't be in a hurry to build a cellar, let's finish these corns first." Liu Yiyu pulled Liu Yihao and said.
The Liu family was rubbing corn together, talking and laughing.
Half an hour, during this time, Liu Yiyu took a hoe to turn over the soil in the field, and there were already a lot of blood blisters on his hands, and after rubbing the corn for half an hour, the original blisters were burst, and Liu Yiyu, who was in pain, frowned.
When Liu Yiyu took a look at the others, he saw that Liu Li had taken Xun'er, the sixth sister, the seventh brother, and the eighth sister to rub corn earlier, and the fingers were wrapped around the rags, and there were vague blood stains on the rags, and their fingers were much thicker than before, and they seemed to be swollen.
A few small ones didn't make a fuss and shouted pain, but they all worked hard to do things seriously, wanting to share some things with the family.
Liu Yiyu looked at it in his eyes, a little sad, and felt even more sorry for his younger siblings, and he couldn't wait to replace him.
However, Liu Yiyu thought of his previous life, the corn planted in the north, after drying, seemed to be threshed directly by a machine.
Liu Yiyu looked at the corn particles spread in the burlap bag, his heart turned, and after having a plan, he said, "Mother, you all rest for a while, your fingers are ......."
"Eldest sister, my mother is not tired, she still did it, if you are tired, eldest sister, you can rest for a while." Before Liu Yiyu finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Li.
Liu Li saw that after the blisters on Liu Yiyu's hands cracked, red flesh was revealed from inside, and he thought that the eldest sister was tired, so Liu Li hurriedly asked the eldest sister to take a break and said with concern.
"Yes? Sister, we're not tired, you can rest for a while! ”。 At this time, Liu Yihao followed.
"Yes? The eldest sister ......".
"You all care about the eldest sister, why doesn't the eldest sister care about you, the eldest sister looks at your fingers and ....., I can't say anything anymore, the eldest sister wants to say, let you stop for a while, the eldest sister has a way, don't let you suffer this sin, maybe you can threshing these corn faster?"
"Oh, so that's what happened? Eldest sister, what do you think? ”。 After Liu Yihao heard the eldest sister say that there was a way to thresh these corns faster, Liu Yihao believed his eldest sister's words very much, and asked with bright eyes.
Liu Yihao also knew that his mother and younger siblings were rubbing these corns, and his ten fingers were covered with blisters, and many of them were cracked, revealing the bright red flesh inside, but he had to do this for this job.
Liu Yihao also knows that his mother and younger siblings are working hard, not only to share some things for the family, but also to think that if he does more, he can let himself and others do less, and he can suffer less from this sin.
"Cheng, second sister, you go and bring the mallet for washing clothes to the eldest sister." After Liu Yiyu said this, he picked up a clean burlap bag, and then filled six or seven catties of corn into the burlap bag, and at this time, the second sister also brought a mallet for washing clothes and handed it to Liu Yiyu.
Liu Yiyu first tied the mouth of the burlap bag, and then took a mallet in his hand and beat it vigorously on the burlap bag containing corn.
After repeating more than a dozen times, Liu Yiyu stood up, carried the burlap bag left and right and fell to the burlap bag on the ground, and after more than a dozen times, Liu Yiyu sweated, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and gasped a few times.
"Eldest sister, can you succeed in this method?" The third sister asked questioningly.
"Third sister, just now I heard the sound of a rope in the burlap bag, maybe this sound is the sound of corn particles that have been taken off?" Liu Yiyang's eyes lit up, and he said to Liu Yishuang.
"The eldest sister doesn't know if this method will succeed or not, so she will know the result when she opens the burlap bag and looks at it." Liu Yiyang first glanced at the seventh brother, and after his heart moved, he turned his head to the third sister and said.
"Wow, eldest sister, how can this be done?". Liu Yihao couldn't wait to pour the burlap bag containing the corn directly.
Poured on the burlap bag spread on the ground, and a lot of corn particles were poured out of it, and by the way, there were corn cobs that had been stripped off, but a few corn particles stuck to the corn cobs and did not beat them down.
"At last I don't have to suffer this sin." The eighth sister on the side really saw that after the eldest sister did this, it was faster than her own hand rubbing, and she didn't want to suffer from blisters on her fingers.
"You're the ghost." The second sister Liu Yisa pointed to the forehead of the eighth sister.
"Since this method works, fifth brother, you go and find a few wooden sticks, I, the second sister, and the third sister, and the fifth brother will get these corn, and my mother will take the fourth sister, the sixth sister, the seventh brother, and the eighth sister to clean up the corn kernels left on the corn cob."
"Okay, big sister".
After Liu Yiyu's method was completed, the original Liu family planted an acre of corn and harvested nearly 500 catties of corn.
After Liu Yiyu's method, the efficiency of the Liu family has improved a lot, and it only took three days to thresh these corns.
After the corn was threshed, the Liu family began to prepare to grind all the corn into cornmeal.
After the Liu family finished grinding the cornmeal, the time slowly entered the beginning of October.
In the north of October, it has been very cold, now the Liu family lives in the newly built house, the hall house, and the master bedroom on both sides and the wings on both sides are paved with floor heating, and the embroidery building is also paved, the Liu family nests in the greenhouse in the front yard, sewing and repairing, embroidering embroidery, and playing with the soles.
At this time, Liu Yiyu said, "Grandma, mother, now that our house has been built for so long, and the farm work in the field is also busy, my granddaughter is thinking, is it necessary to invite the Zhang shopkeeper and the Huang shopkeeper of the splendid cloth shop in the town, as well as the old man of Derentang, the Zhang family and the Wang family who are good friends with our family, to come to our house to be lively and lively, and walk around?" ”。
"If the eldest sister doesn't talk about this, grandma will forget about it? They are all good friends with our family, and our family has built a new house, so we should invite them to have a meal, and as for what the people in the village say, we don't owe them, and we can't manage so much."
Previously, the Liu family told the people in the village about picking up cicadas and molting their shells, and in exchange, they asked the head of the village to work for their own people to build houses. I can't take care of the Liu family.
Now that the people in the village have finished their farm work, they are idle, and after they have nothing to do, they see that the Liu family has built such a big blue brick and tile house, and they are jealous of the Liu family one by one, and they are gossiping.