Chapter 16, Harvesting Rice

On the third day after Song Ziyang left, Yang Cuiping asked someone to harvest rice, their rice was a few days earlier than other people's rice, Yang Cuiping also wanted to grab the front of other people's houses, and everyone began to harvest rice later, so they got busy, Song Ziyang left, and he was a pot-bellied woman, if he didn't collect it early, he would have to compete with others for time.

When Yang Cuiping went to invite people, the men in the team were almost gone, and almost all of them were women at home, but the women here were very good at work, and the men were relieved to go.

Yang Cuiping went to invite all women There are no men, but this hard work is troublesome, harvesting rice has to carry a machine, and a big wooden barrel, and there is no man who can't lift it.

Yang Cuiping went to ask a man from a family with whom she usually has a good relationship to help harvest the rice, but the family said that he did not have time and wanted to rush to harvest peanuts. (Later, I heard from others that the family complained that their men went out to earn money, and the mother-in-law was a pot-bellied mother-in-law, so I didn't help her)

Fortunately, another man, who usually has a good relationship with Song Ziyang, came to help, and there are two men in my father-in-law.

On the day of the rice harvest, Yang Cuiping cooked rice early in the morning, and the people who invited Yang Cuiping usually had a good relationship with Yang Cuiping, and they came early, but when they had breakfast, the village had a power outage again, the circuit was not very stable at that time, and there was no notice in advance of the power outage, which was troublesome, there was no money at home, this time it was borrowed money to buy meat and wine to invite people, and now there is a power outage, if the rice is not harvested today, everyone has been lined up in the back time, everyone wants to rush to harvest the rice, and after today, they will have to wait until the back.

At that time, there was no refrigerator, and the vegetables and meat I bought could not be put away, and what would I do with my life later.

There was no way, so Yang Cuiping decided not to use the machine, but to use the method of harvesting rice in the past, and mix it by hand. (It is to take a handful of rice in the hand and beat it in a wooden barrel, and beat the grain down directly,) so it is very tiring, there are many women who came that day, and they all said that they would not mix rice, (probably afraid of being tired) Only the father-in-law and Song Ziyang's friend two men mixed it by hand, and the result was that at the end of the day, the rice was not finished, and there was not much surplus, but the father-in-law and that friend were tired enough.

Yang Cuiping is responsible for cooking and delivering water at home, and Yang Cuiping cooks dinner in the evening, and people have to get drunk to relieve their fatigue after a tired day.

Yang Cuiping cooked, and Dongdong began to cry and wanted to sleep.

Dongdong usually loves to cry a little, especially when he sleeps, he is used to it, but later he is more used to it because of illness, and after Yang Cuiping is pregnant, he sticks to Yang Cuiping all day long, (I heard the old people say, this is a manifestation of contention).

Yang Cuiping coaxed Dongdong to sleep, Dongdong just didn't sleep well, the people who worked came back, Yang Cuiping asked them to help bring out the food by themselves, and the sister-in-law rushed to help get the food, and the others went back after eating, and the father-in-law was still drinking with that friend, and today it really made the two men tired.

Dongdong has not been coaxed to fall asleep, until it is very late, the father-in-law has finished drinking, everyone went back to rest, Dongdong still did not fall asleep, Yang Cuiping has been holding and coaxing, but no matter how coaxed to sleep, the dishes and chopsticks on the table have not been cleaned up, and the pigs are hungry and keep barking.

Yang Cuiping became angry all of a sudden, and threw Dongdong on the ground, Dongdong was so frightened that he cried, Yang Cuiping took a ruler and scared Dongdong, "I don't want you anymore, you are so disobedient, from before it gets dark to now, you don't sleep, you don't sleep, I will kill you" Saying that, he knocked on the cabinet with a ruler, Dongdong was also frightened, and suddenly threw himself into Yang Cuiping's arms, Yang Cuiping grabbed Dongdong and threw it on the bed, "Sleep yourself, you dare to cry," Dongdong was so frightened that he didn't dare to cry, so he closed his eyes.

Yang Cuiping didn't care about him, so she went to wash the dishes and feed the pigs, and it was already late at night after cleaning up, and Dongdong was already asleep.

The next morning, Yang Cuiping got up early the next morning to help other people's families harvest rice, others helped you, you have to go back to work, or who will be willing to help you in the future. My own grain has been recovered, so I don't have to worry.

Yang Cuiping helps this family harvest rice every day, her belly is big, she can't bend down, so she helps other people's families to spread grass, (everyone doesn't want to do this work, because the dust is big, it's very choking) Yang Cuiping can't run, so she has to do this, and she has done it for more than ten days in a row, because she invited more than ten people, and she has to pay back more than a dozen jobs.

When everyone's rice is recovered, their own rice has not been dried, and they have begun to teeth, because the place is small, and they have to wait for their mother-in-law to dry it, and they can dry it, and the mother-in-law's grain is dried, and when Yang Cuiping wants to dry it, it will start to rain, and that season is when there is a lot of rain, there is no good weather, and Yang Cuiping's millet is all bad.

I can't eat it at home, so I sell it all to the dealers.

In addition to the brother-in-law, the three brothers were not at home, and the fields of the three families had to be pears for the father-in-law, who had already started plowing the fields, and after the rice harvest was ready to plant wheat and rapeseed. After the rice is harvested, the grain grass should be dried and put away, and the cattle should be fed in winter.

There are not so many piles in the house at home, so I find a tree near the field and put the grain grass on the tree, so that it is also fresh grass in winter, and the grass on the mountain is old in winter, and the cattle are not full, so they feed the cattle grain grass at night.

The mother-in-law said that she would help Yang Cuiping work every day, but she couldn't finish her own work, and her mother-in-law couldn't arrange the work, and she had no clue.

Yang Cuiping couldn't wait for her mother-in-law to help her work, so she took Dongdong to the field every day, planting rapeseed alone, there were many insects in the field, and they bited, often Dongdong was covered with pimples, and Dongdong often cried in the field with swollen eyes, Yang Cuiping was also distressed, but there was so much work there, and there was no way.

The fields are almost planted, and there is only one last sweet potato field left, and the sweet potatoes must be dug up and planted with wheat.

At this time, the cadres of the township and the cadres of the village came together several people, urging Yang Cuiping to go for labor induction, Yang Cuiping said, "I still have the last piece of land to plant, when I dig out the sweet potatoes, plant wheat and go to the operation," the cadre said, "No, it seems that you are about to give birth, what to do if you give birth in a few days," Yang Cuiping said, "No, wait for me to clean up the house in a few days, and go immediately, in fact, I don't want to give birth, otherwise I would have hid out" At this time, the village cadre said, "Just wait for her for a few days, When she's done with the house, she'll go for surgery, and I promise," I promised."

A few days later, Yang Cuiping planted the last piece of land with wheat, sold all the pigs in the family, and went to the hospital to induce labor injections, when she was more than eight months pregnant.

When I went home and waited until my stomach began to hurt, I asked my sister-in-law to go to the hospital with me, and my sister-in-law helped take care of herself, and by the evening she gave birth to a girl, who had died after birth.

Yang Cuiping is not distressed at all, she has always wanted to kill this child, the first is because of strict family planning, there is no money to fine, the second is that Song Ziyang is not at home all day, and he doesn't do any work at home, Yang Cuiping has to take Dongdong and do farm work in the field, and go out to cut pigweed at noon every day, and lead the cow to work every day, hold Dongdong in his arms, and lead the cow with a belly, these are not counted.

The main reason is that she is tired, Song Ziyang doesn't care about her family, her mother-in-law has to scold and scold all day long, Yang Cuiping is tired and even more tired, and she has no love but hatred for the child in her belly.

At the beginning, her mother-in-law said that she asked Yang Cuiping to give birth to the child and raise it herself, and she was raising them for Dongdong, but Yang Cuiping resolutely disagreed, thinking, you just gave your brother to your grandparents at the age of four, and now you want me to go your way, I can't afford to raise it, and I don't want to follow your old path.

The mother's mother also resolutely disagreed with Yang Cuiping giving birth to this child, "Look at what your life has become now, now you are almost grinding to death, if you are giving birth to this child, it will definitely grind you to death" Indeed, as her mother said, Yang Cuiping also thought that this child could not be kept, because there was no money for surgery, so it was delayed again and again, and it was delayed until now.

On the fifth day after the child was killed, Song Ziyang came back, because it had begun to get cold in Shanxi, and the road had been repaired.

When she came back, Yang Cuiping was in confinement, thinking that it would be good for Song Ziyang to come back.

Later, I realized that I seemed to be thinking too much......