For the rest of the year, she kept her livestock at home, drying dried sweet potatoes so that there would be no fresh vegetables and grass to feed the pigs and cows. For these sweet potatoes, the dried vines can be cooked in a pot in the winter to feed the pigs, and the cattle can also be fed, and the corn stalks left over from the corn harvest can be used to feed the cattle. However, she felt that these were still a little insufficient, but there was nothing she could do now, so she could only find a way later.

Now the things in the field are almost harvested, first the soybeans and mung beans are harvested, and then the sweet potatoes are harvested. This year, there are more sweet potatoes planted, so it takes more time to put them away, and only half of them were collected on the day when they went to eat the full moon wine of the Afu family's children, but she was not in a hurry, and she was also sorting it out while collecting it. The sweet potato roots were picked up and fed to the cattle, and the other sweet potato vines were fed to the pigs or set aside at night to chop up and dry and feed.

On the morning of September 12, after dinner, she was thinking about what to bring with her when she went to Ah Fu's house, and then after thinking about it for a long time, she still picked up fifty eggs from home. In the past, when I was a child at home, when my mother went to eat full moon wine, she sent eggs and chickens and money, and so on, but now there is not much money at home, and there are few chickens, but there are a lot of eggs at home, so you can send more eggs. As for how many eggs she sent, she also thought about it, the current eggs are almost three or two, and she sent fifty and sixty or seventy wen, which seems to be a bit much but not a lot now, plus Brother Afu did help her a little, and anyway, they can't eat much now, and they can earn favors by sending them out.

When he came to Ah Fu's house, his family didn't have a lot, and he gave the things he brought to their family, and others were very surprised and curious to see that she sent so many things. They were all talking about what she had to do with their family, but she didn't care too much. After eating at Ah Fu's house, she went to see the land she bought, and the grain in the field had not been harvested, but it seemed that it was almost ready to be harvested, just a few days. The fields are planted with corn grown in the paddy fields, and they are growing very well, and it seems that there is a lot of harvest this year.

It may be that someone saw someone coming into the field, and soon someone came to the field, the child of the person who rented her land. A little girl, who looks like she is only eleven or twelve years old, is very thin and not good at dressing, but she is very clean. She had seen her when the two of them rented the land, and the adults in her family called her a big girl, and she was a little surprised to see that the person who came was her eldest girl, and she was a little overwhelmed, but she still asked: "Sister Yang, are you here for something?" I'm going to call my dad and them now. "It's okay, I'm just here to eat and drink and come and see, you don't have to call them." By the way, big girl, have you eaten? Seeing that she seemed to turn around and run back immediately to call the adult's action, she hurriedly stopped. I haven't yet, Sister Yang, are you going to Brother Afu's house to eat? "That's right, Brother Afu's kid is full moon today, have you gotten there?" "No, my mother told me to watch from the field, don't let birds and people come and steal food." "This ............" she didn't know what to say, she knew that the harvest here was very small, but she didn't expect that even the birds had to be guarded, and there were people who stole food.

Later, she talked to the big girl for a while and left, and she asked the big girl at that time: "Big girl, did your father and mother say when to harvest the grain?" "No, but I've heard them say it's only been these two days, what's wrong Sister Yang?" "It's okay, I'll just ask if I'll be able to calculate the time to pull the grain when the time comes." Hearing her words, the big girl was lost for a moment, but she quickly covered it up, but she still saw it, and she asked, "What's the matter, big girl, why are you unhappy?" The girl looked at her twice and still didn't speak, so she asked the girl again before saying, "Then I said Sister Yang, don't be upset." Seeing that she nodded, she continued: "I just thought that half of the food we had grown after working hard for more than half a year would be lost all of a sudden, and I felt a little lost." Hearing the girl's words, her expression was also a little uncomfortable, probably seeing her expression, the girl said: "But I still want to thank Sister Yang for renting the land to our family, and the rent is not high, I heard that the rent of other people's land is four or six cents." And with these places, our family can have a full meal, and we don't have to go hungry anymore, so I'm really grateful to Sister Yang. ”

In the end, she forgot what she thought and how she got home, but she once again confirmed in her heart the difficulties of life in this era. But then she also put this matter down, she is just an ordinary person here, she can't change these things, and she doesn't dare. And she has to live, she can't make herself sad just to say she sympathizes with others, and she's done enough.

Then she continued to harvest the sweet potatoes in the field, and Li Bokang came back on the fifteenth day of the period, and brought back the news of the holiday. It was Mr. Wu who said that it was harvest time and let them help at home, and also experience the hardships of life, and then go to class in October. With Li Bokang's joining, the speed of harvesting has increased a lot, first the two of them dug together, and then they dug and picked up one person, and it took four or five days for the two to harvest the sweet potatoes.

After harvesting the sweet potatoes, we started to harvest the corn, and this year it took a little more time to take it back together with the corn stalks, but it only took an extra day. On the twenty-seventh day of September, all the things on the mountain were harvested, including the pumpkins in the field, and the corn stalks were piled up in two large piles. After harvesting, they rested at home for a day and twenty-nine, when they were ready to go to Lijia'ao, they wanted to see if the grain in the field had been harvested, and whether they could go to pull the grain. But before I went, when I was in town, I got the news that they were going to fetch food, because I couldn't find where their house was, so it dragged on for so long.

After getting the news, the two drove the ox cart to Lijiaao, because the ox cart was also the first time to catch up, and the whole way was very slow. The Li Tiegen's house they went to first was the eldest girl she met last time, and his family rented eight acres, three acres of land and five acres of land. Because she collected a total of more than 3,000 or 4,000 catties, including 900 catties of rice and more than 3,000 catties of corn, she could collect nearly 2,000 catties, but then she counted a whole number of 2,000 catties. The rest belonged to theirs, and when the grain was counted, Li Tiegen also said: "Miss Yang, don't worry, we will dry it and put it away, and we haven't eaten it at all, really." "Well, I believe you, I also inquired before renting it to your family, and I also inquired about how much grain can be produced from an acre of land; Besides, you won't give up renting my land because of this little cheapness, right? She still thought about it, because they lived far away and didn't know anything about here, and even if they believed them, there were some things that should be said or had to be said.

Next, they went to another rented house called Li Dazhu's house to collect grain, and his family was relatively simple, planting all the rice, and the total harvest was about 1,600 catties, 825 catties per family, and the remaining one or two catties were counted. She also told their family what she said at Li Tiegen's house, and their family also said the same thing as Li Tiegen's family, but what she thought in her heart was not something she could know.

Because there is more food, they can't pull it back at one time, so they told them to pull some back first, and the rest will be pulled tomorrow, and they all agreed, and promised that there would be no less food.