At the beginning of September, it was harvest season again.

The potatoes planted in the field at home have been harvested before, and now the sweet potatoes, soybeans, and mung beans in the field have to be harvested, and the corn has also begun to grow old, and it is time to harvest it after a while. Today, she and Li Bokang are ready to harvest sweet potatoes.

There are still many sweet potato vines in the field, so they are cut with a sickle and piled aside, and can be used to feed chickens or cover manure as fertilizer in the future. After cutting the sweet potato vines, they started digging, and there were two hoes at home, so the two of them dug together. Originally, they didn't plant much, so they finished harvesting in half a day, and after lunch, they cleaned all the soil from the dug sweet potatoes, put them in baskets, and then put them in the storeroom. This year, a total of three baskets of sweet potatoes were harvested, and there were almost two or three hundred catties of large and small.

After harvesting the sweet potatoes, he put away some of the not very good vegetables left in the field, which were kept for his own consumption. Now there are some leeks and tomatoes and peppers left in the field, as well as corn, soybeans, mung beans and other grains. It took two more days to make a few racks for drying beans, and then cut all the beans in the field, tied them up one by one with grass, and hung them on the racks to dry.

This year, there are more things planted, and corn and beans need to be dried before they can be put away, and there is no place to dry them at home. Although there is a large open space, the ground is too soft to be used for drying, and if you pound it tightly now, you will have to do more things when you plant it later. So she wanted to go down the mountain and buy two large mats, spread them on the ground to dry things and collect beans.

On the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, Yang Xue and Li Bokang each carried a basket down the mountain, and today they had to buy some daily necessities in addition to buying mats. When I came to the street, I walked around and saw that there were two places selling bamboo mats, so I took a look and chose a relatively cheap one, and I could buy three of them, and I spent 60 Wen. The thing was a bit heavy, but she still carried it on her back, but Li Bokang still took one and carried it on his own.

After buying a mat and going to a cloth shop to buy cloth, she wanted to make two more quilts and two more clothes for Li Bokang. It was autumn now, and she had to make at least one more bed of cotton wool before winter came, or they would have to have one of them suffer from the cold. And he also had to make two autumn and winter clothes for Li Bokang, and his clothes were all worn in summer. But fortunately, her needlework has improved a lot in the past two years, otherwise she would have to do it for a long time.

Today they bought a piece of cheesecloth and ten feet of muslins, and this time she asked her boss to send some cloth heads and cotton thread. Coarse cotton is used to make clothes and bed sheets and quilt covers, and fine cotton is used to make underwear for Li Bokang. Although it is unreasonable for her to do this, no one but her makes it for him now, after all, these things cannot be bought outside. I'll have to make some more cotton shoes and socks or something, and as for the cotton, they want to wait two days to buy it. This time she has to buy some salt and food, she hasn't bought food for more than two months, and now there are two of them to eat, so the food consumption is quite large. She had eaten almost a third of the food she had stored before, and she had to buy some more food to save while eating.

However, they couldn't buy too much food this time, and Li Bokang was only twelve, plus there were some other things, so they only bought about ten catties. This time she was going to take the rabbit leash back with the nitrate before, and she forgot about too many things before, but fortunately, the boss didn't forget, and the two of them went back after paying the rest of the money.

Next, it took two days to pound a dam of nearly 200 square meters at the door, that is, to beat out all the doors of the house and the open space next to it. The house is about two or three meters wide on the left and right, and five or six meters wide in front. After doing this, they went down the mountain again, this time to buy cotton and grain, and bought 20 catties of cotton and more than 20 catties of grain.

In the next few days, she was not in a hurry to make clothes and quilts, she took Li Bokang to the mountains for a few days and took back all the wild fruits on the mountain. After retrieving the corn, pumpkins and winter melons in the field, it took a lot of time to harvest the corn, and it took five or six days to harvest them.

The recovered pumpkins and winter melons were first placed in the dam at the door to dry for a few days, and the corn was also spread on top of the bamboo mats to dry. After harvesting all the grain, she planted cabbage, turnips and garlic in the field.

After the vegetables were planted, they began to move the dried pumpkins and winter melons into the storeroom, and after two days, the corn was also collected in the storeroom. After harvesting the corn, the beans began to be beaten, and the beans that had been dried before had been dried, and some of them had already exploded and fallen out. Beating beans is actually very simple, that is, the dried bean stalks are spread on the bamboo mat, and then beaten on them with the selected wooden sticks, so that the beans come out after beating back and forth a few more times, and finally pick up the big bean stalks and sieve the small bean husks to get clean beans. It took two days to get them completely ready, and there were almost fifty pounds of beans in total.

Perhaps they were lucky, it rained the night they had just finished harvesting the beans, and it rained for two or three days in a row. It just so happened that they took advantage of the rain to rest for a few days, but they were not idle in the past few days, Yang Xue started to make quilts and sheets in the past few days, and Li Bokang was on the side to help. Although he didn't help with this.

Yang Xue first made quilts, and when she made quilts, she made them in the living room that was repaired later. When he did it, Li Bokang first watched it and then helped with him, although he did it very slowly, but the effect was still very good. Finally, they were all made before the winter, a thick quilt of about seven catties and a thin quilt of about four catties. In addition, he also made two sets of cotton clothes for Li Bokang, one thin and one thick. There are still two or three catties of cotton left at home, and the cotton cloth at home is gone, but she still wants to make two more bed sheets, so that they can be used instead. So they went down the mountain again to buy something.

This time, I still bought a horse of coarse cotton, and I still bought grain. By now, there wasn't much money left of the money she had saved before, just over one or two. And she hasn't received her account this year, but fortunately she still has a lot of dried vegetables at home, and she should have some money if she sells them next time she comes. It took a few more days to make two bed sheets.

This winter, they moved to a cave, where there was only one bed, but it was warmer than the house outside. Of course, they lived separately, and the bed Li Bokang lived in was a simple bed made of wood cut to prepare the house, and the straw mats and cotton wool in his previous room were moved in and laid out, and then the quilt was put on. It's not very convenient, but it's okay to just do it once, and then it's good to improve it slowly.