However, there are still very poor people who are poor, and Liu Man'er saw someone carrying a basket and picking up ears of rice in the field.

No one in the country wasted anything, and often after harvesting a field, they would sweep the whole field again, and pick it up if there was a fallen ear of rice.

However, after this kind of careful sweeping, some poor families who specialize in gleaning ears of rice will come to pick up ears of rice again, and most of the people who come to pick up ears of rice are women and children.

They carry baskets, and they are almost stealing food from sparrows, even if there is a grain or two of grain falling from the ground, and when they see it, they will pull it out of the mud.

After Liu Man'er saw it, she couldn't help but feel a little ashamed and sighed.

The poor are even poorer, like these people who come to pick up ears of rice often have no land themselves, or have little land, Ye He told her that she used to go out with the Fang family to pick up ears of rice.

But this year, I don't need to, after all, the conditions in the house are better than last year.

Speaking of this, Liu Man'er saw a sincere smile on Ye He's face, she happily ran to Ye Yuan's side, stretched her neck and looked into the bucket, "Wow, there are so many rice, this year's harvest is really good." ”

After Ye Yuan stopped, she put her hand into the bucket and played with the rice by herself, looking very happy.

Liu Man'er also had a smile on her face, and she helped shovel the rice from the bucket to the basket, and then planned to pick it up at home.

Although she is not very good at work, Liu Man'er still has the strength, but she can barely pick up this load of water valley.

"I'll come, I'll come ......" Ye Yuan saw Liu Man'er's movements and hurriedly stopped, he took the flat shoulder, and said to Ye Feng and the others: "You all go back and rest, everyone will rest this afternoon, there is nothing for you here." ”

"Yes, you go and rest." Liu Man'er also felt that this group of children was indeed tired in the past two days, she herself was also very tired, the sun was so big, she also wanted to go home, but seeing that there were still a lot of rice in this acre of land, she decided to stay and help for a while.

"Man'er, you can go back too." Ye Yuan said, "We don't have much land, after harvesting this acre of rice, there are only two acres of peanuts, this peanut is not in a hurry, when the time comes, I will pull it back, we will choose slowly." ”

"I'll pretend to be He." Liu Man'er said, "You pick this rice back first, and I'll be busy for a while and then come back." ”

"It's time to eat, let's go back." Ye Yuan looked at the sun in the sky, and asked Liu Man'er to go back.

Liu Man'er looked at the sun, it should be about eleven o'clock now, it should not be the time to eat, and at this time, there are no villagers to go back, so she said: "I'll be busy for a while, give me your mask." ”

As she spoke, she took off Ye Yuan's mask, patted the dust on it, and then stood in front of the bucket and pretended to be He.

It's easier said than done, this pretending to be He is really a strength job, but Liu Man'er gritted her teeth and insisted, her strength is not small, besides, many women in this village are pretending to be He, she can't be too squeamish, in her memory, last year, the original owner seemed to have pretended to be He, but she forgot about it at that time.

If it is next year, she must design a threshing machine in advance, so that it will not be so tiring.

Liu Man'er thought secretly while pretending to be He.

Carrying the rice one by one and smashing it down, seeing the golden rice falling into the bucket, there is indeed an indescribable sense of achievement, no wonder the villagers are very tired during this time, but when they greet each other, they can always see the smiles on their faces.

Probably this is what it means to be tired and happy.

After working for a while, Liu Man'er felt that her hands were sore, really sore, and she was a little tired from harvesting rice this morning and morning, but when she saw that there was still more than half of the rice in this field, she felt that she should hold on a little longer.

If she does more now, Ye Yuan can do less, and Ye Yuan shouldn't let her come over to help in the afternoon anyway.

Gradually, the villagers went home, and when they saw Liu Man'er still working, some of them would greet her loudly, "Hi, Ye Yuan's daughter-in-law, go back." ”

Some people laughed and said: "Silly girl, why are you so diligent, what kind of ecstasy soup did the Ye family pour you, don't you go back quickly, your family is cooking meat to eat, and it will be gone when it's late." ”

Some people respected her because Liu Man'er had not appeared in the village for a long time, and some still treated her like a fool in the past, but she didn't care and reciprocated their kindness one by one:

"It's okay, I'll go back when I'm done."

"Then let's go first." So saying, the men hurried home.

In fact, many people don't know Liu Man'er very well, but her reputation in the past was too loud, and she opened a small workshop during this time, although it was closed, but in this Dawan Village, almost everyone knows her.

Ye Yuan is a soldier again, Fang's husband is dead, and Ye Feng is studying again, in short, everyone in their family knows and knows in this village, and if you come to a stranger and ask, you can know where her family lives.

Although this reputation is not a good reputation, mainly because the village is closed to news and lacks after-dinner conversations, and their own family must have been mentioned by them.

But so what, life is like drinking water, cold and warm self-knowing, the mouth grows on others, just let them talk, as long as she doesn't hear it, if someone dares to say bad things about her to her face, she will not be polite to them.

Continue to be busy, hard-working people and more industrious people, in this field to play grass, Liu Man'er has no shortage of companions, some people do not go home, work under the sun.

Even many people are working with the stars and the moon, and they get up at dawn, just to catch up when the weather is good, and quickly recover the rice, otherwise if the weather is not beautiful and it rains, then this year's harvest will definitely lose a lot.

Liu Man'er pretended to be a farmer, while sighing that the world is difficult, farmers are not easy, after a while, Ye Yuan came back with a grain basket, and when he saw Liu Man'er sweating profusely, he hurriedly said, "Don't do it, go, go home and eat." ”

"Okay." Liu Man'er cleaned up the bundle of rice in her hand, threw the straw, and stopped.

Ye Yuan was busy putting out the rice in the bucket with a grain bucket, and the two of them were doing things together, although they were tired, Liu Man'er felt happy.

The sun rises and the sun comes in and rests, probably, this is the legendary Xiangyu?

Ye Yuan asked Liu Man'er to go home first, he himself carried the grain basket to the grain drying field, and Liu Man'er also wanted to go to the grain drying field to see his own rice, so he went with him.

It was harvest time, and the barn was already full of golden rice, and some families were afraid of being stolen and sent children to guard it, after all, this rice is not a small matter.

Because they are all harvested together, the drying field in this village is a little insufficient, and many families gather half-dried rice in a pile, and it is also a troublesome thing to say that this drying is also a troublesome thing.

It is necessary to use a kind of bamboo claw to grab some of the fine straw left in it, and when drying, it is necessary to turn it over from time to time with a special basket so that they can be dried more evenly.

After drying, it is necessary to use a windmill to blow out some of the deflated grains, and then classify and collect, in short, all kinds of troubles.

Because Ye Yuan's family only has one acre of land, this barning field is barely enough.

Some people say that if this barn is not enough, why not get a few more pieces? But in fact, in this ancient period, this threshing field was not so easy to obtain, unlike Liu Man'er's previous life, even in the countryside, every household was concrete, and even the main road could dry rice.

This Dawan Village has a special threshing field, which is a flat land, and every year when the harvest is about to be made, the chief will organize the villagers to clean up their own home threshing field again.

First of all, the threshing field should be raked with a rake, the big mud bumps should be broken, and then water should be poured on them, and when they are nearly half dry, they will be sprinkled with lime and flattened with stone stones, and then they will be swept away with a special broom to remove the floating ash, and they can be used.

But this is on the basis of the original, if you reopen a threshing field, not to mention where you got the land, it will take a lot of effort to tamp and flatten it.

Liu Man'er stood in the shade, watching Ye Yuan pour the millet into the barn and spread it out with a basket, the scorching sun, a golden barn field, reflecting the golden light, looked, it was really magnificent.

A good harvest is really a joyful thing, even if you are tired, looking at these grains, you feel infinitely motivated.

Rushed home with Ye Yuan, as soon as she got home, Liu Man'er felt that she had settled down, she didn't have to go to the field to do things this afternoon, it was rare to rest for half a day, but she felt that she was too tired these days, she felt that her back hurt, her hands hurt, and her whole body hurt.

She lay on the cool bed and slept until it was almost dusk, until Fang asked her to go to the barn to take back the millet in the barn, and she got up from the bed in a daze.

There were already a lot of women in the barn at this moment, most of them were holding wooden hammers, and the finely broken rice cores piled up in the corners of the hammers, and there was obviously some grain in them, and the industrious women who were not willing to waste them hammered them out one by one.

So in the whole threshing field, the sound of banging kept sounding, Liu Man'er and Fang's also joined in, hammered these well, Liu Man'er and Fang's only then gathered all these grains and carried them home in baskets.

Once the full grain is quite heavy, the main reason is that the barn is at the entrance of the village, Liu Man'er's house is at the end of the village, and there is a considerable distance in the middle, which may be the reason why he is too tired today, and the weather is too hot, Liu Man'er feels a little uncomfortable.

But she didn't think much about it, thinking that this must be her lazy disease, and she was delicate and couldn't do farm work.

But when I got home, I became more and more groggy, and I didn't want to eat dinner, so I just took a bath with mint leaves and boiled water, and then I lay down on the bed in a daze.