Chapter 26: Autumn Harvest
Before the meal, Yao Yuzhi specially took his three children to the newly bought courtyard to meet the village chief and village elders.
The village chief and the village elders watched her grow up, so naturally they would not embarrass her, and a few old men comforted her a few words, telling her that she was in trouble, and then praised the three children and let her go back.
Since then, Yao Yuzhi has been entertaining the women and children of the Wang family and the Ji family at home.
Wang Wen's, Ji Wu's, Ji's sister-in-law, Ji's second sister-in-law, Ji Shuying, Wang Wen and others sat at a table with Yao Yuzhi, and the five children of the Ji family - Brother Ji's 7-year-old Ji Tianwen, 5-year-old Ji Tianwu, and 3-and-a-half-year-old Ji Tianshu, Ji Tianquan, who was 4 and a half years old, and Ji Tianqi, who was 3 years old, sat at a table with Ren Hanjun, Ren Hantang, and Ren Hanyue.
Deng Qin's little doll was not worried about the table, so he also sat with them.
However, the situation that worried her about knocking over the dishes or arguing never appeared, and the little radish heads ate and drank for a while, and you talked to each other for a while, and soon they were as good as one person.
Although Ji Tianwen, the eldest brother of Ji's family, is only 7 years old, there is a group of "little brothers" in the village, and basically the little radish heads under the age of 10 are under his control.
After getting acquainted with the three sisters and brothers of the Ren family who ended their filial piety, this child has been enthusiastically taking them to play together.
Because of this, the three children of the Ren family quickly became one with the children in the village.
In addition to the previously mentioned sandbag throwing, hopscotch, shuttlecock kicking, rope skipping, eagle catching chickens, hiding cats, playing chess pieces, catching sparrows and roasting them to eat, Ren Hanyue also taught his friends the multi-talented and fun games of weaving flower baskets, tug-of-war, three words, and passing color balls.
Weaving flower baskets and tug-of-war only test physical strength, not intelligence, but the three words and the passing of the ball are different.
Passing the color ball is also called beating the drum and passing the flowers, because there are no drums, flower balls, and color balls, Ji Tianwen also secretly took the gong used by his grandfather before and the old silk flower worn by his sister-in-law as a replacement.
Every time this game is played, except for the person who is the person who is the one who is the one who wants to strike the gong, who has to face away from everyone, the other children will all sit in a circle on the ground.
When the gong stops, whoever is in the hands of the flower will either sing, or tell stories, tell jokes, or memorize more than four lines of poetry and articles, or do five to ten push-ups, squats, and run with high legs.
Children under the age of ten have basically not read much, so everyone rarely chooses to memorize poems and articles, but Ren Hanyue has really heard a lot of folk tunes and the myths, legends, and stories that are widely circulated in this era.
When everyone got tired of playing this game, Ren Hanyue taught them to play "three words" again.
The "three words" are divided into catchers and escapers according to the rules, and the catchers only need to touch each other with their bodies in the process of arresting, and the escapees will exit the game, but the escapees can shout the words composed of three words at any time and enter the protective state.
Fleeing people in a protected state cannot move or speak, but neither can captors.
In order for the escapee to be unprotected, his body must be touched by other friends who are also the escapees.
If the captor captures all the escapees, or if all the escapees are protected, the captor is considered victorious.
This game not only tests the agility of the reaction and the flexibility of the body, but also tests the number of words that the children master, which is very interesting.
Of course, in addition to the games provided by Ren Hanyue from later generations, local dolls such as Ji Tianwen also provided local games such as kite flying, spinning top, slingshot, wild fruit picking, bird eggs, and fishing in the river.
Ren Hanyue, who had an adult soul in the skin of the little baby, didn't know if her mind was affected by this body, she followed Ji Tianwen and the others up and down the mountains and rivers without any worries, running all over the village, and having a lot of fun.
Of course, while getting up early for morning exercises, listening to Yao Yuzhi reading, and playing with her friends, she didn't forget to secretly study the "Illustrations of Ancient Characters".
In the process of the little babies playing carefree and the adults busy working for the family, the time soon came to the end of October of the second year of Yongguang.
On the last day of October, Yao Yuzhi and them, with the help of all the adult laborers of the Ji family and the four long-term workers of the Wang family, threshed all the rice in the field and harvested it into the granary.
In order to thank these two families, Yao Yuzhi made the decision to divide 20% of the rice to the Ji family and the Wang family.
The Wang family and the Ji family refused to accept the food they sent, and in the end, Yao Yuzhi "threatened" that they would no longer need the help of the two of them, so the two families reluctantly accepted the food.
Yao Yuzhi returned satisfied, but what moved and helpless her was that the two families actually sent half a fan of pork and a basket of fish and shrimp the next day.
The pork was killed and sent over by the Wang family Grange, and the fish and shrimp were newly beaten by the Ji family's father, Brother Ji, and Second Brother Ji that day.
Yao Yuzhi couldn't refuse, so he had to accept the things sent by these two families with gratitude.
Ren Hanyue noticed that Yao Yuzhi was upset, and she secretly reminded Deng Qin's family, Deng Qin's family immediately filled four bamboo baskets of their own fruits and vegetables, and then asked Deng Xibin to send two baskets to the Ji family and the Wang family respectively.
This time, the Ji family and the Wang family neither said anything about not accepting it, nor did they hurriedly return the gift to the Ren family, and Yao Yuzhi felt better in his heart.
The fruits and vegetables produced by her family are not only delicious, but also seem to have the effect of strengthening the body, which is not much worse than the fish, shrimp and pork sent by the Ji and Wang families.
In other words, after a gift exchange, the rice she gave to the Ji and Wang families as remuneration was considered successful, which made Yao Yuzhi, who never liked to owe favors to others, very satisfied.
After the autumn harvest, the weather became colder and colder, in order to turn the rice into rice as soon as possible, Deng Xibin specially went to the town to buy a pair of stone mortars and wooden pestles for rice.
He bought a wooden pestle with a simple lever principle and a shape similar to a "rocking board", so that the person who was making rice could make the other end of the wooden pestle rise and fall by constantly pressing down and relaxing one end of the horizontal plank.
In the eyes of Ren Hanyue, a person with a modern soul, this kind of rice-making utensils are naturally backward, but in this era, this is already the most "advanced" rice-making utensils that people can invent.
Of course, even with this relatively advanced rice-making equipment, it is still a very tiring task to turn more than 3,000 catties of rice into rice in the granary.
After seeing Deng Xibin sweating profusely because of Chungmi, Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qinshi immediately consciously joined Chungmi's team - although the two of them together only topped Deng Xibin, but with two more people to share, Deng Xibin could at least have enough time to recover his rapidly consumed physical strength.