This year, the weather is beautiful, the wheat blooms finely, and the villagers are looking forward to the next few days when there will be no more rainstorms and winds, so this year can be regarded as a good harvest year. Lan Yi waited for a few more days, and when she saw that the harvest was imminent, she decided to sell the grain in her cellar.

Last year, not counting her own planting, there were more than 1,000 catties of wheat, rice and soybeans handed over from the land rented by the Fa family and the second uncle's family on Tuesday, and Lan Yi's family only had three people and couldn't eat much, so most of the grain was still neatly stacked in the cellar now. Fortunately, the cellar was ventilated and dry, and there were no insects and rats, and the grain was not wasted.

Lan Yi saves these grains in order to be safe, if there is a disaster year, the grain can save lives, and now that the new grain has come down, the old grain will naturally be sold.

Now Second Uncle Wang's family is busy watering the fields and raising seedlings, preparing to plant rice in a few days. Lan Yi borrowed the second uncle's car, put on a little donkey and pulled the family's grain storage, and went to the county seat to sell grain.

This year, the price of grain has stabilized, and the price of grain has not fluctuated, and now it is only a penny more expensive than when it was first received. Lan Yi also has experience this year, and knows how much the family has to eat in a year, so she didn't plan to store all the food in the cellar after laying the grain this year, but made overall arrangements, and sold what should be sold, and she could also free up a lot of space to put things.

After selling the grain, Lan Yi also brought the goat milk powder accumulated at home to sell. The sales of goat milk powder are very good, and it has risen to 200 wen a catty, but the milk production of the second and third baa is no longer as good as when the last time the milk was sold, and the three of them drank it every day, and there were less than twenty catties left. Among them, there was also a jar that she gave to Lei Tianze, Lei Tianze and Lan Yi are now friends, and the two have talked about each other several times, and they are even more sympathetic.

Lan Yi's family is the busiest now, except for her, she is the little donkey. Now it transports things every day, and it has to grind. Lan Yi asked the stonemasons in the village to help her make a small grinding plate a few days ago, and Second Uncle Wang helped her pick a vacant land on the west side of the west wing to support it, and put up a roof on it to turn it into a simple small mill. In this way, the little donkey also has a job, and when he is idle, he is tied to Lan Yi and grinded, and the soybeans, mung beans and rice noodles that are ground are made into various kinds of food after Lan Yi has passed the fine basket.

Yu'er and Baobao like to eat mung bean paste and rice noodles very much, so their appetite has not decreased after entering the summer, and Lan Yi doesn't have to worry about their bitter summer.

Liu also likes the taste of mung bean paste, and often goes to his sister-in-law's house to eat some food in his free time.

"Sister-in-law, Lin Yuan and they are so busy, when will they be able to come back, it looks like they are about to harvest wheat." Wang Linyuan is now running out every day, busy selling peony seed oil from the oil mill. Wang Linxi is better, because he has to learn to cultivate peonies from Zhao Huajiang, and the peony seedlings grown from peony seeds planted last year also need to be taken care of, so he is a little more than Wang Lin when he is at home.

"Don't worry, you'll be free when you harvest the wheat." For farmers, no matter what business is not as important as the family's field, they must come back when the farm is busy.

Liu nodded after hearing this, and talked about the latest gossip in the village: "Sister-in-law, you have heard, the rich man of our village is back, you said that a few days ago, the Qingming ancestor came back so quickly, and the second sister-in-law said that he was fascinated by the Luo clan at home." ”

After speaking, Liu bit his lip and hesitated to tell his sister-in-law what he had heard recently.

Lan Yi smiled and put away her dried honeysuckle: "Third brother and sister, what do you want to say, just say it directly, let's be polite." ”

"Sister-in-law, you don't know, I'm so angry. A few people with long tongues in the village said everywhere that you and Leifuzi have been close to each other recently, and I'm afraid that we are going to become a family. Liu gritted his teeth and said.

Lan Yi has met Lei Tianze a few times recently, they are gentlemen and frank, and they are not behind others, so they are naturally looked at by others, and gossip comes out.

Fortunately, everyone has also learned about Lan Yi's personality for more than a year; In addition, Mrs. Lei acted uprightly and praised Lan Yi's knowledge and insight several times with the people around her, and the people in the village respected the master of Yixue very much, and most of them did not believe the words of these long-tongued women.

"Sister-in-law, you're still smiling!" Seeing that his sister-in-law was smiling indifferently, Liu stomped his feet and said. But in a blink of an eye, she seemed to understand something, and then asked, "Sister-in-law, do you really plan to let him be your son-in-law?" ”

Lan Yi choked on her words and couldn't help coughing.

"Third brother and sister, what are you talking about!"

When Liu Shi spoke, he felt that he was in order: "Actually, Lei Fuzi is good, but I don't know where his house is, whether he will settle down here." ”

Lan Yi hurriedly said after he got angry: "Third brother and sister, I just admired Lei Fuzi's knowledge, and I said a few more words to him, and I didn't mean anything else. ”

Seeing Lan Yi like this, Liu pursed his lips and smiled: "We all know." Sister-in-law, look at you in a hurry. I don't know what kind of person you're looking for. ”

After Liu left, Lan Yi reflected on her actions. In fact, she really didn't have any thoughts about Lei Tianze, and Lei Tianze didn't mean anything to her at all, the two simply felt that they were in the same lane and cherished each other.

But this era is different from modern times, after all, the two are different from men and women, and it is inevitable that there will be gossip. Liu's words, why didn't they mean the second uncle Wang's family?

She sighed, I really can't wait to learn Zhu Yingtai, a woman dressed as a man, and change into men's clothes when she wants to do something, which is convenient and trouble-free.

Either way, these were just episodes, as the south wind blew in, the wheat in the field turned yellow, and the fields were golden yellow, with only a few dark green weeds mixed in, indicating that it was summer rather than late autumn.

There are many people in the wheat field who are busy pulling wheat, and the wheat here is plucked instead of being cut with a sickle, although it is tiring, but it is better to clean up the field after harvesting.

Now the village Yixue has also taken a holiday, and the students are allowed to go home to help harvest the wheat. Lan Yi only has two acres of wheat, and she harvested it with Second Uncle Wang's family. Every day, Lan Yi brings a hat and gloves and leads the donkey to the field to help pull wheat and transport things, or help the Li family to cook wheat roots in the drying store, and she is very busy.

Second Uncle Wang's family went into battle together, and their family's slopes and paddy fields together also had more than a dozen acres, and it naturally took effort to harvest. Even Daifuku was sent a mission, and he helped with two Niu Niu every day, and by the way, he helped lose McGen.

The first to be harvested was Lan Yi's two acres of wheat, and this year there were not only donkeys at home, but also ox carts. The harvested wheat is quickly transported to the drying shop to remove the wheat roots and dry, and then the oxen pull the stone mills back and forth on the paved wheat for half a day to let the wheat grains come out, which is much easier than last year's hand-smashing of wheat ears.

"No wonder the second uncle likes cows so much, this calf has a lot more strength than a donkey." Lan Yi looked at the scalper who was pulled by the second uncle and sighed.

Li wiped his sweat and said with a smile: "Who said it wasn't, with this cow, we can be faster this year." ”

"Sister-in-law, I'll help you pull these grains back." After Lan Yi's two acres of wheat were threshed, they were packed into bags and put aside, and Wang Linyuan thought that it would save trouble to pull them back with an ox cart.

Lan Yi shook her head: "There have been few things in the past two days, and I can transport it home with a donkey myself." Rest yourselves, and then we will have to go and pull wheat in the field. ”

Wang Linyuan heard Lan Yi say this, so he helped her throw a bag of wheat on the donkey's back and put it away, and Lan Yi led the donkey to rush home.

Oilcloth was spread on the open space in the courtyard, and the wheat was transported back and dried on the oilcloth, and the wheat from the two acres of land was transported back and forth several times.

The second uncle's family has a lot of land, but everyone rushes to harvest the wheat, and after five or six days of busy work, they will grind down the wheat grains and dry them on the field, and the golden pieces of wheat tell the joy of the harvest.

After harvesting the wheat, the wheat field has begun to tidy up the ridges and release water and transplant seedlings. Lan Yi still doesn't plan to plant rice, although the yield of Zhancheng rice in this place is not low, but she can't do it when she goes into the water to plant rice, and she still wants to keep the slope to grow some vegetables, so she won't have to plant rice if she inserts it. Therefore, after receiving the wheat, Lan Yi ordered late mung beans in the field, she didn't plan to plant soybeans, and the experience of picking insects in the field last year still made her feel creepy when she thought about it, and she didn't plan to experience it again.

On this day, there was a rainstorm on a sunny day, and it was menacing.

When everyone saw the rain, they pulled their legs from the field and ran to the drying field, where they were drying patches of wheat, and if they were washed away by the water, they would be busy this year.

Lan Yi also ran down the hillside and ran home. The wheat at home is also drying in the yard, although there are Yu'er and Baobao watching at home, but what can the two children do at such a young age.

As she ran home, she passed by the crowd. The clouds and the wind in the sky came down, and everyone didn't even have the time to say hello, but hated that they had lost two legs and ran too slowly.

When Lan Yi arrived at the door, the raindrops of beans had already fallen, and she anxiously pushed open the door and ran in.

saw Zhou Weiji in his own home, helping Yu'er to cover wheat together. Lan Yi didn't have time to be polite, so she went up and worked with Zhou Weiji to pull up the oil, press it on the wheat, and then press the oilcloth with stones and sticks.

Zhou Wei was extremely energetic and his movements were also sharp, and the two of them quickly finished their work and hid under the eaves of the East House.

"Mother, I can't do it alone, so I ran over and called Uncle Tuesday over." Yu'er had a chance to interject and quickly explain why Tuesday Bo came over to help.

"Thank you, Brother Tuesday." Lan Yi wiped her face and thanked Zhou Weiji, fortunately he was there today, otherwise his wheat would have been washed away.

Zhou Weiji saw that Lan Yi's clothes were wet, and he was afraid that Lan Yi would catch a cold if he stayed any longer, so he turned his head and said, "Hurry up and take the child into the house." The wheat was covered and it was fine, and I went back. ”

With that, he strode into the rain and turned back to his home.

Lan Yi couldn't be polite, and hurriedly pulled Yu'er into the house, only then did she take a breath, and the baby sensibly brought a towel to wipe the sweat of her mother and brother.

"Mother, aren't you angry?" Yu'er twisted the towel and asked, he already knew that his father was dead, and his mother couldn't interact with the men in the village more, otherwise he would be gossiped about by the people in the village.

Lan Yi shook her head: "Deal with emergencies urgently, Yu'er did a good job." Otherwise, our wheat will be washed away. ”

Yu'er nodded: "When Yu'er grows up, she will be able to help her mother do more work." ”

Lan Yi nodded vigorously.

The rainstorm came and went quickly, and it cleared up after two quarters of an hour, and Lan Yi's yard was well drained, and the water flowed into the vegetable garden, and then more along the small holes in the wall to the street, and flowed into the water stream into Huaxi.

After the sky cleared, Lan Yi and Yu'er pulled off the tarpaulin, and after checking it, they found that although the wheat was a little damp, it was not watered, they only uncovered the tarpaulin and dried it, Lan Yi took the tools to the drying store to see if the wheat of the second uncle's house was drenched, and she also gave the second aunt a few pieces of tarpaulin and asked her to use it to cover the wheat.

Sure enough, the wheat of the second uncle's house was divided into two piles, covered well, and did not soak much. However, many people's wheat in the drying market was soaked in water, so they had to spread it out again to dry.

Everyone is not panicked, as long as the wheat is not washed away, they laugh, wait for the sun to be more poisonous, the dry shop will spread out the wheat to dry, the sun is spicy in the mango planting season, the wind is also dry, and soon the wheat will be dried again.

Lan Yi had to sigh that the peasants studied the weather so thoroughly, and used the four seasons to cultivate the fields, which was very similar to the "harmony with yin and yang" that Qi Bo said in the "Emperor's Inner Canon".

Sure enough, the Tao is naturally formed and exists in the heavenly bodies. The sky is wasted and the earth is old, and the Tao is just natural. If you say that the person who has the deepest experience of heaven and earth is not the farmer who deals with the land every day?

On the ninth day of the fifth month, Lan Yi's mung beans have been planted, and the wheat has been bagged into the cellar, and this year's yield is good, and the wheat is about 600 catties.

The wheat root was stacked directly next to the roll pit, and the black pig helped with the manure with intermittent shoveling. In the past, when there was no rolling pit, farmers would choose a place on the edge of the wheat field, cover the wheat straw with a short layer of wheat straw and a layer of manure, and paste a layer of mud on the outermost edge, and the wheat roots would ferment and make fertilizer in the mud. Now many families have dug pits, and there are far fewer mud piles on the edge of the wheat field.

After the harvest, naturally there will be officials who come to collect grain. Before the newly harvested grain of each family had time to enter the household, it was collected by the official family nearly half, and the current imperial court still has a scale of work, and there is no tragic situation of "there is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death".

This year, there are a lot more goats in the village than last year, and the family also fed the sheep on Tuesday, Lan Yi asked the second uncle to tell him that the wheat straw is good, and he only needs to send four acres of land, and the rent is forty percent as usual, and his family is naturally grateful.

Lan Yi also put the 700 catties of wheat he sent into the cellar, and put the wheat straw into the firewood room and piled it up. The busiest wheat harvest of the year is over.

There are still many families planting rice in the field, but it is also coming to an end.

A few days later, the fields were green again.

Land is the fairest, as long as you are willing to put in the effort, you will reap the rewards. R1152