Chapter Forty-Eight: Rush to Collect
Today I burned two stoves, steaming steamed buns and cooking millet porridge at the same time.
Smelling the wheat fragrance of the white-flour steamed buns and the fragrance of millet, He Lanyue felt that her saliva was overflowing, and there was a rumbling sound in her stomach.
The third aunt looked at her and said with a smile: "Wait a while, the steamed bun is cooked, you eat one first." ”
Helan Yue smiled and nodded, there is nothing to be embarrassed about if they are all from their own family.
The third aunt scooped the boiled millet porridge into a clay pot, washed the pot, put a little vegetable oil, beat four eggs and put it in.
In a blink of an eye, the eggs in the pot were golden and yellow, and the third aunt took a soup bowl and put the eggs up, then cut the bracken soaked in water into small pieces and fried them with meat oil to make them fragrant, and then poured the eggs into it, put a little salt and soy sauce and it came out of the pot.
Seeing that there was still a little oil star in the pot, I put the pickled radish in it and fried it.
The smell of this room filled her mouth.
At this time, the steamed buns were also steamed, and the third aunt took one out, separated the steamed buns, and sandwiched some eggs and fried bracken in the middle, and then handed it to Helan Yue.
"Eat, little glutton."
He Lanyue took the steamed bun with a smile, sat at the door of the stove hall and began to nibble.
When the third aunt brought the morning food to the table, everyone also got up one after another.
The third uncle ate the morning food in two bites, went to the yard, and sharpened all the farm tools again.
Helan Yue ate a steamed bun in the kitchen, drank a bowl of millet porridge, and took two steamed buns, which were sandwiched with some eggs and fried bracken, and sent them to Luo Li.
After everyone ate the morning food, they all went to the ground together, and only the eldest sister and the little stone were left at home.
Their family has two acres of dry land more than the grandmother's house, and they must hurry up, otherwise they will be busy until dark.
On the way to Luo's house again, Helan Yue took a basket of loquat out of the space in a small forest.
At this time, it is the season to eat loquat, and if you take this out to eat, everyone will not suspect anything.
She came to Luo Li's house to see the courtyard gate, and saw Luo Li was wet, with two pheasants and a hare in his hands.
Hearing the sound, Luo Li also saw Helan Yue when he turned around.
"Here we are."
There are not many words, but the voice is very gentle.
Helan Yue walked towards the inner room, and said: "I will send you morning food, and this basket of loquats, you can keep some to eat, and bring some to everyone to eat when you go to the field later, just say where you picked it." ”
Luo Li replied lightly, but didn't ask anything.
As Helan Yue expected, she didn't ask anything, she just trusted her completely anyway.
When Helan Yue was about to leave, she was stopped by Luo Li, "I'll change my clothes and go with you." ”
"Okay."
When he went out, he took two pheasants and a rabbit with him in the yard.
The two of them sent these things to the eldest sister first, and Luo Li also left the loquat, and then went to the ground.
The division of labor is still the same as yesterday.
Luo left earlier today, and the speed of this bundle of wheat is much faster than yesterday.
Halfway through, Helan Yue asked Xiaoshan to go home and get a trip to water.
Xiaoshan's throat was dry and smoking, and he ran to the house very obediently, and when he came back, he not only had two jars of water in his hand, but also took a small half basket of loquats.
Leaving a jar of water and some loquats, Xiaoshan gave another jar of water and loquat to his grandmother and they sent over.
Helan Yue and several people put up three or four wheat stacks to block the sun, and another person moved a wheat stack to sit in the shade.
Drinking water and eating loquats, it's so comfortable.
Xiaoshan ran back sweating, and saw such a scene.
He sat down beside the mountain, snatched the bowl of water from his hand, and drank it.
"Ahh Refreshing! ”
Dashan took the opportunity to stuff a loquat into his mouth, and Xiaoshan reflexively took a bite down, his mouth was full of juice, and he narrowed his eyes sweetly.
He ate several in a row before he stopped.
"This loquat is the most delicious wild fruit I've ever tasted, master, take me to pick some when you have time!"
Luo Li finished eating the loquat in his hand, "I'll talk about it later." ”
He had to do this because he didn't know where the loquat fruit came from.
In the afternoon, the sky suddenly became gloomy.
Everyone's mood became gloomy like this weather, and everyone quickened their movements, hoping that the rain would come later, otherwise this year's wheat would either be bad in the ground, or it would be stuffy until it sprouted.
The wheat of the Li Zheng family was cut yesterday, and it has begun to dry today.
Seeing that the He family still had two acres of wheat left, he hurriedly asked several sons of the family to come over to help with the harvest.
There are a few families with few people in the land, and they also consciously come to He's house with a sickle to help.
Seeing such a situation, it is impossible for Helan Yue to say that she does not have a little feeling in her heart.
A few idle carts also came to her family's field one by one, and they carried the wheat from the field onto the carts and sent them directly to their home.
No one knows when the rain will fall, pile it in their own yard, and when it rains, they can move it under the eaves or in the firewood room to avoid the rain, and put it in the threshing floor, then it will definitely get wet.
After the He family's wheat was harvested, there were two other families in the field who were also rushing to harvest.
Everyone hurried over to help, for the villagers, this food is their life.
The grandmother and grandmother hurried to the threshing floor and packed the wheat from the grandmother's house into sacks.
The wheat may only be half of the wheat that is ploughed, and if the weather is good, it will take at least two more days of sun to completely knock the wheat down.
As soon as the wheat was put into the sack, raindrops the size of soybeans fell with a clatter.
The third uncle also pulled an empty cart with a few people at this time, and hurriedly helped the eldest grandmother's family drag the wheat back.
Everyone was drenched in rain and worked for almost an hour, and then all the wheat on the threshing floor was brought home.
When the grandmother and the others came home, they saw that the firewood room under the eaves was full of wheat stacks, but there were still some wheat stacks in the yard, so they had no choice but to move these wheat stacks to the hall and the few empty rooms where the second uncle lived before.
The rain continued until the evening, and everyone was worried.
The third aunt disposed of the prey that Luo Li sent in the morning, stewed the chicken in soup, braised the rabbit, and cooked white rice.
In such weather, everyone didn't have the heart to get together for dinner, so the third aunt divided half of the meal and asked the third uncle to send it to the eldest grandmother's house.
The food for Luo Li was sent to Dashan and Xiaoshan.
The atmosphere at home was also very low during dinner in the evening.
Grandmother, in particular, couldn't help but sigh when she looked at these stacks of wheat under the eaves.
He still muttered: "This rain has to stop soon, this wheat is stuffy for two days, and our hard work this year will be in vain!" ”
Seeing such a situation, Helan Yue couldn't bear it, and she went back to the room and sank her mind into the space, wanting to find a solution in the pile of books.