After a lunch break, the family was fully equipped, and rushed to the threshing floor to remove the threshing, Jiang Yan took a straw hat and carried a can of sweet tea on the fire, this is Wang Jinhua's boiled tea, after adding sugar, the taste is even sweeter and delicious.

The threshing floor in the village is a large open field, and there is only a mud field left in the bare area, because the village threshes and sheds its husks here every year, and this land is firm and smooth.

At this time, a lot of rice has been piled up in the threshing floor, and almost all the rice cut in the village will be hauled here to slowly thresh.

"There is no one at this time, there is a bucket over there that is empty, let's use it first." Lin Dong pointed to the bucket not far away: "Everyone usually comes to remove the grain in the afternoon, and there should be no one to use it at this time." ”

Jiang Yan nodded, signaling a few sons to move the bucket, Lin Xi was big, and immediately ran over when he heard the words, and before anyone else could help, he lifted a corner alone, flipped it up, and the bucket was firmly pressed on his back, and he easily resisted to the side of his own rice.

Jiang Yan was dumbfounded, and once again sighed at Lin Xi's great strength, she quickly put on a headscarf and a straw hat, and several children did the same, when beating the rice, there would be dust in the sky, and the shriveled rice husks and withered and dried straw leaves would float into the air with manpower, and if you didn't cover some, your eyes and nose would be easy to choke.

After everyone was armed, they began to work, two people took turns on one side, one holding a handful of rice, and after patting and falling off, he replaced the other, and so on.

The scorching sun bakes the earth, the villagers who stay in the threshing floor laugh and talk, the children gather together to play, and from time to time there will be fresh grasshoppers and green shrimp jumping back and forth in the straw, and the children are going around to catch them, one holding a dog's tail grass, and after a while, string one string after another.

The laughter of the adults, the laughter and play of the children, and the sound of the paddy falling off and the tapping of the ears created a warm and bumper harvest picture.

"Grandma, I'm going to catch grasshoppers, we can fry and eat." Little Bean clenched his little fists, his eyes full of anticipation, if he wasn't busy helping with the work, he would have to catch a lot of grasshoppers, these are all meat.

"Erbi, Xiao Si, you take Xiao Wu and Xiao Douzi to catch grasshoppers, and fry them for you to eat at night." Jiang Yan shouted.

Lin Bei has grown a little taller recently, and a cup of fresh goat's milk in the morning and evening is still very effective, and the family has grown a lot of meat.

"Little aunt, if I still don't go, I can continue to remove the grain." Erbi hesitated and refused, this is all he can do, but he can't be greedy.

Jiang Yan patted the dust and rice leaves on his body: "When you grow up, you will come to do these jobs again, you will be half a head taller than that bucket, or obediently go and catch grasshoppers, catch more, and wait for dinner at night." ”

The second pen is small, and the bucket is about the same height as him, every time he grabs a small handful of rice and stands next to it, the rice pole is discounted, and the rice falls into the bucket, but the little guy who rebounds the grain bullet has red cheeks, and he doesn't know whether he is beating the grain, or the grain beating him again.

Erbi's face turned red, and he said with some twist: "I used to remove the grain in the wooden basin, but this is the first time I use a bucket to ......."

"Okay, don't be poor, my aunt knows that you are a good boy, Xiaosi, take everyone to catch grasshoppers, we have a lot of family, you can catch more."

"Okay mother, let's go catch it." Lin Beihong's fluttering little face smiled brightly, in previous years, they would also catch grasshoppers and shrimps, at that time, the family was poor, these insects were considered a meat dish, and when it came to the autumn harvest, they always caught and roasted in the rice field to eat.

Jiang Yan watched a row of four small radish heads go around catching insects, and she also joined the threshing team, this kind of full and busy life, she liked it more and more.

It is also necessary to pay attention to a skill in the threshing of grains in the bucket, not just brute force, Jiang Yan has seen it a few times before, but it is the first time that the eldest girl gets on the sedan chair.

This action is to pay attention to a one-stop, when you hit the inner wall of the bucket hard, you also need to use ingenuity to shake the rice, so that the smashed rice will fall into the bucket, so that you don't have to worry about the grains falling to the ground when you throw it high again.

At first, she was not used to it, but after a few back and forth, Jiang Yan quickly got started, and she was slowly able to keep up with the speed of others.

The people on the threshing floor came back from eating lunch one after another, and for a time the sound of each beating and slapping down was endless, and the dust and sparse straw blades that were visible to the naked eye were flying in the air, but this could not stop the joy of the farmers' harvest.

Jiang Yan slowly immersed herself in this atmosphere, and in such joy, she couldn't help but relax her mind and quickly integrated into such an atmosphere.

"Xiao Jiang! Have you finished taking off your rice? We're here to help. Lao Wu walked over with Lin Jun from afar.

Their family has few paddy fields, and the rice has been cut and removed yesterday, and the two of them just went to the town in the morning to sell some soap, and now they rushed back to help.

In order to avoid his eyes from getting into the dust, Jiang Yan squinted: "It's almost, there is still half of it, have you two eaten?" ”

Old Wu Fufu looked at each other and smiled when he heard this, and both subconsciously licked their mouths: "Eat, the braised pork you sent over is delicious." ”

Lin Jun was grateful, so as soon as he finished eating, the two of them didn't care about resting, and rushed over to help without stopping.

Jiang Yan was not polite to the two of them, and let the two daughters-in-law rest with her for a while, and vacated the place for the old Wu husband and wife to work.

"By the way, I've been busy cultivating seedlings these days, how are you selling soap?" Jiang Yan suddenly remembered the matter of soap.

When Lao Wu heard this, he immediately said: "A few days ago, we were busy cutting rice, and we didn't go to the town, we only went in the past two days, Ah Jun and I pushed a few, and some people were willing to order, but the number is not much, and we will try it again tomorrow." ”

Jiang Yan nodded, didn't ask any more, soap will definitely be sold, the people in the town still don't know how it works, Lao Wu's family is a shy and honest person, the two of them don't talk much, they don't say fancy words when they see people, and the sales estimate is not very good, because Lin Nan told him that Lin Yousheng's family is very good at selling, and the number is getting more and more day by day.

Soon the rice was beaten and all the bags were carried back to the yard to be stacked, and a group of people were busy in the yard and spread out an open space for drying the grains.

Jiang Yan is also busy with her feet not touching the ground, she has to go to the warehouse to see the seedlings, and she has to ask Lin Dong and them to see the pepper seedlings in the field, the pepper seedlings cultivated some time ago were only transplanted into the ground in the village, and she has to go to see the growth every day.

"Mother, a guest from our house is here, saying that he is looking for you." Wang Jinhua came from far away from the mountain, and the location of this wasteland is relatively high, so there is always a feeling of climbing when you come up.