It was originally scheduled to open on the tenth day of the first month, but Lu Quan finally waited for two more days.

Early in the morning of August 12, when the East was just white, Qiu got up and boiled a large pot of bud rice porridge.

I scooped up the pickled vegetables, chopped them, and dripped a few drops of sesame oil, which was a side dish.

The cakes were made last night, one by one, all of them were sturdy three-fold noodle cakes, and most of them were packed with bamboo baskets.

In the morning, all seven families who could come to work came, and one person took a bowl of bud rice porridge, picked up some pickles, took a piece of cake, and squatted in the yard to drink porridge.

The amount of food prepared by the Lu family was very large, and everyone had a full meal, and they all took tools to the field to harvest.

Collecting an extra acre of land is an extra few dozen dollars, and no one dislikes less of this money.

Before the Qiu family got off the ground, Aunt Ding sat in an ox cart, led her four sons and a daughter-in-law and stopped at the gate of the Lu family's courtyard.

The Ding family, except for the grandchildren, only Uncle Ding and Sister-in-law Ding were left to watch the meat case, Sister-in-law Ding watched the lo-mei stall, and Sister-in-law Ding took care of a few children at home, and the rest of the people who could come came.

"Sister-in-law." Qiu's face was at a loss, "Why are you here?" ”

Didn't you say that Xiao Wu's three elder brothers came over?

"My second daughter-in-law and I will cook for your house." Aunt Ding jumped out of the ox cart boldly, "I brought you all the meat and vegetables, you just go to the field, and the family will hand it over to me." ”

"That's good." Qiu had never met such an enthusiastic person in his life, so he could only beckon everyone to come in and sit down, "Come into the house and sit down, you haven't eaten yet, I'll serve you porridge and cakes." ”

Aunt Ding hurriedly stopped: "Don't be busy, they all eat, you take them to the field, and the family will be handed over to me." ”

said, and pointed to the ox cart behind him: "This ox cart belongs to the fourth husband of my family, and their rice will be harvested a few days later, so I will borrow it for a few days, and then he will use it at home, and I will let the fourth child send it." ”

"Look at this ......" Qiu really didn't know what to do this time.

"Okay, hurry up and get busy with you, she Aunt Ding is not an outsider." Grandma Chen took a step forward and patted Qiu's for a moment, before she looked at Aunt Ding and her sons with a smile, and praised her mouthfully, "Look at these sons of your family, this body is strong at a glance, and it is well raised, and they are all children who can contribute their strength." ”

"That's it." Aunt Ding was not modest, and happily took down the vegetable basket on the ox cart, "Don't hide it from you, these boys in my family can eat if they are capable, and when the time comes, they can steam more rice and prepare more cakes." ”

"It's good to eat!" Grandma Chen's face bloomed with a smile.

The elderly like children who can eat, and they can only work if they can eat.

The sons of the Ding family are all capable of working. The baskets carried by Aunt Ding and her second daughter-in-law were even heavier with vegetables and meat.

It can be seen that the Ding family came to the Lu family to help, and they were sincere.

The Qiu family had no choice but to tell Xiaoqing a few words, and hurriedly led the sons of the Ding family to drive the ox cart to the field.

At home, it was originally said that Grandma Chen would burn the pot, Xiaoqing would cook, and Shake and Xiaoyu would help wash the dishes and chopsticks.

With the help of Aunt Ding and Second Sister-in-law Ding, Lu Xiaoyu and Chen Shaoyao didn't have to stay at home, they carried a basket and went to the field to pick up ears of rice.

When Lu Xiaosi and Xiaowu got up, there were no more people in the courtyard.

The adults went down to the fields to harvest the rice, and the children were not idle, and followed them to collect the ears of rice.

Don't look at their small people, the small ones pick up ears of rice, and the big ones make straw ropes, but they are not idle at all.

Aunt Ding saw Xiao Si and Xiao Wu rub their eyes and go out, and her face suddenly smiled: "Xiao Si, come and eat, the big meat buns that Auntie brought to you from the town are still hot." ”

Unwrapping the oiled paper, four hot big meat buns, fragrant.

Lu Yangge was okay, Lu Xiaowu was so small that he couldn't hold back, and his saliva was dripping.

After the two of them washed up, one of them squatted in the yard holding a big meat bun and gnawed on it, and Grandma Chen brought one of them a bowl of sticky white rice porridge and put it on the table next to them.

"This porridge, your mother stewed it for you in the crockpot when she was boiling porridge in the morning."

The Lu family loves the child, and they love Lu Xiaosi even more, there is nothing wrong with these in the eyes of Grandma Chen.

The little four and the five eat meat buns and rice porridge, and the little green carp and small fish, including Lu Quan's two people drink bud rice porridge and eat Sanhe noodle cakes, as if there is nothing wrong with these.

Even Aunt Ding, Second Sister-in-law Ding, didn't seem to think it was wrong.

What can Lu Yangge do, she can only accompany Lu Xiaowu to eat meat buns and drink rice porridge, and then do her best to make the family live a better life.

Xiaoqing fetched well water on the side to wash the dishes and chopsticks in the morning, and when she saw that Xiaosi finished drinking porridge, she hurriedly took the dishes and chopsticks and said: "Don't run around when you are full, you are watching Xiao Wu at home, my mother said, I want me to watch you, and you are not allowed to go to the field with Xiao Wu." ”

This order was given by the Qiu family last night, and anyone in the family can go to the field to help, but they can't go.

Xiao Wu can't go because Xiao Wu is young, the road is unstable, and he needs someone to take care of him.

Lu Xiaosi was not allowed to go, because the Qiu family was reluctant to let her go to the ground.

Thousands of instructions were given, and Lu Xiaoqing must be optimistic about Xiaosi, and even Lu Xiaoli and Lu Xiaoyu, who went to the ground, were told again.

Lu Yangge wanted to resist, she felt that she couldn't harvest, and it was still okay to go down to the field to pick up ears of rice or something.

But Qiu and Lu Quan disagreed, and Lu Xiaosi couldn't do anything, so he could only accompany Lu Xiaowu around the yard with all his might.

Lu Yangge really wanted to use his ingenuity to make a certain farm tool to alleviate his father's work.

For example, what can be harvested, or what can be threshed.

But she's just a mortal, and she can't go beyond reality and make those huge and terrifying machines.

Thinking of replacing it with hand, unfortunately, she racked her brains and didn't come up with what farm tools she could make to replace labor.

Probably, it's more reasonable to dream about it!

The autumn harvest is the busiest season, harvesting rice, drying on the field, threshing and drying, packing into the warehouse, everything is inseparable from people.

Every grain of grain is paid for hard work and sweat.

The Lu family has a lot of land, but fortunately, they are all together and connected into a large area.

The family bought mules again, built a cart frame, and the Ding family sent four boys with ox carts to help, and at the end of the day, the originally empty threshing floor was already full of rice.

The young men were harvesting in the fields, some of the women were harvesting with sickles, some were carrying bundles of rice to ox carts and mule carts, and some of the weaker ones were carefully drying the freshly harvested rice in the threshing floor.

When the rice handles are crispy by the sun, you can pull the old cow, drag the stone stone and crush it in a circle, wait until the rice grains on the rice ears fall down, and then use a wooden fork to pick up the straw that has lost the rice grains and pile it aside.

There are no rice grains on the straw, and it can be dried everywhere, on the ridges, on the barren grass, and beside the roadside slopes.

When the rice grains are put into the warehouse, these straws are also piled into haystacks, which are used to feed the cattle on fires.

(End of chapter)