In mid-August, the sister-in-law announced to the golden rice field, which had bent over, "The rice is ripe and ready to be harvested." We listened to the cheers in the back, sharpening knives towards the rice fields.

This is the first year we have come to Tashan Village to farm, so the rice harvested this time is of extraordinary significance to us.

Our five families have discussed that we will harvest together this year, according to the order of the fields, first harvest 10 acres of my sister-in-law's family, then 4 acres of Aunt Qin's family, 4 acres of the second sister's family, 4 acres of the eldest sister's family, and finally 10 acres of our family.

On the day of harvesting rice, the three mother-level figures of Jiang's mother, Qu's mother, and Aunt Liang stayed at home to cook meals for nearly 30 people, and other old, middle-aged and young strong laborers all took sickles and killed the rice fields.

It is said that cutting rice is the most tiring work, but this time I experienced that the temperature outside was nearly 40 degrees, and we were all wearing long clothes and trousers, wearing rubber shoes, and as soon as we stood in the field, the cat began to cut the rice with the waist on the waist.

I am not proficient in the use of tools, often I can't cut much with a knife, I am still grinding and chirping here to cut this small piece of land, and my sister-in-law has already cut a large piece of land.

A few elderly villagers, after finishing their work in the field, came here to watch our family cut rice, and looked at the ears of rice with full grains, and praised our family vigorously, this rice is so well planted.

One of the villagers, Zhou Fu, said to his brother-in-law: "Old Lu, your family's rice cultivation is really good, but it is much better than ours. ”

The sister-in-law modestly replied: "This is mainly because we planted early, when we start to drought." We're going to be ripe here, and if we don't lack water, it's going to grow well. ”

When he spoke. Without delaying the cutting of the rice, he just spoke, and fell several meters away from me.

Zhou Fu shook his head, squatted down, dragged a rice stalk in his hand, and said, "Not only is there no shortage of water, but your rice grows better than the rice we planted when the year was good." You're a good guy, can you bring me with you when you start planting rice next year? Sell me some more seeds, okay? ”

The sister-in-law didn't dare to agree to such a question, after all, we made it up. It is inconvenient for the sister-in-law to make up his mind and agree.

Jiang Zhi was cutting rice next to him, listening to the little sister-in-law and them talking, and heard that Zhou Fu wanted to plant rice with us next year, and wanted to buy seeds from us. And he stopped his scythe. Straightened up, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and took over the conversation.

"Okay, this year we are experimenting, and I don't know if this planting method will work, so I didn't tell everyone, but now looking at this year's harvest, it should be considered a success." Then when we plant next year, we will greet everyone, and there are those who want to plant with us. Let's go to my house and have a look, if there are those who want seeds, then we will set aside more this year, and our family will not buy seeds, just leave all the rice stalks to our family when the time comes.

In short, our family has had a bumper harvest, and I hope that everyone in our village will have a bumper harvest. But ......," Jiang Zhi said, "everyone knows that this depends on the sky to eat, and whether there can be a harvest depends on God, so even if everyone plants our family's rice of this variety next year, we do not guarantee a 100% bumper harvest." ”

After Jiang Zhi left these words, he let them think about it for themselves, and then bent down to harvest the rice. We left it behind, and it's up to them whether they want to plant it or not.

In the morning, my second sister and I, who would only harm the rice fields, were kicked out of the harvesting team, and were instead responsible for tying up the rice they harvested one by one, and then Li Cheng and Chenchen, who were also kicked out of the harvesting team, were responsible for carrying the rice to our house with a flat pole, and there was a threshing machine in our own yard, Weiwei and the eldest sister were responsible for threshing the rice at home, and then waited for Jiang Zhi and them to come back at noon, and moved the rice to the roof to dry.

There are many laborers worthy of praise in this collective labor, such as Aunt Qin, Lu Fang, and Aunt Xiao, who do not let their eyebrows be shaved in their labor, wear thick labor clothes, are not afraid of hardship or tiredness, and always adhere to the front line of rice cutting. There are also several children who are also wearing thick clothes, working with the adults, carrying small baskets, at the back of the large team, responsible for picking up the fallen ears of rice, and in the morning, they have not heard them shout that they are tired, this spirit of participation is very commendable.

And the most commendable thing is the second brother-in-law, this kind of weather, his kind of figure, not to mention labor, even if he sits on the edge of the rice field in the morning, he may not be able to stand it. And he didn't be lazy and slippery because of his special conditions, he always followed Uncle Qin very seriously to learn to cut rice, he began to use a sickle badly, and cut his calves several times, thanks to the more he wrew, otherwise the rice was not cut, and his legs would be blurred with flesh and blood.

Fat people are afraid of heat, he has a big belly, the cat's waist is exhausted, now he is working with the cat's waist, the sweat on his face is dripping to the ground, and his face is red, he straightens his waist, wipes the sweat with his sleeves, takes a breath, and then does it, he is really tired, he sits in the rice field, drinks saliva and rests, gets up and continues to work, the second sister sees him so hard, so she persuades him to rest more, Qu Dad and Jiang Dad don't let him cut the rice, let him go home to thresh the rice, but the second brother-in-law said nothing and didn't agree, he just said, He said this is what I should do.

I gave him a thumbs up this time.

In any case, it took us two days to cut all the rice, then it was threshing, drying, and then the pellets were put into the warehouse.

I can only describe the rice harvest in one word, tired, really tired.

But looking at the stacks of tall food bags, I felt that it was worth it to be tired. It can be said that even if we don't have space, this food alone is enough for our family to chew for a year.

Looking at the large stack of straw outside the yard, these are a little less, if there are only sheep, these are almost enough for the winter, counting three edible cows, it is not enough, but it's okay, when the people in the village have harvested the rice, we can buy some more from others.

When the little brother-in-law collected the grain into the warehouse, he calculated that the average rice yield per mu of paddy field was more than 1,100 catties, which was a lot in normal times, and there was such a yield in such abnormal weather conditions, so that his old crops felt incredible, he and Jiang Zhi said: "This year, we will leave more seeds, this year's rice harvest in our family, the whole village is looking at it, there will definitely be people to ask for seeds in the spring next year, at that time, we can help a gang, all of them are from a village, We can't look at anyone who is cold or hungry. ”

We agree with this, as long as those who really want to improve their family life through their own efforts, we can still help, but those who want to get something for nothing, we can't get used to it.

September is a harvest season for our family, our family's new dry land planted crops are ripe one after another, first of all, corn, it is a more drought-resistant crop, after the drought in August, we are using drip irrigation irrigation, although the technology is not very mature, but these corn is very well adapted, it feels bigger than the corn cob planted when the wind and rain are good, I looked at these round and plump corn, and said: "This genetic mutation is too bad time." If this is seen by others, we can't think about what our family says, how can we grow such good corn in such a harsh environment. ”

"Don't think about it, it's so easy to mutate genes, our corn grows well because it uses corn produced in the space as seeds, and it has kept up with the fertilizer from the beginning, and there has been no shortage of water, so it grows so well." Jiang Zhi said while breaking corn.

Oh, it turns out that we planted it ourselves, but we are also quite perverted, and the yield of what we grow has decreased, so the more we plant, the better. But I hope we can continue to be perverted, haha.

Then there are sweet potatoes, when harvesting sweet potatoes, we first have to cut the sweet potato vines on the ground and carry them to the tricycle, these are the rations of our cattle and sheep, which cannot be wasted.

The children were more active than us adults, and when they saw the sweet potatoes in the ground, they all jumped up and cheered, saying that there were roasted sweet potatoes to eat in winter.

Sometimes children are more obsessed with food than adults, our children are very fond of eating sweet potatoes, so when they collect sweet potatoes, they follow behind adults, after adults take away the big sweet potatoes, they begin to pick up with small hoes in the field, check very carefully, those fingers thin sweet potatoes do not let go, all pick up, and it is repeatedly checked in the field several times.

That night, I asked Qu's mother to eat sweet potatoes for dinner, and a big pot of sweet potatoes was not enough for the family to eat, and the sweet potatoes were very noodles and sweet, which was very popular with everyone.

Jiang Ma and Qu Ma decided to make some snacks for a few children in the family with sweet potatoes, in fact, they just dried sweet potatoes, so they called a pot of sweet potatoes in the morning, and when we came back at noon, the sweet potatoes were completely cold, so they used a knife to build the sweet potatoes into half-centimeter-thick slices, put them on the bamboo rows used to dry things, and put them on the roof of the house to blow the wind and bask in the sun, and they could be dried in three or five days.

But there are a few greedy and generous little ghosts in our family, and every time the dried sweet potatoes that have just been put on the roof at noon, they will think about getting some to chew after taking a nap in the afternoon.

In fact, at that time, the dried sweet potatoes were not dried at all, this is a layer on the surface that is just hard, and it is very delicious to eat at this time, the surface is very chewy, and the inside is not hard. So it's no wonder that the children are worried, sometimes I will go up and get a small basket of dried sweet potatoes like this and come back to eat.

But I'm not as generous as them, it's not enough to eat at home, when I go out to play in the afternoon, I have to carry a bag per person, and I said with a word, those children are a few of their buddies, and good things to share with good friends. Therefore, the sweet potatoes in our house have been dried for many days, and there are no real left.

We finished harvesting corn and sweet potatoes, harvesting sweet potatoes, harvesting potatoes and harvesting all kinds of beans, in short, we were in pain and happy this month. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to M. to read. )