Chapter 121: The Autumn Harvest Ends
Han Li had really felt in the past two days that it had never been easy for farmers, especially in this era without mechanization.
In the past two days, everyone has basically worked in the drying field, taking advantage of the weather to dry all kinds of grain and put it into storage.
However, at noon, you can go home in batches for dinner, and if you are fast enough, you can squint for a while.
At noon today, Han Li and the three of them quickly finished their lunch, and the Yun family sisters also took advantage of this time to lie down for a while.
After they left, Han Li had just laid down on the kang when he heard someone calling out to him at the street gate.
"Are Han Li and Comrade Han at home?"
As soon as he heard this, Han Li really didn't know who it was, and as soon as he left the house, he saw Mai Weiguo and Xiong Xianjin coming in with a depressed face.
What are these two doing here? I don't have much friendship with them, but they've really changed a lot at this time.
The two of them were now dark and thin, their waists were not as straight as they used to be, and their legs were a little unstrained when they walked.
Han Li thought to himself that it was really realistic to educate people, and the spirit of the two of them when they first came to the meeting had almost disappeared.
"Comrade Mai, Comrade Xiong, you two are rare guests, why did you think that you came to me, hurry up and sit down and rest."
Han Li arranged them in the courtyard, and didn't let them into the house at all.
Mai Weiguo: "Comrade Han, we are here this time to ask for something, do you still have any money on you?" Can you lend us some money to buy food, we have spent the money in our hands, and in a few days the family will send us the money, and we will pay it back immediately. ”
Xiong Xianjin also said: "Comrade Han, don't worry, the autumn harvest is about to pass, and the village will distribute grain at that time, if our family does not send money over, we will use grain to pay for it, I heard that most of the people in the village who can't afford to pay back are using grain to pay off their debts." ”
What? Borrow money? This is absolutely impossible.
Han Li had heard about it, and the two of them had received a letter after they went to the countryside.
Not to mention the remittance slip, even most people have a parcel slip and now there is no shadow.
Putting aside the character of the two of them for the time being, lending them money at this time is a waste.
Still pay off debts with food? The two of them didn't even have 300 points, and they couldn't even guarantee their own rations.
In this case, if he asks them to pay off their debts with food that is not enough to eat, then others may not be able to deduct any hat for him.
Besides, if there is a first time to borrow money, it is inevitable that you will not open your mouth to borrow it for the second time, and the other party will become accustomed to it if you borrow more times.
If you don't borrow it in the future, you will be a bad person, so it is better not to open this opening in the first place, so Han Li said with an embarrassed face.
"I don't have much money after I build a house here, and you also know that I'm dealing with Yun Yingying, the autumn harvest is a physical job, so I have to let the subject eat more, but the two sisters came together, we can't leave her sister aside when we eat, right? This mouthful has become two, and my money and food have bottomed out directly, and I don't know if I can hold on until the time of the grain, so I really don't have this money, I'm sorry. ”
"This."
Han Li: "Although I can't help with money, it's also a kind of fate for everyone to gather in Shanghe Village from all over the world, wait a minute, I'll bring you a string of hazelnut mushrooms picked up from the mountain, this thing tastes quite good whether it's cooking or soup." ”
After sending away Mai Weiguo and Xiong Xian, Han Li was in no mood to rest, so he locked the door and walked to the barn.
In the afternoon, when Han Li was working in the barnyard, he heard the follow-up development of Mai Weiguo's borrowing money, these two borrowed a circle from the educated youth but did not borrow the money, and finally begged to the village chief Zhao, who thought that it would not be long before they could divide the grain, and finally agreed to let them use the labor to exchange for a little grain.
Two more days have passed, and the place on the threshing floor has basically been vacated.
In the evening, Captain Liang informed everyone to harvest corn tomorrow, and all the young and strong people went to the ground to break the cobs.
As for the half-grown children, the eldest girl, the little daughter-in-law, and the old lady were preparing to pull the corn husks in the threshing floor.
The next day the light began to appear, and all the strong laborers in the village set out.
They broke the corn cobs off the corn stalks and threw them into the basket behind them.
When the basket is full, the one that is carried to the ground is poured into the parked cart or wheelbarrow, and then they pull it to the barre.
At this time, the people who remained in the threshing floor began to help unload the trucks, and all the unripped corn was unloaded on one side of the threshing floor.
The older one sat on the ground and began to pull the corn husk, and after the corn husk was torn off, the yellow, orange and orange cob appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
At this time, the younger ones carry the cobs to the middle of the threshing floor and spread them evenly.
They try to get enough sunlight on each cob so that the corn can be dried and threshed as soon as possible.
Truckloads of corn were pulled in, and the people in the threshing floor were a little too busy.
At this time, no one was in the mood to chatter, and they were all lowering their heads and quickly peeling off the corn cob.
All around you could hear the sound of corn husks being pulled, and the smell of fresh corn filled the air.
This corn breaking is different from other farm work, in this high corn field everyone walks and walks and then disperses.
They all relied on shouting to each other, and when it was dark and they couldn't see anything, the shouts here were even more continuous.
But it's impossible to be lazy, and the scorekeeper will memorize every basket you carry back.
Everything was normal for the first three days of the corn harvest, and when they returned home from work on the fourth day, the captain told everyone to go to the threshing floor for a meeting.
What can happen at this time? Han Li followed everyone to the barn with a puzzled expression.
At this time, people sit around the corn pile in the threshing field, and most of them, men and women, smoke cigarette bags and pots.
The little ones never seemed to know they were tired, and they had a lot of fun climbing up and rolling down the cornpile.
When Yun Yingying saw Han Li coming back, she hurriedly beckoned him to come over and sit down, and then whispered about the sudden meeting.
It turned out that the culprits of this sudden meeting were Mai Weiguo and Xiong Xian, and they had stolen a little bit of corn while carrying it in the past two days.
The two of them hid some of the corn cobs in the ground during the day, intending to move them out when the time was right.
The two of them began to dry the corn on the first day of harvesting, and the number started from about 20 on the first day, to more than 50 on the second day, to more than 200 on the third day, and today it seems to be about 300.
However, when they were digging a pit to hide the corn cob today, they were discovered by Liang Wujia's mouth, and then she took the captain to catch it.
At this time, Mai Weiguo and Xiong went first, and they had already been pushed over, and behind them was a cart full of corn cobs.
Needless to say, everything is going according to the specified rules.
However, the beginning and end of this incident have more or less relieved everyone's nervous mood for days.
But what no one expected was that Xiong Xianjin came back two days after this incident.
Mai Weiguo was transferred to other places, so the things here are a little interesting.
However, everyone is tired every day, and no one asks about the specific situation inside.
It took 8 days to harvest the corn, and then it was almost dried and threshed.
Then, after peeling, drying, threshing, and drying, the corn can finally be temporarily stored in the granary.
However, after more than two months of high-intensity labor, when the last bag of corn was put into the granary, everyone's spirit suddenly relaxed, and the villagers were a little better, they were talking about when they would hand in the grain, and then everyone could divide the grain.
But the educated youth's side is a bit miserable, especially the new intellectuals, almost all of them seem to have been stripped of their muscles.
One by one, they became listless and wilted, some sat directly on the ground, some slowly slid down against the wall, and even several female intellectuals cried at that time.
Han Li was also feeling very tired now, although his body was a little perverted, he couldn't withstand the psychological pressure brought by such a long time.
At this time, Captain Liang told everyone that they could rest for two days, and everyone would start to distribute the food after handing in the finished autumn grain.
In the cheers of everyone, they disbanded and went home, and the busyness of the village branch had just begun.
They had to count how much money and tickets the village could get after handing over the grain.
It is also necessary to count the remaining grain after the village is handed in, and estimate the cost of the village next year based on this value.
For example: watching a movie for the villagers, buying some necessary farm tools, etc.
When all these are estimated, a part of the emergency money and food must be set aside.
At this time, the remaining food and money are everyone's, and they can be distributed cumulatively according to everyone's work.
It is also necessary to distinguish between fine grains, coarse grains, money and tickets, in short, it is a very tedious work.
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On the way back, the aunts, aunts, and sisters-in-law were all discussing where to go another day to check more mountain goods and come back with more firewood.
Or how to spend the money after it is distributed, the cat winter should prepare something more and add something to the house. Wait a minute.
Most of the men are saying that they have enough time to go somewhere to set traps and traps.
Some of the old intellectuals are already thinking about how to go home for the New Year before the heavy snow covers the mountains if they have enough money.
However, now most of the educated youth plan to treat themselves, and if they have the conditions, they will go to the villagers to exchange two eggs, and if the conditions are insufficient, they will cook more with themselves, in short, they should think about their hard work these days.
Han Li's side was naturally no exception, and on the way, Yun Yingying discussed with him what to eat at night.
He Mi took Qi Zhaodi, Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying to come over, saying that they wanted to celebrate together in the evening.
The careful thinking of the few of them, Han Li could see at a glance that it was nothing more than that the autumn harvest was over.
I don't have to enjoy sweating and muddy every day, and now I want to wash myself clean.
As a result, Han Li's house became lively, and each of them brought a lot of ingredients.
But instead of being in a hurry to cook, they unanimously decided that they would take a bath first, and when they would all have finished bathing.
Besides, they were all washed, and they were embarrassed to come forward with the smell of sweat.
So Han Li asked Yun Jingjing to fry a dish for himself, then took a bottle of wine and went to talk to Zhang Xiangjun.
PS: Sorry, the next chapter is a little later.
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