Chapter 4: Picking ears of grass in the field
Old Jiang also suddenly thought of the Taoist who came when their maid was just born, and hurriedly found the peace charm and burned the water for her to take.
Sure enough, the next day, Yaya slowly recovered.
Lao Xiangtou thought of something again, and suddenly said: "When you pick up ears of grass in the afternoon, let Shiro take the maids there, and it's good to bask in the sun." ”
"yes, okay."
Lao Jiang has no opinion, because her maid is not tanned, and it is strange to say, her maid also runs out to play with a few brothers in the village, but she is not tanned by the sun, but her brothers are almost as black as carbon!
In the afternoon, Xiang Tiange, who learned that he could also go to the field with his brothers to pick up ears of grass, was overjoyed, pulled the brim on both sides of the straw hat that his grandmother put on him, and asked Xiang Wulang who was walking next to him excitedly: "Fifth brother and fifth brother, can you take me to catch birds and sparrows later?" The birds you brought back last time were delicious, and I still want to eat them..."
When Xiang Wulang heard the words of the eighth sister, his expression was a little embarrassed, and he said: "Eighth sister, I was caught by the third brother gang last time, I will ask the third brother later, see if he is free to arrest us?" ”
Having said that, Xiang Wulang is not sure if the third brother will catch it again, because the last time he caught it was those birds and birds that fell in the field to eat the grains that fell, and they gathered into a flock, the third brother reacted quickly, and actually took off his straw hat and pounced, and there were two or three little 'stupid' birds trapped underneath, and after repeating it several times, those birds and birds were also smart, and there were not many grains falling on the ground, so I gave up!
But there were more than a dozen of them caught that time, but fortunately, there were more than a dozen, and they were able to get through the addiction one by one!
"Huh? But fifth brother, didn't you tell me that you caught a bird? And caught a lot, a lot. ”
Xiang Tiange put down the hand that pressed the brim of his hat and opened his big arms to sign.
Xiang Wulang wanted to cry, he knew that he didn't boast about Haikou last time and told the eighth sister that he caught those birds and sparrows, but now the lie is about to be exposed, and his great image in the eighth sister's heart is gone......
Xiang Golang, who was racking his brains to figure out how to round this lie so that his great image could be retained in the bottom of the eighth sister's heart, was kicked by Xiang Shilang, who was carrying Xiang Tiange's back, and he said: "Why do you always lie and deceive the eighth sister?!" ”
After Xiang Shiro kicked him, he gently raised a hand to pat the back of his eighth sister, and said to her: "Eighth sister, don't listen to your fifth brother, he lied to you!" ”
"Oh! Fifth brother, it turns out that you lied to me! Next time you lie to me, I won't play with you! ”
Xiang Tiange puffed up a small face and said to him.
"Well, yes, I won't play with him next time! Just play with the fourth brother! ”
"Don't, Eighth Sister, Fifth Brother is wrong, I don't want you to praise me more..." Xiang Wulang hurriedly begged for mercy and told the truth.
"Then don't lie to people next time, so that I will praise you more!" Xiang Tiange thought about it and said to him.
"Good! I promise! Hearing her say this, Xiang Goro hurriedly raised his hand and swore to the adult that he would assure him.
A few people fell behind, so they came to the field of Lao Xiang's house noisily.
Except for Xiao Jiang, who has to stay at home to prepare dinner and do housework to feed the chickens and ducks, all the rest of the Lao Xiang family have come out to work in the field, which is equivalent to all the members of the Lao Xiang family!
When the three of them came to the field, the rest of the old Xiang family had already bent down vigorously and lowered their heads to cut rice in the field, and the younger Liulang Qilang also followed behind the adults to pick up the ears of grass that had fallen on the ground.
Old Xiang Tou asked Xiang Tiange to come out and do this thing, picking up ears of grass.
However, Lao Xiangjia didn't expect her to pick it up seriously, and the purpose of Lao Xiangtou and Lao Jiang was just to let the little granddaughter bask in the sun and get rid of the yin and evil qi in her body.
"Fourth brother and fourth brother, let me down, I will also go to pick up ears of grass with the sixth brother and seventh brother~" Xiang Tiange saw that Xiang Liulang and Xiang Qilang were both helping in the field, and hurriedly wanted to get off the back of the fourth brother and go over to help the family.
She hadn't come to help in the field before, this was the first time, so Xiang Tiange was very excited!
I feel like I've grown up a lot and can help my family!
"Eh, slow down, slow down...", Xiang Shiro crouched down so that she could step firmly on the ground.
"Sixth brother and seventh brother, I will also pick up ears of grass with you!" Xiang Tiange slid down directly from the ridge of the field with a small butt, avoiding the rice stubble in the field that was about the height of her thigh, and came to Xiang Liulang and Xiang Qilang.
"Eighth sister, give you a small basket!" Xiang Qilang took a small empty basket from beside him, and it was from it that the ears and grains that had fallen from the field were picked up.
"Thank you, Brother Seven~" Xiang Tiange, who took the basket, thanked him sweetly.
"Eighth sister, come to me and pick it up! The soil here is dry, and it's easier to pick up! Xiang Rokuro beckoned to her and motioned for her to come over to his side.
"Okay!" Xiang Tiange fluttered his little short legs and went to him.
Xiang Shiro and Xiang Goro were relieved to see their eighth sister followed by their sixth brother and seventh brother, and hurriedly went over to the front to help hold the handfuls of rice that had been cut down into a pile, so that it would be convenient for the adults to tie them up and pick them up to the village grain field later.
As for the eighth sister's longing for catching birds and sparrows, she has to be almost busy with the work in the field, and then she can ask the third brother to help catch it~
After a long time, when Xiang Tiange felt that his small waist was about to be unbearable, he sat aside to rest, watching his father and two uncles constantly carry rice from the field to the grain field to put it, and then let Xiang Dalang and Xiang Erlang and her mother in the grain field thresh, and after the threshing was completed, they were dried on the grain field.
Of course, not all of them were threshed at once, and the grain field in Peach Blossom Village was so big, and there were just 20 households in the entire Peach Blossom Village, and it was just two households with a size of more than 100 square meters.
Basically, every household first moves the paddy to the side of the grain yard, dries the threshed ones on the ground, and then moves them down from the piles of paddy and continues threshing them with flails, and then dries them in the sun.
But now the sun is fierce, the weather is excellent, suitable for drying rice, two days of drying, the rice will be almost dry, and the warehouse can be closed.
Although Lao Xiang's family has a lot of fields, their family has a large population, and they are busy with farm work faster than other families in the village who have less fields.
For example, the rice they cut a few acres of land in the afternoon, and the family finished cutting it in the afternoon.
Lao Xiang's family has planted a total of more than 60 acres of land, don't look at the number of acres, the yield in the field is not good.
The imperial court granted one hectare of land to the man of each family, that is, an eighteen-year-old man, of which 20 acres were Yongye fields and 80 acres were Koufen fields, and the Koufen fields had to be returned if they died.