Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 7323 The rainy season
The rainy season is here, and every day from morning to night, there is no end to it.

In the first two days, everyone still welcomed the rain.

Because this year since the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, there has been a lot of drought.

A while ago, when we were plowing the fields, the water in the ditches dried up, and the soil in the fields was as hard as stones in a latrine.

In the end, the villagers in several nearby villages were sitting together to discuss, and opened the reservoir at Zhengjia Village upstream to divert water for irrigation.

During those days, the men in every household in the village had almost no rest day and night. You had to stare and watch. If you were not around when it was your turn to irrigate the fields, you might be intercepted by the people next to you.

So in those few days, the villagers often had conflicts over the water source. The quarrels were common and serious. Both sides dispatched seven aunts and eight aunts, and almost fought with each other with hoes and poles.

Fortunately, Yang Huazhong was in the field day and night to deal with these disputes and coordinate irrigation issues, which prevented the huge Changping Village from causing bloodshed due to irrigation.

But Lijia Village and other villages are not so good...

So now that the rainy season is here, everyone says that the rain comes in a timely manner and is as expensive as oil.

Especially the early rice in the field has just been planted, and a few rains have nourished it. This year's harvest will definitely not be bad.

However, the next rain came one after another, like a rush, endless.

The sky has not cleared up, and the laundry is not dry at all. If it is cold, it is okay, at most, I will change the clothes again in ten and a half months.

But it happened to be hot summer, so I had to change it every day, otherwise the smell of sweat would be unbearable, and it would turn rancid wherever I went.

"It's really hard these days. Not only are the clothes not dry, but the corners of the house are damp, and the bedding on the bed can also wring out water..."

After breakfast, with nothing to do, Bao Suyun and Mrs. Liu all came to visit Mrs. Sun.

Mrs. Liu came here wearing wooden clogs and holding an umbrella to do daily chores, but Bao Suyun and Cao Bamei were different. They all carried needlework baskets in their hands, and everyone gathered together to talk and do needlework.

"Bamei, logically speaking, your house is paved with floor tiles, so it shouldn't be wet. Even if it's wet, it's our land, and it's all mud. Walking on it now is like walking in mud."

Mrs. Liu threw a handful of melon seeds into her mouth, and asked in surprise while nibbling.

At the same time, when the melon seed meat is eaten into the stomach, the melon seed shell can be spit out from the other side of the mouth.

I have to say, she really has a dexterous tongue!
Cao Bamei said: "Fourth aunt, you don't know, the floor tiles are still damp, and the water vapor seeps out from the ground. The gaps between the floor tiles are not so tight, and the house smells like mud."

"Hey, it's almost the same, life is hard!" Bao Suyun also shook his head and said.

It's like this at home, I don't know what happened to the children and grandchildren in the county.

"Third sister-in-law, your place is still comfortable, and it doesn't get damp at all."

Mrs. Liu kicked hard on the stone floor under her feet, boasting.

Mrs. Sun smiled, "It was a plan between Qing'er and his father when they built the house, maybe they did something under there!"

Bamei Cao said: "The Luo family is the most comfortable in this weather. When I met Qinger earlier, she told me to send all the washed clothes to her storehouse to dry in a day. I will send them over later."

Both Bao Suyun and Mrs. Sun laughed because they also sent them there.

The Luo family has several warehouses, which are specially designed for storing different things.

One of the storehouses was specially built for drying clothes in rainy days and winters. It is spacious and bright, and the doors and windows are opened for ventilation, and the inside is dry when the doors and windows are closed.

In this weather, Qing'er raised fruit charcoal and incense inside, and the person walked in for a while, sweating profusely, with dry mouth.

Put the clothes in it, even if they are wet and can wring out water, they will be baked to dryness in a day at most.

So when other people's houses in the village don't have clean clothes to change, Mrs. Sun and Bao Suyun won't worry about it at all.

Everyone was talking about drying clothes, when Liu suddenly covered her mouth and laughed.

"Aunt Si, why are you laughing? It's inexplicable." Cao Bamei asked.

Liu put her hands down, "I suddenly thought of your grandma. She has been hiding in the house for the past few days. Her upper body is worn, but her lower body is probably bare."

"Ah? Why is this?" Cao Bamei asked.

Mrs. Sun and Bao Suyun also looked at Mrs. Liu in confusion.

The old lady ate and drank with Sifang this month, so Mrs. Liu was in charge of the laundry.

"My fourth brother and I can't do anything with our clothes. The old lady is the same. I have taken out all the winter clothes in the closet to make do with it."

"Ah? Is there such a thing? Later, I will send two sets of my clothes to my mother for her to deal with." Bao Suyun said hastily.

Mrs. Liu waved her hand: "Don't, I gave her mine, she's totally disgusted, as if there's something wrong with us people."

Sun said: "Don't give it away, my mother is a bit particular about this. Clothes, washbasins, and bath tubs are never shared with others."

"Then what's the matter? You can't cover the bed with your buttocks?" Bao Suyun asked again.

Sun smiled bitterly: "Otherwise, what else can I do? I just hope that the weather will be fine sooner!"

Cao Bamei suggested to Liu Shina: "Fourth Aunt, send your clothes to Qing'er to dry."

Mrs. Liu said: "I'm lazy. I have too many clothes. I have to use a pole to pick them up. The road is wet and slippery. It's better to hang them in the house to dry them. It will always dry."

"Fourth aunt, you are so lazy, you can sell it for a penny and a catty of lazy, you can sell it for ten taels of silver!"

It was Yang Ruoqing who entered the room with a teasing voice.

She put away the oiled paper umbrella in her hand, gently shook the water droplets on it, placed it at the door, and entered the main room with a smile.

"Yeah, Sunny is here."

"Qing'er, I'm so lazy to sell you, will you accept it? Let my fourth aunt earn some money to spend." Liu raised her head and joked with Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Ruoqing covered her mouth and smiled, "I don't accept it either, because I'm so lazy that I can sell it, and we are colleagues."

Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "My colleagues are enemies, so you sit over there and don't touch me."

Yang Ruoqing raised her eyebrows: "Please sit down. I don't even sit next to my fourth aunt. I haven't changed my clothes for three days. When I came in, I smelled the smell of old steamed buns, giggling..."

Liu smiled and spat: "Oh, Qing'er, you bad girl, only the fourth aunt is an honest person in this room, so you pick honest people to bully!"

Cao Bamei jokingly said, "Fourth aunt, steamed buns made of old noodles are a rarity, and many people in the village will hardly be able to eat steamed buns with wild vegetables!"

Mrs. Liu straightened her back, "Oh? So I'm still a rarity?"

Yang Ruoqing came over, supported Liu's shoulders with both hands, and acted affectionately, "Isn't that true, you are the treasure of our family's town house."

Everyone laughed along, and the atmosphere in the main room was extremely relaxed and cheerful.

(End of this chapter)