Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 109
The next day, Xie's siblings started work and went to pull corn from their cornfield.

Fanyang still brought Fanwen and Xiaojun to help after training.

In the corn field, only Zhang, Xie Fanxing, Xie Fanyue, Xie Fanyu, Xie Fanchen, and Xie Fanri were busy working.

With little boy on his back, Xie Fanxing snapped the corn off the stalk with his hands.

The broken corn is first peeled off to expose the corn kernels, and then the corn is stuffed into the basket or burlap bag.

When it is full, pick it up and let someone take a rope from the corn leaf on the top of the corn to wind it into a string, hang it under the eaves or on the roof, dry it in the sun, and then rub it down. Grind it into cornmeal and eat it.

"Sister, we are here to help." At the beginning of the day, after Fanyang had finished training with Fanwen, Fanwen came to the cornfield and broke the corn with his hands and feet. Seeing the swiftness, he did not do this kind of work in previous years. up.

"Sister, today I brought Xiaojun and the others back from the mountains to collect several handfuls of firewood. We kept a handful of firewood at home, and I gave all the rest to my uncle's house.

Also, I took Xiaojun and the others up the mountain and turned around, and brought back a few hares and pheasants. I shared one of the hares and pheasants for my uncle and them to eat, and I put the rest in our kitchen.

Whether we eat it fresh or smoked into cured meat, you can figure it out, big sister. "Xie Fanyang came to his cornfield and said to his elder sister while working.

"Hmm! Then I see, you brought back these hares and pheasants?" Xie Fanxing asked without knowing what came to mind.

"Yes."

"Next time, if Fanwen or Xiaojun shoot their own prey, let them take it home by themselves. Also, if the prey you shot today comes back, let them take all of them home!"

"No, I just shared a hare and a pheasant with my uncle's."

"It's a good job. Don't give alms at will, let them support themselves. As the saying goes: relying on others is worse than relying on themselves. This can not only motivate them to work hard, but also arouse their competitive spirit, and compare each other. , can make them study harder.

Of course, if they really have any difficulties, we can still help them when we are able. "Xie Fanxing nodded in agreement.

"I think so too." Xie Fanyang glanced at his elder sister, but didn't say much.

Although his elder sister is young, unlike him and Fanyue, Fanchen, and Fanri who are "outsiders" who have lived two lives and are "authentic" locals, but what his elder sister says often has deep meaning, Or considerate, not only generous and sincere in dealing with people, but also thoughtful and considerate in dealing with people.

He felt that his eldest sister was not simple either.

Fanyang and Fanwen joined in breaking the corn, and before noon, the group of them broke off an acre of corn.

When the corn on this acre of land was half broken, Mrs. Zhang and Xie Fanxing picked up the corn and went home first. Xie Fanxing asked Mrs. Zhang to stay at home to string up the corn first under the eaves.

After the sun went down that day, Xie Fanxing and his brother finally broke off the corn from the two acres of land and carried them all home.

They even cut off the corn stalks of an acre of land, bundled them into bundles and put them aside. They only need to be picked up and dried for a while before they can be used as firewood.

In the future, cattle will be brought in to plow one side of the dry land, and the roots of the corn left in the field will be plowed out, and fertilizer will be applied next year, and corn or sweet potatoes can be planted again.

"Eldest sister, you eat." Fan Yu handed her elder sister a corn stalk she had peeled to eat.

As for Fanyue and Fanxing, they ate vine pears, stone persimmons and other things brought by themselves to pad their stomachs.

Today, their sister and brother have also worked all day, if they don't eat something to rest their stomachs halfway, this person will not be able to bear it.

"It's quite sweet." Xie Fanxing took a bite of the corn stalk, it tasted sweet, like eating sugar cane, but it was a bit different, but it also had a special flavor.

"It's quite delicious." Fanwen also peeled a corn stalk and ate it.

Fanyue, Fanyang, and Fanchen saw that the corn stalks could be eaten, and they heard their eldest sister and Fan Wen say that it was very sweet, so they followed suit, each peeled a corn stalk and ate it.

Fanchen, who loves sweets, immediately liked the taste, not to mention, it tasted chewy, which made Fanchen like this feeling even more.

"Today, the corn stalks on this mu of uncle's land can't be finished. We will cut off the corn from this mu of land after we finish harvesting the sweet potatoes tomorrow. We will go home for dinner today." Xie Fanxing and his brother sat down She ate something and rested her stomach, Xie Fanxing saw that it was getting late, so she called the younger brother and sister to go home with the things.

After Xie Fanxing's siblings returned home, her grandma had already prepared meals.

After Mrs. Zhang saw her grandchildren coming home, she told them to wash their hands and face and eat.

After the second day, they went to dig sweet potatoes in the sweet potato field again.

Before digging sweet potatoes, the sweet potato vines should be pulled aside first, and the sweet potato vines should be cut before digging with a hoe.

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Five consecutive days passed.

Mrs. Zhang took Xie's siblings to work on the corn and sweet potatoes on the four acres of land.

Not to mention the harvested corn, it was also strung up with ropes and hung from the eaves to dry.

The corn stalks in the corn field have also been cut and have been brought home, and the sweet potatoes have been dug out and put into the warehouse.

As for her uncle and aunt, she brought her aunt and uncle to burn bricks four times in the past five days. In addition, her uncle figured out that more than a dozen large vats were burned out.

They burn bricks during the day and soak the kiln at night, and they can produce bricks for 3000 yuan at a time. Now more than 1 green bricks are stacked in the backyard of her uncle's house.

"Fanxing, our tea seeds have been retting for five days. Do you see if the retting is complete? Shall we start the next step?" Seeing that things were on the right track, she saw that the tea seeds were retting It's been a long time, and they have free manpower to do these jobs, Qian came to Xie Fanxing's house to find Xie Fanxing and asked.

"I'll go and have a look first." Xie Fanxing nodded and followed her aunt to the warehouse where the tea seeds were stored.

Seeing that these tea seeds had been stacked and retting for five days, many tea seed shells cracked, and the tea seeds inside fell off by themselves.

Xie Fanxing picked up a tea seed and looked at it, and saw that the surface of the tea seed was already shiny.

After pinching it with your fingers, it has an oily texture, and it seems that it is almost piled up.

"It's almost done. Tomorrow we can pull these tea seeds out to dry, so that the tea seeds can be shelled and threshed out by themselves." Xie Fanxing nodded and said to her aunt.

(End of this chapter)