Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 431

Chapter 430 Cutting the Rice
Uncle and Dad took a few people from Lijiagou to pick up rice ears on the platform, then threshed and crushed straw.

First go to the field and cut out a small space with your hands, lower the harvester into the field, pull the rope, the diesel engine will sound, push forward like a boat, the rice will be chopped down, and soon behind the machine Stacked into a pile.

One person pushed the harvester back and forth, and the other person moved the harvested rice to the platform of the winch and handed it over to the uncle and others, and the uncle and the others began to thresh, crush the stems, and pack them into bags.

Shirly saw that Uncle and Mother Ni were already working in full swing, and jumped up and shouted: "Hurry up, let's start too!"

So the group of five began to roll up their trousers and sleeves, and slipped into the test field.

Li Junge put the tripping bucket on the edge of the field, inserted the mat, put the wooden frame in place, and said, "Hahaha, let's start!"

At the beginning, the movements of the five-person group were quite unfamiliar, grabbing a bunch of rice stalks, and making gestures with a sickle for a long time, before carefully cutting a knife, and sometimes making up it twice.

This skill makes those who are playing with agricultural machinery and those who are standing on the ridge and playing SLR almost burst into laughter.

After finally getting together two bunches of rice, Shirly and Alice threw the sickle away: "I'm too tired, let's go threshing!"

The two sisters climbed up to the ridge of the field, each holding a bundle of straw: "Jungle! How do you do this?"

Li Junge also had no choice but to climb up the field ridge: "Come on, come on, do it like this! Watch it!"

After speaking, he raised the rice bunch and threw it hard towards the small wooden ladder.

There was only a "pop", the rice grains splashed, crackled and hit the bottom of the barrel and the mat, and finally fell down.

While falling, Li Junge said: "The first time you hit, you have to use the most force, so the noise is also the loudest. Then gradually reduce the force, and keep turning the rice bunches in your hands until the ears of rice are tripped clean."

The two sisters laughed loudly: "This seems to be easier than cutting rice, we can do this!"

Li Junge said: "Usually two people come together, one rises and the other falls, to create a sense of rhythm."

The two sisters and cubs cooperated very well, their strength was not too strong, and the sound of bang bang bang bang was very lively, but there was not much rice coming down.

Li Junge didn't bother to care about them, so he went to cut the rice.

With him on the field, the speed of cutting the rice finally increased.

Li Junge kept his head down and just walked forward. After a while, he walked from one end to the other end of the field. When he raised his head, half of the zongba and taro hadn't reached.

Li Junge shouted: "Hurry up, at your speed, this land will take three days to reap! Don't do it, Aunt Bai, and you will be responsible for passing the rice between us, Alice and Shirly."

Aunt Bai thought it made sense, so everyone began to work together.

The speed of the three of them slowly increased, and Li Junge shouted after working for a while: "Zongba taro, you can change with Alice and Shirly, you can't bear it if you go down like this, let's change to rest!"

Taro's head was no longer silver, and he raised his head and shouted, "Jungle, what about you?"

Li Junge laughed and said, "I don't need it!"

So the four of them changed jobs, and Li Junge said: "Aunt Bai, if there is a lot of grain piled up in the bucket, put it in a bag, and I will carry it to the cart when we eat later."

After talking about the ground, he continued, scooping up the handle of rice with his left hand, and slashing the ground with his right hand, leaving only a two-inch-high rice pile on the water.

After working for a long time, the four of them changed hands several times, and finally cut off a third of the land.

The tripping bucket has also gone to the field, just like a small boat, it will go wherever people go.

Mom and grandma came to deliver the meal, and grandma laughed when she saw Alice and Shirly swinging the straw before tripping over the bucket: "Oh, what kind of crops are these two daughters, are they suffering?"

Shirly was about to cry: "Zuzu, I can hardly move my arms, and I can hardly straighten my waist..."

The mother hurriedly said: "Then let's all rest for a while! Sister-in-law Bai, the three children, get up and eat!"

Zongba and taro are like amnesty: "Oh, I can finally rest for a while!"

Taro came to the side of the basket and was about to take off the lid, but my mother clapped her hands: "Taro wash your hands in the ditch next to it first!"

Zongba raised his head: "Wow! Look at them!"

I saw that at the foot of the mountain, except for the experimental field, the rice in the other fields had been harvested.Not only that, the uncle and the others also formed a circle in each field, buried the broken straw in it, and piled it up in a bulging bag.

The hoist moved up for a while at some point, and sacks of grains were piled up on both sides of the hoistway, waiting to be pulled to the open dam in front of the barn to dry in the afternoon.

The millet at noon cannot be directly dried on the ground, it needs to be covered with mats, because the temperature of the ground is very high at this time, and the rice may be roasted into popcorn.

Lunch is steamed buns, pickled cabbage and bitter bamboo shoot soup, and roasted pork with mushrooms.

A dozen or so people started to eat in Tiantou like this.

The folks even made fun of Li Junge and the others while eating.

"Hahaha, I saw you guys harvesting rice on the mountain. I have to do it like you in the old days. I'm afraid that the old man's yellow thorns will come down long ago..."

"I don't think it's surprising. The main reason is that when planting the seedlings, they were all crooked. Hahaha, if you talk about beating, you would have been killed by then..."

"It's strange to stumble over the bucket, but it's not on the spot. I feel uncomfortable when I'm on it, and I can't wait to come down and help them shake it a few times! You said it's not unusual to miss the spot once in a while, now and then Not on the spot, it's rare, hahahaha..."

"However, Piwa is still fine. He has never stopped talking. I am afraid that most of this field was cut by him..."

"Well, you can tell at a glance that the ones with mangy hair and curly hair are the ones of rice dumpling and taro, and the ones that are flat and flat are cut out by Piwa..."

After eating and replenishing water, Li Junge said: "Let's go, continue, work harder to finish cutting this piece of land today! If you suffer, you will suffer!"

Grandma and mother didn't leave either, but pointed out a few people beside them.

With the guidance of the two old farmers, the work went much smoother, and the sound of tripping the barrels began to rise and fall. Following the rhythm of tripping the barrels, the three people in the field began to have a regularity and rhythm. The child feels much faster.

Alice and Shirly started one after the other, and gradually cooperated with each other, and the sound of throwing became more and more vigorous. Grandma and mother pointed out some tricks, and then they packed up the dishes and went back, and it was time to prepare dinner again.

After working until four o'clock in the afternoon, six people finished harvesting the small one-acre field.

Zongba and Taro couldn't even climb up the field ridge, and it was Li Junge who pulled them up.

Aunt Bai was also so tired that there was a circle of salt on her neck. She opened her mouth, but she didn't have the strength to speak.

Alice and Shirly also crawled over, and the five leaned sideways in a pile, too tired to move a finger.

Li Junge carried things to the raptor, and said with a smile, "Hey! Zongba, where are the athletes you promised?"

Zongba waved his hand: "Athletes can't train all their muscles... Ouch, my hands are blistered!"

Li Junge said: "Okay, I'll load the things into the car first, and you guys quickly check if there are any leeches on your legs..."

The taro was so tired that Shuzhou dialect came out: "If you want to suck it, let it suck it...I can't even lift my feet..."

Putting the things away, Li Junge pulled up the exhausted people one by one and sent them to the car.

After driving the car to the outside of the fish pond at the gate of the house, the group of five recovered.

But it was useless to expect them to work, Li Junge had no choice but to arrange for them to take a bath, pack up their things by themselves, spread a mat in the main room, and pour out the Wujinxue rice he had collected in the open air.

After finishing these, I came to the back of the house and took a shower with Zongba and taro.

After washing, they turned back to the front yard. Alice and Shirly were sitting in the yard with wet hair, each holding a big cup in his hand, apparently already full of herbal tea.

Seeing Li Junge and the others come out, Alice began to play tricks: "Jungle, if we are still so tired tomorrow, we will go on strike!"

Li Junge burst out laughing: "Your class is not even right! If the peasants didn't go on strike, if you don't do it, you will only starve!"

Aunt Bai also came out with a big tea mug, she shook her head and said, "Pi Wa, your nation is really great! The quality of bearing hardships and standing hard work is definitely cultivated from farming."

Li Junge said with a smile: "I agree with this, but there will be a three-day buffer period. Tomorrow morning, when the ground starts to heat up, we will be drying the millet. It will be much easier than today."

This is when my father came back, and he praised the six people without hesitation: "It's quite good! Six novices, harvesting one mu of land in one day, is very good."

Go into the main room and take a look: "Hey! Isn't this an increase of [-]%? I don't think it can beat a thousand catties! Isn't it said that the average yield on the mountain is seven or eight hundred catties per mu?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "This year's rice seeds are carefully selected, and the terraced fields have not been planted for many years? They are very fat! Besides, the climate at the foot of the mountain is better than that at the top of the mountain. To be able to harvest this amount, Teacher Wu and the professor of the Agricultural University have long been It was expected."

Dad said happily: "This is almost catching up with hybrid rice! This variety is really good. After this year, I guess the folks will have nothing to say, right?"

This is Ah Yin who also came back with the children, and she was overjoyed when she entered the door: "This is from the experimental field? It is much more than our mountain!"

My mother came out with a pot of porridge and said, "Not only is it more, but it's also full! Come on, everyone is tired, hurry up and eat!"

Dinner is simple, sweet potato porridge, cold spinach, eggplant dipped in water, a pot of bath pickles, and a plate of sausage and pork tongue.

The group of five's appetite today is different from the past, but they are not very interested in meat, and their chopsticks go to water spinach, eggplant and kimchi. Even the two sisters ate three big bowls each.

After dinner, the summer heat had subsided, and the children went to the threshing ground of the ancestral hall to play. Li Junge and A Yin walked around the village with the group of five to digest food.

A group of people strolled around and came to the front of several wooden buildings.

It just so happens that several artists will return to Shudu tomorrow, and Li Junge will also come to visit.

Entering the wooden building, I saw several painters sorting out their paintings for this holiday. Old man Ding was pointing to Qiu girl where the lines should be clearer, and where the brushstrokes are missing.

Seeing a group of people coming, old man Ding waved to Li Junge: "Come, come, let's see how girl Qiu is growing!"

(End of this chapter)