peasant girl allure

Chapter 17 Cross the river and demolish the bridge
When the group returned home, Mrs. Shen Zhuang hurriedly ordered Mrs. Li and Mrs. Yang to cook. Mrs. Li was better, after all, she was late on purpose in the morning and only worked for half an hour.Although Yang Shi is lazy while working, where has she suffered so much, even if she is like this, she is too tired, and her heart is really miserable, but she has the heart to behave in front of Shen Zhuangshi, and she has always been obedient and obedient. If you don't do it for a while, all your previous efforts will be wasted, so I endured it secretly, and prayed in my heart that my elder brother would bring a message sooner.

During the cooking period, Mr. Shen and the men couldn't take a break right away. They had to thresh the rice they brought back, and then took it to the sun-drying field. Of course, they couldn't do much work during the noon break, but Mr. Shen was used to hard work. , as much as you can do.

Until lunch, everyone rested for half an hour and started to work again.Shen Chengyao stayed behind to thresh, this job was hard and difficult, apart from the old man in the Shen family, only Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu did it well, so they took turns to do it.

It is best to thresh the newly harvested rice as soon as possible and spread it out to dry, otherwise the moisture will easily germinate.

After cutting for a while in the afternoon, both Shen Yuzhu and Shen Baoer kept complaining about being dizzy. Xiaoer saw that their faces were normal and their eyes were rolling around. They didn't look dizzy, obviously they wanted to be lazy.The old man noticed it too, but he didn't say anything, he just told them to go back to rest with a tiger face.Mrs. Shen Zhuang also said that she was too tired, so she went back to have a rest, and prepared a meal for everyone to eat at night.Mr. Shen thought that his old wife was getting old after all, and she was usually busy with less work. She ordered her daughter-in-law to do it. She probably couldn't bear to do such a heavy job at once, so she agreed, and Mrs. Lan also took the opportunity to say that she would help her. When Shen Zhuang went back, several people supported each other and left.

The harvest in the afternoon was getting cooler and cooler, so Mr. Shen didn't stop until it was dark.Mr. Shen felt that he could cut for a while longer. He felt more energetic this year than in previous years, but it was dark and he couldn't see clearly, so he gave up.

When I got home, the food was ready, and two big pots of hot water had been boiled. Mr. Shen was very satisfied: After exhausting himself outside, when he got home, what he wanted was to have a hot meal and a bucket of hot water to wash himself. Bath, just a little warm.I don't know how many people don't want to go to the field to suffer anymore, so they behave well at home so that they don't have to go to the field in the future.

Sure enough, after eating, Mr. Shen said that tomorrow they will go to cut for a while in the morning, and go home to prepare food when the sun comes out. They don't have to go in the afternoon, just go to the sun-drying field to look through the rice from time to time.

Several people were overjoyed when they heard this, but Li secretly regretted it, thinking that he would follow suit tomorrow.But Mr. Shen didn't give her such treatment, he just asked her to rest under the shade of a tree before mowing.

After dinner in the evening, the others went to bed early after taking a bath, only Mr. Shen, Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu were still doing threshing work in the sun-drying field.The grain drying field is also lively, and many villagers are threshing.Halfway through the work, Shen Chengyao and the two brothers persuaded Mr. Shen to go home and rest, and they just finished the rest.Mr. Shen was also tired, so he agreed, and the two of them didn't finish their work until midnight.During the period, Xiao'er boiled a pot of porridge with space water and sent them to replenish their strength. She went to ask Mrs. Shen Zhuang who was making things difficult for cooking porridge with rice.At night, Shen Chengyao stayed at the sun-drying field to watch the night. At night, the sun-drying ground had to be guarded. In all places in the world, there would be some thieves, or people who were greedy for petty gains.

Two more days passed like this, and on the third day, when Mr. Shen and the others came back from the field, it was already very late, and the food in every household was fragrant, which made their stomachs growl with hunger.Everyone unconsciously accelerated the pace of going home, who knew that returning home would be cold.Shen Zhuangshi, Shen Yuzhu, Lanshi and Shen Baoer were all sleeping. They were so tired these days that they all fell asleep.

Mr. Shen was so angry that he couldn't stop shaking his fingers pointing at them.Just let them go to the field together tomorrow, and they don't cook until they come back together.It was supposed to be the last autumn harvest for the whole family, and he still wanted the whole family to work together to leave an impression of unity, harmony and friendship, neither of which would cooperate!Really pissed him off!
Seeing that the old man was really angry, Shen Zhuang did not dare to refute, so he could only vent his anger on Lan.Lan Shiha had never been wronged like this before, and he really wished he could pack up and fly back to town right away.

Three nights ago, Shen Chengzong's three brothers had all kept watch. Tonight it was Shen Chengguang's turn to watch. When he woke up the next day, he found that two sacks of rice had been stolen. Old Mr. Shen was so angry that smoke was coming from his head.But it's not easy to get angry in front of others. After all, the eldest grandson will be an official in the future, so he has to save some face for his father.Only I could bear my temper and work harder with a bitter face, as if I could reap the lost rice.

The whole family went to work in the field for a while, and the person that Lan Shi was looking forward to finally appeared. Someone said that Lan's elder brother had to go to the county for a while and couldn't continue to help look after the shop, so they had to rush back to town tomorrow .

After Mr. Shen heard this, he asked the people from the big house to go back to the town in the afternoon. Anyway, they couldn't do much work, so it's okay to make trouble.He hadn't even gotten out of the two sacks of rice that had been stolen, and they left, out of sight and out of mind.

After another three days of busy work, Erfang's land was also collected.When returning home in the evening, Mrs. Li sprained her ankle while walking, and Shen Chengzong had to carry her home. Shen Chengzong fell again when he was taking a bath at night, saying that he fell down and couldn't get out of bed.Erfang's family, it was either the pain or the injury, and no one got up to work in the field the next day.Old Master Shen was very angry, Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu were also a little disappointed, but they were not too angry, they were used to it, they only let Old Man Shen rest at home, and they just went to collect it, but Old Man Shen didn't agree, so they went to the ground too.

Xiao'er is even more regretful. She knew that she would not go to work a few days ago.She suffered a loss once, and she will never have a next time.

Shen Jingrui and Shen Jinghao were so angry that they wanted to plant all the grain they had harvested before.

Today, Shen Chengzu's family's land was collected first, because his family's land was closer to the village. When the family was divided, Shen Chengyao deliberately chose the worst field farthest from home, and also wanted to leave the better ones to his younger brother.

When the next day was about to dawn, there was a heavy rain, and the people in the grain drying field hurriedly moved the bags of rice to the ancestral hall.The grain drying field is built right in front of the ancestral hall, which is also to prevent rain, and there is not even a place to shelter the grain from the rain.

It rained all night, and it continued to rain the next day, but it was not so heavy, or it stopped for a while.Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu were so worried last night that they didn't sleep all night. They got up the next day and went to harvest in the rain. Mr. Shen originally wanted to go together, but the two brothers disagreed this time. If they help them harvest and fall ill, they will regret it to death, so Mr. Shen just gave up.

Xiao'er and Jing Hao also failed to follow. Jing Rui said that he was the eldest son and he was not too young, so he insisted on going, but Shen Chengyao couldn't break it.

Since she didn't have to go to the field, Xiao'er didn't plan to be idle. She thought that according to Shen Zhuang's temperament, she probably wouldn't be able to prepare their meals anymore.Yesterday, the Erfang family didn't go to harvest and let them eat by themselves. Now that Mr. Shen didn't go, he probably won't even take care of their food anymore.

She asked Jing Hao to take care of her three-year-old cousin Jing Jie, and she went to the place where Mrs. Liu kept her money to get a hundred cash. When the rain stopped, she went to the town to buy some rice, and when she came back, she went up the mountain to see if there were any pheasants. ,Hare.

It was really lucky that I caught two pheasants within a short distance. The recent autumn harvest, there are few people going up the mountain, and it rained all morning, and the chickens on the mountain just came out to look for food.Xiao'er was so unlucky that she ran into her.

Xiao'er grabbed two chickens and left. The sky was overcast and it was probably going to rain again.Sure enough, it rained again halfway.

When I got home, I had already eaten in the upper room, and the people in the second room also cooked and ate by themselves.Jing Hao and Jing Jie are burning a fire in the kitchen of the west wing, and hot water is boiling in the pot.

Jing Hao was very happy to see Xiao'er come back: "Sister, you are finally back, Jing Jie and I boiled a pot of hot water, why don't you take a bath first?"

Xiao'er patted the heads of the two of them: "Hao'er Jie'er is so good, my sister didn't wash it first, I caught two pheasants, my sister killed the chickens first, and cooked the rice, father and fourth uncle and fourth aunt should wash them came back."

Xiao'er went back to her room to change out her wet clothes, put on clean ones again, and then went to the kitchen to kill the chicken. Jing Hao and Jing Jie wanted to help pluck the feathers, so Xiao'er cut some shredded ginger and put it in a clay pot In the room, add space water and let the two cook ginger soup in the small stove.

On the other hand, he killed and chopped the chicken, put the rice in the pot, and asked Jing Hao to keep an eye on the fire, and then went to the vegetable garden to pick some cabbages and cucumbers, and washed them.At this time, the rice was almost cooked, so Jing Hao let Jing Hao back off the heat and let Yu Wen bake the rice.

She plans to cook three dishes: chicken with chestnuts, cabbage with garlic and stir-fried cucumber with chicken offal.

When the dishes were half done, Shen Chengyao and the others came back, all of them were drenched.Xiao'er asked them to take a bath first: "Father, uncle and aunt, brother, you go take a bath first, Shui Jinghao and Jingjie are all cooked. They also made ginger soup, you can drink a bowl of ginger soup after washing, Go to the cold, and then eat.

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