Nongmen Rice Flower Fragrance

Chapter 43 Harvesting Rice
Two days later, Li Xin went to Uncle Zhang's house.

One acre of rice in the family has matured, and it will wither if it is not harvested.There are no harvesters in this era, and harvesting rice is a physical labor. Although it is only one mu, she can't do it by herself.The main reason is that the rice must be harvested after it is ripe, otherwise it will fall if it is overripe, so she cannot be allowed to work slowly.

When she arrived at Uncle Zhang's house, she asked Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang to help harvest rice.Now the other rice is not mature yet, and Uncle Zhang's family is not busy, so naturally he readily agreed.After saying that the rice harvesting would start early the next morning, Li Xin went home.

The next morning, Li Xin woke up very early. After getting up, she was busy with breakfast in the kitchen. She asked Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang to come here for breakfast.The breakfast was ready, and Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang also came over, bringing tools for harvesting rice.Li Xin's family has not been farming in the past two years, so they don't have these tools.The tools are very simple, just a sickle for cutting rice, a trough for threshing, and a basket for transporting rice.

After breakfast, the group went to the paddy field, and Yue Xiang took Yue Ting to the paddy field to play.Li Xin's rice field is not far from home, and it will arrive soon.Compared with the fields in the village, it is a bit out of the way, so no one knows that her rice is ripe.On the other side, the two-acre field next to other people's fields is planted with corn. The corn stalks are tall and grow tall and strong, but they block other people's sight.

"Sister Xin, why does your rice grow like this? It doesn't look very tall, but the tassels grow well. This must be more productive than the other ones!" In the rice field, Aunt Zhang looked at Li Xin's mature rice. This acre of rice was surprised.Although it hasn't been harvested yet, it can already be seen that the high yield is coming, and Li Xin also knows that they will be surprised.

"This is a seed given by an old man I met by chance in the town, so I thought about taking it back and giving it a try. It turned out to be pretty good, and I was afraid that others would cheat me!"

"It's not bad! This is too good!" Aunt Zhang pulled a heavy ear of rice and looked at it, with a hint of love.

Uncle Zhang has already started to use a sickle to separate the ears of wheat. The ears are golden, with one big ear and one big ear. It is very pleasing to look at.Li Xin asked Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang to cut it first, while she carried a wooden basin and walked by the field, looking at the best tassels, she carefully cut them off with scissors.Although I don't know if these rice can reproduce, but I still have to try it.She also picked some of the strongest ones first, the longest rice ears, and the most rice grains on them, and cut them off to make seeds.

If it is conventional rice, it is also necessary to keep the seeds selected all the time. If you don't do this, it will gradually become mixed after a few years.Although there is such a thing as survival of the fittest in nature, the rice transplanted into the rice fields and planted every year cannot be compared with wild rice.After many years of planting, some benign genes that belong to wild rice will slowly pass away.Therefore, if it is not cultivated well, it will be difficult to retain those advantages.

Cutting the rice was very fast. Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang were separated for a while, and Aunt Zhang was left alone, while he went to threshing first.Without machines, threshing is laborious.The thing for threshing is a deep groove, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Hold a small bundle of rice seedlings and beat it repeatedly on the wall, and the rice grains will fall down.

After picking the remaining seeds, Li Xin also joined the ranks of harvesting. She was weak, so she just followed the cutting, and she couldn't do the threshing.When she got up soon, Aunt Zhang also went to thresh with Aunt Zhang.

The sound of "bang bang" when the rice hits the trough immediately makes people enter the joy of harvest.Li Xin remembers that when he was a child in his previous life, there was no harvester in the village, but he used this kind of trough to thresh the grain. The whole body was made of wood, and it made a "bang bang" sound like a clapper when knocked on it.That kind of sound can be heard far away, and as long as you hear it from a distance, you will think, "So the rice has already started to be harvested."It seems that with such a sound, the whole harvest season will come.

When she saw the cooking smoke burning in the village, Yue Xiang took Yue Ting back to cook.At noon, Uncle Zhang, Aunt Zhang and Li Xin also rushed home.In the morning, Uncle Zhang ran several times and brought the threshed millet to Li Xin's house.After half a day, although very tired, but several people are very happy.Uncle Zhang was very happy looking at the rice piled up in the yard of Li Xin's house. Although he thought it would be a good harvest, such a high yield was still shocking.Is this still the rice they have planted for generations?One mu of land has been harvested for more than half a day, but only about a quarter of it has been harvested!There are so many rice?

He remembered that when harvesting on weekdays, one mu of land could harvest three stones (in ancient times, there were big stones and small stones, and different dynasties had different weights, so I took the value of [-] kilograms) which is not bad.Even those who are the most proficient in farming and tending the fields have never seen so much rice grown in one mu of land!

"Sister Xin, how do you grow this field! You can harvest so much millet." Uncle Zhang was very happy holding the rice.If all the fields can have such a yield, then you will never have to worry about going hungry!Farming has always been a matter of relying on the weather. If the weather is good, the harvest will be better that year, and the family will be able to have enough food.If the weather is bad and the harvest is poor, naturally they will be hungry.There is a lot of food when there is no food at home, and the feeling of being hungry is really uncomfortable!

"It's just that I plant how other people plant. I can't take care of these fields, I'm afraid it's far worse than others. I think it may be the problem of seeds!"

"Then next year our family will also take this kind of millet back to plant! Sister Xin won't give it to me, right?" Aunt Zhang looked at Li Xin with a smile.Who doesn't like a good harvest!Even if it's not my family that has a big harvest, it's still very happy!This year, Sister Xin's family must have enough food, and the best thing is not to go hungry.

"If Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang want to give it a try, they can plant a little bit. The old man who gave me the seeds told me that the seeds were brought from far away. Come, but that place is very strange, some seeds can’t be planted, even if the seedlings grow, there is no harvest. The old man said that he can try it, but he can’t plant it in a large area. If it fails to harvest, it will be harmful. So this year I only dare to plant one acre and have a look." If these hybrid rices come out, there will be no harvest, so she dare not let Uncle Zhang's family plant a lot, if it fails, it will be a year's worth Efforts!
"There is such a thing! I really have never heard of it." Aunt Zhang looked incredible.

"It's better to believe it than to believe it. Next year we will plant a little bit and try it. If there is a harvest, it means that we can continue to plant it. It's only a year, and there is no rush at this time. Try it. knew."

"Sister Xin is right, let's plant a small piece next year to see. Sister Xin dares to try even a child, don't we dare?" Uncle Zhang said with a firm face.

(It’s too cold, my hands are frozen, and I’m typing so slowly, everyone, please keep warm! Don’t get sick.)
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