The safety and comfort of traveling through farming

Chapter 38

As time passed, gardenias bloomed, red cherries ripened, ears of wheat turned from green to yellow, and Rongshu Village was about to enter the busy season of summer harvest.

He Tao has always been afraid of heat, but as the weather got hotter, her temper became weirder day by day, and she would get angry at Fu Shi more than ten times a day for various strange reasons.Facing the disaster of no reason, Fu Shi can only listen to it and accept it. After being scolded, he should coax her with nice words, don't be too angry, and be careful!
"Why is Mao so hot and so stuffy!" He Tao, the vicious landlady, lay on the couch and wailed. After howling, she turned to Fu Shi, who was playing a fan, and said angrily, "Are you deaf?"

Fu Shi played the fan silently. What does the hot weather have to do with whether I am deaf or not?
"I said it was hot, didn't you hear?" He Tao fanned the wind with his palm.

"Listen, isn't this fanning you!" Fu Shi said sullenly and increased the fanning intensity.What Grandma Cheng said was right, pregnant women have really bad tempers!If it wasn't for his own wife, he really wanted to put the fan in her mouth and let her stay somewhere cool!
"Those bastards keep screaming, keep screaming, didn't you hear it? It's so noisy!!!" He Tao continued to make trouble for no reason.

Fu Shi glanced at her, thinking that I don't have the heart to pay attention to the cicadas, your voice alone is going to explode my ears!
"You just said something!" He Tao rolled his eyes: "Don't say anything, why don't you scold me in your heart?"

Fu Shi nodded, then came back to his senses and shook his head vigorously: "No!"

He Tao pursed his mouth and said dejectedly, "Okay, I also know that I've been very unlovable recently."

"No, daughter-in-law, you are pregnant with my baby, you can torment me as much as you want!" Fu Shi said in a doggy way: "How can I not like you!"

"So it's all for the baby in my stomach, I don't care, right?" He Tao glared at him.

"Absolutely not!" Fu Shi hurriedly shook his head.When he was thinking about what to say to dispel his daughter-in-law's wild thoughts, He Tao apologized again: "I'm sorry, I've been making such unreasonable troubles lately."

"It's okay, it's okay, it's all because of the hot weather, if it's too hot, people will easily get annoyed!" Fu Shi quickly made an excuse for He Tao.

He Tao expressed his satisfaction: "Yes, I also think it's because of the hot weather."

Just as they were talking, the sky was covered with dark clouds. First there was a loud bang, and then a flash of lightning flashed across the sky.

Fu Shi hurriedly bent down to cover He Tao, then simply picked him up and rushed into the house.

"What's the weather, it will rain if it rains!" He Tao began to complain about God again.

But Fu Shi said happily: "You don't think it's too hot. It's going to rain now. After a rain, it will cool you down a lot!"

"It's true, it's raining well!"

Really well done!Fu Shi also nodded, if the rain can make his daughter-in-law's cute little mouth shut, he can dance to the gods every day to pray for the rain!

One of them is greedy for coolness and the other wants to be clean. They both think that the rain is good, but the other villagers in Rongshu Village are bitter!
The wheat harvest season is almost in sync with the rainy season. The wheat harvest must be robbed, and you must rob it with God, so that you can return the grains to the warehouse before God cries or not.

The villagers, wearing coir raincoats or sacks, rushed to the fields to check the condition of the wheat, and they all sighed the same when they returned home.

Ho's
He Zhigao sat in the main room smoking a dry cigarette, and He Fuguo and He Fujia sat on the stools on either side of him. The father and son were silent, watching the heavy rain outside the house without closing their eyes.

Da Zhou came out of the kitchen with water, poured the water into the yard, put the basin on the apron, wiped his hands and said, "This is really not the right time for rain! What should I do?"

"What can we do?" He Zhigao tapped his pipe and sighed, "Wait a minute!"

"What are you waiting for!" Da Zhou sat down and patted the table and said, "If you wait any longer, the wheat will all rot!"

"What do you want? Go to the ground now?" He Zhigao glanced at her.

"It's God's fault!" Mrs. Zhou cursed, then slapped herself on the face, and begged for mercy with her hands together: "God, the old lady made a slip of the tongue, please don't blame me. Let's have a good meal!"

Fu's second room
Fu Quan closed the shop as soon as it rained, and took his eldest son Fu Lei who helped him to rush home in the heavy rain.Mrs. Wu and several daughters-in-law were sitting under the eaves doing needlework. Their faces were full of anxiety, and they didn't get a needle for a long time.When Fu Quan came back, he made arrangements without waiting for Mrs. Wu to ask: "Daughter-in-law, don't do needlework first, find out the coir raincoats, mend the broken ones, and make new ones if they don't work. The four of you, Dalang Sharpen the sickle as soon as possible."

"Hey!"

After hearing this, the sons and daughters-in-law hurried to do what they should do.

Wu asked him: "His father, will he go to the field tomorrow?"

"I don't know yet. The thunderstorm comes and goes quickly, so it might stop in a while." Fu Quan had time to take a sip of herbal tea and said, "We'll see if it will rain again at night! If it doesn't, Let's just wait until the wheat is fully ripe. If I'm here, I guess it will really go to the ground tomorrow."

After speaking, he let out a long sigh.

He Tao and Fu Shi knew nothing about the situation in Rongshu Village.He Tao lay down and ate and drank, enjoying the rare coolness, and missed the cooling artifact—the air conditioner. By the way, he made a wish to God, let it rain for a few more days!Fu Shi was more diligent, afraid that the heavy rain would damage the chicken coop, so he deliberately went to the backyard to reinforce it in the rain. In short, the wasteland was peaceful and peaceful.

Until the next day, an unexpected visitor came to the house, and Liu Shu, the eldest son of the Liu family in Tianshui Village, came to the door.When Liu Shu entered the house, he didn't even bother to take a sip of water, and said straight to the point: "Master, please make up your mind! It seems that the rain won't stop for a day or two!"

"Hey, what does it have to do with us if it doesn't rain?" He Tao couldn't figure it out, and then thought about it. The only connection between the Liu family and them is the land, which must have something to do with the crops in the field!
"What happened to the crops?"

Liu Shu was choked up by her first sentence at first, and when she saw her reaction, he said hastily: "Isn't it just something wrong with the crops! The rain is not at the right time! Half a month earlier, half a month later, it will be fine." , It happened these days! It affects the harvest! I went down with my father to see it yesterday, and the ones that are ripe are only about [-]% to [-]%."

"Seventh or eighth floor?" He Tao opened his mouth wide and asked, "Is it because of the rain?"

"Isn't it because of the rain?" Willow raised his foot and said, "The sun will be out for a few more days, and the wheat will be fully ripe. At this time, if it rains for a few more days, the remaining Not to mention that it will not be ripe, the ripe wheat grains will sprout!"

According to what was said at the beginning, the first floor of the harvest paid the grain tax, and they could get four floors of the remaining grain.The 600 acres of land in their hands are all planted with winter wheat. Even if the yield of open land is not as good as that of good fields, they can still get a harvest of nearly two stones per mu. They can get more than [-] catties, which is enough for their family no matter what. Five bites to eat until the autumn harvest season, and some can be saved to sell for money to pay off old debts.

All plans were wiped out by the sudden rain!
Willow was very anxious: "Maybe there will be no harvest at that time!"

"That's it!" He Tao was a little embarrassed, she was still making a wish to God just now, so that it would rain for a few more days!She repented deeply in her heart, don't let the rain continue, she can bear it no matter how hot it is!
The four words "grainless harvest" are too heavy!Farmers rely on the fields to live, and if they lose their harvest, they will be hungry, not to mention paying food taxes!People who had no surplus in previous years may have to sell their iron and sons and daughters to survive!
"Then where are you here?" He Tao asked Liu Shu again.

"I just want the owner to make up his mind, should we collect it now, or wait for the rain to stop?" Willow asked hesitantly.He could see that the reason why the young couple leased the land to their family was not because the land was not in the village and it was difficult to take care of it, but because they didn't know the work in the field at all!
He Tao turned to Fu Shi, "What do you think?"

Fu Shi had no idea, so he was silent for a while, and finally threw the question to Liu Shu: "Brother Liu, what do you think?"

Liu Shu didn't speak, and could only look at Fu Shi: "Boss, this..."

He is in favor of grabbing it, but it's really hard to say anything.What if the sun clears tomorrow, and the sun keeps shining, but they harvest only [-]% of the crops. If the boss gets angry and doesn't plant the land for him, what will the family eat and drink?

"Brother Liu, the two of us really have no idea," He Tao saw his concerns, and said, "After all, your family owns half of the crops. Could it be that you still deliberately harm us?"

Willow quickly shook his head: "Of course not!"

"Just say it, no matter what, we won't blame you!" He Tao continued.

Willow gritted her teeth and said, "Or, just wait until today, and whether it rains or not tomorrow, I'll cut the wheat early in the morning!"

"Success, you guys make up your mind!" Fu Shi nodded.

"There is one more thing, I need to make it clear to you in advance." Seeing that they agreed with his opinion, Liu Shu heaved a sigh of relief, and then said: "The wheat is not finished after it is cut, and now it is raining. The wheat is wet, and it has to be cut." It can only be played after going home to dry for a while, and it may germinate and grow mold during this drying time..."

In normal years and months, after the wheat is harvested, it must be piled up first, and then it will be spread out to expose it to the sun on a particularly sunny day, and then it will be crushed and stored in the warehouse.

Now this ghost weather, who knows when it will rain? !When the wheat is taken back, it will be piled up at home and moldy.

"Can it be dried with fire?" He Tao suddenly remembered the kang at home.It doesn't matter whether it germinates or grows mildew, it's all because the wheat is wet, so as long as it is dried, it will be fine?This is their first year of buying land, and now they don't expect a bumper harvest as they thought before, at least don't lose too much!

"Fire can't do it..."

He Tao waved his hand: "It's not an open fire, it's drying on a kang!"

"What is Kang?" Willow asked.

What is a kang, I can't tell in two sentences.He Tao asked Fu Shi to lead Liu Shu to see the real thing, and then told him how to use the kang. After doing this, He Tao asked Liu Shu again: "Do you think it's okay?"

"Okay!" Liu Shu nodded: "The key is that I don't have a kang at home!"

"It's okay, the wheat has been harvested and sent to us." He Tao made a final decision.

After Liu Shu left, He Tao remembered that Fu Shi still had a few acres of land in Erfang's hands, and they were all planted with wheat. That was the two of them's rations for this year, so he urged Fu Shi to go to Erfang to ask them what they planned to do. .

Fu Shi ran away in the rain, and came back to tell He Tao that the second room also planned to go to the field to harvest wheat tomorrow.

"I also told my second uncle about using the kang to dry the wheat. It is estimated that if the sun does not come out, the second uncle's family will also transport the wheat to our house!"

He Tao nodded and said, "No problem, there are two kangs anyway! Let's use them in turn."

(End of this chapter)