Tianyuan Shoufu is two and a half years old

Chapter 106 Harvesting Rice (2)

"There is such a reason, I think it is also because the rice seeds of Zhang's family are better, and I don't know where they bought the seeds. Will they sell the rice seeds to us to plant when they have a good harvest this season?" ?”

"That's right, we can produce [-] jin of seeds per mu. If our family can grow this kind of rice, we can double the output in one season. Our family won't be afraid of starvation after paying taxes."

"My eldest son is 15 years old, and the second son is thirteen. I just hope that the family grows more food, so that they can eat enough, and I can marry my eldest son."

"The current situation is much better than before. Our village has tofu workshops and potion workshops. Every household has people working in the workshops to make money. Compared with before, our family worked hard to farm the land and do hard work. The result is less money. good."

"It's true. Our village is considered a wealthy village. At least people surnamed Qin can still be sent to study and read. People in our village haven't starved to death. But it is more difficult to want to be rich."

"Yeah, our village is really much better than my natal family's. My natal family's brother and my nephew can't read and write."

The people who chatted started from the rice output of Qin Muzhang's family to their current life, how sad they were when they were kidnapped to their natal families, and how sad they were in other villages. Compared with Qin's family village, it is really much richer.

While the women were sitting on the ridge to rest and chat, Qin Muzhang brought home the packed rice with his uncles.

In fact, these sacks did not hold as much as 100 catties, they were about [-] catties, and at most they weighed about [-] to [-] catties. Qin Muzhang and the others carried them relatively easily.

Qin Muzhang and his uncle are all supernatural beings, and their physiques are as strong as before time travel. It is easy to carry more than 100 catties of grain.

And Qin Muzhang's cousins ​​are all young and strong. Although they are not as easy as Qin Muzhang to resist more than 100 catties of grain, they are not so difficult, so everyone carries these packed grains home one by one.

Qin Muzhang's family has already prepared a place to put these rice, and the rice that has not been dried in the sun is first stacked in the main room.

Thirty bags of rice were piled up almost as high as a wall, almost occupying the entire right wall of the main room. This is only about six mu of harvest, and there are still about ten bags of rice for the remaining two mu.

In ancient times, there was no concrete ground for you to dry rice, so Qin Muzhang and Qin Songtao prepared straw mats early on. They were supposed to be mats made of bamboo, but the mats made of bamboo feel not so soft and not easy to harvest, and It also feels uneven between the gaps.

So Chen Qiuxiang took out sisal and planted a large area of ​​sisal around Qinjiazhuang, and then asked Qin Muzhang and Qin Songtao to cut back the leaves of sisal to make straw mats.

Qin Muzhang and Qin Songtao, together with Qin Muyu's help from time to time, weaved sisal into a large straw mat with a length of 30 meters and a width of 10 meters. The straw mat made of sisal is slightly flatter than that made of bamboo. , is also softer and easier to pack.

Such a large grass is quite big when rolled up. Because it is relatively soft, it is not so strenuous to collect it, and it is more convenient to put it down.

"In the afternoon, you don't have to go to the fields, but you can dry the rice at home?" Qin Muzhang said to his wife and mother.

Although it is said that some of the people who helped with the work today went to help because of watching the excitement, and there might not be so many people coming to help in the afternoon, but he didn't want his daughter-in-law to work hard—his mother just happened by the way.

"Okay, my mother and I won't go to the field in the afternoon, we'll dry the rice at home." Chen Qiuxiang said with a smile.

In fact, it is really easier to harvest rice with more people. It took about two or three days to harvest corn before, because there were not so many people helping, but now there are really many people when harvesting rice.

"Is the rice ready? Let's call everyone back for dinner later. Although we won't have big fish and meat for everyone to eat, we can't treat those who help us badly," Chen Qiuxiang said.

"Okay." Qin Muzhang helped his daughter-in-law put down the straw mat for drying the rice, and after several generations of rice was poured on it, he went to the field, planning to bring people back after everyone finished threshing and bagging the remaining rice. Have a meal.

Qinjiazhuang has a relatively large land, and there is a large open space outside Qin Muzhang's house. It should be said that there is an open space around every household, which is reserved for drying rice.

Now Chen Qiuxiang’s rice is drying in front of his house, and the rice is drying in about 300 square meters. Chen Qiuxiang raised his head and looked at the clear sky without clouds. very nice.

As long as the weather is good, the rice can be sieved after about two days of drying, and can be stored after another day of drying after sifting.

When Qin Muzhang went to the field, there were still many people threshing rice in the field. Those who cut the rice basically went home after resting. It is not so tiring to help cut the rice today. Everyone often does farm work. Harvesting rice today is much easier than cutting their own rice in the past.

Of course, even if they are not as tired as before, they still have to rest, and it is noon and they have to go home to cook, and they also have to eat.

As a result, not long after these people returned, Qin Muzhang and Wang Mingya went to tell them to go to their home for dinner, telling them that they had already cooked their meals at home, and asked them to go over for a meal.

The men were basically threshing rice in the field, and they helped carry the bagged rice home. The women went home first, so when Qin Muzhang and Wang Mingya went to call for help, these people hadn't eaten yet, so they had to bring the bagged rice home first. The meals at home are cooked.

But after Qin Muzhang's mother and son went to call, with the idea of ​​not taking advantage of the advantages and saving a meal for the family, they asked the family members to prepare lunch by themselves, and they went to Qin Muzhang's house to eat.

In fact, Qin Muzhang's family didn't cook any hearty dishes, but Chen Qiuxiang made pancakes made of cornmeal mixed with soybean flour and a little mung bean flour. The pancakes were very thin, almost as thin as pancakes.

A pancake is about [-] to [-] centimeters in diameter, and then you can wrap the pancake with the meat sauce prepared by Chen Qiuxiang, sausage, and side dishes such as shredded cucumber, green onion, bean sprouts, and tofu.

In fact, this meal is not too troublesome except for the pancakes. The meat sauce is the mushroom meat sauce that Qin Muzhang had made a long time ago. The meat is the wild boar she killed before. The quantity is still quite a lot.

In fact, there are not many sausages. Everyone can eat one or two slices of sausage, which is already very good, and it doesn't cost much.

Then the shredded cucumbers and green onions and bean sprouts were born by Chen Qiuxiang and Wang Mingya. For these two high-level wood-type superpowers, it was a piece of cake.

(End of this chapter)