Portable space

The years are silent.Ten days passed by in a flash.

Zhang Taiping had just had dinner this night, and the weather has cooled down now, and the inside of the mountain is already colder than outside, so the time after dinner is not suitable for enjoying the cool outside, the whole family is sitting inside the house watching TV .

The phone rang, and the person closest to her was Cai Yazhi who picked it up, smiled and said a few words before hanging up.

Seeing Zhang Taiping looking over, he said, "Little sister called, saying she's coming home tomorrow Saturday."

Zhang Taiping wondered why he came home tomorrow, but he understood after a little thought.The corn is turning yellow. This is the time to break the corn. Cai Xiaomei has calculated the time correctly. She must have come back to help clean up the corn in the field. A few years ago, when Zhang Taiping was still ineffective, all the corn in the field was made by her and him. My sister tossed home together.

In the early morning of the next day, the whole family, old and young, went to battle and walked towards the cornfield. Originally, the old man wanted to go there together to help. characteristics shared by older generations.Zhang Taiping persuaded the old man to go back because he said it was good or bad.

As for cooking, leave it to Zhang Xiuxiu.Shen Qingfeng spends most of his time outside looking for and purchasing various medicinal materials. He only comes back at night, and sometimes he doesn't see anyone for a few days, so it seems a bit of a waste of firewood to cook for two people.Fortunately, Zhang Taiping let them eat together these few days, and handed over the lunch to Zhang Xiuxiu who was looking after Xiao Yu'er at home.Mu Hongyu, who also couldn't go to the ground, was fighting beside him.

In fact, the cornfield at this time is not a good place to go. Not only is it sweltering, but the zigzag edges on the corn leaves will make people's skin hurt.Zhang Taiping originally asked Yaya to stay at home and play, but the little girl eagerly wanted to go there with everyone to break the corn.

In fact, another reason is that at this time, all the children were called by their parents to help in the field, and even Tiantian went to break up the valley with Lu Feng. Yaya had no one to play with at home alone, so it was I want to follow through with all my heart.

Zhang Taiping did not forcibly stop him, some things can only be realized by experiencing the hardships in person.

Zhang Taiping was pulling the cart, and Fan Ming and Yaya sat on it smiling.

"Ling'er will do it too." Zhang Taiping said to Ye Ling who was next to him.

"No. Master, you can take it away." Ye Ling shook his head and refused.

Ye Ling didn't sit down but someone else came uninvited, Wukong jumped into the car with one step, and squeezed into the gap left by Yaya and Fan Ming.

"You're so lazy." Zhang Taiping cursed with a smile, then pulled the car towards the outside of the village.

My cornfield is not far from my home, and it was still a gentle slope when I came back. I don't know how the two women pulled the corn back bit by bit in the past. Thinking of this, I feel a little bit guilty.

Although Zhang Taiping's family didn't get up late, they weren't the first ones either. There were many people pulling carts on the road. After leaving the village, you could see that some people had even started breaking up in the field.

Fan Ming said in surprise: "Why do these people get up so early? Now the sun has just risen and they are already in the ground, plus the time it takes to eat, doesn't it mean that it is not more than four o'clock when they wake up?" Five o'clock?"

Cai Yazhi shook her head with a smile and said: "They are like us, they probably don't eat breakfast, but it may be true to get up at four or five o'clock. .”

"It's not easy being a farmer." Fan Ming sighed.

Xing Rushui glanced at her and said, "Don't you think 'Who knows that every piece of Chinese food is hard work' is just a poem?"

Zhang Taiping didn't participate in the conversation of several women, but looked at the scenery in the morning.

There are dewdrops hanging on the short grass by the roadside, which can reflect the crystal light under the light that has just risen and is not dazzling, like pearls swaying slightly in the wind, it is really beautiful.

Some withered and yellow leaves were spread on the ground, and scattered leaves floated down from the sky, swaying and swirling in the morning wind, like dancing butterflies, adding a bit of artistic conception.

Zhang Taiping stretched out his hand and flicked off a dead locust tree leaf that fell on his shoulder, feeling a little emotional in his heart.

One leaf knows autumn!

I live a leisurely life all day long, I have already forgotten the time, and before I know it, summer has passed, until I saw the dead leaves flying all over the sky, I suddenly woke up with the feeling that autumn has arrived .

Looking up the hillside, you can already see the clusters of dazzling yellow among the turquoise.Taking a deep breath, the faint scent of wild chrysanthemums in the air became clearer.

Fallen leaves are sprinkled in golden autumn, unique golden chrysanthemum beauty.

Zhang Taiping suddenly remembered these two poems.Autumn is the season of farmers, but also the season of poets.

Fan Ming followed Zhang Taiping's example and took a deep breath, then said in surprise, "Why is there a fragrance in the air?"

Zhang Taiping pointed to the hillside not far away and said, "Look where."

All the girls looked towards the place Zhang Taiping was pointing at, and those clusters of gold that had just opened came into view.

"It's the chrysanthemums that are blooming." Fan Ming said joyfully, "I'll collect some later. I heard that this can not only make tea but also put pillows in it. It has the effect of reducing internal heat and clearing eyesight."

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "If you have the energy later, go pick it."

When Yaya and Fan Ming first entered the field, they felt the novelty and worked very hard, but after a while, the hands and necks pulled by the corn leaves couldn't bear it anymore.

Rolling her eyes, Fan Ming said to Zhang Taiping, "Brother, Yaya and I went to the mountain to pick wild chrysanthemums!" After speaking, he asked Ye Ling, "Would you like to go, Linger?"

Ye Ling shook his head.

Two girls, one big and one small, ran out of the cornfield as if fleeing.Zhang Taiping waved to the lion behind him to let it follow to protect the safety of the two.

Wukong didn't go with him, he was covered in hairs but he wasn't afraid of corn leaves, and he did the job of breaking corn with ease, faster than anyone else.

There has been a saying for a long time: the monkey breaks the grain, and throws as much as it breaks.Its meaning is to say that greedy and insatiable gain is also quick to lose.

But this problem does not exist in the cornfield at the moment, Wukong only needs to throw the broken corn in a pile.So its efficiency tree is the fastest among several people.

Cai Xiaomei came back after nine o'clock, and found no one in the house, so she went directly to the ground.

Seeing Wukong running through the cornfield, he was slightly surprised and said, "I didn't expect Wukong to be a good farmer!"

After Wukong was praised, he worked harder.

Near noon, more than half of it was broken, and a small part of it was due to Qu Kong.At this rate, all the corn in the three-acre field can be packed and taken home tonight.

When I went home at noon, I took a car with me to go back.

Two girls, one big and one young, who were playing crazy on the hillside, came down the hillside when they heard the shouts.Holding a basket of wild chrysanthemums in his hand, Dongzi kept escaping from his pocket and throwing them into his mouth.

"Father, I'll give you some dates." Yaya opened her hands and presented several bright red wild dates to Zhang Taiping.Fan Ming also gave some to each of the other people.

Zhang Taiping hadn't had time to take the wild jujube from Yaya's palm with his hand, but let his little hairy hand snatch one away first.

Yaya immediately said unhappily: "This isn't for you, it's for Dad!"

Wukong threw the jujube into his mouth regardless, chewed it twice and spit out a jujube core.

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "If it wants to eat, give it to it. You can just give Dad some."

"It's different." Yaya pouted and carefully put the remaining few red dates in Zhang Taiping's hand.

"Why is it different?" Zhang Taiping asked.

Yaya said seriously: "These dates are the reddest, of course they must be eaten by Dad."

Taking advantage of Zhang Taiping's conversation with Yaya, Wukong wants to pinch another one in Zhang Taiping's hand.Unexpectedly, this time Zhang Taiping closed his palms together and failed to make it as he wished.

Gently plucked a few leaves of grass from Yaya's hair, her heart was full of warmth, although it was only a few dates, but it was the best gift her daughter gave her, and it contained deep admiration .

Seeing Zhang Taiping put a few dates into her mouth, Yaya joyfully took out a small handful of dates from her pocket and handed it to Wukong, saying, "Here you are."

After Wukong took it with both hands, he saw that it was not as bright red as before, and some were even all green, so he yelled twice in dissatisfaction.

Yaya made a straight face on purpose and said, "Don't forget it, give it back to me!"

Wukong quickly put his palm away and jumped a step away.This made the people next to him burst into laughter.

The laughter attracted Xiaoxi, who was wandering around, and landed on Cai Yazhi's shoulder.Looking at the wild dates that Cai Yazhi handed over, she tilted her head and began to comb her feathers without interest.

When I got home, Zhang Xiuxiu had already prepared the meal, vegetables and rice.It is to put cai and rice together to steam and cook. This is the way most people in the countryside eat rice. It is not only simple to make but also fast to eat.

The only downside is that rice is not as hungry as pasta for northerners, so after eating two bowls of rice, Zhang Taiping ate two more pot helmets.Zhang Taiping is tall and big, so he consumes energy quickly. Needless to say, he eats a lot. It is time for him to exert his strength. He needs to eat more to support his physical output in the afternoon.

Others took it for granted, but they frightened Zhang Xiuxiu.When serving Zhang Taiping's rice, he used the largest old bowl in the house, and he ate two big old bowls, not to mention two pieces of big-faced pot helmets.It really made Zhang Xiuxiu a little dumbfounded.

She looked down at the bowl in her hand, compared it, and couldn't help thinking that she ate more than the four of them, and she couldn't afford it decades ago.

Seeing the woman's tongue-tied look, Zhang Taiping shrugged his shoulders and smiled without saying anything. A person with such a large appetite for the first time was unavoidably surprised.

Everyone set off after lunch and a short rest. This time, Yaya and Fan Ming did not follow, but there were three more Mr. Li and his wife and Mr. Tang.Normally, Zhang Taiping would send some food to the three of them if he had anything to eat, which was a lot of help.The three of them wanted to come to help Zhang Taiping, but it was hard to insist on refusing.

In the afternoon, Zhang Taiping did not break the corn together, but dug the poles behind.

The autumn harvest is followed by the sowing of winter wheat.This year the corn turned yellow for more than a week earlier than in previous years. In previous years, it would only turn yellow during the National Day, but this year it turned yellow on September [-]th in the Gregorian calendar.So it takes longer to sow winter wheat, so this autumn harvest is not as anxious as before.

But Zhang Taiping still wanted to clean up the land early, so the seeds could only be planted after an autumn rain.One is that it is a few days earlier than other houses and it is easier to hire farm cattle during the peak planting season. You must know that this is all mountainous land, and modern machines cannot enter, even tractors cannot drive in. You can only use cattle to sow. When the time comes to plant the land But there is a queue; the other one is that he wants to finish the work early to avoid mopping the floor for a long time. Not only is it troublesome, but it is also popular.

After everyone broke off all the corn from the pole and installed it, the work was basically done. The task of pulling it back was Zhang Taiping's.Everyone else went back, leaving only Cai Yazhi and Xing Rushui holding the little one?With the head digging, Zhang Taiping began to pull back the more than 200 bags of corn.

It took nearly twenty times to pull all the corn back, just as Cai Yazhi walked like water and the two of them also put all the corn stalks in the ground.

When the three of them pulled the last cart back, the sky was already full of stars.

Cai Yazhi walked on the road and said in disbelief: "Is it true that you broke and dug up more than three acres of corn in one day?"

Zhang Taiping said with a smile: "Could it be fake?"

"My little sister and I used to take four or five days to finish it."

"Many people are powerful. How many people have you dispatched today?" Zhang Taiping said while slowly pulling the car.Although it was an uphill road and he was still pulling the car, it was still effortless for him.

Cai Yazhi said with a smile: "It is true that there are many people, the most important thing is that Wukong helped a lot today."

"The monkey is good at breaking the corn." Zhang Taiping said.

After pulling it back, it fell into the yard, and most of the yard was occupied, piled up like a hill.

Cai Yazhi collected the bags and said: "Tomorrow, you can pull the corn stalks by yourself slowly. I will help Lu Feng. She also has more than an acre of land. It will take at least four days to clean it up alone."

Zhang Taiping nodded: "Go ahead, the corn stalks are just me alone."

Xing Rushui brushed away a wisp of black hair that was blowing in the evening wind in front of his face and said, "I'll go with you to help Lu Feng tomorrow."

"No need, you can just rest, more than an acre of land is not much." Cai Yazhi refused, she was happy to help in the past, but if she let Xing Rushui go to help, she would feel a little embarrassed.

Xing Rushui smiled and said: "Anyway, there is nothing to do when you are idle."

Such a large pile is pressed together to be airtight, and the temperature at the bottom will be very high, and it will become moldy if it is a daily routine.So peel it off as soon as possible and hang it on a tree or shelf.

After dinner, Zhang Taiping moved the TV to the door, turned on all the lights in the yard, and the whole family sat in the yard watching TV while peeling corn.Talking and laughing, full of farm flavor.

I believe that most people in the village are like this at the moment.