20 years of spring breeze

Chapter 55 Coaxing People to Go for an Autumn Tour (addition to supporting role A)

Sister Jin tied her hair back up and said, "The suburbs are far away from here. It takes about an hour by car from South Station. Sang Linzi, have you heard of it?"

Li Na said: "Sister Jin's house produces rice, and you can help out with the autumn harvest in two days. Then I will get some new rice for each of you."

Xiaowei said: "Okay, I really haven't planted rice yet, my land is all dry land, when will I harvest it?"

Xia Maosheng also nodded and said, "Come on, let's try it out. I haven't worked before. But I have energy and I can do it."

Xiaowei asked, "Sister Jin, how much rice does your family have?"

Sister Jin leaned on the desk and said: "My family is small, and I don't have much land, only about [-] acres."

Xiaowei's eyes went dark, and he stared and asked, "How much? Three, thirty, mu?"

Sister Jin looked at him strangely and said: "Well, it's only about [-] acres, which is the least in my family. I have a small family, and I have a sister who is married. There are only three of us. I came out to work again. There are more than enough.”

Xia Maosheng teased Xiaowei and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiaowei frowned and asked Xia Maosheng: "Have you never planted land?"

Xia Maosheng shook his head and said, "No, what's wrong?"

Xiaowei said: "Thirty acres, rice."

Xia Maosheng scratched his head, dazed, and asked, "Well, what's the matter?"

Xiaowei accepted it and said: "Just like you laughed at me for not cutting vegetables, I will be subdued by the land you have never planted. Let me tell you this, one mu of land is about 2000 square meters, and [-] or so. Acres of land, more than [-] and [-] square meters, harvesting rice is a hurry, called rush harvesting, this thing can’t get wet in the rain, my dad’s waist is tired from harvesting rice, and it hurts so much that he can’t turn over after ten years.”

Sister Jin opened the drawer of the table, took out a pack of melon seeds and put them on the table, grabbed a handful and licked it in her hand, and said, "Not so much, six hundred and seven per mu, less than seven hundred."

Xia Maosheng was still in a daze, and even Li Na looked at Xiaowei with a look of seeking knowledge.

Xiaowei gritted his teeth and asked Sister Jin: "Sister Jin, is your house harvesting manually or by machine?"

Sister Jin ate melon seeds and said: "People collect. The machine is quite expensive, and we have to wait in line. My house has little land, so it takes a long time. If it rains in the middle, it will be over, and people will collect it quickly. It doesn't cost more than [-] acres." many."

Xia Maosheng nodded and said, "That's right, thirty acres is really not much, Xiaowei, you look like a haha?"

Xiaowei pointed at Sister Jin, and said to Xia Maosheng: "Ask Sister Jin how much a good laborer can earn in a day."

Sister Jin thought for a while and said, "My father alone can reap an acre and a half a day, and my mother and I can reap an acre a day. That's it, what's wrong?"

Xiaowei looked at Xia Maosheng and asked, "Do you understand? Thirty acres." He raised his hand and stretched out three fingers, comparing in front of Xia Maosheng.

Xia Maosheng asked: "Why is this so slow? Isn't it easy to do?"

Xiaowei took a step back, spread his legs forward and back, bent down, stretched his left hand forward and down, then kept waving his right hand to draw a circle, and said, "Come on, just keep this posture, you hold on for an hour , I treat you to dinner. You don’t need to squat in place, you can walk around in this posture.”

Sister Jin's eyes lit up, she smiled and said to Li Na: "He is really from the countryside, his posture is better than mine. I can't squat down."

Following Xiaowei's example, Xia Maosheng walked five or six steps on the ground and couldn't hold on anymore. He stood up straight and said, "No, no, this posture is tiring, like squatting. Is this Gaha?"

Xiaowei said: "Harvesting rice, about [-] acres, just this posture all the way to the end."

Xia Maosheng opened his eyes wide and said, "Just this posture? Can I stand up straight?"

Sister Jin smiled and said, "It's impossible to stand up straight. The rice is so high. If you stand tall, you can't reach it. In fact, the real harvest is more tiring than this. Your right hand is empty. You have to work hard to cut the real harvest. Scythe It's pretty heavy too."

Xia Maosheng was really stunned, and said, "Then how do you collect it every year? It's impossible to collect it for a month, right?"

Sister Jin giggled, and said, "Let's hire someone, it's still a month, and it will be too late to finish harvesting in a week. I'm afraid it will rain, and we will have to reduce production when it rains."

Xiaowei said to Xia Maosheng: "It costs money to hire people, so what is important in the countryside is to help each other, and a meal is enough."

Xia Maosheng said: "The price of this help is a bit high, Li Na, you just dig a hole for me, right?"

Li Na said with a smile: "Masters one by one, don't want to pull them down, I can't afford to lose face with you."

Xia Maosheng looked at Xiaowei, and Xiaowei said, "Go ahead, I agree, get all of Tiezi, Lao Li, Yang Jiujiu, Wang Zhilong, and see if you can still coax people. More people are more powerful."

Xia Maosheng thought for a while and said, "Come on, I'm going to coax you. I said to go for an outing. The scenery there is beautiful and there is also food." Several people laughed together.

Li Na pointed at Xia Maosheng and said, "Big man, you are too bad, haha, you still go for an outing in autumn, how about going out in yellow, how can there be green in autumn?"

Sister Jin said: "There are too many people, what do you do? How do you fix the meals? My family's food is rural food, but there is nothing good about it, and I can't afford it."

Xiaowei said: "It's okay. When the time comes, I'll buy some food. I'll just cook it to keep my stomach full. You guys also use an earthen stove, right? Stew it in a big pot, it's actually better than stir-fried ones."

While talking, several electric bells rang in the kitchen, and Li Na said, "Oh, it's finally over, I can rest for a while."

Sister Jin glanced at her and said, "It sounds like you're tired. I haven't spoken all morning."

Li Na said, "I'm tired of my brain and my mouth, can't I? You work hard, and we're even more tired when we use our brains, don't you know?"

Sister Jin looked at Li Na seriously and said, "I said your head is so small, you're exhausted."

The four laughed again, and Li Na stood up and went to beat Sister Jin.

Sister Jin was very petite and weak. Although Li Na was also thinner, she was taller. The two of them quarreled a few times and then Sister Jin began to beg for mercy. She was pressed on the table by Li Na, and she burst into tears from laughing.

"Stop making trouble, stop making trouble, I have to watch them work." Sister Jin struggled out from under Li Na's hands, brushed her hair, and walked out from behind the screen.

The kitchen is now quiet, the stove has stopped, the blower and smoke exhaust equipment have all stopped, the dirty water pump is in the next room, and the only sound of handymen working and talking in the whole room is left.The three of Xiaowei could hear Sister Jin's voice from behind the screen: "Wipe it clean, why haven't you eaten? Sweep the water on the case and wipe it dry. Xiao Wang, how did you put the knife? Did you put powder on it? Garbage Why haven’t you poured it out yet? Li Lifeng, don’t touch the oil pan, and then remove it when it’s cold, you’re going to die? Who’s in charge of changing the cans today? Over there, the two over there are empty, take them away.”

Xiaowei looked at Sister Jin's bed again. The kitchen is so humid and the air is not good. I can imagine the feeling of living here. It's not easy for women. Why is it so difficult for rural people?You have to pay so much.

(End of this chapter)