Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1840
The rain in Chang'an City finally stopped.

While the weather cleared, the wind also raged a lot.

Sunshine, strong wind, these things quickly dried up the wheat in the field a lot.

At this time, more people went to the fields every day to see whether the crops were ripe or not.

As for those big families, they often send people to check the crop fields. Once they see that the land can be harvested, they will immediately send people to harvest it.

In fact, the maturity of wheat is almost the same, so when one family starts harvesting, other families no longer stop there, and start harvesting in a hurry.

In this era, there are not many tools for harvesting wheat, and they are not very advanced, just the sickle.

When harvesting wheat, it is those helpers or servants, farm laborers, who go to the field with a sickle to harvest, and then use a horse-drawn cart to pull the wheat to a special field for deseeding.

Generally speaking, harvesting is troublesome, and deseeding is even more troublesome. The time required for deseeding may be longer than the time for harvesting.

When the crops started to be harvested, the entire crop field outside Chang'an City was in full swing, and the common people, farm laborers and others, were working desperately.

At this time, the owners of the crops paid a lot of money, and they must have harvested the high price within the specified time, otherwise their wages would be deducted.

Under such circumstances, they naturally didn't dare to carry anything, and these helpers had rested for many days, just for these few days, so even if harvesting wheat was very tiring, they could persist.

After all, they are only busy for a few days, but their wages are more than their monthly wages for other jobs.

Farmers, making money sometimes depends on this period of time.

Everyone is harvesting and busy, horse-drawn carts are coming and going in the fields, and people are carrying bundles of crops in and out.

The outside of Chang'an City is full of heat and busy.

After the sky cleared, the weather turned hot, which made people feel dull.

Qin Tian's mansion is not idle at the moment, they don't have many helpers, plus some servants in their mansion, and the villagers of Qin's Village, according to their estimates, before the next rain comes, they can almost After harvesting the crops.

And their speed may be two or three days slower than others.

In two or three days, the difference may already be huge.

During those two or three days, others may have had their crops harvested and de-seeded.

And the two or three days they were slow had a great impact on them.

The people of the Qin family started to get busy. At this time, even Princess Jiu and the others had arrived in the fields. They didn't have to start harvesting wheat. They couldn't do this kind of thing, but what about bringing some water and food to these helpers? Yes, there is still no problem.

These remaining helpers are all loyal to their Qin family. For such people, Ninth Princess and Tang Rong naturally cannot chill the hearts of these people. In addition, after the work is done, they will give them an extra sum of money.

This was proposed by Tang Rong last night, and the Ninth Princess agreed after hearing it. In fact, among them, Tang Rong is the most understanding of the world.

The Ninth Princess was born in the royal family, with a noble status, so she naturally didn't care much about some things. Lu Huaniang came from a family, and she was not much different from the Ninth Princess. Only Tang Rong came from a small family, and she knew the thoughts of some low-level people the most. , and the most distressed for these low-level people.

These people did these coolies for their Qin family, so it is very appropriate to pay a little higher wages, and in addition to that, it is also appropriate to give some subsidies.

The people of the Qin family were rushing to harvest. At the same time, some other people who had taken back the crops had already started to shed the seeds.

In this era, there are not many ways to deseed wheat. The most commonly used method is to knock out the wheat with sticks artificially, or to knead the wheat. If the family is better, use a stone roller. If you want to crush it with a stone roller, you need a cow or a horse.

Ordinary dignitaries and wealthy businessmen all use this method to grab money.

Find a large place, make the ground hard, and then spread the wheat on the ground. At this time, you can find a lot of cows and horses, and pull the stone rollers to roll back and forth on the wheat. After pressing, turn it over and crush again. After doing this twice, you can pick up the straw. At this time, there is basically no wheat in the straw.

The wheat has fallen down, but with the wheat, there are many husks. If you want to get clean wheat, you have to follow the wind to blow the wheat and separate other debris from the wheat. These are another A big contributor.

After this is done, clean wheat can be obtained. If it has been done at this time and the weather is still good, the wheat can be dried in the sun and then put into the warehouse, so that it is not easy to mold.

There are many dignitaries in Chang'an City, and many helpers have been found, so if there are more people, the harvest will naturally be faster. When many people are still harvesting, they may already be de-seeding the wheat.

And things are indeed like this, when Qin Tian and his family are still in a hurry to harvest, many people have already harvested the wheat and started to shed the seeds.

The members of the Qin family, such as Uncle Fu, became impatient and very angry when they saw this situation.

"His grandma, if it weren't for Gao Shilian's housekeeper to poach our corners, we would have robbed all the food now. Damn it, Her Royal Highness just beat him half to death, which is really cheap for him."

"That's right, that's right, he should be abolished directly."

"Okay, stop talking nonsense and hurry up to work."

These people feel very uncomfortable, as if they are holding their breath, but what can they do if they are uncomfortable, all they can do now is to work quickly.

While they were working, Gao Shilian stood in his field, feeling an indescribable pride in his heart.

He has already received the news that there is still a small half of the crops in Qin Tian's field that have not been harvested. When they finish harvesting, it may already be raining.

But his family's is different. His family has already harvested and is already de-seeding. If there is no accident, it should be no problem for all the wheat to be de-seed before the heavy rain.

"Qin Tian, ​​aren't you very powerful? Now that your crops are about to be destroyed, let me see how powerful you are, hum!"

(End of this chapter)