Back to 80s: It's not easy to be a group favorite

Chapter 66 Harvest
After eating a few stubbles of Sophora japonica cakes, it's time for the rape to be harvested.

Although the Li family contracted out the field years ago, the wheat and rapeseed in the field had been planted a long time ago, so they harvested it themselves this season.

After the wheat and rape in the field are harvested, the land will belong to the other party!
There are not many rapeseed fields planted by the people in the village, and they are all for the convenience of pressing oil for their own consumption.

If you think it is troublesome to go to the oil mill to extract oil by yourself, you can also directly use rapeseed to change the oil.

The main crop in the field is wheat.

The wheat is just now grouting, and it is still some time before it matures. This month, we mainly harvest rapeseed.

The village is all old-fashioned, and it is natural to know when the rapeseed is best harvested.

On a sunny day, cut off the rapeseed and the stalk together, pile it up for a few days, and then spread it out to dry in fine weather until the pods are dry and brittle, then knock the rapeseed off the stalk with a flail.

Some people directly spread a large sheet on the ground to beat the rapeseed, but this kind of situation is relatively rare.

After the rapeseeds are harvested and threshed, they are dry in the sun, and the windmill (blower) made by the farm will come in handy now!

One of the main utensils of this kind of farmhouse, it is basically not seen in future generations!

Clean the rapeseed with a windmill, separate the seeds from a small amount of pod shells and other sundries, and then spread them out and dry them in the sun for three or two days, then they can be stored in the warehouse!

Schools generally do not give students leave when harvesting rapeseed. The reason is that the big head is still behind!
When harvesting wheat and transplanting rice seedlings, that is busy work.Double grab!

However, Li Xuemei has a gossip saying that the village school will not have holidays during the busy farming season this year.

And starting from this year, there will be basically no holidays during the busy farming season!
Now all schools are starting to pay attention to the quality of teaching. Teachers who fail to improve their teaching performance will be named and criticized. If it is more serious, it will affect their performance salary!

Therefore, it is very likely that there will be no more busy farming holidays in the future!
Li Shaoyun didn't feel much about it, but he also agreed with it.

After all, students still focus on studying, doing farm work and so on, and just doing it in their free time. It’s a bit of putting the cart before the horse when they leave their studies for work!
After the rapeseed is harvested, they rest for about ten days and a half months, and then they have to harvest wheat again!

At this time, the season has entered the middle and late May. Although the weather is not yet the hottest time of the year, it is already hot enough!Especially at noon.

When harvesting wheat, people bowed their waists and worked in the fields for a whole day, without taking a breath.Even food and so on are sent to the field by hand.

After working in the fields for half a day like the men, the women have to go home to cook in the middle, and after the men have finished eating, they have to clean and do housework by themselves.Those who are lazy are just putting off housework until night, and have to go to the fields to continue working!
At the end of the day, I feel that my waist is so stiff that I can't stretch it!

It’s okay in the morning, it’s relatively cool, and the temperature rises a little after nine o’clock, that’s tough!Sweat dripped down his face like a brook, and there was no time to wipe it off.

At the hottest time at noon, you can see the water vapor evaporated by the sun in the wilderness, twisting and transpiring in the air.

People go out to work early in the morning every day, and cut the wheat while it is cool.

After mowing in the morning, the wheat is also spread out on the ground to bask in the moisture.

In order to rush to harvest, even in the hottest afternoon, people just take a short break after lunch, and then rush to pull the wheat back home by rickshaw.

When you get home, stack the wheat into piles and cover them with plastic sheeting.

Why bind wheat in the hottest part of the afternoon?Just take advantage of the fact that the wheat that has been drying for most of the morning has the least moisture.

Holding the sun-baked wheat in one's arms is nothing, but the uncomfortable thing is that the wheat awn makes people itchy all over and cannot be scratched, and there is a red mark when scratched.

Being soaked in sweat, it feels so sour!
After such a busy day, sometimes people are too tired to take a shower at night, and just fall asleep.

Get up early the next day and get busy.Another day of exhaustion.

After working so hard for a few days, people can take a breath after the wheat is harvested and taken home to pile up. Don't be so anxious!Otherwise, if the year is not good enough to catch up with the continuous rain, the wheat grains can germinate on the straw!

The wheat grain station that has sprouted will not accept it. If you fail to pay the public grain, you can only keep it for yourself!

It's just that this kind of germinated wheat can't be compared with normal flour, whether it is made into steamed buns or noodles.

After the wheat germinates, the starch and protein are hydrolyzed, resulting in sticky flour and a decrease in gluten value.

When making steamed buns, the flour is not easy to ferment, and it will be stepped on as soon as it comes out of the pan, turning into a dead dough.The taste is even worse, as if it has not been steamed under the fire, and it is a bit sticky to the teeth.

The noodles cannot be formed, and they become a paste after barely cooking.

Therefore, every summer harvest, farmers pray that they will not catch up with continuous rain, otherwise the harvest of this season will basically fall to the ground!

After the wheat is taken back, although there is no need to worry about rotting in the ground, the wheat cannot be threshed at this time. The most important thing is to plow the land and prepare for transplanting.

Sprinkle a layer of chemical fertilizer on the stubble field after harvesting the wheat. If there is farmyard manure, apply another layer extravagantly.When plowing the field, even the manure and stubble are turned into the soil.

After digging the ground, the next step is to irrigate the fields and repair the ridges to prevent water seepage.

After soaking overnight to see that the field is no longer seepage, start raking the field.

This set of processes requires cattle, whether it is plowing or harrowing, all require animal power.People regard the cow as the treasure of the family and take care of it carefully. After all, it is related to the harvest of the year.It's really impossible without it!

At this moment, agricultural machinery is far less developed than later generations. Even if there is machinery, people do not have the financial resources to buy these agricultural tools.

So most of the work is done by people and cows together. After a season, it is really tiring for people to shed a layer of skin!

Later, tractors gradually became available for plowing and harvesting, which gradually replaced cattle.

But this process also takes time, and it took more than ten years to basically eliminate animal power.

However, some remote areas cannot be accessed mechanically, and animal power is still needed.Even after the 21st century, this is still the case.

It's no wonder Li's mother doesn't like working in the fields.Tired to death and still unable to earn money, no one likes it!

Fertilizer is applied, the fields are raked and watered, and the rest is planting seedlings!

The small seedlings planted before have now grown to the height of the calf, and can be pulled out and inserted into the field.

The plucked seedlings are bundled with straw, picked up into the field with a special picker for carrying the seedlings, and thrown into the field one by one, and the seedlings are transplanted after the throwing.

After all the work in the field is over, people can't rest, and now they have to be busy threshing the wheat.

Taking advantage of the fine weather, they quickly threshed the wheat, dried it, handed over the public grain, and put the rest into the warehouse.

Fortunately, threshers have taken up the main field in the past two years, and there is no need for cattle to pull the rollers to thresh!

Otherwise, just for the threshing process, you will have to work for half a month!

The rape is returned to the warehouse, the wheat is threshed and the public grain is delivered, and the rice is planted in the field. This season is considered to be the end of the busy season.

The other jobs are all piecemeal, so it's not as if you don't have to work so hard.

Longkou snatching food is a matter of one sentence, but only the farmers who work in the fields know the hard work involved!

After working hard for more than a month and nearly two months, most of the people are dark and thin, and many of them are old.It takes a while to slow down.

　Thank you all for your votes!Today is another day of hard work.

　　


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