Escape from the desert

After a lunch break, the family prepared and rushed to the threshing field to thresh the grain. Jiang Yan put on a straw hat and carried a can of sweet tea under fire. The taste is sweeter and more delicious.

The threshing ground in the village is a large open space, and the bare land is left with mud. Because the village threw grains and husks here every year, the land is solid and smooth.

At this time, a lot of rice has been accumulated in the threshing field. Almost the whole village's harvested rice will be hauled here to slowly thresh the grain.

"There is no one at this time. There is an empty bucket over there. Let's use it first." Lin Dong pointed to the bucket not far away: "Everyone usually comes here in the afternoon to thresh the grain. There should be no one to use at that time.”

Jiang Yan nodded and motioned for his sons to move the buckets. Lin Xi was big and ran over immediately after hearing the words. Fang's bucket was firmly pressed on his back, and he was easily resisted by his back to the side of his own rice.

Jiang Yan was stunned, and once again sighed at Lin Xi's strength. She quickly put on a turban and a straw hat. Several children did the same. The broken straw and leaves will float into the air with the manpower. If you don't cover it, your eyes and nose will easily choke.

After everyone was armed, they started to work. The two of them took turns, one held a handful of rice grains, and after they were beaten and fell off, the other one was replaced, and so on.

The scorching sun bakes the earth, the villagers who stay at the threshing ground laugh and talk, the children gather together to play, and from time to time there will be fresh grasshoppers and green prawns jumping back and forth in the straw, and the children are everywhere. Go to catch, one person is holding a dog's tail grass, and it will be string after string after a while.

The laughter and laughter of adults, the laughter of children, and the sound of the ears falling off the rice paddy created a warm and bumper harvest. Jiang Yan looked at Xiaodouzi's eagerness to try, and rubbed his little milk fat. .

"Grandma, I'm going to catch grasshoppers, we can fry them and eat them." Xiaodouzi clenched his small fists with anticipation. If he hadn't been busy helping with work, he would have also caught a lot of grasshoppers. These are all meat.

"Erbi, Xiaosi, you bring Xiaowu and Xiaodouzi to catch grasshoppers and fry them for you to eat at night." Jiang Yan shouted.

Lin Bei has grown a bit taller recently. A cup of fresh goat milk in the morning and evening is still very effective. The whole family has grown a lot of meat.

"Little aunt, I'm not going, I can continue to thresh the millet." Erbi hesitantly refused, that's all he can do, but he can't be playful.

Jiang Yan patted the dusty rice leaves all over him: "Wait until you grow up to do these jobs, you will be half a head taller than the bucket, so you should go and catch grasshoppers, catch more, and wait for a snack at night. Woolen cloth."

Erbi is small, and the bucket is about the same height as him. Every time he grabs a handful of rice and stands next to him, the rice pole is discounted, and the rice falls into the bucket, but the bouncing grain bounces off the little guy's cheek. Honghong didn't know whether he was threshing millet or millet beating him again.

Erbi blushed, and said with a little twist: "I used to thresh grains in a wooden tub. This is the first time I have used a bucket..."

"Okay, don't be sloppy. Auntie knows that you are a good boy. Little four, take everyone to catch grasshoppers. We have many families, so you should catch more."

"Okay, mother, let's catch it now." Lin Beihong's little face was dazzling with a dazzling smile. In previous years, they would also catch grasshoppers and shrimps. At that time, the family was poor, and these insects could be regarded as a meat dish. , they are always caught and roasted in the rice fields.

Jiang Yan watched a row of four small radish heads go around to catch bugs. She also joined the threshing team. She liked this fulfilling and busy life more and more.

In the threshing bucket, you also need to pay attention to a skill. You can't just use brute force. Jiang Yan has seen it a few times before, but the real first time is the first time the big girl gets on the sedan chair.

This action is about doing one at a time. When you slam the inner wall of the bucket with force, you should also use your skill to shake the rice, so that the smashed rice will fall into the bucket, so that you don't have to worry about the grain when it is thrown high again. fall to the ground.

I wasn't used to it at first, but after doing a few back and forth, Jiang Yan quickly got used to it, and slowly she was able to keep up with the speed of others.

The people on the threshing field came back after lunch and lunch one after another, and the sound of each other's beating and slapping was incessant, and visible dust and smashed straw leaves were flying in the air, but this could not stop the farmers from harvesting a good harvest. Joy, everyone was bragging while working, chatting all over the world, and the whole threshing field was very lively for a while.

Jiang Yan was slowly immersed in this atmosphere, and being in such joy, she couldn't help but stretch her mind and quickly integrated into such an atmosphere.

"Xiaojiang! Have you finished shedding your rice? Let's help." Old Wu walked over with Lin Jun from a distance.

Their family has few paddy fields, and the rice was cut off yesterday, and the two of them just went to town to sell soap in the morning, and now they are back to help.

In order to avoid dust in her eyes, Jiang Yan squinted: "It's almost there, there's still half of it, have you eaten?"

Old Wu Fufu even smiled at each other when they heard the words, and both licked their lips subconsciously: "Eat it, the braised pork you brought here is delicious."

Lin Jun was grateful, so as soon as the meal was over, the two of them rushed over to help without taking a break.

Jiang Yan was also not polite to the two of them, and let the two daughters-in-law rest with her for a while, and vacated the space for the old husband and wife to work.

"By the way, I've been busy cultivating seedlings these days. How do you sell soap?" Jiang Yan suddenly remembered the soap.

When Old Wu heard the words, he immediately said: "We were busy cutting rice a few days ago, and we didn't go to the town. We only went there in the past two days. Ajun and I pushed a few, but some people are willing to order, but there are not many, wait. Let's try again tomorrow."

Jiang Yan nodded and didn't ask any more questions. The soap would definitely sell well. People in the town didn't know its magic yet. The old Wu family were all shy and honest people. I don't know fancy words, and the sales estimates are not very good, because Lin Nan told him that the sales of Lin Yousheng's family are very good, and the number is more than one day.

Many people are powerful, and soon the rice is finished, and after being bagged, it is all transported back to the yard for stacking. A group of people are busy in the yard, and they even spread out an open space to dry the grain.

Jiang Yan was also busy with her feet not touching the ground. She went to the warehouse to see the seedlings, and asked Lin Dong and the others to see the pepper seedlings in the field. The pepper seedlings cultivated some time ago were only planted in the village. Go see the growth every day.

"Mother, we have a guest here, and they said they were looking for you." Wang Jinhua came from far down the mountain. The location of this wasteland is relatively high, so there is always a feeling of climbing when you come up.