Escape from the desert

Chapter 237 Harvest
During this period of time, the weather has become colder and colder, especially in the past few days, the sky is dark and gloomy, and the whole sky is oppressively dusk, as if a hearty heavy rain could come at any time.

Sometimes Jiang Yan looked a little worried. She remembered a sentence she often heard in the past, that after a severe drought, there must be a catastrophe. In recent years, the drought in this land has been considered serious. She is deeply afraid that a heavy rain will wash everything away.

For several days in a row, the whole sky was gray. Unlike the villagers who were full of joy in the harvest, Jiang Yan frowned all day long, and she always felt uneasy.

"Mother, the beams can be hoisted in these two days. The construction team said that the progress is faster than we expected. After the beams are hoisted in the past few days, the house will be built in a dozen days."

Lin Xi was full of excitement. He followed up the house from the ground up, and he built it bit by bit, so he felt a sense of accomplishment.

Jiang Yan patted him on the shoulder, gave him an appreciative look, and then said, "You arrange the house, and our family doesn't need to have a beam wine, so when you can hang the beam, you just follow up."

Lin Nan came over at this time and said, "Mother, our family's late rice is also being harvested. Yesterday the village chief came to me and said that the county magistrate had sent a letter asking when we would deliver the grain."

"Second brother, you invite the group of people who planted the late rice last time. We will start harvesting the late rice the day after tomorrow. By the way, let the village chief know that the villagers can start harvesting the day after tomorrow."

Jiang Yan's face was solemn, and her tone was rarely worried: "I'm worried about the heavy rain for ten days in a row. The rice in the field is precious. If the rain is too heavy, it may not be able to hold the stalks."

Lin Nan hesitated for a moment, and comforted him: "Mother, don't worry, every year at this time, the weather is so gloomy that it won't rain. If it rains, it will be a good thing, which means that God has opened his eyes and there is no drought." If we go down, we will leave a way for us farmers to survive!"

"It is true to say so, but I have heard others say that a long drought will lead to a catastrophe. I saw that the weather was not good for a few days, and I was worried that it would be raining. If there is not much rain, it is indeed a good thing. If It's a heavy rain, and the rice in the field can withstand it, so no matter what the weather is like the day after tomorrow, we will harvest."

Lin Nan and Lin Xi looked at each other and nodded, mother is the head of the family, they will naturally do whatever mother says, after this period of time, they deeply understand that as long as mother says, it is right, they just need to go obediently Just follow along.

In the next two days, Lin Nan went to gather the workers, and Lin Xi was also busy arranging the hanging beams, but the sky was getting darker and darker, making it difficult to tell the time. The whole sky seemed to be covered by layers of gray yarn generally.

Until the day after tomorrow, when Jiang Yan just woke up, she found that today's sky was surprisingly bright. The dense and gloomy sky swept away the previous depression. When she looked up, the endless azure blue seemed to brighten the whole world.

She got up happily, put on her clothes, and ran out in a hurry. It seemed that today was indeed a good day for harvesting rice.

After breakfast, everyone in the Lin family began to divide and cooperate in an orderly manner. Lin Nan took the assembled workers to cut [-] mu of rice outside the village, and Jiang Yan led the others to cut [-] mu of land in the village.

After breakfast, everyone went to the field with their hands. It was different from cutting rice before, when the sun was so hot, but now, everyone's teeth chattered from the cold.

There is still a shallow layer of clear water in the field, and everyone is still wearing sackcloth cloth shoes, which get soaked within a few seconds of writing on them, and the whole feet are wet and cold and stiff.

But this coldness is not enough to make the big guys care. The joy of the harvest is on everyone's face. They are excited and full of enthusiasm. Everyone finds a good position without stopping and starts to bend down to work.

The same is true for the village chief and Li Zheng. They led the whole village to go to the field together. Every household ran to their own paddy fields. Almost all the villagers went to the field, with a sickle in their hands, bending over to work in the field. stand up.

Although the weather is good, the cold at the end of autumn should not be underestimated. When everyone first went to the field, everyone was so cold that their noses were so cold that their faces were turned blue by the wind after a while. However, compared to having food In the winter, this bit of cold is insignificant to the villagers.

Most people in the village are reluctant to wear shoes to go to the field, and start cutting rice when they go barefoot. At the beginning, the toes were really cold and stiff, but after cutting rice for a while, the whole person began to warm up, and slowly Never feel cold again.

Today, the private school was closed for bathing, and there were many children laughing and playing in the field. Except for the youngest Xiaodouzi who did not go to the field, the entire Lin family was dispatched.

Jiang Yan twisted her arms, looked at Jiang Wen who was familiar with cutting rice, and couldn't help thinking of how he couldn't hold the sickle steadily before. The fair and noble scholar now has a healthy wheat complexion, and his whole body is more beautiful. Before that, he had grown stronger, and the outline of his facial features became more distinct. Compared with before, he looked more like a big man.

This season's late rice is growing very well, and the yield is even more astonishing. In the words of the village chief, he has been farming all his life, and he has never harvested such a large amount of rice as this season's rice!

Jiang Yan only smiled and agreed when she heard the words. The rice was produced by the mall, so it goes without saying that it is of high quality.

The bumper rice harvest made the entire Lin Family Village extremely lively. Jiang Yan was also repeatedly thanked by the villagers for this incident. Before the harvest was over, many villagers began to ask the Lin Family to send things one after another.

The farmers sent eggs, vegetables, and dry goods stored in the cellar at home. Although they were not expensive things, the whole village sent them, and the Lin family couldn't finish them all in a while.

Jiang Yan simply transferred some fresh vegetables to the cafeteria of the private school, so that the villagers would be happier when the children could eat them.

On the third day, Grandma Jiang took her whole family down to the fields, but the weather was not as good as the previous two days, and the sky returned to the gloomy dusk of the past. Jiang Yan frowned. The kids pick up speed.

With Song Tao and the others joining in, the speed of harvesting rice was much faster than that of the autumn harvest, and it was all harvested on the third day. It was still the same as before, first transported to the threshing ground to thresh the grains, and then transported back home to dry.

The threshing ground was even more lively than last time. Almost everyone was exclaiming about the rice yield of this season. The villagers were all veterans of growing crops, and they had never grown rice with such a high yield.

In the past few years, the drought has been severe, and the harvest in the field has been getting worse every year. Gradually, everyone has gotten used to the fact that the harvest is small. After all, compared to a small harvest, no harvest is the most terrible thing.

(End of this chapter)