Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 143 Autumn Harvest
Aunt Ding and her four sons were busy at the Lu family for three full days.

The Lu family's tens of acres of land was finally harvested for more than half.

On the evening of August [-]th, Aunt Ding led the ox cart and brought her four sons and a daughter-in-law home for the holiday.

Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is also Lu Yangge's first Mid-Autumn Festival when he comes to Lu's house.However, this Mid-Autumn Festival was not as beautiful as imagined. She just squatted in the kitchen and ate a piece of sugar cake. When eating at noon, Mrs. Qiu put an extra piece of meat in her bowl.

The autumn harvest is really too busy to take care of any festivals.I made sesame sugar cakes in the morning, boiled white rice porridge, added a meat dish at noon, and cooked multigrain rice.

This festival is too simple for Lu Yange, but it is already a good festival for the seven families in Xiaoxinzhuang.

Being able to eat sesame candy cakes, meat, and a full meal is something that was unimaginable in previous years.

Aunt Ding went home at night and discussed with the old man Ding Dazhuang that the in-law's ox cart had to be returned, and Ding Laosi had to go to the old man's house to help.

Borrowing other people's oxen and ox carts can't be used in vain.

Tomorrow will be August [-]th, the old couple will be in charge of the two meat cases in the family, and Xiaowu will go to the wharf to sell lo mei.

The three married sons each took their own daughters-in-law this year, and each family brought a piece of meat, a bag of sugar, and a few catties of white flour, to the old man's house for a festival, and helped out for two days by the way.As for Ding Lao Si who is not yet married, let him be strong and make sure that in the future the old man will be busy until the autumn harvest is over before returning.

Ding Dazhuang listened to his daughter-in-law's babbling, his eyes were already half-closed, and he only struggled to hum at the critical moment, indicating that he was listening and not falling asleep.

Aunt Ding hadn't chatted with the old man for several days, and she talked a lot tonight.

Speaking of Ding Wu, she thought of Ding Wu's marriage.

Aunt Ding couldn't help turning over, and poked Ding Dazhuang who had squinted her eyes with her hand: "Old man, I can tell that this child Xiaowu probably has no fate with that child Xiaoqing from the Lu family."

"Ah."

Old man Ding hummed and turned over.

"I saw it at Ding's house in the past few days. Xiaoqingzao is a good player, and the female celebrity is also doing well, but the temper is too good. You want to say whether the temper is good, but I think this temper Too good is not a good thing. It's not as good as her sister Xiaoli, don't look at this little girl who is skinny, she does things quickly and speaks crisply, she is more aggressive than her sister."

"As for me, I don't want to find a hot-tempered daughter-in-law to come back and give me a look. It's Xiao Wu. I think my temperament is a bit like yours. I'm a good person. If I marry a good-tempered person like Xiaoqing to live together, it's a big deal. Both of you are rotten, well, if you meet those relatives of your family, they won't be eaten alive."

"It's better for Xiaoli. This child won't suffer, so I'll take a closer look. Although Xiaoli has a hot temper, she is not the kind of unreasonable person. The Lu family is a dutiful person. Qiang, raising a daughter is like a mother. In my opinion, this kid, Xiaoli, can never go wrong."

The more Aunt Ding thought about it, the more she felt that Xiao Li was very satisfied with her.

She still wanted to say a few more words to the old man, when she heard the snoring in her ears getting louder.

She was so angry that she gritted her teeth, wishing she could kick the old man under the bed.

never mind!

Aunt Ding thought very bachelorly, anyway, Xiao Wu is still young, and it will take another two or three years to marry a daughter-in-law.

The eldest daughter of the Lu family hasn't made a kiss yet, and Xiao Li is even more out of the loop.

Not urgent.Wait until the fourth daughter-in-law comes back!
The Lu family didn't know that the Ding family didn't miss the eldest daughter, Xiaoqing, but the second daughter, Xiaoli.

Even if they knew, the Lu family didn't have time to think about it now.

It's really so busy working in the field that the sky is dark, and I have to go to the field before dawn, and I don't come up from the field until the moon and stars are thin.

Take a break while eating, and take black threshing at night.

The Lu family only had one mule, one cart, one big and one small one.

During the day, the mule had to tow the truck to play, but at night Lu Quan was reluctant to use it hard, for fear of being injured.

In Lu Xiaoli's words, my father is closer to Mule than to his own son.

If you can't use mules to drag the ash for threshing, then you can only use flails for manual threshing.

Lu Yange tried the flail, and it was fine when she lifted it up, but she was fine when she dropped it, but she was small and weak, when she lifted it up for the first time, her center of gravity was unstable, and she almost fell backwards.

The second time she lifted it up, she fell well, but she didn't control the strength to fall, the flail fell by itself, and it didn't make much movement when it landed on the ears of rice, let alone knocked the rice grains down.

"Xiaosi, you are weak, you can't do this."

The eldest son of Zhang San's family, Zhang Fugui, took the flail, "Look at me."

He raised the flail high and dropped it suddenly. The ears of rice piled up on the ground bounced faintly, some of the rice grains fell off, and a few others were picked up and scattered around.

Brothers Zhang Fugui and Zhang Ronghua are both [-] or [-] years old. They stood facing each other across a pile of ears of rice. When you touched each other, the rice grains that were stubbornly left on the ears of rice fell off one after another.

Lu Yange led Lu Xiaowu to watch the threshing field for a while with great interest, and then turned to watch Li Sixi and the others show off.

There are a lot of shriveled rice, broken leaves and dust on the rice grains that have been taken off. These need to be separated from the rice grains with the help of wind.

In Nuo Da's threshing floor, everyone is busy.

The threshing person stands at the lower right of the middle of the threshing floor, and the person who raises the grain stands at the lower left of the middle, so that the dust of broken leaves and flat rice will not be thrown all over the face of other people.

At their upper air outlet, the rice grains that have been cleaned are evenly spread on the field, yawning warmly under the sunshine, and turning over every once in a while.

In the air is the fragrance of wind dust and grass clippings.

In the ear, the sound of people talking, the sound of mules, the sound of flails hitting rice ears, the sound of rice grains being lifted and dropped by wooden shovels...

These sounds are intertwined to form a large and joyful picture of harvest.

The land of the Lu family was busy until after August [-]th, when the grain was collected and put into the warehouse.

Except for the grain to be handed over to the emperor, which was piled up in the main room, most of the food from the Lu family and the other six families were dried and collected in the hole they secretly dug.

Lu Yange roughly understood that the imperial rations to be paid now are fifteen and the tax is one.That is to say, for one hundred catties of grain, you have to pay 33 catties of imperial grain, and the rest is your own.

If the land is leased, the land tax will be higher.

Thinking of working hard for half a year, one mu of land would have to pay nearly one hundred catties of imperial grain, and what I could leave was only about two hundred.

I always feel that this field is not very cost-effective.

But Lu Quan and the others didn't feel it. On the contrary, because of the land, the spirit of the big guys was different from the past.

They shouldn't hand in this year's imperial food, but when Shopkeeper Li left, he handed over the food to them for collection, so naturally the imperial food was also included in it.

Xiaoxinzhuang has already been registered in the town, and it is only waiting for the family to go to the town to pay the imperial grain tomorrow, even if it has officially taken root in this land.

Speaking of which, we are also people who have paid the imperial rations, not those refugees who have no land tax.

(End of this chapter)