After traveling to ancient times, I became a superb shrew

Chapter 61 The Leaky Roof

"Patriarch, masters, the washing water is ready."

Childhood came over and interrupted Mo Li's thoughts.

He got up early in the morning to boil water. In the previous master's mansion, the ladies and masters in the mansion had to wash with warm water in the morning. Today he deliberately boiled the water and added hot water. The water temperature was just right.

Mo Li went over to wash his face.

Gu Qing was full of rage, she really wanted to take a pair of scissors and cut off Gu Nuo's hair in one click. A boy with long hair, isn't he looking for something to do for himself?
She held back her impatience, tried her best to comb patiently, rubbed essential oil secretly on the areas that couldn't be combed, and finally, Gu Nuo's hair was finally tidied up.

As soon as she raised her head, she saw Yang Pei, Zhu Han and Mo Li looking at her eagerly, and Dong Rong also looking at her. Even the four children of the Tong family who just moved in yesterday couldn't help staring at her...

One, two, three, four, five, six... Washing so many people's hair will drive her crazy.

Gu Qing got up resolutely: "Xiaohan, is breakfast ready, hurry up and set the meal, and go to work after eating."

Breakfast is very simple, one white flour steamed bun for each person, plus a bowl of pimple noodles, a table of people bowed their heads and ate it all at once.

After dinner, when Gu Qing was about to assign tasks, Yang Pei said, "Patriarch, leave the field to us, and you stay at home to rest."

He saw Gu Qing's palm, there were three blood blisters, one of which was burst, it would hurt to death with these hands.

Mo Li nodded: "I'm strong, so it's fine to do more."

Dong Rong stood up: "The head of the family stays at home, I'll go to the field."

Gu Qing's heart was burning. Although she was tired, she never complained of suffering, and she didn't show the blisters on her hands to a few people. She didn't expect them to see them all, and offered to let her stay at home to rest.

"I'll be responsible for tying the rice, so I won't hurt my hands." Just as he was talking, the brother from the mall had already delivered the rice thresher, and Li Zheng just brought someone over to wait to pull the rice thresher to the field.

After they took away all the rice threshers, Gu Qing took the sickle pole and straw rope and went to the field.

It will be in the morning, the morning breeze is gentle, and you don’t need to wear straw hats to work. The morning breeze blows, and it’s a little cool. The farmers are all rushing to harvest before the sun comes out, and they are very busy.

Gu Qing bowed her head and worked hard, she has become a working machine without emotion.

It can be said that she had never been so tired after living 27 years in her previous life. She never knew that the same autumn harvest in ancient times was so tiring.

The five acres of paddy fields in the family is not a lot, and they have a large family, so they can finish all the work today.The field will be plowed tomorrow, and the seedlings will be planted the day after tomorrow. For five acres of paddy fields, it will take at least two days to plant seedlings.

Gu Qing sighed, rubbed her old waist, and continued to work.

The paddy field of old Gu's family is not far from her home. When Mrs. Gu came down to deliver tea, she couldn't help muttering to Mr. Gu: "During the autumn harvest a few years ago, Qing'er was more lazy than the second daughter-in-law. This year You are so diligent..."

When Mrs. Sun heard this, she immediately retorted: "Mother, I'm really not lazy. Look, I'm working hard."

The old lady Gu twitched her mouth, she didn't know who was lying in bed pretending to be sick two days ago and refused to get up.

Today, she divided the rice in the field into three equal parts, all the children and Mr. Gu were responsible for one third, and the second and third house were each responsible for one third. No, Mrs. Sun was afraid that Gu Youjin would not be able to do it all by herself The only advantage of her second daughter-in-law is that she loves men, which is the fundamental reason why Mrs. Gu tolerates Sun's acting as a monster from time to time.

In the next few days, it will still be a busy autumn harvest.

On the fifth day, all the seedlings ordered by Gu Qing Mall were delivered early in the morning, and all the seedlings ordered for other villages were also sent to the county government.

On the evening of the sixth day, all the rice seedlings in the field were finally planted, and Gu Qing led his family to shell the rice. This was another task that tested patience.

The rice that has been threshed before is dusted first, and when there is no dust, it is put into a container and pounded continuously with a mallet. The friction force of the wooden pestle hitting the stone mortar can remove the outer thin skin.

The rice has two layers, the first layer is the husk, and the separated husk is usually used to ignite fire or smoke bacon.

The second layer is separated called bran, which is used to feed pigs in modern society. However, in order to enrich the nutrition of pigs in modern times, most pig farms have abandoned the use of rice bran as feed. In ancient times, there was a lack of food, and the bran would be ground into powder and mixed with it. Put it into the flour and eat it together. The "bran" in eating bran swallowing vegetables refers to this layer of bran.

The rice here does not grow well, and the rice grains are not full enough. After one hundred catties of rice are hulled, only about fifty or sixty catties are left. After the family pays taxes, there are still more than 900 catties of rice left. The food was about 500 catties. Their family’s yield per mu was relatively high in Gu’s village, and other families had very little grain.

For the next six months, each household in the village will rely on these hundreds of catties of rice for food and clothing, selling rice for cloth, buying oil and salt, and saving money for medicine...

Gu Qing sat on the edge of the room, with a dustpan in front of her, and lifted up the brown rice. The wind blew away the shell, and the rest was brown rice, which had to be milled again.

This work needs to be repeated over and over again until all the shells are blown away by the wind.

Her arms ached badly, but she couldn't stop.

She really wanted to buy a tool for threshing and shelling from the mall, but that tool was too big, and even if she could afford it, she didn't dare to take it out. After all, that tool needed electricity or diesel.

Now I can only accept my fate and continue to work.

After six or seven days of high-intensity labor, she couldn't think about things properly.

It wasn't until the raindrops fell on her face that she woke up with a start. When she looked up, the sky that was still clear just now suddenly started to rain.

"It's raining!"

"I haven't seen rain in two months!"

"It's so comfortable to be drenched in the rain!"

"People can get wet in the rain, but millet can't. Hurry up and harvest the millet!"

"..."

The people in the village were in turmoil, and Gu Qing hurriedly asked a few people to collect all the rice in the yard.

The rain at the end of summer was heavy and urgent. The raindrops slapped on the roof, dripped down the reeds, and fell on the ground, making a small hole. The rain became more and more, and the hole on the ground became bigger and bigger. Yes, the small pit turned into a big pit, accumulating a lot of rainwater.

The chickens and ducks were chirping non-stop, and the two puppies ran around in the yard, and then squatted under the eaves to watch the rain, sticking out their tongues from time to time, rolling a few drops of rainwater into their mouths.

Gu Qing stood at the door and looked towards the field. A rain just filled the fields that had just been planted with seedlings.

The newly planted rice seedlings in the field are just when they need water, and they can only grow if there is water. She is worrying about how to persuade the villagers to open canals to irrigate the fields.

"No, it's raining!"

Mo Li suddenly exclaimed and jumped up quickly.

In the middle of the main room, raindrops fell down the reed sticks one by one, just falling on Mo Li's head.

Dong Rong said softly, "It's raining here too."

Not only these two places, but also the side next to the bedroom, there are also raindrops falling.

Gu Qing has experienced what it means to have heavy rain outside and light rain inside.

The ground was muddy. After it rained, the muddy ground became wet. The four of them, Yang Pei and Zhu Han, might not have a place to sleep tonight.

Yang Pei coughed and said, "When it rained in spring, I wrote down the location of the leak, but then I was busy and busy, so I forgot about it. When the rain stopped, I would mend the roof."

Gu Qing nodded, the roof really needs to be repaired, but fortunately, a house is already being built on the wasteland.

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