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Chapter 29 Harvest
When plums are yellow and rain is romantic to poets, it is terrible to farmers; because when plums are yellow, it is the time of wheat harvest. If it rains at this time, half a year's harvest will be ruined.

There is a saying in the countryside, "nine times are ripe, ten percent is harvested, ten percent is ripe, and one percent is lost"; this means that the best time for harvesting is the wax ripening period of wheat. If the harvesting time is wrong, the yield of wheat per mu will decrease by about 100 catties .

The content of the grains in the wax ripening stage is waxy, and the hardness changes from soft to hard with the progress of the ripening stage; at this time, the leaves are withered and yellow, and the grains become hard, showing the true color of the variety, with a moisture content of less than 20% and a stem moisture content of 20-30%. .

At this time, the nutrients of the wheat grains will flow back into the straw, causing the weight of the grains to drop, and the output per mu will be reduced by 30 kg to 50 kg. At this time, we must race against time to harvest the wheat in the shortest possible time, and pray that it will never rain.

It stands to reason that the best time to harvest wheat is: 9:11-16:18, [-]:[-]-[-]:[-]; during these two time periods, the wheat is not wet, easy to thresh, and not too dry.If the straw is too dry, the grains will easily collapse automatically, making it difficult to return the grains to the warehouse.

But in order to harvest all the wheat and return it to the warehouse as soon as possible, they didn't care about so much. They started harvesting just after dawn.

Li Lei bent down, bowed his body, grabbed the mature wheat stalks with his left hand, and put the sickle deep into the root of the wheat stalks with his right hand, and then pulled hard, only to hear a squeak, and the wheat was cut off. Gently put the straw on the ground, and then repeat the above action hundreds of times...

After working for a short time, my waist began to ache. The sharp wheat leaves cut scars on my body. The wheat mang stuck on my body was very itchy, but I could only bear it. The less I cut, the more tired my parents would be. For a while, no one can be lazy and rest at this time.

"Cha, cha, cha..." Only the sound of the scythe was heard, but there was no conversation. Now no one had the strength to speak, and all their minds were on cutting the wheat.

When the sun was about to move to the middle of the sky, the land was finally cut. Li Lei slowly stood up straight, put his fists behind his back and hammered his waist.

"Mom, you go back and cook. We'll transport the wheat back to the next field. You can deliver the food later!" Li Qiyun beckoned everyone to drink water and rest under the shade of the tree.

"Hoo~~Hoo~~" Wuhe Dong sat on the ground, panting like a broken bellows, he was old and not in good health, he was exhausted from hard work all morning.

"Brother, drink some water!" Li Qiyun scooped up a bowl of salted tea from a bucket under the shade of a tree and handed it to Wu Dongdong. He was sweating too much, so he had to add salt to avoid electrolyte imbalance.

The water is also warm, and cold water can certainly quench thirst, but pouring cold water on a hot day can easily irritate people. These details are the experience accumulated by the common people during thousands of years of labor.

After pouring a few bowls of water, everyone finally recovered a bit. Li Qiyun didn't immediately urge them to work. Looking at the clouds in the sky, it will definitely not rain today, so don't worry about it for a while, rest more After a while, I can work better next.

As soon as Wu Dongdong took out the cigarette pot, Li Qiyun took out a pack of red peonies and opened them up. Wu Dongdong took two puffs and praised Li Lei, "You, a college student, are also good at farm work."

"It's still far behind you. You just dragged me down two feet!" Li Lei put down his tea bowl and said.

"You do it a little slower, but you can see that you are an expert when you move the sickle. You save your energy so much that you don't hurt your waist. Unlike my Xinqiu, who just knows how to sell stupid strength and doesn't listen to it several times. Do it again. Go on, within a week, he will be exhausted!" Wu Dongdong scolded his son.

"Wait until his back hurts a few times and he'll learn it! Shunchang, you're going to get married soon, don't dare to break your back!" Li Qiyun said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

Wu Shunchang was so ashamed that his head drooped to his crotch. Liu Laidi didn't quite understand at first, what does back pain have to do with getting married?But I will immediately think of the village, when I was taking out shoe soles with those married women, I couldn't help but blush when I heard the bold words they said.

After smoking two cigarettes and drinking half a bucket of tea, the big guys continued to work. First, they carried the harvested wheat back home with a pole and laid it out on the drying ground before going to the next field to continue harvesting.

Li Lei found that Wu Shunchang's actions were obviously standard. It seemed that he had listened to what he said just now, and he was also afraid that a broken waist would affect his married life.

After cutting the rice for a while, the rice was sent to the fields, and everyone sat on the ridge of the field, eating steamed buns and drinking pumpkin and mung bean soup.

After the meal, we still take a break to smoke a cigarette as usual, Wu Dongdong told Wu Shunchang about the past, "Before liberation, we followed the adults as a guest. At that time, the master was stingy, and the buns were only allowed to be eaten and not taken away. , and even specially sent their own dolls to watch over us!"

"However, we have a way to be Mackies. We pointed to the mountain in the east and asked what the name of the mountain is. When he looked back, we quickly took a bun and hid it! When he turned around, he asked the mountain in the west what it was called. So Come here a few times, and there will be dry food for the road!"

In the afternoon, Li Qisheng and Li Xinwang had already cut the wheat at home and came to help them. Li Xinwang also drove the village tractor to help transport the wheat. This greatly improved the work efficiency. It has been harvested.

"After a busy day, have a drink tonight!" Li Qiyun greeted.

When we got home, we moved the TV out, set up a table on the grain drying ground, and started drinking while watching TV. Wu Dongdong couldn't help but be speechless, "Mr. Li, you're living a beautiful life, right? Such a big TV, it's still a color Yes, our commune secretary doesn’t even have one!”

"Brother, you've worked hard today, drink more!" Li Qiyun greeted.

After a while, the neighbors on the left and right came over with their rice bowls to watch TV. Li Qiyun invited them to have a drink together at the table, but they didn't agree. If so many people all came to the table, how much wine would they have to drink from the Li family?

After eating and watching TV for a while, Wu Shunchang took the two little ones and left with the money and steamed buns given by Li Qiyun; they had to go to the street and wait for the next family to hire them.

Li Qiyun and the others were discussing the arrangements for tomorrow. Although the wheat has been recovered now, they still have to thresh and grind the wheat, take the wheat grains out of the ears, dry them and store them in the warehouse.

Then pay the public grain, plow the land, and sow corn, potatoes, and soybeans. In the summer season, there is still a lot of work to be busy!It was far from time to rest.

(End of this chapter)