Nongmen Fu girl group’s daily favorites

Chapter 23 Summer Harvest
  Shen Zhuoyun came back with a lot of things, including half a fan of pork, bowls and chopsticks, snacks, and a few pieces of cloth.

The rice harvest will begin tomorrow, and he has hired twenty day laborers to help.

Yang Dazhuang unloaded the things on the car and was about to go home. Shen Jia stopped him: "Uncle Yang, wait a minute. I have brought back a wild sheep. You and my father will kill it together and take back a lamb leg."

Shen Jia brought the wild sheep back and threw it on the floor in the yard.

Yang Dazhuang touched his head, his honest face a little embarrassed, "Hey, okay."

The wild sheep weighed about a hundred kilograms. Yang Dazhuang was given a leg of lamb, and the intestines were kept by Shen Jia, who was going to make catgut.

The rest was frozen with the pork.

Saltpeter ice was already available in previous dynasties, and cold drinks were often sold on the streets of some big cities.

Later, because saltpeter was one of the main materials of gunpowder, it was monitored by the court. Saltpeter has the effects of clearing away heat, stopping vomiting, laxative, reducing swelling, and relieving pain. Medical clinics can apply for a certain amount of it every year to treat diseases.

With mutton, the Shen family's dinner tonight is particularly rich.

The night was deep and completely silent. Shen Jia visited Li Sanlang's room again, lit their sleeping holes, and quietly replaced the poison in the torn bag under the bed.

The next day, when the sky was slightly bright, there was a knock on the door of Shen's courtyard.

Twenty day laborers and Yang Dazhuang and his wife have arrived at the gate.

On weekdays, they work part-time and earn only twenty-five cents a day, regardless of food. The Shen family paid fifty cents a day and took care of food. Therefore, whenever they heard that the Shen family wanted part-time workers in these years, they came without saying a word.

It’s double grab season, time is tight and tasks are heavy. Harvesting rice depends on time. Typhoons can occur unexpectedly during this season. If a typhoon occurs, the plants will fall down, making harvesting difficult. Overripe grains will be easily threshed. If it rains heavily for several days in a row, the wet rice will easily become moldy and grow teeth. The rice transplanting must be done before the beginning of autumn. The rice planted before and after the beginning of autumn are different, the growth rate is different, and the harvest is also different.

After they harvested rice for the Shen family, they also had to go home to harvest their own rice.

The weather is cool in the morning, so harvest more, and you can take a rest when the sun is strong at noon.

Some people came with sickles, some carried millet, and some carried grain buckets. One from the Shen family had a grain bucket, and Yang Dazhuang also carried one from his family.

Gu and Kong are cooking at home.

After breakfast, Shen Jia and Shen Hao each carried two wooden barrels of white porridge, Shen Yun took the bowl, and Shen An took the olive wedges and chopsticks, talking and laughing all the way to the fields.

Olive angle is a kind of dried olive angle made from black olive. It has thin skin, thick flesh and fragrant taste. It is most suitable for eating porridge.

In the Shen family's paddy field, several women were waving sickles to cut down the rice plants one after another. Several men were carrying large handfuls of rice into the barrels and beating them vigorously, so that the full and mature rice would be separated from the barrels. After a violent impact against the wooden wall, grains of grain broke away from the ears of rice and spilled into the barrel.

Shen Zhuoyun saw Shen Hao's brothers and sisters coming and hurriedly invited them to come over for breakfast.

A group of people just sat on the ridge and started eating.

It was such a simple white porridge with olive wedges, and they had satisfied smiles on their faces.

In fact, for them, this is already good food. For example, some people from poor families may not be able to eat such good white rice porridge for a month.

In ancient times, when productivity was low and science and technology development was zero, when the weather was good and people worked diligently in the fields, an acre of land would cost less than three dan at most. In addition to paying rent and taxes, the harvested grain would only be in your hands. Barely enough food and clothing.

If we encounter uncontrollable factors such as floods, locusts, and droughts, we will really have to eat dirt to satisfy our hunger.

They finished eating quickly, put down their bowls and chopsticks, and started working again.

"Brother, sister, you go back first, we are going to help harvest the rice." Shen Yun and Shen An are indeed twins, and sometimes they say exactly the same thing.

As soon as the two arrived in the field, they completely let themselves go, looking for fallen ears of rice everywhere in the field. Shen Jia and Shen Hao watched for a while and then went home relieved.

Shen Zhuoyun has already opened several Gu Da.

Gu Da is a mat made of bamboo strips, which is perfect for drying rice.

After a while, two people came back carrying rice.

There are also particularities to drying millet.

Pour the wet rice in the grain onto the grain, first use a wooden rake to push the millet to the middle of the grain, spread it into a long ridge, and then spread it layer by layer to the surroundings, and then layer by layer when the bottom is reached. The ones gather towards the middle.

This not only improves the efficiency, but also has a good effect, ensuring that every rice is exposed to the sun.

After Kong helped Gu make breakfast, he went to the fields to help cut rice.

While Gu was preparing lunch in the kitchen, Shen Jia and Shen Hao took turns drying the rice and paying close attention to the Li family.

Shen Yun and Shen An were very busy in the fields. They helped carry the cut rice plants to the bucket and picked up the fallen rice ears.

Near noon, they came back to help light the fire and cook.

There are more meals to be made at noon.

Filled with rice, egg white and cauliflower soup, stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots, stir-fried pork with green beans, everyone had their mouths full of oil, exclaiming how delicious they were.

Shen Jia also saw a few women who only ate side dishes and secretly wrapped the meat in handkerchiefs and put it in their pockets.

Shen Jia pretended not to notice that in this era, only women who could not make a living would work part-time jobs. Of course, there were also some husbands who worked part-time jobs. If they saw a better job, they would ask their wives to join them.

Just like the short-term workers hired by the Shen family this time, many of them are husband and wife.

After Shen Jia finished eating, she used Qing Kung Fu from the backyard to fly up to the big tree on the hillside behind, and replaced Shen Hao.

Shen Jia was lying on the tree and felt drowsy. Suddenly her ears twitched and she looked up and saw Li Sanlang sneaking up from another road.

Shen Jia suddenly became energetic and came.

Li Sanlang carried a broken baggage, looked around and dodged all the way, and finally came to the hillside behind the Shen family yard.

He sat down on the ground and cursed: "Damn it, I'm so hot. It's all because of that bastard Lao Wu. He said it's dark at night and there are many snakes. It's easy to be spotted if you light a torch. I have to come at this time..."

Li Sanlang looked around, then opened the broken baggage layer by layer, took out the oil paper bag inside, pointed it at the gap of the mountain spring water connection, and poured it down.

"What are you doing?" Shen Jia jumped down from the tree, grabbed Li Sanlang's hand, and asked him: "What is this?"

Li Sanlang's face suddenly turned pale, and he wanted to break away from Shen Jia's hand and run away, but Shen Jia's hand was so tight that he couldn't even move.

"Let me go, little witch, I'm just passing by and taking a rest here when I'm tired. Why do you arrest me?"

I have to say that Li Sanlang has a very strong adaptability. From the initial panic to the defeat, it only takes a moment.

Shen Jia raised her eyebrows and gave him a thumbs up: "Awesome! I saw you poisoning with my own eyes and getting the stolen goods. How dare you make excuses? You said I would drag you to the county government just like this. I don't know how dare your brother-in-law dare Don’t dare to defend you?”

(End of this chapter)