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Chapter 30 Raking the Fields
  Summer rain comes and goes quickly.

Two quarters of an hour later, the sky cleared after the rain, the dark clouds dispersed, the sun appeared again, and a rainbow hung in the sky.

"Sister, come here and take a look. What's hanging in the sky? It's so beautiful." Shen An asked, pointing to the rainbow in the sky.

"This is a rainbow."

"Sister, why is there a rainbow after thunder and rain?" Shen Yun also came up and asked.

This suddenly made Shen Jia ask, why is there a rainbow? She tried hard to recall the encyclopedia knowledge she had read in her previous life. "Rainbows are formed when sunlight hits small, nearly round water droplets in the sky, causing dispersion and reflection..."

"Why does it thunder?" Shen An, not to be outdone, also asked a question.

"Because the water vapor in cumulonimbus clouds generates static electricity when it is constantly moving, causing a voltage difference between the clouds and the ground..."

"Why does it thunder more in summer and less in winter?"

"Why is the sun round?"

"Why do fireflies glow?"

“Why do chickens eat grains of sand?”

Shen Jia was scratched by the naughty child's question. Shen Hao came back from outside and saw this scene, covered his mouth and snickered.

After the rain stopped, Shen Hao took a bag of candy to Uncle Seventh's house. If those children hadn't tipped off the news yesterday, Shen Hao and Shen Zhuoyun wouldn't have come so quickly with their people.

Li Hu's family is now missing Li Sanlang, Li Dalang is missing a leg, and Li Wulang is missing a hand. It is the busy farming season, and nothing will happen to their family for the time being.

After the poisoning, other families in the village warned their children not to play with the Li family's children.

When children play together, friction is inevitable. It is normal for children to fight, but the Li Hu family does not think so.

In the past, there have been many cases where children fought, and the adults of the Li family got involved. Later, when the two families quarreled, Li Hu poisoned the family's chickens with rat poison.

Everyone knew that Li Hu did the thing, but Li Hu had a backstage and several sons, so everyone could only swallow their anger. Shen Jia not only beat his family members but also arrested Li Sanlang, but That's a lot of people's hearts.

Seeing Shen Hao snickering at the side, Shen Jia stopped immediately, adhering to the truth that a dead Taoist friend will never die a poor Taoist: "Yun'er, An'er, sister has something to do. If you have any questions, ask your elder brother."

Hearing this, Shen Hao shouted: "Sister, how could you do this?"

Shen Yun and Shen An simultaneously held Shen Jia's hand to prevent her from leaving.

"I don't want it. Brother doesn't know anything. It's useless to ask." Shen Yun looked at Shen Hao with disdain and said.

Shen An nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "That's right, every time I ask him, he says he doesn't know, hum! I don't want to ask him."

This time it was Shen Hao's turn to give up. He glared at them, pointed at his nose, and said angrily: "I don't understand anything? Who can answer the messy questions you asked? I guess in the whole world Only my sister can answer it, so it’s not that I don’t understand, it’s that your questions are too tricky.”

Seeing that their eldest brother was angry, Shen Yun and Shen An looked at each other and did not dare to say a word.

'Pfft' Shen Jia couldn't help but laugh out loud: "Okay, Yun'er, An'er, don't get to the bottom of it. Go back to your room to practice calligraphy first. My eldest brother and I are going to the fields to help dad rake the rice fields."

The two secretly glared at Shen Hao and thought to themselves: Don't think they don't know. If the elder brother hadn't been snickering, the elder sister would have continued to tell them.

Along the way, Shen Jia and Shen Hao saw villagers carrying sickles and baskets to the fields to harvest rice.

Yang Dazhuang is also busy harvesting rice.

In order to make it easier to harvest rice, most people drain the water in the fields and then refill the water when plowing. Shen Zhuoyun had already stored the fields after harvesting the rice. It had just rained heavily, and a lot of water had been stored in the fields. The water is just suitable for Shen Jia and others to prepare their rice fields.

Five acres of paddy field requires about three acres of rice field. Shen Jia saw from a distance that the gentle and elegant Shen Zhuoyun was using the tip of the plow to command the oxen to plow the paddy fields. His hair and body were covered with mud and water.

Shen Jia was obviously the youngest person to be elected since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty. He was supposed to have a bright future and live in a temple, but now he was plowing in the fields. Shen Jia felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Once Magistrate Meng is dealt with, it’s time to start planning.

Shen Zhuoyun saw the two brothers Shen Jia and Shen Hao coming, and asked curiously: "What are you two brothers and sisters doing here?"

"Let's help rake the fields." Shen Hao put down the rake and said with a smile.

After the fields are plowed, they still have to be harrowed. The rake is mainly pulled by oxen. The Shen family's wooden rake is about two meters long, with thirteen rake teeth on each side. When the field is being leveled, people stand on it, one person or two people can stand on it.

"Nonsense, you go back, dad can be alone here." Shen Zhuoyun scolded.

Shen Jia suppressed her emotions and raised a smile: "Dad, we are here, so don't drive us away."

After Shen Jia finished speaking, she went directly to the fields. In ancient times, women's feet were not allowed to be exposed to others, so she did not roll up her trousers.

Shen Zhuoyun had no choice but to unload the pears and install the rake.

"Hao'er, Yun'er, there are leeches in this field. Pay attention. If you feel something is wrong, leave the field immediately and go to the creek to roll up your trousers to see if you have been bitten by a leech." Shen Zhuoyun warned.

'understood. '

Shen Jia also didn't expect that she and Shen Hao were so lucky that they would actually be bitten by a leech.

After raking the fields, they washed their feet in the stream.

The creek is only one meter wide and contains about a foot of water.

On both sides of the stream are mountains on one side and one-meter-high field stalks on the other. The stream flows to the river several hundred meters away.

Except for people who work in the fields who go to the creek to wash their feet, most people don't come to the creek.

After Shen Jia washed the mud from the outside of his trousers, he asked Shen Hao to stand on the field stem to let the air flow, and then slowly rolled up the trousers.

This sight shocked Shen Jia.

There were two leeches sucking on her left calf, sucking her full. She quickly took out a small porcelain bottle from her purse. This was the last time Shen Jia went to the mountains. She was bitten by mountain leeches deep in the mountains. medicine.

Shen Jia poured the medicine on the wound where the locust was sucking. After a while, the locust fell down.

"Brother, come down quickly, roll up your trousers and see if there are any leeches on your legs?"

Shen Hao immediately rushed to Shen Jia: "Sister, you were bitten by a leech? Don't be afraid, big brother will help you pull it out."

"Mine has been taken away. Can you take a look at your legs to see if there are any leeches?"

Shen Hao obediently rolled up his trousers legs. Shen Jia looked at it and thought, wow! There were more leeches than hers, two leeches on each of her left and right calves.

Shen Hao was about to pull them out with his thumb and index finger.

"Brother, wait a minute. You cannot pull the leech with your hands. You will break the leech and leave the head in the skin, which will cause wound infection. Sprinkle this medicine on it and it will fall off in a moment."

After Shen Jia handed the medicine to Shen Hao, he then said: "If there is no medicine, you can slap the leech with your hands and suck the skin and muscles around it, or wash it with salt water and vinegar."

(End of this chapter)