happy apocalypse

Chapter 151 Pain and happiness
In mid-August, my uncle announced to the golden paddy field that he had already bowed his waist: "The rice is ripe and ready to be harvested." Encouraged by the cheers we heard behind, we sharpened our knives and rushed towards the paddy field.

This is our first year of farming in Tashan Village, so the rice harvested this time is of extraordinary significance to us.

Our five families have discussed that we will harvest together this year. According to the order of the fields, we will harvest 10 acres from my uncle’s house first, then 4 acres from Aunt Qin’s house, 4 acres from my second sister’s house, 4 acres from my eldest sister’s house, and finally 10 acres of our home.

On the day of harvesting rice, three mother-level figures, Jiang Ma, Qu Ma, and Liang Aunt, came out to stay at home and cook meals for nearly 30 people.

It is said that cutting rice is the most tiring job. This time I experienced it. The temperature outside was nearly 40 degrees. We all wore long clothes, trousers, and rubber shoes. We stood in the field and started cutting rice.

I am not proficient in using tools, and often I can't cut much with one knife. I am still cutting this small piece of land here, and my uncle and the others have already cut a large piece.

Several older villagers, after working in the field, came here to watch our family harvest rice, and looked at the full-grained ears of rice, and they kept praising our family, the rice is well grown.

One of the villagers named Zhou Fu said to his uncle: "Old Lu, the rice planted by your family is really good, much better than ours."

The little uncle replied modestly: "The main reason is that we planted it early. When the drought starts here, our plant will be mature. If there is no shortage of water, it will grow well."

When he was talking, he didn't delay cutting the rice at all, and when he was talking, he fell several meters away from me.

Zhou Fu shook his head and squatted down, grabbed a rice stalk in his hand and said: "Not only is there no shortage of water, but your rice grows better than the rice we planted in good times. Your seed is not bad. When you start planting rice next year, can you take me with you and sell me some seeds, okay?"

The little uncle did not dare to agree after hearing such a question. After all, we made it up, and it is inconvenient for the little uncle to make the decision.

Jiang Zhi was cutting rice next to him, listening to his little uncle and the others. Hearing that Zhou Fu wanted to plant rice with us next year and also wanted to buy seeds from us, he stopped his sickle, straightened his waist, and wiped the rice with his sleeve. With the sweat on his forehead, he took over the conversation.

"Okay, this year we are experimenting, and we don't know if this planting method will work, so we didn't tell everyone. Looking at this year's harvest, it should be considered a success. Then we will greet everyone when we plant next year. If you want to plant with us, you can come to my house to have a look. If you want seeds, then we will save more this year, and our family will not buy seeds, just leave all the rice stalks to our family.

In short, our family has had a bumper harvest, and I hope that everyone in our village will have a bumper harvest. We can't just have enough food for our family, seeing that everyone is hungry.But..." Jiang Zhi said and changed the subject, "We all know that we depend on the sky to eat, and whether we can have a harvest depends on God, so even if everyone plants our rice next year, we don't guarantee it. Can 100% harvest. "

After Jiang Zhi left these words, he let them think for themselves, and then bent down to harvest the rice.If we keep it, it’s up to them to plant it or not.

In one morning, my second sister and I were kicked out of the harvesting team, who would only harm the rice fields. Instead, we were responsible for binding the rice they had harvested in bundles, and then we were also kicked out of the harvesting team. Li Cheng and Chenchen (using the Juli Talisman) were in charge of picking it up to our house with poles. We have a thresher in our own yard. Weiwei and the eldest sister were responsible for threshing the rice at home, and then waited for Jiang Zhi and the others to come back at noon. Just move the rice to the roof to dry.

There are many workers worthy of praise in this collective labor. For example, women like Aunt Qin, Lu Fang, and Auntie Qin, who do not give way to men in labor, wear thick work clothes, are not afraid of hardship or tiredness, and always persist in harvesting rice. first line.There are also a few children who need to be praised. They are also wearing thick clothes and working with the adults. They carry small baskets and are responsible for picking up the fallen ears of rice at the back of the big team. Listening to them yell tired, this spirit of participation is very commendable.

But the most worthy of praise is the second brother-in-law. In this weather and his figure, not to mention working, he may not be able to bear it even if he sits by the rice field all morning.And he didn't become lazy and playful because of his special conditions. He always followed Uncle Qin's side to learn how to cut rice very seriously. He couldn't use the sickle at first, and he cut his own calf several times. Thanks to wearing a lot, otherwise Before the rice was cut, his legs were bloody.

Fat people are afraid of heat. He has a big belly and his waist is exhausted. Now he is working on his waist, the sweat on his face is dripping down the floor, and his face is flushed. He straightens up and wipes it with his sleeve. He sweated, took a breath, and continued to work. He was really tired, so he sat down in the rice field, drank some water and took a rest, then got up and continued to work. Seeing how hard he was working, the second sister advised him to rest more. Father Qu and Jiang Dad didn't let him cut the rice anymore, and asked him to go home and thresh the rice, but the second brother-in-law didn't agree with anything, so he just said, he said this is what I should do.

I gave him the thumbs up this time.

In any case, it took us two days to cut all the rice, then threshing, drying, and then putting the grains into the warehouse.

I can describe harvesting rice in one word, tired, really tired.

But looking at the tall piles of grain bags, I feel that it is worth it even if I am tired.It can be said that even if we don't have space, this food is enough for our family to chew for a year.

Looking at the large pile of straw outside the yard, these are a little less. If there are only sheep, these are almost enough for the winter. If you count the three edible cows, it will not be enough, but it’s okay. When the villagers harvest rice Finally, we can buy some more from others.

When my uncle was harvesting the grain and putting it into the warehouse, he calculated that the average paddy field yielded more than 1100 catties of rice per mu. This amount was quite a lot in normal times, and this output can still be produced under such abnormal weather conditions. He and Jiang Zhi said: "This year we will leave more seeds. This year our family will have a bumper rice harvest. The whole village will watch it. Someone will come to ask for seeds in the spring of next year. By then , we can help as many as we can, they are all from the same village, and we can’t look down on anyone who is suffering from cold or hunger.”

We agree with this, as long as those who really want to improve their family life through their own efforts, we can still help, but those who want to get something for nothing from us, we can't be used to it.

September is a harvest season for our family. The crops planted in our newly opened dry land are gradually maturing. The first is corn, which is a relatively drought-resistant crop. In August, the weather was dry. After that, we used the drip irrigation method. Although the technology is not very mature, the corn has adapted very well. It feels bigger than the corn cobs planted when the weather is good. I looked at these round and plump corn and said : "The timing of this genetic mutation is too bad. If others see this, they will have to wonder what our family said, how can we grow such good corn in such a harsh environment."

"Don't think about it, it's so easy to mutate the gene. Our corn grows well because we use the corn grown in the space as seeds, and we have kept up with the fertilizer since the beginning. It has never been short of water, so it grows so well." Jiang Zhi said while breaking the corn.

Oh, it turned out that we planted it ourselves, but we are quite perverted. Everyone else’s planting has reduced production, and the more we plant, the better.But I hope we can continue to pervert, haha.

Then there are sweet potatoes. When harvesting sweet potatoes, the sweet potato vines on the ground must be cut first and transported to the tricycle. These are the rations of our cattle and sheep, so they cannot be wasted.

The children were more active in digging sweet potatoes than us adults. When they saw the sweet potatoes digging out of the field, they all jumped up and cheered, saying that there are roasted sweet potatoes to eat in winter.

Sometimes children are more obsessed with food than adults. The children in our family like to eat sweet potatoes very much, so when harvesting sweet potatoes, they follow behind the adults. I picked them up with a small hoe in my hand, and checked them very carefully. I didn't miss the sweet potatoes with thin fingers. They were all picked up, and I rummaged in the field several times.

That night, I asked Qu’s mother to eat sweet potatoes for dinner. A big pot full of sweet potatoes was not enough for the whole family. The sweet potatoes are very noodles and sweet, and they are very popular with everyone.

Mama Jiang and Mama Qu decided to make some snacks with sweet potatoes for the children in the family. In fact, they were dried sweet potatoes, so they cooked a pot of sweet potatoes when they got up in the morning. When we came back at noon, the sweet potatoes were completely cold. Use a knife to cut sweet potatoes into half-centimeter-thick slices, put them on bamboo rafts for drying things, and put them on the roof of the house to let the wind blow and bask in the sun. It will be ready in three to five days.

But there are a few greedy little devils in our family. Every time they put the dried sweet potatoes on the roof at noon, they would think about getting some to chew after taking a nap in the afternoon.

In fact, the dried sweet potatoes hadn’t been dried at all at that time, because the surface layer had just hardened. It is very delicious to eat at this time, the surface is very chewy, and the inside is not hard.So it's no wonder that the children are worried about it. Sometimes I will go up and take a small basket of dried sweet potatoes like this to eat.

But I am not as generous as them. I eat at home by myself, and when I go out to play in the afternoon, I have to carry a bag with me. Han Han said, those children are their buddies, good things need to be with good friends share together.Therefore, the sweet potatoes that have been dried in the sun for many days in our family have dried up, and there is really nothing left.

After we harvested the corn, we harvested sweet potatoes, after harvesting sweet potatoes, we harvested potatoes, and after harvesting potatoes, we harvested all kinds of beans. In short, this month we were both painful and happy.

(End of this chapter)