The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 9
Chu Ying squeezed her sore arm, and continued to bend over to cut the rice. Sweat dripped from the tip of her nose to the ground. Only now did she really understand what it means to work hard.

"Chu Ying, take a rest. My sister will bring dry food later. Let's cook after eating." Chu Ying looked at Wang Naiyuan who was so hot that he took off his shirt and wore a pair of shorts. Head muscles, and perfect mermaid lines, Chu Ying licked the saliva from the corner of her mouth.

"I'll cut some more." Chu Ying whispered as she watched the resting women in other fields looking at Wang Naiyuan's sturdy figure.

The autumn harvest is also a process for everyone to get to know each other. You can tell which girl is lazy and which young man is hardworking.

"Sakura, take a rest. You are already weak. It's the third day. You can't act recklessly. Go to the shade of the tree and rest. If you cut again, the aunt will snatch your sickle away."

"Okay." Chu Ying went to the shade of the tree to drink a few mouthfuls of water, and then hammered her swollen calf. "That's the broom star who restrained his father and mother? Then his life is so hard. Why are you helping the old Wang's family to harvest rice?"

"Could it be that she became the child bride-in-law of the old Wang's family?"

"Don't brag, the condition of the old Wang's family is so good, many people in the village are interested in Wang Er, and besides, that little girl is so hard-working, Mrs. Wang will definitely not agree."

Chu Ying looked at the blisters on her hand that were about to burst, poked her fingers, and it hurt a little, and she couldn't talk to other women, so she could only play with the blisters. When she first joined the army, she always had blisters. Calluses are fine.

"Mother, come and eat." Wang Liyuan came over with a basket in his hand. "Sakura, why don't you work? Are you waiting to eat?"

"What are you talking about, you lazy ghost, you think that other people are just like you, they only know how to eat, but don't know how to work. Sakura is so small, and she does twice as much work as you, so you have the face to say it." Mrs. Wang He wiped his hands on his clothes and walked to the shade.

"Am I my own child? Didn't I cook this meal?" Chu Ying took the big steamed cake that Wang Naiyuan handed over. This kind of thing, which is similar to steamed buns, is called steamed cake here.

"Have a face? I've already done it, why don't you heat it up? Hurry up and cut it off, the flesh on your body is all for nothing?" Aunt Wang kicked Wang Liyuan's backside.

"You must have picked me up. Hmph." Wang Liyuan frowned slightly angrily, picked up the sickle and went to the field. "Sakura, add some food." Aunt Wang put some food in Chu Ying's steamed cake.

"Yeah." Aunt Wang's cooking skills are still very good. Although she eats steamed buns for meals these days, it tastes delicious, but it reminds Chu Ying of the dishes made by her mother. I don't know if the old sister at home has Did not make my mother angry.

Wang Naiyuan squeezed Aunt Wang's shoulders, "One more day of mowing will probably be over, and I will finally be able to eat enough this year." Chu Ying is still worrying about her 2 acres of wasteland.

"Sakura, when the millet is out of its shell, come and get some." Chu Ying nodded and continued eating the steamed buns.After finishing her work and returning home, Chu Ying moved lazily, but the evil stomach lord made a deep protest.

After eating and lying on the bed, Chu Ying only felt pain all over her body, just like when she first joined the army. According to the squad leader, just endure it. The pain now is the muscles that will grow in the future.

When Big Brother Wang finished cutting the land, Chu Ying was already exhausted, so she had to push back Qian Yong's appointment, but Qian Yong was embarrassed to say that he was just teasing Chu Ying.

"Chu Ying, go back and soak your feet in hot water. You've been exhausted these days." Wang Naiyuan looked at Chu Ying, who hadn't reached her chest, and she didn't hesitate to work. Although she was already very tired, she still At the end of the day, he looked like a different person from when he was sick every now and then.

"Okay, Brother Wang, you guys have a drying yard behind, can you borrow the farm tools? I want to tidy up those wastelands." Chu Ying wiped her darkened face.

Wang Naiyuan entered the house and took out the shovel, hoe and pick, "Come on, I'll take it home for you."

Looking at the farm tools that were taller than herself, Chu Ying felt the deep malice from this world.Fortunately, the pickaxe is not very high.

"Take a break these few days. Anyway, it will take some time for us to thresh the millet in the drying field, so there is no rush to use it. When the millet is ready, I will help you plow the land. You are wasteland, so you need to hoe it deep, or the grass will grow in the next year." Much more."

"Okay." Although Chu Ying promised to take a good rest, time waits for no one. With so many places, she doesn't know how long she will be alone, so more or less, Chu Ying has to start rectifying first.

But with a few swings of the pickaxe, Chu Ying became exhausted.I thought to renovate the land in front of the house first, so that I can grow some vegetables, and then renovate the other land at that time.

Doing farm work is boring and tiring, but it is better than looking at these wastelands. After two days of doing it, I finally turned the land in front of my house. After three times of hoeing, the soil is already very moist.Still don't know what to plant.

Before Wang Naiyuan could reach Chu Ying's house, he saw Chu Ying's tiny figure laboriously hoeing. "Chu Ying, this is the millet my mother asked me to bring. Let me help you."

"No need, I won't collect this millet. Haven't you already lent me farm tools?"

"Well, let me help you. When are you going to do this?" Brother Wang picked up the iron hoe and went down, turning up a large piece of soil.

Sure enough, age and physical strength are flawed.Back in the day, Chu Ying was also a tough woman who carried logs on her shoulders and carried heavy weapons in her hand, but now she can only weakly ask others to help, it is really unbearable to look back.

Chu Ying continued to work with the pickaxe. Although the progress was very slow, she did her best.With the help of Brother Wang, the land was hoed and reorganized within 5 days.

"Chu Ying, you are different from before." Chu Ying sowed the seeds, not knowing how to answer Wang Naiyuan's words, she was different.

"In the past, you couldn't lift the water, so I helped you, but now you are unwilling to help me." Chu Ying turned her head to look at Wang Naiyuan, who was stomping on the ground with her head down.

"I am different. I also want someone to help me, but no one can help me for the rest of my life. Without my parents, I have to live on my own."

Wang Naiyuan looked at the weak Chu Ying in front of him. In fact, he just wanted to say that he could take care of you for the rest of his life, but he couldn't say that because Chu Ying was still too young to understand many things.

"I'm no longer a young lady, I'm just a child who can't do farm work. Brother Wang, I don't know what to plant on that piece of land." Wang Naiyuan had already noticed the well-made land .

"Plant some mustard greens, leeks, radishes, turnips, crown chrysanthemums, green onions, ginger and garlic." Sure enough, this era was relatively early, and there were no vegetables such as tomatoes, lentils, eggplants, cucumbers, and pumpkins.

And I didn't see high-yield crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes in the seed shop. It seemed that life in ancient times was really not as good as imagined, and there were only a few kinds of vegetables that could be eaten.

After the seeds were sown, Wang Naiyuan went home and brought the seeds. "Chu Ying, these are leeks, you can plant them separately, they will grow more by themselves, these are the seeds of mustard radish and manqing, and these onions, ginger and garlic, just plant them too. "Wang Naiyuan planted leeks on the ground with a small sickle.

"Thank you so much. I don't even know what to do. Brother Wang, you really helped me a lot." Chu Ying picked up her sickle and followed Wang Naiyuan to learn how to plant.

"This is a small favor, you can ask me to help, anyway, the family has harvested a lot of seeds, you can help a lot during the autumn harvest, without you, I don't know how many more days I will have to harvest, I am afraid that the millet will be harvested by then." Once it’s ripe, cut off the grains and it’s wasted.”

After the planting was done, Wang Naiyuan hung several buckets of water to water the ground thoroughly. "Haw more, remember to water, the onions will need to cultivate the soil, like this." Chu Ying watched as Wang Naiyuan piled up the soil on the roots of the onions.

"In the future, if you don't understand anything, come and ask me. I still need to help the neighbors with this little favor. Then I'll go first." Chu Ying looked at the vegetable garden and wheat fields that were already in shape, and the worry in her heart was finally resolved. let go.

(End of this chapter)