Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 68

On the second day of the game, Lao Qin’s family had no animals to play, and most people were not willing to use animals, because you could cover their eyes to keep them from getting dizzy, and you could also cover their mouths to keep them from stealing food, but you didn’t Can't control its ass.

Cows are not suitable for threshing, but horses, mules, and donkeys can make a living, but just in case it is enough for people to thresh, so many people change shifts to threshing.In the arena, Qin Ye and his second uncle pulled the Luke and turned it around very fast. The Luke rolled over the ears of wheat, and the grains flowed out.

There are flat and ribbed husks. Generally, threshing husks are used for threshing. They are light and will not crush the grains, and can be pulled around by one person.

Xiuyao, Xiurong and the others sat in the shade to pick up grass. The so-called pick up grass means to turn over the cut wheat roots and grass, and pick out the wheat ears inside. Pick up a bunch of small ears of wheat, tie them up and dry them in the sun, and then smash them with a mallet to get the grains out, even if they are not honest, they can be used to feed chickens.

Because the second aunt had been scolded before, everyone was honest now, lest they offend grandpa and be scolded again. Grandpa usually doesn't get angry, but when he gets angry, he is ruthless. Whoever bumps into him will be unlucky.

Qin Xian came home from a shift to eat and came back, holding a cucumber in his hand, and quietly gave it to Xiuyao, letting her share it with Xiurong.Although almost all the vegetables in the vegetable garden can be eaten, they can't be picked by just anyone, and they must be supervised by Mrs. Zhang.Especially cucumbers, this season, are tender and juicy, and you can still feel the fresh and crisp feeling that fascinates your mouth after taking a bite.

"Eat it, it's given to me by the nanny." Qin Xian whispered, in front of him was a tall stack of wheat hay, on the opposite side were Xiujuan, Xiumei, and Xiuting, and here were Xiurong, Xiuyao, and Xiuli.

Naturally, Xiu Xian is impatient to sit here picking straw, she would rather drag Lu Qi to the field.

Xiurong gently broke off the cucumber and gave each of Xiuyao and Xiuli a small piece. The three of them bit gently. The fresh and crisp cucumber was sweet with a hint of sweetness. The cucumber can be compared.

Xiuyao ate happily, just like looking at the third sister, these two days the third sister was worrying about her skin getting darker and thicker, she leaned over and said in a low voice: "Third sister, I heard that putting sliced ​​cucumbers on the face can whiten the skin. "

"Really?" Xiurong couldn't bite down on the cucumber when she heard that, she wanted to spit it out, and even wanted to snatch Xiuyao and Xiuli's. Hurry up, too.

Xiurong smiled and said: "Look at you like that, I won't rob you, but I can try it myself."

Xiuyao reminded: "Be careful, Mommy knows that you are a waste."

Xiurong didn't care, she said to Xiuyao: "I'll go out for a while, if anyone asks, just say I have a stomachache and go to the latrine."

Xiuyao knew that she was going to post cucumber slices, and said with a smile, "Third sister, you can go."

Xiu Rong ran away clutching the cucumber, and Xiu Ting, who was opposite, stood up and saw it, turned her head and said to Xiu Juan: "Sister, Sister Rong has run away."

Xiujuan said: "It's convenient to go."

Xiumei snorted, "There's a lot of shit and urine on the lazy donkey."

Xiu Ting said, "No, I saw them stealing food."

Xiumei stood up as soon as she heard it, the straw stack was too high, she couldn't see it, she walked around and stared at Xiuyao for a while, "What do you eat?"

Xiuyao smiled and said, "Cucumber, if you don't believe me, you can ask Xiuli."

Xiuli also nodded, "Well, we ate cucumbers." After speaking, she giggled happily.

Xiumei didn't believe it anymore. She eats fart cucumbers. Mammy goes to the vegetable garden every day, and picks cucumbers long ago. She will never chew them as snacks unless they are cut into strips for dipping in sauce or mixed with garlic. .These few people didn't leave half a step away, and it's impossible to steal them. Besides, even if there is something delicious, are they willing to give it to Xiuli?Xiuli is her own younger sister.

Xiuyao also knew that she wouldn't believe it, so she said it directly so as not to bother her.

At this time, a watermelon field passed by outside, driving a donkey cart, knocking on the clapper, "Sell—watermelon, watermelon, watermelon with sandy flesh, big and sweet watermelon—"

Xiuyao couldn't help but take a look. In such a scorching summer, I really want to eat a piece of iced watermelon. Although I don't have a refrigerator at home, I can put it in the well water.There is no pollution, no chemical fertilizers and pesticides, no hormones and bulking agents. Watermelon is a natural green food, absolutely refreshing and sweet. Xiuyao couldn't help but smack her mouth and said to Xiuli, "Watermelon is so sweet."

At this age, Xiuli has only eaten watermelon a handful of times, and it was a gift from Mrs. Guo and Lao Liutou. Naturally, the old Qin family is not willing to buy it.The old Qin head over there came to get water to drink, Xiumei stood up and shouted: "Grandpa, Xiuyao is hungry, she wants to eat watermelon."

Xiuyao frowned, this Xiumei is really annoying, Xiumei looked at her provocatively, thinking that grandpa could scold Xiuyao, who knew that old Qintou smiled at Xiuyao, and said: "If you want to eat watermelon, turn around Let's buy one too, you pick up more grass, and use the wheat you pick up in exchange."

Xiuyao cheered up when she heard the joy, and said to Old Qin, "Thank you, Grandpa."

Xiumei was not happy, but she was also happy to hear that there was watermelon to eat, but she was dissatisfied with Old Qin's not scolding Xiuyao.

The sun was scorching hot, and it was so scorching that people seemed to be bleeding oil. All the houses in the field were bustling with activity. There were those who pulled the threshing shovels, and those who carried the wooden shovels to remove the wheat chaff. Bumped and sent to the side to spread out to dry.

The villagers who are in charge of patrolling in the village are not lazy at all, wandering back and forth, knocking on the clapper and shouting, "The sky is dry and the things are dry, be careful of fire and candles, concentrate on harvesting wheat, no wandering and fighting, no gambling and drunkenness, be careful against theft.... "

During lunch time, Mrs. Zhang was a little annoyed, and said to Old Qin, "Push a few carts of wheat straw home, Xiuqin and I can also pick it up at home, let Xiurong come back, don't go to the venue."

Old Qin glanced at her, "What's the matter?"

Mrs. Zhang snorted: "This damn girl, moths come out when you leave my eyes." I don't know where I learned the stinky habit, spoiling things, and even sticking cucumbers on her face, it really pissed her off.

Old Qin was thinking about trivial things, so he ignored it and asked Xiu Xian and Qin Xian to push a few more carts so that the girls were at home, and it was safer to have their mothers watch over them.

The girls naturally didn't want to go home, and they could have a rest in the field, but it was hard to say at home, they would be scolded if they went to the latrine to work.However, who can refuse, if you don't want to be beaten and scolded, just be obedient.

After the meal, Xiuxian and his friends went to push the wheat grass in the field, and the first few of Lao Qin went to replace Qin Ye and Ergui, who were drying the wheat on the field, and came back to eat.

Seeing Third Sister enter the house, Xiuyao also went in quietly, and said in a low voice, "Sister San, have you been caught by the nanny?"

Xiurong chuckled dryly, "It's not that I was caught."

"Then what's going on? Why did she talk about you?" Xiuyao asked curiously.

With a beautiful face, "I came back after posting outside, but the mother smelled it and gave me a good meal, but it's also strange that I didn't hit me now. It's really the sun coming out from the west."

Naturally, they didn't know Mrs. Zhang's psychology. After being threatened twice by Mrs. Zhang, and the power of the family was firmly held, she would not easily offend Mrs. Liu, so she just had to be taught a lesson.

A few people were busy in the afternoon, Mrs. Guo came over with a melon, and smiled when she saw them: "Auntie, you are picking grass. I came to buy watermelons today. We bought two. I can't finish them. Give them to my aunt and children." Let's eat."

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly said: "What a shame, now that the wheat is being harvested, you should take it back and give it to them."

Mrs. Guo waved her hand, "Auntie is always being polite to me. I'm sincere when I take it back. It's so boring to take it back. It's not much anyway. It's only one in a year. Why are you being polite to me?"

Mrs. Zhang immediately pulled her and said, "Go home and talk."

Guo took the opportunity to hand the melon to her, "Will you not delay my aunt's work?"

Mrs. Zhang said with a smile, "what kind of grass am I picking? I'm just looking at the girls. Let's go." Then he went to Mrs. Guo's house.

Xiuyao leaned on her beauty and said: "Third sister, don't you have to call our nanny the fourth lady? Why do you call us auntie?"

Xiurong said casually: "Brothers are called empress. Our grandfather and second grandfather are brothers, and third grandfather and eldest grandfather are brothers."

Xiuyao snorted, and Xiurong said with a smile: "Let's put it this way, let's call Xiuli Niang Niang Niang, and when our eldest brother's children call the second brother's daughter-in-law Mistress, and Qin Chan's daughter-in-law will be called Auntie."

Xiuyao wondered, "Why are you so particular about it?"

Xiuyao shook her head, "Then how would I know, that's just the name anyway, let me tell you, there are differences in each village, in the house of Zhou Xiaomian in Houtaoyuan, she calls her mother Niangniang, she calls her aunt Call her mother, call her father Dada, and call her uncle Grandpa."

Xiuyao let out an oh, indicating that she knew.

Xiurong said excitedly, "Let's eat some watermelon."

Xiuyao said with a smile: "Our mammy probably won't eat it until it's about to go bad." If the lamb can be eaten right away at home, if he's not at home, mammy will naturally refuse to eat it, maybe she will have to eat it again. Leave it until he comes home.

Speaking of which, she hadn't seen Xiao Yanger for so many days, and she still missed him. He must have watermelon to eat at his grandpa's house, which is naturally better than at home. Moreover, at his grandma's house, he left his parents, mother and sister. It's a good thing to also exercise a little bit so that you won't be so clingy, and you won't be too arrogant. Maybe you can learn a few more words from your third cousin.

Suddenly, a gust of cool wind blew, and Xiu Rong let out a cry, "It's so cool! It's been so hot all afternoon."

Xiuyao also felt cooler, so she couldn't help stretching, raised her head and turned her neck, and when she saw the sky, she couldn't help but let out a cry, "It must be raining."

Although there are clear and dark clouds above the head and the sun is still burning hot, the sky is dark and green, as if someone knocked over the ink bottle in the sky, and the thick colors are blurred.

Xiurong turned her head to look, squinted her eyes and looked at the sky, "It's raining? The sun is scorching, and grandpa is worried that it's too hot to grow millet."

Farmers are like this. When harvesting the wheat, they are worried that the rain will drench the wheat, but it is too hot and there will be no rain, and they are worried that they will not be able to plant summer land, but there is no such good time in God.

While speaking, the wind picked up, and Xiuyao saw that black patch of green in the sky, like a blob of ink disturbed by something, scattered and gathered towards the center.

"It's really going to rain." Xiuyao stood up in shock, "Let's go to the venue to help."

As she said that, she stood up and rushed home, shouting to Mrs. Zhang in the room: "Mummy, it's going to rain!"

Mrs. Zhang in the room was talking warmly to Mrs. Guo, and smiled at Mrs. Guo: "This brat can talk nonsense, the sun is shining, why is it raining?"

Mrs. Guo also laughed, and said a few more words, suddenly felt how dark the room was, turned her head to look outside, mother, it was cloudy, she hurriedly jumped off the kang, "His aunt, go home and clean up, I I have to go to the field to help."

Mrs. Guo was also panicked, there was a pile of wheat all over the field, and if she didn't clear it up in time, she would be drenched in the water.In the past, it was not so important to spray the ears of wheat, but now that the particles are sprayed, if it is sprayed again, it will be dead, and the seeds will germinate in storage.

Both of them rushed out, looked up in the yard, the sky was overcast too quickly, the cloud was like someone took it and put it directly on the head, and it rushed over from the sky.

Mrs. Guo ran home in a hurry, and Mrs. Zhang shouted in panic, "Xiuqin, Xiuqin, tidy up the yard quickly. Xiujuan, Xiumei, Xiurong, hurry up and help in the field."

She yelled a few times and got no answer, so Mrs. Zhang cursed angrily, "Where are they going to die?" Going out to see, the wheat straw pushed back today has been basically picked up, and the wheat is placed under the shed built against the screen wall in the gatehouse .

It was a shed made of tree branches in case of too much rain in summer, covered with grass thatch tied with wheat straw to prevent rain.

But the maids were all gone, Zhang was so angry that she had to clean up quickly by herself, put all the household items that were afraid of getting wet into the house, and then hurriedly carried the dried grass into the house, piled up the rest and covered it with straw thatch Well, it hasn't been packed yet, a strong wind blows, and there is already humidity.

Mrs. Zhang quickly locked the door and ran into the arena, just as Second Aunt and Xiuxian ran back and shouted: "Mother, take out all the grass thatch at home, my grandpa let them go to the arena."

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly opened the door again, and took out the grass thatch that was rolled up outside the window, the wind blew loudly, bringing a little bit of coolness to the person's face, Xiuxian called out: "It's starting to rain. "

Just as she was talking, the big raindrops fell, and she didn't care about taking the rain gear. Anyway, there were only a few bamboo hats and straw hats at home, and they were all in the field. She quickly grabbed the top of the grass thatch with both hands, and put her hands inside As soon as it was plugged in, he grabbed it tightly and ran away.

The second aunt also quickly grabbed one, but instead of grasping it firmly, she grabbed the outer layer, "Hula", and as the steps moved forward, the grass thatch was dragged all over the ground and scattered .

Mrs. Zhang scolded anxiously, "What a stupid daughter-in-law, she's so stupid, she's not even as good as a girl."

(End of this chapter)