Rebirth Farmhouse

Chapter 70

Old Qintou breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good." After speaking, he tilted his head and fell asleep. The sleep was sound and deep, and he sweated profusely. Quickly, get up and go down to the ground again.

Mrs. Zhang was so angry that she chased after him and shouted: "You old man, when you feel better, you can't rest and eat something anyway."

Old Qin said: "Why are you so coquettish, Boss and the others are still in the field? Wouldn't it be nice to have someone deliver the food?" Then he went to find his own sickle, and Mrs. Zhang shouted: "Xiu Xian will cut the wheat for you Now, why are you in such a hurry? People can still harvest wheat without you."

Only now did Old Qin stop and scratched his head, that's right, without him, wouldn't the children still be alive?He sighed, and then came back.

Since then, the weather has been fine and the sun is scorching. The farmers beat out the grain in one go and dried it to prepare for rent.But even so, the old Qin's family still lost a few buckets of rice than expected, and the field was drenched by rain, so it was ruined no matter what.Especially the unharvested wheat field, the fallen ones, the ones with broken tassels, it’s useless to step into the mud.

Xiuyao has also seen that these wheat varieties cannot be compared with modern ones. The yields are inherently low, they are not very resistant to lodging, and they are also poor in resistance to insect damage, so if there is a disturbance, the yield will be lost.But she doesn't study seed hybridization, so she can't be busy at all. She can only help the adults to recover the losses as much as possible.

The field has already been cleaned up, and the wheat in the field is waiting for the rent to be paid early in the morning. The Zhou family will measure it out with a bucket on the spot and put it into the Zhou family's sack, and then their people will transport it back by car.Almost half of the entire Taoyuan Village is planted with his family's land, so the manager of the Zhou family brought people to drive the car around to collect rent.

As for the government's rent, Lizheng led people to weigh it, and put it in sacks when it was measured, and then sent it to the county, and the county government sent people to the government's granary to deliver it.Originally, every household had to deliver by themselves, but it was impossible for every household to have a car. Later, it was changed to Lizheng to organize vehicles to be delivered to the county government.

Lizheng in Taoyuan Village is also from the Zhou family, so the rent from both sides will be collected by Zhou Jian, the head of the Zhou family.

Xiuyao originally wanted to follow them to see how they collect rent, and also to learn about ancient weights and measures, to see those stones, buckets, Sheng, He, etc., but in the early morning of the next day, Mrs. Zhang took the broom again. Broomstick knocked on the house, "Get up, get up."

Qin Dafu got up and went to the field, and said to Zhang: "Mother, let the children sleep more, these days, they have been tossing enough, anyway, the wheat ears in the field are all picked up."

Mrs. Zhang shouted: "Why don't you sleep, who is not tired? Our family has finished picking up, and there are other people's. Go, go and gather the wheat." Yes, Mrs. Zhang drove Xiuyao and the others to gather wheat.

The second aunt and the third aunt didn't need their help in the field, so they continued to hoe the cotton fields, not only for loosening the soil and weeding, but also for preventing pests. At the same time, if there were insects and moths, they could be caught as soon as possible.

Now Xiurong can cook at home again, but Xiuyao can't, and she doesn't want to be with Xiumei and the others, so she sets off by herself with a hemp rope and an old bag on her back.

Now the wheat fields are basically harvested, and the crops in cotton, sorghum and other places have not yet risen. At a glance, the field of vision is wide and there is almost no obstacle.

The blue sky and white clouds, the birds flying low, and the farmers busy in the field make people feel refreshed.

After busy spring planting and wheat harvesting, the current Xiuyao has been honed. Picking up wheat is nothing but rest.

She found a few stubble fields in a row, and they were all clean, not to mention the ears of wheat, and there was not a single straw. It seemed that everyone's life was not so easy.After walking for a long time, she picked up a small bag, tied it with straw, and then tied it up with hemp rope.

Xiuyao picked it up as she walked, and walked a long way without knowing it. Suddenly, she saw a round thing, "Wow, watermelon?" Xiuyao hurried over and found a watermelon growing in the wheat field. There are actually a few watermelons that are not too big or too small, and they are still flower skins.

Looking at this watermelon, although it is not produced in a serious melon field, the ancient watermelon is naturally free of pesticides, fertilizers and leavening agents. Even wild ones are delicious.Thinking of the bright red flesh and sweet juice of the watermelon, she felt that she was extremely thirsty.She looked around, but there was no one around, and it wasn't a watermelon field. She ate for nothing, so she stepped forward and picked a watermelon, which was much smaller than the normal melons.

"Bang bang bang" three times in a row, finally cracked a little, and melon juice flowed out, with a faint sweet taste, Xiuyao swallowed, and hurriedly put the watermelon on her knees, "Kacha "It split open.

"Ah? It turned out to be yellow flesh," Xiuyao looked a little disappointed, but she was too embarrassed, and she was reluctant to let it go. Didn't get a bite of it.

She lowered her head and took a bite, um, it's not that unpalatable, at least it's still sweet, with the taste of watermelon, compared to those hormone melons that look bright red but don't taste like watermelon, it's still delicious.

After a while, she ate one melon, and looked at the rest, she couldn't eat it, but if she kept it, someone would definitely pick it up.

If it was in the past, she wouldn't be tempted by these few watermelons, but now, she can't wait to dig out the roots, but that's unrealistic, she didn't bring tools, and it's impossible for the melons to be transplanted.

Not very familiar, stay?If you leave it, it will be gone, and you won’t be able to eat it when it’s cooked.

If you're not familiar with it, you're not familiar with it. After a few seconds of ideological struggle, Xiuyao picked off a section of the watermelon and even the vines, and carried it to her own wheat pile.When the wheat was almost picked up, and it was almost noon, she put together the wheat she had picked up, and there was also a bundle, and she couldn't handle the watermelon.

But if she threw it away, she was really reluctant, so she carried two of them, and dragged the remaining one on the back of the rope with her shoulders. When she arrived at her cotton field, she saw her second sister hoeing the ground, and she put down the watermelon bag. Shouted: "Second Sister, Second Sister!"

Xiuxian heard the voice, looked around, saw a small figure waving at her at the side of the road, she recognized it was Xiuyao, she thought that Xiuyao was not feeling well, so she walked out quickly with a hoe.

When they reached the ground, Xiuxian looked at the three watermelons at Xiuyao's feet, and shouted in surprise, "Little sister, where did you get the watermelons?"

Xiuyao grinned and said, "Oh, I'm so exhausted, Second Sister, I'll give you this, I can't carry it anymore, I'm so exhausted." That one must be more unfamiliar, otherwise it wouldn't break after dragging it all the way. Ha ha.

As soon as Xiuxian heard that there were melons to eat, she threw the hoe, squatted down, picked up watermelons and knocked one by one, and after knocking, she chose one, "This is it." As she said, she smashed her fist, and with a "pop", the melon split. The red melon juice flowed all over my hands.

Xiuyao rushed forward, "Wow, it turned out to be familiar, I want it too."

Xiu Xian glanced at her, "You don't know if the melon you got is ripe or not, where did it come from?"

Xiuyao said with a smile: "I pick the wheat in a field."

Xiu Xian said, "Little sister, you are stealing melons."

Xiuyao hurriedly waved her hands and said, "No, it's just one in the wheat field, it should be a wild melon."

Xiu Xian let out a groan, and said with a smile, "It's not wild, it probably came from the dung heap."

Xiuyao was gnawing on that piece of melon, it was sweet and delicious, it was the best melon she had eaten in her two lifetimes, upon hearing this, she felt something was wrong, "Ah, it's in the dung?"

Xiuxian said, "Why, you don't eat it? What's the matter with the dung? Which one of our family's food is not made of dung, it's a fake fairy!"

Xiuyao chuckled, and Xiuxian said again: "Look at this melon, it's juicy and juicy, don't think about it, the one that grows in dung is delicious, if you don't add dung as a base fertilizer, this melon will not grow vigorously. "

Xiuyao nodded, and said to herself: What are you being hypocritical about? You're going to starve to death. In this era, there is no chemical fertilizer, and the crops are a flower, but they all rely on dung to manage their households, so... there is nothing to be hypocritical about.

When the meal was almost finished, the second aunt and the third aunt also came over, Xiuxian wanted to give them the half, but the second aunt said angrily, "Er Man, are you lazy here? Ah, where did you get the melons? Where did you steal it?"

Xiuxian rolled her eyes, hum, I'll give you food, you are so beautiful, and by the way, even the third aunt is gone, she said with a smile: "Second lady, why do you care so much, no one is screaming for beating and killing Said we stole melons." Then he broke off the remaining half and handed it to Xiuyao, "Little sister, you eat."

The third aunt laughed and said, "Why don't we have any?"

Xiuxian snorted, "We stole this. If you eat it, someone will call you, and you will have to bear the burden."

The second aunt said mockingly: "It's a good idea." She pulled the third aunt and left.

After eating the watermelon, Xiuxian said to Xiuyao, "Let's go, go eat at home."

Walking halfway, Xiuyao whispered in embarrassment: "Second sister, I want to go to the latrine." The watermelon is cold, and they haven't eaten it for a long time, how can they resist eating two at once? Not so much.

Xiuxian laughed and said, "You squeamish little girl. Go away, I have a good place." People who don't want to go to the bathroom with pigs at home will come out to find a place to solve it, although Mrs. Zhang once scolded them for being poor. There is no such thing as outsider fields, but there is no such thing as beating and cursing, so it will be like that over time.

Xiuxian also picked some leaves for her.

After returning home, Xiurong and the others were really salivating for the melon that Xiuyao brought back. After Zhang asked the name, she didn't steal it but picked it up, and said: "Put it there, and eat it in a few days."

Is this considered a payment?Xiuyao was dumbfounded. She took it back to improve her brothers and sisters. If she had known this would happen, she would have better hide it outside.She said: "Mommy, this melon is not ripe, and it's not grown by other people. We ate one and it was still white."

Mrs. Zhang was a little upset when she heard that they ate one. The second aunt was about to say something, but the third aunt hurriedly grabbed her. Mammy couldn't beat her with that.

The second aunt didn't make a sound. When Zhang heard this, she hesitated for a moment, and said: "Then let's put it in the well water and eat it later."

Qin Chan and Qin Xian rushed over, happily picked up the watermelon and dipped it, the watermelon at home hadn't been eaten yet, they were really afraid that it would be spoiled, but the mother wouldn't let it be eaten, and no one dared to touch it.

While eating, Xiujuan said: "Mommy, it's almost impossible to find any wheat now, we've traveled a long way."

Mrs. Zhang scolded: "That's because you are lazy. If you can't pick it up, go further away. If you can't pick it up, how did Xiuyao pick it up?" Xiuyao picked up a few more wheat than Xiujuan, and even picked up two watermelons. For these delicious and lazy little hooves, if Maizi didn't pick up a few trees, he must be lazy and refused to go far.

Old Qintou heard it and said: "Basically every family has picked it up, and the ones who haven't picked it up are watched. If you don't want to pick it up, just mow the grass. Anyway, you have to mow the grass and fertilize it."

Xiujuan and the others were upset again, and Xiumei immediately said: "Let's pick up the wheat, let's go far away." Naturally, picking up the wheat is lighter.

Mrs. Zhang said again: "If you follow Xiuyao, how can she pick it up. If there are many people, we can help each other, and if we can't carry it, we can share the burden and carry it back."

Xiumei pursed her mouth, but she didn't dare to answer back, and Xiuyao didn't want to be with them, and she didn't dare to say anything, lest she would be scolded.

After the meal, I took a little rest and ate the two watermelons that were not very ripe, and the sisters went out to pick up wheat.Xiuyao wanted to go west, but they headed east. They couldn't walk for more than two miles, and everyone was about to part ways.

Xiuyao shouted: "Don't go to the north, it belongs to Zhou Xiaoli's family, grandpa said, you are not allowed to go there."

Xiumei snorted: "You want to take care of it? His family's land is going to the north, it's not here at all, don't follow us, go by yourself." She and her sister found a place in the morning, and they didn't have to go anywhere. If you can pick up some, you don't need too much anyway, just take it back and fool around, you won't be tired at all, so you won't let Xiuyao follow.

And Xiuyao didn't want to follow them either, so she went east on her own.

She didn't even walk a few fields, she just had to go to the northeast corner, there was a little bit more there, when she was picking up wheat, she heard someone shout: "Xiuyao!" It was a male voice, she vaguely heard it as it was As for the second brother, he straightened up and turned around to see a person standing there on the ground not far away, it was not the second brother.

Xiuyao muttered a bit, and saw another horse—it was Qi Feng!

Xiuyao hesitated for a while, then walked over, and saw Qi Feng wearing a bamboo green gown with a copper tube on his back, looking at her with a half-smile.

This posture, it seems that the two are very familiar, Xiuyao is surprised, why is he smiling at her?Do you have any bad thoughts?
(End of this chapter)