The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 38

Father Su picked up the sweet potato and wanted to eat it.

Su Ho looked at it and shouted, "Father, no, no, the skin of this sweet potato is not edible, you have to peel it off." He picked up a sweet potato as a demonstration.

Father Su was a little embarrassed, coughed, followed Su Ho's example and peeled off the skin in a decent manner, and started to eat.

"That's right. It's quite delicious. You can control your hunger. If the harvest is good, you can make a variety of them. It's much more delicious than those sorghums." Father Su ate three of them in a row, and wanted to eat one more.

Su Ling saw it, "Father, this sweet potato is hard to digest, so don't eat too much at night." According to her father's way of eating, she doesn't have to sleep at night, and she will definitely be supported.

"Father, look, this sweet potato can be harvested, let's get some sweet potatoes sometime! Otherwise, it will spoil in the field after a while!" Su Ling said.

"Well, it's just that there are so many sweet potatoes in these four acres, and our family doesn't have enough hands!" When it came to harvesting sweet potatoes, Su's mother immediately thought that the child's father was the only one who could work in the family, and she could also be counted as one. Not at home, the two little ones can't do any work.

"Mother is right, it's just that it's not convenient for too many people to know about the harvest of sweet potatoes, why don't we invite grandpa and grandma! Call Uncle Li! Uncle Li's family is also harvesting, and there is not much work to do in the field now , grandpa and grandma will definitely be willing to help." Su Ling suggested.

"You child, you are going to trouble your grandparents again. They are getting old, why don't we hire someone!" Su's father felt sorry for bothering his grandparents to collect some things at home.

"I think what Ling'er said is right. Although we planted this sweet potato, at least this kind of sweet potato is not ours, but someone else's Tianyue Restaurant. When the time comes, I should tell her and ask her grandparents to help! Now at home There's nothing to do, and you can bring Caiyun and Jianlin over to play, He'er has been talking about this cousin Jianlin lately!" Su's mother made a final decision.

Seeing Su's mother say this, Su's father couldn't object. He felt sorry for the two old people. At worst, he should work harder. Who would let him spoil his wife!
Two days later, Su Ling's grandfather Wang Mu came over with his wife Li Shi and grandson Wang Jianlin and grandson Wang Caiyun.

Su Ho was very happy to see his cousin, and kept calling "Cousin, cousin."

Wang Mu looked at the several adobe houses in his daughter's house, and said to Su's father that the house should be repaired, or how to keep out the cold in winter.

"Yes, yes, father-in-law, we are planning to build a new house after harvesting the sweet potatoes, and then you can come and help." Su's father kept saying yes, and he also knew that the house at home should be repaired, but he has been busy during this time.

Mrs. Li brought pomegranates, pears and red dates from the fruit trees at home to Su Ling's family. Su Ling had a soft spot for the red pomegranates, so he ate two of them in one go.

During dinner, the family discussed the matter of digging sweet potatoes by name. If one person digs with a hoe, they don't know how long it will take to harvest.

Su Ling has a way, but he is afraid that Su's father and the others will not be able to grasp it, but he is afraid that they will ruin the sweet potatoes if they fail.

Su's father looked at Su Ling, and she also knew that this daughter has always had a lot of ideas and loves to read books, so maybe she can come up with something!
Seeing Su's father looking at her, Su Ling said: "There will be a way, but you need an ox and a plow. I'm afraid you won't be able to grasp it."

"If it's a cow, your grandfather came here in a bullock cart. He pulled one, but I'm afraid it's not enough. We can borrow it from Grandpa Niu and give the money when the time comes!" Su's father now also realizes that perhaps the family really should Bought a cattle.

The next day, Su's father borrowed a ox and a plow to install them. Wang Mu's ox didn't have a plow, so he went to Lizheng's house to borrow one. plow.

Su's mother and Li's each picked a pair of big baskets, while Su Ling and Su He took the baskets. When they arrived at the sweet potato field, Su Ling first instructed Su's father to practice a few times in the open space next to him, thinking that it would be ok. I went to the field to try it out, because the sweet potato field is one ridge by one ridge, and the ridges are relatively small. You only need to pull the plow under the ridge to plow a little deeper, and the sweet potatoes will be exposed, and then they can work behind them. I picked up sweet potatoes.

Su's father and Wang Mu used the plow, while Su's mother and Li followed with Su Ling and Su He to meet the sweet potatoes. Uncle Li and Aunt Li also came to help, but they didn't have the plow. Auntie separated the sweet potatoes from the vines one by one on the field. Aunt Li watched Su Ling and Su He's hard work picking sweet potatoes, so she specially changed jobs, while Uncle Li picked two baskets of sweet potatoes that had already been prepared. go back.

The hard work of the few people is still very rewarding. Su Ling's family has harvested more than half of the sweet potatoes in one day, and the rest will be harvested with Uncle Li's family tomorrow. It was indispensable, so Su Ling and Su He picked up some green sweet potato seedlings and fed them to them so that they could work harder tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Su Ling's family got up early again to collect sweet potatoes. When they arrived at the field, they found that Uncle Li and Aunt Li had arrived earlier, and even Uncle Li's three sons had come.

"Brother Li, Second Brother Li, Xiaozhi." Su Ling greeted. Although they lived in the same village, they didn't have many chances to meet each other. Uncle Li's son had been doing odd jobs outside as an apprentice before, and now Xiaocao went to the town. Thanks to the help, Su Ling went to Uncle Li's house even less.

On the other hand, Li Xiaozhi cheerfully asked, "Sister Ling!"

The brothers of the Li family were usually the ones who didn't talk much, after saying hello, they didn't have much to say. Seeing that work started over there, they went down to pick up sweet potatoes with their baskets, while Su Ling brought Su He and Xiao Zhi to the fields Remove the sweet potato seedlings and put the sweet potatoes into baskets.

Originally, there was not much work left, but soon Su Ling’s family finished plowing. When they arrived at Uncle Li’s, Wang Mu and Su’s father divided the labor and started plowing from both ends. In less than an hour, Uncle Li’s also finished plowing. .

Su Ling's side was almost cleaned up. Su's father and Wang Mu picked up two baskets of sweet potatoes and walked back. Su Ling took Su He and Xiaozhi to carry the sweet potato seedlings to the big yellow cow to eat, while Su's mother and Aunt Li was picking sweet potatoes.

Su's father and Wang Mu walked a few times, and finally picked the sweet potatoes back to play. Uncle Li's family is large, and with the help of Su's mother, it is almost done. A group of people packed up their things and went back. Su Ling Su He and Su Ho were making a big yellow ox, Su Ling was still humming happily, Su's father and Wang Mu followed behind each carrying a plow, Su's mother and Li's straddled these baskets.

Home.

Su Ling looked at half a room of sweet potatoes piled up in the utility room and showed a knowing smile. This is the result of her hard work for several months!She also counted on these sweet potatoes to earn a fortune!

Father Su was also happy seeing so many sweet potatoes, so he immediately borrowed the scale and wanted to weigh it, to see if the output was as high as Su Ling said, but looking at the half of the sweet potatoes in the room, he didn't need to weigh them, and he knew it was probably the same. What Su Ling said was almost done, but after borrowing the scale, it was still over-scaled in the end.

(End of this chapter)