Reborn farm girl

Chapter 69

Regardless of whether we grow watermelons or not, how we grow them will be a matter of next year.But now the most important thing is to harvest rice. Harvesting rice at this time is not as good as modern times. There is no threshing machine, let alone a harvester, and everything is done manually.This year is the first year after the separation of the family, and Song Lao Er bought some fields and planted rice.The situation of Liuya's family is here, only Song Laoer is such a strong laborer, plus He's, the others are not very useful.

There are many fields in the family, few people, and I am afraid that God will not show face. If it rains, the rice in the field will sprout, which will be a big waste.What to do, in the end, you can only hire someone with money like the Zhang family.At this time, everyone is busy harvesting rice, and people are not so easy to please.

Although it's not easy to invite people, but in the end I did.After all, there are families with many people and few lands.The conditions have been negotiated, [-] Wen a day, including the lunch at noon.It is said that the landlord’s family hires part-time labor for the same price, but they don’t care about the noon meal.

Even if it's a part-time worker helping to harvest rice, Liuya's family doesn't care about anything, just treat it as a shopkeeper.When the rice was taken back, Mrs. He took three ya, four ya, five ya and several people to claw out the shady grass inside the millet (when the millet was threshing, some straw was mixed with the millet).Erya took Liuya and Qiya to make lunch.

After three days of busy work, the rice was finally harvested.The millet has just been brought into the house here, and the second son of Song and the He family are in a hurry to help old man Song collect it.This group of old men harvesting rice is not only Song Laoer and his wife, but several brothers together. After all, Song Laoman is not Song Laoer's father alone.

The woman cuts the grain with a sickle, and the men are so strong that they use all their strength to remove the grain and then pick it back up.

"It's better for the second sister-in-law's family. All the millet has been taken back. This year, the second sister-in-law's family has such a good harvest. I'm afraid there will be dry rice every day in the future." Li said, thumping his back with his hands.For farmers like them, eating white rice every day is a great thing.

"It's as good as you said there. I have a lot of people in my family. After paying the tax, there is not much grain left." Mrs. He said modestly.

Mrs. Li curled her lips when she heard this, and wanted to say something, but seeing Song Laosan on the other side glared at her, she didn't dare to say anything more.There is actually a reason why Mrs. Li became so honest.Mrs. Li is a lazy person. Before the separation, there was Lin's and He's helping to do some work, but this time when the family is separated, Li's third son will work outside, and will go out to do small jobs from time to time when he is free.All the housework fell on Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Li is also lazy, she doesn't sweep the house once every ten days and half a month, the rice bowls she eats are piled up in a pile, and the changed clothes are not washed.Song Laosan came back from working outside and was already tired. When he came back and saw the unworthy home, he must feel uncomfortable. After a long period of time, he finally broke out one day. Song Laosan beat up Li Shi severely. To be honest, Liu Ya used to look down on men who beat women, but some people, if you don't beat her, she will behave badly.

Maybe Li Shi was beaten hard that time, so now whenever she sees Song Laosan glaring at her, Li Shi doesn't dare to talk nonsense anymore.

He and the others went to the fields, and Liuya and the others had no time to relax.The older ones will go to the fields together, and the younger ones will either lead others at home or help Mrs. Song and Zhang cook.

Originally, old man Song gave Song and Zhang [-] Wen last night, saying that his son and daughter-in-law would help harvest the rice, and asked her to buy some meat.She promised well at first, but forgot in a blink of an eye.There is only one reason, and that is reluctance.

Liuya is helping Mrs. Song and Zhang cook at home, it's not that Liuya looks down on Mrs. Song and Zhang, it's really speechless.The son and daughter-in-law are here to help you make a living, let alone eat meat, let's cook this dry rice for them.It's Fermi who cooks dry rice, but it's not every day. Watching her cook porridge, Liu Ya curls her lips.

Finally, when old man Song came back at noon, looking at the dishes on the table, old man Song's face turned dark on the spot.Mrs. Song and Zhang fried a water spinach, a loofah, and boiled more than half a pot of winter melon.But with so many people in the family, this bowl of boring eggs can be scooped up by one person with one spoon.

But no matter how dark old Song's face is, he can't do anything to Song and Zhang, he can only invite everyone to eat.And the others saw that today's food was not affected, and they probably knew that even if they came to help, the Song and Zhang family would not make anything delicious.

Song Lao Er and the others didn't say anything, but Liu Ya had a lot of opinions in her heart.The food her family hires for short-term labor is better than this at noon, because she knows that only when these people are full will they have the strength to work.And threshing millet is a heavy job, if you don't eat well, you will have strength.Feeling sorry for the family again, she became cruel in the end, and didn't say hello to Song Lao Er and the others, so she went home and killed two stews.Song Zhang doesn't feel sorry for her son and daughter-in-law, but she also loves her parents.

After harvesting the millet, there is no time to spare. Song Lao Er has to sell jelly every morning, and He Shi also has to dig the field early.It's been a busy day and night.

That night, the family had just had dinner when the three members of Mr. Song's family came.

"Brother, is sister-in-law ready for dinner?" Song Lao Er hurriedly beckoned them to sit down.

"I've already eaten." Boss Song was someone who couldn't beat a fart with three sticks, so he sat on the side and didn't speak after answering.But Da Ya was sent to play with Er Ya and the others.Song Boss and Song Lao Er were chatting about this year's harvest in the main room, while Lin Shi and He Shi were also chatting about family affairs there.

"Second brother and sister, I came to you today because I have something to ask for your help." Mrs. Lin talked to Mrs. He for a long time, and finally said.

"Sister-in-law, tell me what's the matter, as long as I can help, I will definitely help." As soon as He asked her to help, he agreed without saying a word.Lin and He's two sisters-in-law have been together for more than ten years, and they have never blushed once.One is because both of them are honest people, and the other is because neither of them had a son, so there is a feeling of pity for each other.

"Second brother and sister, I want to buy a few piglets to feed, but my family doesn't have enough money, so I want to come to your house to borrow some money." Lin said a little embarrassed.Since the separation, the life of the second child's family has become better day by day, Lin is very envious.Look at Ho's, they raise chickens and fish.Lin just wanted to feed something, to make her life better.

She and Boss Song have only one daughter in total. After her daughter gets married, her natal family will not have a brother to support her. This is a fact that cannot be changed.Since they can't change it, they have to start from the other side.After much deliberation, I can only prepare more dowry for Da Ya, so that she can be tougher on her mother-in-law in the future.These words are naturally not easy to say to He Shi.

"This is a good thing. Sister-in-law, how much do you want to borrow, but, as you know, the family doesn't have any more." Mrs. He readily agreed.

"I don't need to borrow too much, just borrow one or two. I just think that the second half of the year will not be as busy as the first half, and the sweet potatoes will grow in the field. By then, I will not worry about having nothing to feed the pigs."

"That's the reason. I've wanted to feed a few pigs a long time ago. Not to mention anything else, killing one to eat during the Chinese New Year will save a lot of money. If you don't feed the pigs, it would be a waste to put the sweet potato vines in the field." He thought After thinking about it, Lin felt that what she said was right.There will be more time in the second half of the year, and there are sweet potato vines in the field again, so there is no need to go out to hunt hogweed.

Mrs. He chatted with Mrs. Lin for a while, and then went home with the money.

As soon as Mr. Song's family of three left, Mrs. He told Mrs. Lin about borrowing money.He also told her about feeding the pigs.

"Mother is right, we should also catch a few piglets and bring them back to feed." Liuya was the first to nod in agreement. She was not thinking about selling money, but thinking about killing the New Year pigs during the Chinese New Year. Can be stuffed with sausage.

"If you are too busy to come, you can feed me." Song Lao Er had no objection either.

A few days later, Mrs. He and Mrs. Lin each caught three heads and came back.When this little piglet was first caught, he was not used to living in a pigsty.So, in the first few days, I had to pass the door and leave someone to watch, and use a rattle (broken bamboo pole) to teach it where to defecate and pee.

You must be very patient in doing this. If you are impatient, you will not be able to stay for a moment, so Mrs. He left this matter to the patient Erya.

"It's been a few days, why doesn't it rain. If it doesn't rain any more, vegetables won't be able to be grown." Mrs. He dug out the vegetable field and waited for the rain to sow the seeds, but first and second When it stopped raining, Mrs. He complained several times.

"Don't worry, it's so hot these days, I think the rain will fall in these two days, and then you can plant as much as you want." Song Laoer is not worried at all.

"Father, we only plant one field, is there enough to eat in winter?" Liu Ya is not worried about the rain, but she is a little worried that there will be no vegetables to eat in winter.

Song Laoer laughed and said, "Liuya, you don't know about this. Before our family separated, there were few people in this land, and this field had to be left to grow wheat. It would be like now Take a piece of land to grow vegetables. We are such a big family, we just grow vegetables on our own plots, and that’s how we came here back then.

Indeed, compared with the past, it must be a heaven and an earth.

Song Lao Er was right, the rain came the next day, and it took a whole day and night for the rain to stop.As soon as the rain stopped, Mrs. He kept sowing seeds and planting vegetables, and was very busy for a while.

(End of this chapter)