The grand lady who time-traveled became a hot mom

Chapter 63

Soon it will be the season of autumn harvest. Every household in Linjia Village has stopped making sweet potato flour and is actively preparing for the autumn harvest.

Farmers pay great attention to each festival. There is no observatory here. They can only rely on the experience of the predecessors and stick to the festivals to do what they should, especially the sowing and harvesting of crops.I'm afraid that once the festival is over and the rain comes, the crops will suffer.

Fang Yumin and Lin Qiulai have already made preparations, because the vegetable garden in the front yard of the family has expanded, a cowshed and a rabbit shed have been built in the backyard, and a sweet potato field has been reclaimed. There is really no place to dry rice and corn.

Although there is a lot of sand and wood piled up on the ground of the new circle, it is large enough, and a large area can be vacated as a drying ground just by cleaning it up.

Before Lin Qiulai had time to hire a worker, Dabao and Xiaobao's father and mother, and Xiaozhu's father and elder brother all said they would come to help, so that they would not have to hire someone to do it.It is estimated that Xiaoyang and Xiaoming inadvertently let out a breath when they went to school.

Fang Yumin heard Xiao Ming's message, and said to Lin Qiu: "I'm most afraid of this! It's very troublesome to hire a small worker and pay a day's work for a day's work. It's good to have a clear distinction between public and private. They come to work and don't charge money. .We can't let people work for nothing."

"Well, but they said they want to come and we can't directly refuse their kindness. Let's make an agreement with them first. The wages will be 20 Wen a day, including two meals. Our family has seven acres of land and five people work it. It can be collected in about three or four days." Lin Qiulai suggested.

"Okay then, go talk to them."

But in the end, Xiaozhu's father and elder brother, Dabao and Xiaobao's parents thought of Fang Yumin and Lin Qiulai's kindness without any money, and came here early to prepare for the autumn harvest.

Because Wangjia Village was submerged by floods, the crops had already been destroyed.Now they are just digging the ground and waiting to plant rough crops such as autumn wheat, potatoes and sweet potatoes.The busy farming is no longer their business. People in Wangjia Village either build houses at home and dig the land, or do small jobs to earn some money.

Fang Yumin never thought of asking others to work in vain.If you don’t pay, you can return it in other ways, such as food.Farmers are not short of food, but people who lost their homes in the floods need food most.

Lin Qiulai planned to harvest the corn first, and then the rice.Everyone is used to doing farm work, and they are quick and able to endure hardships. With the help of ox carts to transport them back and forth, they took back four acres of corn in two days.

Fang Yumin didn't go to the field, she stayed at home to cook and do housework.Xiao Ming and Xiao Yang moved a small bench and sat in the yard to peel off the corn cobs.Soon there was a pile of cornclothes on the ground, and there was a large pile of yellow corn in the corner, which looked festive.

Going to harvest corn in this hot day, Lin Qiulai's exposed faces, necks, and arms were scratched several times by corn leaves, and the clothes on their bodies were wet and dry. Hard.

Mung bean soup and mint tea are cooked every morning, and they pick them up when they go to the fields, and drink them as water when they are thirsty, which can not only quench their thirst but also prevent heat stroke, killing two birds with one stone.

Fang Yumin was not stingy, butchered three fat chickens and braised them with potatoes, stewed coriander tofu fish soup to relieve the heat, and steamed the dried fish last time with pork belly and fresh peanuts.No matter what, she wants to make everyone have a good meal!

"Daughter-in-law Qiulai, the dishes you cook are really delicious." Dabao's mother could not help but praise.Except for her and Fang Yumin, there are all big and small men here.

"Yes, yes, there is so much meat." Dabao's father, Xiaozhu's father and elder brother also nodded while eating. They didn't expect to come to help and eat so well, it was more abundant than the New Year's meal.This big piece of meat, this fresh and sweet fish soup, even the rice is dried sweet potato rice!Sometimes when I think about it, picking up the children back home made the children suffer along with them.

"Thank you, everyone has worked hard. Don't be polite when you eat." Fang Yumin said with a smile, and Lin Qiulai also grinned and looked at Fang Yumin one after another.

After the meal, everyone helped Qiulai set up corn racks under the eaves, piled up the corn one by one, covered the top with straw and spread oilcloth, so that even if it rained, they would not be afraid of getting wet .Once these corns are dried, they can be flaked and stored or ground into cornmeal one by one.

After two days of hard work, the four acres of corn are all harvested, and the corn stalks are spread out in the field to dry. After a few days, they can be taken back and used as firewood.

The next step is to harvest the rice, which is even more difficult work, really facing the loess and back to the sky.Fang Yumin also bent over to show that she almost couldn't straighten up.

"Everyone, let's take a break. Come, drink some mung bean soup to relieve the heat." Fang Yumin picked up two small cans of mung bean soup and went to the rice field.When Lin Qiu came to see it, he hurried forward to pick it up, and asked everyone to sit down and rest at Tianji.

After drinking the sweet mung bean soup, everyone felt alive again.Xiao Zhu's elder brother, Da Zhu, said with a smile, "Uncle Qiu Lai, the rice in your family grows really well. Look at how full the grains are."

"That's right, your land isn't very fertile, why does it grow so well?" Dabao's father touched the mud and said with emotion.

"The corn in your family is also growing very well. Although the quantity is not very large, the corn cobs are huge."

Everyone started talking like this, although their eyes longed to know what a good way to grow crops, but they didn't mention a word in the conversation afterwards.After resting enough, everyone began to work hard again, harvested and bundled up.Lin Qiulai used the bullock cart to pull the bundles of rice home.

In less than two days, three acres of rice were harvested.In addition, the 35 mu of land is expected to wait two or three months before the harvest period is reached due to the late sowing and seedling transplantation.

On the day when all the farm work was finished, Fang Yumin and Lin Qiulai didn't pay their wages, they just exchanged them for grain for Xiaozhu's father and Dabao's father.After refusing for a while, they finally accepted it, saying that they really needed food for the winter.

Fang Yumin took the opportunity to ask: "Father Xiaozhu, are all the villagers in your village going to work as part-time workers now?"

"Yeah, if you don't go to work to earn some money, this winter will be sad." Dad Xiaozhu said, "The imperial court gave us subsidies, but it was far from enough. Now I just hope that those sweet potatoes can be eaten before the snow falls." A good harvest."

The others nodded and said: "Now I can only do some farm work, and I don't make much money.".

Fang Yumin was overjoyed when she heard that, and pointed to the place outside where the grains were still drying, and said, "Look at that piece of land, we originally surrounded that piece of land to build a house. But we have been too busy all the time. I was busy with that, but I put it aside. Now that the corn and rice at home have been harvested, we want to take advantage of this time to quickly lay the foundation, so that it will be convenient to build walls in the future. Originally, I thought about asking the people in the village for help after the autumn harvest , but now if people in your village are free, you would like to ask seven or eight plasterers or people who can build houses to come and help. The wages and everything can be settled according to the usual practice."

Everyone was very happy to hear that, and hurriedly said: "Okay, now the most important thing in our village is labor. I will go home and ask who will come to do it. Qiu Lai, how many people do you want to hire?"

Fang Yumin said with a smile: "Look at that piece of land, it's quite big. If you want to lay the foundation, ten people are required to work together. How many days is it estimated to be completed?"

"Xiao Zhu's father is the best, go and have a look." Dabao's father said.

Xiao Zhu's father hurriedly stood up when he heard it, and said, "I haven't noticed it before, let's go and have a look together."

So a few people moved to the open space to inspect it. Father Xiao Zhu thought for a while before saying, "Your family doesn't have enough wood for such a large piece of land. If enough wood is cut, it's time to dig the foundation. 10 people work together on the wooden pile, and it is estimated that it will take four to five days."

Dabao's father also said: "Yes, if you want to build a solid building, the amount of wood in your house is still far behind."

Hearing what they said, Fang Yumin asked: "These timbers were all cut by Qiulai, and I, a woman, can't help much. Well, if Xiaozhu's father and elder brother, Dabao's father is free tomorrow, come over and help cut it." Is it? But we still have to calculate the wages, you contribute, and we pay. How about it?"

Those people looked at me and I looked at you, and finally nodded in agreement.

In the evening, Fang Yumin said to Lin Qiu: "You go to Li Zheng's house tomorrow morning, and just say that our family will ask the villagers of Wang's Village to help dig the foundation for our house in a few days."

"Okay, I'll talk about it tomorrow." Lin Qiulai nodded, and asked again: "Is your waist still sore? Why don't I give you a massage? I told you to stop working in the fields a long time ago. You are not in good health." Well, on such a hot day, what if you get sick?"

Fang Yumin lay down obediently, and said, "I just want to try. Press here, it's almost stiff."

"Hmm." Lin Qiulai put his big hands on Fang Yumin's waist, and the warmth through the clothes was quite comfortable.Fang Yumin closed her eyes and enjoyed it for a while before asking: "What are you going to tell the old fox?"

"Just talk about this kind of thing. Now every household in the village is busy with the autumn harvest, and no one stays at home to make sweet potato flour. It is impossible not to agree to this matter."

"Then I will take your word for it."

"Hehe~ Is it comfortable? Do you want to press like this?"

"...Qiu Lai, you, stop making trouble, um~"

"You don't need to move, just lie down and enjoy, and I'll do it."

"..."

The next day Lin Qiulai went to Lin Zhuxin's house and told the story.Lin Zhuxin used to disapprove of Fang Yumin's hiring a small mason from another village to build a house on the grounds of Linjia Village's interests, but now the villagers are indeed busy with harvesting the autumn harvest, and no one can make sweet potato flour during this period.

Lin Zhuxin was quite reluctant in his heart, but he put on a generous face. He knew he couldn't stop it blindly, so he agreed.

(End of this chapter)