After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Min and her mother became busy. What were they busy with?
Making sweet potato vermicelli, her family also has to do a serious side job, so that the money can come from.
Damai brought her sister to help.
Ouyang Meihua also came to help, she can light the fire.
Li Rongguo was busy working on more than three acres of land in the south by himself, which was very relaxing.
While her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were busy at home, Tian Jing and she went to the mountains to do their work.
The rice in the mountains is ripe.
Li Zhengguo still refused to let Tian Jing bend down to harvest.
Tian Jing simply gave birth to part of the cotton. She could always pick cotton while standing.
Yes, yes, it's really tiring to pick it off.
After drying the cotton on the Qingsong Rock and surrounding it with folding mats, Tian Jing lazed about, doing farm work was too tiring.
She hasn't done much yet.
From the wheat harvest in July to mid-September now, the members have almost no idle time.
If cotton couldn't be picked with supernatural powers, she really wouldn't want to suffer this.
Looking at the man sweating profusely in the hot spring, Tian Jing felt heartbroken.
She wanted to help, but Li Zhengguo refused.
"You used your supernatural powers to pull them out, and I have to cut off the roots. Otherwise, if Mom and Minmin come up and see it, how will you explain it?"
"Then I'll break it from the root, at a length like yours."
"Then what? Do I bend down and pick them up one by one?"
"No need, just use the superpower to roll it into a pile."
"Tiantian." Li Zhengguo pulled the person helplessly, "The straw needs to be tied neatly into bundles. Don't you want straw to make a straw curtain?"
"Then pull it out by the roots, cut it up and bind it up."
Seeing that Tiantian insisted on helping, Li Zhengguo could only agree.
The rice on the four acres of land was quickly covered with Qingsongyan.
Looking at the weather, Li Zhengguo decided not to harvest tonight and left the rice stalks piled upright on the big rock.
The next day, Li's mother Li Min was ordered by her son (eldest brother) to put down her side job and go into the mountains with them.
Going into the mountains? OK.
Mother Li and Li Min quickly tidied up the things at hand, went into the house to tidy up their clothes, and came out carrying baskets on their backs.
After handing the house over to Chen Suozhu, the family of four set off.
Seeing the grass sprouts on the edge of the field, Mother Li felt sorry for her son, "Why didn't you wait for us to pull it out?"
"I'll pull it out while the ground is wet. Your job is to pick cotton."
The cotton is completely spun, but Tiantian ripened it when she went down the mountain yesterday.
Seeing a field of snow-white cotton in full bloom, Mother Li could no longer feel sorry for her son, "Minmin, pick it quickly. There are so many, it will take two days to pick them."
Li Min was also happy, "Brother and sister-in-law, will I have my new quilt this winter?"
Without waiting for her son and daughter-in-law to reply, Mother Li answered her daughter, "Yes, there must be. I looked at the cotton output of these two acres of land. There are five to six hundred kilograms of seed cotton. After removing the cotton seeds, there must be more than two hundred kilograms of lint.
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"Not only yours, but also your nephew's, and those in the cave above. You hurry up and do something. There are too many things. I wish I had ten hands."
Li Min looked at his eldest brother, "Do you want to bring brother Suo Zhu?"
Li Zhengguo glared at his sister, "How dare you go out and give it a try?"
Li Min was busy doing things with her head down, didn't she feel that she was too busy?
Li's mother also criticized her daughter, "Suozhu is your husband, but he is always an outsider to us, and there is his grandfather. He tells his grandfather everything. As people grow older, they can guess something without knowing it."
Li Min quickly raised her head and explained, "Mom, I just feel too busy. I have nothing else on my mind."
"Mom, I know, if you have other thoughts, can you still stay here well? Your elder brother and sister-in-law will not treat you badly. What you deserve will be kept for you. You should keep what you get for your children.
He is also worthy of his Chen family."
"I know." Li Min picked cotton happily.
Li Zhengguo also carried a basket into the fields to pick.
Tian Jing was picking at the outside slowly. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were there, so there was no need to bend down, so she still had to help with some of the work.
It took two and a half days of continuous picking before the cotton was finished.
Mother Li rubbed her arms and looked at the cotton drying in front of the cave, smiling from ear to ear. The cotton was enough to last her family for several years.
What's more, there is more than an acre of land in the village where cotton is interplanted, and the cotton bolls are already splitting and about to burst out.
She estimated that she had about two hundred kilograms of seed cotton. Haha, with grain and cotton, she had nothing to fear.
All afternoon, she kept pulling at cotton flowers and turning over piles of cotton. The wind was strong on this big rock, and it was a sunny day. She worked quickly by turning over cotton flowers.
"Zhengguo, the weather is very good these days. You have to dry it frequently and dry it frequently. If it is not dried well, it will become moldy, and it will turn black if it becomes moldy."
"On this big rock, three or four days is enough. If you are busy, just ask Tiantian to send me in. You can pick me up again in the evening. I can make some quilts by the way."
With cotton in hand, Mother Li put aside her side business.
Li Zhengguo agreed, "It's better for my mother to take care of it here. I happen to be making a cottonseed separator, and I will also urge the lock column to plow the ground."
"Yeah, yeah, I'll do it, I'll do it." Mother Li felt relieved. She just didn't feel at ease if she didn't do it herself.
Li Min, who had just taken a shower and was brought in by her sister-in-law, asked, "What about me?"
"You and Suozhu are doing things together." Mother Li criticized her daughter angrily, "I think you have been in the mountains and wild fields in the past two days."
"Hehe, it's so nice here, the temperature is right, Xiao Hei is also very good, he still remembers me."
"What you're actually thinking about is that it's convenient to eat meat here, right?"
The meat in the kitchen cave on the right has decreased a lot in the past two days, and Mother Li felt distressed just looking at it.
"Mom, it's rare to eat meat without any scruples, so I took a few more bites."
"Don't you worry about the lock pillar anymore?"
"Didn't Big Brother ask me to take two pieces of meat with me? I didn't lose anything to him."
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Unable to go up the mountain, Li Min had no choice but to plow the fields with her husband. Fortunately, there were donkeys in the village. Otherwise, she and Brother Suozhu would have to dig all by hand.
Li Zhengguo is busy making a cottonseed separator.
Tian Jing sent her mother-in-law up the mountain every day, carried water, and told Xiao Hei to pay attention to her mother-in-law's needs before going down the mountain with confidence.
For four days in a row, the cotton, softened by the sun, was folded and circled on the kang in the cave on the left.
In the past four days, Mother Li also threshed the rice, beating and threshing it slowly by hand.
After drying in the sun, she also put it into the mat folded in the cave on the left. Her face was wrinkled with a smile.
Tian Jing felt sorry for her mother-in-law who was tired, "Mom, I will shoot two pheasants in a while and make soup for you to replenish your health."
Mother Li wanted to refuse, but she looked at her daughter-in-law's belly and agreed, "Okay, we will make up for it together."
Of course, pheasants will deduct work points. Some people are envious. They also want to eat meat. After harvesting for a summer, they are exhausted and have no food in their stomachs.
But Li Zhengguo no longer talked about going hunting, and the Li family was not short of meat. If they wanted to eat, they would go up to the mountains to hunt pheasants and hares, and the team owed his family a lot of work points.
Li Zhengguo is very busy, how can he have time to care about other people's stomachs?
He finished the cottonseed separator and took it into the mountains to install one. His mother went to the mountains again to get busy.
Tian Jing followed him into the mountains to make chicken soup.
She just hunted two pheasants and went down the mountain, and the members of the commune were all green-eyed. She simply stewed them all at once and ate them with the whole family. Then she followed her mother-in-law into the mountains and made soup for her mother-in-law.
Mother Li used her foot and hand to control a machine that was normal to her, but to Tian Jing it was a very old and time-consuming machine.