Mid-to-late July is the season when early rice matures every year. Places where two crops of rice are planted are often plowed immediately after harvesting the early rice, and then compete for time to plant the late rice. This process is called "double grabbing". Double grabbing means time."
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It is also the hottest period of summer in the year. Fang County has many mountains and trees and a cool climate. Compared with other plain areas, early rice is harvested a few days later and does not start harvesting until late in the year.
The weather has been perfect for three or four days in a row, and villagers cutting rice, plowing fields, and transplanting rice seedlings can be seen everywhere in the farmland. The sound of threshing machines and small harvesters continues to rumble, accompanied by people's laughter, which can be heard far and wide.
Far.
At the end of June and the beginning of July, the whole country was hit by floods. Dozens of counties and cities were affected to varying degrees. Many crops were flooded and no harvest was harvested. Those crops that escaped the floods also suffered a large reduction in production. Only a small number of crops near mountains and rivers in Fang County were affected.
With the floods raging, it was basically a bumper harvest.
The bumper harvest after the floods is undoubtedly a joy to see. Even if the continuous heavy rain caused the seedlings and corn to fall down and the yield was reduced, at least there is still more than 70% of the harvest.
It was already mid-afternoon when Yun returned to Jiudao Township. In the villages she passed along the way, rice was drying on the roads everywhere, and the yellow millet was like gold sprinkled all over the ground.
There is also millet drying on the village road in Meizijing Village. The road is only wide enough for traffic. A young student is carrying a backpack and riding his bicycle straight towards home. The front basket and rear rack of the bicycle are stuffed bulgingly.
of plastic bags.
She was afraid of meeting people on the road. If there was nothing in the car, she would take out some things when she came back. If someone started talking and she felt something strange, she would not be able to explain clearly even if she had words, so she first took out some things from the space.
Pack your things and tie them to the car and put them in bags.
Most of the villagers went to the fields to harvest rice. Only the elderly or young children were at home. They didn't meet many adults along the way and they got home soon.
The small ground outside the house is also covered with a layer of golden rice, reflecting the sun and shining brightly.
"Uncle Zhou's family has harvested rice?" Yun muttered softly. She remembered that the early rice planted by Zhou's family this year was a new variety, and the cycle was three days later than before. She estimated that it would not be harvested until the 29th.
The Zhou family cultivates their own fields, and the school used to be on holiday every year during the double harvest season. She went to the Zhou family every year to help cut rice and plant fields. This time she went to the mountains to plan a good day, and expected to have enough time to come back to help.
The ground was dry and could only allow people to pass by. Yun parked the car on the cement hardened road outside and was about to move the car when she heard a "beep" sound. She turned around and saw the Cheng family living next to the Zhou family.
The daughter-in-law of a son who is the same age as her father came back driving a tricycle to transport grain.
The son of the Cheng family was about the same age as Brother Zhou, and his name was Cheng Youde. He had a good relationship with the Zhou family. The daughter-in-law of the Cheng family was named Liu. Yun called her Aunt Liu, or Aunt Liu. When she saw someone, she stopped the car and shouted:
"Aunt Liu, congratulations on the great harvest."
"Oh, you are finally willing to get out of the old forest and go home?" Sister-in-law Liu burst into laughter when she saw the girl. She came back from the kitten mountain for more than 20 days and is still white and tender, which makes people jealous.
"Hmm, I missed my dad and my aunts, so I'm back. Aunt Liu, long time no see, did you miss me?"
"You are the only one who has a sweet mouth and is good at coaxing people." Sister-in-law Liu was so amused that she almost laughed out loud. She drove the car to the house and stopped for a moment: "The millet in front of your house is mine. It's just a good time for you to come back. I'll help you look through it later."
, let it dry for half a day, harvest it in the evening and then put it into the warehouse."
"Hey, the millet is from Aunt Liu's family. I thought it was from Uncle Zhou's family."
"The Zhou family will start harvesting rice tomorrow. Brother and sister Zhou Qiufeng will help our family cut the crops today. We will finish the work tomorrow and help the Zhou family harvest the grain the day after tomorrow."
In rural areas, it is normal for people to exchange jobs. If someone's rice matures later, he or she will first help the family who harvested it earlier, and then the person who harvested the rice first will help the family who harvested it later. Everyone exchanges labor. There are more people and more work to do.
quick.
"Okay, Aunt Liu, don't leave yet. I'll give you something and you can take it back." Yun responded, and when she saw Aunt Liu trying to accelerator again, she hurriedly stopped her.
Sister-in-law Liu released the accelerator and brake again and looked at the little girl at home. When she saw big and small bags tied to her car, she couldn't help but sweat. Is going into the mountain a robbery?
Yun quickly ran to the garden fence, took a plastic bag from the fence that someone had hung for drying, went to the bicycle, opened a bag, took out a ball of fungus, put it in, and gave it to Aunt Liu: "This is for Cheng
Grandpa Wu and you will eat as a side dish."
"Is this turkey tail fungus?" Sister-in-law Liu looked at the stuff handed over by the girl in surprise, and pushed the bag back: "Tomorrow, the 29th, Street Day, you can take it to the street and sell it. This is expensive."
"This is for Grandpa Cheng Wu to eat. Aunt Liu will just keep it. You have to take it out to ventilate it when you get home. It may get stuffy if you keep it stuffy."
"...Okay." After thinking about it, Sister-in-law Liu didn't push it back forcefully. Her girl had been very good to the elderly since she was a child, and she was the favorite child of several elderly people nearby.
Seeing Aunt Liu driving back, Yun picked up her bicycle and went home. When she took out the key and opened the door, she was stunned. There was a pair of happy words posted on the door!
Why post happy words properly?
Question mark, question mark, question mark, there were only question marks in her mind. She didn't need to do that if she won the top prize. Besides, she didn't put the word "happy" on it in the first few days when the college entrance examination results came out, and there was no need for it later.
Full of questions, I pushed open the door. The house was clean and tidy, with happy words posted on every door. The ancient TV in the main room was gone, replaced by a large color TV and a long sofa.
Wooden chair.!
Yun was confused and completely confused. Her father was a frugal man who never spent money lavishly, let alone those dispensable furniture. Where did they come from?
?
After thinking for a long time, I couldn't come up with a reason. I carried the car into the house, opened the door to my room, unpacked the backpack bag, and quickly went about my own business, cleared out the contents of the backpack, and hung the bag on a nail on the wall.
Ventilate and dry in the shade, then go to the second floor to get a bamboo sieve, pour out some medicinal materials for ventilation, pour some fungi into the sieve, and ventilate the main room first.
The things that should be poured out were taken out. She took a bag of cucumbers and tomatoes to the refrigerator room. She sold some vegetables last time and planted some more. There was a lot of stock. This time she had enough excuses to go into the mountains, so she took out a bag of cucumbers and tomatoes.
Big package of tomatoes and cucumbers.
Carrying things to the back room where the refrigerator is kept, the room was tidy. She looked for a basket to put tomatoes and cucumbers in. Yun opened the refrigerator and found that it was full of chicken, duck, pork, eggs...
Ouch!
When I saw a refrigerator stocked, my classmate’s face turned into confusion. Her refrigerator usually only stocked bacon, and it was rarely full. The current situation was completely different from before.
Her father is used to being frugal, so there is no way he could have so much inventory. Could it be that relatives are here?
Relatives? However, in terms of relatives, their family only has the great-grandmother and the grandmother’s natal family. The great-grandmother’s maiden name is Hu and she is from a neighboring village. The Hu family has only two daughters. The eldest daughter has a son-in-law, and the second daughter is her great-grandmother. Later,
When my great-grandfather and great-aunt were still alive, the Hu family moved to the provincial capital. At first, they were still in love. Later, when my great-grandmother’s parents passed away, the relationship between the sisters weakened, and they broke off after repeated visits.
Grandma's natal family is the Chen family in this village, and she is related by marriage to Zhang Jing's father's bloodline. The Chen family and the family were closely related when her grandparents were still alive, but they also borrowed money because her father's leg was broken.
They had a falling out and have no contact so far.
Therefore, it can be said that the family has no relatives.
If they were friends, it wasn't very likely. Most of the friends her father had in the past were pig friends and dog friends who couldn't get along with each other through thick and thin. Since his father injured his leg, his friends have almost become strangers.
With no relatives or friends coming to visit, who gave her so many things?
If someone is so generous, it is only my father's boss. If it is really Boss Wu who comes to the house and buys meat, it is understandable, but what about the new furniture at home?
Wondering, Yun was extremely depressed. She closed the refrigerator door and rushed to turn over the grains for Mrs. Liu. After finishing her work, she packed up her clothes and went into the kitchen to heat hot water. She found thin smoke coming from the fire pit and a pot rack.
Hold a pot of boiling water and open it to see that the water is warm.
strangeness!
Too strange.
Full of strange rhymes, she looked around in the kitchen, here and there, here and there, but still had no clue, so she had to pick up her own bucket and basin, fill them with warm water and go to the bathroom behind the house to take a bath.
My aunt just passed away and she didn't dare to take cold water baths. She didn't dare to take cold water baths for several days in the mountains. She could only wipe them with a towel. Although there was no smell, I felt uncomfortable.
I washed myself from head to toe and put on a short-sleeved T-shirt and cropped pants again. I felt very light and refreshed.
She straightened herself up, threw her things aside, and ran to the pig barn. She just heard the quacking of piglets and ducks, and had to go and see what was going on. When she opened the door and entered the pig and cow barn, she saw a group of chickens and chickens.
A few ducks squatted lazily on the ground. Next to the wall were a plastic basin filled with water and a trough for food. There were two piglets in the pig pen.
Chicken, duck, and pig are all available, giving it a farmhouse feel.
This time Yun was even more confused. What was going on? She just went into the mountains for a trip, why was she so different when she came back home?
I can’t figure it out. Really, you said, why are there such earth-shaking changes if I just go out for twenty days?
Full of entangled Yun, I closed the door of the cowshed, took the clothes to be washed in the water press well, and dried the clothes upstairs. Then I went downstairs and carried a few bamboo sieves upstairs. Some herbs and fungi still need to be dried, but they should not be dried.
Easily damaged if dried.
After drying the things, I took out some washed polygonatum and rehmannia glutinosa from the space and put them upstairs to dry out the moisture. Then I went downstairs and sat down to wash the fungi. I cleaned out a few versicolor fungi. My empty brain was shocked and I looked up.
Xiang Jia, that, couldn't be what she thought?
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
My lovely children, I am going back to my hometown in the countryside to spend the New Year with my parents today. I will not return until around the ninth day of the Lunar New Year. I will miss you all, and you will also miss me. I would like to wish you all the best in advance.
Happy New Year, may everything go as you wish, may everything go well in the new year, and may everyone prosper!