Lanhua and Xiulan visited the Shige Festival. Not only did they buy some things for women, but they also found orchids at Shige Festival Junior High School.
So when Wang Manyin got home, he saw Lan Xiang playing with Cat Dan and Goudan in the yard.
"Lan Xiang, it's almost time for the autumn harvest. Has your school not started the autumn harvest holiday yet?"
"In villages where the autumn harvest is early, students have already asked for leave, and the school will not start vacation until two days later."
Lan Xiang is thirteen years old. Such a big child can help a lot during the autumn harvest. Counting centimeters a day can count at least four.
"Since you're here today, you'll have to eat before leaving. Ask your sister to make you white flour cakes, and then fry some eggs. Studying wastes your brain, so you need to replenish it."
Lan Xiang, this sensible and heart-warming child, is still very pitiable.
"Let's go home and eat. Mom must have cooked for me. If I don't go back, I'll have leftovers."
"Mom doesn't have anything left over from cooking, just a few black flour steamed buns. I'll eat them hot tomorrow. I can't waste them. I haven't been to my brother-in-law's house for a long time, so don't be polite."
Wang Manyin dismissed Lan Xiang's idea of refusing. After all, not everyone is Sun Shaoping. He can enjoy the kindness of others with peace of mind and take whatever others give him.
"Man Yin, why are you the only one back? Isn't Shaoan with you?"
Lanhua asked anxiously when she saw Wang Manyin entering the room.
"Shaoan couldn't sit still, so he went to work for us on our private land. I thought Shaoan should have come back long ago, so I didn't go there. I'll go call Shaoan back now!"
"Brother-in-law, let me call my eldest brother."
"Okay, Lan Xiang, you can go. Lan Xiang, take the basket and pick all the vegetables that need to be picked from the fields. Let's eat them tonight!"
Before Wang Manyin objected, Lanhua agreed to let Lanxiang call Shaoan back. This was something Lanxiang was accustomed to doing.
Wang Manyin should be ashamed. Even Lan Xiang went to his family's private plot more often than he did.
After hearing what Lan Hua said, Wang Manyin washed up and quickly helped Lan Hua make the fire and cook. Although Xiulian was very diligent, she was a guest after all. If the guest is not busy, the host will be idle, which is not in line with the way of hospitality.
Every child was more diligent than me. Wang Manyin was really sitting on pins and needles, feeling like there was a fire under his butt.
In the evening, I made beans, potatoes, eggplants, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, white flour pancakes, and millet porridge. Apart from the fact that there was no meat, I sincerely entertained three people.
Vegetables are not the key. Farmers all have some private land and there is no shortage of these vegetables. What is rare is that Wang Manyin's family is not short of oil, eggs, white flour, and millet.
"Sister, this is not how you live your life. You eat white flour at noon and also eat it at night. What are the conditions? In the past, landlords did not dare to live like you!"
"That's an exaggeration, Shaoan. This is the white flour cake Xiulian and Lanxiang are eating. If you come alone, you can only eat black flour buns."
Wang Manyin couldn't let Lan Hua speak. Lan Hua was a person who couldn't tell lies, but it was hard not to tell his brother when he asked. He said that the worst food in the family was cornmeal.
It's time for Wang Manyin to be interrogated by Sun Shao'an, to get to the bottom of things. It's better to do less than to do more.
"Brother Shaoan, sister, and brother-in-law are kind enough to entertain us. Just eat."
Xiulian has always been like this, she has her own ideas and will not obey Sun Shaoan in everything, which makes Shaoan rightly titled "Hammer King".
Of course, Lan Hua would not forget her parents. She asked Shaoan to take the extra white flour cakes back for her parents to eat. Grandma had steamed buns made at home. Sun Yuhou and Lan Hua's mother were reluctant to eat the white flour cakes, so they both wanted them in the end.
Cheap Sun Shaoping.
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"System, sign in!"
"Congratulations to the host for getting: one yuan in cash and two pounds of pork belly!"
Wang Manyin complained about the system every day. The autumn harvest is not even an important day, and the system does not hit it hard. Most of the people in the Loess Plateau focus on the autumn harvest to eat food. How much harvest can be produced only by the summer harvest? The autumn harvest is already the most important day for farmers in the year.
It's an important day.
The autumn harvest can be said to involve all the young and old in the village. This year, the autumn harvest task of the first team is a bit heavier. In the past, the straw was left on the ground and distributed to someone. After the autumn harvest, they would take it home by themselves. Now, even the straw is included.
Pull back.
There are still a few people left to help Wang Manyin make Qingzhu. Even though everyone is very motivated, the progress of the autumn harvest is slower than usual.
Wang Manyin has been spinning like a top these days. Of course he can't be idle during work hours. There are a lot of things going on at noon and after work. He is in the villagers' homes, the second production team, and the first production team in Shuangshui Village, Shao'an. Wang Manyin is spinning continuously.
The simplest thing to say is that Wang Manyin's family is a young prince, and there are so many people who come to help. They all want to come here to learn skills, and their families need to be mentored by Wang Manyin, who is a young prince. There are people from the first and second teams. Wang Manyin has really become a success.
It's delicious, but your real skills are still more popular than talking about your knowledge and boasting.
When the crops were harvested, Wang Manyin was temporarily freed, and the first ten days of the eighth lunar month were over.
Of course, other people still have a lot of things to do in the fields. They have to plant winter wheat in the fields, and it’s time for the animals to put in the work.
In fact, the winter wheat planting area in Guangguang Village is not large, and the yield is not high. The land is barren and there is a shortage of fertilizers. Wheat cultivation is not the main occupation.
After the autumn harvest, it was time to plant vegetables, radishes, cabbages, and potatoes for the villagers to spend the winter. It was another busy time.
While everyone else was busy, it seemed that Wang Manyin, a sheep herder, was free. Wang Mancang arranged for Wang Manyin to take a group of half-year-old children in the village who were unable to work to pick the jujube trees and ripe apples in the village.
Except for a few farmers who grow in their yards, the fruit trees in the village belong to individuals, while the others belong to collectives. The fruit trees in Gugan Village are not as large as those in Shuangshui Village. There is also a large jujube forest, which can host a jujube festival.
However, there are scattered peach trees, pear trees, apricot trees, apples, and jujube trees. In the season when the fruits are ripe, it is not a problem to supply the villagers with fruits. The villagers can go to the market to sell fruits if they can’t finish them. However, local fruits
It is not rare in the mature season and cannot be sold at a high price.
The fruit trees are also well protected. They belong to the collective and are supervised by everyone. Even the weakest people in the village dare to steal fruit from the villagers' homes, but they dare not steal from the collective.
Beating dates is relatively easy. If you push down a few bamboo poles, the ripe red dates will fall off. That’s why it’s called beating dates. The word “beating” explains everything.
What took a lot of effort was picking apples. After all, Wang Manyin was old and couldn't climb trees like children, so he supervised the children to pay attention to their safety.
This is a task assigned by Wang Manyin himself. The task assigned by Wang Mancang to Wang Manyin is to supervise whether the children can eat or take them home privately. There is nothing dangerous about climbing trees. Even though there are few big trees in northern Shaanxi, none of the farm children have climbed trees yet.