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 the early rice is harvested, and then they rush to plant the late rice. This process is called "double grabbing". Double grabbing, what is grabbed is time.
It was also the hottest period of summer in the year. Fangxian County has many mountains and trees and a cool climate. Compared with other plain areas, early rice was harvested a few days later and did not start harvesting until late in the year.
The weather has been beautiful for three or four consecutive days, and villagers cutting rice, plowing, and transplanting rice can be seen everywhere in the farmland. The threshers and small harvesters keep rumbling, accompanied by people’s laughter. The sound spread far and wide.
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 there was no harvest. Those crops that had escaped the floods also suffered a significant reduction in production. Fang County had only A small number of crops near mountains and rivers were ravaged by floods and basically had a bumper harvest.
The harvest after the flood is undoubtedly a joy. Even if the continuous heavy rain caused the seedlings and corn to fall down and the output was reduced, at least more than 70% of the harvest is still available. .
It was already mid-afternoon when Le 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.
Millet is also drying on the village road in Meizijing Village. The road is only wide enough for traffic. Le Xiaoxiao is carrying a backpack and riding his bicycle straight towards home. The bicycle has the front basket and The rear rack was stuffed with bulging plastic bags.
She is afraid of meeting people on the road. If there is nothing in the car, she will take out some things when she comes back. If someone talks and notices something strange, she will not be able to explain clearly. So first take out some things from the space and pack them into the car and bags.
Most of the villagers went to the fields to harvest rice. Only the elderly or young children were at home. They met few adults along the way and they arrived home soon.
The small ground outside Lejia's house is also covered with a layer of golden rice, reflecting the sun and shining brightly.
"Uncle Zhou's family has harvested rice," Le Yun muttered in a low voice. 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 be on the 29th. Just harvested.
The Zhou family cultivates Lejia's fields. In the past, the school was 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 time, and expected to have enough Come back in time to help.
The ground was dry and could only allow people to pass by. Leyun parked the car on the cement hardened road outside and was about to move the car when she heard a happy "beep" sound and turned around to look. I saw the daughter-in-law of the Cheng family who lived next to the Zhou family, whose son was the same age as her father, driving a tricycle to transport grain back.
The son of the Cheng family is about the same age as Brother Zhou, and his name is Cheng Youde. He has a good relationship with the Le family of the Zhou family. The daughter-in-law of the Cheng family is named Liu, and Le Yun calls her Aunt Liu or Aunt Liu. , she stabilized the car and shouted, "Aunt Liu, congratulations on the great harvest."
"Oh, Lele, you are finally here"Yu Shede came out of the old forest and went home." Sister-in-law Liu burst into laughter when she saw the girl from Lejia. Little Lele came back from Maoshan for more than 20 days and she is still white and tender, which makes people jealous.
" Well, I miss my dad and my aunts, so I’m back. Aunt Liu, long time no see, have you missed 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 next to Lele's house and stopped briefly. "Lele, the millet in front of your house is mine. It's just a good time for you to come back. I'll help you turn it over in a while and let it dry in the sun for a long time. In the evening, Once collected, you can enter 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. Brothers and sisters 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 the countryside, it is normal for everyone to exchange jobs. Whose rice matures later, first help the family who harvested it earlier, and then the family who harvested the rice first will help the family who matured later. With more workers, the work can be done faster.
“Okay, Aunt Liu, don’t leave yet. I’ll give you something and you can take it back. Le Yun responded. Seeing Aunt Liu trying to accelerator again, she hurriedly called her to stop.
Sister-in-law Liu let go of the accelerator again and looked at the little girl from the Le family. At this moment, she saw her tied up in the car. Wearing big and small bags, I couldn't help but sweat. Is Lele going into the mountain a robbery?
Leyun quickly ran to the garden fence and took a plastic bag from the fence that someone didn't know was hanging to dry. , went to the bicycle, opened a bag, took out a ball of fungi, put it in, and gave it to Aunt Liu, "I'll use this as a side dish for Grandpa Cheng Wu and you." "
"This is turkey tail fungus." Sister-in-law Liu looked at the thing handed over by the Lejia girl in surprise, and then pushed the bag back. "Tomorrow, the 29th, Street Day, you can take this to the street and sell it. It's expensive. ”
“This is for Grandpa Cheng Wu to eat. Aunt Liu will just take it. You need to take it out to ventilate it when you get home. It may get stuffy if you keep it stuffed.” "
"Okay. "After thinking about it, Aunt Liu didn't push her back forcefully. The Lejia girl has been very good to the elderly since she was a child. She is the favorite child of several elderly people nearby.
Watch Aunt Liu drive. After going back, Leyun 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 taped on the door
Why do you stick happy words properly?
Question mark, question mark, question mark, there are only question marks in her mind, and she doesn’t need to do that if she wins the top prize. Besides, she didn’t post the happy words in the first few days when her college entrance examination results came out, and there will be 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 with an extra long Sofa and wooden chair.
Le Yun was confused and completely confused. Her father was a frugal person and would never spend money lavishly, let alone spend money on these things. Dispensable furniture, where did these come from
I couldn’t think of a reason for it for a long time, so I carried the car into the house.Open the door of your room, unpack your backpack, quickly go about your own business, clear out the contents of the backpack, hang the bag on a nail on the wall to let it dry in the shade, then run to the second floor to get a bamboo sieve, and put the Pour out some medicinal materials for ventilation, pour some fungi into the sieve, and ventilate the main room first.
It’s time to pour out what needs to be poured out. She takes a bag of cucumbers and tomatoes to the refrigerator room. She sold some vegetables last time and planted some more. There is a lot of stock. She will have enough for this trip to the mountains. excuse, so I took out a big bag of tomatoes and cucumbers.
Carrying things to the back room where the refrigerator is kept, the room was tidy. Looking for a basket to put tomatoes and cucumbers in, Le Yun opened the refrigerator and found that it was full of chicken, duck, and pork. , eggs
Ouch
Seeing a refrigerator stocked, Le’s face turned into dough. Her refrigerator usually only stocked bacon, and it was rarely full. Now it’s like this , it’s simply not up to par with before.
Her father is used to being frugal, so it is impossible for him to have so much inventory. Could it be that relatives are here?
As for relatives, in terms of relatives, their family only has their great-grandmother and grandma. Grandma's maiden name is Hu, from a neighboring village. The Hu family only has two daughters. The eldest daughter has a son-in-law, and the second daughter is her great-grandma. Later, when her great-grandfather and great-grandma are still alive, the Hu family moves to the provincial capital. , there was still a relationship between them at first, but later, when my great-grandma’s parents passed away, the relationship between the sisters became weak, and they broke off after repeated exchanges;
Grandma’s natal family is the Chen family of this village, and she and Zhang Jing’s father That bloodline is also related by marriage. The Chen family and the Le family were closely related when her grandparents were still alive. However, they also had a falling out because her father borrowed money after his leg was broken, and they have no contact to this day.
Therefore, it can be said that the Le family has no relatives.
If they are friends, it is not very likely. Most of the friends her father made in the past were pig friends and dog friends who could not share the same hardships. Since his father injured his leg, the friends have become almost strangers. .
Who came to visit her without relatives or friends?
If anyone is so generous, it is only Dad’s boss. If it is really Boss Wu who comes to the house and buys meat. It's understandable, but what about the new furniture at home?
Perplexed, Le Yun was extremely depressed. She closed the refrigerator door and hurriedly ran to turn the grain for Sister Liu, and then packed up the clothes after finishing her work. When I went into the kitchen to heat hot water, I found fine smoke coming from the fire pit. There was a pot for boiling water on the pot stand. When I opened it, I saw that the water was warm.
Strange
So strange.
Full of strange Le Yun, I looked around in the kitchen, looking here and there, here and there, but still didn’t have any clue, so I had to bring my own bath bucket and basin and fill them with warm water. She went to the bathroom behind the house to take a bath. Her aunt had just passed by and she didn't dare to take cold water. She didn't dare to take cold water during the few days in the mountains. She could only wipe it with a towel. Although there was no smell, she 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 pen room. She just heard the quacking of piglets and ducks, so she had to go and see what was going on. When she opened the door and entered the pig and cow house, she saw a group of chickens and 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.
Chickens, ducks and pigs are all available, giving it a farmhouse feel.
This time Le Yun was even more confused. What was going on? She just went to the mountains for a trip, why did her home look so different when she came back?
I can’t figure it out, really. You said, I just went out for twenty days, why have there been earth-shaking changes?
Full of confusion, Le Yun closed the door of the cowshed, took the clothes to wash in the water press well, and finished washing the clothes. Take it upstairs to dry, then go downstairs and move a few bamboo sieves upstairs. Some herbs and fungi need to be dried in the sun, and they will easily break if they are not dried in the sun.
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 and my brain was empty. She was shocked and looked up at home. That couldn't be what she thought.
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Cute Dear 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, but you will also miss me. I would like to wish you all a happy new year in advance. Be happy, everything goes as you wish, everything will go well in the new year, and everyone will prosper