Brother Zhou and Sister-in-law Zhou guessed that my mother would not come back for breakfast after going to Lejia, so she and her children had breakfast first, picked up household items, and set off to cut the crops without waiting.
Of course Zhou Chunmei and Zhou Tianming were not left behind, especially Zhou Chunmei, who was scolded by her father yesterday evening and did not dare to offend her father again. She washed off the nail polish on her hands and toenails, and did not do it in the morning. I didn't dare to put on makeup, so I tied up my hair, picked up a straw hat, and went to work.
During the double harvest season, every family is busy harvesting. They all get up early and go to work early. People can be seen everywhere when walking on the village road. Brother Zhou and his family have just arrived from the village. Some people who went to work early have already harvested a large area. rice.
Le Yun and Zhou Qiufeng waited for Brother Zhou to go to work for a while before leaving. Zhou Qiufeng rode Xiao Lele’s bicycle and drove the girl out of the village, along the natural dirt road between the farmland, to Zhou Qiufeng. The place where my brother cut the crops.
The field where Brother Zhou’s family harvests rice first belongs to the Lejia family, and it is also the largest one. It is close to a ditch and on the road. Moreover, the Lejia family’s fields are almost next to each other, making farming convenient. Therefore, like the Lejia family, If you don’t plant it yourself, there are many people in the village who are willing to take over the work.
Every member of the Zhou family cut rice with knives and laid down a small piece of rice. Seeing Zhou Qiufeng, the Zhou family siblings called "aunt" because they were in the way of their elders. Le Yun happily asked Zhou Chunmei and Zhou Tianming said hello.
Zhou Tianming was very embarrassed and bowed his head to cut the rice.
Zhou Qiufeng and Le Yun didn't care about other people's attitudes. They took professional sickles with sharp teeth specially designed for cutting rice and walked to the other end of the field to start work.
Jiudao Township is located in a remote mountainous area. It is built on the flat land between the mountains. There are not particularly many paddy fields. The surrounding villages of Jiudao Township have slightly more fields. In those days, the fields were divided into households. , an average of more than six cents of land per person. At that time, there were four people in the Le family, and they had a total of two and seven cents of acres.
Later, in the late 1990s, because the land contract rights could be transferred, the Le family resold three and a half acres of land and several acres of land from others. Because Le’s father had a broken leg and needed money, he resold it. If the several pieces of land were not sold, there would be more than ten acres of arable land. Judging from the previous land, the Le family could be considered a prosperous family at that time.
The Lejia family now has a little over six acres of paddy fields, including the garden in front of the house, and more than seven acres of cultivated land, excluding the forest economic forest land.
The largest field in the Lejia family is the one being harvested. It is two acres and a quarter and seven cents, almost two and a half acres. It is irregular and the field is very wide. The four members of the Zhou family are harvesting at the head of the field. , Zhou Qiufeng and Leyun cut from the end of the field, far apart.
Zhou Qiufeng is well-known as a fast hand in Meicun. He can cut rice and plant fields with extremely fast hands. He is ranked second among his peers and does not dare to be ranked first. Only one fast hand from the previous generation can do it. Fighting with her, so when she started working, she could only hear the "swish" sound of the sickle cutting the seedlings and the clatter of the rice ears.
Le Yun's speed was not slow before. After opening the hook, well, let alone the speed, she bent down and started working. She kept moving forward, leaving behind hand after hand of seedlings and spreading them out. Arranged neatly.
Zhou Qiufeng was busy for a while, when she heard someone gasping for air, she stood up and looked over,I found Sister-in-law Liu standing on a field ridge above Lejia's field and looking down. I couldn't help but wonder, "Sister-in-law Liu, what's wrong?"
Sister-in-law Liu stood on the ridge and looked down from above, and she could see clearly. Everyone in Lejia's field was watching dumbfoundedly when they heard Zhou Qiufeng ask her. She looked at Zhou Qiufeng, and then looked at the other side where Zhou Qiufeng was facing: "Qiufeng, the people in the row opposite you and on the mowing ridge. "It's Lele"
"Yes." Zhou Qiufeng answered smoothly, turned around and took a sip, it was really Lele over there
In just a short while, , a large piece of rice fell down on the side of the field ridge, and I saw people bending and lowering their waists constantly. The swishing and swishing sounds were as dense as several people working at the same time.
Zhou Qiufeng immediately started trotting around a piece of uncut rice. He stood in the space where the cut crops were cut and looked at the child. He saw Lele lowering his head, grabbing the rice stalk and swinging his knife. The movements were so coherent that they were almost uninterrupted, and the speed was beyond her reach.
After watching for a few minutes, she silently ran back to her seat and smiled at Sister-in-law Liu, "The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. We are getting old."
"I just want to say You stepped on shit, and you picked up a good girl for free. She is both civilized and military." Sister-in-law Liu was extremely jealous. Her two sons and daughters were also relatively good. They were not embarrassed because they were born in the countryside. They also helped in the fields when they returned home. , but compared with the Le family girl, her children seem squeamish. If compared with Zhang Jing, Le Yun dumped Zhang Jing for more than ten blocks, and Zhang Jing couldn't even catch up.
The Lejia girl is good at studying, has a good temper, has a filial piety, works in the mountains and fields, and is proficient in all housework. Such a good girl can't be found even in a lantern.
So, Zhou Qiufeng really got a big deal when she married into the Le family.
"You can be jealous, I don't mind." Zhou Qiufeng was not ashamed and smiled proudly.
Sister-in-law Liu hummed a few times and went to work by herself. Her family still had a rice field but no pears. If she got the last field, she could help the Zhou family cut grain tomorrow.
It is cool in the early morning, and villagers rush to cut rice, which is more efficient than in the afternoon. Therefore, it is usually fine to cut the rice in the morning and thresh the rice in the afternoon. If it does not rain, the seedlings will be cut the day before and the next day. When threshing grains, if the weather is not good, you don’t dare to do it. If it rains, the millet will sprout in the field as soon as it is soaked in water.
The weather was excellent that day. Many of the seedlings were cut down on the first day and threshed on the second day. Soon the rumble of machines and the sound of pear machines were heard everywhere, and the fields were very busy. lively.
Zhou Chunmei cut a few rice seedlings and stood for a while, taking a break before starting work. She was also the slowest. The others had gone far away, and she only cut down a small bunch.
She cut a row close to the field ridge. Every time she stood up, she saw a large piece of land lying on the opposite side, getting closer and closer to her. Because she didn’t see anyone, she always thought it was her aunt and didn’t care. , when the sounds became closer and closer, she stood up and looked.
I don’t know when the person on the opposite side has approached me, only five or six meters away.Then, she saw someone, it was Le Yun
Zhou Chunmei looked at the swaying rice seedlings, and her whole body felt bad. What speed was that? She looked at it for several minutes, lowered her head to do things, and then There was an intense swishing sound, and soon, the two of them collided.
"Sister Chunmei." Le Yun cut away a few seedlings and opened up one side. When she saw Zhou Chunmei staring at her, she called out, lowered her head, and went to cut rice again.
Zhou Chunmei watched, watching helplessly as Le Yun knocked down a piece of rice seedlings that she had not cut, and then moved forward. The width of the rice rows that Le Yun cut down was equal to twice hers. The total area was simply Incomparable
She looked at Le Yun, her face flushed red, she gritted her teeth, found a spot to cut in, and silently cut the rice.
Brother Zhou and Sister-in-law Zhou didn’t notice it at first. When the entire field was half-turned down, the Zhou family and his wife discovered the Le family girl’s god-level speed. They were dumbfounded at the time, and what was even more depressing was that Le Even though my girl has fast hands, she doesn't seem to know what back pain is. It's rare to see her standing upright to rest.
There is a super-speedy classmate Le and a quick-handed Zhou Qiufeng. A field of more than two acres was cut down in less than an hour.
The expressions of the four members of the Zhou family are particularly wonderful.
After getting the largest piece of land, go to the second piece, which is next to the big field, which is the other piece of land obtained by the Le family when they divided the fields. It is only two and three cents, which together with the big field is exactly two acres and seven cents. .
Odian was handed over to the Zhou brothers and sisters. The Zhou family, his wife, Leyun and Zhou Qiufeng went to the third block, a little below Oda.
Grandma Zhou took the rice dumplings to the field at ten o'clock. Zhou Qiufeng and others had already cut several fields. When Grandma Zhou saw how fast Xiao Lele was cutting, her eyes almost fell out of the field. Went.
The old man was too frightened. When everyone ate, she was still a little dizzy on the way home. However, because of Le Xiaoxiao’s amazing speed, she was seen by several villagers, so Le’s family As a result, the girl's reputation for quick hands slowly spread.
At the same time, because of the existence of Sister-in-law Liu, the news of Zhou Qiufeng's marriage to Yueqing also spread. It was heard that the Lejia girl was faster than Zhou Qiufeng, and the villagers accepted it, but when they heard that Zhou Qiufeng The news of her marriage to Yueqing shocked everyone's jaws.
It was almost noon and the sun was very hot. The villagers did not finish work until nearly twelve o'clock. However, the Zhou family and others cut down almost all the rice in the Lejia paddy field.
After returning home, Zhou Qiufeng wanted to feed the piglets and check whether the hatched chicks had shells. Leyun went back to the room and ran back to the space, collecting matsutake mushrooms crazily, picking all the mushrooms in more than a dozen pots and returning them. Go out and go to Zhou's house for dinner.
Grandma Zhou was cheerful. The Zhou brothers and sisters were hit hard, so they didn’t say a word.
They only rested for more than an hour at noon. Before two o'clock, the villagers went to the fields under the sun, and the Zhou family was no exception. They used a tricycle to pull an electric threshing machine, diesel engine, and tools, and hurriedly went to the fields.
The electric threshing machine will spin non-stop after it is started. As long as the ears of rice are kept fed, the four people of the Zhou family and Le Yun and Zhou Qiufeng, a total of six people, two rounds, just this timeOne wheel threshes the rice, and when it goes down, another wheel makes up for it. The machine is never empty. It saves fuel and is highly efficient.
When the millet accumulates in the threshing machine barn for a certain period of time, people come out to load the millet, and some people continue to thresh; over and over again, more and more bags are filled with millet.
The harvesting is very fast, and the threshing of the millet may not be able to keep up. The main thing is that people have to be evenly loaded with millet, and every period of time they have to refuel, move the machine, and tie straw after finishing a field. And move all the straw to the field ridge or open space for storage, and release water into the field.
So after a long day, not all the grain that the Zhou family cut down in the morning was threshed, and there was still a piece left.
In the past, the Zhou family only gave a quarter of the grain to the Le family’s fields. When it was harvested this year, Brother Zhou thought of his sister’s contribution and gave her half a year’s hard work to him. Lejia.
The rice is weighed and distributed in the fields. The total weight of each field is first weighed, and then half is weighed. The bags containing the millet are divided into two piles, one for each family.
Zhou Qiufeng collected it without politeness. After saving a certain amount, he sent it home first, and moved some to put it upstairs to dry. Since the grain was not harvested in the morning, the floor in front of the Lejia house was still used by the Cheng family to dry the grain first.
The Zhou family didn’t finish work until it was almost dark. Le Yun and Zhou Qiufeng returned home. Le’s father finished the housework, helped the girl take back the medicine that had been dried, and piled up the millet that had been dried upstairs. They covered the house with a raincloth and cooked food, waiting for the mother and daughter.
The mother and daughter ate quickly after taking a shower, because they had to work tomorrow and went to bed early. In fact, Zhou Qiufeng didn't feel very tired, but she couldn't resist Yueqing's insistence and went to bed early.
Le Yun eats space products every day, which gives her a lot of strength. She doesn’t have any backache at the end of the day, and she works hard in the space again at night.
The next day, the crops were cut as well.
The Cheng family also finished the last bit of work and went to the Zhou family to help. Cheng Youde's cousin Cheng Youliang was also there. His wife went to harvest grain for her parents' family, and only Cheng Youliang came to work at the Zhou family.
As soon as there were more manpower, Brother Zhou just transported fertilizers to the pear fields. Because there were enough manpower, the remaining fields of the Zhou family were cut in less than half a day. There was still time to thresh in the morning, and all in the afternoon. Successfully threshed the grain.
Having dinner at Zhou’s house in the evening, Le’s father also passed by;
The light came again, and it was the 31st.
The Zhou family began to plant rice seedlings. In the middle of the morning, a nest of chicks hatched by Zhou Qiufeng came out of their shells. Grandma Zhou stayed there for a long time and helped to pick up the shells. Because the weather was too hot, they could not be cooked. At about ten o'clock So I put a nest of chickens in the back garden of Lejia to play.
Leyun came home at noon and saw the fluffy chicks. She happily played with them. When feeding the chickens, she secretly stole the chickens, poured out the water for feeding the chickens, and replaced them with Well water in the space, and use the well water to soak rice for the chickens.
Double robbery, everyone went out at dawn and returned at sunset. With more people and greater strength, the Zhou family only needed two and a half days to finish everything except the rice fields.
The Cheng family brothers also learned what it means to be an "all-rounder" and what it means to be a great person. The girls from the Le family are quick to cut crops, tie straw quickly, thresh and thresh rice quickly, transplant rice seedlings, and so on. ThatIt makes people want to beat her. The speed is faster than a hen pecking rice. The distance between the seedlings seems to have been measured, and the length and width are about the same.
The Cheng family brothers only have one expression and one capitalized word for service
Originally, many people did not believe it when they heard that the girl from the Le family was very fast, so they took a detour to observe. As a result, they went there with doubts. , replied dejectedly.
Those who have witnessed it with their own eyes have only one idea: invite me to help next year
The Cheng brothers will go home after lunch, either to help their friends or to do their own business. , the Zhou family couple and Zhou Qiufeng Leyun went to clean up the rice fields in the afternoon.
Spread agricultural fertilizer on the pear field, then spread compound fertilizer, rake it once, and you can transplant the rice seedlings.
While Brother Zhou and Zhou Qiufeng were spreading compound fertilizer, Le Yun's cell phone rang. She probably guessed who it was, so she took out her cell phone, took a look, answered the call, and said a few words to everyone. It was said that an express package had arrived on the street, and she went home to pick it up.
Brother Zhou and other elders let Le Yun do as she pleased. Zhou Chunmei whispered, "I clearly want to be lazy," but did not dare to say it loudly.
Le Yun heard Zhou Chunmei's muttering and didn't care. She rode her bicycle and rushed home. She took a backpack, took out a bunch of money from the space, and flew to Xiangjie.
That day was not a street day, there were no stalls on the street, and the sun was strong. Even the few stall owners who placed fruits and sold some frozen meat on the side of the open air went to the street shops to avoid the sun. .
The bus from the county seat to Jiudao Township has not arrived yet, and the open-air parking lot and streets are empty.
Le Yun pedaled her bicycle and arrived at the place. She took a look and saw, okay, no one was anywhere. She parked the car, sat in the car, opened her umbrella and waited.
About seven or eight minutes later, a motorcycle drove towards Jiudao Township from the county town. The owner of the motorcycle looked around. When he saw the person holding an umbrella, he went straight to the target.
When Le Yun saw the approaching motorcycle, a big smile blossomed. What she wanted finally came.
When the motorcycle stopped, Le Yun also closed her umbrella and threw it in the basket of the car. She said thank you to the person who brought the things. The man, who was in his fifties, smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry, Mr. Le, right?" , I came late, it was my first time here, and I was not familiar with the road, so I took a detour to Shangzhuang Township."
"It's okay," Le Yun said.
The owner parked the car, untied the plastic basket tied to the back seat, untied the rope, moved the basket to the ground, opened the lid, and found green branches inside, followed by two bags filled with soil. medicinal materials.
"Click a little and see if the number is correct." The man took out the bag and asked the little classmate to count it by himself.
Le Yun knelt down and looked at the herb leaves. One pack was Angelica sinensis, and the other was Ginseng. They were relatively small seedlings. Ginseng grew one leaf per year. You could tell by looking at the leaves that they were all annuals, and Angelica sinensis was also very small. , probably the same year and two years old.
"No need to order, I believe you." She did not count, confirmed that there was no adulteration, lifted the bag and put it in the front basket of the bicycle, put both bags in, and then covered the surface with the branches thrown by the owner. Block the sun.
The car owner closed the basket, put it aside, opened the trunk at the back, and gave a large bag of dry medicinal materials to the little classmate.
Le Yun put the dry medicinal materials into her backpack, took out the money to pay, and paid a full three thousand. The owner counted, wiped his sweat, and smiled in his eyes, "Little classmate, call us if you need medicinal materials in the future. , we will still deliver to your door.”
He and his friends rented ginseng, angelica root, and dendrobium from the mountains in Shennong Mountain. They usually only sell dried products. The day before yesterday, he received a call from a primary school student. They wanted to buy fresh ginseng and angelica. They were really unwilling to accept the business at first. Firstly, it was a small business. Secondly, the requirements were too high and they wanted freshly dug seedlings.
They thought over and over again, and finally took over the business because the person who bought the medicinal materials was the science champion of the E Province. Don’t forget, the young champion studied at the Medical Department of Qingdao University, and those who studied medicine had a direct relationship with the medical materials. If the young scholar succeeds in his studies, which hospital or clinic he will go to, he will naturally be inseparable from medicinal materials. If he shows up there, he might be able to sell products to the hospital through her, or sell medicinal materials to her.
Contacts are very important in business, so they promised door-to-door delivery and payment on delivery. If no one picks up the goods at the place where they are delivered, that’s okay. Anyway, they still have the medicinal materials in their hands, they just lost some oil. .
"Okay, if I still need it, I will give priority to your medicine garden." Le Yun is happy to be kind to others, although she suffers a loss. A newly unearthed ginseng costs 200 yuan, and Angelica sinensis costs 50 yuan. The asking price was very harsh, but she was in urgent need of ginseng and angelica seedlings.
The most important thing is that she is too young to ride a motorcycle. Taking a bus to the medicine garden to buy it is time-consuming. Asking someone to buy it on her behalf means that she owes a favor and has to explain the reason to others. It is too troublesome. Yaoyuan is willing to deliver goods to your door, so be more expensive.
Even though it was a polite reply, the car owner expressed joy. He advertised the medicinal materials he had grown without leaving a trace, tied up the plastic basket, and said goodbye to his schoolmate.
After buying ginseng and angelica seedlings, Le Yun was very happy. She rode her bicycle back to the village and rushed home. She threw away most of the seedlings and left a few in bags. She put them in the living room first and locked the door. He went to work in the fields again.