The wheat maturity period in Guanzhong is in May, which is the most important day of the year for the people of Guanzhong.
Once wheat begins to mature, it happens overnight.
If it cannot be harvested in time, the wheat will fall into the ground. If you are unlucky and it rains again, the wheat grains will dare to sprout on the ears...
So, harvest in time. It is the only way to avoid losses.
And manpower is limited, especially when harvesting wheat, manpower is even more stretched.
Fortunately, a group of people called "Maike" appear on the Guanzhong Plain at this time every year.
Of course, Yun's family, like other large families, also employs a large number of Mai Ke. However, Yun's Mai Ke is somewhat different from other people's Mai Ke.
Other people’s Mai Ke live and eat at their employer’s house. Yun’s Mai Ke generally only appear at night and disappear after dawn.
Last night, there was a lot of noise in the grain field outside Yun's mansion. When Yun Zhao went to the fields, there were still countless shadowy figures busy going up and down from ox carts, mule carts, and donkey carts. Unload the wheat.
As for the fields outside, there are more people busy harvesting.
By the time Yun Zhao walked into the field, the sky was already getting slightly brighter, and he could see clearly that a large group of people were lining up around Bald Mountain and into the mountain.
There is already a lot of harvested wheat in the field. The wheat has been carefully bundled and bundled. It just needs to be loaded onto the oxcart and transported back to the threshing floor.
Yun Zhao is naturally very interested in this kind of Mai Ke who doesn't take money from Yun's or eat at Yun's.
When I asked my mother, she smiled but didn’t answer.
Asked Uncle Fu. Uncle Fu was very worried.
It wasn't until Yun Zhao discovered a burly man with a scar on his face who was lying under the wheat pile, rubbing green wheat ears and throwing wheat grains into his mouth out of boredom, that things took a turn for the better.
“You’ve really become smarter.”
Before Yun Zhao could step forward, this terrifying burly man caught Yun Zhao who was about to escape with a tiger’s leap.
Immediately, his buttocks were exposed to the broad daylight again, and he was slapped.
"Fortunately, he is my eldest brother's child."
The scarred man threw Yun Zhao away, straightened up and looked down at Yun Niang who was running towards her in a hurry, his voice was a little sinister. .
Yun Niang wrapped her face in a scarf, squatted down and said, "Uncle, are you relieved?"
The scarred man nodded and said, "Jin is guarding the house. Don't ruin the family tradition and raise my nephew. I have nothing to say if you remarry."
Yun Niang said: "There is no second marriage for a woman from the Qin family!"
Scarface. The big man laughed and said, "That's great!"
Yun Niang called Yun Zhao, who had just pulled up his trousers, pushed him in front of the scarred man and said, "I've seen your sixth uncle before."
p>Yun Zhao looked at his mother, then at the scar-faced man and said, "Uncle Six?Does this mean I still have five uncles?
The scarred man squatted down and sighed, holding Yun Zhao's shoulders and said: "The first five are dead, and I am the only one left as your blood uncle."
Yun Zhao looked at the scarred man seriously and said, "I read the genealogy, and my father is the only child."
The scar-faced man smiled and said: "There is nothing we can do. This is the rule of our Yun family. Only one person can be in the family tree."
I am your sixth uncle Yun Simeng, people call me Yunmeng, a tiger over mountains! "
Yun Zhao continued to stare at Yun Meng, and finally said slowly: "Are you a robber? "
Yunmeng nodded and said: "Yes, I am a robber.
Yun Zhao looked back at his mother, then looked at Yunmeng and said, "How come there are robbers in our house?"
Yunmeng laughed silently, patted Yun Zhao on the butt and said: "Our family has been bandits for hundreds of years."
You want to have more sons in the future, and you cannot let Crescent Mountain be without people. ”
After encouraging Yun Zhao, Yun Meng got up and went to Yun Fu, who had been waiting for a long time. The two walked and talked in the wheat field, and soon they disappeared.
Yun Zhao’s mother and son sat under the wheat pile, watching Yun’s servants transporting wheat. After a long while, Yun Zhao whispered: “Do they have children? "
Hearing Yun Zhao ask this, a smile emerged from the corner of his eyes, and then spread all over his face.
"There are only eight girls, and the boy is my son. one! "
"Where are they? ”
“Some are married, and some are in Crescent Mountain! "
"Why not send it to our house? "
Yun Niang snorted coldly: "The Yun family is an innocent family! How can we take in bandits! "
Hearing what his mother said, Yun Zhao felt that his face hurt terribly. He looked at his mother with strange eyes and said, "I may also become a robber in the future.
Yunniang said impatiently: "My son studies hard and will be the top scholar in the future and will not be a robber." "
"But my sixth uncle is a robber. ”
“People who are not even listed in the family tree are not considered to be children of the Yun family. My mother finally drove all these people to become robbers, so please don’t call me back again.” "
Yun Zhao sighed and said: "Of the six blood uncles, only one is dead now.
Yunniang gritted her teeth and said: "I only have you as my son, and I won't be a robber!"
Yun Zhao didn’t want to make his mother sad, so he changed the subject and said, “Yunmeng is our blood relative, so who are Yunhu and Yunbao?”
Yun Niang said disdainfully: "Side branch, in my opinion, they are no longer members of the Yun family. Even if there was any friendship a hundred years ago, it is now very weak." ”
“Yunhu seems to be the master of Crescent Moon Mountain. "
" He is not, Yun Meng is. After all, it is my family who still knows how to save face and has not become the king of the mountain. "
"Mom, you hate robbers? "
Yunniang shook her head angrily and said: "I just don’t understand why I have to become a robber when I can live a good life, and I have been a robber for hundreds of years!
If our family did not support the robbers, the Yun family would have become rich a long time ago, so my son would have to be careful when eating a bowl of noodles. "
Yun Zhao hugged his mother's arm and whispered softly: "If the Yun family was just a wealthy family, it might have broken up long ago.
Yunniang hugged her son and said softly: "Son, you don't know what the crescent mountain bandits have done."
They are not good people. ”
It can be seen that Yun Niang has great opinions on the Yin family in Crescent Mountain. The reason why she maintains this relationship now is probably because of her father.
After the sun rises, the earth is like a steamer.
On weekdays, in such hot weather, Yun Zhao and Yun Yang would go swimming in the river and would not come back until the sun was in the west. < /p>
When harvesting wheat, no one dares to take a break no matter how strong the sun is. The adults drive oxcarts to pull the wheat, while the children are scattered in the fields picking up wheat ears.
Clouds. Zhao alone has thousands of acres of wheat land to glean, which makes Yunyang and the others very envious.
“Come and glean in my field. ”
Yun Zhao sent an invitation to Yun Yang, Yun Juan and the others.
These children naturally obeyed the order happily. One person took a large piece of land, and not only did they pick up wheat ears quickly, but they also picked up wheat ears quickly. Clean.
In the afternoon, every child would put down half of the wheat he picked up when he passed by Yun Zhao.
After a while, Yun Zhao was surrounded by wheat. It took Yunjia three carts to load the wheat ears.
In Yun Zhao's eyes, this is the most primitive kind of exploitation. In the eyes of children like Yun Yang, this is a gift.
Yun Zhao had already woken up twice while hiding under the tree, but the young men in the field still refused to go back.
Not only were there no shortage of people, but more people begged Yun. Yun Zhao allowed them to enter the field of Yun's house to pick wheat ears.
Yun Zhao flatly refused, and Yun Yang and the others did not allow others to enter the farmer's house. There is not much land, and when we are harvesting wheat, we want to pick up all the wheat grains that fall in the field. There are no extra ears of wheat for the children to pick up.
The wheat field in Dafang is different. The robbers harvested in a hurry at night, so a lot of wheat fell.
Some people can pick up the wheat, and some can't. This is how the class is established quietly.
Yun Zhao believed that the next time he summoned these young people, they would be full of followers.
When he went home for dinner in the evening, Yun Niang ate alone in the house.
Yun Zhao was dragged to the atrium by Yun Fu to eat with Yun Meng.
I always thought that the robber had a big piece of meat and a big bowl of wine, but when he came to the table, he found that there was nothing but a basin of cold noodles. Other than that, there were only two vegetables and one pot of wine.
Yun Meng filled Yun Zhao with a large bowl of cold noodles, added vinegar and minced garlic, and poured it into him.He picked two chopsticks of green vegetables from the bowl, stirred them casually, then touched Yun Zhao's head and said, "Eat!"
As for the rest, he poured all the rest into the basin, stirred it, and poured it into the bowl. He started eating with a snoring sound.
Eating with the robber uncle is completely different from eating with my mother.
Looking at the strands of noodles entering Uncle Robber’s wide mouth like a mud cow into the sea, Yun Zhao also buried his head in eating with great abandon.
Yun Meng’s smiling eyes came from the edge of the basin, and Yun Zhao’s smiling face also rose from the edge of the big bowl from time to time. Whenever the eyes of the uncle and nephew collided, the noise they made while eating became even louder. It's rough.
Yun Zhao was full with just one bowl of rice, but Yun Meng needed three bowls. People in Guanzhong seemed to never be satisfied with noodles.