The next day, everyone got up early in the morning.
Ji Qingqing's family has a total of five acres of paddy fields, scattered in three places, of which about two acres are relatively far away.
So starting from far to near, Xue waited until dawn, carried the threshing machine, carried the empty basket, and took the sickle and went to the farthest field first.
The threshing machine of this era can be regarded as a semi-automatic piece of large machinery.
When you step on the pedal with your feet, the rotating shaft drives the cylindrical threshing machine placed horizontally in front of you to rotate.
Put a handful of cut rice on it, and the densely packed flat arched iron rings on the cylinder will thresh all the rice. , and fell into the large square wooden barrel below.
When the barrel is almost full, he puts the rice into the basket and carries it home to dry in the sun.
The threshing machine is also a big thing for farmers.
Not every family has one, and usually you will pay a few bucks to borrow it.
Ji Qingqing and the others borrowed it from Aunt Mu's house.
Early in the morning, Xue, Ji Minghe and others went to catch up on early work.
Ji Qingqing and Ji Qingxue cooked and did housework at home.
When the rice was picked back, they were also responsible for drying it.
The rice just picked up from the field is not only heavy in water, but also contains a lot of rice leaves and other debris.
You have to use a bamboo broom made of bamboo branches to gently sweep away all the debris.
While drying, turn it from time to time so that all the rice can reach the sun, and then sweep away the debris.
It takes several sweeps to get clean, golden rice.
On a sunny day, after drying for about four or five days, the rice can be stored in the granary.
If it's cloudy, you'll have more days.
And if it rains, it will be even worse.
Seeing the dark clouds rolling in from the sky, you have to hurriedly gather the rice into a pile and cover it with something to prevent it from getting wet.
Otherwise, they will sprout once they get wet, and all the hard work of the year will be ruined.
During the autumn harvest season, the weather is cloudy and cloudy, and a few clouds can cause rain.
It is not too common to see the grain being harvested and causing a lot of chaos.
So farming is really hard work.
After two days of busy work, all the rice was collected and piled on two large bamboo mats in the yard to dry, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
This year's harvest is very good.
If we save a little bit of the rice harvested from the four acres of land and mix it with some coarse grains, it shouldn't be a problem to eat until next autumn's harvest.
These two days were sunny again, so the collected rice was able to be dried in time.
After these two days, except for the last four loads, most of the water was basically dried.
As long as it doesn't rain, it doesn't matter even if it's cloudy, because there will be no danger of sprouting.
Looking at the thick rice drying and smelling the unique fresh smell, Mrs.
The big thing is finally done.”
Ji Qingqing smiled and said: "Mom and dad, take a good rest for two days, you are tired."
Mrs.
Aunt Mu, Uncle Mu, and their eldest son Mu Shiguang all came to help, so Xue, Ji Minghe, and Ji Tongning also went to help.
Ji Qingqing couldn't help but say "Hey", and she couldn't help but feel distressed when she thought of her parents carrying the burden, their faces covered with sweat, panting from exhaustion, and covered with mud and grass clippings.
The past two days when she and her sister were drying grain at home were not relaxing at all.
Thinking about being so tired every year and just barely making ends meet, it’s really not worth it and I’m not willing to do it.
There is no time to delay in getting rich.
Although it was a bit early to finish work today, Xue and Ji Minghe were both kind people and had already told Aunt Mu and the others to come over for dinner, so they might not refuse.
Seeing that it was almost time, Ji Qingqing and Ji Qingxue prepared to cook.
This morning, sister-in-law Li, who sells tofu in a neighboring village, came around the village carrying a load of tofu.
They also bought several pieces.
Ji and Tongning also dug through the mud in the fields and caught a lot of loaches, which were perfect for making loach-roasted tofu.
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People in the countryside are short of money, so who can think of eating meat from time to time?
If you help with the work, you will be a kind person if you ensure that you have enough white rice for others.
Unexpectedly, when he was preparing to cook, Ji Tongning came back carrying a pheasant.
Mrs.
So he got busy and slaughtered the pheasant and shed its feathers.
Ji Qingqing was also very happy.
He looked at the pheasant with a smile, plucked two long and beautiful pheasant tail hairs and kept them, and praised Ji Tongning for being so awesome.
Ji Tongning chuckled, leaned closer to Ji Qingqing and whispered: "Actually, I caught two.
I didn't want to give them to the other side, so I hid one in the vegetable garden and didn't bring it back.
Tomorrow we will go out to work, you can get it back and put it with Qingxue."
Cooked" Ji Qingqing couldn't help but laugh, winked and nodded: "Well, okay, fourth brother is so smart."
"That's right," Ji Tongning snorted, "You haven't seen how lazy my fourth uncle is when he works.
He eats it slowly.
It's better to throw it away for them to eat."
Ji Qingqing also heard Mr.
Xue's complaint that Ji Mingyao was too lazy to show off and made people angry when he saw it.
No wonder the fourth brother would be like this, so he naturally agreed without any hesitation.
Then he said: "Fourth brother, don't worry, my sister and I will take care of it and leave some for you and your parents."
There is a pheasant tonight, so there is no need to make eggs anymore.
One roasted pheasant, one loach roasted with tofu, plus a wolfberry sprout chicken soup and a stir-fried green vegetable are enough.
Afraid that Ji Minghe would feel uncomfortable, Mrs. , I’ll send it to you after you finish eating.”
Ji Qingxue agreed with a smile.
Ji Qingqing pursed her lips and smiled.
She understood that her mother was afraid that sending her here now would attract her greedy fourth uncle and instigate her second uncle and sister-in-law.
Grandma would definitely think it was too little and would make a fuss again.
Just give it away after you finish eating, so that they can stop making trouble, and you don't have to worry about eating.
When Aunt Mu and the others came over, they couldn't help but clapped their hands and laughed when they saw such sumptuous dishes: "Hey, your Tong Ning is so capable that we can catch up."
Mrs.
If it’s divided well, I’ll be satisfied.”
Aunt Mu's two sons are both very good, but the one she is most proud of is her youngest son, Mu Shiyan.
They studied well and were sensible and diligent.
Every time they came back from the county college, they always said that they were working hard at home, scrambling for help, and doing everything in the fields
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