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Chapter 60 Picking up Wheat

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    After planting in spring, farmers will not be idle.  They have to apply pesticides to the land within a week of planting to prevent weeds from growing.  It is also necessary to catch up with the subsequent spring rains to replenish the seedlings in the land that lacks seedlings.  There will always be some seeds that cannot germinate and grow on time, but they do not allow a little land to be wasted.

    Yang Yi's legs are numb from kneeling. Although the overall emergence of seedlings is relatively good this year, there are four or five seedlings in some places.  She wants to dig out all the land in that place, and then check the situation.  Is it because of grubs, a nasty big white worm, or because too much fertilizer or dung burned the seeds.  Others just dig a hole and replant it. She must find the bugs to kill or dig out part of the fertilizer before replanting again.  Although it is tiring, every replanting effect is very good.  After making up for the missing seeds, Yang Yi will also spend time pulling out the weeds in the places with large gaps in the mulberry ridge, and planting beans or corn.  Although it will be affected by the sangtiao, there will still be a small harvest every year, and she has never given up.

    Although Li Changqing is now in charge of his own work arrangements, he does some small business according to the season.  Rice is sold in spring, fruit is sold in summer, and sorghum seedlings and mulberry sticks are harvested in autumn and winter.  In addition to major events such as spring planting, autumn harvest, plucking wheat, and weeding, he also strictly allows himself to go out to make money most of the time.  Every day he stays at home means that the family loses a day's income.  And this also means that the farm work of more than ten acres of land falls on Yang Yi.  After replanting, weeding is the next step.  Although the pesticides helped alleviate some of the weeds, they could not suppress the growth of all the weeds. She had to complete the weeding work twice before the wheat harvest came.  In addition, several children are already studying at school. The children and Li Changqing have three meals a day, and she has to take care of the pigs, donkeys, chickens and ducks at home.  She spent every day in countless toils.

    In a blink of an eye, it has arrived at the Dragon Boat Festival. This is the season of early June, and it is the harvest season in the north. They call it Maiqiu here.  She has gone to the wheat field many times to confirm that this year's wheat is growing very well, and the fruit is already full at this moment. After a few days of sun ripening, this year will be a bumper harvest year.  Today is Saturday, while the children are at home, Yang Yi is making zongzi.  Every year at this time, a big pot of zongzi is wrapped, enough for the whole family to eat for a long time.  In this way, most of the time, Yang Yi doesn't have to rush to prepare and cook in the busy work. She only needs to heat up the rice dumplings and cook some dishes, or when she is the most tired, she can simply use white sugar to solve the problem.

    The wheat autumn season is another busy farming season in the countryside. The wheat must be taken back to the home within ten days, otherwise the wheat grains will fall because it takes too long. This is a huge loss for the farmers, and no one can afford it.  rise.  So every household is busy working from dawn to dusk, busy harvesting their own wheat.  Especially when the rainy day comes, the consequences are even more unimaginable.  Although June has not officially entered the rainy season in the north, rain has always been God's temper, and farmers are people who eat according to God's face.  Lazy people still follow the farming season and engage in farming.

    This year, Li Changqing's family planted a total of 3 mu of wheat, 8 mu of land along the road, and 3 mu of irrigated fields.  It stands to reason that such an important ration of wheat must be planted in good land like irrigated fields, because winter water must be watered for the winter.  In general, the wheat on the three-acre field is not enough to eat. The children are growing up, and the children also love to eat pasta. Fortunately, there is a well not far from the road along the eight-fold land, although it is far away.  It's a little farther away, but if the water pipe is used to connect it, it can also be watered.  Therefore, after discussions between Li Changqing and his wife, they raised 80% of the land.  Although it is a small eight-cent land, Yang Yi knows that this is another heavy farm work for her husband.  Although he and his children try to help as much as possible, he is the only man in the family after all, and the main farm work is still on him alone.  Fortunately, Li Changqing is a hard-working person who never complains about suffering or being tired, and the children are also sensible.  This year's Maiqiu work has been completed in a tense and tiring manner.  Most of the wheat fields in the village have been vacated these days, but only for a few days.  Every household is busy threshing and drying wheat.  When it rains again in a few days, the late-season peanuts and corn will be sown in the wheat fields.  However, it happens to be the free time of these few days. For Chen Yao, it is the best harvest time, which belongs only to her.

    Chen Yao is holding her own small cage made of mulberry strips, which is the most common utensil in the countryside.  When planting in spring, women tie a rope to its handle, straddle its neck obliquely, put its arms through the handle, and skillfully take out peanut and corn seeds from it, and quickly sow them in the ground;  In summer, they are taken with their owners to bloom the freshly cleared weeds in the fields under the scorching sun;In autumn, they are put again into the gaps between the loosened peanut fields to pick up the lost groundnuts; in winter, they are finally filled with the year's harvest, peanuts and corn.

    At this moment, this little cage that plays an important role throughout the year is straddling Chen Yao's arms. She is wearing a pink poncho with holes in it. It was bought by her mother for her sister who went to school the year before last.  Yes, my sister had a rest today, so she was able to borrow this torn poncho and went to the field.

    Her young and thin body shrank into a black water well on the ground in the open ridges of the wheat field. Although her parents had tried their best to satisfy their food and did not make them hungry, her body was still there.  They are so thin, probably malnourished. Apart from food, they rarely have other nutrition, especially meat, which is a luxury for them.  Fortunately, it is now June, and my diligent mother has planted various vegetables at home, such as melons, cucumbers, beans, eggplants, tomatoes, green peppers, and peppers.  Therefore, this season, fortunately, they do not lack fresh vegetables, which is a blessing of the season.  However, at this moment, the fourth child who was standing among the ridges of the field still had something he wanted to get¡ªinstant noodles.

    Many years later, Chen Yao remembered how innocent she was back then, but she missed that innocent time very much.

    For seven-year-old Chen Yao, instant noodles are a luxury item. This fresh species has not appeared in the countryside for a few years, but it has won the favor of children because of its delicious taste.  Children from wealthy families always hold a bag of instant noodles in their hands after school, and then they must crush them with their hands, then put the seasoning in the seasoning bag into it, and then shake it vigorously with their hands until every broken one  The instant noodle dregs can be evenly seasoned to taste, and then they start to enjoy the deliciousness.

    Children who know how to eat start with those slightly larger pieces, which can be stuffed into their mouths with their hands, and then when they are finished eating, the broken instant noodle dregs are poured into their mouths along one end of the bag, mixed with seasonings  The taste, just thinking about it can make people drool.  At this moment, her tongue couldn't help licking her lips.  She really missed that taste too much. Her mother used to exchange wheat for a box of instant noodles for the four of her sisters, but they were eaten up quickly.  However, my mother no longer jokes about using one year's rations. They have no money and can only use grain to exchange according to the ratio, but grain is the most important material in the family.  Grain is the rations that the family eats, the seeds sown in the next year, and they will be sold for money.  But Chen Yao really likes to eat that instant noodles.  So, today, for that bag of instant noodles, she alone embarked on the journey of picking wheat in this slanting wind and drizzle in June.

    No matter how serious the harvest is, due to busyness or night work, some ears of wheat will always be left in the ground. In the past, for the ration of the family, my mother once took her to the field to pick ears of wheat.  But this year, the family has planted 80% of the land, and my mother does not need to pick up the wheat ears, and she has no time. She is busy drying the wheat and preparing things for farming in a few days, and then she will start feeding  The family prepares autumn shoes and clothes.  But Chen Yao has time.

    She carefully searched along the ridges of the wheat field one by one. Every time she picked up a wheat ear, she ran over quickly, for fear of being snatched by others, but the fact was that she was the only one in the field.  The farmers who have been busy with a wheat autumn are taking advantage of the rain to recuperate. This is the only time they can rest. When the sun comes out, they will be busy with endless farm work.

    Although she is thin and small, she is very nimble. In a short time, she has scoured nearly half an acre of land. There is already a thick layer of wheat ears lying in her beloved little basket. She is so happy to see them, and even  Regardless of the pattering rain, she took off the hat of the poncho, and let the light rain hit her a little messy braid.  It was a small braid she made herself. Because there are many children in the family, her mother had made it clear that she would not let them wear long braids. But she saw that all the little girls at school had long braids, so she was very happy, and begged for a long time, and finally  On the condition that she never let her mother help with her hair, she left the hair that can be braided a little bit now. This was done by my sister for her help.

    She bends down for a while, runs for a while, looks around for a while, looks back and forth, for fear that she will drop a wheat ear, but she will never allow it, that is her instant noodle hope, only with these wheat ears, can she eat it  My favorite instant noodles.  Finally, she has turned a large piece of land upside down, and even those ears of wheat that are half exposed and half buried in the soil have been carefully stored in small cages by her.  With half a basket of wheat ears, she happily walked home as if she had found a treasure.

    Back home, she found a clean fertilizer bag.  Those bags used to hold chemical fertilizers. After the spring planting every year, my mother would find a sunny day to wash them, and then put them away, waiting to be used in different busy seasons of the year.  She took out one from the outermost roll of the clean bag, spread it on the ground, and then carefully poured out the ears of wheat in the cage. She will wait for the sun to come out tomorrow, and she will dry these ears of wheat under the sun.  Then wait for them to dry, rub out the wheat, and then use a small dustpan to remove the skin of the wheat, and she can get the wheat.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com)Wash them in the best weather and put them away, waiting to be taken out and used at various busy times of the year.  She took out one from the outermost roll of the clean bag, spread it on the ground, and then carefully poured out the ears of wheat in the cage. She will wait for the sun to come out tomorrow, and she will dry these ears of wheat under the sun.  Then wait for them to dry, rub out the wheat, and then use a small dustpan to remove the skin of the wheat, and she can get the wheat.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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