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Chapter 73 Groundnuts

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    At four o'clock in the morning, the old wall clock at home had just rang, and Li Changqing got up from the comfortable bed to get dressed.  In this home that doesn't even have an alarm clock, getting up on time is actually a difficult thing, especially in this tiring season.  But Li Changqing's mind was full of peanuts and corn in the field, so he never fell asleep.  Since the old wall clock lost its function of telling time, it was extremely difficult for him to be on time.  For this, the only way is to advance all the time.  This night, he woke up almost every time to the sound of the old wall clock "clicking", looking at the gradually receding darkness outside the window, he knew that he needed to get up.  Yang Yi and the children are still breathing evenly. This shallow voice is his happiest moment. He is reluctant to wake them up. They are all female relatives, but they follow him as a big man in this autumn.  It's not black or white, even if they let them sleep a little longer.  He lowered his voice as much as possible, put on his clothes and tiptoed down to the ground.  Yang Yi heard the sound of Li Changqing putting on his shoes, and woke up in a daze.

    "Is it time?"

    "Yes." Li Changqing replied softly.

    At this moment, Yang Yi felt sore all over her body. Due to the days of hard work and physical weakness, this hardworking woman's body was full of invisible pains, but those pains never left her for a moment.  , or mitigated.

    "Oh, my whole body hurts." Yang Yi groaned, she really couldn't bear it anymore, maybe this kind of groaning could make her mentally release a little pain.

    "You're in pain again. Do you want to take some painkillers?" Li Changqing asked with concern.

    "No, eating is the same thing, it's a temporary solution, not a permanent cure." Yang Yi's tone was filled with impatience because of the pain and residual sleepiness.

    "Don't get up, I'll go alone." Li Changqing really couldn't bear to let Yang Yi follow him to suffer the fatigue, so he should do more by himself.

    "Forget it, two acres of land, how can you finish it by yourself?" Yang Yi replied impatiently, but also put on her clothes.

    "Then I'll go directly to the field. You can sift some grass for the donkey and feed some sticks."

    "Um."

    Li Changqing took the sickle and walked up to the old Erba bicycle. As usual, he chose the bulky Erba and left the lighter Erba to Yang Yi.

    Twilight still enveloped the land.  The autumn harvest in the countryside has been going on for half a month, and now it is almost entering late autumn, and the dew is already thick.  Li Changqing was wearing thick clothes, but when he was riding the bicycle, he still felt the cold wind pouring directly into his body, making his teeth tremble unconsciously.  Although it is a busy season in autumn, there are not many families like Li Changqing's who get up early to catch up with work, and those with less land are also working in a leisurely manner.  Occasionally, one or two cyclists will pass by on the road, but because of the heavy twilight, each other is also busy on the road, and there is no time to say hello.  Li Changqing skillfully parked the second child in his own peanut field, looking at the snow-white big fat peanut, he was still drowsy and his energy was greatly increased.  This year's harvest is good, and the year's hard work has not been in vain. What a blessing for this simple farmer.  He picked up the sickle from the second child with a "swish", spat twice on both hands, rubbed his hands together, and then began to cut the knife "bang bang bang".  What he cuts are the mulberry strips from his own mulberry strips. These mulberry strips will be used to bind peanuts, which is the method left by the ancestors.  Everything they have comes from this land, and these mulberry sticks that have been bound with peanuts will be used by Yang Yi to support the plastic shed for vegetable beds in the coming year.

    "Kang Bang Bang" Li Changqing's scythe continued, he wanted to pick mulberry sticks, not all mulberry sticks could be used as ropes.  Too hard will not work, nor will it be too short. He has to visually measure the length of the mulberry strips.  Yang Yi also took care of the old donkey and came to the field. She not only sifted the old donkey's grass, but also fed it two big corns.  In such a tiring season, Yang Yi always insisted on letting the old donkey eat something good. Apart from Li Changqing, this is the most important labor of this family, and it must not collapse.  Yang Yi went to the shop without saying hello to Li Changqing.  They need to bundle the dried peanuts scattered all over the ground. The dried peanuts will make them easy to drop when they drop the peanuts. But it is precisely because they have been dried that the bundles will be very brittle and broken all over the ground during the day.  So they had to take advantage of the early morning, after a night of heavy dew, and then work before the sun came out.

    ? Yang Yi mechanically opened the shop, and Li Changqing had already cut enough mulberry strips, and started to open the shop from the other end.  Night, quiet and silent.  In the world of this land, the two closest people are working silently.  There was only the sound of the peanut seedlings falling together from one shop to another, and then their hurried footsteps.

    bend over, usePick up a bed of peanuts from the ground with both hands, and then bend down to pick up another bed of peanuts, stacking them in opposite directions.  Again, bend over, stand up, bend over, stand up.  They kept repeating these actions mechanically, and their waists had already resisted the mechanical labor. The pain was conveyed to every nerve of them, and the fatigue made them pant heavily.  breath.

    "Let's make the bundles smaller. It will be too heavy to get on the car after a while." Yang Yi looked at Li Changqing's big bundles, each of which had to push herself twice, and couldn't help feeling a little angry.  This happens every time, the bundle is so big that she can't move it.

    "It's okay, I'll get in the car later, I can just take it." Li Changqing's stubbornness is really a bull, and no one will listen to what others say.  He just thought that he could save one less bundle and save some time.

    In the early morning, the sun broke through the white belly of the east, and slowly flashed its brilliance.  The dim golden color slowly turned into a dazzling light, and with the change of light, the temperature of the air also rose.  Although the humidity in the air was no longer that high, but because of the whole morning tossing, except for the middle part of their bodies, the rest of their bodies were already wet, and they could only bear the humidity and continue to work.  Finally, with the joint efforts of the two people, the peanuts on the entire two-acre field have become bundles, welcoming the rising sun.

    When they got home, the children had already prepared breakfast. Although it was simple noodles and fried pumpkin, the two of them were very satisfied.  As they grow older, children become more sensible, and they share more and more housework and even farm work, which greatly reduces their workload.  After a simple meal, they put on the donkey cart and went down to pull peanuts.  They must hurry up before noon, otherwise the peanut seedlings will become drier and shattered under the sun, and more peanuts will be dropped, which is why they get up so early.

    Two wooden bars will be inserted in the front and rear gaps of the donkey cart, which are basically at a forty-five-degree angle to the body, and then the bundles of peanuts will be arranged regularly, so as to ensure that there are as many pulls as possible without the cart.  At the same time, it can ensure that the peanut bundle does not fall off when going uphill or bumpy on the road.  Several older children were loading the car, and the work of loading the car was even more tiring. Because of her young age, Chen Yao was arranged to pick up the dropped peanuts.  In their eyes, every peanut is their sweat, and they are not willing to waste one.  After the whole family helped the old donkey to push the heavy cart of peanuts from the sloping field to the road, everyone followed them home. There was still a lot of farm work to be done at home.  Chen Yao also speeded up alone, quickly scanning the land.  Constantly bend down, pick up, bend down again, pick up again.  In the constant repetition, time passed, and the people on the road who had already been busy harvesting autumn, Chen Yao finally completed the task satisfactorily after fighting for half a day. Looking at the basket full of groundnuts, she rode on it with satisfaction.  The sophomore and eighth go home.

    "The third grandma is going to the ground!"

    "Well, what are you doing here?"

    "We pulled peanuts, and I picked peanuts."

    "Um."

    She warmly greeted the familiar elders along the way. Autumn is the harvest season. Although it is hard work, everyone's face is filled with the satisfaction of harvest.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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