Chapter 22 Autumn Harvest II
Just now, she saw that her parents were standing at the edge of the two. Guoer came over to pick up the places they had cut. As a result, she just took a look and compared with the ones next to her, and immediately could see the good or bad.
The place where these two people cut was the same as Erlin and Sanlin. The wheat ears sprinkled on the ground were very obvious. This would make it convenient for them, and they just need to pick up the two straits at the edge.
Guo'er sighed helplessly. Several girls were lowering their heads to pick them up when they heard someone shouting at this place in the distance: "Uncle San, eat slowly, we'll go back first, come over later."
Dad Yao also responded a few words and enthusiastically invited the man to come and have dinner together. Naturally, the man would not come. Both sides stopped after making some polite words.
"That's the son of the Fourth Grandpa's family. We call it cousin. Their land is next to ours. On the other side is the land of the Second Grandpa's family. The land of both of their families belongs to their own, which is different from ours."
Zao'er knew that Guo'er rarely came to the field, so she explained to her in a low voice.
Guo'er looked from a distance and saw that there were several men and women in the fourth grandfather's house holding sickles in their hands and putting them onto a ox cart parked on the side of the road. It seemed that he was going back in the ox cart.
"The fourth grandfather's house has thirty acres of land, and the ox cart is their own. In previous years, they drove ox carts to harvest crops. They didn't have to deliver food from their homes at noon, but took ox carts to eat and transported the cut wheat back.
Unlike our family, after we finish cutting the wheat, we can only use the wooden truck at home to pull it back one by one."
Zao'er continued to whisper to several sisters.
Guo'er understood that this place should be what Bao told her, the bride gift given by the Wang family when she took Huaihua as her aunt.
On the right is the land of the second grandfather's family. The second grandfather's family is not large in population, nearly half of the fewer than his family, but the twenty acres of land planted by the family belong to their own family. So in this way, the second grandfather and the fourth grandfather's family are in much better condition than the Guoer family.
Tao rarely walked around the village for so many years. Even if he encountered busy days like autumn harvest, he would only cook at home and would not come out for a while. He was also afraid that he would get angry if he met her sister-in-law on the ground.
The second grandma can still take care of her words, but the fourth grandma. She loved to part with the Tao when she was young. In recent years, the Tao family has declined, but the fourth grandma's family has started to shake. As soon as the two meet, they will definitely have a fight.
The fourth grandmother's mouth was so sarcastic that every word was touching Tao's heart. Huihui was so angry that she caught her daughter-in-law and granddaughters after returning home, and she would not stop calming for several days.
After everyone finished their meal, Zaoer poured some uncooked water into a jar for them to leave, then packed up the baskets all over the floor and carried them home.
"Go back and take the three little rockini back. Children should not be too tired from being too tired. I will give you two cans of water in the afternoon and eat after lunch."
After Dad Yao gave instructions to his granddaughters, he asked them to take three Lin home.
The four little girls walked back with their three younger brothers. Three forests didn't have to work in the afternoons and happily jumped all the way back. While greeting them, the sisters did not forget to look at the busy figures in the surrounding fields.
When I passed by the old man’s land, Zaoer pointed it out to them, and it was so big.
The eldest grandfather has an eldest son who is the village chief and a second son who is the captain in the county yamen. In Shangyao Village, he is the most wealthy family.
Yao'er's eyes were sharp-eyed, and he saw a few familiar figures not far away, and hurriedly waved to the other side: "Da Ya, Er Ya!"
Da Ya and Er Ya in the distance followed several adults with sickles in their hands. They were about to sit down and rest when they heard the sound.
Seeing that it was them, they lowered their heads and said something to their mother. The two sisters put down the sickles in their hands and walked towards them.
"Zaoer, Jiaer, are you here to deliver food?"
After getting close to Erya, Da Ya looked at the four sisters intimately and said, "The two sisters had dense sweat beads on their dark and thin faces."
"Well, are you working for the grandpa's house? Have you had lunch?"
Zaoer asked with her eyes open at the grandfather's house in front of her.
Da Ya shook her head: "We are just delivering the food from the village chief's house. We are resting and preparing to eat. Grandpa is kind-hearted and willing to hire my mother to work with us for a few days. How much money can we earn, and we will take care of two meals."
As Da Ya spoke, the joy on her face unconsciously revealed.
During the autumn harvest, some families planted a lot of land, but they had to find short-term workers when they were too busy. Naturally, they only found strong laborers. Few people were willing to spend money to hire a few women to work. Moreover, the rest of the Da Ya family except Da Ya Niang were all thin girls.
Grandpa Yao Chengyi was kind-hearted and looked at their mothers and four pitiful ones, so he specially discussed with his son and hired them.
When Da Ya heard that they hadn't eaten yet, Zaoer and others were reluctant to disturb him, so they hurriedly urged the two sisters to go over and have dinner. The girls said a few more words before they separated reluctantly.
When he returned home, Tao saw the three young grandsons running back with sweat on their heads. He stroked them one by one with heartache, and then asked about the situation in the Zaoer field carefully. He knew that Dad Yao and his group had eaten and drunk enough and then felt relieved.
Tao ordered several granddaughters to clean up the three Lins, and rushed their grandchildren to go back to the house to sleep, and then assigned the work to do in the afternoon.
I had the food I bought a few days ago, and I also had the spare money box of Guoer. Tao felt confident in the evening’s meals. I thought that I hadn’t eaten noodles for a long time, so I made rolled noodles to eat at night.
When scooping the noodles, Tao was not willing to scoop all into white noodles. After hesitating for a while, hesitated and added two large spoons of black noodles into it, adding water to start kneading the noodles.
Kneading dough is a slow skill. When the dough is kneaded, the noodles will be strong and will taste fragrant when eaten.
Zaoer and his wife have never rolled noodles. In the past, when they were eating noodles, Tao would personally scoop the noodles and then supervise a few daughters-in-law to knead and roll them. How could they have the opportunity to learn crafts for their granddaughters?
Dow rubbed the dough hard in front of the chopping board, and his mouth was not idle. He directed a few girls to wash, peel and cut the pulled green onions, garlic sprouts, vegetables, etc., and waited for Dow to knead the dough, and the dishes were almost ready.
Take out the piece of pork that I had never been willing to eat in the cabinet. Dow carefully cut half of it and put the rest back into the cabinet.
Guoer saw it and interrupted, "Milk, the hot meat cannot be kept for too long in the weather. Why not make all the meat today, eat half today and keep half tomorrow."
This time, Doo did not answer, and just looked at Guo'er with his eyes squinted, obviously waiting for her to continue talking.
Guoer followed the good news: "Don't worry, wait until the meat is finished, I will be responsible for buying it for us."
"That's what you said!"
What Dow waited for was this sentence Guoer.
Guoer nodded obediently. Tao was not polite. She took out her other half of the meat and placed it on the chopping board. She carefully cut the skin on it with a knife and put it aside. Then she chopped the remaining meat into small pieces of even size and put it in the pot and started cooking. She did not forget to tell Douer to be careful when the heat was.
Guo'er remembered the spices she bought from the county town last time, and she had never taken them out in her box and used them. She turned around and wanted to pick them up.
Then I thought again, it would be better not to add spices this time and try what the original pork tastes like in this era. So I stopped and didn’t plan to use the spices for the time being.
Dow took out a long rolling pin and started rolling the noodles. Guoer watched from the side. She actually rolled noodles, but she had never rolled so many at once.
Seeing that Dow rolled a large piece of dough in front of him into a thin piece bit by bit, the entire chopping board could not be spread, then he folded the dough with a rolling pin again, cut it into two fingers wide with a kitchen knife and piled it there.
Guoer admired her from the bottom of her heart. Although this grandmother is usually fierce, she is not vague when she works.
When cooking, Dow changed his usual habit of using meat skin to dip some oily and fishy skin on the bottom of the pot. He took out a small jar containing pork butter, carefully poured a little pork butter into the pot, and began to direct the soap to stir-fry.
Guoer glanced higher at the cabinet. There was no use of the rapeseed oil she bought at all. Dow said he would keep it for the New Year.
It’s different if there is too much oil. Soon the aroma of vegetables in the pot wafts up.
As the sky was getting darker, people in the village began to transport the cut wheat back with their own wooden trucks.
There is only one common threshing farm. The wheat cut by each company is transported back to the yards of each company first, and then the lottery is drawn to decide the order of the threshing farm. Which company will take the turn to transport the wheat to the threshing farm to thresh and raise the farm.
The Tao family sent three forests to guard the gate. At this time, neighbors pushed wooden carts back to put wheat in, but they never saw their own carts coming back.
Tao couldn't help but start to wonder again, the old man hated him so much that he probably wouldn't know if he would come back until it was dark.
After waiting for a while, torches were lit in the yards of each family to light up the harvested wheat. Tao also asked several granddaughters to light up the torches prepared in advance. Only then did he hear the voices of Yao Sanzhu and his wife outside.
"My father and my mother are back from transporting wheat!"
Wulin happily ran in to report the news, and saw Yao Sanzhu and his wife pushing a truck full of wheat into the house.
"Mom, I'm so tired of my son!"
Yao Sanzhu and Bao pushed the wooden cart in, put it in the yard, and sat down next to him, shouting that Zaoer and others were quickly bringing water to them for food.
"How are your father and the others?" asked Dow.
"It's time to tie wheat in the field, and it takes several trains to finish it."
Yao Sanzhu responded vaguely while gnawing a bread in his mouth, while Bao lowered his head to eat and drink without saying anything.
"He is the one who is capable of this dead old man."
Dow muttered, and went up to his granddaughters to unload the wheat in the car in bundles and put them in place.
The wheat was tied strongly with hemp rope, and Guoer and Douer were small in size and could not carry it at all. They had to cooperate with each other to carry a bundle. After a while, a truck of wheat was unloaded.
The second time I came back from pulling the cart was Yao Erzhu and Yao Sizhu. This time, the two of them didn't have to do anything with their granddaughters. They put down the cart and started unloading the wheat down, and they were finished soon.
After drinking some water, the two of them didn't care about receiving the bread handed over by Tao. They just said that their father was still waiting on the ground, so they pulled the cart out.
After transporting back and forth seven or eight times, all the cut wheat was finally transported back. On the last trip, Dad Yao brought everyone to the field with the car, Zaoer and a few people fetched water and served the food. After a lot of trouble, everyone sat down to have a meal.
Chapter completed!