Yang Xue and Yang Xiubo left with their buckets, and Xu Chunjiao was not polite. They even followed them to shell corn.
"Girl, my corn is grown in the same day as yours. Why are your corns bigger and earlier than ours?" Xu Chunjiao kept asking questions while holding her hands.
"Auntie, I bought these corn seeds from the county seed station, and I soaked the corn seeds in water overnight."
"Can this still happen?"
"I just think it won't dry out this way, and the corn will germinate more easily."
"That makes sense. Have you soaked the wheat too?"
"Yes, and I also bought the seeds from a seed station."
"I'll try the same thing this year."
"Me too, this corn cob is much bigger than mine."
"Auntie, when does your family harvest corn?" Su Yuanyuan asked Xu Chunjiao.
"Your uncle said it can be done the day after tomorrow."
"Auntie. Where is your home?"
"My family will have to wait at least four or five days. There is no other way. At that time, those few people will work like foreigners."
"Then I will break corn for my aunt's house the day after tomorrow. After her house has finished doing it, your house will probably start too."
"Girl, thank you."
Su Yuanyuan just laughed, she was an orphan, but now she was the first family in the village to grow wheat.
If you do it yourself, it will probably take at least a week to harvest and plant, so it will be done in three days.
Now she can be said to be at ease.
Yang Ming just came over. He asked Su Yuanyuan where the wooden sticks were. Then he started making a simple corn basket by the eaves.
Two boys also went to help, and it was actually done in half an hour.
The third uncle now started to install the corn basket. This saves space, is convenient to cover when it rains, and is also easy to dry. After all, the bottom is suspended in the air, which is equivalent to ventilation on several sides.
"Girl, your corn is really 30% bigger. And it's not shriveled yet. This means the yield is 30% more."
Yang Minggang is really envious. In fact, for farmers, maybe they don't envy others for their rich money or their wives and children. But they certainly envy their grain output.
Everyone went home at noon. Su Yuanyuan had lunch and rested for a while, then sat in front of the corn pile and continued to peel the corn. She would definitely be able to peel it all before evening. In this way, she would have completed one-third of this year's farm work.
By four o'clock in the afternoon, the corn had already been put into the basket.
Su Yuanyuan spread the corn husks she peeled off in the yard, dried them in the sun and used them as firewood.
The cages that were still raised the next day were divided between the two families. She didn't ask for the shrimps either. She arranged the inside and outside of the house, and waited for help to cut the sorghum ears in a few days.
The soybeans are ready to be harvested, but they must be cut in the morning when there is dew, otherwise the pods will explode and the soybean kernels will fall off.
She planted an acre of soybeans and planned to cut some every morning, so she couldn't be in a hurry.
Today, Yang Hongwen's family was cutting corn, and Su Yuanyuan got up at four o'clock. She cut soybeans for two hours, spent another half an hour cleaning up the house, and then went to the fields with a sickle.
The family had already started to work, and Su Yuanyuan started to break the corn next to them.
Yang Hongwen's family had fifteen acres of corn, and they worked for three days before finally clearing the land.
"Uncle, I will help my aunt break corn tomorrow."
"Okay, if you're tired, just take a day off."
"It's fine."
Su Yuanyuan did not go home and went directly to Hu Chunhua's house.
"Girl, your uncle said it will be the day after tomorrow to break the corn. I don't have much land at home. I can get it back in two days."
"Okay, I still have half an acre of soybeans and I can finish cutting them tomorrow."
"What time do you get up every day, girl? Don't be too tired." Hu Chunhua felt sorry for this girl, but he also knew that this was the right way to live a happy life.
"It's not too early to get up at four in the morning. Auntie, I'm going back."
"Um."
Hu Chunhua went to Yang Hongwen's house to help shell corn. At this time, there were already five or six women helping in the yard.
This is how it is in the countryside. People who don't work together will help shuck the corn when it comes home.
Of course, we also help each other.
"Chunhua, when will your family harvest the corn?"
"The day after tomorrow. Gangzi said the day after tomorrow."
"Your family only has six acres of land, so it can be worked quickly."
"Well, let's finish it quickly. We still have to plant wheat."
"They all grow wheat?"
"Yes, where is your home?"
"My family is still a few days away. It was two days late when we planted the fields, and it will be ten days late when we harvest."
There is nothing we can do about this. Not every family has livestock. That’s how it is with a partner. This year, your family will plant first, and next year, his family will plant.
They were all willing to do the work, and this group of women continued stripping until late at night.
The next day, Su Yuanyuan still got up at four o'clock in the morning to cut soybeans. She didn't stop until after eight o'clock. There was only two pieces of land left. She would finish it early tomorrow morning.
It's late to feed the pigs today. I have no choice but to do it in the morning when the dew is heavy.
It was already nine o'clock when I finished my work. I took the cart and took it to the river to set up a cage.
I got home and packed up, and worked until noon, when I had a moment of rest.
After lunch, we went to Yang Hongwen’s farm.
They only have one cow and are not very fast.
"Auntie, why don't I go fetch the sheep, but the furrows are not as deep as those for cattle, and the furrows are also dense."
Before Xu Chunjiao could say anything, Yang Xiubo spoke.
"Girl, lend it to us for two days. Don't worry, I won't tire the sheep, and I'll feed it."
Su Yuanyuan nodded and went home to find out if there was a trap.
Yang Xiubo supported Huozi, and Su Yuanyuan followed behind to plant seeds.
This made me feel a lot faster. I kept working until it got dark, and then I went home.
Su Yuanyuan felt sorry for the sheep, so she gave it diluted spiritual spring water when she returned home, so she wouldn't worry about tiring it out.
The next day, Yang Xiubo came to take the sheep, and Su Yuanyuan went to Hu Chunhua's house to help.
Now that the soybeans that I'm most worried about have been harvested, I can just put them in the yard to dry in the sun, and wait until they are given to two helpers before harvesting them.
On the third day, Hu Chunhua's family also started planting wheat. His family had small donkeys. Because there was little land, their family did not borrow any sheep.
I helped plant wheat for another two days. Only then could I rest for two days. The rest was wasteland, so there was no rush. The family could work slowly.
Yang Xiubo sent Su Yuanyuan a relatively large roller, which was perfect for pressing the soybeans.
Su Yuanyuan was very tired these days. So she fed the family animals the next morning and lay down on the kang to rest. She didn't beat soybeans at all in the morning.
The excuse I made for myself was that it was just the right time to beat soybeans in the afternoon. The sun dried them out even more at noon.
The other two families also cleared their own plots. Both of them also planted soybeans, but they planted them more than ten days later than hers, and they are not yet ripe at all.
