For Ye Mo, carrying millet is easier than threshing it.
Ye Mo carried bags of millet back one after another.
"Xiaoye, after you finish carrying this bag, go home and take a shower." The second uncle saw Ye Mo coming over again and shouted.
"OK."
The millet is almost finished threshing. The only bag of millet in the field is the top of the millet.
After Ye Mo finished the last trip, Lin Xiaolin laid out the drying mat and was drying the millet.
"Have you finished threshing the millet?" Lin Xiaomian asked.
"The beating is almost over." Ye Mo dropped the millet and said, "Do you want my help?"
"No, please go back quickly, take a shower, and come over for dinner." Lin Xiaolin said.
"Okay." Ye Mo moved his arms.
Threshing millet is more tiring than picking fruits.
It had only been a morning of threshing millet, and my body felt exhausted.
I went home and took a hot bath, then washed the clothes I changed into, dried them, and went back to my room to lie down for a while.
Xiaomian's parents have returned.
"Xiaoye?" Yun Xiulan shouted, thinking that Ye Mo was asleep.
Ye Mo sat up.
"Are you tired?" Lin Shan asked with a smile.
"One thing." Ye Mo said: "When will the millet be harvested at home?"
"The people from the threshing team will come and take a look in the afternoon. If it's cheap, let's hire someone to beat it," Lin Shan said.
I am laying bricks in Changzhu Village during this period, that is, this month... I have to rush the work and work overtime every day, which is quite tiring.
If you can hire someone to come over and it's not too expensive, then hire someone to do it.
They have more than three acres here. If they finish it by themselves, they will lose a layer of skin at least.
"Have you caught all the lobsters in the field?" Ye Mo asked.
"There's not much left. After threshing the millet, we'll clean it up again." Lin Shan walked in, handed Ye Mo a cigarette, and said, "This is our first year of mixed culture with rice and shrimp, and the yield is lower than expected.
a lot of."
Ye Mo read on the Internet that rice and shrimp are raised in mixed culture. Generally, one acre can harvest 160-200 kilograms of crayfish. But the actual situation is not like this.
If you can harvest one hundred kilograms of crayfish per acre, it is considered very good.
Fortunately, the price of crayfish is good this year.
When they arrived at Xiao Lin's house, they had already dried the millet.
Lin Xiaomian was helping to cook in the kitchen when she heard her second aunt saying to Lin Xiaomian: "Your hair is dyed like a second-rate woman's."
"Don't blame me. I already know that I was wrong. I will go to the city to dye my hair back in the afternoon."
"The hair color you dyed is really not good."
"Second Aunt." Ye Mo went in and shouted.
"Hey." The second aunt responded and came out of the kitchen: "You guys sit down, the food will be ready soon."
At noon, I stewed an old hen and yam.
There are also bacon and sausages, fried meat with lettuce, fried meat with bamboo shoots...
Bamboo shoots are a kind of bamboo that only grows bamboo shoots in summer. The bamboo shoots are very bitter and need to be boiled and washed with water before being used to stir-fry meat...
There are also the fish caught last night and a large pot of spicy crayfish.
After beating millet all morning, Ye Mo felt completely exhausted.
Sitting down, drinking beer and eating crayfish, I felt more comfortable than ever before.
"Did you make this crayfish?" Ye Mo looked at Lin Xiaomian.
Lin Xiaomian nodded: "Isn't it delicious?"
"It's delicious." Ye Mo said and looked at her hair.
What can I say, I'm a bit unfamiliar with it.
With a bit of pink hair, Lin Xiaomian looks more childish and her skin is fair, almost like a high school student.
Ye Mo still thinks black hair looks good...
"When will your millet be harvested?" The second uncle looked at Lin Shan and asked.
"The threshing team will come and take a look later. If the price is right, we will outsource the threshing. If it is too expensive, we will start doing it in the afternoon," Lin Shan said.
"The threshing team charges 400 to 500 yuan per acre. For you, it's estimated to be 500 yuan per acre, which is not cost-effective." The second uncle said, "It's better to do it yourself. We'll help you threshing it in two days."
Finished."
"Let me ask first. If we can negotiate for 400 yuan, we can give it to the threshing team. We are quite tired during this period..."
The millet here grows very well, and the yield per mu is more than 1,000 kilograms.
But the price of millet is cheap, only more than one yuan per pound. If it is threshed by the threshing team, even if it costs four hundred yuan per acre... there is no profit for that kind of millet.
They use a harvester here to harvest millet, and it costs about 130 yuan per acre.
In the mountains, there are mostly small pieces of farmland, and the harvesting cost of harvesters is also expensive.
At the same time, there are still many farmland harvesters here that cannot be moved, so they have to harvest it themselves or hire someone to harvest it...
After dinner, the threshing team came over and looked at the rice fields.
The rice field is right next to their house, but there is a lot of mud in the field. Harvesting this kind of rice field will make people very tired.
The quoted price is 480 yuan per mu, which is a little over 3.4 acres in total.
This price is too high.
It is equivalent to giving half of the grain to the threshing team.
The millet is ripe and it’s time to harvest it.
After some calculation, it will cost 1,600 yuan to harvest 3.4 acres of millet.
Under the persuasion of his second uncle, Lin Shan and the others decided to harvest it themselves.
After three o'clock in the afternoon, he went to the rice field to cut millet and worked until after eight o'clock in the evening. Ye Mo was really exhausted.
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When I got up the next day, I felt pain all over my body. My thighs, calves, arms...all the muscles in my lower abdomen hurt.
Xiaomian's parents got up very early.
Ye Mo got up from the bed. They had already cut a piece of millet.
More than three acres of millet were harvested in two and a half days.
Fortunately, my uncle and aunt helped me, otherwise I would have had to work for two more days.
Ye Mo gritted his teeth and persevered throughout the whole process...
Lin Xiaomian helped bring tea and water, and caught lobsters in the fields.
After only three days of millet hunting, Ye Mo felt that his whole body was numb, and all his movements were like puppets. His muscles were sore all over, his walking posture was uncoordinated, and he had no strength...
This was Ye Mo's first real threshing of millet.
In the past, people said that threshing millet was very tiring. His family also planted millet when he was a child, but that was when he was a child... How much work could he do when he was a child?
Only those who have really threshed millet will truly understand that "who knows that every grain on the plate is hard work." This is not an exaggeration at all.
I have sweated more in the past three days than I have in three months.
Xiaomian's parents were also very tired, but they seemed particularly energetic and energetic. Ye Mo was a lot worse. After a few days, he felt like he was almost exhausted...
Threshing the millet is tiring, and drying the millet is also very hard.
There are tiny burrs on the body of millet, which are very itchy when they stick to the body.
After threshing the grain in the field, collect the grain from the sun.
Lin Xiaomian made dinner, including spicy crayfish.
After the second uncle came over, he took the wine from the refrigerator: "Xiaoye, have a drink with the second uncle."
"Okay." Ye Mo smiled and sat over.
Lin Shan took the crayfish and sat down next to Ye Mo, looking at him with a smile: "Threshing millet, are you tired?"
"Tired." Ye Mo said. He was really tired...
"Hahahaha..." The second uncle smiled and opened the beer: "In the countryside, the most tiring time is threshing millet. If you want to be the son-in-law of our old Lin family, you will have to thresh millet every year from now on."
"We will grow less millet from now on, just enough to feed ourselves." The second aunt came over and said with a smile.
Lin Shan smiled and looked at Ye Mo: "It's better for you to be at ease over there. You don't grow millet, you grow fruits."
"It's not easy to grow fruit. And the busy farming time is relatively long... But it's much easier than threshing millet." Ye Mo said. Seeing his second uncle pouring wine for him, he quickly stood up and said, "I'll do it myself."
"Sit down and I'll pour it for you."
"Where is Xiao Lin?" Ye Mo asked when he saw that his second uncle had poured wine into his bowl.
"I'm here." Lin Xiaolin had already come over and was still in the living room. When he heard Ye Mo's voice, he came over with a smile: "Isn't threshing millet relaxing?"
“Very comfortable.”
"Hahaha... I have been beating millet for a long time, and my whole body is still sore." Lin Xiaolin said with a smile: "If you are not tired, we can go fishing after dinner."