Xiao Tongran looked at the three women carrying their bags, thinking they were going to live there.
"You drive, while I hold the two children."
"They don't need to be held, they can just sit in the car by themselves."
When we arrived at the cornfield, we saw that the corn was already being pulled out.
"So fast?"
Luo Bingyuan smiled and nodded, "We have no problem breaking the corn. If my arms are fine, I will be responsible for loading the truck and driving the tractor, and I will be responsible for shoveling the corn stalks."
Chen Miao, this shovel is really easy to use. If you move forward, the corn stalks will fall down."
"As long as it's easy to use. If you have physical inconveniences, of course you have to find a way."
It’s really joyful to see the corn being pulled out one cart after another. It’s the joy of a good harvest.
"The size of the corn cobs is really quite big. You can see that they are full of grains, and they are all full on the cob."
"Have a good harvest?" Xiao Tongran also said with a smile.
"Really? This is a great harvest." Chen Miao really smiled and narrowed his eyes.
Luo Bingyuan continued to shovel the corn stalks, while Chen Miao simply pushed the two children and started peeling the corn.
Xiao Tongran also sat aside. He really forgot whether he had ever done such a job before.
"Are these shucked corn cobs going to be sent to the mountains?"
"Yeah. That's what I think. The work on the mountain should be fast. Besides, there is machinery for threshing, so no labor is needed. There is no need to hire people to do this kind of work. There is no need to worry about outsiders coming up the mountain."
"That's fine. I don't understand this. It's up to you."
"It will definitely be your wealth in the future."
Xiao Tongran smiled and nodded, "I absolutely believe you."
The two children didn't want to stay in the same place all the time, so Chen Miao glared at them both.
"The children are still young and ignorant. I don't want to work, so I will take them out to play." Xiao Tongran stood up and pushed the two children away with a smile.
Chen Miao was helpless. These two really had to be sent away as soon as possible. Otherwise, the people around them would be too doting on them.
I don’t have the heart to think about anything else now, just do as much as possible.
Carts of corn are brought back and stacked in piles, so that even if the corn is peeled slowly, it can be ventilated and it will not be covered.
It was almost noon and I had already steamed the steamed buns. I only used half of the twenty kilograms of meat. I chopped it up and added a lot of minced green onions and minced meat and put it directly into the cornmeal. In fact, this method is the most convenient.
The cooks are two people without legs. They are the kind of people without legs.
I really don’t know how to describe how I feel now when I see them cooking so fast. It’s really hard to watch.
But I didn't see any negative emotions from them, not even low self-esteem.
Eight stoves were built together, and each stove had five large steamers, because there were more than ninety people eating. The standard for one person is four steamed buns, so it would cost four hundred.
Watching them put their hands on the stove, they were really worried about the danger in the heat, but the two of them cooperated really well. One lifted it up from below, and the other took the basket and put it on the pot on the stove.
superior.
The eight-mouth pot steamed so quickly, and the two of them worked together to carry the water. Working in the cornfield on such a hot day was not an ordinary hardship, and I drank water very frequently.
Xiao Tongran was walking around with his two children. At this rate, all the corn should be harvested in ten days.
There’s still time left to get rid of the potatoes and sweet potatoes, and it looks like it won’t be too late at all this year.
For lunch, whoever comes to the field here comes to eat. Everyone peels onions by themselves, and the steamed buns with meat are really delicious.
Chen Miao never got up since she sat down. She has been shelling corn. Xiao Tongran brought lunch on a cart.
Taking off her gloves, Xiao Tongran poured water for her. She washed her hands briefly and took a steamed bun.
"Have you eaten it? It tastes okay."
"I do not want to eat."
"You don't need to come over tomorrow. It's all mechanical work. It will have to be busy for at least ten days and a half. At that time, the sweet potatoes and potatoes will have to be removed."
"Well, there will be some more people coming tomorrow. But there will only be ten at most."
Every household is busy waiting for the autumn harvest, and it’s really hard to find someone.
Chen Miao ate a steamed bun and continued working.
"You eat more. It tastes okay to me."
"I only eat so much delicious food. I'll give it to Luo Bingyuan later."
She has already shucked half a cart of corn this morning. At this rate, if one person works overtime, it will be no problem for one person to have two carts of corn a day.
Luo Bingyuan sat beside Chen Miao and ate steamed buns, "Don't worry, it's not a big deal. There should be a lot of women coming to work in a few days."
"Work as hard as you can. This speed is not bad. Xiao Tongran said that ten more people will come tomorrow."
"Well. If there are more people coming, hurry up."
Chen Miao also knew that people in this era did not cheat or cheat, and they would not be lazy even if they did not work quickly.
There was no break at noon. Xiao Tongran took his two children to sleep in the house. In the afternoon, he still took them to play.
At two o'clock, Chen Miao had already peeled the first cart of corn. He immediately rushed to the second cart. The corn husks were piled aside, and the firewood was kept open in winter.
There are large stoves dug under all the houses, which can burn fires from the ground, and then the whole house will be warm.
There is a lot of firewood here, so even if it gets cold here in winter, it won't be too hard.
I counted sixty carts of corn already brought back, and by the evening I could pull back a hundred carts.
My fingers really hurt, and my back and legs hurt when I sat on the small bench.
Seeing people with weak limbs working without stopping, I really don’t have the courage to say that this is uncomfortable and that is uncomfortable.
One pair of gloves has already worn out. Even so, I still have to continue.
The dinner was still the same steamed bun with minced meat, but this time there was also cabbage soup, which Xiao Tongran drove there with his two children and brought back, as well as a basket of radishes.
It was so dark that we couldn't see anymore, and it was already eight o'clock. Then we all stopped working, and everyone gathered together to eat.
"You go back and have twenty kilograms of meat delivered tomorrow."
"Okay. From now on, I will ask them to deliver it every day." Xiao Tongran smiled and nodded. "How about you go back with me. If I have something to do tomorrow, you can drive here by yourself."
Chen Miao shook her head, "Forget it, I want to peel it off a little more tonight."
"You're going to leave soon. What about the two children? You're the only one who needs to work. Besides, there will be people coming tomorrow. Even if the corn is piled up like this, it won't be distributed. When I went back, there was no place for you to live here, anywhere.
It’s inconvenient and the children also suffer from so many mosquitoes.”
Luo Bingyuan also said, "Go back, you can come back tomorrow."
At this time, Cheng Dong, Zheng Zhiqiang and Zhou Chengzhi came over to pick up my father-in-law and his family in a carriage.
"Look, there will be corn shellers tomorrow, go back."
Chen Miao thought for a moment, "Okay, I'll drive the carriage over too."
