Chapter 165 The highest standard autumn harvest in history
When the rooster crows twice and it's dawn, the villagers in Jinqiaokan have breakfast and head to their paddy fields carrying farm tools.
It is not easy for ordinary people to serve a crop of crops. The grain has to be collected in the warehouse. An autumn rain can reduce the harvest, so you have to seize the time to harvest and thresh the grain.
The Zhu family's father and son were no exception. After months of hard work, the harvest time finally arrived. Zhu Xi was so excited that he couldn't sleep a wink all night. After the first rooster crow, he got up and dipped his hands in the moonlight to sharpen his sickle.
Fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao are also used to getting up early. And to be honest, last night, the father and son were crowded together on the same kang.
It doesn't affect sleep either.
It's hard for the two of you who have just arrived to sleep...
Zhu Zhu also got up early and made a pot full of cured brown rice. Even real rural people need to eat every meal and be full during this season, so they have the strength to work!
After a full meal, the seven gentlemen came to their fifteen acres of land in great spirits.
Tang Jia Chang helped drain the water in the fields a long time ago. It feels as soft as a sponge when stepped on.
Brother Zhu Fang rushed to roll up his trouser legs and went to the field, but then they were all dumbfounded... Then they remembered that they had not confiscated the crops yet.
This made the elder brother, who was holding a sickle and was at a loss, breathed a funny sigh of relief, it turned out that everyone was just like him.
It was Zhu Yuanzhang who had not lost the craftsmanship of an old farmer.
He was only wearing a trousers, and squatted down with his bare feet. He picked up a clump of rice stalks with his left hand, swung the sickle in front of him with his right hand, and cut off a clump with a swish sound. He cut off two or three clumps like this.
clumps, he had a lot of rice in his hand.
Zhu Yuanzhang gently placed the handful of rice stalks in the field, then cut out a second handful and placed it on top of the first handful. The two handfuls of rice stalks formed a herringbone shape and were piled on the cut rice stubble.
above.
He then raised the knife to cut the third one, not forgetting to call his sons:
"Hurry up and get started while it's cool. When the sun comes out, it will be too hot to work."
As he spoke, swish, swish, golden characters for 'human' appeared behind him one after another, like a ruthless humanoid harvester.
The sons quickly imitated the example and started cutting.
"You dad, you are really an old farmer." Tang Jia, the leader in the field next to him, tutted while cutting rice: "I thought that even high-ranking officials would not know how to farm."
"My father was a farmer before he became an official," Zhu said.
"The cows were even let go," Zhu Di said.
"We have to eat too." Zhu Zhen made a last-ditch attack. He also came to attack.
"Hahaha, then you are not the same as Master Hong Wu?" Tang Jia Chang couldn't help but regretted: "Well, speaking of it, I also let the cows off Old Tang, but unfortunately I didn't ask for food, otherwise maybe I can also be a
High official."
"Uncle, if you want to be a high official, it's no problem. Prince Qin's Palace and Prince Jin's Palace are short of a general manager, are you interested?" The third child sincerely suggested: "We can recommend you to go there. The salary will be good and the power will be great.
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"Yes, yes. Let's go to Prince Qin's Mansion..." Upon hearing this, Zhu Xi looked at Tang Jia Chang eagerly, and it seemed that he really thought he was suitable.
"Hahaha, you two are looking for fun with me. Isn't the general manager of the palace a eunuch?" Tang Jiazhang is well-informed and knows that before becoming an official, he needs to be cut off.
"Anyway, you are already your age, and you don't have any thoughts about that." Zhu said disapprovingly: "And I heard that you can live longer after being circumcised."
"That's not okay. Whether we use it or not is one thing, but whether it is there or not is another matter." Tang Jia Chang resolutely defended his balls.
"Oh, okay, okay." King Qin regretted helplessly. He quite liked Tang Jia.
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Before I knew it, I was working until the beginning of the morning, and Lao Wu came with a load to deliver food.
"Have a rest and eat something." Zhu Yuanzhang stood up, stretched his sore waist, looked at the rows of golden 'human' characters behind him, and couldn't help but feel very happy. The blockade that had been accumulated in his heart for many days was finally loosened.
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As he walked towards the shade of the trees at the edge of the field, he asked Zhu Biao: "How are you doing, boss? Can you still bear it?"
Unlike the three younger brothers, Zhu Biao has been doing farm work for more than half a year. This is the first time for him to get on the sedan chair. After coming down in the morning, he already felt that this waist was no longer his.
But he was soft-tempered on the outside and strong on the inside, and he was determined not to complain, so he held his sore waist and forced a smile and said, "No problem, I can persevere."
"Good job." Zhu Yuanzhang patted him on the shoulder.
"The younger brothers are the best." Zhu Biao said with a smile: "The second brother has done at least three times as much work as me, and he is still very lively."
"Brother, you can't compare with second brother. He is a famous humanoid beast from all over the country." Zhu Di said with a smile.
"You are still the reincarnation of the black bear spirit." Zhu sarcastically said to Zhu Di.
"You!" Zhu Di glared angrily. In front of his father, he couldn't reply with Ximen Qing's cross-dressing fetish.
"Okay, okay, you two are good too." Zhu Biao hugged their arms and smiled: "I have been harvesting rice all morning, and I still have the energy to bicker."
"I can mow all day long!"
"I can cut for two days!"
Amid the endless bickering between the third and fourth sons, the Zhu family and his son sat down in the shade beside a field.
Tang Jia Chang also naturally came over.
Everyone first drank a lot of cold water to quench their thirst and relieve the heat. Then they opened the bamboo baskets and found hot meatloaf and scallions and soy sauce.
Zhu Yuanzhang had a great appetite after working. He rolled pancakes in one hand and dipped green onions in miso in the other, eating them very deliciously.
Tang Jia Chang gave a thumbs up and said: "You can be a high official, you can eat and drink, and you are also good at work!"
Zhu Yuanzhang grinned and said: "We have suffered all kinds of hardships when we were young. People say that the rice harvest is the most tiring time of the year, but we were looking forward to the rice harvest back then so that we could have a few full meals."
"The official is really a hero." Tang Jiazhang praised him sincerely, and asked tentatively: "If you come back this time, you won't leave, right?"
"We still have to go." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed with emotion: "Being on a job is not free. I really hope to stay here all my life, with one cow and six acres of land, with a wife and children on the kang. This is the good life we want."
"What do you mean, is this a comeback?" Tang Jiazhang asked in surprise.
"Haha, that's right." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and nodded, and asked Tang Jia Chang: "What wish do you have, tell me and see if we can help you realize it."
"I really have a wish," Tang Jiazhang sighed after hearing this: "I want to go back to my hometown to visit the graves, but Zhu Hongwu, the man who killed a thousand people, won't let immigrants like us leave the county."
'Pfft...' The princes squirted water, choked on their food, and wished they could cover Old Tang's mouth quickly.
"Zhu Hongwu is indeed a murderer of a thousand swords, he deserves to die." Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said with deep understanding: "He did make a bastard decision. But His Highness the King of Chu has already interceded for you. I believe it will be over soon."
There will be a decree coming down to lift the restrictions on you."
"Ah, really?" Tang Jia Chang couldn't help but grin from ear to ear. But considering that the other party was the county magistrate's old boss, his credibility should be very high.
"Really." Zhu Yuanzhang swallowed the last bite of the cake, patted his butt and got up and said: "Lao Liu has brought the threshing bucket. Let's go threshing!"
ps. Second update, I thought my child was fine yesterday, but he had a fever again. It’s probably because the influenza A virus didn’t run away. Hey, he looks so haggard...
