Mid-to-late July is the season when early rice matures every year. Places where two crops of rice are planted are often plowed immediately after early rice is harvested, and then they rush to plant late rice. This process is called "double grabbing". Double grabbing means time.
It is also the hottest period of summer in the year. Fang County has many mountains and trees and a cool climate. Compared with other plain areas, early rice is harvested a few days later and does not start harvesting until late in the year.
For three or four days in a row, the weather has been perfect, and villagers cutting rice, plowing fields, and transplanting rice seedlings can be seen everywhere in the farmland. The sound of threshing machines and small harvesters continues to rumble, accompanied by people's laughter, which can be heard far and wide.
Far.
At the end of June and the beginning of July, the whole country was hit by floods. Dozens of counties and cities were affected to varying degrees. Many crops were flooded and no harvest was harvested. Those crops that escaped the floods also suffered a large reduction in production. Only a small number of crops near mountains and rivers in Fang County were affected.
With the floods raging, it was basically a bumper harvest.
The bumper harvest after the floods is undoubtedly a joy to see. Even if the continuous heavy rain caused the seedlings and corn to fall down and the yield was reduced, at least there is still more than 70% of the harvest.
It was already mid-afternoon when Leyun returned to Jiudao Township. In the villages she passed along the way, rice was drying on the roads everywhere, and the yellow millet was like gold sprinkled all over the ground.
Millet is also drying on the village road in Meizijing Village, leaving only a road wide enough for traffic. Le Xiaoxiao, carrying a backpack, pedaled his bicycle straight towards home. The front basket and rear rack of the bicycle were stuffed with stuffing.
Drum plastic bag.
She was afraid of meeting people on the road. If there was nothing in the car, she would take out some things when she came back. If someone said something and noticed something strange, she would not be able to explain clearly, so she first took out some things from the space.
Pack your things and tie them to the car and put them in bags.
Most of the villagers went to the fields to harvest rice. Only the elderly or young children were at home. They didn't meet many adults along the way and they got home soon.
The small ground outside the Le family house is also covered with a layer of golden rice, reflecting the sun and shining brightly.
"Uncle Zhou's family has harvested rice?" Le Yun muttered softly. She remembered that the early rice planted by Zhou's family this year was a new variety, and the cycle was three days later than before. She estimated that it would not be harvested until the 29th.
The Zhou family cultivates Lejia's fields, and the school used to be on holiday every year during the double harvest season. She went to the Zhou family every year to help cut rice and plant fields. This time she went to the mountains and planned a good day. She expected to have enough time to come back to help.
The ground was dry and could only allow people to pass by. Leyun parked the car on the cement hardened road outside and was about to move the car when she heard a happy "beep" sound. She turned around and saw Cheng, who lived next to Zhou's family.
The daughter-in-law of a son at home who is the same age as her father came back driving a tricycle to transport grain.
The son of the Cheng family is about the same age as Brother Zhou, his name is Cheng Youde, and he has a good relationship with the Le family of the Zhou family. The daughter-in-law of the Cheng family is named Liu. Le Yun calls her Aunt Liu, or Aunt Liu. When she sees someone, she stops the car and shouts
Voice: "Aunt Liu, congratulations on the great harvest."
"Hey, Lele, are you finally willing to get out of the old forest and go home?" Sister-in-law Liu burst out laughing when she saw the Lele girl. Little Lele came back from Maoshan for more than 20 days and is still white and tender, which makes people jealous.
"Hmm, I missed my dad and my aunts, so I'm back. Aunt Liu, long time no see, did you miss me?"
"You are the only one who has a sweet mouth and is good at coaxing people." Sister-in-law Liu was so amused that she almost laughed out loud. She drove the car next to Lele's house and stopped briefly: "Lele, the millet in front of your house belongs to me. It's just in time for you to come back.
I'll help you look through it, dry it for a long time, collect it in the evening, and then put it into the warehouse."
"Hey, the millet is from Aunt Liu's family. I thought it was from Uncle Zhou's family."
"The Zhou family will start harvesting rice tomorrow. Brother and sister Zhou Qiufeng will help our family cut the crops today. We will finish the work tomorrow and help the Zhou family harvest the grain the day after tomorrow."
In rural areas, it is normal for people to exchange jobs. If someone’s rice matures later, he or she will first help the family whose rice matures earlier. Then the person who harvested the rice first will then help the family who harvested it later. Everyone exchanges labor. There are more people, and the work is more demanding.
quick.
"Okay, Aunt Liu, don't leave yet. I'll give you something and you can take it back." Le Yun responded. Seeing that Aunt Liu was about to accelerator again, she hurriedly stopped her.
Sister-in-law Liu released the gas pedal again and looked at the little girl from Lele's family. She couldn't help but sweat when she saw big and small bags tied to her car. Was Lele going into the mountain to be robbed?
Le Yun quickly ran to the garden fence, took a plastic bag from the fence that someone had hung for drying, went to the bicycle, opened a bag, took out a bunch of fungi, put it in, and gave it to Aunt Liu: "Here's a little bit.
Grandpa Cheng Wu and you will eat as side dishes."
"Is this turkey tail fungus?" Sister-in-law Liu looked at the thing handed over by the Lejia girl in surprise, and pushed the bag back: "Tomorrow is the 29th, Street Day, and you can take it to the street to sell it. This is expensive."
"This is for Grandpa Cheng Wu. Aunt Liu will just keep it. You have to take it out to ventilate it when you get home. It may get stuffy if you keep it stuffy."
"...Okay." After thinking about it, Sister-in-law Liu didn't push it back forcefully. The Le family girl had been very good to the elderly since she was a child, and she was the favorite child of several elderly people nearby.
Seeing Aunt Liu driving back, Le Yun picked up her bicycle and went home. When she took out the key and opened the door, she was stunned. There was a pair of happy words posted on the door!
Why post happy words properly?
Question mark, question mark, question mark, there were only question marks in her mind. She didn't need to do that if she won the top prize. Besides, she didn't put the word "happy" on it in the first few days when her college entrance examination results came out, and there would be no need for it later.
Full of questions, I opened the door. The house was clean and tidy, with happy words posted on every door. The ancient TV in the main room was gone, replaced by a large color TV and an extra long sofa.
wooden chair.
Le Yun was confused and completely confused. Her father was a frugal man who would never spend money lavishly, let alone those dispensable furniture. Where did these come from?
of?
After thinking for a long time, I couldn't come up with a reason. I carried the car into the house, opened the door to my room, unpacked the backpack bag, and quickly went about my own business, cleared out the contents of the backpack, and hung the bag on a nail on the wall.
Ventilate and dry in the shade, then go to the second floor to get a bamboo sieve, pour out some medicinal materials for ventilation, pour some fungi into the sieve, and ventilate the main room first.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It’s time to get out what needs to be poured out. She takes a bag of cucumbers and tomatoes to the refrigerator room. She sold some melons and vegetables last time, so she planted some more and has a lot of stock.
This time I had enough excuse to go into the mountains, so I took out a big bag of tomatoes and cucumbers.
Carrying things to the back room where the refrigerator was kept, the room was tidy. She looked for a basket to put tomatoes and cucumbers in. Le Yun opened the refrigerator and found that it was full of chicken, duck, pork, eggs...
Ouch!
Seeing the inventory in a refrigerator, Classmate Le's face turned into dough. Her refrigerator usually only stocked bacon, and it was rarely full. The current situation was totally different from before.
Her father is used to being frugal, so there is no way he could have so much inventory. Could it be that relatives are here?
Relatives? However, in terms of relatives, their family only has the great-grandmother and the grandmother’s natal family. The great-grandmother’s maiden name is Hu and she is from a neighboring village. The Hu family has only two daughters. The eldest daughter has a son-in-law, and the second daughter is her great-grandmother. Later,
When my great-grandfather and great-aunt were still alive, the Hu family moved to the provincial capital. At first, they were still in love. Later, when my great-grandmother’s parents passed away, the relationship between the sisters weakened, and they broke off after repeated visits.
Grandma's natal family is the Chen family in this village, and she is related to Zhang Jing's father's bloodline by marriage. The Chen family and the Le family were closely related when her grandparents were still alive, but her father's leg was broken and she borrowed money.
They fell out over the matter and have no contact so far.
Therefore, it can be said that the Le family has no relatives.
If they were friends, it wasn't very likely. Most of the friends her father had in the past were pig friends and dog friends who couldn't get along with each other through thick and thin. Since his father injured his leg, his friends have almost become strangers.
With no relatives or friends coming to visit, who gave her so many things?
If someone is so generous, it is only my father's boss. If it is really Boss Wu who comes to the house and buys meat, it is understandable, but what about the new furniture at home?
Wondering, Le Yun was extremely depressed. She closed the refrigerator door and hurriedly ran to turn the millet for Mrs. Liu. After finishing her work, she packed up her clothes and went into the kitchen to heat hot water. She found fine smoke coming from the fire pit and the pot rack.
Put a pot of boiling water, open it and see that the water is warm.
strangeness!
Too strange.
Full of wonder, Le Yun looked around in the kitchen, looking here and there, here and there, but still had no clue, so she had to pick up her own bucket and basin, fill them with warm water and go to the bathroom behind the house to take a bath.
Her aunt just passed away and she didn't dare to wash in cold water. She didn't dare to wash in cold water for several days in the mountains. She could only wipe it with a towel. Although there was no smell, she felt uncomfortable.
I washed myself from head to toe and put on a short-sleeved T-shirt and cropped pants again. I felt very light and refreshed.
She straightened herself up, threw her things aside, and ran to the pig barn. She just heard the quacking of piglets and ducks, and had to go and see what was going on. When she opened the door and entered the pig and cow barn, she saw a group of chickens and chickens.
A few ducks squatted lazily on the ground. Next to the wall were a plastic basin filled with water and a trough for food. There were two piglets in the pig pen.
Chicken, duck, and pig are all available, giving it a farmhouse feel.
Leyun was even more confused this time. What was going on? She just went into the mountains for a trip. Why was she so different when she came back home?
I can’t figure it out. Really, you said, why are there such earth-shaking changes if I just go out for twenty days?
Full of tangles, Le Yun closed the door of the cowshed, took the clothes to be washed in the water press well, and dried the clothes upstairs. Then she went downstairs and carried a few bamboo sieves upstairs. Some herbs and fungi still needed to be dried.
Easily damaged by sun drying.
After drying the things, I took out some washed polygonatum and rehmannia glutinosa from the space and put them upstairs to dry out the moisture. Then I went downstairs and sat down to wash the fungi. I cleaned out a few versicolor fungi. My empty brain was shocked and I looked up.
