Brother Zhou and Sister-in-law Zhou guessed that my mother would not come back for breakfast after going to Lejia, so she and her children had breakfast first, picked up their household items, and set off to cut the crops without waiting.
Of course Zhou Chunmei and Zhou Tianming were not left behind, especially Zhou Chunmei, who was scolded by her father yesterday evening and did not dare to offend her father again. She washed off the nail polish on her hands and toenails, and did not dare to put on makeup or tie her hair in the morning.
, took the straw hat and went to work.
During the double harvest season, every family is busy harvesting. They all get up early and go to work early. People can be seen everywhere walking on the village road. Brother Zhou and his family have just arrived out of the village. Some families who went to work early have already harvested a large area of rice.
Leyun and Zhou Qiufeng waited for Brother Zhou to go to work for a while before leaving. Zhou Qiufeng rode Xiao Lele's bicycle and drove the girl out of the village, along the natural dirt road between the farmland, to the place where Brother Zhou was cutting crops.
The field where Brother Zhou's family harvests rice first belongs to the Le family, and it is also the largest one. It is close to a ditch and on the road. Moreover, the fields of the Le family are almost next to each other, making it easy to cultivate. Therefore, if the Le family does not plant it themselves, the villagers will be greatly affected.
Someone is willing to take over.
Everyone in the Zhou family cut rice with knives and laid down a small piece of rice. When they saw Zhou Qiufeng, the Zhou family siblings called "aunt" because they were in the way of their elders. Le Yun happily greeted Zhou Chunmei and Zhou Tianming.
Zhou Tianming was very embarrassed and bowed his head to cut the rice.
Zhou Qiufeng and Le Yun didn't care about other people's attitudes. They took professional sickles with sharp teeth specially designed for cutting rice and walked to the other end of the field to start work.
Jiudao Township is located in a remote mountainous area. It is built on the flat land between the mountains. There are not particularly many paddy fields. There are slightly more fields in the villages surrounding the town hall of Jiudao Township. In those days, the fields were divided into households, and the average income per person was just over six cents.
At that time, there were four members of the Le family, and they had a total of two and seventy acres.
Later, in the late 1990s, because the land contract rights could be transferred, the Le family bought three and a half acres of land and several acres of land from others. Because Le's father had a broken leg and needed money, he resold a few pieces of land. If he didn't sell it,
, there are more than ten acres of arable land. Judging from the previous land, the Le family was considered a prosperous family at that time.
Lejia now has a total of a little over six acres of paddy fields, including the garden in front of the house, and more than seven acres of cultivated land, excluding the forest economic forest land.
The largest field in the Lejia family is the one currently being harvested. It is two and a quarter acres, almost two and a half acres. It is irregular and the field is very wide. The four members of the Zhou family are harvesting at the head of the field, while Zhou Qiufeng and Leyun start from the end of the field.
cut, far apart.
Zhou Qiufeng is well-known as a fast hand in Meicun. He can cut rice and plant fields very quickly. He is ranked second among his peers and does not dare to be ranked first. Only a fast hand from the previous generation can compete with her. Therefore,
When she started working, she could only hear the "swish" sound of the sickle cutting the seedlings and the clatter of the rice ears.
Leyun's speed was not slow before. After opening the hook, well, let alone the speed, she bent down and started working. She kept moving forward, leaving behind hands and hands of seedlings, and the stalls were arranged neatly.
Zhou Qiufeng was busy for a while, when she heard someone gasping for air, she stood up and looked over, and found Sister-in-law Liu standing on a ridge above the Le family's field, looking down. She couldn't help but wonder: "Sister-in-law Liu, what's wrong?"
Sister-in-law Liu stood on the ridge of the field. Looking down from above, she could clearly see everyone in the Lejia field. She was looking at it dumbfounded. When she heard Zhou Qiufeng ask her, she looked at Zhou Qiufeng, and then looked at Zhou Qiufeng.
The other side: "Qiu Feng, the person on the other side of the field opposite you, on the side of the field ridge, is Lele?!"
"Yes." Zhou Qiufeng answered smoothly, turned around and looked over, and took a hissing sip. Is that really Lele over there?
In just a short while, a large piece of rice fell down on the other side of the field. I saw people bending and lowering their waists constantly, and the swishing and swishing sounds were as dense as several people working at the same time.
Zhou Qiufeng immediately started trotting, bypassing a piece of uncut rice, standing in the space where the cut crops were cut, and looking at the child. He saw Lele lowering his head, grabbing the rice seedling stalk, and swinging the knife. His movements were almost continuous and uninterrupted.
That speed was beyond her reach.
After watching for a few minutes, she silently ran back to her seat and smiled at Sister-in-law Liu: "The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. We are getting old."
"I just want to say that you stepped on shit and picked up a good girl for free. She is both civilized and military." Sister-in-law Liu was extremely jealous. Her two children were relatively good, and they were not embarrassed because they were born in the countryside.
She also helped with the field work, but compared with the girls from the Le family, her children seemed squeamish. Compared with Zhang Jing, Le Yun had left Zhang Jing more than ten blocks away, and Zhang Jing couldn't even catch up.
Girls from the Le family are well-educated, have good tempers, are filial, work in the mountains and fields, and are proficient in all housework. Such good girls can't be found even if you play lanterns.
Therefore, Zhou Qiufeng really got a big deal when she married into the Le family.
"You can be jealous, I don't mind." Zhou Qiufeng was not ashamed and smiled proudly.
Sister-in-law Liu hummed a few times and went to work by herself. Her family still had a rice field but no pears. If she got the last field, she could help the Zhou family cut grain tomorrow.
It is cool in the morning, and villagers rush to cut rice, which is more efficient than in the afternoon. Therefore, it is generally fine to cut the rice in the morning and thresh the rice in the afternoon. If it does not rain, the seedlings will be cut down the day before and the rice will be threshed the next day. The weather is not very good.
, I don’t dare to do that, because if it rains and the millet is soaked in water in the field, it will sprout all day and night.
The weather in these three to five days was excellent. Many of the seedlings were cut down on the first day and threshed on the second day. Soon the rumble of machines and the sound of pear machines were heard everywhere, and the fields were very lively.
Zhou Chunmei cut a few rice seedlings, stood up, took a rest, and then started working again. She was also the slowest. The others had gone far away, and she only cut down a small bunch.
She cut a row close to the field ridge. Every time she stood up, she saw a large piece of land lying on the opposite side, getting closer and closer to her. Because she didn't see anyone, she always thought it was her aunt and didn't pay attention. When the noises became louder and louder,
The music was getting closer and closer, and she stood up to watch.
Before she knew it, the person on the opposite side had already approached her, and the distance was only five or six meters away. Then, she saw the person, it was Le Yun!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhou Chunmei looked at the shaking rice seedlings, and her whole body felt bad. What speed was that? She looked at it for several minutes, lowered her head to do things, and there was another burst of intense gongs and drums.
Like a swish, swish, swish, and soon, the two of them collided.
"Sister Chunmei." Le Yun cut a few seedlings and opened up one side. When she saw Zhou Chunmei staring at her, she called out, lowered her head, and went to cut rice again.
Zhou Chunmei watched, watching helplessly as Le Yun knocked down a piece of rice seedlings that she had not cut, and then moved forward. The width of the rice rows that Le Yun cut down was twice as wide as hers. The total area was simply incomparable.
She looked at Le Yun, her face flushed red, she gritted her teeth, found a spot to cut in, and silently cut the rice.
Brother Zhou and Sister-in-law Zhou didn't notice it at first. When the whole field was half-turned down, the Zhou family discovered the Lejia girl's god-level speed. They were dumbfounded at the time. What was even more depressing was that the Lejia girl had fast hands.
, she didn’t seem to know what back pain was, and it was rare to see her standing upright to rest.
There was a super fast classmate named Le, and there was a quick-handed Zhou Qiufeng. A field of more than two acres was cut down in less than an hour.
The expressions of the four members of the Zhou family are particularly wonderful.
After getting the largest piece of land, go to the second piece, which is next to the big field, that is, the other piece of land obtained by the Le family when they were divided. It is only two to three cents, and combined with the big field, it is exactly two acres and seven cents.
Xiao Tian was handed over to the Zhou brothers and sisters. The Zhou family, his wife, Le Yun and Zhou Qiufeng went to the third block, a little below Xiao Tian.
At ten o'clock, Grandma Zhou took the rice dumplings to the field. Zhou Qiufeng and others had already cut several fields. When Grandma Zhou saw the speed of Xiao Lele's cutting, Grandma Zhou's eyes almost fell out of the field.
The old man was so frightened that when everyone ate, she was still a little dizzy on the way home. Because of Le Xiao's incredible speed, she was seen by several villagers, so the Le family girl's reputation for quick hands slowly grew.
spread.
At the same time, because of the existence of Sister-in-law Liu, the news of Zhou Qiufeng's marriage to Yueqing also spread. It was heard that the Lejia girl was faster than Zhou Qiufeng, and the villagers accepted it. However, when they heard the news that Zhou Qiufeng and Yueqing were married, people were shocked.
People's jaws dropped to the ground in shock.
It was almost noon, the sun was scorching hot, and the villagers did not finish work until nearly twelve o'clock. The Zhou family and others cut down almost all the rice in the Lejia paddy fields.
After returning home, Zhou Qiufeng wanted to feed the piglets and check whether the hatched chicks had shells. Leyun went back to the room and ran back to the space, frantically collecting matsutake mushrooms, picking all the mushrooms in more than a dozen pots, and then went out to eat at Zhou's house.
Grandma Zhou was cheerful. The Zhou brothers and sisters were hit hard, so they didn’t say anything.
They only rested for more than an hour at noon, and before two o'clock, the villagers went to the fields under the sun, and the Zhou family was no exception. They used a tricycle to pull an electric threshing machine, diesel engine, and tools, and hurriedly went to the fields.
The electric threshing machine will spin non-stop after it is started. As long as the ears of rice are kept fed, the four people of the Zhou family and Le Yun and Zhou Qiufeng, a total of six people, will work two rounds. This round just happens to thresh the rice. When it goes down, the other
The machine is never idle after replacement, saving fuel and being highly efficient.
When the millet accumulates in the threshing machine barn for a certain period of time, people come out to load the millet, and some people continue to thresh; over and over again, more and more bags are filled with millet.
The harvesting is very fast, and the threshing may not be able to keep up. The main thing is that people have to be dispatched to load the millet, and every period of time they have to refuel, move the machine, and after plowing a field, they have to tie up straw and move all the straw to the edge of the field.
Or store it in open space to provide water to the fields.
Therefore, after a long day, not all the grain that the Zhou family cut down in the morning was threshed, and there was still a piece left.
In the past, the Zhou family only gave a quarter of the grain to the Le family for growing the fields of the Le family. When it was harvested this year, Brother Zhou thought of his sister's contribution and gave 50/50 to the Le family for half a year's hard work.
The rice is weighed and distributed in the fields. The total weight of each field is first weighed, and then half is weighed. The bags containing the millet are divided into two piles, one for each family.
Zhou Qiufeng collected the grains without politeness, and sent them home when they had saved a certain amount. They moved some of the grains upstairs to dry. Since the grains were not harvested in the morning, the floor in front of the Le family house was still used by the Cheng family to dry the grains first.
The Zhou family didn't finish work until it was almost dark. Le Yun and Zhou Qiufeng returned home. Le's father finished the housework, helped the girl take back the medicine that had been dried, piled up the millet that had been dried upstairs, covered it with a rain cloth, and cooked
Good food is waiting for mother and daughter.
After the mother and daughter took a shower, they ate quickly because they had to work tomorrow and went to bed early. In fact, Zhou Qiufeng didn't feel very tired, but she couldn't resist Yueqing's insistence and went to bed early.
Le Yun eats space products every day and has a lot of strength. She doesn't have any back pain at the end of the day. She goes to the space to work hard at night.
The next day, the crops were cut in the same way.
The Cheng family also finished the last bit of work and went to the Zhou family to help. Cheng Youde's cousin Cheng Youliang was also there. His wife went to harvest grain for her parents' family, and only Cheng Youliang went to work at the Zhou family.
As soon as there were more manpower, Brother Zhou just focused on transporting fertilizers into the fields and pear fields. Because there were enough manpower, the remaining fields of the Zhou family were mowed in less than half a day. There was still time to thresh the grains in the morning, and in the afternoon, they were all successfully threshed.
We had dinner at Zhou’s house in the evening, and Le’s father also came over;
The light comes again, also on the 31st.
The Zhou family began to plant rice seedlings. In the middle of the morning, a nest of chicks hatched by Zhou Qiufeng hatched out of their shells. Grandma Zhou stayed there for a long time and helped to pick up the shells. Because the weather was too hot and could not be roasted, she put the chicks out at around ten o'clock.
Playing in the Lejia backyard.
Le Yun came home at noon and saw the fluffy chicks. She happily played with them. When feeding the chickens, she secretly stole the chickens and poured out the water used to feed the chickens, replacing them with well water in the space.
Use well water to soak rice for the little chicken.
Double grabbing, everyone went out at dawn and returned at sunset. With more people and greater strength, the Zhou family only needed two and a half days to finish everything except the rice fields.
And the Cheng family brothers also learned what it means to be an "all-rounder" and what it means to be a great person. The girl from the Le family is quick to cut crops, tie straw, thresh and thresh quickly, transplant rice seedlings, etc., that makes people want to beat her up.
, the speed is faster than a hen pecking rice. The distance between the seedlings seems to have been measured, and the length and width are about the same.
The Cheng brothers only have one expression: a capitalized expression!
Originally, many people heard that the girl from Lejia was very fast and didn't believe it, so they took a detour to observe. However, they went there with doubts and came back in despair.
Those who have witnessed it with their own eyes have only one thought: please come to my house to help next year!
The Cheng brothers would go home after lunch, either to help friends or to do their own business. The Zhou couple and Zhou Qiufeng Leyun went to clean up the rice fields in the afternoon.
Spread agricultural fertilizer on the pear field, then spread compound fertilizer, rake it once, and you can transplant the rice seedlings.
While Brother Zhou and Zhou Qiufeng were spreading compound fertilizer, Leyun's cell phone rang. She probably guessed who it was. She took out her cell phone, took a look at it, answered the call, and said a few words to tell everyone that an express package had arrived on the street.
Yes, she went home to get it.
Brother Zhou and other elders let Le Yun do as she pleased. Zhou Chunmei whispered, "I clearly want to be lazy," but did not dare to say it loudly.
Le Yun heard Zhou Chunmei's muttering and didn't care. She rode her bicycle and rushed home. She took a backpack, took out a bunch of money from the space, and flew to Xiangjie.
It was not a street day, there were no stalls on the street, and the sun was strong. Even the few stall owners who were setting up fruits and selling some frozen meats in the open air went to the street shops to avoid the sun.
The bus from the county seat to Jiudao Township has not arrived yet, and the open-air parking lot and streets are empty.
Le Yun pedaled her bicycle and arrived at the place. She took a look and saw, okay, no one was anywhere. She parked the car, sat in the car, opened her umbrella and waited.
About seven or eight minutes later, a motorcycle drove towards Jiudao Township from the county town. The owner of the motorcycle looked around and when he saw the person holding an umbrella, he went straight to his target.
When Le Yun saw the approaching motorcycle, a big smile blossomed. What she wanted finally came.
When the motorcycle stopped, Le Yun also closed her umbrella and threw it in the basket of the car, saying thank you to the person who brought the things. The man, who was in his fifties, smiled apologetically: "Classmate Le, right? Sorry, I'm late.
It was my first time here and I was not familiar with the roads, so I ended up taking a detour to Shangzhuang Township."
"It's okay." Le Yun expressed understanding.
The owner parked the car, untied the plastic basket tied to the back seat, untied the rope, moved the basket to the ground, and opened the lid. There were green branches inside, and underneath were two bags of medicinal materials placed in soil bags.
"You count a little and see if the number is correct." The man took out the bag and asked the little classmate to count it by himself.
Le Yun knelt down and looked at the herb leaves. One packet was Angelica sinensis, and the other packet was Ginseng. They were relatively small seedlings. Ginseng grew one leaf per year, and you could tell by looking at the leaves that they were all annuals. Angelica sinensis was also very small, probably only one year old and two-year-old.
Year-old.
"No need to order, I believe you." She did not count, confirmed that there was no adulteration, lifted the bag and put it in the front basket of the bicycle, put both bags in, and then covered the surface with the branches thrown by the owner to block the sun.
The car owner closed the basket, put it aside, opened the trunk at the back, and handed out a large bag of dry medicinal materials to the little classmate.
Leyun put the dry medicinal materials into her backpack, took out the money to pay, and paid a full three thousand. The owner counted them, wiped his sweat, and smiled in his eyes: "Little classmate, if you need medicinal materials in the future, call us, and we will still deliver them to you.
Goods delivered to your door.”
He and his friends rented ginseng, angelica, and dendrobium from the mountains in Shennong Mountain. They usually only sell dried products. The day before yesterday, he received a call from a primary school classmate asking to buy fresh ginseng and angelica. They were really unwilling to accept the business at first.
It's a small business, and secondly, the requirements are too high, requiring freshly dug seedlings.
They thought over and over again, and finally took over the business because the person who bought the medicinal materials was the science champion in Province E. Don't forget, the young champion studied at the Medical Department of Qingdao University. People who study medicine have direct connections with medical materials. If the young champion has learned
Which hospital or clinic you go to will naturally depend on medicinal materials. If you show up there, you might be able to sell products to the hospital through her, or sell medicinal materials to her.
Networking is very important in business, so they promised door-to-door delivery and cash on delivery. If no one picked up the goods when they were delivered, it didn't matter. They still had the medicinal materials in their hands anyway, they just lost a little oil.
"Okay, if there is still need, I will give priority to your medicine garden." Le Yun was happy to be kind to others, although she suffered a loss. A newly unearthed ginseng cost 200 yuan, and the angelica root cost 50 yuan. The asking price was very cruel. Who told her
We are in urgent need of ginseng and angelica seedlings.
The most important thing is that she is too young to ride a motorcycle. It takes time to go to Yaoyuan to buy it. Asking someone to buy it on her behalf means she owes a favor and has to explain the reason. It is too troublesome. Yaoyuan is willing to deliver the goods to her door.
If it's expensive, be more expensive.
Even though it was a polite reply, the car owner expressed joy, advertised the medicinal materials he grew without leaving a trace, tied up the plastic basket, and said goodbye to his little classmate.
After buying ginseng and angelica seedlings, Le Yun was very happy. She rode her bicycle back to the village and rushed home. She threw most of the seedlings away, leaving a few of them in bags. She put them in the living room, locked the door, and then went to work in the fields.
