Chapter 64 Harvesting Millet
(Second Update)
Author: May Lilac
(Second Update)
At three or four o'clock, Xiao Junxuan went to the grain drying field.
He picked up the broom and swept a circle around the rice and a circle in the middle, and then the grains flew together.
After sweeping the grains and grains into a pile, Xiao Junxuan took a sieve and drained the grains and grains out.
Soon after, the rice in the rice drying field became more golden and plump.
However, Xiao Junxuan looked at the sky and found that the rice grains had almost been swept into piles.
After thinking for a while, he took out his mobile phone and called home.
The call was answered by Xiao Jinli.
Xiao Junxuan said, "Sister, you can harvest the grains and wake up your parents."
After Xiao Junxuan hung up the phone, he took the broom and swept the grains into one piece.
Not long after, Xiao's mother, Xiao Jinli and Xiao Siquan came over.
As for Father Xiao, he was drunk at noon and it was really difficult to wake him up. Mother Xiao simply didn’t call him.
Anyway, it didn't rain, and I wasn't rushing to harvest the millet, so I wasn't in a hurry.
Xiao's mother came over and said, picked up the broom and started sweeping.
Xiao Jinli also swept with a broom.
Xiao Siquan, "..." What is he doing?
He looked around and didn't see the broom.
I only have three brooms at home.
Xiao Siquan asked, "Then what should I do?"
Xiao Jinli said, "Then take the scraper and collect the grains."
Xiao Siquan, "..." But how to deal with this?
Xiao Junxuan put down the broom, picked up the scraper, walked towards the middle, and then scraped the grains together from all sides.
Then, he said, "Koizumi, use it like this. There's also a push scraper there."
Xiao Siquan picked up another push scraper and began to collect the rice.
The two boys were very strong, and so was Xiao Jinli. They swept the grains over and over again without feeling tired.
Mother Xiao has done countless jobs like this, and it’s not difficult to sweep up the grains.
Soon, the millet piled up into piles of hills.
Xiao Siquan asked doubtfully, "Don't you need to pack these millets?"
Xiao's mother said, "No need. Put it up now. It will have to be untied tomorrow. It's troublesome. Now just pile it up and cover it with some waterproof plastic film. When tomorrow morning, you can directly open these plastic films and spread out the millet to dry in the sun."
Just come out."
Xiao Junxuan also said, "This way, even if it rains, the millet will not be wet. In fact, many people are not willing to put it away as long as it does not rain at night, and just dry it under the moon. However, the rain in summer is very unstable, and most people
Everyone will put it away. But don’t let the grain get wet just because you are lazy. It will be too late to regret it.”
Xiao Siquan, "..." sighed in his heart, it is really not easy for these rural people. They have to look at the sky all the time, fearing that a heavy rain will come at any time.
The family quickly covered the millet.
Xiao Siquan asked again, "Would you like to come over and watch over me tonight?"
Xiao Junxuan waved his hand and said, "No need."
Xiao Siquan asked again doubtfully, "You don't have to guard, will no one steal it that night?"
Xiao Junxuan said, "I don't know about other villages. But in our village, things like stealing chickens and dogs have never happened. Every household keeps it like this, and no one comes to steal it."
Xiao Siquan, "..." Rural people are so simple.
Oh no, currently the people in Xiaojiacun are really simple and innocent.
By the time everything was cleaned up, it was already five or six o'clock in the evening.
Xiao Siquan, "..." How come time flies by so fast? They must have only been out for a while.
After the family returned home, Xiao's father was still sleeping.
Drunk people can sleep for a particularly long time.
For dinner, Xiao's mother simply made tomato and egg noodles, and woke up Xiao's father. After dinner, Xiao's father took a bath and went back to sleep.
The next day, after breakfast, the family went to dry millet again.
Xiao Siquan is much more skilled at this job today than yesterday.
However, the price is that there is a layer of calluses on the palms of the hands, and there is also some abrasion.
But he didn't say anything.
As a man, it doesn't matter if he suffers so much.
The rice harvest in the fields has come back, and the land has to be planted with a second crop of rice.
To plant the second crop, the ground must first be plowed.
Instead of oxen, machines are used to plow the land, which costs one hundred and fifty yuan per acre.
There was someone in Xiaojiacun, and Xiao Wanshan had already greeted them a long time ago.
Nowadays, there are many people plowing their fields, and Xiao Wanshan also has to queue up.
Of course, because many people raise cattle, many people also choose cattle to plow their fields.
Xiao Wanshan and Xiao Junxuan didn't go anywhere in the past two days, not even going to work. They couldn't leave until at least the grains were dried and put into the warehouse.
The work of Xiao Wanshan and his son seems a bit mysterious to Xiaojiacun.
Because not many people know what class they are in.
Some people say that they work in the company, while others say that both father and son work in the company.
Neither Xiao Wanshan nor his son admitted or denied it.
In fact, even Xiao Siquan seemed curious about what kind of job they were working in the county. The salary was high and they had freedom. It sounded a bit like an iron rice bowl, but not quite like an iron rice bowl.
The iron rice bowl salary is not high, but the benefits are good. However, the monthly salary that father and son pay to Xiao's mother is several times that of ordinary civil servants.
Xiao Siquan once asked, "Brother Xuan, what kind of class do you work in the county? Do you have high salary and freedom?"
Xiao Junxuan said with a smile, "Since you are curious, why don't you come with me and have a look!"
Xiao Siquan did not refuse.
The weather was fine in the morning, but when we were having lunch, the sky suddenly darkened and dark clouds filled the area.
The whole family immediately put down their rice bowls and hurried to the drying field.
At this time, the drying field quickly became busy. Someone was harvesting the millet and shouting, "It's going to rain. It looks like it's going to rain heavily. We have to collect the millet quickly."
People who were working nearby and had no corn to dry would rush over to help if they left and put down their hands.
After a while, there were more people in the whole drying field and it seemed even busier.
Someone from Xiao Wanshan's family also helped. With the strength of many people, a small piece of millet was swept into a pile, then covered with plastic film, and then covered with bricks.
After finishing their own work, Xiao Wanshan and others immediately went to help others.
After all, Xiao Wanshan's family doesn't have much land to plant, and they don't have much millet, and there are many people, so they can harvest it quickly.
But most of the people in the village have more than three or four acres of land, so there is even more millet.
The five members of Xiao Wanshan's family harvest millet for others.
Soon, the rain started to fall drop by drop.
"Hurry, hurry, heavy rain is coming."
Everyone moves faster.
When the heavy rain comes, many people have harvested their millet, but there are also a few people whose millet has been wetted. However, the wetted millet is not much, only three or four loads, but it is still distressing enough.
Chapter completed!