The happy little days of the Ye family

The autumn harvest is the biggest event in the village. In order to rush to harvest food, some people even get up in the middle of the night to collect food.

The sky was still gray, and before the rooster at home began to crow, Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye got up.

Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye came to the kitchen quietly. Mr. Ye cooked pig food, while Mrs. Ye was making breakfast.

Not long after, Father Ye and Mother Ye also got up.

Father Ye took out the sickle he had sharpened yesterday and put it into his backpack, and then began to feed the two donkeys at home.

Ye Mu boiled two large pots of water on the stove in the yard, one pot was boiled water, and the other pot was herbal tea to relieve the heat, which she would take to the fields to drink later.

In previous years, Mr. Ye bought the herbal tea from the pharmacy, but this year's herbal tea was prepared by Tang Xiaojing himself by picking herbs in the mountains.

Tang Xiaojing prepared a sack of summer-relieving herbal tea, which should be enough to drink until the valley is cleared.

Ye Mu heated up the fire in the stove and added a few large pieces of wood into it. At this time, the rooster at home began to crow, clucking and clucking.

Mother Ye got up and mixed a large pot of chicken and duck food, and then went to the backyard to feed the chickens and ducks.

Today, everyone in the family went to the fields to harvest rice. No one at home fed the chickens or ducks. Mother Ye specially mixed a lot of chicken food and duck food, which was enough for these little guys to eat for a whole day.

At this time, Ye Qingqing, the three people who heard the rooster crow, and the Tang family father and son next door also got up one after another, rubbing their eyes and yawning to wash up.

Autumn harvest is about competing with God for time. Taking advantage of the good weather these days, we must quickly take back the grain and dry it.

If this grain is not put into the cellar for a day, the farmers who rely on the sky for food will have trouble sleeping.

In order to save time, everyone brought dry food to the fields to eat during the autumn harvest. Mrs. Ye specially made a large bowl of egg pancakes and boiled a lot of salted duck eggs, which were all taken to the fields for lunch. .

Tang Shan and Tang Xiaojing also went to Ye's house today to help with the autumn harvest. Old Mrs. Ye also cooked food for them. Together with the pancakes for breakfast, they made two large pots of pancakes. Eggs and salted duck eggs were also boiled. Big basin.

Mrs. Ye specially asked Tang Shan and Tang Xiaojing to come over for breakfast last night. As soon as Ye Qingqing finished washing, the Tang family father and son came over with the majestic Dahuang and Xiaohuang.

Seeing Ye Qingqing, Da Huang and Xiao Huang ran over enthusiastically, wagging their tails and rubbing against Ye Qingqing's legs.

After breakfast, Tang Xiaojing took Xiao Huang back to look after his house, while Da Huang Huang stayed at Ye's house to look after his house.

There is a lot of money hidden in each room of the Ye family, and there are also many dry goods at home. Mrs. Ye specially borrowed rhubarb from Tang Xiaojing.

Mrs. Ye looked at the ferocious rhubarb and wondered if she should have a wolf dog to look after the house.

The old lady had a lot of money in her room. What if a thief came in? The more Mrs. Ye thought about it, the more worried she became.

On the way, Mrs. Ye and Mr. Ye whispered: "Should we keep a wolf dog at home to look after the house? During the autumn harvest and picking wild vegetables, no one is at home. What if a thief sneaks in without having the eyesight? manage."

"The family has a lot of money, and there is also a lot of grain, dry goods and dates in the cellar. It is inevitable that someone will be interested in it." The more Mrs. Ye talked about it, the more uneasy she became.

Before buying the mountain, the Ye family was relatively low-key. Now that they have a mountain and a donkey, they are one of the wealthier ones in the village. Many people are jealous.

Mr. Ye thinks what Mrs. Ye said makes sense. Now the Ye family has two mountains. This year there are harvests of honeysuckle and red dates. Everyone in the village knows that the Ye family is rich and they have to guard against it.

Mr. Ye thought for a moment and said, "I'll borrow Rhubarb for the next few days. After the autumn harvest, I'll find a wolf dog like Rhubarb and Xiao Huang. The wolf dog is more ferocious than ordinary dogs and is suitable for guarding the house."

What we were harvesting today was the Ye family's paddy field. The paddy field was at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain. The group of people arrived at the field quickly.

It was just dawn at this time, but the fields were already very lively. Men, women, and children in the village, as long as they could move, were in the fields grabbing grain.

At this time, many people had already harvested a large area of ​​rice. They were all bent over, with the sickles in their hands fast and hard. The sweat on their foreheads fell to the ground like rain, and the clothes on their bodies It was also wet with sweat, and sweat stuck to the body.

Mr. Ye and Mr. Ye distributed the sickles in the backpacks. Strong laborers like Mr. Ye, Mrs. Ye, Mr. Ye and Tangshan all had new and particularly sharp sickles.

The remaining children and Mother Ye all held blunt old sickles.

Old Mrs. Ye warned worriedly: "Be careful not to cut yourself when cutting rice, especially Xiu Xiu and Qing Qing. Be careful not to cut your hands. It doesn't matter if you go slower."

This was Tang Xiaojing's first time cutting rice. Tang Shan carefully taught him how to use the sickle and how to cut rice faster and with less effort.

Because Ye Qingqing and Ye Mu wanted to do embroidery, they both wore gloves sewn by Ye's mother to cut the rice.

The heat is a bit hot, but it protects your hands well. If you put on a thick hand cream at night, your hands will not get calluses.

Because of the extra Tang family and his son, the nine people harvested two acres of rice that day, and the rice they received was transported to the village's drying field to dry.

Ye Qingqing was weak and couldn't do much work. In the afternoon, he was sent to the drying field to dry rice and drive away sparrows.

There were many sparrows eating rice in the drying field. Ye Qingqing wore a big straw hat and a long bamboo pole in his hand, walking back and forth on the drying field, waving the bamboo pole to drive away the pesky sparrows.

There were some naughty little kids on the drying ground who made several traps to catch sparrows. I don’t know whether the sparrows were too smart or the traps were not well made, but they didn’t catch a single sparrow all afternoon.

Tang Shan and Tang Xiaojing worked very hard and efficiently. With their participation, this year's autumn harvest was much faster. The rice that originally took three days was harvested in two days, and the corn that originally took two days was harvested in one day. .

When the people in the village saw that the Ye family had recovered the grain from the fields in three days, they were all envious. They praised Tang Xiao Jing for finding such a good son-in-law. Many people were upset that they had made such a late decision and missed such a good son-in-law.

In addition to 3 acres of paddy fields and 2 acres of corn, the Ye family also has 5 acres of sweet potatoes. However, the cellar at home is already full of red dates, and there is really no room for sweet potatoes.

Mrs. Ye plans to dig sweet potatoes later. Sweet potatoes are not like rice, so it doesn’t matter if they are harvested later.

In addition, there are 15 acres of corn on the slopes of Xiaohou Mountain that can be harvested. At this time, some families in the village with little land have already harvested grain. Mr. Ye invited about ten people in the village to harvest corn.

Originally, Mr. Ye wanted to invite more people, but everyone else was busy with the autumn harvest, so he really couldn't invite anyone.

It took six days to harvest all the 15 acres of corn in Xiaohoushan.