The happy little days of the Ye family

The days are passing quickly, and the rice in the fields is getting more mature day by day.

A few days before the summer harvest, the village chief specially summoned a group of experienced farmers in the village to discuss this year's summer harvest in the ancestral hall.

There were about twenty people who came, including Mr. Ye. Everyone sat together, with the village chief sitting at the head of the table.

Village Chief: "We all have been farming for a lifetime. I came here today to discuss the summer harvest and the weather in the second half of the year."

We are all old farmers who depend on the weather, so we can still tell a little bit about the weather.

Many people believe that the weather will be good in the next month or two, at least there will be no more heavy rains.

As for the weather in the second half of the year, although the weather is not smooth, at least it will not be as severe a drought as last year, or like the first half of the year, where there will be heavy rains for several days in a row.

God has still left a glimmer of hope for everyone. Overall, the weather in the second half of the year is pretty good.

After Mr. Ye came back from this discussion, he went to the fields three times a day and wished he could live in the fields.

The weather was indeed good in the next few days. The rice slowly turned from green to golden yellow, and in a blink of an eye it was the day of summer harvest.

One month before the summer harvest, there were heavy rains for several days. This year's rice was flat and light in the hand.

Even Ye Qingqing, who doesn't often go to the fields, knew there was something wrong with this year's rice.

Mr. Ye broke open the grains and found that the rice grains inside were only two-thirds the size of previous years.

The little grain in the fields was originally only about [-]% of what it was last year, but now it seems that [-]% is almost laughable.

During the summer harvest in previous years, everyone was beaming with joy, and their faces were full of harvest joy.

But during this year's summer harvest, the villagers all looked sad, as if their own parents had died.

Mr. Ye, on the other hand, has been frowning and worried all day long, and has several more gray hairs.

Even the dogs on the road had to tuck their tails and take a detour for fear of being angered by the grumpy farmers in the fields.

In fact, Taohua Village is pretty good, at least it still has [-]% of the food from the summer harvest.

In some places near the river, a lot of fertile farmland was flooded, and those people basically had no harvest.

Although the grain harvest was not good and everyone was in a bad mood, everyone still worked hard to harvest the grain.

Before dawn, there were many people in the fields collecting grain with torches. They didn't want to go back until it was completely dark.

In order to grab time for the summer harvest, many people even slept in the fields at night.

If Father Ye and Mrs. Ye hadn't been holding him back, Mr. Ye would have wanted to sleep directly in the field so that he could continue harvesting grain when he got up, which would save a lot of time.

In fact, the sun didn't come out in the morning, and the weather wasn't that hot yet. When the sun came out, the ground was like a furnace.

Everyone wakes up early and sleeps until late, sleeping only three hours a day. Even breakfast, lunch and dinner are eaten in the fields.

Everyone has only one idea, to harvest the food quickly.

The food in the fields has not been collected into the cellar for a day, and everyone's hearts are hanging.

Although the village veterans have discussed the recent weather together, everyone has been frightened by the heavy rains in the first half of the year.

I am afraid that if it rains again, the last bit of food in the fields will not be saved.

The Ye family has 10 long-term workers and 10 semi-permanent workers, plus a few members of the Ye family, who work from dawn to dusk every day to harvest grain.

The weather was so hot that the sweat on my forehead kept dripping to the ground like rain, and was dried by the fiery sun in a short time.

The clothes on my body were wet and dried in the sun, and then wet with sweat again. The smell of my body could be smelled from several meters away.

During the summer harvest, the family's long-term and semi-permanent workers all eat at Ye's house. Ye's mother and Ye Qingqing are responsible for cooking meals for more than [-] people.

Every day before dawn, Ye Qingqing and Ye Mu would go to the fields to harvest food with everyone. When the sun rose in the sky, they hurried back to cook.

There are too many people eating, so for convenience, Ye Mu makes various kinds of stewed rice every day, plus a vegetable and egg soup.

Today Ye Mu is making braised rice with wax rabbit. In addition to the wax rabbit, Ye Mu also adds a small piece of fat and thin bacon to it.

In addition to the meat leaf mother, soaked dried mushrooms and potatoes were also added to the rice. The braised rice was so oily that once the pot lid was opened, the aroma filled the yard.

Dahuang and Xiaohuang howled with greed at the same time.

Every household in the village is busy with the summer harvest, and even children of several years old are helping in the fields. The entire Taohua Village is deserted, and not even a soul can be seen on the road.

Both the Tang family and the Ye family were busy with the summer harvest, and no one was at home. Old Mrs. Ye was worried about being robbed at home, so she borrowed Xiao Huang from the Tang family to look after the house, while Dahuang stayed with the Tang family to look after the house.

Dahuang and Xiaohuang usually didn't seem to have a good relationship, but now they were separated and howling across the courtyard wall all day long.

I don't know if it's too boring, but it howls twice from time to time, and now it's even more howling when it's hungry, making Ye's mother dizzy.

There were too many people, and the summer harvest was a strenuous task, so Ye Mu specially cooked two large pots of stewed rice for fear of not having enough food.

Ye Qingqing was cooking luffa and egg soup in the yard. There were plenty of luffa and eggs, and the golden and green color looked very appetizing.

In addition to loofah and egg soup, Ye Qingqing also cooked a large pot of mung bean soup.

Summer is already hot, and it is very easy to get heatstroke during the summer harvest. There are people suffering from heatstroke in the fields every day.

Mr. Ye specially told Ye Qingqing to cook a pot of mung bean soup and send it to him at noon every day.

Just after making the mung bean soup, the pigs in the backyard were also howling with hunger. Ten big pigs howled together. It was so scary that they were struck by thunder, and it felt like the roof was about to be blown off.

At this time, Mother Ye actually felt that Dahuang and Xiaohuang were quite quiet.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing carried the pig food cooked in the morning into the pig pen, and then poured the pig food into the feeding wooden basin.

Smelling the smell of pig food, the hungry big fat pig ran over. Mother Ye quickly pulled Ye Qingqing aside. If she had been a step too late, Ye Qingqing would have been knocked away by the pig.

After feeding the pigs, Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing moved the stewed rice, loofah, egg drop soup and mung bean soup into the donkey cart and drove the donkey cart to the fields.

Ye Mu and Ye Qingqing also ate with everyone in the field. After the meal, they put away the bowls and chopsticks. There were many people but not many bowls and chopsticks, filling two large basins of bowls. .

Ye Mu took things back to clean and prepare the evening meal, while Ye Qingqing went to the drying ground to dry the grain.

As the days passed, Mr. Ye and everyone worked hard for more than half a month before finally harvesting all the food in the family.

After continuing to dry for several days, the Ye family waited until all the grain was dried and stored in the cellar.

The Ye family's summer harvest this year was very poor. The Ye family has three acres of high-quality paddy fields, plus 50 acres of newly opened paddy fields, a total of 53 acres of paddy fields, and only harvested a total of about two thousand kilograms of rice.

In the two heavy rains in the first half of the year, most of the corn was blown off by the storm, and the summer harvest was only about [-]% of previous years.

Two acres of high-quality dry land, plus 15 acres of sloping land, a total of 18 acres of corn, yielded about three thousand kilograms of corn.

In the first half of the year, the Ye family had 10 long-term workers and 10 semi-permanent workers, a total of 20 people, who earned 10 taels of silver a month.

This little food is far from enough to pay the long-term workers.

Fortunately, there are a lot of bamboo shoots and mushrooms in Xiaohou Mountain and Zhulin Mountain, as well as rabbit farms at the foot of the mountain. Otherwise, these long-term workers at home would not be able to support them.

The barren mountains and wasteland of the Ye family are all within the tax-free period. After the autumn harvest, they only need to pay 3 acres of high-quality paddy fields and 2 acres of high-quality dry land.

The grain tax on this small field is not much, so Mr. Ye plans to continue to pay the grain tax for this autumn's harvest and keep all the grain.

After the grain was harvested, Mr. Ye and his family's long-term workers started plowing the fields non-stop.

The three donkeys of the Ye family were hitched to iron plows, and they plowed the fields from early to late every day.

He obviously ate a lot, but all three donkeys lost a lot of weight. When Father Ye went to feed the donkeys, he was often scorned by several donkeys.

There were several times when he almost gave up the burden. Father Ye used a lot of bean dregs to coax the three stubborn donkeys at home.

It was indeed a busy period during this period. Not to mention the donkeys at home had lost weight. Even Ye Qingqing and Ye Mu, the two people who had spent the shortest time in the fields, had lost a lot of weight and had become a lot darker.

The brothers Ye Xilin and Ye Donglin have changed the most. They have grown a lot in more than a month, and their muscles have become stronger.

At this time, Ye Donglin was already taller than Ye's father, and Ye Xilin also changed from the fat winter melon to a black monkey.

The Ye family raises 10 big fat pigs and more than 100 rabbits. During this time, they have accumulated a lot of farmyard manure.

A season of grain had been planted in the family's fields in the past half year, and the fertility of the fields was insufficient. When plowing the fields, the old man deliberately turned the farmyard manure into the fields.

Although the Ye family has many livestock, the Ye family has too many fields, and one acre of paddy field does not receive much fertilizer.

Mr. Ye specially collected all the straw in the field, burned it on a fire, and then spread the ashes in the field to act as fertilizer.