The happy little days of the Ye family

After heavy rain, it is a good time to pick mushrooms and dig bamboo shoots.

For several days, Tang Xiaojing and Tang Shan took their long-term workers to pick mushrooms diligently on their two hills.

Normally, the mushrooms on the mountain can only be picked when the farmers have time to go up the mountain.

Not many mushrooms were picked on the mountain some time ago. After the heavy rain, the mushrooms on the mountain were almost all in one piece.

The long-term workers happily carried baskets of mushrooms down the mountain.

Tang and his son brought back an oxcart full of mushrooms to their home almost every day.

Over the next few days, all kinds of mushrooms almost covered the entire backyard of the Tang family.

Heidou and Xiaohua, two newly grown dogs, would curiously take out mushrooms and play with them from time to time.

Ye Qingqing beat and scolded these two dogs, but they cared about eating rather than beating them. Just after being beaten, he turned around and took out the half-dried mushrooms.

Afraid that the dogs at home would destroy the mushrooms, Ye Qingqing simply locked the door to the backyard to prevent them from entering.

The Ye family next door is busier than the Tang family. The front and back yards are full of mushrooms and dried bamboo shoots.

The Ye family has two large bamboo forests, and the bamboo shoots are almost transported to the house in several donkey carts.

In order to make these bamboo shoots into dried bamboo shoots, Mrs. Ye also invited several old women to help make dried bamboo shoots.

Not to mention the front and back yards, even the free space on the homestead next door used by Ye Xilin to raise pigs is covered with dried bamboo shoots.

Whether it is dried bamboo shoots or dried mushrooms, these are all money, and Mrs. Ye is very busy every day.

Although I have lost some weight, I still look energetic every day. He worked vigorously and looked much more energetic than Ye Qingqing.

When all the mushrooms and bamboo shoots on the mountain were picked, the rice in the field also turned from green to yellow, and the originally dry rice became much plumper.

Although the rice on the seedlings is much sparser than before, it still cannot stop farmers from being happy about the harvest.

In recent days, the sound of grinding sickles can often be heard in the village, and the smell of meat can often be smelled. Everyone is preparing for the summer harvest.

Mrs. Ye prays at home every morning and evening, hoping for good weather for the summer harvest.

Not to mention having bright sunshine every day, at least there should be no rain during the rice harvesting period.

When the rice is all in the cellar, he can follow him for three days and three nights.

Although the Li family has no fields, Yang also knows that the summer harvest is coming soon.

During the busy farming season, both Li Orion and Li He went to the Ye family to help.

During this summer harvest, Yang planned to go to the Ye family to help harvest rice, just like before.

But unexpectedly, the father and son were unwilling to go with a straight face.

Ever since Li Guoer and Ye Xilin got engaged, their relationship has been very good, and Ye Xilin often went to the Li family to show his attentiveness.

Originally, Orion Li had accepted Ye Xilin as his son-in-law and was quite satisfied with him.

But as the wedding day got closer, Orion Li became unhappy again.

He felt very unhappy when he thought that his daughter would marry far away to the Ye family at the end of the year. Speaking of Ye Xilin, my teeth itch with hatred.

Li He and Li Guoer had been close since childhood, and they were very unhappy when they thought that their sister would go to live with the Ye family.

Li Feng is older and has been married before. He knows that women will eventually get married, so his attitude is relatively better.

Seeing that both father and son were unwilling, Yang had no choice but to give up. Anyway, they are getting married soon, so it would be better for their family to be more reserved.

Li Guoer had already finished her wedding dress. As the wedding day got closer, she slowly began to feel a little uneasy.

And he became very clingy and often followed Yang. He also generously gave Li Orion and his two brothers a lot of pocket money.

With the sudden heavy rain before, people in the village didn't have time to wait for the rice to be fully mature before they started harvesting.

The Tang family has a lot of fields, and they are almost the first group of people in the village to start harvesting.

Ye Qingqing took care of Chenchen at home, while Tang Xiaojing paid a high price for an aunt in the village to cook for the long-term workers.

During this period, Tang Xiaojing and Tang Shan worked from dawn to dusk every day to harvest rice with their long-term workers.

Although the rice was planted at about the same time, some matured earlier and some matured later.

The father and son, together with their long-term workers, started harvesting from the earliest ripe rice.

The Tang family has 60 acres of paddy fields, and the family's drying field simply cannot dry so much rice.

As for the drying ground in the village, every household in the village has now opened up a lot of paddy fields, and it is impossible for them to use them all. They can only allocate a small area to them.

So a few days before harvesting rice, Tang Xiaojing opened a temporary drying ground at the foot of the mountain.

Then he reluctantly dried the harvested rice.

At this time, in addition to harvesting rice, it is also time to start raising seedlings.

The rice seeds are the rice that Tang Xiaojing saved from the field with the best harvest last year.

The first step in raising seedlings is seed selection.

Soak rice in water. The rice that floats to the surface will not be full enough.

The seedlings grown from such rice did not grow well, so Tang Xiaojing fished them all out.

The rice at the bottom is soaked in water. After the rice germinates, it is placed in the ground prepared in advance to raise seedlings.

There are more than a dozen long-term workers in the Tang family. Excluding the few people who look after the rabbit shed and pig pen, there are still 8 long-term workers.

Including the Tang family and his son, there were 10 people in total, and it took a total of 6 days to harvest all the rice.

After the rice is harvested, it’s time to plow the land again and plant autumn rice.

The Tang family has a total of five cows, and it took several days to plow all the paddy fields again.

The rice planting is not finished yet, there is still corn and peanuts in the dry land to be harvested.

A month has passed since the paddy fields and dry land were replanted with food.

During this time, people in the village get up early and work late at night. They get up earlier than chickens and go to bed later than dogs. Some people even sleep in the fields.

After a month, everyone became darker and thinner.

The people in the village were busy raising food in the fields, and the Hu family in the town were also busy asking about Fang Jiawang and the Fang family.

However, every household in the village was busy with the summer harvest, and the Hu family's cousins ​​had no one to inquire about.

I learned from Hu Shengnan that Fang Jiawang did not go to the fields on weekdays and cooked at home during his spare time.

Hu Bin and his three nephews planned to take turns squatting in the corner of Fang's house.

There was no way, I couldn't find anyone to ask, so I had to go there myself.

Hu Bin originally despised the fact that Fang Jiawang was very capable but was willing not to work.

But smelling the aroma coming from the kitchen, I felt that this son-in-law seemed pretty good.

Aren't they pretty good at feeding chickens, cooking, and washing dishes? Their family lacks a virtuous person who can cook.

Fang Jiawang, who was at home during this period, was living a very leisurely life.

Mr. Liang is responsible for breakfast, and he is only responsible for making lunch and dinner. He has a lot of time in the morning and afternoon.

At this time, Fang Jiawang usually goes to the mountains to catch pheasants or catch fish in the river.

Try to make the family eat better, after all, summer harvest is really tiring.

After this period of time, not only the people in the village who were busy with the summer harvest became a lot darker, but even the few people in the Hu family squatting in the corner became very dark.

By the time the summer harvest was over, the Hu family also knew the details of the Fang family.