Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

Hongwen is in the graduating class this year and has no time to come back for the autumn harvest. Hongxia is also in college, and her mother-in-law is in poor health, so she can only harvest alone.

Her family farmed six acres of land, and she couldn't handle it all by herself, so she wanted Zhang Xiuhua to help her deliver the vegetables.

Zhang Xiuhua finally had a chance to rest, but after hearing this, she realized that her good days were gone. She sighed and said, "Okay."

That means she has to deliver two shipments in the morning. One for her own store, and one for Xu Chunying's shipment. The two trips, loading and unloading, take more than three hours.

Fortunately, she no longer had to work in the fields, so she could catch up on some sleep after she came back. She would eat, rest, and then go back to the fields to pick cabbages after waking up.

She doesn't need to pick the Gala fruits, Zhuzhu will help pick them.

When she came back from delivering the goods, Aunt Wang came running over to borrow her tractor to harvest the crops.

After changing to a special harvesting knife and going into the field, you can harvest three to five acres of land a day.

If we mow the fields manually, we can only mow one acre a day at best, and we will be exhausted.

Those who don't have harvesters in the village can only wait until others have finished harvesting their fields, and then they can borrow one. Some people take turns with others. The owner of the harvester harvests during the day, and they harvest at night. This way, they take turns and don't delay them.

After a month of hard work, Xu Chunying finally harvested all the grain from her fields and dried it in the threshing ground. Her hand tractor was borrowed by another family.

She was busy threshing soybeans in the threshing floor. As for corn, she peeled off the husk, dried it, piled it up, covered it with plastic sheeting, and then shelled it into kernels when she had some free time.

After the soybeans are pounded and dried, they start paying the tax.

Zhang Xiuhua had no food at home, so she bought food from her sister-in-law and took it to the grain store.

Early in the morning, two people, each with a cart of grain, lined up at the grain station. Many villagers had already arrived ahead of them, all waiting to hand in grain.

Zhang Xiuhua looked at Xu Chunying and said, "Next time, let Big Brother come back to harvest the crops. Look how tired you are after harvesting the crops."

Xu Chunying can no longer be described as thin, she looks as if her spirit has been drained away.

Xu Chunying sighed, "It costs two hundred yuan to go back and forth, plus it takes time. It's not worth it!"

Zhang Xiuhua was speechless. "Your body is your own. Autumn harvest is very strenuous. If you keep doing this by yourself, it's hard not to have problems."

She was busy for three days and felt like her body was falling apart. She felt uncomfortable everywhere. Xu Chunying worked for a month and a half. The hardship was unimaginable.

Xu Chunying knew that she was doing this for her own good, so she smiled and said, "Thanks to my second brother who came back to help for a few days, otherwise I really couldn't have held on."

Some time ago, Li Jianguo took a three-day break and learned that his eldest brother's grain had not been harvested yet, so he went to help. Jie Jieshi helped her harvest grain for three days with a tractor, and when he left, his walking posture was not right.

Xu Chunying sighed, "Next year I plan to find someone to help me harvest the grain."

It is true that the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, but there are many people in the city who are unemployed. In order to make money, they are also willing to go to the countryside to collect food. Although they do not work as well as the country people, they can at least contribute.

Xu Chunying also values ​​her life. If she does this every year, she will really be exhausted.

Seeing that she listened to the advice, Zhang Xiuhua also started laughing.

Xu Chunying asked again, "Are there still people in our village who haven't finished collecting their crops?"

"Yes! Jianmin's family. He farms Jianxin's land, but his family doesn't have a hand tractor, so he can only harvest it manually, which is extremely slow. He waits until other people's land is harvested before he uses a machine to harvest it." Not many families in the village have tractors. At most, there are less than ten. But there are more than 200 families in the village.

Most families are like Jianxin, the whole family works together to cut the weeds by hand, which is much slower.

Xu Chunying sighed, "Fortunately I listened to you and bought a walk-behind tractor. Otherwise, I would not be able to do it alone."

Zhang Xiuhua smiled and said, "I guess those people must have gone to the agricultural machinery station to urge the machines to arrive. They have been waiting in line for so long, it is time for the goods to arrive."

Xu Chunying also laughed, "I'm sure other villages are also urging us to do it. I don't know if the agricultural machinery station can handle it."

The two chatted and soon it was their turn.

After paying the public grain tax, Zhang Xiuhua and Xu Chunying drove the bus back to the village together.

Xu Chunying still had some work to do with the vegetables, so she left first. Zhang Xiuhua parked the walk-behind tractor at the door, and when a villager came to borrow it, she borrowed it since she didn't need it for the time being.

After drying her own grain, Aunt Wang came to feed the chickens. When she learned that she had paid her public grain tax, she told her something, "I went to the agricultural machinery station today, and they said that the machines in our village will be delivered in the second half of the year."

Zhang Xiuhua was surprised, "So fast?"

"I heard that the higher-ups have assigned them a task and asked them to step up their efforts. You also know that every household is in need of tractors, and the agricultural machinery station is working overtime to produce them." Aunt Wang's face was full of joy. "If I can get the machine sooner, I can rest assured next year. My old arms and legs are almost broken after harvesting so much grain."

Zhang Xiuhua also sighed as she listened. It is really not easy for farmers to make money. She asked again, "Does the agricultural machinery station have a combine harvester now?"

"Never seen it." Aunt Wang shook her head.

Zhang Xiuhua was disappointed.

She went back to her room and started to count the accounts. The Gala apples were all sold out in early October. The cabbages were also all sold out a few days ago.

She sells some of the cabbage she grows herself, but sells most of it to the vegetable wholesale company owned by the village chief. At first, she sold it to her sister-in-law, and was paid on a daily basis. The village chief would settle the bill when all the cabbages were sold.

She has already received the money. As for the sales of the canteen, it is also recorded every day.

She was calculating seriously when Zhuzhu came in from outside. She puffed out her cheeks and sat on the bed as if venting her anger, as if others owed her millions.

Zhang Xiuhua raised her eyelids and glanced at her. "What's wrong with you? Who are you unhappy with again?"

Zhuzhu held her chin with her hands, angrily, "Second brother!"

Zhang Xiuhua was puzzled, "How did he offend you? He's not at home!"

"He said he would invite me to be the lead actor, but October is almost over and he didn't even call me! How could this be possible!" Zhuzhu was really angry, especially since she had boasted to her classmates before. Now she was so embarrassed.

Zhang Xiuhua didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "He had never invested in a TV series before, so he thought it would be easy to do. But it's not like that. To film a show, you have to go through the formalities, contact the director, producer, actors, and arrange the location. Money is the easiest thing. You wait a little longer, maybe it will be OK after a while."

Zhuzhu was skeptical, "Really? He's not lying to me?"

"How could he lie to you? It's possible that he lied to you, a child. But why would he lie to me? I'm his godmother!" Zhang Xiuhua answered with certainty.

Zhuzhu thought about it and realized that she was right! Her second brother would definitely not lie to her mother. "Then I'll wait a little longer."

She ran away like the wind.

Zhang Xiuhua continued to calculate her account. After finishing, she was a little bit unbelieving, so she calculated it again, and after confirming that the amount was correct, she was overjoyed.

Oh my god, this is business. It used to be small business. This is real big business.