Rebirth in another world is good for farming

Zhang Xiaoliu unsealed the pickled cabbage when he returned home, and as soon as he took off the top cover of the cabbage leaves, a strong sour smell wafted out.He smacked his lips, took out one, rinsed it with water and put it in his mouth.

There are many different types of pickled cabbage. The best one is pickled from a small cabbage, which is crisp, tender and sour.Zhang Xiaoliu used ordinary big-leaf greens this time, because the leaves are thick and soft, so the taste is not good.But at any rate, this pot of vegetables was not wasted, and they were all marinated successfully.He took out some and kept two for himself to cook for lunch, and distributed the others to Cao'er and Dashun's family.Most people pickle sauerkraut in their spare time in autumn and winter, and it is just a change of taste to eat it at this time.Although it is not a valuable thing, it is also because of this that neighbors will exchange what they have, which is a simple way of expressing goodwill and love.

He stopped by Dashun Momo's house first, and then went to Cao'er Momo's house.As soon as I got closer, I saw Aunt Li leading a somewhat unfamiliar middle-aged man out the door, and she was still whispering something at the intersection.After a while, the middle-aged Momo finally patted his hand and turned to leave, seeing Zhang Xiaoliu and smiling at him.

"Grandma Li." He smiled back at the man, and saw that Grandma Li was about to go back, he trotted a few steps to catch up and called him to stop.

"Ah, Brother Liu is here?" Grandma Li saw him with a smile on her face.During the May Festival, Mai Mai even brought vegetables to the house. At that time, Grandma Li lamented that the children in this family are capable and know how to behave.

"Well, I made an agreement with Cao'er in the morning, and I'll bring you some pickled cabbage." Zhang Xiaoliu raised the things in his hand and explained.

"You child, why don't you keep it for yourself? We still have vegetables in the vegetable field at home!" Grandma Li patted him on the shoulder and said distressedly.

"It's just a side dish, appetizing. I made a big urn this time, and I still have more at home! Since Grandma is busy, I will go back first." Zhang Xiaoliu originally wanted to give him the things and leave, but Grandma Li Take his hand and go home together.

"Not busy, not busy, just now that Meme is from the next village, and loves to be a matchmaker. The eldest of our family is not too young, so we happened to meet today and asked him to help keep an eye out, but you can't just look around when you are old. "If you find a suitable one, this age can also be determined first.If you can't find it for a while, you can find it slowly when you have time.Lin Cao'er is not in good health, and there is a child who is a few months old who cannot leave her hands all the time, so Grandma Li has to take care of things.

After entering the door, I saw Lin Cao'er holding Xiao Liu and feeding rice cereal.The child was several months old in a blink of an eye, and when he heard the noise, he turned his head in Momo's arms, and his bright black eyes were fixed on Zhang Xiaoliu.

"Brother Liu, is it so fast?" Lin Cao'er had just returned home not long after she separated from him, so it could be seen that the child came here just after going back to get his things.

"It just happened to be free, so I brought it here first. Xiao Liu is so good, doesn't he make a fuss when feeding?" Zhang Xiaoliu looked at the child in his arms in surprise, and smiled at him, and the child also turned to him. Laughed.

"Yeah, fortunately, Xiao Liu is easy to take care of. He usually doesn't make trouble at night, and plays by himself when he wakes up. It seems that he likes you very much!" Lin Cao'er let go, and Xiao Liu was about to go in Zhang Xiaoliu's direction struggle.

"Oh, my brother can't hug you now." Lin Cao'er hugged you tightly again in a hurry, and frowned again when she saw the things in Zhang Xiaoliu's hand: "Why did you bring so much here?"

"Not many, just four or five vegetables." Whole green vegetables are used for pickling sauerkraut, so four or five vegetables seem to be a lot.Grandma Li took the sauerkraut and brought it into the kitchen next to her, and came out with a small bowl full of it after a while.

"This is Shimei made by my brother. I brought some back home the day before yesterday, and I am saving it to send to you. Since Brother Liu is here, let's take it back together." Li Ama said as she spoke. Pass the bowl to Zhang Xiaoliu, his brother Meme is an expert at making stone plums, and sells a lot in the town every year.

Looking over, Zhang Xiaoliu saw that the bowl was filled with a kind of light blue round fruit, which seemed to be green plums.At this time, it has been pickled, and the surface is stained with a layer of white powder, and the fruit has shrunk a lot.April is the season when plums are ripe here. He went to the market a while ago and saw many stalls of this kind of pickled fruit in the town, called Shimei.However, this kind of food is just a mouthful, and there must not be many people in the village who are willing to buy it.Since Grandma Li brought it back from her elder brother's house, she must have let him coax the children.

"I'll just bring some sauerkraut here, and grandma wants to return so many things to me, so I won't dare to come to my door again next time." Zhang Xiaoliu saw the two children beside Grandma Li staring at the things in the bowl, drooling It was about to flow out, so I hurriedly declined, "If I take it back and give it to Xiaosong, he will have to ask me to buy it every day? Grandma, let's keep it for the children. If they are hungry, I will give them sauerkraut. Chew." He himself likes sauerkraut as a snack, and he can eat it after washing.

"Children, how can you say that?" Grandma Li scolded him with a smile, and said, "It's a bottomless pit for them to eat, and I brought back more than that. Xiao Song is an obedient child, you just keep it for him eat."

"Otherwise, how about this? Grandma just pack a few for me, and give the rest to Xiaowu and the others." Zhang Xiaoliu knew that they would not let him leave empty-handed, so he had to change his method.He remembered that it was the same in his own family before, when he got something good, his family was reluctant to eat it, and he would give it to others as a return gift, saying that the child had eaten it.

In the end, Grandma Li couldn't hold back his insistence, so she wrapped half of it in oiled paper before sending him out.

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The day before Zhang Xiaoliu decided to harvest the rice was the market day, and he asked Dashun to bring back two catties of pork belly. During the next month's busy farming season, he probably had no time to go to the market, so he relied on the oily smell to live.

Weaving baskets is not as simple as baskets, because it needs to hold heavy objects and withstand the wind and sun. The bamboo used to weave baskets must be selected to be strong enough.After weaving, soak in water for a day, and then wait for the water in the bamboo strips to penetrate naturally in a cool place before exposing them to the sun.From the day Zhao Zhengze promised to compile, only two projects have been completed.However, there were two at home and some cloth bags, which are enough for the time being.

On the day when the harvest officially began, Zhang Xiaoliu and Zhao Zhengze got up and went out with sickles before dawn.At this time, there is a large paddy field, and less than half of it has been harvested.When they came to their own fields, their clothes were already wet with dew, and they cheered each other up, and bent down to harvest.

Only those who have worked in the fields know how hard the days of busy farming are.I don't say I do heavy work, and I don't have time to cook meals. I just dealt with it casually.There is also the scorching sun on the head, the clothes on the body are sweaty and dry again, and when you take them off at noon, you can see a layer of hoarfrost on them.Harvesting rice itself is not easy. It is a lot of work to cut off the rice one by one while bending over.With past experience, Zhang Xiaoliu knew that after the first day, it was more likely to have back pain, so he could only do it as fast as possible when he was not tired.

After an hour and a half, a large piece of rice had fallen in the field.The wheat left at home has already fed the chickens, cooked porridge with rice and sweet potatoes, and took the younger brother to the field to deliver meals to the older brother.This was what Zhang Xiaoliu had agreed with him yesterday. In the morning, when the sun was not shining, he wanted to buy more time to cook, so he asked him to cook and send it to him.

The sun rose even faster after breakfast, and because Mai insisted on staying in the field to help, Zhang Xiaoliu had no choice but to ask Xiaosong to sit under a tree by the side of the road.After noon, the sun's shadow on the ground became shorter and shorter, Zhang Xiaoliu already felt dizzy.

"Okay, let's go home first, we still have to cook!" Zhang Xiaoliu announced with satisfaction that the speed of this half-day was not slow, at least five or six points of the land had been harvested.

"You guys go back first, I'll cut for a while." Zhao Zhengze looked up and looked elsewhere, most of the families were still in the fields.At this time, it is obviously too early to call it a day, and many people will be busy until the end.

"No, after cutting so much, we still need to pile them up, so we can thresh them in the afternoon!" Harvesting rice is not just about cutting it off, and threshing the millet is not easy.There is not even the oldest harvesting machine here. Instead, a flat wooden board is placed on the ground, surrounded on all sides, and the stalks are held by the side and beaten vigorously until the grains fall off.In order to increase the speed, it is necessary to pile up the rice that has been placed here and there in advance.

Zhao Zhengze and Mai Mai stayed to deal with the aftermath, and Zhang Xiaoliu took Xiaosong back to cook first.In the stream under the bamboo tree, he washed the mud off his body vigorously, and rushed home without daring to delay.If it is done quickly, everyone can take a break after eating, if it is slow, they will have to wait hungry when they go home.

However, Zhang Xiaoliu had already planned the meals for a few days.When he got home, he drove Xiaosong into the house, first went to the vegetable field to pick three bitter gourds, finely chopped half a catty of pork belly, and then took two sauerkraut and stewed it in a large pot.With this amount, even the evening dishes are prepared.

It was like this for the next few days. In the morning, Zhao Zhengze and Zhang Xiaoliu went to harvest first, and Mai went to bed late. After getting up, he took his younger brother to feed the chicken and made porridge, and then sent it to them.The three of them worked together for an hour or two, and after lunch, they threshed the rice harvested in the morning, and at night they carried or carried the millet home.

There is an agricultural proverb that says that when spring competes with sun and summer, it is better to crop crops sooner rather than later.At this time, rushing to harvest early is actually to free up the land earlier to plant the crops in the second half of the year.The Zhang family harvested the three-acre paddy field for five full days, and when the last load of millet was brought home, all four of them had darkened faces.

Zhang Xiaoliu counted it again, and the returned millet was full of four baskets, and there were also ten large and small linen bags.The millet in two baskets is about one stone. Of course, this is the weight of the raw grain that has just been recovered. It is excellent to have [-]% of the grain left after drying and shelling.In other words, a total of ten stones of millet were taken back from the three mu of land.According to the news he heard, the current tax is relatively low, and the income per mu is still six liters.

The millet in the field was taken back, and the tense atmosphere of the past few days finally relaxed, and I slept peacefully that night.Hulling is something that can only be considered after busy farming, but it is necessary to hurry up and dry the millet, otherwise it is easy to grow mold and sprout.

When he woke up the next day and saw the sun, Zhang Xiaoliu smiled again.In such fine weather, even just one day in the sun is enough.