The end-of-life life of a mountain farmhouse

There is another obvious disadvantage of using this small back-type harvester, that is, the cut rice is not very neat, and it needs to be tidied up when it is picked up for threshing. If it is not tidied up, it will not be cleaned.

But it doesn't harvest all the rice in an orderly manner. It can only be said that some of them will take a lot of time. Therefore, after Lin Yang finished cutting the two acres of paddy fields, Wen Zhu and Lin Chen didn't harvest even one mu of rice. over.

Lin Chen and Asparagus are the main force of threshing. The two of them picked up rice back and forth from the ground and put it into the threshing mouth. If you don't pass it, you will feel dizzy and have back pain after a while.

Xiaoyu'er's mother is responsible for bagging the rice because the other two are not as fast as the other two.

In the past, the very ancient thresher still required people to scoop the grain from the barrel and put it into woven bags or baskets. Now the thresher is directly bagged at the exit of the grain, but you must always pay attention, because as long as the people on the top thresh the grain The speed of the threshing machine is fast enough, and the rice threshing machine spits out the rice very fast, and a bag can be filled in a while. If the bag is not replaced in time, the rice will overflow out of the bag.

This is a very simple and easy job. Xiaoyu'er's mother will go to the side to sort out the messy rice when the bag is not full, reducing the time for Wen Zhu and Lin Chen to thresh millet.

After Lin Yang put down the harvester, he also joined the threshing ranks. The three of them took turns to replace each other, and they cooperated very tacitly.

With the addition of his strong labor force, the speed of millet threshing also increased rapidly. In less than an hour, all the crooked rice and grass in the two acres of paddy fields were separated.

After harvesting the two acres of paddy fields, it is only a little after 10 o'clock, and they arrived at the field at around 6:50 in the morning.

After resting for a while, the four of them ate the big watermelon that they just took out of the refrigerator all morning, and they had to rush to the next paddy field immediately.

According to the plan, the four of them will harvest all of Lin Yang's 6 mu of rice in one day.

Xiaoyuer's mother was responsible for packing things, and the other three were responsible for carrying the bagged rice to the tricycle and pickup truck parked by the roadside.

The standard for a bag of rice is one hundred catties, but now it is filled with freshly harvested rice, which is very steamy and contains straw, and a bag is only about eighty catties. Both Lin Chen and asparagus use one bag at a time. Pick, four bags at a time.

After the tricycle is full, asparagus will drive home first. The weather is too hot now, and the newly harvested rice has enough water. If they are not spread out in time, they will definitely germinate quickly, and the climate is weird now, maybe Changes are faster, like food spoilage, and half a year's harvest can be destroyed in just a few hours.

They didn't dare to delay, and after loading the car, they took it home and spread the water and grains on the sun-dried flat to dry.

"Damn it, are you still human?" Lin Chen stopped halfway with a bag of millet panting, he couldn't walk anymore, he wanted to rest.

Lin Yang answered him easily: "You are too imaginary, what did you do last night? Did you contribute to the country's second-child cause?"

The smile contained ridicule, but there was no ups and downs in the voice. If Lin Chen hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have believed that the two bags of rice piled up on his shoulders like mountains did not exist.

After Lin Yang picked a few loads of rice, he thought it was too troublesome to pick them up. He had to tie them together every time, so he just carried them, two bags at a time.

The plastic bag full of rice does not have to be placed on the shoulder, sometimes it is carried, sometimes it is caught under the armpit, but no matter how you look at it, it is very easy.

"Rolling." Lin Chen shook his head, and threw the bag of rice to his shoulder again: "Hey, Lin Yang, have you counted how many bags of rice you have harvested from these two acres of paddy fields? Why do I feel like I have carried so much?" Haven't finished it for a long time."

What's more, Lin Yang has at least two bags at a time, and according to common sense, he should have finished filling them long ago.

"I don't know, I think you're too empty, why don't you take a break!" Lin Yang took the bag of rice from him when he returned, ran a few steps forward, and put it away five or six meters away. Throw it into the neatly arranged rice in the cart.

"Damn, it's amazing!" Lin Chen's eyes widened, and he slapped him wildly and whistled: "Dude, you're awesome, you're awesome."

This is not something that can be done with great strength. You need to be steady with your hands and be very proficient in controlling the strength. Otherwise, if you throw it, the bags of rice that were piled up on the cart will be knocked off the cart, and what Lin Yang threw just now is not only accurate. , but also very neat, as if carefully coded up.

Eighty catties of rice is not a toy of eight catties or eight taels, but it just wanders around in his hands docilely.

"Hey hey." Lin Yang is also very proud. He has been very strong since he was a child, and since he learned how to play with the formation stones, his body has become even better. He usually carries two or three hundred catties easily without panting, if he is not afraid It's too scary, and he is completely fine with four or five hundred catties.

"Amazing, awesome, awesome, awesome." Lin Chen kept giving him thumbs up and praise.

This is also the best reason for the two of them to play in the village. Although Lin Yang has some secrets, he is no different from ordinary boys who grew up in the village.

Lin Chen's mind is relatively simple, great is great, although he is envious, but he will not hesitate to speak out his praise, instead of looking at Lin Yang's strange strength like other people look at monsters.

Seeing that there were only two sacks of rice left on the ridge, Lin Chen refused to leave. Anyway, Lin Yang could carry them all in one go.He said enviously: "How do you grow the rice in your family? I remember that the rice seeds of our two families are the same. Why does your family ripen earlier and grow better than mine?"

Generally, 20 bags of rice per acre is already a good harvest, and 20 bags of water grains are about [-] to [-] catties of dry grains after drying.

Lin Chen estimated that the two acres of paddy fields of Lin Yang's family almost filled their pickup trucks and tricycles, definitely more than 40 bags.

Lin Yang twitched his lips: "Is your family's farming more thoughtful than mine? If you manage as diligently as my little pigs, I guess you can grow the output of the experimental field."

"That's right! Except for a few old men, your family's asparagus is the best at farming in the village." Lin Chen nodded, and then sighed: "It's okay to harvest more rice in your family, but it ripens earlier than mine. My family...tomorrow Definitely can’t accept it, not even within 3 days, next week, next week will be almost there, remember.”

"Tell me or Xiaozhu two days in advance." Lin Yang wiped the sweat off his brow. He moved most of the rice in their two acres of paddy fields. In addition, the weather was extremely hot. After many trips, he will inevitably sweat.

He didn't feel well, and the others must have felt worse.

Lin Yang looked up at the sky, and felt that it was only past 10 o'clock, but the sun was already very hot, and it was definitely more than 35 degrees, and this was still in the village, so he didn't know how hot it would be outside.

"Lin Chen, Second Sister-in-Law, pack up your things and go back. I won't be going to the next field for a while. I'll finish work in the morning. It's too hot in this damn weather. I'll do it in the afternoon. It's three o'clock. Forget it. I'll go at four o'clock."

"Okay, okay, the weather this year is really weird, it's scorchingly hot." Lin Chen wiped the sweat from his brow, it's really not his fault, he would never be like this in previous years, he would rest after walking two steps with a bag of rice on his shoulders.

The weather is sweltering and sweltering, making people feel like they can't breathe, but if it's raining, whether it's the weather forecast or based on past farming experience, it won't rain for at least a week.

"Second sister-in-law, don't worry about the rice stalks, just rest quickly."

After threshing the millet, they will tie the rice stalks into bundles and stand them up to dry, and then take them home after drying. The dried rice stalks can be used as firewood, or fed to cows or pigs. Circle retting.

But now almost no one in the village raises pigs and cattle, and they don’t like to burn rice stalks. Most of them are taken to the next village and sold to the big cattle farmers in Pingshan Village, who is Zhuang Zhuang’s father who fought with the twins. His family collects fresh rice. The stalks cost 12 yuan and 100 catties. Some people think it is cheap and it is not worth the effort. Anyway, the second season will not be planted, and the rice stalks will rot directly in the field to raise the field.

Xiao Yuer's mother's face under her straw hat was pale and frightening. She tied up a few stacks of straw and hid in the shade under the trees by the paddy field to rest. When she heard Lin Yang calling her home, she said embarrassedly, "Lin Yang, I'm so sorry, the couple of us came to thresh you, but we didn't seem to be of any help."

"Second sister-in-law, what are you talking about, without you, we wouldn't have finished work so early." Lin Yang waved his hand: "Go back, everyone, the weather is too hot, take a rest, let's do it in the afternoon, at worst we will finish work later in the evening, today If we can’t finish harvesting, we can do another day tomorrow.”

"Okay, then let's go back." Lin Chen was also unambiguous, and left with his daughter-in-law. The two families are very familiar, so there is no need for such politeness.

Xiaoyu'er's mother disliked Lin Chen's dirty hands, and slapped his hands off. While walking, she patted her clothes, and she didn't forget to turn her head and say to Lin Yang, "Hurry up and call Asparagus. Otherwise, he would be in a hurry, not knowing how to tire himself out."

"I see." Lin Yang also used him to say that when Wenzhu drove the tricycle back, he told him to let him have a good rest at home, but it was unlikely that Xiaozhu would listen, so he told Lin Chen and the others just now. I already called him when I was in the mouth.

It is estimated that Wen Zhu was spreading rice on the sun terrace and did not hear the phone ringing. It was only when Lin Yang called the sixth time that Wen Zhu finally picked up the phone.

Wen Zhu's voice on the phone was slightly breathless: "What's the matter? Do you want to take something down?"

"No, don't worry." As soon as Lin Yang heard it, he knew that he must have worked without a break when he got home, and complained to him slightly: "Didn't I ask you to go back and rest for at least half an hour before..."