Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 166 A Difficult Decision
Harvesting rice is not the most tiring step, but threshing is.

Cut off the rice stalks and thresh them on the ground.This is where the threshing bucket is used.

Zhu Xi unloaded the huge threshing bucket from the bullock cart, set up a shelf, and placed it firmly in the paddy field.

Zhu Yuanzhang held a heavy rice stalk and stood in front of the threshing bucket with a devout expression.

He first put the rice stalks gently on the cross-arm of the shelf, and silently prayed to the God of Valley.

Then he raised the rice stalk and knocked it hard on the shelf, and heard a crisp bang, and the rice grains fell into the bucket like pearls and raindrops.

Then, Zhu Yuanzhang raised the rice stalk, shook it twice, and dropped all the fallen rice grains into the bucket.Then switch sides and continue beating, shaking off...

Although it sounds simple, the older generation said that threshing millet is a martial arts job. Not only must the waist and horse be united in each stroke, and the force should be evenly distributed. .After an autumn harvest, the whole person 'knocked off the suet'.

Ordinarily, the job of losing weight like this should be done by the sixth child, but unfortunately he is not as tall as a threshing bucket...

After proficiency, the father and son started assembly work.Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di stood beside the threshing bucket, threshing millet on the left and right.Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi delivered bundles of rice stalks to them.

When Zhu Yuanzhang said, "It's enough to pick", Zhu Xi picked up the threshing bucket, put the rice grains into baskets, and picked them to the grain drying field.

Zhu Zhen, who is in charge of drying millet, also worked very hard.Under the scorching sun, he first used the board made by his fourth brother to swing the rice that fell on the field, and then spread it into an even layer of thickness.

When the dew dries up, he has to use a nine-toothed rake to rake out the weeds and rice straw mixed in the rice.In less than half an hour, Zhu Zhen had to turn over the rice and continue to dry it so that it would be evenly exposed to the sun.

If the cycle is repeated, it will take several days to completely dry the moisture of the rice and return it to the warehouse as grain.

The second elder brother would always carry the load and walk around a few more times, controlling the speed at which the baskets were dumped, and spread the millet on the ground as evenly as possible, so as to lighten Zhu Zhen's burden.

Even so, Zhu Zhen's arms were still sore.What's more uncomfortable is that his skin was burned by the scorching sun.There was a burning pain on the face and back.

Don't look at him being poisoned by the scorching sun, but he is afraid when it is cloudy.Because when it rains, not only will a lot of sun-dried rice be washed away, but the ones that are not washed away are likely to become moldy...

So he has to keep vigilant all the time, whenever the wind direction changes or clouds appear in the sky, he has to quickly pile up the sun-dried rice with a board.

When the dark clouds overwhelm and the wind blows loudly, the fathers and brothers in the field will drop everything and rush to the yard to collect the rice as quickly as possible.

But often the clouds would bloom and the sun would rise again, and if it was just a false alarm, they would walk away, leaving poor Lao Liu alone to clean up the mess.

But sometimes when it really rained, the family had no choice but to hold bamboo mats and ponchos around the grain pile to protect the rice from the rain, but they themselves became drowned, all in a mess...

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The seven fathers worked like this for seven consecutive days, and they were as tired as dead dogs every day.

Every day when Zhu Biao came back from work, he would snore loudly while sitting there waiting for dinner.At night, my brother and I were entangled with each other and slept in a ball, and we no longer have the trouble of insomnia.

Zhu Yuanzhang is similar. Although he has a good background, he is almost fifty, and he is not as good as he was back then.

But Zhu Yuanzhang liked this feeling of being too tired to think about anything, which allowed him to temporarily escape from huge troubles and gain a moment of peace of mind.

Unfortunately, seven days later, with the last grain entering the warehouse, this year's autumn harvest is over.

When I wake up tomorrow morning and eat dry rice cooked with new rice, I should go back...

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On the eve of departure, Zhu Yuanzhang suffered from insomnia again.

He sat alone in the patio, listening to the ups and downs of his sons snoring from the room, looked up at the bright moon in the sky that was about to be full, and was dazed for a long time.

Suddenly Zhu Yuanzhang felt warm, and someone added a mattress to him.

He thought it was the prince, but when he looked down, it was the youngest sixth son.

The prince was really tired, he was still gritted his teeth before, but today he finished work, he couldn't hold back anymore, he didn't even eat dinner, so he just lay down and fell asleep, how could he care about his melancholy father?
"Why aren't you sleeping?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a low voice.

"Pee..." Zhu Zhen rubbed his sleepy eyes and said, "I saw that Daddy is still awake."

"En." Zhu Yuanzhang felt soft inside, pulled him over, held him in his arms and said, "Then stay with dad for a while."

"Yes." Zhu Zhen obediently lay in his arms.

"Oh, it's better to be small." Feeling the heavy satisfaction, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help sighing: "As big as your brother, we can't even hug him."

"I'll be twelve next year."

"Oh, I'm going to grow up soon, so let's hug him tightly." Zhu Yuanzhang hugged him tightly.

"..."

In fact, both father and son were quite unfamiliar with this feeling, but when the atmosphere came, they hugged each other unconsciously.I feel a little uncomfortable now...

But it's even more embarrassing to let go immediately.Zhu Yuanzhang had nothing to say and said: "Lao Liu, what should you do if this person goes the wrong way?"

"Change."

"But if the mistake is too big, you have already paid too much..." Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, and used an analogy: "It's like we went bankrupt and married you a daughter-in-law, and ended up in the bridal chamber. Go, why is it a big horse monkey?!"

"I can't do that! Even if I've been a monk all my life, I won't sleep with a monkey." Zhu Zhen quickly straightened up, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang very seriously:
"Father, why don't I change the conditions? Those immigrants can't go home to visit the grave, so let them do obeisance. You let me find a wife by myself?"

This king has no other pursuits in this life...

"Fuck you!" Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the shoe and gave him the sole. "I just thought you've grown up, and now you're showing your true form? The sufferings of so many ordinary people can't compare to your marrying a daughter-in-law?"

"It's incomparable." Zhu Zhen said solemnly: "I'm not going well, but how can I manage others?"

"Damn it, I thought you would be a good king in the future, and the king of idleness is more or less the same." After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he explained: "The idle man is idle."

"Oh..." Zhu Zhen was afraid of eating the soles of his shoes, so he didn't dare to talk about his fallacies anymore.But he is very fond of the position of 'leisure king'.

"But what you said just now makes sense." Zhu Yuanzhang threw him on the ground, put on his shoes, got up slowly with his knees propped up, and said, "Even if he married back with a fortune, but the days are still long, how can he live with a big horse monkey?" For a lifetime?"

"Yes, yes, life is better than death, so I can only become a monk." Zhu Zhen nodded vigorously.I hope that through this method, my father will remember that I am a shallow dog.

But Zhu Yuanzhang's thoughts were not here at all, and he had already drifted out of this small courtyard and returned to the Zhongdu City, which cost hundreds of millions.

On the night before the return journey, Zhu Yuanzhang made an extremely difficult decision...

ps. The third update, the next two updates have not been finished yet... Alas, the child got sick and was affected for several days.

(End of this chapter)