pastoral fragrance

Chapter 284 Pain and happiness
As soon as Qiuyue said this, the two families who came to see her off were stunned.Mei Xiangniang sucked her lips, "Yes, if you don't pass the exam, you don't have to say goodbye..."

"A woman's opinion!" Xu Laogen stared at his own daughter-in-law with bulging eyes, "Qiu Song has the ability to display his talent in the officialdom, could it be that he gave up because of us who are holding back, isn't that right?" Do you want others to see the joke? Qiu Song, don’t listen to your mother’s nonsense, hurry up, I’m afraid you’ll have to walk at night if you’re delayed.” It will probably take a day to travel from Qingcheng to Stone City.

Han Shi also sniffed, "That's right, Ah Song, you should hurry up, or you'll have to walk at night. From now on, you have to take good care of Mei Xiang, and take care of yourself. Don't worry about your parents, we're all fine." Looking at this son who gathers less and leaves more, Han's tears can't stop flowing down again.

In the midst of crying and crying, Qiu Song helped Mei Xiang get into the carriage, and then glanced reminiscently at the tearful relative, Qiu Song felt a burst of bitterness in his heart.Enduring tears and waving goodbye to everyone, the car had already driven a long way, amidst the rolling yellow sand, he saw the figures of Mrs. Han and the others standing where they were, and waved to them.With a sore nose, the tears could no longer be held back and flowed down.

What the elder sister said caused him to be confused. He didn't know whether his way of studying and taking the imperial examination was correct.Right or wrong, he now truly regrets it.If he hadn't taken the imperial examination at the beginning, he probably stayed at home honestly now, so why would he need to part with his relatives?
But since this path was chosen by himself, he had to go on with his life.Fortunately, on this road, there is this little woman who is nestling in her arms and crying to accompany him, which is considered a great favor.

Dozens of members of the Han family stood at the entrance of the village, watching the carriage roll forward, and finally disappeared in the yellow sand.Everyone's heart seems to be empty.

The Han family and Mei Xiangniang, the in-laws, watched their son, daughter, daughter-in-law and son-in-law walk away, and the two middle-aged women, whose combined age was eight or ninety years old, hugged each other, crying bitterly.Seeing their appearance, Xu Laogen didn't try to persuade them.Because he himself is suffering very badly!

This unexpected parting brought pain and discomfort to the two families, but within eight months, the busiest season for farmers came—autumn harvest!
Before everyone had time to mourn the spring and autumn, they devoted themselves to the busy series of farm work such as harvesting rice and threshing millet.

Now Qiulin's family has planted more than ten mu of paddy fields, and the Hu Manzi and Hu Mingzi families are harvesting rice in full swing.I saw that amidst the high autumn air, the farmers in Luoshui Village were basically dispatched as a whole, walking back and forth between the fields and the houses.Although the autumn tiger on top of its head was still very tight, everyone had no time to care about it, at most they wore a straw hat on their heads.The joy of harvest has covered up the hard work and fatigue of doing farm work.

Qiulin feels that although this autumn is the busiest season for everyone, it is also the happiest season for them. Every man and woman who walks past her has the same sign on their faces, which is a happy smile from the heart .Suddenly Qiulin thought of a word, that is pain and happiness!

In the spacious front yard of Qiulin's house, there were no traces of those chickens and ducks, and they were all driven to Hu Mingzi's house.The ground paved with bluestone slabs had been swept clean by Qiulin.Xiao Hei and the two sons of Hu Mingzi's family were threshing millet against the neatly arranged rice in the yard with flails in both hands.It is to beat the grains of millet with their husks and rice off the straw.

This was an extremely tiring job, and it didn't take long for the three young men to start sweating all over their bodies.Xiaohong and Xiaoqing stood aside distressedly and asked them if they needed to wipe their sweat, whether they were thirsty or not.

Watching the big beads of sweat roll from their foreheads, down their cheeks to their chins, and then slide into their chests, disappearing; their arms and cheeks were tanned and red; He leaned forward forcefully and unconsciously, and when he hit the straw with both hands holding the flail, his body trembled unconsciously.

At this time, Qiulin really felt how labor-intensive it was to cut and thresh the rice and store the threshed rice grains in the warehouse!No wonder everyone loses a lot of weight after the autumn harvest.

In the end, Qiulin's family harvested more than 7000 catties of rice in the ten-acre paddy field.After the tedious threshing, drying and threshing, the grain is put into the granary.Everyone has no plans to sell the rice, and the peasants always feel more at ease in their hearts by saving more rice.Seeing so much rice coming into the warehouse, everyone was so happy that they couldn't find the north.

After harvesting the rice, everyone has not been idle, and the herbs on the slopes of the field can be pulled and dug.After finishing their farm work, they hurriedly went to dig honeysuckle and pinellia, etc., until they were so busy that they turned their backs on their feet.

This season is already late autumn, and the sun hanging in the sky no longer has the power of a raging fire in summer, but softly emits a burst of soft light.At this time of year, Qiulin and his daughters also went to pick honeysuckle with their own hands.This is not some physical work, and now the weather is good, everyone doesn't feel hard, but picks honeysuckle excitedly.After several years of cultivation, there are traces of honeysuckle and other herbs all over the mountains and plains, and everyone is very busy.

In the yard, Mrs. Han led a few women to set up a shelf on the bluestone slabs and spread out large baskets, and began to spread the honeysuckle picked by everyone.Now this honeysuckle and other herbs are springing up everywhere, and the yard has already exceeded its load.I saw that the courtyard was densely packed, and the Kakajiao corners were all traces of herbs. The originally spacious courtyard now only left a narrow path for people to walk through.

Finally, inside and outside the courtyard, on the other side of the old house, and outside Hu Manzi's house, bamboo baskets were set up to dry herbs.In the last season of honeysuckle, a total of 2000 catties were harvested, and more than [-] catties of dry pinellia were harvested.There are other herbal medicines, all of which add up to nearly a thousand catties, and Xia Yan wants them all in one go.However, Xia Yan also gradually realized that as the scale of Qiulin's family planting herbs and fruit trees became larger and larger, he could still cope with it now, but he couldn't stand it when the honeysuckle bloomed several thousand catties one by one.

Going on like this is not a solution, you have to find the purchaser and contact him.

(End of this chapter)