Rebirth of the poor elder sister-in-law

Chapter 72

However, there are still very poor people who are poor. Liu Man'er saw someone picking up rice ears in the field with a basket.

No one in this rural family wastes a word. Often after harvesting a field, they will sweep the entire field again, and pick up any fallen ears of rice.

However, after scanning carefully like this, some poor people who specialize in picking ears of rice will come to pick ears of rice again. Most of the people who come to pick ears of rice are women and children.

They were carrying the baskets, and they were fighting for food with the sparrows. Even if a grain or two fell from the ground, they would pick it out of the mud when they saw it.

After Liu Man'er saw it, she couldn't help feeling ashamed and sighing.

Poor people are even poorer. People like these who come to pick rice ears often have no land or have little land. Ye He told her that she would go out to pick rice ears with Fang in the past.

But this year is not necessary, after all, the conditions at home are better than last year.

Speaking of this, Liu Man'er saw a sincere smile on Ye He's face, she happily ran to Ye Yuan's side, stretched her neck and looked into the bucket, "Wow, there is a lot of rice, this year's harvest is really good!" good."

After Ye Yuan came to a rest, she stretched her hands into the bucket and played with the rice by herself, looking very happy.

Liu Man'er also had a smile on her face, she helped to shovel the rice from the bucket into the basket, and then planned to pick it up and take it home.

Although she is not very good at working, Liu Man'er still has strength, but she can barely pick up this load of water and grain.

"I'll come, I'll come..." Seeing Liu Man'er's movements, Ye Yuan quickly stopped, he took the pole, and said to Ye Feng and the others: "You all go back to rest, everyone is resting this afternoon, there is nothing for you here. "

"Yes, you guys go to rest." Liu Man'er also felt that the group of children were really exhausted these two days, and she herself was also very tired. The sun was so bright, and she wanted to go home very much, but seeing that this acre of land was still There was a lot of rice left unfinished, so she decided to stay and help out for a while.

"Man'er, you can go back too." Ye Yuan said, "Our family doesn't have much land. After harvesting this mu of rice, there are only two mu of peanuts. There is no rush for these peanuts. I will pull them back when the time comes, and we will slowly choose them. That's right."

"Let me play the role of grain." Liu Man'er said, "You pick the rice back first, and I'll come back after I've been busy."

"It's time for dinner, let's go back." Ye Yuan looked at the sun in the sky and told Liu Man'er to go back.

Liu Man'er looked at the sun, it should be about eleven o'clock now, and it should not be time for dinner, besides, at this time, no villagers have returned, so she said: "I'll be busy for a while, give me your mask. "

As she said that, she took off Ye Yuan's mask, patted the dust on it, and then stood in front of the bucket to pretend.

Easier said than done, pretending to be a ho is really a laborious task, but Liu Man'er gritted her teeth and persisted, her strength is not too small, besides, many women in this village are pretending to be a ho, she can't be too delicate, as far as I can remember Well, last year, the original owner seemed to be pretending, but she forgot at that time.

If next year, she must design a threshing machine in advance so that she won't be so tired.

Liu Man'er thought about it secretly while she was pretending.

Picking up the rice and smashing it down, seeing the golden rice falling into the bucket, there is indeed an indescribable sense of accomplishment. No wonder the villagers are very tired during this period, but when they greet each other, they can always see to the smiles on their faces.

Probably this is the so-called tired and happy.

After working for a while, Liu Man'er felt that her hands were sore, really sore, and she was too tired to straighten her waist after harvesting rice this morning, but she saw that there were still more than half of the undressed people in the field. Paddy, she felt that she should persevere a little longer.

If she does more now, Ye Yuan can do less. In the afternoon, Ye Yuan should not let her come over to help no matter what.

Gradually, the villagers all went home, and when they saw Liu Man'er still working, some people would greet her loudly, "Hi, Ye Yuan's daughter-in-law, I'm back."

Some people laughed and said: "Silly mother, why are you working so hard? The Ye family poured you some ecstasy soup. Hurry up and go back. Your family is cooking meat. It will be gone when it is late."

Some people respected Liu Man'er because she hadn't appeared in the village for a long time, and some still treated her like a foolish mother before, but she didn't care, and returned their kindness one by one:
"It's okay, I'll go back after I'm done."

"Then let's go first." These people said and rushed home.

In fact, many people don't know Liu Man'er very well, but she was too famous in the past. During this time, she opened a small workshop. Although it was closed, almost everyone in Dawan Village knows her.

Ye Yuan is a soldier, Fang's husband has died again, and Ye Feng is studying again. In short, everyone in this village knows about their family. Anyone who comes to inquire about her family will be able to know about her family. residence.

Although this reputation is not good, it is mainly because the news in this village is closed, and there is a lack of things to talk about after dinner, and my family must be mentioned by them a lot.

But so what, life is like drinking water, you know how warm you are, and your mouth grows on other people, so let them talk, as long as you don't let her hear it, if someone dares to speak ill of her in person, she will not be polite to them of.

Keep working, there are hard-working people and even more hard-working people. In this field, Liu Man'er has no shortage of companions. Some people don't go home and work in the sun.

Many people even work under the stars and wear the moon, and get up when the sky is still bright, just to get back the rice as soon as the weather is good. Otherwise, if the weather is not good and it rains, then this year's harvest will be sure. To lose a lot.

Liu Man'er was pretending to be a farmer, while lamenting that the world is hard and farmers are not easy, after a while, Ye Yuan came back with a grain basket, and seeing Liu Man'er sweating profusely, he hurriedly said, "Don't do it, let's go, go home for dinner. "

"Okay." Liu Man'er cleaned up the bundle of rice in her hand, threw the straw, and stopped.

Ye Yuan was busy filling out the rice in the pretend bucket, although the two of them were tired doing things like this, but Liu Man'er felt happy in his heart.

Work at sunrise and rest at sunset, probably, this is the legendary mutual help?
Ye Yuan asked Liu Man'er to go home first, he was carrying the rice baskets to the grain drying field, Liu Man'er also wanted to go to the grain drying field to see his own rice, so he went with him.

It was the harvest time, and the drying ground was already full of golden rice. Some families were afraid of being stolen and even sent children to guard it. After all, rice is not a small matter.

Because they are all harvested together, the rice drying field in this village is not enough. Many people gather the half-dried rice in a pile, and drying the rice is also a troublesome thing.

It is also necessary to grab some of the fine straw remaining inside with a bamboo claw. When drying, it is necessary to turn it over with a special zipper from time to time so that they can be more evenly dried.

After drying, it is even more troublesome to use a windmill to blow out some shrubs, and then sort and store them.

Since Ye Yuan's family only has one mu of land, the grain drying field is barely enough.

Some people say that if this sun-drying field is not enough, wouldn't it be enough to get a few more yuan?But in fact, in this ancient time, it was not so easy to get this drying field. Unlike Liu Man'er's previous life, even in the countryside, every household was covered with concrete floors, and rice could be dried even on the main road.

This Dawan Village has a special sun-drying field, which is a flat land. When the harvest is about to be harvested every year, the head of the village will organize the villagers to clean up their own grain-drying field again.

First, rake the grain drying field with a rake to break up the big mud bumps, then pour water on it, wait until it is half dry, then sprinkle lime, flatten it with a stone roller, and then use a special big broom Sweep away the floating dust and you can use it.

But this is based on the original foundation. If you want to re-develop a grain drying field, not to mention where you got the land, it will take a lot of effort to tamp it down and flatten it.

Standing in the shade, Liu Man'er watched Ye Yuan pour the millet into the sun-drying field and spread it out with a sieve. In the scorching sun, a piece of golden sun-drying ground reflected the golden light. It looked really impressive.

A good harvest is really a joyful thing. Even if you are tired, looking at these grains, you will feel infinite motivation.

I rushed home with Ye Yuan, and when I got home, Liu Man'er felt overwhelmed. She didn't have to go to the field to do things this afternoon, and it was rare for her to rest for half a day, but she felt weak all over. She was really tired these days, and she felt that her back was hurting. , hand pain, body pain.

Lying on the cool bed and sleeping until almost dusk, she didn't get up from the bed in a daze until Mrs. Fang asked her to go to the grain drying yard to collect the millet.

There are already quite a few women in the grain drying yard at this moment, most of them are holding wooden hammers, and those fine rice cores piled up in the corner of the hammer, there are obviously some grains in this kind of rice cores, and they are not willing to waste The industrious woman hammered them out one by one.

So the whole grain drying field was filled with bangs and bangs, and Liu Man'er and Fang's joined in to hammer them all together. Then Liu Man'er and Fang's gathered all the grains and picked them home in baskets.

Once the millet is full, it is quite heavy, mainly because the drying ground is at the entrance of the village, and Liu Man'er's house is at the end of the village, there is a long distance between them, which may be the reason for being too tired today, and the weather is too hot, Liu Man'er feels weak. Somewhat uncomfortable.

But she didn't think too much about it, thinking that this must be her own lazy disease, with a delicate body and unable to do farm work.

But when I got home, I became more and more groggy, and I didn't want to eat dinner. I just took a bath with boiled mint leaves, and then lay down on the bed in a daze.

(End of this chapter)