A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 78 [078]

Irrigation, plowing, flattening, and transplanting are required on the side of heavy labor, while drying, manual beating and threshing by manual thresher are required on the side of light labor. , Keep the clean part in the middle, bag it, and find a place to dry it alone.

Regardless of adults or children, this June is destined to be hard.

Every morning, amid the cuckoo's call, people get up early and go to the fields to be busy. When the smoke rises, it is the time when the old people in the family deliver food to the hardworking young people. It seems that there are no children in the village. Those who can work will be taken to work, and those who cannot work will stay at home and do what they can.

The children of the poor have long been in charge of the family, and none of us have ever thought of being lazy, and the sensible ones make people feel distressed.

After these days of training, Zhuo Lin has been able to use vines to set up a pot and move it to a nearby stove, and start cooking or boiling water again.

The scene of the four-year-old child standing on the stool cooking for the family was seen by Mrs. Wang, who hurried home, and she was moved to tears, holding Zhuo Lin and howling, which made Zhuo Lin feel more stressed At the same time, I felt that I was praised by the adults in the family and my brothers at the same time, and the corners of my lips were flying.

Zhuo Lin didn't dare to make too complicated meals, so she made some meals that her mother often made. Fortunately, in this age, there is a shortage of oil and salt. Is there any seasoning that can be added? It is said to be stir-fried, but it is actually boiled. She never uses salt Put more, I would rather light it up, because salt is very precious, so eat as much as you want, just have a taste.

The soup at home is mainly made of sweet potatoes and potatoes. Zhuo Lin steams most of them and mixes them with some wild vegetables to make them into a paste.

Although the quality of such meals is not high, but in this way, you can save a lot of labor, and you can have a hot meal when you go home, and you can drink it cold, enjoy the blessing!
Of course, there are exceptions. Sometimes when I am very tired, my father will go to the river to catch some fish and come back to supplement everyone's nutrition.

At this time, as long as the fish is killed and there is no seasoning, the taste of the boiled fish can also make the whole family have endless aftertaste.

It was a time of bitterness but also happiness.

Zhuo Lin gets up every morning, standing in front of the foggy old house, looking at the threshing floor in full swing, the sound of running water near the waterwheel, and the busy figures of people, and what can only be heard in the countryside The "cuckoo" sound, the older generation called it the old crow, she didn't know what kind of bird it was, and always thought it was the sound of a cuckoo (actually it was), but this sound was accompanied by the sound of a small mountain village with smoke, but it was like that. The peace and quiet, full of aura.

If it is combined with the sounds of other birds and cicadas, the place where you can see is green, the mountains in the distance, the slopes nearby, the surrounding trees and bamboos, no matter how you look at it, it is a fairyland with profound artistic conception.

On summer nights, when you can’t sleep because of the sweltering heat, everyone will take cattail fans and go for a walk in the village where there are trees and wind to enjoy the cool and chat. It’s almost the end of June and the beginning of July), basically I don’t go home to sleep until 6 or 7 o’clock. This is the only fun for wild children in the countryside.

At that time, even though there was no electricity, they still had a lot of fun. Because they were poor, they couldn’t bear to light kerosene lamps, so they had to finish a lot of things before dark. How fortunate is it to have the opportunity to grow in such a healing environment?

(End of this chapter)