kingnovel Chapter 367 Harvesting Wheat
Chapter 367 Harvesting Wheat
"Grandpa Yang, you stay at home. I'll go to work in the fields." Li Xin said in a little adult manner upon seeing this.
It would have been better if he didn't say anything, but once he did, Wen Wuyan ordered him to stay at home.
"You can also stay home and wait for your Grandpa Yang to prepare the meal. You can help deliver it to the field and we will eat there."
Li Xin, who had just stood aside and stayed out of the matter, was told not to go, and immediately stood on the same front with Old Yang, "Uncle, I want to go to the fields, I can work too."
"It's none of your business to care about us. Have you sharpened your sickle? Go and sharpen it quickly." Old Yang waved his hands at Wen Wuyan in annoyance.
"We only have five acres of land at home. If the three of us grown men work hard, we can get the wheat to the field outside the village before dark tomorrow. We'll use a stone roller to roll it the day after tomorrow, and we'll be done." Wen Wuyan said to them as he picked up a sickle and prepared to sharpen it.
The result was that he was continued to be dismissed by Old Yang with a wave of his hand.
Breakfast was pork intestine noodles. Gu Qingqing said almost the same thing as Wen Wuyan. They didn't want Old Yang to go to the fields to work. As for Li Xin?
"If he wants to go, let him go. Other children of his age also have to work in the fields. He can't use a sickle to cut the wheat. It would be easier for you to help you divide the harvested wheat into portions and bundle them up." Gu Qingqing said when she received Li Xin's pleading look.
After listening to what his aunt said, Li Xin looked at Wen Wuyan happily, and his eyes that couldn't hide what was going on seemed to say: Aunt agreed.
Wen Wuyan looked at him, then at Qingqing, and could only smile and nod.
"Mom, I want to go to the fields too." Seeing that brother Daxin could go to the fields, Erhua also wanted to go to the fields to harvest wheat.
Gu Qingqing looked back at Erhua, who was not much taller than the sickle handle, and nodded slowly, "You want to go to the fields too? Sure, then take a basket with you tomorrow and pick up the fallen wheat ears on the ground."
"Ah, I want to harvest wheat." Erhua said in a low voice.
Gu Qingqing didn't say anything, but her eyes were looking at Dahua.
It’s better to educate your sister as early as possible. I’m counting on you!
"What the hell do you want? Either you stay at home and sell things with me, or you listen to your mother and go pick wheat ears. If you don't want to do either, then you can't eat either." Dahua looked at Erhua with the attitude of an elder sister.
Erhua dared to argue with her mother, but she didn't dare to refute her elder sister. When her elder sister beat her, her parents never stopped her.
"Then let me think about it. I don't know what I'm going to do."
Gu Qingqing couldn't help but find it funny when she saw Erhua admitting his cowardice. If she hadn't considered that children also had to save face, she would have laughed out loud by now.
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Gu Qingqing watched Wen Wuyan and Zhao Dong help load the baskets of pig offal, roast chicken, roast duck, and fresh eggs onto the cart. She said to Wen Wuyan, "I'll be back around noon. Don't rush to bundle up the wheat you've harvested. You can still have time to bundle it after I drive the donkey cart there, and then pull it back directly with the donkey cart."
"Come on, we can walk together for a while." Wen Wuyan said as he went back to the yard to get the sickle.
Gu Qingqing took the opportunity to say to Old Yang, "Uncle Yang, there is rice in the cellar, you can steam some rice for everyone at noon. I went to the vegetable field this morning and saw that there are a few eggplants that can be picked, and there are three cucumbers that can also be picked. You can pick them yourself. There is lard and lard residue in the kitchen cabinet, you can cook for everyone. There is also brine in the pot, just serve them. We can't treat people badly when it comes to food."
"It's Cheng Sheng, why are you so worried? Just go and take care of your own things. They won't go hungry at noon." Old Yang waved at her with a smile.
Zhao Dong, Zhao Bei and Li Xinxiong walked in front with high spirits, while Gu Qingqing drove the donkey cart and Wen Wuyan walked behind.
I met Luo Meihua and Xiaoyang and Xiaoguang at the main intersection.
Seeing the two children were so happy, Gu Qingqing patted the donkey on the butt to signal it to move forward. As for herself, she stepped forward and took Xiaoyang and Xiaoguang's hands and asked, "You two little guys, do you want to follow us to the town?"
"Aunt, grandpa, grandma, and uncle are going to the fields. Mom said she would take us to town."
In the past, Xiaoguang used to repeat himself after Xiaoyang when he spoke cutely. Now Gu Qingqing saw that he spoke clearly with his little mouth, and couldn't help but praise him, "Okay, then follow me to the town. Come on, auntie will take you to ride the donkey cart."
"Aunt, don't worry, we are very obedient. We won't run around or make trouble when we get to the town." Xiaoyang said with his little face raised.
"Auntie, don't worry, my sister and I will be obedient and we won't run around."
Gu Qingqing wanted to take back the praise she had just given to Niu Xiaoguang. How come he had learned this again?
"Okay, you are all good kids." Gu Qingqing said as she pulled the brother and sister and chased after the donkey cart.
At this time, Wang Guoguo and Wang Zhaodi came out from the main road of the village. When Wang Guoguo saw Gu Qingqing driving the donkey cart and about to go out, she ran and shouted, "Auntie, my grandma asked me to go to your house to buy meat."
In the eyes of children, delicious pig offal is pork.
Gu Qingqing paused while holding Xiaoyang and Xiaoguang's hands, then turned back to look at the two children. After they shouted what they wanted to do again, Gu Qingqing raised her hand and pointed in the direction of her home, and replied in the same loud voice, "Go to my house. Dahua is there."
Upon hearing that there was one at home, Wang Guoguo stopped and looked at the donkey cart for a while before pulling Zhaodi towards Wen Dahua's house.
Luo Meihua glanced at Zhaodi from the side, then sighed and followed Gu Qingqing.
Alas, her situation is similar to Wang Chunxiang's, but I am much luckier than her. My parents-in-law treat me like their own daughter, and Yuzhu is a person who obeys me in everything.
Her parents-in-law also asked her to keep the money she earned. The business in the shop is good now, and she should be able to save a lot of money by the fall. Can she talk to her parents-in-law and renovate the house with blue bricks and gray tiles?
Also let the old couple live in the new house?
Luo Meihua didn't know how this idea suddenly came to her mind. As soon as this thought came to her mind, she wished autumn would come soon.
"Mom, please walk faster. You won't be able to catch up with me and my sister." Xiaoguang, who was sitting at the rear of the car, waved at Luo Meihua.
"coming."
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When they reached the fork in the road, the group went their separate ways.
Wen Wuyan went to the wheat field, while Gu Qingqing and Luo Meihua went to the town. Along the way, they saw that some fields had already had their wheat harvested.
Ordinarily everyone should be happy about the spring harvest, but few people were talking along the road. Everyone was bending over and waving their sickles like the god of death. The golden wheat stalks made a puffing sound, and handfuls of wheat were placed on the ground.
Wheat must be harvested immediately when it is ripe. If you harvest slowly and there is a slight wind in the fields, the wheat in the ears will be scattered all over the ground due to the rubbing of the wheat left and right. This is not what farmers want to see.