After fleeing famine, I have thousands of acres of fertile land

"Second uncle, third uncle, and uncle, you can teach the villagers how to cut stubble. You don't have to teach them specifically, just call them to watch while you are working."

The Zhou family's uncles were the most excited, as this was a good opportunity to make friends with the villagers.

It took about ten days for everyone in the village to learn how to thresh the cotton stubble. Ye Dalang also went to Ji Village to help the Wei family thresh the cotton stubble.

In the blink of an eye, the wheat turned yellow. Winter wheat ripened early, and the wheat in the Ye family's three acres of dry land ripened the first.

This year, the Ye family also harvested wheat together with the Sun family. Ye Qiu was pregnant, and the Sun family was too busy to handle it.

Ye Qing took out a wide-brimmed hat from home, put on long-sleeved shirts and long pants, put a towel around his neck, brought his own water bottle, and followed them down to the field.

Several people who were studying in the city also came back. They had a seven-day wheat harvest holiday.

The youngest, Ye Chenyu, was ten years old. Several boys followed Old Man Ye to harvest wheat.

Ye Qing, Ye Xiang and Ye Xi were taken care of by their family members and were allowed to follow behind to pick up the fallen wheat.

The weather during the wheat harvest this year was exceptionally hot, and the sun was scorching hot.

At noon, the people working in the fields felt dizzy and dazzled by the sun. The air in the distance was dried up into waves of heat, blowing in their faces and making people feel stuffy and uncomfortable.

Ye Qiu came in an ox cart to deliver lunch. He was carrying a not-so-big belly and was jolting along the bumpy road. Sun Dazhu was shaking with fear when he saw this.

"Why are you the one delivering lunch? Don't do it next time. We can go back and get it ourselves." Sun Dazhui put down the sickle in his hand, ran over to help park the car, and helped Ye Qiu get down.

"It's okay. I don't have to take it. I walk slowly." Ye Qiu didn't care. Her family took care of her and asked her to help Li and her mother-in-law cook at home. It wasn't tiring to deliver meals.

The other members of the Ye family then noticed Ye Qiu and looked at her disapprovingly.

"You don't have to send my sister off. Let the three girls help you at home tomorrow." Boss Ye was worried about his sister. She hadn't gotten pregnant in several years, and now she had to stay at home to take care of the baby.

Everyone washed their hands and came to eat. They first picked up the dried water and took a few sips to moisten their throats.

The meals Ye Qiu brought over were all light. It was so hot and I had no appetite at all.

There were many people harvesting wheat. They harvested one and a half acres in the morning, and almost three acres were harvested by the evening.

After dinner, the children rested under the shade of the trees. Ye Lao Da and his two younger brothers loaded the wheat harvested in the morning onto the ox cart and sent it to the threshing ground.

Ye Qing and her two sisters also went back with them. The tasks of spreading out the wheat and turning the wheat were given to them.

"Qingya, this is the wheat from your farm. These are from so many fields." Old Mrs. Wang was chatting while turning over her own wheat.

Ye Qing came over with a wooden fork, "Grandma Wang, these are from my family. This is an acre and a half of land."

Ye Qing first put the wooden fork aside, untied the wheat stalks, and spread the wheat out to dry in the sun.

Ye Xi and Ye Xiang were in the other two directions, and the three of them spread the wheat separately, which made things faster.

"Qingya, you have harvested a lot. It seems to me that you have harvested a lot more than before." Old Mrs. Wang felt that her wheat harvest was also more than last year.

"We took better care of the crops this year than last year. We spread fertilizer again later." Ye Qing chatted while working.

The wheat was untied, and some were thick and some were thin. Ye Qing picked up the wooden fork and spread the wheat more evenly.

After everything was laid out, the three of them were exhausted. They took a bag and spread it on the ground, then lay down to rest for a while.

There was a cool breeze under the shade of the trees, and Ye Qing fell asleep in a daze. The threshing ground was full of people, so there was no need to worry about anyone stealing the wheat.

When Ye Qing opened his eyes again, the two sisters beside him had already gotten up. While the sun was shining, they turned the wheat over.

"Sister Xi, why didn't you call me? Let's do it together."

"There's no rush for this job. Seeing that you're sleeping soundly, I'll let you sleep a little longer." Ye Xi smiled gently.

Ye Qing saw that her two sisters were almost done, but she didn't go to help. She still remembered that she had picked snails here last year, so she went to pick some.

Ye Qing walked carefully to the river, squatted down and looked at the bottom of the water.

There are obviously fewer snails in the river this year than last year. Last year, no one in Wuan City ate snails, and there were not many houses nearby, so the snails were rampant.

We caught too many last year, but this year we only picked up about five kilograms from this river, enough for one meal for our family.

Ye Qing first went home to feed the snails to the ground, letting them spit out the dirt so that they could be eaten tomorrow.

When Ye Qing got home, he put the snails away, went to the vegetable garden at the back and picked five or six cucumbers. He washed them and brought them to the threshing ground to share with his two sisters.

The three of them ate cucumbers and rested for a while, and also chased birds a few times.

Old lady Wang, who was drying wheat next door, went home to get a broom, and the three of them helped to watch over the grain.

"Qingya, try some red dates and share them with your two sisters." Old Lady Wang brought a handful of red dates for Ye Qing as a snack.

Seeing that there wasn't much, Ye Qing accepted it. "Thank you, Grandma Wang."

I shared some red dates with my two sisters and watched the sun setting. The three of us took wooden forks and piled the wheat into piles bit by bit.

When there is dew at night, the wheat should be piled up and covered to prevent it from getting wet.

The three men were busy and sweating profusely, and Old Man Ye came over with a cart of wheat.

"Just leave it there and wait for Dalang and the others to come and take care of it. Your arms will hurt tomorrow." Old man Ye felt very distressed when he saw his three granddaughters' faces flushed with heat.

Old Man Ye unloaded the wheat and piled it on the threshing ground. After dinner in the evening, Old Man Ye brought Dalang Ye to the threshing ground to sleep and watch over the wheat at night.

In one day, Ye's family harvested all three acres of wheat. The next day, they went to harvest Sun's wheat, but the wheat from the other two families was not yet fully ripe.

After a few days of hard work, the wheat of several families has been harvested. God has been kind to us and the sun has been shining brightly these days.

The dried wheat needs to be threshed. Three oxen each pull a stone roller, pressing it on the wheat straw, and the ripe wheat grains fall to the ground.

The flattened straw was taken back and placed in the woodshed to be used for starting fires and weaving things.

After everything was done, several scholars went back to study. They were sent off by Uncle Ye.

After Ye Dalang finished his housework, he went to Ji Village to help the Wei family harvest wheat. Ye Dalang was young and strong, and Grandpa Wei was very satisfied with him.

In two days, all the crops in the field were harvested. Wei Jia and Wei Xiumai were on holiday and went back to school.

Ye Dalang helped with threshing and storing the grain. When Ji Cun went to pay taxes, he and Grandpa Wei went together.

After a summer harvest, everyone in the family got several degrees darker due to the tan, especially Ye Dalang, who lost a lot of weight due to being busy at both ends of the job.

Wei Xin was also a caring person, and made a set of clothes for each of the elders of the Ye family. The Ye family was even more satisfied with Wei Xin.

"Qingya, it's bad. There are many people in the city who are trying to steal our business. You'd better think of a solution quickly." Uncle Ye sent a few people back and came to find Ye Qing first without going home.

Ye Qing didn't understand. His family didn't do any business except selling chicken and duck eggs. He poured a glass of water for Uncle Ye first, "Uncle, tell me slowly, what business?"