The little girl from a farm family has a big wish to make a fortune by farming and picking mushrooms

Zhou Mingshu picked two big cucumbers and fed them to the little donkey, which ate them all in two bites.

She bought some small cucumbers from the system, washed them, and soaked them in a water tank. Whoever wanted to eat them could take them.

"Saya, why did you pick the cucumber when it was so small? Aren't you going to wait for it to grow bigger?" Zhou Mingqin asked. She felt it was a waste to pick it when it was so small.

"It's getting late, sister. The cucumbers are getting bigger and bigger, and the inside is all rotten. They don't taste good at all. It's just right to pick them when they're this big. They're not rotten inside, and they grow straighter."

"Why are there no thorns on it?" Zhou Mingqin asked suddenly, which startled Zhou Mingshu, but he immediately reacted.

"I have scrubbed it thoroughly and there is not a single thorn left. Otherwise I would not have dared to throw it into the water tank."

This is the small cucumber she bought. It has a rich flavor, is crispy, and is well-shaped. If you use a straight, large cucumber instead, there is a risk of the filling being exposed.

Because there is not a single straight cucumber in the vegetable garden!

After eating a cucumber, Zhou Mingshu touched his belly and took a basin of water into the house to take a bath.

The scabs on my hands are already quite hard, so it doesn't matter if I soak them in water for a while longer.

After taking a shower, she washed her clothes before finishing.

Because she had cleaned up the chicken coop and the donkey pen, Old Mrs. Zhou didn't find anything to do so she went back to rest.

Boss Zhou took the basin of mugwort that he had used before from the woodshed and left. It seemed that there were a lot of mosquitoes outside.

Lying on the bed, she did a few simple yoga moves to stretch her muscles and relax, then she made the bed and rolled on it while reading a comic book.

She waited until it got dark before closing her eyes and going to sleep.

Because there was not much work to do in the fields, people got up later every other day, and Mrs. Zhou intended to let everyone take a break.

It’s the last day anyway, so it doesn’t matter if I sleep half an hour longer.

This tough battle was finally over at noon.

After pulling the last cart of wheat, all the people in Zhou’s family threw away their sickles and started picking wheat ears in the fields.

After picking up all the wheat ears, you won’t need to go to the fields for the time being.

In addition to Zhou's family, the village chief's family also harvested quickly.

The main reason is that the two families have donkey carts and ox carts.

People can rest, but the animals cannot.

After lunch, Zhou Lao Da and Zhou Mingzhi, father and son, led the donkey to their second grandfather Zhou Tiezhu's house.

His family has little land and few people, and they only have about four acres of crops. It took him two and a half days to finish half of them. This is the slowest speed in the whole village, and it is because his son is not at home and he has no help.

"Uncle, you and aunt just go and cut the grass. Dazhi and I will help you carry it home."

"Okay, that's thoughtful. I thought you had a lot of land at home, so I didn't plan to invite you. I didn't expect you to come by yourselves.

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Zhou Tiezhu was so touched that his biological nephew was not as good as this cousin.

With Boss Zhou coming, Zhou Tiezhu felt much more relieved. He hurried to harvest more while the donkey cart was still there.

Zhou Laoer and Zhou Laosan were not idle at home either. They turned the harvested wheat over and over with wooden forks.

The wheat pressed on the ground will be relatively damp, so it needs to be turned over to see the sun, otherwise it will sprout if it continues to simmer.

Zhou Mingshu squatted at the door and watched them poking around with wooden hairpins.

"Father, it's a good thing we bought the little donkey, otherwise we would still be working in the fields at this time."

Hearing his daughter say this, Zhou Laoer laughed, "That's right. In previous years, we were still harvesting crops at this time. It would take at least five days to harvest all the crops and bring them home. With this donkey, we can get home in half the time. The only thing left is threshing."

"Haha, yes. Just focus on threshing. You don't have to be afraid even if it thunders or rains." Zhou Laosan was also laughing.

When the wooden hairpin hits the wheat, it makes a rustling sound, which is the sound of wheat grains falling off from the chaff.

As for the wheat ears that Old Mrs. Zhou picked up, she poured them into a bamboo comb and then placed them on the eaves to dry.

This way it doesn't take up space and can be put away at night.

We rested for the whole afternoon and didn't get up until we woke up naturally.

There were limited farm tools at home, only two flails, one for Zhou Laoer and one for Zhou Laosan, and the rest of the people used mallets.

Everyone carried a small stool, put a cloth bag on the ground, and pounded the wheat in front of them handful by handful until all the wheat ears on the stalks were beaten off.

How long will it take to thrash so much wheat? Besides, my arms will get swollen after swinging them for a whole day.

Is this the same as doing laundry again?! Even Feng, who was pregnant, was pounding.

"Grandma, I think you should stop beating it. How long will it take? Where is our little donkey?"

Zhou Mingshu looked around but didn't see the little donkey at home.

"Your uncle has gone to help your second grandfather pull wheat. Why are you looking for him?"

Old Mrs. Zhou responded to her, but her hands did not stop moving.

"Grandma, please stop knocking the wheat. Let me explain it to you slowly. When uncle comes back, just let the donkey drag a stone over the wheat and it will be done. Then you don't have to knock the wheat anymore. It's tiring and time-consuming."

She had seen it on her phone before. This was how animals were used when there were no threshers.

The livestock pulled the stone slabs back and forth on the threshing floor, and the wheat grains would fall off due to the impact of external forces.

Old Mrs. Zhou wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "Why didn't I think of this? I didn't think of this method when we had cows before. So what are you waiting for? Stop beating them. Second and third sons, stop beating them. Take your sickles and help your uncle mow the land. He doesn't have much land, so he will finish mowing it in a short time. Go quickly and bring the donkey here when you come back."

Seeing that Grandma Zhou agreed to his idea, Zhou Mingshu couldn't help laughing. His grandmother was truly a teachable person.

"Grandma, we're still missing a smooth stone. Do we have one at home?"

"Ouch! This may not be available. Come with me to look for it."

The old and the young hurried to look for something, leaving the three sisters-in-law on the side of the road looking at each other in bewilderment, wondering what the mother-in-law and San Ya were talking about, and they didn't understand.

"Forget it, let's just ignore it for now. If they say we can't beat them, then we won't beat them. Let's clean up the ones that have been beaten first."

It took them a while to thresh a basin of wheat grains, and it was really difficult to thresh the grains.

Pile the straw aside, and then put the bran in a sack. The bran needs to be filtered again on a windy day.

I walked around the house with Old Lady Zhou in the afternoon, but couldn't find any stone chips or stones that could be used.

"Grandma, do you think we can borrow the stone mill in front of the village chief's house..." Zhou Mingshu thought that the stone mill was not bad and it had a hole in it.

"No, the millstone is too thin, and this donkey is not kind. If it breaks, we will have to pay for it. Let's look for it again. If it doesn't work, we can just stop dragging the stone chips and drag the wood chips."

The wood chip is relatively light, so if you want to achieve the same effect as the stone chip, you have to add some weight on it. The method shown in the video is for one person to squat on it. If the wood chip is larger, two people can squat on it.