The Little Landlord of Transmigration

After the cuckoo crows for a while, it really starts to harvest the wheat.

To harvest wheat, you must first make preparations, the most important of which is to tidy up the grain field, because it is a special place for threshing and drying the grain.

In the previous life, the grain field in Xu Lingyuan's hometown had always existed, unlike the wheat planted here, so it was much more troublesome to clean up the grain field here.

The wheat planted on it should be harvested first, then the field should be plowed once, and then carefully harrowed several times with harrowing tools.One is to completely remove the roots of the wheat, and the other is to ensure that the ground is flat and ready for rolling.The work of plowing and harrowing is done with ox power.

Next, it is basically done manually.Wet the prepared land with water first, and make sure that the wetness is just right. If it is too wet, it will be sticky and difficult to roll; if it is too dry, the rolling effect will not be good.

Then two barefoot men pulled a stone roller about the size of a truck tire and about half a meter long, and rolled it back and forth on the prepared ground, because cows would leave hoofprints, so manpower was the only option.

And so on until the whole ground is rolled flat and hard.After the rolling is firm, it will be dried in the sun for one to two days. After the ground is dried, it will become a usable grain field.

Naturally, the scythe used to cut wheat was used by Xu Lingyuan when he was a child. It was so sharp that novices would cut it if they were not careful.

So children as old as Agui and the others, if they are not really busy at home, they will not be allowed to do it. They will only start contacting when they are around 16 years old. Women in the family who do not have older children will also come to help. After a while, I went back to cook.

Not cutting the wheat does not mean that they have nothing to do. The harvested wheat must be moved to the wooden cart on the side of the road before being pulled to the grain field for threshing.And it's Agui's job to carry the wheat.

Since the wheat is already mature, you should not use too much force when carrying it, and the movement should not be too large, because the wheat grains will fall.Moreover, wheatgrass can pierce people, causing pain and itching on people's bodies, which is very painful. Children don't like to do this, but there is nothing they can do.

Naturally, no one dared to ask Xu Lingyuan to do this. Although Xu Lingyuan would usually help Aqi and the others, they would not dare to order Xu Lingyuan when there were adults around.So he could only stand aside and watch them shuttle back and forth in the wheat field with a sad face.

At this time, Xu Lingyuan was very curious about how they got out of the valley.

In modern times, he remembered that the earliest threshing tool was also a threshing machine, which was a single machine parked on the grain field. Come out with millet.Later, when the combine harvester appeared, it was even more convenient. Not only did the harvesting, threshing, and bagging be completed in the field, but if you wanted to sell it, someone would buy it on the spot, which is really very convenient.

Agui and the others were tired and sweaty after moving for a while, and sat on the side of the field to rest.

"Little Xiucai, it's still good, you don't have to work, it's too painful." Agui's face was flushed, panting for breath, while complaining to Xu Lingyuan. "Look if there is a wheat awn in my neck, it hurts." He lowered his head and asked Xu Lingyuan to help him find it.

"Ah Gui, why do you ask him for help? Does he know Maimang? Come here and let me see for you." A child said maliciously.

"Get out, you think I don't know yours, you just don't put a few in there, let you see? I'm not stupid!" Agui glared at him.Said angrily.

"It's not rewarding for kindness!" Another child booed.

"You are the only ones with good intentions!" Agui said disdainfully, while cooperating with Xu Lingyuan's movements.

It may be because Agui is fatter. There are indeed a few broken wheat awns in his neck, and the pricked skin is a little red. Xu Lingyuan took them out carefully, and Agui felt much more comfortable.

"Thank you, if I find wild eggs later, I will give you one." Agui said gratefully.

"There are still pheasants here?" Xu Lingyuan asked curiously.

"Of course, eggs are being laid here, right in the wheat field." Agui said confidently.

"Oh." Xu Lingyuan responded.He hasn't seen a pheasant since he came here. He had seen it when he was a child in his previous life, but he was caught and killed later.

"Do you need my help?" Xu Lingyuan asked A Qi who had just walked over.

"?" Although A Qi didn't know what he was talking about, he still shook his head.

"Ah Gui has a maggot in his neck, let me take a look for you." Xu Lingyuan was purely idle.

"No need." Ah Qi said, moving his neck, and then sat down beside him.

"Look, pheasant!" Someone yelled.

Xu Lingyuan and the others looked over, and sure enough, in a wheat field that had just been harvested, a pheasant flew up from the field, ran to another field farther away and disappeared.

Pheasants are small in size and look more like a slightly larger bird. Their coat color is brighter than that of domestic chickens. More importantly, they have long tail feathers and can fly, although they fly very low.

People here don’t go out of their way to catch them. One is that although they don’t fly very high, they jump fast and are not easy to catch. The other is that they think pheasants are small and thin, full of bones, and cannot be eaten at all. Modern people love wild game so much, so they have no interest in them.

"Then can we catch him and raise him?" Xu Lingyuan asked Aqi.

"Pheasant chickens can't be kept alive. They are wild. If they don't eat after being caught, they will go on a hunger strike until they starve to death." A Qi replied.

"Oh." Xu Lingyuan nodded. He had never seen a pheasant in his previous life. I don't know if it's because of this. In fact, he really wanted to try raising a few. After hearing this, he temporarily dismissed the idea.

"But you can find wild eggs." A Qi said looking at the wheat field.

"The eggs in the wheat field have been taken away, how can they hatch chickens?" Xu Lingyuan suddenly felt a little worried. He could escape the pheasant, but he couldn't escape the nest, let alone the eggs in the nest.

"They also have nests in the weeds, and not all of them will be found." A Qi explained, "Too many will harm the wheat."

"That's true." Xu Lingyuan also thought it made sense.

"Let's go, start working!" Agui yelled as he walked into the field, and the rest reluctantly went to the ground again.

Not long after, a grown man who harvested wheat came across a nest of wild eggs, which excited all the children who were working.They didn't move the wheat any more. Regardless of the adult's reprimand not to step on the wheat, they all ran to the unharvested wheat fields to search for it.For a while, the wheat field was very lively.

Xu Lingyuan was also a little moved, but he was afraid of trampling on the wheat, and the wheat field was not his own, so he could only stand on the ridge and watch.Looking at the joy of finding, the unremitting efforts of not finding.

From the person who found it, Xu Lingyuan saw the appearance of the wild eggs here, which he had never seen in his previous life.

They are about the size of a ping-pong ball, but they are oval-shaped. The eggshells should be dark blue in color and look very thick. There are about four to six in a nest.

Xu Lingyuan was looking forward to Agui's finding, so that he could get one too.But to his disappointment, Agui was really unlucky and couldn't find any of them.

Ah Qi did find a litter, but he was asked to leave by his younger siblings as soon as he found it, so he might not even be able to touch it.

A morning like this passed, no matter whether the work was done or the wild eggs were found, they were all ready to go home.

"Work hard in the afternoon, don't eat at night if you can't finish it!"

"You know how to play at this age, what will you rely on for food in the future!"

"..."

The adults looked at the unfinished Mai Zixun and said to the children in the family.

"Got it." The children responded weakly.

"Ah Gui, where did you promise the little scholar's wild eggs? Could it be that you are too stingy and reluctant to part with it?" I don't know who is the one who doesn't open which pot and which pot to pick up. Knowing that Ao Gui has never found it, he deliberately asks him this way.

"Go, I didn't find it. If I find it, I will definitely give it up, so I won't be as narrow-minded as you." Agui said very unconvinced.

"Why are we so narrow-minded? We didn't ask the little scholar to help, and we didn't promise him." A child retorted with a nest of wild eggs.

"I'm too lazy to talk to you." Agui said angrily.

"Speaking is nothing, and you will become a bastard after you die!" Another voice came from the crowd.

"Who said that? Stand up for me! Don't talk nonsense if you don't have the guts! Be careful." Agui said angrily.

"Let's go, let's go home and eat wild eggs!" When everyone heard that the eggs in their hands might be dangerous, they quickly changed the subject and walked home faster.It seems that wild eggs are really precious to them.

"Little scholar, just wait, I will definitely give it to you when I find it." Agui finished speaking to Xu Lingyuan and ran forward.

Maybe it was really tired, A Qi walked very slowly, Xu Lingyuan and him were gradually left behind.

"I hope Agui's luck will be better, otherwise I will have no hope." Xu Lingyuan joked.

"Here you are." A Qi suddenly took out two wild eggs from his arms and handed them to Xu Lingyuan.

"You hid it?" Xu Lingyuan asked in surprise, "I'm just talking, I don't really want it." Xu Lingyuan looked at the wild egg in his hand and didn't pick it up. He knew it was a big deal for them It is also rare to say.

"Well, here you are." A Qi persistently put two wild eggs into Xu Lingyuan's hands.

"Thank you." Xu Lingyuan was too embarrassed to refuse, and said to A Qi holding the wild egg that was still warm in his hand. "When did you hide it, why didn't I find it?"

When he just found it, Xu Lingyuan was snatched by his younger siblings, and he really didn't realize that there was something hidden in his arms just now.

"When I found it." Seeing his curious look, A Qi explained with a smile.

When he first found out, he hid two in his arms first, and then picked up the nest. He also knew that only in this way could he give it to Xu Lingyuan, and his younger brothers and sisters would definitely refuse to see it.

Seeing Xu Lingyuan's happy and curious look now, he felt very satisfied, happier than finding wild eggs.