Ba Zong's rural life [farming]

Early the next morning, Ruan Xishi didn't even have time to eat breakfast, so she went to the grain drying ground to wait for the threshing.

The threshing machine arrived in the village before dawn. As soon as it came, some farmers had already picked out the ears of rice and threshed.

Lu Ze was woken up by the sound of the threshing machine. He opened his eyes for a while to distinguish what the sound was, and then remembered that Ruan Xishi said that he had to get up early today to line up to thresh millet.He got up quickly, but he didn't expect to find that Ruan Xi had already gone out when he went out. He only left him a note at the door of the kitchen, which said that he had gone to the grain drying field, and asked Lu Ze to make breakfast by himself.

After entering the kitchen, the stove inside was really cold, Ruan Xishi didn't even have time to cook breakfast before going out, one can imagine how busy threshing millet was.

Although Lu Ze wanted to go over to help right away, he still had to eat breakfast, because he didn't know how long he would have to wait until he could have lunch, seeing how the village was queuing up to thresh millet, so he decided to eat first and bring some food by the way Fill Ruan Xishi's stomach in the past, don't starve to death.

He took out the eggs that Ruan Xishi picked up last night, put them in the pot to steam the porridge, fed the chickens, ducks and dogs while cooking the porridge, and ate his own breakfast when he came back, a bowl of porridge with two eggs, Then he took out a lunch box from the cupboard, washed it and filled it with porridge, took the remaining two eggs, and took two bottles of water to find Ruan Xishi in the grain drying field.

When he went to the grain drying field, he didn't see Ruan Xishi on their property. He looked around but didn't see anyone, so he asked the nearby villager where Ruan Xishi was.

"Ask Shi Zai, he should be queuing at the threshing machine, go and look for it."

Lu Ze thanked the other party and went straight to the threshing machine.

Dust and grass were flying around the threshing machine, and the sound of the machine was deafening. Lu Ze endured this environment and searched around the crowd for a few times, and finally saw Ruan Xishi.

Lu Ze squeezed over, patted Ruan Xishi's shoulder, and said to him, "Little Ruan, you should find a place to sit and eat breakfast first."

Ruan Xishi was surprised by Lu Ze's appearance. He was surprised and moved when he saw that Lu Ze had cooked breakfast for him. He looked at Lu Ze and asked, "Brother Lu Ze, why are you here?"

Lu Ze said: "I see that you haven't eaten breakfast, I brought it here for you, you can eat it while it's hot." He said and stuffed him with two eggs that were still warm.

Ruan Xishi only felt that his heart was about to be warmed by those two eggs, he laughed happily, but said: "I'll eat later, I'm still waiting in line, and it's our turn soon. "

Lu Ze looked at the situation before the meeting and asked, "How many people are there?"

Ruan Xi counted and replied, "There are three more."

Lu Ze looked at the speed of the millet threshing and estimated that it would take more than an hour to reach them. He pushed Ruan Xishi out of the line and took his place, and said to him indifferently: "You find a place to sit and have breakfast first, I'll help you line up, and come back after you finish eating."

Ruan Xishi was pushed out of the line by him, and he said helplessly, "How can this be done? It's very noisy here, there's a lot of dust, and it's going to be exposed to the sun again in a while. Let me line up. It'll be fine soon. I can come back later." Eat breakfast."

Lu Ze raised his face and looked at him: "Be obedient, come over after breakfast."

Ruan Xishi's deep eyes made her feel a little nervous, so she could only obediently find a place in the shade beside the grain drying field to sit down and have breakfast.He opened the lunch box, it was full of porridge, poured some peanut oil, it was delicious, he peeled the eggs and put them in, he ate the porridge one by one, he just wanted to finish it quickly and change it to Lu Ze.

Seeing that Ruan Xishi was having breakfast here, the villagers who had finished threshing millet asked casually, "Shizai, why are you only having breakfast now?"

Ruan Xishi replied embarrassingly: "Today I was in a hurry to go out, and I didn't have time to eat breakfast. Brother Lu Ze made it for me."

Several village women around heard this, and they booed one after another: "Yo, Ah Ze will bring you food, not bad, Shizi, you really found a treasure, why haven't we met such a good man, haha."

Ruan Xishi felt even more embarrassed after hearing other people teasing him, and blushed and said, "Brother Lu Ze is indeed very good."

"Why don't you see Ah Ze, did he go back after bringing you breakfast?"

Ruan Xishi pointed to the threshing machine and said: "He is helping me line up, I have to finish eating quickly and let him get off."

The others all laughed and said that he felt sorry for Lu Ze. Ruan Xishi was embarrassed to hear that, and after a few mouthfuls of porridge, she packed up her things and ran away.

After a while, it was their family's turn to thresh. Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze moved their ears of rice closer when the last person was threshing. Master Ji, Ruan Xishi carried the snakeskin bag and picked up the millet at the exit of the valley, bag by bag.

Their family only had a fifth of the field, and it was finished soon. After packing the millet, Ruan Xishi counted it, and it happened to be four bags of millet, about [-] catties, and the ground rice was about [-] catties. That would be two seasons a year. Six hundred catties of rice.He used to eat with his grandfather, and the rice grown in his own field was just enough to eat, but this year, Lu Ze was the one who ate at home. Is it enough to eat? If it is not enough, think of a way after eating. At worst, go to the town to buy it and work hard to make money.

There is not enough rice to eat. The reason is that there are not many fields in the family. Ruan Xishi's family is an outsider. When his grandfather came to the village, the fields in the village had already been divided evenly among each household. There was no extra land. After all, in a poor and backward village Well, the field is the lifeblood of the farmers, and even the five-tenths of the land that their family was allocated were the old village chief who couldn't bear to see Mr. Ruan starve to death, so he divided it from his own home and planted it for him.

Although it is said that the land has been re-divided due to the change of the working population in the village in recent years, it is no coincidence that Ruan Xishi's family has just passed away when he was about to get an acre of land, so he was the only one left in their family. people.According to the village's planning, the land occupied by each household is divided according to the number of adult males, so Ruan Xishi's family can still only be allocated one mu of land.

Even though there is an extra Lu Ze in the family, because Lu Ze's household registration is not in the village, he is not considered a villager and cannot be allocated a field. That is to say, now Ruan Xishi uses one person's field to support two people, so the pressure is naturally a bit heavy.

Even so, Ruan Xishi never thought of blaming the village or Lu Ze. He thought he had hands and feet. As long as he worked hard, he would never starve to death. Lu Ze could still afford it, and he could afford it.

After the millet was threshed, Lu Ze helped carry it back to their site to dry. The sun just came out, and the millet fell on the ground. The millet was spread out with a bamboo rake and turned over every one or two hours, so that the sun would dry faster.

When the sun was at its hottest at noon, Ruan Xishi was also reluctant to go home. He stood by the side of the sun-drying field, looking at the sun-dried millet on the ground all the time, and felt that this side was almost ready, so he went over and turned it over again, facing the sun of the boss, Turning around and coming back, he himself will be red in the sun.

Lu Ze persuaded him, "Let's go home and cook first, and come back in the afternoon. The sun is too big now, and we will suffer from heat stroke."

Ruan Xishi said, "No, now is the best time to dry the millet. When the sun turns west in the afternoon, there won't be much sun. We have to dry the millet within two or three days. Otherwise, it will rain suddenly and the millet will not be able to see the sun. If the moisture is not dried in the sun, mold will germinate."

Lu Ze didn't understand these things, he only knew that if Ruan Xishi persisted like this, he would be sunburned and hungry, he said, "That's not in a hurry, let's go home and rest for a while, and come over right after dinner. "

Ruan Xishi shook his head and said: "You go back first, I will guard here. When drying the millet, there must be people around. You have to turn it over and prevent bugs, birds, chickens and dogs from making trouble. If it rains, you have to rush to harvest it." .”

Lu Ze couldn't talk to him, and he didn't quite understand the importance of these things.But since Ruan Xishi said it, he just took it seriously, he asked Ruan Xishi to find a cool place to wait, and he went back to cook and bring it over.

Ruan Xishi thought that if there was no Lu Ze, he would be so busy that he would not even have a meal at this time, no one at home would cook for him, and he would not be able to leave the grain drying field casually, thinking like this is a bit desolate.

But fortunately there was Lu Ze, Ruan Xishi nodded movedly, and said to Lu Ze: "Thank you, Brother Lu Ze."

Lu Ze touched Ruan Xishi's head with a smile, and said, "We've been together for so long, why are you still so polite to me?"

Ruan Xishi didn't know if it was because she was being passionate, or if there was something in Lu Zezhen's words, anyway, after hearing Lu Ze's words, the roots of his ears turned red quietly.

An hour later, Lu Ze brought food. Ruan Xishi sat with him under the shade of a tree, while eating, he kept an eye on the weather outside. Lu Ze also accompanied him.

Ruan Xishi felt very sorry. He couldn't help him with anything at home. Lu Ze did all the cooking, and he needed Lu Ze's help to thresh the millet. Go home and take a nap.

Lu Ze leaned against the tree trunk and said lazily, "I'm so busy now, it's okay to miss a few naps for a few days. It's quite comfortable for me to sit here, and it's shady, but I feel hot at home."

This is true. There is no sun under the shade of the trees, and there is a gust of wind from time to time in all directions. It is cooler than indoors, but there are a lot of mosquitoes, and it is uncomfortable to sit.

Because of the drying of the millet, everyone is also afraid of sudden rain and wetting the millet. Every household has sent someone to guard the millet. This is a boring job. The sun is strong, the weather is hot, and there are mosquitoes. , but in order to have food to eat, everyone came here without complaint.

Some people brought straw mat cattail fans from home and found a shady place to lie down and sleep. They fell asleep after shaking the fan. Suddenly they were woken up by mosquito bites and got up to scratch the itch. Millet at home, and then went back to sleep.

Some people brought poker cards from home, and a group of people squatted under the shade of the trees playing cards and chatting to pass the boring time of watching the millet. Join in the fun by the side.

Ruan Xishi and Lu Ze are not people who like to join in the fun, they are resting in a quiet corner, Ruan Xi goes to look for millet from time to time, and when they come back, they continue to sit next to Lu Ze, chatting and so on.

At the back, both of them were a little sleepy. They leaned against the tree trunk and fell asleep. Lu Ze was more alert. Even when he fell asleep, he still remembered to turn the millet on time. He woke up after a short sleep.

He woke up and found that there was another person in his arms. Looking down, it turned out that it was Ruan Xishi who was leaning on his arms without knowing it. Maybe it was because he was too tired today and woke up early. Ruan Xishi would be sleeping soundly, even his cheeks were flushed. .

Lu Ze admired Ruan Xishi's sleeping appearance for a long time, and even stretched out his hand to rub Ruan Xishi's smooth face with his fingertips.

After touching enough, Lu Ze planned to dig the millet by himself, so he didn't deliberately wake Ruan Xishi up. When he got up, he gently put Ruan Xishi on the tree trunk, but he still woke up Ruan Xishi.

Ruan Xishi had just woken up and was dazed. Seeing Lu Ze standing up, he rubbed his eyes and asked vaguely, "Brother Lu Ze, where are you going?"

Lu Ze took the bamboo rake and said to him, "I'll go and turn the millet, you can go to sleep."

Ruan Xishi was so tired, she fell asleep peacefully after hearing what he said.

The weather was fine today, there was no sudden cloudy or rainy weather, and they didn't go harvest the millet until the sun went down in the evening.

The millet has been exposed to the sun for a day, and the rice grains inside have obviously hardened, and the body of the millet has also dried up a lot. If it continues like this, it is estimated that it will be able to be moved home and put away after two days of drying.

On the way home after harvesting the millet, facing the setting sun, Ruan Xishi squinted her eyes and said, "I hope it will be sunny tomorrow."

Lu Ze also echoed, "Well, tomorrow must be a sunny day."

The author has something to say:

When I was a child, I was most afraid of drying the millet at home, turning the millet to despair, sitting up in a dream when I was dying, and you still don’t go to the millet

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