Chapter 53

The purpose of building a new house for hui'er is to give her younger brother and Xu Qing more time to get married, so that they can have a son and a half early.

As a result, for the sake of his son, his younger brother put aside his daughter-in-law, who had just been married for a short time. How can this be done!

Li Jinmei called her younger brother to the yard and scolded him. It's right to pet her son, but it's not good to pet her too much. Spend more time with her son during the day, and spend more time with her daughter-in-law at night.

Li Changting thinks that he really doesn't want to sleep with his daughter-in-law. Isn't this the right time.

He sighed in his heart, and repeatedly explained to his sister that he only left the main house after his son fell asleep, but he didn't sleep with his son, so he uncovered this problem.

Xu Qing is not far away to watch the excitement, crowing at Li Changting with melon seeds, gloating.

Li Changting

After entering summer, the temperature rises day by day, and it's unbearable to bask in the sun for a short time.

The food in the vegetable field has become dull. Xu Qing now watered it three times a day, and many of the food in the vegetable field has withered in those neglected families.

In the twinkling of an eye, it's time for the first season of rice harvest.

The rice fields in the valley are like gold. All the villagers are busy harvesting in the fields. Then they move to the threshing field to thresh and dry.

Xu Qing and Li Changting are not idle either. Li Jinmei's family has planted five mu of rice, two mu of which belong to their own family, and three mu of which are rented. They have to work for half a month by themselves.

Before he got married, Xu Qing had to help his family collect several acres of rice every year. He was very familiar with this kind of work.

The only clumsy one is Li Changting. He went down to the field to cut rice for the first time, but he has a strong learning ability. He started in less than a day and cut faster than Xu Qing.

There is no difficulty in cutting rice, the real test of human patience is to thresh the rice.

After the rice collected by the villagers was moved to the grain drying yard, they rubbed the rice down with their bare hands. Their skin was rough and their flesh was thick. They rubbed a lot of rice with high speed, but Xu Qing couldn't do it.

Rice is sharp at both ends, and its skin is rough. It hurts her hands very much. Even Li Jinmei dare not rub it with her bare hands, so she has to wear thick cotton and linen gloves.

Xu Qing thought of the stepping thresher in her own space. It's made of steel. Her father has bought it for a few years, and it has been well maintained. It looks like it's 80% new. She can finish the rice in minutes.

After returning home in the afternoon, Xu Qing and Li Changting quietly entered the space, turned out the thresher and demonstrated it to him.

"In addition to these places with thick wire, the rest can be completely replaced by wood." Xu Qing said.

Li Changting's eyes are full of amazement. At the same time, he is thinking about the same problem as Xu Qing, that is, how to use this thing fairly.

In addition to thresher, Xu Qing also has a windmill. It's an antique of her Xu family. It's been used for at least 30 years. It looks good after waxing.

Xu Qing still remembers that her master read a poem to describe the windmill: the trivial things go in the wind, and the huge grains come into the warehouse.

"It's impossible to use it now." Li Changting thought for a moment and said, "maybe we can catch up when we have a good harvest in the second half of the year."

"Catch up? What do you mean Xu Qing is puzzled.

Li Changting looked at her and said, "I'll draw a drawing first and let my brother-in-law try to do it. If it's successful, do you mind if I tell others these two things?"

Xu Qing shook his head and laughed: "of course, I don't mind. It's not as good as all kinds of music."

Looking at the big smile on her red face, Li Changting felt warm and proud. How could such a smart and capable daughter-in-law just be married by him!

Every rice harvest season is the busiest time in the village. At this time, even in the evening, the villagers will not let it go.

In the daytime, I collect rice. In the evening, I carry a small bench on the drying field and rub rice in the moonlight. If someone nearby lights a candle, I can rub some light.

Originally, the campfire can be used for lighting, but this day, even at night, it's so hot that people sweat all over. It's necessary to light a fire nearby.

Hundreds of people in the village gathered in the rice drying field and couldn't sit down at all. Those who came late had to move their rice to their yard.

Xu Qing also wanted to move the rice home and secretly felt for the thresher in the space, but Li Jinmei took a place in the drying field early and agreed to light the lights and candles for one hour with the people nearby, and then went back to sleep after two hours.

Li Jinmei doesn't let Xu Qing and Li Changting rub rice. Instead, she lets them rake the threshed rice on the bamboo mat. She's not afraid of stealing. Cao Laoliu is here to watch the night with others.

Because of the busy farming, Xu Qing met Xu grandma, Xu Laoniang and Xu Ying more than once.

When rubbing rice, grandma Xu and they were not far from her. They piled a piece of rice as high as a hill.

Xu has always been greedy. She doesn't have much labor in her family, so she rents ten mu of land. Every time she is busy with farming, Xu Qing has to take off a layer of skin.

There are a lot of mosquitoes in the drying barn. From time to time, you can hear the sound of "pa" one after another. Some children are too young to work, so they specially drive out mosquitoes for their own adults, and fight against them with their teeth and claws. They are very happy.Not far away, Xu Ying looks at her sister enviously. She is more and more determined that she will marry next year. It's better to marry a hunter like her second brother-in-law or a craftsman like Cao Laoliu. She doesn't have to plant a lot of fields at home, and she can live well by other skills.

When his family received half of the rice, Cao Laoliu went to find someone to borrow cattle to plow. Many families in the village had cattle, but they didn't borrow them in vain. They could either lend some money or use new rice to pay for the rent of cattle.

Cao Laoliu plowed Li Changting's acre of land first, and then plowed his own. The cow ate the grass that Xu Qing had raised with the spring water, and worked as hard as a thief.

It has been more than half a month since the second season's seedlings were directly planted in the plowed fields.

At the end of the month, green seedlings spread all over the valley, growing vigorously in the hot sun.

After the busy farming, some families in the village are busy talking to their aged daughter.

Li Jinmei sent xiaomeizi over and said that the teacher in the village had gone on a blind date and had a holiday these days.

"By the way, Aunt Li came to see me just now." Li Jinmei took a sip of tea and said, "she's talking to Li Lian, but none of the boys of the right age in the village want to marry Li Lian. Aunt Li has a crush on two of them in the other village and wants me to follow them to help her."

"You agreed?" Asked Xu Qing.

"Yes, it's no big deal anyway. I'm just going to make up a few. I won't express my opinion at that time, so as not to delay Li Lian's life. Aunt Li will blame me later."

After a pause, Li Jinmei said: "it's mainly because Aunt Li came to give me a solemn apology. Although I don't care about her apology, it's not easy to wipe her face."