Chapter 144: All Come and Help
Qujia has a total of eight acres of land, in order to rotate crops so as not to reduce the yield of heavy crops, so at the beginning of spring, sorghum buds, millet and other more than five acres were planted, and the rest were planted with soybeans and sweet potatoes.
Some of the ground brains are also planted with some red beans, large white beans and the like, and spring wheat is not planted.
Qiaolian's stomach is inconvenient, and Jiakang Jiayuan is still young and can't do much work, so the three of them can collect six or seven points of land a day, and if they are bad, they will collect half an acre, and the process of land collection is not very fast.
Qiao Lian was a little anxious in her heart, for fear that if there was a rain, those millet would fall to the ground.
But no matter how anxious she is, it's useless, the family doesn't have enough manpower, so she can only slowly recycle.
Fortunately, the family raised the little mule, and now it is used when it grows up, and Zhang Wenguang specially found someone to help him get a trailer in July, and the size is just right for the mule.
The land is close to home, and there is no need for a little mule to walk too far, and Qiao Lianniang can't harvest many crops for the three of them, so she pulls two carts of straw and grain home every afternoon, but she can't be tired of the little mule.
Fortunately, this year's weather is very perfect, entering the autumn harvest stage, it has been sunny and has not changed to rain.
Qiaolian's mother and son harvested the crops for six or seven days, and finally took back the sorghum, millet, millet and bits and pieces, and there were still buds, soybeans and sweet potatoes left in the field.
Soybeans are okay to say, cut down and bundle up and transport it back, the bud rice takes a little effort, Qiaolian is like this now, you need to cut down the bud rice straw, and then break the bud rice stick from the straw.
The main thing is that you can sit when you break the bud rice sticks, which is not so tiring, but this will definitely be more time-consuming.
There are also sweet potatoes, you need to use a pickaxe to plane outward, the sweet potato yield of this year is not too high, fortunately the sandy land by the river grows well, see the sweet potato seedlings are so prosperous, maybe the sweet potato yield is not low, and it will be more troublesome to transport it back.
However, sweet potatoes also have an advantage, that is, sweet potatoes are buried in the ground and are not afraid of frost, so they can be slowly planed back and cleaned up.
Anyway, there is still some time before the freeze, Qiaolian is not in a hurry, first harvest soybeans, then harvest buds, and finally harvest sweet potatoes.
This morning, Qiao Lian had just arrived at the ground, and began to cut soybeans with a sickle, when there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance.
Qiao Lian looked back and saw that it was not someone else, it was Brother Zhang Wenguang and the three brothers of the Chen family who came, and at the same time, Qiao Juan also came.
"Second sister, we're here to help you reclaim the land, sit down and rest."
Qiaojuan saw her sister bending down to cut beans in the field, and before the carriage stopped, she jumped down from the carriage and ran over.
"Oh my God, why do you have such a big belly?" Qiaojuan hadn't seen Qiaolian for a while, and she was a little surprised to see Qiaolian's stomach.
"It looks like you've been six or seven months old, and you're a couple?"
Qiao Lian turned around and walked to the ground, smiling bitterly as she walked, "I don't know, this belly is indeed not small, it is likely to be two of them again." I'm also weird, why did I let me put all this on the stall? ”
Watching others give birth to twins feels festive, but it's their turn, and who knows who is really guilty.
Qiaolian is very hard to conceive this child, she has been vomiting for a long time, and she stopped vomiting in August, and she is often dizzy, it is only five months, and it is estimated that she will be more tired when she waits for the back.
"Sister, have all the land at home been harvested? Don't delay your harvest for the sake of my family's little land.
It doesn't matter if I do this work slowly, now there are only soybeans, buds and sweet potatoes left, and I am not afraid of changing the sky, so it's okay. ”
Qiao Lian saw that the three brothers of the Zhang family and the Chen family were here, and couldn't help but be a little worried, the Zhang family and the Chen family have a lot of land, don't delay others.
"It's okay, it's all taken away, our mother's side has a total of more than ten acres, the three brothers plus Wanfu Wanlu can work, our mother let the sisters-in-law also go to the ground, and they all came back in a few days.
My brother and sister and I took turns to leave one to cook at home, and the rest went to the field to collect the land.
It's easy to get home, and the rest of the work will be done slowly. Qiaojuan nodded with a smile and explained.
"Come on, since there are men here, you don't have to work in the fields, go, come home with me and rest for a while, boil some hot water for them, and make some food at noon."
I look at your little bud rice and beans, and I can clean it up at noon, don't worry. Qiao Juan couldn't help but drag Qiao Lian out of the ground and threw the sickle to Zhang Wenguang.
"Father of the child, you lead the work, see how to arrange, strive for today and tomorrow, and pull all the things in the field home.
I'm afraid that the second sister is tired these days, so I won't let her get involved here, and we'll go back and pack up other things. Qiao Juan threw down such a sentence, turned her head and dragged Qiao Lian away.
"Well, you can rest assured, the second sister's family can still stump us five big men with this little work?"
Zhang Wenguang responded with a smile, and then assigned work, Zhang Wenguang and the two brothers cut soybeans, and the three brothers of the Chen family went to break the bud rice.
The big man didn't break the bud like Qiaolian, and he had to cut it down and then break the stick, but he broke the stick directly in the ground.
A person looks at the two ridges, throws the broken bud rice sticks into the middle ditch, piles them into a pile, and then directly finds a sack and carries them out and transports them home.
Wait for all the bud sticks to be broken, and when it is empty, cut down the bud straw and take it home to keep to feed the livestock.
The man has a lot of strength, and he works naturally fast, and the three brothers of the Chen family did not hide the traitor this time, they all worked hard, and the buds of two acres of land were all broken off in the first noon.
As for Brother Zhang Wenguang, not to mention, beans on an acre of land were nothing in their eyes, and the sickle danced rapidly, and they quickly cut down a ridge of land.
After a few back and forth, the soybeans were all cut down, and I went to the forest to find some elm trees to wrap around and come back, and gathered the bean stalks together, and bundled them up one by one.
Then he didn't need a mule cart, so he put on the string on his back, strung a dozen bundles at a time, and went home on his back.
The bean straw pods have dried almost away, and it is okay not to touch them, but when you touch them, the pods are easy to burst, and the beans inside pop out.
How can a cropper waste food? Who is willing to put soybeans on the ground? So Zhang Wenguang called Jiakang Jiayuan and picked up soybeans in the field with his belongings.
Soybeans are sprinkled in the ground and look golden, but if you pick them up, it will be troublesome, and it takes a lot of effort to pick up a bowl.
But even so, Jiakang Jiayuan is not discouraged, both children are from farmers and know the value of food.
A bowl of beans, which was also obtained by my parents after half a year's hard work, can't waste anything.
The two children just squatted in the ground, carefully picking up soybeans, and none of them fell.
"Big brother, look at the two children of the second sister's family, they are really much stronger than the few in Brother Chen's family." Zhang Wenxing, who was working over there, occasionally looked up and saw the Jiakang brothers and sisters, and couldn't help but sigh.