Chapter 346 How do you do the work of a child
The storm did not slow down from the early morning until late the next night.
Li Changle felt that the gust of storms in the early morning that day was like a preview. After that storm, there was a storm for at most two or three hours.
Early on the third morning, Li Changle woke up and saw that the rain had stopped and the wind had become much smaller. He was busy going to the beach to watch the tide. As soon as he walked out of the yard, he was stopped by Li's second brother. The two brothers walked towards the beach together.
After returning from the maiden voyage, they didn't go out to sea for six or seven days in a flash. Both brothers were a little anxious.
When I walked to the beach, I saw that the sea water had not passed the big puddle and had risen to the position of the reef pile. The white waves were rolling, roaring and hitting the reef, making a thunderous roar.
"Brother, judging from the wind, the big ship should be able to go out tomorrow."
"Wait until my dad comes and see what the weather forecast says?"
"Let's go back!" Li Changle turned around and walked back.
When the two brothers walked to the intersection, they saw Li's father walking in a hurry. As soon as he saw them, he said, "The weather forecast says that you can go to sea to do your homework tomorrow.
After dinner, we went to collect the lodged rice. If we didn’t harvest it, it was time to sprout.”
The four people in Li Changle's family have only more than one acre of rice fields in total, and the few brothers and parents have only six or seven acres. There are more than two acres of fallen. There are so many people that they can be harvested without a day.
The three of you arrived home, and Chen Yongwei also came, "Brother, are you harvesting rice today?"
"You have to take back the two acres of lodged land first, and you can take over the house, and then you can also collect your two-point land."
"Then I'll go back and prepare the baskets and other things." Chen Yongwei said that and left hurriedly.
After the family had dinner, Zhou Ruonan took his children to school. Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went out to cut millet with sickles. Li Changle and his wife went to the old house to clean up the baskets and make rice machines for two.
He pulled out the cart, and Chen Yongwei also carried a basket out of the alley, and the group walked towards Changtang in a hurry.
Along the way, many villagers walked towards the rice fields with farm tools that were harvesting rice.
The Li family is close to the rice fields in the village. The lodged rice has been lifted up, tied together with straw, and waited for another week to harvest.
After leaving the village, I saw large tracts of rice blown down by the wind and stuck to the ground, like a layer of yellow-green carpet.
Everyone sighed and harvested, while some were talking loudly, saying that so much production cut this year, should public grain be reduced?
Some said that we would like to ask Accountant Chen to go to the town to talk about this matter.
Li Changle and his friends went to the edge of their own rice fields and saw that there was still a lot of water in the rice fields. After stepping on it, the mud suddenly disappeared from the instep.
Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stood in the rice field with their waists bent down, following the direction of the rice lodging, grabbed the part above the rice roots with their left hand, held the sickle with the right hand and pressed the knife on the rice roots with their right hand and cut it with one hand.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law picked up the cut rice poles, carefully and gently, for fear that with force, they would shake off the few rice grains that were already small.
When Li Changle and his friends arrived, they picked up the cut rice and made a vacant place to accommodate the rice-picker.
This rice ripper is composed of a rectangular open wooden rice bucket, rack, pedal, threshing roller, tent cover, and gutter.
A double-person rice maker is usually used at the same time. If the strength to grasp the rice lever is not enough, the human and wheat will be dragged into the high-speed rolling rim, so the threshing work can only be done by adults.
Li Changle remembered that this rice ripper was bought by his family and Uncle Li San’s family after they were divided into the fields and got them. It cost more than 300 yuan. Li’s mother talked about it for a long time.
After lifting the rice-piercer from the cart and putting it in place, Li’s father and brother Li were busy cutting the millet. Li’s second brother and Chen Yongwei picked up a handful of rice, put it open, pressed it tightly with both hands, lifted their feet on the pedal, put the rice lever on the roller, and stepped on the pedal with force.
The drum containing gears in the rice ripper flew quickly, and the plump rice fell off the rice grains one by one. The two of them used their hands to alternately put the rice grains on the roller and tossed and threshed.
Until the rice stalk I held was left with only a handful of straw, I put it down and picked up another handful of rice to continue threshing.
While the few people were busy, Wang Laobian, who had a piece of gauze on his head, walked over from the saline-alkali land with a cage on his head.
"Boss Ale, how can you do the work that children do?"
Li Changle glanced at the gauze on his head, "There are many laborers at home, so I only have this empty space for me."
Wang Laobian looked at the busy people in the rice fields enviously, "It's better for your family. Brothers are all strong laborers, and everything they do is easy and lively."
"It's a lot of people to work, and it's lively!" Brother Li smiled and said, "Why have you picked up the ground cage again? The tide hasn't retreated yet?"
Wang Laobian shook his head, "It's very early, it's good to be able to retreat in the afternoon."
The villagers in the rice field next door looked at his head, "Old Bian, the head that was hit by the fish is not healed yet?"
"It's not going well yet!" Wang Laobian touched the gauze and said with a smile, "The luck is pretty good, I wasn't hit by a stone fish."
"Old Bian, don't be so anxious next time."
"Next time, it's good to meet it once in your life." Old Bian Wang smiled and carried away the ground cage.
Li Changle helped hand over the grain for a while and said to Li Er Ge: "Brother, you can bundle the straw and I will thresh it."
Brother Li looked back at him, "Can you do it?"
"Brother, it's a very rude thing to ask a man if he can do it, do you know?" Li Changle said with a smile on his face.
Brother Li gave him a blank look, "Boy, you have more flowers every day!" After saying that, he held the straw and let him stand aside, "Come on!"
"Look!" Li Changle nodded at Chen Yongwei. The two of them stepped on their feet at the same time, stretching the granite handle onto the roller and starting to thresh.
At the beginning, I was a little busy, but in just a few breaths I found the feeling.
Chen Yongwei looked at him strangely, "Brother, I think you did a good job! How did you hurt your finger when you were cutting mill last year?"
Brother Li lit Li Changle, "This guy is probably deliberately injured and lazy!"
"I was injured last year but I couldn't learn it. Is it still the clever Li Laosan?" Li Changle smiled and put down the straw, picked up the grain and started to dry it.
Li Changle did not do farm work at this time in his previous life. Now he has been an old man who has been doing farm work for more than 20 years. No matter what work in the fields or on the boat, there is nothing he wouldn't do.
Li's mother turned her head and glanced at Li Changle, "You're so embarrassed to say it. I saw that you were obviously lazy before, so I said you couldn't do it. Now you're doing it as if you look like you!"
"The main reason is that your son is smart, you will read it once."
"Shaunted, fortunately no one in the family is like you!"
"It would be better if I had a person like me at home. If you were like the eldest brother and the second brother, how bored you would be!"
"Huobao, work quickly!"
After all the piles of rice grains were threshed, several people dragged them, pushed them, pushed them forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, moving the rice grains to a position closer to the rice grains and continuing to thresh.
"Happy, there are crabs in the cracks in the rocks on the ridges of the fields!" Li's mother pointed at the ridges and shouted.
"Where? Where?"
Li Changle put down the straw and ran towards the ridge of the field. When he reached the position where Li's mother pointed, he approached the crack of the ridge made of stones. He saw a pair of woolly big turtles and a pair of sesame eyes that were embarrassing and enchanting.
"Brother, there are still here!" Chen Yongwei also found a few.
Li Changle looked up and saw a bunch of bamboos above the vegetable field. He said to the few people, "You guys do it first, I'll cut a few bamboo branches!"
Before and after the late rice blooms, the crab legs are the itchiest and the mouth is the most greedy. Field crabs hide in cave corners and grass during the day, and come out to eat them in the early morning and night.
Everyone thought of a way to fish for crabs. A thin bamboo strip tied earthworms to the top, reached into the cave to lure crabs, and waited for the crabs to run out of the cave with the bait and held them down.
Li's father waved to him, "Go! Go!" There were too many people, and he was not short of one.
Li Changle took a sickle and cut two thin bamboo branches, dug some crickets in the vegetable field, picked a leaf and wrapped it, and ran back to the edge of the rice field.
Tie the crickets to thin bamboo branches, carefully penetrate into the cave to lure the field crabs out. The field crabs hidden in the cave saw the food, waved their furry turtle and pounced on them...
When it followed the bait out of the hole, Li Changle quickly pressed it down and turned over to look at the crab navel, "It's not bad or just a female crab."
After saying that, he used a few straws to twist them into a string and tied them up in large numbers.
The way they distinguish between male and female crabs is to look at a small lid near the bottom on the crab's belly. If it is pointed and narrow, it is a male crab, and the round and wide one is a female crab.
Li Changle carried the field crab and walked to the next field crab cave. He still had an old trick. Another field crab with a greedy field crab took the hook, and other field crab caves were prepared according to law.
After searching a ridge made of stones, I caught a long list of plump crabs.
At this time, the grains in the rice bucket were also filled. Brother Li used a dustpan to squeeze out the rice grains and poured them into the sack and basket, and carried them to the edge of the field and loaded them onto the cart.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei pulled the rice and went home with Li's mother. Chen A-mi had cleaned the yard. Several people took out the drying mat and spread it on it, poured out the rice and spread it out to dry it.
It was past eight o'clock, and the wind was still a little strong. As soon as the sun showed its head, it was wrapped in large areas of dark clouds, leaving only a faint sunlight shining on the ground through the clouds.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei put the baskets and sacks on the cart and said to Li's mother who was raking straw with bamboo rakes, "My grandma, you dry the millet at home, we will go and harvest it."
"Okay!" Li's mother responded, and continued to rake the rice. She had to rake the straw wrapped in the rice and the rice poles that fell inside, so that the grains could easily dry.
Seven or eight strong laborers, more than two acres of rice were harvested before noon, and the straw was also brought back to Nanshan Lou and dried in the open space.
Li Changle and his men were covered in mud and water from head to toe, which was no different from a mud monkey.
It didn't rain, and the few people were too lazy to burn hot water to take a shower. They went back to the house and took a veil to the ditch to clean it, changed into clean clothes and walked towards the beach.
The storm on the beach is still very strong, and the tide has not receded at all. It seems that I can only wait in the afternoon to take a look.
Chapter completed!