The autumn wind continued to blow. In addition to the Ginkgo Village all over the mountains and put on autumn clothes, the farmlands opened around Jinghu gradually revealed a scene of harvest.

The western Yunnan region is located on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The high altitude, sufficient light and variable climate make the crops here extremely rich and diverse. However, unlike other places in western Yunnan, the main residents come from the Ginkgo Village in the hinterland of the Central Plains. With the help of the unique natural conditions here, two staple foods, wheat and rice, are planted.

After the wheat harvest in early June, the villagers of Ginkgo Village seized the time to plant rice in the fields. Now four months have passed, and the golden rice is about to mature.

It seemed as if overnight, the surroundings of Jinghu Lake were surrounded by golden collars, forming a sharp contrast with the blue lake water and leisurely white clouds.

The mature rice not only makes the villagers smile, but also makes the birds living around the Ginkgo Village cheer. They emerge from the woods and grass and rush to the harvest field in groups.

Among them, the most disgusting sparrows were the sparrows that were "one of the four evils". They started a feast of harming rice, from at least 180 to hundreds.

In order to drive away these evil spirits, the villagers tried every means, such as scarecrows, beat gongs and even set off firecrackers to drive them away, in order to protect the harvest this year.

However, these sparrows were well aware of the essence of Taizu's guerrilla warfare of "the enemy advances and we retreat", and played hide-and-seek with the villagers, leaving the villagers with no choice.

This is also a drama that is performed in Ginkgo Village every year during summer and autumn harvests. This has been like this for hundreds of years. This is also a process of constant struggle between mankind and nature.

The scenes of villagers fighting with sparrows attracted tourists from afar. They all took their cameras into the field to capture these wonderful scenes despite the scorching sun.

For those born in the city, they rarely see wild birds, let alone the overwhelming crowd of sparrows like the ones in front of them, which opens their eyes.

So, after lunch, Xiao Feng, who was walking around Ginkgo Plaza with Xiao Haoyu, saw this scene. Tourists were carrying SLR cameras worth tens of thousands of yuan and filming the scene of villagers driving away sparrows in the scorching sun.

Xiao Feng looked at the lively scene in the fields not far away, and could only smile and shake his head, and start to tease Xiao Haoyu.

These days, Xiao Haoyu has eaten space fruits and drank the milk powder brewed by the Space Spirit Spring. His body has become much stronger and he does not walk as he used to. What makes everyone even more amazing is that Xiao Haoyu's mouth has become clearer and clearer, clearer, and gradually has his own logic.

Everyone laughed at Xiao Feng's special classroom for great success. It seems that he can go to kindergarten to be a teacher.

"Justice Jiu, ride a big horse!" After running in the square for a while, Xiao Haoyu began to be lazy and reached out to shout at Xiao Feng.

"Okay!" Xiao Feng picked up Xiao Haoyu and threw it on his head without saying a word, and gently put the little guy on his neck.

The little guy skillfully grabbed Xiao Feng's hair, and his two tender lotus-like little fat legs were shaking leisurely, and his fat face was so smiling that he almost squeezed his eyes away.

"Hate!" Xiaohong, who was squeezed into Xiao Feng's shoulder, was very depressed and shouted at Xiao Haoyu.

"Yeah!" Xiao Haoyu didn't care at all about this, but instead stuck out his tongue and grimaced at Xiaohong.

Perhaps in Xiao Haoyu's eyes, Xiaohong, the parrot, which is almost the same as his vocabulary and reaction ability, is more like a similar person in the same world. Therefore, after spending time together, Haoyu and Xiaohong have formed an extremely deep friendship.

The two little guys bickered for a while, and Xiaohong jumped onto Xiao Haoyu's shoulder again, rubbed Xiao Haoyu's neck with his head, making him giggle.

Xiao Feng rarely interferes with the interaction between the two little guys. Anyway, Xiao Haoyu will not torture Xiaohong in a slight and serious way, and Xiaohong will not peck Xiao Haoyu. Both sides can find the most suitable way to get along.

One big and one small, a parrot and two local dogs are so famous in Ginkgo Village that the running tourists couldn't help but stop and take a picture of this scene.

On the way back to the old house from Ginkgo Plaza, all the leaves of the century-old ginkgo trees have turned yellow and fallen down in the autumn wind, just like a heavy rain of apricot leaves.

With the flying apricot leaves, Xiao Feng seemed to be able to hear the heartbeat from nature, and his whole mind couldn't help but blend into it.

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"Uncle, why are you here for free?!" Back at the old house, Xiao Feng suddenly found Xiao Jinxu sitting in the yard talking to Xiao Qiang and others.

After receiving the one million contract payment provided by the Xiao family, Xiao Jinxu was busy renovating and expanding the public facilities and schools in the village, and building a brand new elderly activity center. He was busy all day long. In his words, he had been living a life in the past twenty years, but now he is in his early sixties, and he is only passionate about finding a job.

The aunt didn't complain to Xiao Feng privately that the old man had no home during this period.

"The rice in the village is about to be harvested. I am asking these three bastards to suspend the farm work for two days first and let the villagers come back to harvest rice!" Seeing Xiao Feng coming back, Xiao Jinxu seemed to have found an alliance.

Since the start of construction of the Xiao Family Farm, all the strong laborers who remained in the village have joined the construction army without landing. After all, according to the contracted labor price offered by the Xiao Family, each strong laborer can basically earn about 80 yuan a day. If it is exchanged for coastal areas, the eighty yuan is only half a day's salary for ordinary workers, but in western Yunnan, it is already a sky-high price.

However, for farmers, earning too much money is second to the harvest in the ground.

"Brother Jiu, the farm has stopped working, I am worried that it will affect the progress." As the person in charge of the farm, Xiao Qiang put forward his own opinion.

Xiao Feng has formulated extremely perfect plans for the construction and development of the farm, and the timetables for each stage are quite detailed, which makes Xiao Qiang feel very stressed while his daily management is quite relaxed.

"It won't be a problem if it takes two or three days. If the rice in the field is not harvested, it will be cheaper for those sparrows!" Xiao Feng did not think too much and agreed with the idea of ​​the eldest son Xiao Jinxu.

Xiao Feng's words meant that the matter was finalized. Even Xiao Feng himself did not notice it, and he had more say in many things.

Next, Xiao Jinxu discussed various details of the autumn harvest with Xiao Qiang and others. Xiao Feng didn't care about so much and took Xiao Haoyu back to the bedroom for a nap.

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Today, the villagers of Ginkgo Village got up earlier than usual. As soon as the sky turned white, the whole village began to smoke.

Accompanied by the sound of pots and pans, the sound of chickens crowing and dogs barking one after another, immediately awakening the sleeping mountain village from its sleep, instantly filled with vitality and vitality.

The housewives cook breakfast in the kitchen, while the head of the house took out the sickle that had been left for several months from the warehouse, squatted in the yard and began to sharpen the knife.

Ginkgo Village is a typical southern intensive farming area, and rarely uses agricultural machinery for farming, and people are more accustomed to manual harvesting. Since the beginning of this year, the steel cable bridge has been built and its income has also increased. However, many villagers who are active in mind want to buy small harvesters and tractors to farm, but were denied by Xiao Feng to protect the authentic agricultural production situation of Jinghu Scenic Area.

Therefore, this year, everyone is still used to sharpening the sickle so white and sharp, and just wait to go on the stage to harvest.

The villagers who woke up early also influenced the tourists staying in the village. When they heard that the village started harvesting rice on a large scale today, they all got up excitedly, wanting to feel the taste of harvest up close.

When the first ray of sunshine shone on Ginkgo Village, the men, women, and young people in the village were ready. Everyone carried sickles and shoulder poles toward the fields outside the village. Beside them, tourists with cameras hanging around their necks recorded the scene full of rural atmosphere with great interest.

The water in the rice fields was drained as early as the rice ears were filled. After so many days of wind and sun exposure, the soil in the rice fields was as hard as iron and could easily bear the weight of the human body.

The main force in harvesting rice was housewives and girls. They saw them waving the sickles in their hands lightly, knocking down a large area of ​​rice bushes and tied them up. They had been repeated this action for thousands of times, so they did not feel like they were dragging on the mud, but they had a slight smell of flowing water.

As for the strong laborers at home, they have a more important task, which is to drive horses and transport bundles of rice from the fields to the village's gravel drying ground.

When Ginkgo Village was not powered on, the villagers were accustomed to using human thresher to thresh in the fields. However, after the village turned on electricity this year, two electric threshers were purchased, so everyone naturally chose a more convenient and efficient way.

During the process of harvesting rice, one or two hares were driven out of the rice fields by people, which caused the little kids who were picking rice ears in the fields to scream, which added a bit of relaxed atmosphere to the busy work. The little kids followed him to pick rice ears. In addition to reducing waste, they also hoped that their mothers could find bird eggs from the rice bushes and have a beautiful meal.

In mechanized production, this spectacular scene of the whole family joining the market has long disappeared, which makes tourists from the city feel fresh. They always feel that their memory cards are not enough, and no matter how they take them, they cannot restore the harmonious and happy scenes in front of them. Because no matter how realistic the photos are, they do not have the various smells that are permeated on the scene, and laughter can touch the hearts more.

The harvesting of rice means that the most beautiful harvest season of the year in Ginkgo Village has begun to come!
Chapter completed!