Farming. Farmhouse Daily

Wan Jiahe got up early the next morning, and Yang Sheng sent him out of the house. This was the first time Yang Sheng sent Wan Jiahe out. As his thoughts changed, he had slowly begun to accept Wan Jiahe, so When Wan Jiahe was about to go on a long trip, he gave a few words of caution, and after he finished speaking, Wan Jiahe looked quite happy, even smiled and touched his face before turning around and leaving.

Thinking of Wan Jiahe's words last night, Yang Sheng thought that everyone in his family should know about Wan Jiahe's going out, but Wan Jiahe only told him last night.Now that the sky was just bright and the rest of the Wan's family hadn't woken up yet, Yang Sheng was going to go back and pack up the things he was going to take back. He would go to the second sister-in-law's house at one o'clock next time to talk about helping him at home.

Wan Jiahe finally gave Yang Sheng 50 taels of silver last night and asked him to hire someone to do the heavy work in the field. Yang Sheng took the money without saying anything. 50 taels of silver. At the beginning Wan Jiahe said that he would give him ten taels of silver every month. Now he gave himself 50 taels. Is he going for five months?If so, then it should be Chinese New Year when he comes back.

Later, when Yang Sheng went to Wan Jiafu's house, Yang Sheng thought that the second sister-in-law would speak harshly. After all, he didn't go back for a day or two this time, and it might take half a month to come back.

"Your aunt has to tidy up the crops by herself. Fortunately, the third child has gone out, so you don't need to look after the family. Yang Sheng, is your natal family separated?" If the Yang family did not separate, his mother would No matter what the middle-aged widow said, it would not be her turn to go to the field. Yang Sheng said that he was going back to help A Niang, so it must be that the two parties of the Yang family have already separated.Ever since the Yang family changed marriages, Ma Cuihua didn't like the Yang family, especially the Uncle Yang's family. It's not bad, but he is a little brother after all, when will he have a son and a half daughter to help their family!

Yang Sheng didn't expect the second sister-in-law to agree so happily, and he was quite surprised in his heart, but he didn't say anything on the surface, and just told them about the separation of the family with a few words. "It was already separated before my family and I got married. Now my mother lives alone, so I have to go back often to see her. My mother has been in poor health and can't do heavy work. The family has been divided into several acres of land. I have to go back and help Auntie clean up."

"It's okay to divide, your uncle's family is not a good thing, and you should not join them in the future." Because there was a lot of food left the day before yesterday, the family still went back to Uncle Wan's house for breakfast today. Seeing nothing to do, Ma Cuihua took out the clothes she was making for Yang Sheng.Ever since Wan Jiahe asked Yang Sheng to make clothes, Ma Cuihua understood that the two of them got together no matter how they got together, but now they are a family, and her younger brother recognized Yang Sheng, so she would not make things difficult for her. It's just that her attitude in the future depends on how Yang Sheng behaves.

"Second sister-in-law, don't worry, I know the seriousness." Knowing who his uncle's family is in the Wan family's heart, he himself hates those shameless so-called relatives, so what Ma Cuihua confessed is not serious at all.

It's not time to harvest rice these days, but the soybeans on the ridges can be harvested, and the corn in the field is also harvested.When the family was separated, Yang Sheng and the others were allocated a few acres of dry land, which happened to be planted with corn, but Yang Sheng had already harvested the few acres of land in two days, but after taking it home, there were still many things to do. It will take at least a few days from the bracts to the whole bracts to dry.

Yang Sheng didn't delay much when he got home, he just picked up the back frame and sickle and went to the field.Now the soybeans on the ridge of the field are full, so they can be cut off and tied into handfuls.Because the allocated paddy fields were only five acres, Yang Sheng spent half a day packing up the five acres of soybeans on the ridge, and carried them back several times.

After the soybeans are carried back, they are placed in handfuls on the bamboo poles under the eaves to dry. After the soybeans in the pods are naturally dried, they are taken down and placed in the courtyard dam, and the pods are broken with a stick to let the soybeans roll out before being collected. Just get up.

"Son, do the Wan family know that you are back to work?" Aunt Yang has never let go of her worry about her son, because her son has returned home several times after getting married, but the Wan family has never returned with her son. , I don't know what kind of life my son is living in Wanjia.

"Aniang, I told my sister-in-law when I came here that Jiahe has been away for a long time recently and it will take a while to come back. It doesn't matter if I'm not at home." Because when he was in the field, Yang Sheng had already harvested soybeans. The small handfuls have been divided into small handfuls, so now it’s good to hang it up directly. The tightly pressed shelves of soybeans are filled with several bamboo poles, and it should be possible to beat nearly a hundred catties of soybeans.

"Grandmother, I won't sell these soybeans this year. I will divide some of them into fermented soy beans, and some of them into tofu in winter. Let's keep the rest as seeds. I have left a large piece of dry land in Wanjia. After the radish is harvested next year, it will be just It can be used to grow soybeans, and there is no need to buy this kind of seeds.” Yang Sheng has not stopped to rest since he arrived home, and he himself has been sweating profusely, after putting the soybeans away, he can finally rest and wash his face .

"Okay, I'll listen to you. My son, go to the kitchen to wash your face. The water is ready for you. You can eat after washing." After a busy day, it's time for dinner now. During the meal, Yang Sheng and his aunt talked about Yang Liniang's marriage.

Yang Liniang's marriage is at the end of this month, only half a month away.Since the time when the uncle of the Yang family came to the house and stole the money, Aunt Yang has seen through the uncle's family. Although she knew their partiality before, she had never bullied others so straightforwardly. Well, if you have a backer, you can abuse others like this.Originally, I thought that everyone was relatives, and when my niece got married, it was right for her to contribute money and efforts as an aunt, but it was not the right way to contribute money!

"Aniang, on the day my cousin gets married, let's go and help. If we don't go, we won't know what the villagers say about us. You still have to live in the village. If the villagers speak too badly, you won't feel comfortable living there. .But it’s good for us to go, and we don’t need the wedding money dowry for cousin, the silver money my auntie took away is enough money for cousin, just treat it as what we gave in advance.” Yang Sheng didn’t want to Let the uncle's family take advantage of it for nothing, since the original excuse was that there was no money for Yang Liniang's dowry, that's just right!That money should be regarded as the dowry money that their family gave Yang Liniang.

Aunt Yang has always been inattentive, of course, whatever her son says, Yang Sheng hasn't stayed with his Aunt for a long time, since getting married, every time he comes back, he comes and goes in a hurry, this time he can go back He stayed at home for half a month, but he was still very happy.

"Aniang, the rice in our field should be harvested in two days, but we don't have a mixing bucket at home, so we have to borrow it in advance, and we can just stagger the time with the host's." A large wooden barrel with a square shape is placed in the middle of the barrel with a wrist-thick wood. After the millet is cut from the rice field, the part of the rice stalk is divided into the size that can be easily held by two hands, and then the rice full of millet is cut. Just align the ear with the wood and hit it down. It only takes a few times to go back and forth, and all the grains on the ear will fall into the wooden barrel below.Wait until the millet in the barrel is full to a certain height, then pour the millet into the sack and transport it home.

"I know about borrowing the barrel. Your aunt's family has a large population and the work is fast. I have already greeted their family a few days ago. When the millet is finished, they can use it at home. "The family that Aunt Yang mentioned is an uncle of Yang Sheng's same clan. Although they are of the same clan, the relationship is already a little far away. If it comes to Yang Sheng's grandfather's generation, the elders of the two families are brothers, so the two families don't usually communicate much.

"Well, just borrow it." After knowing that he already had a mixing bucket, Yang Sheng felt relieved, because when harvesting rice, he must hurry up. In early August, there will often be continuous light rain. It will affect the color and taste of white rice after it is taken back in time and soaked by rain.

In the next few days, Yang Sheng was busy harvesting corn in the field. Because there was only one person, Yang Sheng had to go back and forth several times for the corn in an acre of land. Finally, most of the corn was taken home. I think that at night, Yang Sheng felt that both shoulders were so sore.Although he was not feeling well, Yang Sheng didn't care much about it. Anyway, he was used to falling asleep when he was so tired every year during the busy farming season. The dry food prepared by his mother is gone, and he can eat delicious meals after returning home. More importantly, the recovered things belong to his own family, and he can freely arrange how to deal with the food.

"Auntie, we don't feed pigs at home. Let's keep a small half of the corn to make buns. Let's sell the rest." After all the corn is taken home, other things will be relatively easy. When it is finished, tear off the dry leaves that wrap the corn, wipe the corn grains on the stone bricks, and then dry them and put them away.

When it came to feeding pigs, Aunt Yang was about to discuss with her son. Although she couldn't do heavy work, she could plant two handfuls of pigweed in the field and feed a pig. If she stayed at home like this for a day, she would only feed her son. Adding a burden makes her feel uncomfortable.

"Son, look at September, the family should buy a pig and raise it. Raising a pig can save a lot of money every year. There is a vegetable field at home, and I can go to the nearby fields by myself. Cut some pigweed and come back, and raise a pig to come out no problem.”

Yang Sheng thought about raising pigs, but he never thought about letting his mother raise them. He still remembered that a few years ago, the wife of the Wang family who was notorious for her poor health went to the field to cut pig grass. Accidentally broke her leg, which made it impossible for her to do two housework now. If she didn't have an accident, she might still be able to sit around at home, but now she can't do anything.Losing the freedom of movement will not only help the family, but he must also feel very uncomfortable. Yang Sheng does not want his mother to suffer, so this proposal is definitely not acceptable.

Yang Sheng rejected his mother's proposal, and his mother obviously disagreed, Yang Sheng patiently talked with his mother for a long time, and then his mother gave up the idea of ​​feeding pigs by herself.After the corn was taken home, all of it was put into the room that was still vacant. When Yang Sheng went to collect the corn in the field, his mother would tear the corn at home, and waited until Yang Sheng took back all the corn in the field. After going there, it took only one day to tear out all the corn.

Because it is difficult to wipe off the fresh corn grains, after tearing the corn grains, you only need to wipe off the corn grains that have been eaten by mice and have small buds, and the rest are directly tied in bunches Get up and hang it under the eaves. After the corn grains are dry, those corn grains can be easily wiped off.

After harvesting the corn, the feeling of autumn is slowly getting stronger, and you can feel the coolness in the morning and evening.It has been ten days since Yang Sheng came home. In addition to harvesting crops, he also sorted out the vegetable field next to the house. Now, as soon as the autumn rain falls, the field can be planted with various vegetables.

There are a lot of vegetables that can be grown in early August. Except green beans, cabbage, and red and white radishes, you can go to the ground. For garlic sprouts and green onions, you have to wait a few days until the eggplants and peppers in the ground are all defeated.Because when it was time to sow, the family did not have the seeds from last year, so Yang Sheng went to the town again to buy various vegetable seeds and some daily necessities for the family.

After the soybeans were harvested, the family needed a stone mill. Yang Sheng didn't want his aunt to borrow a stone mill from someone else's house every time she wanted to eat tofu, so he simply bought one. Although this thing is a bit expensive, it is a good thing. Things that have been useful from generation to generation are not wasteful.It was just because the stone mill was too heavy that Yang Sheng had to take the village ox cart when he came back, and because he took someone else's ox cart, he heard a lot about his marriage.

It turned out that on the second day after Yang Sheng got married, the Li family came to hire and set a date for the marriage. Since then, the Yang family has turned their nostrils to the sky, looked down on the people in the village, and never spoke morally. In addition to the high and low, there is no shortage of jealous people. Seeing the Yang family become relatives of the county lord, there are many bitter people behind their backs.

"Yang Sheng, in fact, it's not bad to marry the young master of the Wan family. After all, he is the richest landlord in the ten miles and eight towns. Although the scholar has fame and fame, he is in his early thirties. I didn't see him become the master of Juren, and after his county master and brother-in-law sue the officials, he will be just a poor scholar." The person who said this obviously looks down on Uncle Yang's family, but if he just got married At that moment, Yang Sheng would never agree with this statement, but now he can't immediately refute it.Although the Wan family looked down on him somewhat, but they were just right to him, at least much better than the uncle's family.

"Auntie, it doesn't matter who you marry. Life is made by people. There are as many self-made people as there are people who have lost their wealth in the world. Everything depends on one's luck." Yang Sheng didn't care what others said about him. , It’s just that he went to pay off his debts, or he was lucky, in short, it’s just some gossip when other people are in a different mood, so why bother?

Yang Sheng has been tempered since he was a child, and that’s all when he was a child. After he grew up, he seldom walked around with the villagers. Therefore, most people in the village have the impression that Yang Sheng is a soft guy. He can obediently stay at home and work as a coolie if he doesn't see his family looking for a marriage for him.Hearing what Yang Sheng said now, the villagers were quite surprised. They didn't expect that what Yang Sheng said made sense, and he wasn't a fool.

"You kid is usually silent, but I didn't expect you to be quite eloquent. It's different to have a father who went to school." When Yang Sheng's father was young, he was also known as an outstanding student in the village Yes, I was obedient and sensible since I was a child, and I was good at books and read well. I passed the Tongsheng exam at a young age. Unfortunately, I was disabled in an accident later. A gentleman.

"Auntie was joking. I am a person who has never even entered the school gate. What kind of ink can I have, but I just heard a few words from others that I think are reasonable." What Yang Sheng said later, the villagers didn't care. , and continued to talk about the Yang family with relish, among which the people in the car chatted most enthusiastically about Yang Liniang's upcoming marriage.

It was almost the end of the month, after Yang Sheng bought the seeds and went back, and tidied up the vacant vegetable garden, it was time for Yang Liniang to get married.

People in the village have rules about holding weddings. If the natal family does not hold a banquet for their married daughter, then on the day of marriage, it is only necessary for someone from the husband’s family to come over to a small sedan chair or lead a horse to pick up the bride. The family that is regarded as the girl's high climber will not even send someone to pick it up, and the girl has to pack her bags and go to her husband's house, but this kind of situation has basically never happened after the conditions of the villagers gradually improved.

Nowadays, most people marry their daughters with a banquet. The banquet usually lasts for two days. On the first day, the bride is present. After the bride is picked up by her husband’s family on the second day, her family will also entertain The people in the village who gave gift money eat for a day.

Yang Sheng and his aunt got up early that morning to help out at the aunt’s house. Yang Sheng had already planned to help, and Yang Sheng was not surprised when the aunt came to the house to inform him the first day. After all, it was cheap. Zhan is no longer the uncle's mother's family. Now that he and his mother are idle at home, they will definitely let them help.

Because people have been coming to the door since the early morning, and gradually more and more people are coming, and the noise outside is getting louder and louder.Yang Sheng helped chop the big bones for stew in the kitchen, and cut all kinds of things that required strength. Most of the people who helped in the kitchen were married women, and Yang Sheng, a younger brother who was married, didn't need it. There is nothing to avoid, so he is basically doing the physical work in the kitchen.

As the outside became more and more lively, a few young women in the kitchen couldn't help but talk about what happened when Yang Sheng got married two months ago. At that time, the Yang family didn't hold any banquet for Yang Sheng. The family came to pick up the new couple and left. The people who greeted the bride came in and out of the village, and everyone in the village watched them. There was neither a bride price nor a dowry, so even though Yang Sheng married into a wealthy family, there was no one in the village for his marriage. Envious, no one is even optimistic, how difficult it will be for this little brother whose husband's family is unreliable in the future, that is conceivable.

Although there was talk about Yang Sheng's marriage in the kitchen, it stopped quickly. After all, they were helping the Yang family today, and what they said just now meant to criticize the Yang family. If I heard it, it would be bad, so the topic was quickly changed.Yang Sheng didn't care what the wives were saying, he just concentrated on doing his own business, and he didn't go out until someone told him that his husband-in-law came to look for him.

Wan Jiahe is here?how come?Isn't he coming back after Chinese New Year?

Yang Sheng didn't believe it at first, but when he saw Wan Jiahe who was standing next to the bustling crowd, he hurried up and asked, "Why are you here?"

When Wan Jiahe returned home, he found that his courtyard door was locked. He thought Yang Sheng had gone to work in the field, but after asking his second wife, he found out that the guy hadn't been home for several days.Wan Jiahe didn't intend to come to the Yang family at first, but later he thought about it. After getting married, he still thought that he hadn't met his mother-in-law yet, and now he had to visit his mother-in-law once, so he decided to do the two things together and formally meet his mother-in-law. By the way, take my wife home.

When Wan Jiahe came, he brought a lot of things, besides the food he should bring when he returned home, he also brought a few small boxes, and he didn't know what was inside.When Wan Jiahe came, he drove his own carriage, so after the carriage stopped at the entrance of the village, he was the only one who carried the things in the carriage, so he was holding things in both hands now.

Although Yangjia Village knows that there are many people in Wanjiahe, but not many people know him personally. Now that Yang Sheng came forward, he realized that this person is the third boy from Wanjia. Jing Jingsi is gentle and gentle, and he looks like a scholar, not at all like the son of a local rich man.

Today is Yang Liniang's wedding day, and people who come to the door should give money and things. Seeing the things in Wan Jiahe's hands, the people around naturally thought that it was a congratulatory gift from Wan Jiahe to the bride's family, but they didn't expect it What happened was that Wan Jiahe came with something, but he just came to find his husband!

"Go to your house first and put down the things." Although Wan Jiahe no longer has that kind of thought about Yang Liniang, he still feels uncomfortable staying here. The annoying people really live in an annoying room!

Because of Wan Jiahe's words, Yang Sheng listened to the discussions around him, so he took this opportunity to directly tell about the silver.

"It's inconvenient for my aunt to go out. I'm a careless person, and I don't know what is suitable for the girl's house, so I don't have anything to give when my cousin gets married. It’s all given to my aunt, and I have the right to contribute to my cousin’s dowry.” Yang Sheng knew what they were curious about, and now that he said these words out of nowhere, others would not think much about them, and would just let go of them in their hearts. The gift book shows their gift money because they have already given it privately, that's right, they are close relatives, and they are naturally different from ordinary villagers.

With Yang Sheng's words, the curious point of the villagers has completely changed. Now they all think that Yang Sheng is married to the right one, and he can still be so generous after dividing the family. Ten taels of silver is not small. The amount, they just gave it away, and usually the brothers in the village's family have never seen anyone give so much money when they get married.