clang farming notes

The next day, just after dawn, Du An got up, ate two pancakes indiscriminately, then got into the car and went to the ground with Zhao Ba.

Du Zhongping woke up when he heard the sound, struggled for a while and finally got up, tidied up himself and Jin'er, heated up the leftover porridge from yesterday, fed Jin'er and himself with pickles, and closed the courtyard door, Go next door and help.

Sure enough, Fang Sheng got up early. When Du Zhongping passed by, he was sweeping out the flat land on the east side of the yard with a big broom.

Du Zhongping went in to say hello to him, and then carefully looked at him with his arms in his arms.The southwest corner of his yard is a cattle shed, and now the entire west half of the yard is piled with pulled sorghum tassels, and it can be seen that the east end has been deliberately vacated.

Du Zhongping went to the eaves, took a small bench from the window sill, put Jin'er down and sat down, gave him a small packet of snacks wrapped in oil paper, told him to eat by himself, and called for help if something happened .

Fang Sheng had finished scanning, so Du Zhongping went over to ask what he could do.Fang Sheng laughed: "Sure enough, I have never planted the land. It seems that neither of your family has done farm work. Now I want to spread all the sorghum tassels here to dry, and it will be dry in two days. type it out."

While talking, he carried sorghum tassels over to dry.Du Zhongping touched his nose, smiled embarrassedly, and followed Fang Sheng to do the same.He knew that Fang Sheng didn't mean to be a joke. Neither he nor Duan had farmed land before. If they knew how to do farm work, there would be no need for people to tell them what to do.

Fang Sheng was very friendly with him, and he didn't think he was clumsy, so he talked to him while working.Although Du Zhongping has eaten sorghum rice, he has no idea how to turn tassels into grain and store them in the cellar. He has typically eaten pork and never seen a pig walk.

He has a little advantage, he will definitely ask if he doesn't understand, so he asked Fang Sheng right away.Fang Sheng told him in detail that the harvested tassels should be spread out to dry and dried, and then the yard should be compacted with a big stone roller, and then the sun-dried tassels should be evenly spread on it, and replaced with a small roller. Round by round, the dried sorghum grains fall down.

After all the grinding is finished, find a windy day to raise the sorghum that has been crushed into the air, and the wind will blow away the debris, and the rest will be relatively clean sorghum.Put the sorghum in bags, but pay attention to it before winter, and check it every two days. If you put your hand into the bag and feel a little hot, you have to take it out to dry, or the grain will be covered.After a few times like this, it can be put into the cellar.When eating, take it out and grind it.

Du Zhongping nodded again and again when he heard that, Fang Sheng told him: "When the spring begins, we have to take it out to dry when it's almost summer, and bugs are easy to grow at that time."

Du Zhongping said with a smile: "We will have to wait until next year to do this by ourselves. We will see how you do it, and we will just follow suit."

After being busy for a while, Zhao Ba and Du An had already driven the car to pull Baomi back.While unloading the truck, Fang Sheng poured two bowls of water. After drinking the water, the two of them hurriedly drove away without resting.

Fang Sheng said to Du Zhongping: "We have to take advantage of the good days, so we are busy. With your help this year, the time will not be so tight."

The two of them were busy for a while, drying the sorghum for a while, during which Duan and the others pulled the corn back a few times.Fang Sheng straightened up, looked at the sun, and said, "Let's rest for a while, I'm going to cook lunch, you straighten up first, and wait for them to come back for lunch."

Du Zhongping nodded, while beating his waist with his hands, this work is not tiring, but it is a bit unbearable to have to bend over all morning.

He slowed down for a while, and then went to coax Jin'er for a while. When he entered the room, Fang Sheng had already quickly put the rice in the pot, spread out the big pancakes, covered the pot and was heating the fire.

Seeing him coming in, he asked him to help light the fire, and cut a large bowl of pickles by himself, and taught him: "When you do heavy work at home, you have to eat salty, or you can't stand it. Your Duan, I already I told you, don’t drink the water outside. I boiled a big pot of water in the morning and let it cool down. You drink this. You grew up in the south, and you are not afraid to come here. When you are very tired, It’s easy to get acclimatized, so it’s better to pay attention.”

Du Zhongping nodded again and again, very grateful in his heart.Zhao Ba and Fang Sheng have been helping a lot since they came, and he finally came to help. Fang Sheng even thought of this kind of place that he didn't notice, which shows that he takes his family very seriously.

After lunch, everyone was busy again.After two days like this, I finally pulled back all the corn in the field, piled up in the yard like a hill.Everyone was a little tired, but they were really happy to see that the food had been taken back.

After dinner that day, Zhao Ba said to Du An: "Clean up your yard. Let's pull back the corn stalks and sorghum stalks tomorrow, and put them in your house to dry. It will take two days, I guess. It is enough for our two families to burn and feed the livestock. In winter, we only need to buy some good charcoal, and it is enough to light the brazier. Brother Li can come to help you build a fire wall when he is done with his work. Bundling firewood can keep you warm for half a day.”

Du An and the two nodded in agreement, and the next day they really started pulling firewood, and the yard of Du's house was full of air.The Du family didn't have to worry about firewood at all, but Zhao Ba had to spare time to teach how to stack it.

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After a few days of high-intensity labor, the two members of the Du family who had never done farm work gradually adapted to such a life. They got up early every day and went to the next door to help.

The two are very hardworking, and next year they have to do the same when they have land, and they have to study hard when they have a ready-made teacher.And after these few days of help, the two families have become more and more harmonious, and their relationship is getting better and better.

Du Zhongping loves Du An very much. This baby brother grew up with him since childhood. Although he is a servant, he has never done farm work.Since their mother and elder brother passed away successively, only the two of them plus Jiner supported each other and finally survived those days.

He knew in his heart that Duan had suffered a lot for him, but he was weak and unable to help, so he could only cruelly pretend not to know.Later, when he had the opportunity to leave Du's house, he took him away from there with all his heart, and getting rid of his citizenship was the only thing he could do for him.

Seeing that Duan has grown dark and thin these days, sometimes he picks out the thorns on his hands at night, and finds that his palms have already formed a thick layer of calluses.

Du Zhongping took the time to ask his sister-in-law to buy a big basket of eggs, saying that it was for Jin'er.Sister-in-law Wang thought it was the little scholar who was greedy, and she was too tender-faced to say so, so she pushed it to the child—a three-year-old doll eats eggs as a meal, and she can't eat such a big basket, so there are more than 100 up.

Fortunately, the weather is cold, so it can be put there, and it happens that the farmers are busy and there is no time to go to the market to sell it, so it is convenient to sell it to Du Xiaoxiu.

Du Zhongping happily took the eggs back to feed the family members, not knowing that the hat of gluttony had been put on his head.

They have been eating next door these days, so Du Zhongping directly took the eggs to the next door.Seeing that he had brought so many eggs, those two felt very sorry and refused to accept them.

Du Zhongping said: "It turned out that I was greedy, and I didn't like eating alone, so I had to share it——Brother Sheng, don't worry, there are three of us, and you only have two, you can't eat us."

Fang Sheng was amused: "The three of you together can't eat him alone, and now you are making a wisecrack." Thinking that the two of them have helped for several days in a row, without saying a word of hard work, the favor is already owed If it's down, it's not easy to push back if you add some food—the two of the Du family are sincere, and it really hurts their relationship to refuse.I'll just do a little more help in the future.Moreover, Zhao Ba felt distressed for working so hard for days.So I followed Du Zhongping's words and took the eggs into the house and kept them for extra meals.

Although Fang Sheng was illiterate, he was careful and dexterous.Everyone has been working hard for many days, one is tired, and the other is a little bit angry. Seeing that there are not enough pancakes to eat, everyone has to drink two more bowls of rice soup, so he sums up the eggs, whether they are boiled or fried. After going down, I discussed with Du Zhongping that starting from the second day, I would take advantage of the boiling water to make some egg water for everyone to eat.Du Zhongping agreed, and said that he would come to learn.

The next day, Du Zhongping really got up early and came back with a small bag of sugar.This is precious.The water in the kitchen has already boiled, Fang Sheng set out five large bowls on the pot table, first pour boiling water into the bowls, heat the bowls, then pour out the water, break the eggs into the bowls, stir them with chopsticks Open it, while stirring, scoop up boiling water and pour it in, thin egg flowers will float in the bowl, and a bowl of egg water is ready.

Du Zhongping helped take out the bowls, and after a while five bowls of water were ready, Du Zhongping added some sugar to each bowl, and asked the two people outside to come in for dinner.

Everyone tasted it, and it was really fragrant and sweet, without any fishy smell of eggs, and it was very comfortable to drink warm in the stomach.Several adults also ate some pancakes, and Jin'er was full after drinking most of the bowl, but she acted like a baby and wanted to eat this again tomorrow, Du Zhongping agreed, and handed Jin'er the remaining half bowl to Du An.

Du An glanced at him, took it and drank it, and went out to work with Zhao Ba.Here, Du Zhongping and Fang Sheng cleaned up the dishes and went out to help.

The sorghum is almost sun-dried, and the dew dries up every day, and is put away at night.It is not spread out today, but is still piled up against the wall.Zhao Ba dragged out a large stone roller from the back of the yard with his mule, and rolled it around in the yard to press it.

As the roller rolled over, the ground gradually became firmer.Seeing that it was almost done, Zhao Ba bent down and pressed it with his hands, and pressed it twice more, then dragged the roller to the back, and replaced it with a roller that was smaller by two turns.

The rest of the people took advantage of this effort to arrange the sorghum tassels towards one end. Zhao Ba led the mule and let the stone roller pass over the tassels over and over again. Six or seven times, Fang Sheng grabbed the tassels with both hands and lifted them up to each other. After beating it a few times and taking a closer look, the sorghum grains had almost fallen off, so I asked for another batch.

After several times like this, Du An had already learned it, so he asked Du An and Zhao Ba to beat sorghum, and Fang Sheng took Du Zhongping to the Baomi Mountain to peel the skin of the corn.

This job is much easier, and you just need to sit there and use your hands hard, but the corn whiskers will inevitably stick to your body, and when you are picking out meat and worms, Du Zhongping can't help but scream when he sees it. , causing everyone to laugh, even Jin'er, who was playing, couldn't help laughing at him twice.

Du Zhongping felt that although such a day was hard, his heart was much more comfortable.