After the genius was abolished, he became my Taoist companion

83. Busy farming

A few days after the green plum wine and green plum dew were soaked in, the busy farming season arrived.Within a few days, the turquoise wheat and rapeseeds turned golden yellow, and when the warm wind blew, the crops in the field entered the harvesting period.Harvesting and threshing should be done quickly while the weather is good. If it takes a few days and the weather changes, half a year of hard work will be wasted.

In previous years, Ye Huangui didn't grow much rapeseed and wheat. When he or his chickens and ducks ran out of food, he would go to the town to buy some.

Until a heavy snowfall in the winter of the previous year, he was trapped in Pearl Bay and could not go in and out freely.The food at home was finished, and the chickens and ducks were screaming with hunger.There is no way to go to the mountains to find food to make money and treasures, and within a few days, I am listless and listless.

If Brother Yan hadn't brought a few bags of rice noodles with him, he would have starved to death.

With the lessons learned from the winter of the previous year, he expanded the grain planting area last year.This year's weather is good, wheat and rapeseed grow especially well, and Lao Tan needs to go to the town for acupuncture every day, which makes him definitely overwhelmed by the busy farming season this year.

After Ye Huangui thought about it, he went to Bailu Town. There are many long-term workers in Bailu Town. Every year when the farming is busy, they will help people harvest in groups.Ye Huangui had asked them for help before, and he found the leader not long after he went this time.

The leading long-term worker, Lao Liu, had collected grain for Ye Huangui before. He was honest and loyal, and Ye Huangui was never stingy like other employers. Lao Liu and his group of brothers were very happy to work for Ye Huangui.

Before dawn the next day, Zhaocai suddenly screamed desperately, and even the ducks followed suit.For a moment, the peaceful Pearl Bay was flying like dogs and dogs, while Ye Huangui, the owner of Pearl Bay, was sleeping soundly on Tan Duzhi's chest.

Hearing the call for money, Ye Hugui pulled up the quilt to cover his head: "Hey..."

Tan Duzhi couldn't help laughing, it's no wonder that a man as big as Zhaocai often hums because he went back to school with Ye Huan.The barking of the dog outside was getting louder and louder, Tan Duzhi gently covered Ye Huangui's ears, he wanted him to sleep a little longer.

However, as soon as he put his hands on Ye Hugui's head, Ye Hugui got up vaguely: "The call for money is so fierce. I'm going to have a look..."

When he walked out the door in a daze with his clothes on and slippers on, he became sober: "Ouch!"

It's Lao Liu and his brothers!They came to help Ye Huangui harvest the crops!

I saw a few long-term workers lined up in the wheat field. They bent over and quickly harvested the wheat in the field with spare sickles and straw ropes attached to their waists. Wherever they passed, the wheat fell to the ground.

Soon someone bunched up the wheat and sent it to the edge of the wheat field.

On the ground near the mountain road, five or six people sorted out an open space. They spread a thick layer of rattan paper on the ground and made a special place for threshing.

Rattan paper is a kind of paper made of vines, which is very strong and cannot be torn.The rattan paper brought by Changgong was three feet long and wide after unfolding, with four rice beds and a wind valley machine placed in the middle.

The rice bed is a tool made of wood and bamboo slices. The wood is surrounded by a rectangle and covered with sparse bamboo slices.The long-term workers held the root end of the wheat tightly with both hands, and saw that they swung the wheat bunches and smashed them hard on the bamboo slices, and the wheat and wheat awns quickly flew away from the wheat ears.

The long-term workers who came here are very experienced. As long as they fall two or three times, the wheat grains on the wheat sheaves will be completely removed.The rattan paper is full of jumping wheat grains and wheat awns, and a unique fragrance of wheat blows to the face.

Whenever there is more wheat under the rice bed, the industrious long-term workers will move the rice bed to the side.Immediately, someone will put this pile of wheat in a basket and transport it to the wind valley machine.

The wind valley machine looks like a snail with three more mouths. The round "snail shell" part is a wind wheel, which can be rotated by the handle to produce wind.The square mouth on the top is convenient for pouring grain. When there is grain poured on it, remove the lower insert, and then shake the handle of the wind wheel, the lighter wheat awns will be blown out from the opening on the side, and the clean wheat grains will be blown from the bottom. That hole fell into the basket that had been prepared long ago.

The threshing field was in full swing, everyone talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was very happy.

Seeing Ye Huangui wake up, Lao Liu raised his voice and said, "My boss, don't worry, we've taken care of your land!"

Ye Huangui felt embarrassed, and thanked him, "Thank you Uncle Liu!"

He just went to Bailu Town to look for Lao Liu yesterday evening. He always thought that Lao Liu and the others would come in a few days, but he didn't expect Lao Liu to come to the door this morning.

Ye Huangui stood and watched for a while, and he found that even though he was a foundation cultivator, he was not as quick at doing farm work as these long-term workers.Even if he wanted to help, he couldn't intervene.

But he also has things he can do, for example, now, he can go back and boil two buckets of tea.Long-term laborers who sweat a lot when doing farm work need a lot of water.

After the boiling water was boiled, Ye Huangui took two clean wooden barrels to hold the water.Of course, do not forget to sprinkle two handfuls of tea leaves and honeysuckle in the water.The tea is refreshing, and the honeysuckle is refreshing, so the tea is the most popular among long-term workers.

Ye Huangui walked to the edge of the field with the wooden bucket: "Have some tea!"

Old Liu and the others burst into laughter: "Boss Ye's family is so polite!"

Ye Huangui said: "Take it easy, if you feel uncomfortable, take a rest, don't hold on."

As soon as the words fell, a lean worker patted his chest: "Don't worry, boss, we are so strong that we can beat cattle!"

As soon as the words fell, everyone laughed, and Ye Huangui said happily: "Okay! The crops will be handed over to you."

Everyone assured: "Don't worry, my boss, I guarantee that I will collect it properly for you."

The long-term workers were busy in the field, and Ye Hugui was not idle. He wanted to cook some porridge and snacks for the long-term workers.They are all flesh-and-blood people, and they should eat something to satisfy their hunger after being busy for so long.

What Ye Huangui is going to cook today is mung bean porridge, and he is also going to make some leek pancakes to accompany the porridge.I didn't expect Lao Liu and the others to come so quickly. If they came later, Ye Huangui could still steam some steamed buns.

After cooking the mung bean porridge in the pot, he hurried to the field to cut a few handfuls of young leeks.

The method of making leek pancakes is no different from the method of making small garlic pancakes. If you are afraid of light, the leek pancakes will taste bland, so Ye Huangui cracked several eggs in them.

The leek pancakes are golden on both sides, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and the fragrance lingers for miles.Wen Ruyu next door was so greedy that she came over before dawn: "It smells so good, what should I make delicious?"

As he said that, he was about to reach out for the leek pancakes in the big bowl, Ye Huangui patted him quickly: "These are for the long-term workers, you and Lao Tan have to wait for the ones to eat."

Wen Ruyu wondered: "Why! Aren't they all cakes?!"

He suddenly thought of a good thing: "Hey, did Tan Duzhi and I have something good in the pancakes we ate?"

Ye Huangui said helplessly: "Where are you going? It's a matter of taste!"

The long-term workers do physical work and need a lot of water and salt to supplement their bodies. Their taste is relatively strong. Ye Huangui added a little more salt to the leek cake than usual.But Ye Huangui and the others eat lighter cakes, that's the difference.

Ye Huangui explained: "If you are not afraid of saltiness, you can try it."

Hearing this, Wen Ruyu withdrew her paws: "No, I'd better wait for you to make cakes that suit our taste."

He wandered around in the kitchen and saw Jin Bao huddled on the chair, Wen Ruyu patted Jin Bao's fur with a cheap hand: "Oh, this cat is really big."

When the voice fell, Wen Ruyu withdrew her hand with a cry: "Why is this cat so fierce! You won't even be allowed to touch it!"

Jin Bao let out a sigh of relief at Wen Ruyu, showing his snow-white fangs.Wen Ruyu was not annoyed: "Didn't you say that things are like masters? Why are all the things you raise so fierce?"

Ye Huangui was making leek pancakes unhurriedly. He said with a smile, "Really? I always thought that the little animals in my house are super obedient. Maybe they have any attitude when they meet anyone."

Wen Ruyu put his hands in his hands, and it took him a while to realize: "Are you scolding me? Are you scolding me?"

When Ye Huangui brought it up earlier, he found that the long-term laborers who had just cut the wheat were standing next to the rapeseed field with lamps and discussing something.

Ye Huangui greeted everyone with a smile: "Come and have some snacks! You guys must have not had breakfast since you came so early?"

The long-term workers responded one after another: "Thank you, my boss!"

After a while, there were more than a dozen long-term workers squatting on the ridge of the field, holding big bowls, sucking mung bean porridge, and eating leek cakes. The cakes made by Ye Huangui were fragrant and crispy. .

Right now, several long-term workers asked Ye Huangui how he made leek pancakes and how they were so delicious.However, before Ye Huangui answered, someone teased: "If your wife is willing to put oil, the food will be delicious!"

While talking and laughing, Lao Liu walked to Ye Huangui with a bowl: "Master, just now I looked at your rapeseed field with a few guys. The rapeseed can also be harvested. At first we thought about harvesting the wheat first and then I will collect rapeseed for you, but the rapeseed must be dried first before the rapeseed can be harvested."

Ye Huangui nodded: "Yes, that's right."

Old Liu said: "These days are sunny days, which is convenient for drying things. Let's cut the rapeseed and dry it in the sun. With this kind of big sun, we can harvest the vegetables after we have harvested the wheat." Seeds. What do you think, Master?"

Ye Huangui said: "You have enough experience, listen to you."

Old Liu responded with a smile: "Okay, thank you for your trust!"

At this moment, Wen Ruyu walked over shaking with her hands in her pockets: "Oh, it's so lively!"

Ye Huangui was stunned for a moment: "Why did you come out?"

Although Lao Liu and the others are ordinary people, if it gets out, won't the news of Tan Duzhi be exposed?

Looking at the scene of harvesting in front of her, nostalgia appeared in Wen Ruyu's eyes: "I also planted land when I was young, I really miss it!"

Ye Huangui was stunned for a moment: "Huh?"

Wen Ruyu actually planted land?I can't see it at all!He looks like a prodigal, how does he look like farming?

Wen Ruyu sighed: "Although it is easy to harvest crops with thousands of methods in the cultivation world, but harvesting crops with cultivation methods really does not have a sense of accomplishment and joy."

A bumper harvest should be accompanied by busyness, and watching the food at home increase little by little while the body is tired.There is no substitute for this sense of groundedness and contentment.

How boring and tasteless it would be to take back all the crops and plant them with every gesture!

Old Liu and the others looked at Wen Ruyu enviously, and their voices were a little lower: "This one looks like a fairy, right?"

Standing on the ridge of the field, Wen Ruyu was full of emotion: "I miss me so much when I was a mortal. I was so hardworking and down-to-earth. I really want to be a mortal again!"

Ye Huangui glanced at him, then silently handed over a sickle: "Here."

Wen Ruyu looked puzzled, he looked Ye Huangui up and down: "Why?"

Ye Huangui looked innocent: "Didn't you say you want to experience the feeling of being a mortal? Satisfy you."

Wen Ruyu put her hands behind her back: "Hehe~"

He wandered around and went back, Ye Huangui said speechlessly: "What about the sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that you agreed on? Just give up so easily?"

Wen Ruyu's mouth is a deceitful ghost.Ye Huangui began to sympathize with Tan Duzhi, how unlucky he was that he and this thing became friends and foes.

84. Busy farming

When the sun rose, the yard where Ye Huan returned home was covered with a layer of golden wheat.In previous years, there was not much wheat, just enough to cover the entire yard.This year's wheat and rapeseed are several times more than in previous years. There must be no room for drying in the yard. Where are they drying?

Ye Huangui fell into sweet distress.

At this time, Tan Duzhi suddenly said: "There is a kind of jiao gauze in the world of comprehension. A foot of gauze gauze can stretch for several miles." When he said this, Tan Duzhi looked at Wen Ruyu.

Wen Ruyu with the cake in her mouth showed vigilance: "What do you want?"

Tan Duzhi said slowly: "As far as I know, many of your clothes are made of jiao gauze. A foot of gauze gauze is just a sleeve for you."

Wen Ruyu chuckled, "Don't even think about it, those vestments of mine are not cheap." A length of gauze is enough to buy thousands of dans of grain.

Tan Duzhi said calmly, "Spit out what you ate."

Wen Ruyu:? ? ?

Tan Duzhi said: "I don't even understand the principle of cannibalism, but how can I have the face to eat it?"

Wen Ruyu paused while eating the cake, and the leek cake stuck in his throat and could not come up or down.Finally, when he swallowed the cake with difficulty, he finally came to his senses: "I finally found out, you want to get back all the losses you suffered before, right?"

Tan Duzhi calmly said, "If you live under the fence, you have to realize that you have to live under the fence again, what do you think?"

Wen Ruyu gave him a sideways glance: "You figured it out, who is the one living under the fence!" He has a cave with him, and the one living for free is obviously Tan Duzhi!

Tan Duzhi took a sip of the porridge with the spoon between his hands, and said unhurriedly, "Xiaoye and I are Taoist couples, and what's mine is his."

Ye Huangui didn't want to hear these two people quarreling anymore. Hearing the quarrel these two days, his brain hurts.He wants to finish eating quickly and send Lao Tan to go to acupuncture and moxibustion, and when he comes back, he has to make some simple lunch for the long-term workers.

When Ye Huangui returned from the town, his yard was covered with golden wheat.A large piece of golden flattened wheat appeared in the sky above the wheat field. If you look carefully, you can see that there is a soft white gauze under the wheat.

The white gauze is suspended in the air, leaving a shade on the ground.The long-term workers are thus freed from the sun's poisonous sun.Putting away the crops also worked harder.

With the help of Jiaosha, the harvested wheat no longer has to worry about having no place to dry it.The gauze is light and breathable, and the wheat drying on it dries much faster than drying in the courtyard.

Wen Ruyu put her hands in her hands and put gold on her face: "Is there still such a selfless and kind person like me in the world? Compared with living for free, I am responsive to every request."

Ye Huangui didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he asked Tan Duzhi softly, "How can you bear Wen Ruyu?"

Tan Duzhi said seriously: "I can't bear it, so I will fight every time."

That's how the rumors that Tan Duzhi and Wen Ruyu didn't get along came about!

Wheat is rich in water when it is just threshed, and it will feel like it bursts when you bite a grain.However, the dried wheat is not so easy to bite. When the wheat is not easy to break and becomes crisp when bitten, the wheat is considered to be dried.

The weather is good these few days, and the wheat that is dried on the gauze can be harvested the next evening, while the wheat that is dried in the yard needs to be dried for three days.

Ye Huangui had more than 100 acres of land besides fruit trees and roads. He planted [-] acres of rapeseed and [-] acres of wheat, and the rest planted corn, peanuts, potatoes and the like.

It took Lao Liu and his dozen or so people four and a half days to harvest all the [-] acres of wheat.When the baskets of wheat were poured into the storage bag, Ye Huangui was really grateful for the storage bag that Lao Tan sent.

The shadow of the disaster of the previous year was too deep for him, so he expanded the land several times at once.When planting, I only thought about not needing to starve, but when harvesting, I didn't consider storage.Without this storage bag, he would have no idea where to put the harvested wheat.

After the wheat was harvested, Lao Liu and the others moved the rattan paper to the wheat field next to the rapeseed field.After cleaning up the rattan paper, they carefully hugged the rapeseed that had been lying in the field for several days on the rattan paper.

At this time, the rapeseed pods have completely faded from their blue color and become shriveled. After a little pinching, the two sides of the rapeseed pods will fall off, revealing the round black rapeseed inside.

Rapeseed stalks are relatively high, and it is not suitable to beat and thresh them with rice beds.But Lao Liu and the others had a way. They evenly stacked the rapeseed on the rattan paper, then took out the lid and began to beat the rapeseed stalk.

Liangai is a kind of bamboo farm tool, which consists of a seven-foot-long bamboo handle and a rectangular fence-shaped cover made of bamboo strips less than two feet long.

The cover is connected to the bamboo handle through a movable shaft, and when waved, the cover can rotate around the shaft in circles.

Don't underestimate this farm tool, in the right hands, it can play an amazing role.Lao Liu hired three or four long-term workers to swing the lid. In the hands of these people, the lid turned evenly in a circle when the lid was lifted and lowered.When it fell on the rapeseed stalk, the lid just slapped down with the heaviest force and the largest area.

The rapeseed pods were cracked by the external force, and the rapeseed inside fell on the rattan paper like a light rain.After a while, a layer of off-white rapeseed pods appeared on the rattan paper, and a thick layer of rapeseed was hidden under the rapeseed pods.

Ye Huangui also joined in the fun and waved the lid twice. The shameful thing was that he couldn't accurately slap the lid on the rapeseed when the lid was about to fall.The farm tools that were so obedient in the hands of the long-term workers had their own ideas in his hands, and he almost punctured the rattan paper of Lao Liu and the others.

Old Liu and the others laughed like crazy. Looking at the distressed Ye Huangui, they comforted him repeatedly: "My boss is a person who does big things, so we can just leave such small things to us."

After Ye Huangui finished laughing, he gave up struggling. Every farm tool has its own skill, and he probably won't be able to learn it.But it doesn't matter, no one can decathlon.After accepting that she is an ordinary person, Ye Huangui felt no pressure when she was lazy.

The rest of the people were not idle, and most of them were helping to tie the straw and rapeseed stalks into bundles.

Experienced long-term workers piled up haystacks on the east side of Ye Huan's home. The tall haystacks were one foot high, two feet long and eight feet long.The wheat straw stored in one haystack is auspicious enough to eat until next year. For such a haystack, there are two leaves.

In addition to the rations for Jixiangtun, the long-term workers also helped build a large firewood pile for Ye Huangui.

Three large haystacks are neatly stacked on the open space east of the chicken coop, which gives a sense of security at a glance.Ye Huangui also put a bamboo mat on the haystack, so he didn't have to worry about the wind and the sun.

Let the remaining stalks be taken by anyone who needs them.If no one wants them, they will be scattered in the fields, and they will be burned clean after the busy farming season is over.

The farmers here all operate in this way. The ash left after straw burning can make the land fertile, and the insect eggs hidden in the soil can also be eliminated.

It's just that within half a day after the news came out, the excess straw in the field was taken away by people without land in the town.Even the remaining rapeseed stalks are guarded, and they will be dragged away after the threshing is completed.

Seeing the strangers dragging straws and rapeseed stalks back and forth in the field, Wen Ruyu asked Ye Huangui puzzledly: "You are not related to these people, why do you give these things to them? You need to know that people's hearts are fickle. , you help them, they may not necessarily help you when you need it."

Ye Huangui said calmly: "Anyway, keeping it is burning fire, and I think it's better to give it to those in need. It's not something valuable, so they can take it away if they take it. Giving them something is voluntary, as long as I'm happy. It's up to them whether or not they pay back."

Wen Ruyu stared at Ye Huangui with a smile that was not a smile: "You, your cultivation base is too low. If your cultivation base is higher, you will be Ye Shengren."

Ye Huangui scratched his head: "It's not a saint, I just think that I am more calm if I do this. I won't be unable to eat or sleep because of calculations, and I won't be troubled all day long by calculating gains and losses."

He shook his head and sang: "I'd rather be an ugly monster than be active and cute~"

Wen Ruyu was convinced, and he whispered to Tan Duzhi: "You have to watch carefully, such a stupid person is too easy to be deceived."

Tan Duzhi nodded: "I know."

The harvest is joyful and busy. With the work of Lao Liu and the others, the wheat and rapeseeds were safely received in the storage bags.Ye Huangui, who was carrying a storage bag, felt that he was the happiest person in the world!

After cleaning up, only the awns and fine rapeseed husks that could not be sent to the stove were left in the field.The long-time worker piled them up in the middle of the field with great experience, and after lighting the fire, wisps of green smoke rose slowly.

Rapeseed stalks and wheat awns burn very slowly, rather than being burned, it is better to say that they are smoked into ash bit by bit.The choking smoke slowly rises from the ground, and Pearl Bay is surrounded by smoke.

Ordinary farmers will start to sow rice after harvesting wheat, but Ye Huangui does not plant rice.When the rice matures this fall, spending a few taels of silver to buy more than a dozen bags of rice will be enough for their family to eat.

Lao Liu and the others happily took away their wages for the past few days. After they left, Pearl Bay became quiet again.Until now, the busiest farming season of the year in Pearl Bay is over.

Ye Huangui let out a long sigh of relief: "I'm finally done with my work. What luck!"

As soon as the front feet were finished, it rained on the back feet. God really cared for him!

Tan Duzhi looked at Xiao Yu with a smile: "I should take a rest after I'm done with work."

Ye Huangui nodded with a smile: "Yeah! By the way, what do you want to eat? Shall I cook something delicious for you?"

Tan Duzhi thought for a while: "I love everything you cook."

Ye Huangui chuckled, and after laughing for a while, he suddenly felt that the house was very quiet, and after looking left and right, he realized that Wen Ruyu was gone.Ye Huangui asked casually, "Where's Wen Ruyu? Why didn't you see him?"

Tan Duzhi said: "He should have gone out, ignore him."

Wen Ruyu is used to being free, letting him stay in a small village for a day or two will make him feel fresh, but after a few days he will get bored.

Now that the busy farming season is over and everything has settled, Wen Ruyu is not around making noise, and the family has returned to tranquility.Tan Duzhi breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that now he understands how much he likes the time alone with Ye Huangui.