Time flies very quickly, and autumn comes in a blink of an eye. August is the season for autumn harvest. Wencheng and Wenhan finally spent the day fighting with people every day. After this autumn is busy, who has time to talk about Wei’s little trouble? It’s too late to collect things at home.

Zhixiang had already gone to the prefecture city. He wanted to attend the autumn examination and walked with some classmates. Chen took out thirty taels of silver from his family and brought it to Zhixiang with him. Xue also took ten taels. The Xu family did not have much good conditions, so they could barely take out these.

Zhixin and the old man took all the boys at home to the ground. The school in the village was going to have a holiday at this time, so the students naturally went home to help their family harvest in the autumn. Jinghan was so idle that he naturally followed him to the ground. So Chen led Jingya and Huixin to cook at home, and even Wenxuan and Wenchang went to the ground.

Autumn is definitely a season that makes people happy and sad. What is joyful is that the efforts of the year are rewarded. Looking at the food in the fields, everyone's face is full of smiles. What is sad is that there are endless work to do every day, and every day I am so tired that I can't straighten my waist.

The Xu family has a small land area of ​​only about ten acres, and it was collected in just a few days. It just so happened that the people in the village had discussed the day and went to the ginseng field to get ginseng. The rule here is that everyone discusses a good day together, go to the yard to get the sticks that should be made together, and then process what should be processed and sell what should be sold.

The villagers decided to go to the ginseng on August 12th. Zhixin and Mr. Xu led Xue, Wenhan and Wencheng to the ginseng field. The Xu family did not plant many ginseng. This year, there were a total of fifteen-meter-long sticks to be raised, and these people finished it in one day. On the day of this ginseng, the county staff would also come to the ginseng. Every household had to hand over the ginseng that they should hand over, and the rest was their own.

Here, the amount of ginseng soil to be used each year is generally determined. For example, if the Xu family wants to use ginseng soil this year, they have to submit it at a ratio of four kilograms of fresh ginseng per zhang. However, these 20 zhang are not all used to plant ginseng, and generally four or five zhangs are left to sprinkle ginseng seeds. Ginseng soil is exchanged for ginseng. After one crop, saplings have to be planted, and they do not ignore it after use.

By submitting it in this way, every household has to submit 80 or 90 kilograms of ginseng, which is not a decisive amount. Nowadays, the yield of ginseng is not high, and 1 zhang is only 16 or 7 catties. This year, even if the ginseng in the Xu family grows well, it is fifteen zhang, which means 25 or 60 kg can be raised, and the remaining 80 kg is less than 180 kg.

In the evening, Zhixin and the others returned home and moved two sacks of ginseng into their homes. The yield this year was pretty good, and everyone had a smile on their faces. Chen and the others had already prepared all the meals. Seeing that the people who were going up the mountain were back, they quickly asked them to wash their hands and then have a meal.

During the autumn harvest, the food was pretty good, and there was some meat in each dish. Everyone hurried to eat, and they were very tired today.

"Old woman, tomorrow you will lead the eldest daughter-in-law and a few girls to brush the sticks at home. We are still making red goods this year, and red goods are more valuable." The old man arranged life while eating. The red goods mentioned by the old man is a processing method of ginseng, which is to steam ginseng for an hour and a half in water, and then take it out to dry. The ginseng processed in this way is a kind of red goods, so it is called red goods.

"She has been working for so many years, do you need your instructions?" Chen nodded and agreed.

After dinner, Chen and Xue poured out a sack of ginseng, put it in a large water tank, and soaked it with water. In this way, the soil on the ginseng is easier to brush off. After soaking ginseng, both the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to bed quickly.

The next morning, after breakfast, Zhixin and the old man left again. They went up the mountain to make out the ginseng soil for this year. The ginseng soil has been digged and it has been broken with three teeth. This time, they have to turn the ginseng soil with a shovel and turn it into a pointed ridge, so that they can wait to plant ginseng inside.

Chen led Xue, Huixin and Jingya, and they were all brushing ginseng. This is fine for Jingya and Huixin. You naturally need to use water to brush ginseng, but you don’t have to worry about the problem of tickling hands. Because ginseng has a special effect, which is better for the skin, so brushing ginseng will not make the tickling hands.

Chen took some ginseng from a large jar and put them in several large basins. Add water to the basin. Then each person has a brush to brush off the soil on the ginseng. When brushing ginseng, be careful not to remove the ginseng whiskers on the ginseng. Especially under the reed head and on the neck of ginseng, there are often some large and thick ginseng whiskers. This is also called ginseng. This is the easiest thing to fall off. If it falls off, it can only be sold as gings. Of course, it is not as expensive as buying ginseng.

Jinghan did not brush ginseng with him, but went up the mountain with Wenhan and others. At this time, it was the time when there were the most good things on the mountain. Pine towers, hazelnuts, walnuts, these nuts, as well as mountain grapes, Schisandra chinensis, soft dates and other fruits all ripened at this time. In addition, hazel mills, winter mushrooms, etc., all came out at this time. Autumn is a season of harvest.

The children were like a group of little squirrels, rushing to pull things into their homes. Wenhan and his team also pulled things into their baskets when they encountered them. Today, there were many pine trees, and the tall red pine trees were covered with yellow pine towers. Wenhan climbed onto the tree, holding a large pole in his hand, and poled it down when he saw the pine tower, and then Jinghan and the others picked it up underground. Wencheng also wanted to climb the tree, but Wenhan refused. Wencheng was only nine years old this year, so how dare he let him climb the tree?

The pine tower is very big, and it took a basket to fill a basket after a while. Fortunately, everyone came with the basket on their backs. This one was full, just put it in something else. "Brother, come down, our basket is full." Jinghan shouted below.

Wenhan heard this and came down from the tree. He was light, like a monkey. In rural children, no matter who could climb trees, even Jinghan could climb trees, but Wenhan refused to allow Jinghan to climb trees. Wenhan came down from the tree and carried the largest basket on his back, "Let's go, let's go home first. Send these back and then come out." As he said that, he led his younger brother and sister home in front.

Wencheng and Jinghan's baskets were smaller than Wenhan's, while Wenxuan and Wenchang's were even smaller. These were all made by the old man and Zhixin on weekdays. Farmers usually made their own things. Although the things they made were not too beautiful, they could be used.

When the children arrived home, they poured the things in the basket on the ground, and then quickly went out. At this time, they not only had to compete with people, but also with the sky. It may not necessarily change the sky one day, and they will not be able to go up the mountain. Back to the place just now, Wenhan climbed up the tree again. The price of pine seeds is very high, and it is more money to make than other things. Of course, they have to work with the pine towers tightly at home.

This time, everyone picked up another pine tower carrying baskets. It was getting late and it was time to go home for lunch. So Wenhan jumped off the tree and everyone carried baskets home.

Chen and the others also brushed a lot of ginseng at home. Xue took the time to cook the meal. When the children came back, everyone stopped and went to have a meal.

"Grandma, there are so many pine towers this year. We have been building pine towers these days." Wenhan said to Chen during the meal.

"Well, the pine seeds were sold for fifty cents per pound last year, which is really a good price. It's okay to get more this year, but do you know if you pay attention to it? It's not fun to climb trees, so be careful." Chen quickly gave a few words of advice after hearing this.

"Oh, grandma, don't worry, I will be careful." Wenhan nodded and agreed.

After lunch, the children didn't have time to rest and left with the basket on their backs. Looking at the children's backs, Chen sighed, "All of them are good children, they are still so young, they know how to work. They are not tired either. Jinghan's little girl is just a tomboy. She is following Wenhan all day long and doesn't feel tired." Speaking of Jinghan, Chen really only had to shake her head. "Meerlin, Jinghan is getting older, if she is fine in winter, she has to teach her needle and thread well. You can't be like a tomboy, and you can't run around all day long, what can you do in the future?"

After hearing what her mother-in-law said, Xue was helpless, "This Jinghan has been dishonest since she was a child. She said a while ago that she wanted to learn needlework with me, but she didn't expect it to be fresh for three days. After that freshness, she ran away. Anyway, she is still young, so it's not too late to teach her well this winter."

The girls talked, but they didn't have their hands idle. They used a brush to brush off all the soil on the ginseng, revealing the white and fat ginseng inside. "Mom, this year's hammer is really good. Do you think this tree has to be more than two taels? If everyone thinks about this, then 10 zhang can't afford thirty pounds?"

"Just be so beautiful, how can you go for such good things? Now that you can get twenty pounds of 1 zhang, that's very good." Chen said with a smile. "This year's production is good. Based on the four pounds of fresh ones, you can get about forty pounds of dry goods this year. This is really a lot, and you can sell sixty or seventy taels of silver. Our family lives by focusing on these silver every year. This year Zhixiang will attend the autumn examination. If he can win, he will have to participate in the spring examination next year, which will cost a lot of money. Huixin is also old and should say he's kissing. The last time that Doctor Tao didn't succeed, and after a while, he still had to organize Huixin's marriage. If he can succeed, he will have to spend a lot of money. In this way, this amount of money is really not enough." Living in the house, he is all about this amount of money, which is really not enough.

"Mom, you don't have to worry too much. We won't care whether Zhixiang takes the imperial examination or Huixin gets married. When it's okay in winter, let Zhixin go to the town to see what work can do, and at least earn some money to come back." Xue quickly persuaded her mother-in-law.
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