After a lunch break, the family was fully equipped and rushed to the threshing floor to thresh grain. Jiang Yan put on her straw hat and carried a jar of sweet tea that was boiled by Wang Jinhua. After adding sugar, it was boiled by Wang Jinhua.

The taste is sweeter and more delicious.

The threshing floor in the village is a large open space, with only a piece of bare mud left. Because the village threshes grain and shells here every year, the land is well-trodden and smooth.

At this time, a lot of rice has accumulated in the threshing floor. Almost all the harvested rice in the village will be hauled here to be slowly threshed. If there is free space at home and there is no need to wait for a shovel, the rice will be dragged home and slowly threshed.

"There are no people around at this time. There is an empty bucket over there. Let's use it first." Lin Dong pointed to the bucket not far away: "Everyone usually comes here to thresh grains in the afternoon.

There shouldn’t be much use for it at that time.”

Jiang Yan nodded and signaled her sons to move the bucket. Lin Xi was a big man. He ran over immediately after hearing this. Before anyone else could help, he lifted one corner by himself and pushed it up and over in all directions.

Fang's bucket was pressed firmly on his back, and he easily pushed it back into his own rice field.

Jiang Yan was dumbfounded, and once again sighed at Lin Xi's strength. She quickly put on a scarf and a straw hat, and several children did the same thing. When slapping the rice, there would be dust, shriveled rice husks and withered stems.

Broken straw leaves will float into the air with human effort. If you don't cover them, your eyes and nose will easily get choked.

After everyone was armed, they started to work. The two took turns, one holding a handful of rice, and after beating it off, he replaced it with the next one, and so on.

The hot sun is baking the earth, the villagers staying at the threshing floor are laughing and talking, the children are playing together, and from time to time there are live grasshoppers and green shrimps jumping back and forth in the straw, and the children are everywhere in a hurry.

Went to catch them, one person holding a piece of dogtail grass, and soon they strung one string after another.

The laughter of the adults, the laughter and play of the children, and the sound of the rice ears falling off and flapping, created a warm and abundant scene. Jiang Yan looked at Xiaodouzi's eagerness to try, and rubbed his small breasts.

.

"Grandma, I'm going to catch grasshoppers. We can fry them and eat them." Xiaodouzi clenched his fists and looked forward to it. If he hadn't been busy helping with the work, he would have caught a lot of grasshoppers, and they were all meat.

"Erbi, Xiaosi, you take Xiaowu and Xiaodouzi to catch grasshoppers and fry them for you to eat tonight." Jiang Yan shouted.

Lin Bei has grown a bit recently. A glass of fresh goat milk in the morning and evening is very effective. The whole family has gained a lot of weight.

"Little aunt, I'd better not go. I can continue threshing grains." Erbi refused hesitantly. This was the only kind of living he could do, and he couldn't be too playful.

Jiang Yan patted the dusty rice leaves all over his body: "You can do these jobs when you grow up. You are only half a head taller than that bucket. You should just go and catch grasshoppers. Catch more and wait for extra food in the evening."

Woolen cloth."

Erbi was small, and the bucket was about the same height as him. Every time he grabbed a small handful of rice and stood next to it, the rice poles would break, and the rice would fall into the bucket, but the rebounding grains would hit the little guy's cheeks.

Hong Hong didn’t know whether he was threshing the millet or whether the millet was beating him again.

Erbi's face turned red, and he said with some trepidation: "I used to thresh grains in wooden basins, but this is the first time I have used a bucket..."

"Okay, stop talking so much. Auntie knows you are a good boy. Xiaosi, take everyone to catch grasshoppers. We have a lot of family members, so you can catch more."

"Okay, mother, let's go catch them right now." Lin Bei's red little face smiled brightly. In previous years, they would also catch grasshoppers and shrimps. At that time, the family was poor, and these insects were considered a meat dish. During the autumn harvest,

, they always catch them in the rice fields and roast them.

Jiang Yan watched a row of four little carrot heads going around catching bugs, and she also joined the team of threshing grains. She liked this fulfilling and busy life more and more.

Threshing grains in a bucket also requires a certain skill, and you cannot just use brute force. Jiang Yan had seen it several times before, but it was the first time a girl got on a sedan chair to really get started.

This action is about doing it in one go. When you hit the inner wall of the bucket with force, you also need to use your strength to shake the rice, so that all the rice that is hit falls into the bucket, so that you don't have to worry about the grains when you throw it high again.

fell to the ground.

At first she was not used to it, but after doing it for a few times, Jiang Yan got used to it quickly and was able to keep up with the others.

People on the threshing floor came back after lunch one after another. For a while, there was a continuous sound of banging and beating. Visible dust and scattered straw leaves were flying in the air, but this could not stop the farmers from harvesting.

Joy, everyone was bragging while working, chatting all over the place, and the whole threshing floor was very lively for a while.

Jiang Yan slowly immersed herself in this atmosphere. Being in such joy, she couldn't help but relax her mind and quickly integrated into this atmosphere.

"Xiao Jiang! Have you finished harvesting your rice? Let's help." Old Wu came over with Lin Jun from a distance.

Their family has few paddy fields, and the rice was cut and threshed yesterday. The two of them just went to town to sell soap in the morning, and now they are back to help.

To avoid dust in her eyes, Jiang Yan squinted: "It's almost there, there's still half left. Have you two eaten?"

After hearing this, Mr. and Mrs. Wu looked at each other and smiled, and they both licked their lips subconsciously: "Eat, the braised pork you brought is delicious."

Lin Jun was grateful, so as soon as they finished eating, the two of them rushed over to help without stopping, without even taking a break.

Jiang Yan was not polite to the two of them, and asked her two daughters-in-law to rest for a while, leaving room for Old Wu and his wife to work.

"By the way, I have been busy cultivating seedlings these days. How are you selling the soap?" Jiang Yan suddenly remembered the soap thing.

When Old Wu heard this, he immediately said: "We were busy harvesting rice a few days ago and didn't go to the town. We only went there these two days. Ajun and I recommended a few, and some people were willing to order, but the quantity was not large. Wait.

Let’s try again tomorrow.”

Jiang Yan nodded and didn't ask any more questions. The soap will definitely sell well. People in the town still don't know its magical effects. Lao Wu and his family are all shy and honest people. They don't talk much and are very polite when meeting everyone.

He didn't know how to speak fancy words, and his sales probably weren't very good, because Lin Nan told him that Lin Yousheng and his family were very good at sales, and the quantity ordered was increasing day by day.

With more people and greater strength, the rice was quickly beaten, bagged, and transported back to the yard for stacking. A group of people were busy working in the yard, and even spread out an open space for drying the grains.

Jiang Yan was also busy with her feet on the ground. She had to go to the warehouse to see the seedlings, and she also asked Lin Dong and others to see the pepper seedlings in the field. The pepper seedlings cultivated some time ago were transplanted into the ground separately.

Check the growth every day.
Chapter completed!