Chapter 25 Autumn Harvest (I)

Tang Yue walked home from the commune, and it took her more than two hours. It was four or five o'clock when she got home.

Tang Yue first took some green leaves from the space and fed the chickens in the backyard. They were hungry for a while, so she used a bucket to fetch water from the front yard and watered the vegetables and the fruit trees planted yesterday. When she returned to the front yard, she turned over the wild vegetables that had been dried yesterday and would dry them again tomorrow.

Thinking that the autumn harvest would begin tomorrow, Tang Yue returned to the kitchen and washed several kilograms of rice. She cleaned the pot and poured the rice into it, then began to cook. She had heard that rice soup was very nutritious, so she decided to save the rice soup and drink it as water to see if it was true.

Wash and slice the meat that I had just brought back from the backpack, and fry them all to make fried pork with peppers. After frying, put them in a basin and put them in the space warehouse. Then take out a pair of beef offal from the space warehouse, wash them, and cook a beef offal soup. This process takes a long time, at least an hour. The rice in the pot next to me is cooked into bloom, so I take out the rice and put the rice soup in a stainless steel bucket. Tang Yue has a lot of these stainless steel buckets with lids. She puts the rice soup in the space warehouse and steams the rice.

Tang Yue prepared to steam more buns, so she took out two basins, mixed two basins of flour without sugar, took out the steamer, cleaned it outside, and when the rice was steamed, she put it in a stainless steel bucket and put it in the space. She put water in the pot, put the steamer on it, kneaded the dough into rectangular strips, and made steamed buns before putting them into the steamer.

The beef offal soup next to her was almost cooked, so she took out a stainless steel bucket from the space, poured the beef offal soup into it, and put it into the space. Tang Yue looked at her watch, it was almost nine o'clock, so she washed the pot and boiled a pot of hot water, took a shower in the bathroom, washed the clothes and hung them outside, then silently entered the space from the bedroom and instantly entered the space.

Tang Yue came to the space and saw wild grapes drying in the yard. They were already dried, so she took out a glass jar that could hold 100 kilograms and placed it in the yard. She also took out white sugar and put a layer of raisins and a layer of white sugar in the glass jar. In this way, one jar could hold a lot. In the end, she filled five jars with dried raisins. They were not very delicious now. After the sugar in them was dissolved, they would taste better after being kept for at least a week. They could not be put in the warehouse anymore.

Tang Yue left the space and walked to the storage room. Looking at the big hole on the ground, she remembered that she forgot to cover it. She took out the solar lamp, walked down the stairs, and lifted the tarpaulin in the cellar to take a look. There was no water coming out of the underground. At present, this cellar is still very functional. She instantly took out the glass jars in the space, put them neatly on the edge, checked whether all the jars were sealed, and then left the cellar with the lamp.

When I think about digging the cellar, the soil I dug out is still in the space warehouse, and I will throw it out when I go in next time.

After entering the space, I looked at the two oilcloths that were emptied after canning. I took out the washed grapes from the space warehouse to dry them. There were still a lot of wild vegetables and mushrooms in the warehouse that had not been dried yet. I dried them one by one slowly. I walked to the table and drank a glass of spiritual water. I never get tired of drinking this water.

Thinking that the pigs were still hungry, I quickly fed them with my mind. When I saw the pigs, I remembered that there was a wild boar in the warehouse. When the team went to slaughter the pigs, I would learn how to dissect the pig. I will put them aside for now. There are also some wild vegetable roots and seedlings in the warehouse, which I plan to plant in the space. Now the fields in the space are full and there is no place to plant, so I plan to plant them under the fruit trees by the river and control the planting with my mind.

Seeing that there was nothing to do in the space, Tang Yue prepared to go out. She returned to the bedroom and lay on the kang, thinking that the quilt on her body did not match the kang, it was too thick. She must sew a few thicker quilts in winter, so that it would be so soft to sleep on them.

As Tang Yue was thinking, she fell asleep in a daze.

When she woke up the next day, Tang Yue took out her watch from under her pillow to check the time. She looked a little tired, so she quickly got up from the bed, washed her face, went to the backyard to throw a handful of green leaves to the chickens, changed into work clothes, put on a kettle, took two steamed buns from the space warehouse, locked the door, ate while walking, and when she reached the team headquarters, the bell rang, and the team leader was already standing on the stage waiting.

Tang Yue finished her steamed bun and quickly drank some water, waiting for the team leader to assign tasks. "Hurry up, everyone, the tasks have been assigned. We are not in a hurry for the autumn harvest, so when will you be in a hurry?"

The team leader urged everyone to hurry up. Today they would start harvesting wheat. The wheat field was endless, as if there was no end. The work point for harvesting wheat was ten centimeters per acre. After harvesting, the wheat had to be tied together and sent to the drying yard.

Tang Yue received the task, and went to the warehouse to get a sickle, then walked to the field to start working. Although she was not used to it at first because she had never held a sickle before, she learned it by watching others hold it and trying slowly. She started to cut faster and faster, and it felt like she didn't need to use it. Except for being a little tired from bending over, she didn't feel anything else.

After Tang Yue finished harvesting an acre of wheat, she was ready to bundle it up, but it kept falling apart. She had no choice but to go and see how others bundled the wheat. But when she looked around, everyone was still harvesting and no one had finished yet. She had no choice but to find the scorekeeper and ask him to teach her. She quickly learned how to bundle all the wheat, pushed a cart from the brigade headquarters, piled the wheat high on the cart, tied it up with ropes, and pushed it to the drying yard. It only took four pushes to finish the wheat bundle for one acre of land. Some elderly people who couldn't do heavy work just spread the wheat out to dry.

The scorekeeper was asked to record the work points, and another acre of land was allocated to continue harvesting wheat. During the busy autumn harvest season, people were not allowed to leave early for fear that it would rain. You could collect your points after harvesting, but you could not leave. Even those second-rate people had to work, otherwise they would not be given any per capita rations.

Tang Yue drank a glass of spiritual water, and the heat was gone from her body. All her fatigue disappeared, and she could continue to harvest wheat. She depended on the autumn harvest to earn work points. By noon, Tang Yue had already harvested two acres of land. She would try to harvest more in the afternoon. No one would care if she continued to harvest at night, and no one would harvest too late. After all, if she did not rest well, it would affect her work the next day.

Tang Yue was ready to go back to eat, but found that no one around her went home to eat. All the children at home brought her food. The villagers wanted to finish their meals quickly so that they could continue to work, for fear of becoming sick. They really depended on food for a living. Tang Yue hurried home, fed the chickens in the backyard, ate a big bowl of rice, and hurried back to cut wheat. Tang Yue also wanted to do her part, so if she cut more, she could finish it earlier.

Tang Yue received the task. This time she received more than 10 mu of land at a time. She went to the field and started working. After she got used to it, she worked faster and faster. After Tang Yue finished mowing more than 10 mu of land, she tied it up with ropes and pushed it to the drying yard with a cart. There was already a lot of wheat in the drying yard. The old man was threshing the wheat with tools on the side. She took off the wheat stalks and saved them for the cows in the team. Of course, the cows could not eat so much wheat, so they would share some with the people in the team, either for burning firewood or weaving. After pushing the wheat, it was still early and no one had gone home yet. Tang Yue was embarrassed to go back alone.

After Tang Yue finished her task, she walked to the edge of the field and looked at the side. A lot of crops had been harvested, but there was still more that had not been harvested. After harvesting the wheat, there was still corn. There were fewer rice plants, but there were also about one or two hundred acres. There were also sweet potatoes and potatoes, which were considered coarse grains, and they were also planted in large quantities.

Tang Yue picked up the sickle and started to cut the crops. After a little more than an hour, she finished and bundled the crops. She pushed the crops to the drying yard on a cart. The sun was about to set, and the villagers were not ready to go back yet and continued to cut the crops. But Tang Yue did not see the educated youth. Watching them working, she didn't know whether they had cut even an acre of land. How could they always rely on their families for help?

Seeing that no one was ready to go back and Tang Yue had no experience, she could continue harvesting as they didn't leave. After drinking a few drops of spiritual water, all her fatigue disappeared in an instant. She went to claim another acre of land. This time, she said she would not claim anything after harvesting and would come back tomorrow. When she finished harvesting, it was already dark. She quickly tied up the wheat and pushed it to the drying yard with a cart. The old men were still threshing the wheat. It was indeed very hard. In modern times, they would have retired at this age. Here, they would have no food to eat if they didn't work. They had been busy and tired all their lives.

Tang Yue found a scorekeeper to register today's work points, and prepared to go back. There were very few people back, and everyone continued to work until late. Tang Yue didn't want to cut anymore. She would have a good rest today and continue tomorrow.

I went back home to feed the chickens in the backyard, went back to the front yard to pack the dried wild vegetables in sacks, put them into the space, then took out some wild vegetables and mushrooms from the warehouse, washed them by the well, and hung them on the winnowing basket. It was not enough to dry the red dates on the winnowing basket, so I had to dry them for two more days, turned them over, and left them there.

Walking into the kitchen, Tang Yue first boiled a pot of water, then went into the bedroom to get some clothes to change and put them in the bathroom. However, the water was not boiled yet, so she took a bucket to the well to fetch water for the vegetables. There were five acres of vegetable garden, but only two acres were planted now. She really didn't know what to plant, so she just left it there empty. It took almost ten buckets of water to water the land thoroughly. When she got back, the water was just boiled and she could take a bath. She put the bathtub in the bathroom, poured hot water into it, released some river water from the space, took off her clothes and walked into the bathtub. It was very comfortable to soak in it.

Looking at her reflection in the water, Tang Yue often forgets her original face. In modern times, Tang Yue cannot be said to be ugly, but she is not a great beauty who gets a lot of attention, so sometimes Tang Yue often forgets that the face she has now is her original face. The old man really dislikes her current face, thinking that a face that looks sarcastic and mean brings bad luck. The old man likes big round faces, and Tang Yue herself likes them very much.

After soaking in the water for a while and when it was no longer hot, I got up and put on my clothes. I also used the water from the bathtub to wash clothes. Speaking of washing clothes, everyone knew to stock up on soap, but I forgot to stock up on detergent. I made a plan. After washing the first time, I took the clothes to the well to fetch water to rinse them, wrung out the clothes and hung them up to dry. I collected the bathroom water into the space and poured it onto the ground. I then added a little river water to clean the bathtub and collected the bathtub water into the space ground.