Chapter 26 Autumn Harvest (Part 2)

After cleaning up the bathroom, Tang Yue returned to the bedroom, got on the kang and put the kang table on it. She took out a bowl of rice, braised pork, and fried pork with peppers from the space warehouse to prepare for dinner. After a tiring day, one bowl of rice was not enough. The more she worked, the more she ate, so she finished another bowl of rice.

After finishing her meal, Tang Yue picked up the dishes and took them outside to wash. She placed the washed dishes in the cupboard and put away the table on the kang. She didn't plan to do anything else tonight, so she tidied up and prepared to go to bed.

Because she went to bed early yesterday, Tang Yue got up at five o'clock the next day. She quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face, fed the two chicks at the back, and took two eggs and a cup of milk from the space as her breakfast. She took out a lunch box from the space, put two steamed buns in it, some braised meat, and a handful of beans in it, filled the kettle with spiritual water, put on a straw hat and gloves, and set off. Looking at the watch, it was only six o'clock. During the busy farming season, she had to go early.

The team leader did not arrange any more tasks today. They just cut wheat like yesterday. Tang Yue saw that it was so early, so she took the three acres first. She was more skilled at cutting today and would be faster. When she finished cutting the three acres, it was not yet eleven o'clock. She tied the wheat with ropes and pushed the cart to the drying yard. It was still early for lunch, so she went to cut wheat again. When everyone was having lunch at noon, this acre of wheat had been cut. She did not join everyone, but sat on the ridge of the field, washed her hands with water from the ditch beside her, rinsed them with water from the kettle, took out her lunch box, and started to eat.

After dinner, he drank some spiritual water and sat on the edge of the field to rest for a while. He was not really tired, but he didn't act like he wasn't tired at all, otherwise he would be hated. In the afternoon, Tang Yue mowed four acres and didn't plan to mow any more. He asked the scorekeeper to register and went home.

On the way back, I took a detour to Uncle Li's house, intending to ask him to build a lid, otherwise what if I accidentally entered the storage room while sleeping and fell down? When I arrived at Uncle Li's house, the door was not closed, so I knocked on it and went in. "Uncle Li, are you home? I want to order something from you."

"Come in, it's in the backyard."

Tang Yue heard this and went straight to the backyard. Uncle Li was doing his carpentry work. "Uncle Li, I dug a cellar at home. I want you to make a board to cover it. I'm afraid I'll fall in if I'm not paying attention."

"Okay, tell me how big the box is and you can come get it tomorrow."

"The circle is one meter in diameter. I'll come to get it from you tomorrow."

It took a total of eight days to harvest wheat this time. We will start harvesting rice from today. The weather is not very good and we are afraid of rain, so we will harvest the rice first. It is only one or two acres and can be done in one day. Tang Yue will continue to harvest rice this time.

Tang Yue was cutting rice in front, and her friends were following behind to pick up the fallen rice. If Tang Yue hadn't let one or two bunches of rice fall off occasionally, her friends would have cried. Tang Yue cut both wheat and rice very cleanly, and her friends could take the rice they picked up home, no matter what.

When she was ready to get more corn in the afternoon, she was told that there was no more corn. Tang Yue had only harvested four acres and the wheat was finished. She didn't know what to do anymore, so she just followed everyone else to pick corn. After picking the corn, she had to chop down the corn stalks with a knife.

As early as two days ago, when Tang Yue knew that corn should be harvested by carrying a basket into the corn field, he ordered an extra-large basket when he went to Uncle Li's house to collect the corn cellar covers. He could easily hold 200 kilograms. Tang Yue carried the extra-large basket and walked into the corn field, picking corn as he walked and throwing the corn into the basket at the back. He picked very quickly. The only inconvenience was that Tang Yue was only 1.6 meters tall and the corn stalks were taller than him. His body itched from picking corn and the corn leaves cut him, but fortunately he recovered quickly after drinking the spiritual water.

Tang Yue picked corn very quickly. She just had to carry the corn in the basket to the drying yard. She made three trips for one acre of corn. After carrying the corn, the old man would braid it into bunches like braids and hang them up to dry, which made it easier to dry. After carrying the corn, Tang Yue went home and took an axe. She chopped the corn stalks along the roots, one by one lightly. The chopped corn stalks had to be tied up and temporarily placed in the yard.

Tang Yue left work quite early in the afternoon. Seeing that her work points were enough, she went home first. As usual, she went to the backyard to feed the chickens. Tang Yue felt that she would not be able to eat the eggs laid by the two chickens because she would eat them first. She returned to the front yard. The dustpan was full of red dates drying in the sun. The wild vegetables and mushrooms were all packed into sacks after drying. This was the second time the red dates were dried. One sack was left in the storage room from the first drying, and the rest were all put into the space. The ones that were dried this time were almost ready, so they were also packed into sacks and put into the space. There were more than a dozen sacks of dried dates in the space, and the rest would be enough for one more drying. She put the red dates from the space into the dustpan, just filling it up, and let it dry slowly.

I went back to the kitchen and boiled some water to take a bath. The corn leaves were cutting my whole body and it was itchy. I drank two cups of spiritual water before taking a bath. After taking a bath, I washed my hair at the same time. It was so uncomfortable.

Tang Yue dried her hair and prepared to cook dinner. She first cooked a large pot of rice and let it cook slowly. Thinking that the vegetables outside had not been watered yet, she hurried to fetch water to water them. The weather was too hot now, which was a good thing for the autumn harvest, as the grains could be dried and stored faster. As for the vegetables, they had to be watered every day, otherwise they would be sun-dried to death.

I went back to the kitchen and saw that the rice was boiling. I scooped out the rice and used the bucket that contained the rice soup last time. I didn't finish the last one. It was really delicious. Those who haven't eaten it should try it. I put the rice in the pot and steamed it. I thought that I hadn't eaten boiled ribs for a long time, so I prepared to eat ribs tonight. I took out half a rib and chopped it in half, filled another pot with half water, put in ginger, onion, garlic and cooking wine, and put the ribs in. Boiled it for two minutes, rinsed it with water, heated the oil, added a few rock sugars, poured the ribs into the pot and fried them, added dried chili, salt and spices and fried them until half cooked, added water to cover the ribs, and let them simmer slowly.

I thought that I couldn't just eat meat, I had to stir-fry some vegetables, so I took a bunch of Chinese cabbage from the space, washed it in the vegetable basin, peeled a few garlic cloves and cut them into slices, and saved them for stir-frying later. I was thinking about when to make some beef sauce to eat. Although I have stockpiled a lot of hot sauce, I still want to try to make it myself, so I will make it during the holidays.

Tang Yue waited for about twenty minutes and tasted the meat to see if it was cooked and the flavor was infused into the meat. She took out two ribs on a plate and put the rest in a stainless steel bucket and put it in the space warehouse. She washed the pot, heated up some oil, added some garlic slices, and then stir-fried some cabbage. She added salt and stir-fried until cooked, then put it on a plate. She put the rest in a bucket and put it in the space warehouse.

I brought the dishes to the kang table, filled a bowl of rice, put the rest into the space, and prepared to eat. I sat on the kang, eating and gnawing on the spare ribs, which were so delicious. After the meal, I cleared the table and locked the doors inside and outside.

Entering the space from the bedroom, the grapes drying on the wall in the space yard have dried up. Tang Yue is not going to add sugar this time. She will grab a handful and eat them when she has nothing to do. She will put them in glass jars and put them all in the warehouse. She will collect the oilcloth on the wall and wash them in the river so that she can continue to dry things next time.

I thought I hadn't fed the pigs yet, so I quickly fed them. The pigs are so big, why haven't they gotten pregnant yet? The rabbits are pregnant with another litter, too many. Last time, there were more than 80 pairs. By the time they are born, there will be almost a thousand. I must watch the video and learn how to feed my cat every day when I'm at home.

When Tang Yue was about to leave the space, she thought of the herb collection and the beauty recipe book she found in the box in the cave, and quickly took them out. Originally, Tang Yue was not interested in beauty recipes, but many people had asked about it in the past few days. Everyone in the autumn harvest was tanned like charcoal, so why are you so white?

Tang Yue only agreed to give them one copy. Of course, Tang Yue could not give them one, so she had to take a look at it now. After the autumn harvest, she would go to the valley to pick herbs. Now she had to memorize the contents of the prescription and the herbal collection.

I returned to the bedroom and looked at the empty bedroom, a room with nothing but a kang, and suddenly thought, "Where is my square table?"

Then I remembered that I seemed to have put it away in the space, so I quickly took out the square table and placed it against the wall, against the kitchen wall. I put the thermos on it and placed two stools next to the table, so that the whole bedroom looked less empty.

I didn't fall asleep so quickly in bed, so I took out the herbal medicine collection and prepared to read it. I would memorize a few things a day and soon I would have finished memorizing them, especially how to prepare them. There are so many medicinal herbs in the valley, and they will be wasted if I don't know how to prepare them. I felt sleepy after reading for a while, but I am really not the type of person who can study. It's okay, I will take the book to the valley when the time comes, and I will remember them by the on-site teaching. I put the book in the kang cabinet and prepared to go to bed.

When Tang Yue woke up the next day, she went into the space to feed the pigs as usual, then came out to brush her teeth and wash her face. There was a bit of cool breeze in the morning. It was September and almost October now, and it seemed to get cold even earlier here. She took out an egg bun from the space and a bowl of rice soup and ate it for breakfast.

After breakfast, I took a handful of green leaves from the space, went to the backyard to feed the chickens, returned to the front yard to get my work equipment, locked the door, and went to work.

This process repeats itself every day. Fortunately, it hasn't rained during this period. It took ten days to harvest the corn. Now it is early October and the weather has started to get cold. I have to wear a thin coat when going out. After harvesting the corn, I started to dig potatoes.

Tang Yue had plenty of strength, so she took a hoe and started digging potatoes. She was afraid of damaging the potatoes, so she started digging from a distance, but her strength was so great that she dug out all the potatoes intact. She had to carry the dug potatoes to the drying yard herself. Fortunately, the wheat and rice that she had harvested some time ago had been dried and bagged and stored in the warehouse, otherwise they would have been too dry to dry.

I used the big basket that I used to carry corn to carry the potatoes. Fortunately, the basket was sturdy, otherwise it would have fallen apart halfway. The potatoes were dried on the drying yard and then stored in the warehouse. The workload was not too heavy and it would be ready in half a day if the weather was good.

Put the potatoes in the drying yard. An old man was already waiting there. Separate the potatoes by size. The big ones will be handed in and used as seeds, and the small ones will be distributed to the villagers in due time.

Nowadays, everyone is concerned about serving the people, so they hand in the good ones and keep the bad ones for themselves.