Qiu Yuling only went to school for one day because the school was officially closed for the wheat harvest.
Many children also followed to pick up wheat ears. Qiu's mother said that she didn't need Qiu Yuling and asked her to prepare meals at home.
Qiu Dashu also came back. As soon as it was light, the whole family rolled up their pants and went to the fields.
Two people worked on one furrow of the field. The one in front was cutting the wheat, while the one behind was picking up the ears of wheat and bundling them.
After the bundles are tied up, they are tied to the ground first, and then pulled to the threshing ground after the harvest in the afternoon.
Qiu Dashan was fine, but Qiu Dashu had been sitting in the school for half a month, and after doing this suddenly, he almost couldn't straighten his back.
It was finally noon, and no one had gone back to cook. Most of the members came with dry food and tea. Some of the more particular members had people staying at home, and they all came to the field to deliver food.
Qiu Yuling was also one of those delivering meals.
Mr. Qiu, Mrs. Qiu, as well as Qiu Dashan and Qiu Dashu, first found a big poplar tree and sat on the edge of the ditch under its shade.
Qiu Yuling first laid out the sacks, then took out the porcelain bowls and covered basins and placed them one by one.
At this moment, more and more people were hiding under the shade of the trees along the ditch. Although they were a few steps apart, they were not far away, and everyone could see clearly what everyone brought.
Qiu Yuling didn't bring anything too special. She just fried a pot of eggplant and chili peppers and made a cold dish of garlic-flavored cowpeas. She didn't bring any dried food for steamed buns. She steamed black flour buns early in the morning. They looked rough on the outside, but were filled with fine grains inside. She also made a bowl of fennel tea for each person.
After taking a bite, Qiu's mother knew something was different. Only Qiu Dashu said foolishly, "When you're hungry, everything tastes good. Even this steamed bun tastes better the more you chew it."
Li Qingmei glared at him and said, "Eat quickly, why are you talking so much? If you finish eating quickly, you can rest against the tree."
For a moment, the only sound in her house was the sound of chewing food.
Qiu Yuling felt that she had brought enough steamed buns, and she even claimed that she had eaten them at home, so they were not counted. There was not even a crumb of steamed bun left in the basket.
There was a beggar who came all the way to Qiu Yuling's house, and all that was left was vegetable juice, which Qiu Dashu wiped up with the last bite of his steamed bun.
"Little sister, this is not enough. Make more tomorrow." Even Qiu Dashu still felt a little unsatisfied.
Qiu Yuling responded with a "OK". Seeing that everyone had finished eating one after another and the captain's gong was struck in the distance, Qiu Yuling fastened her little straw hat, packed up the tableware, put it back into her little backpack and went back.
"Qingmei, your Yuling looks so pretty in this dress." Wang Cuiying, who was in the same group with Qiu's mother, sighed.
"A few days ago, my mother came and made it for me with the homespun cloth she wove herself and colored it." Mother Qiu said it openly without hiding anything.
Her mother-in-law often complained in the team and asked them to hear it. Not to mention that her mother took care of them on weekdays, she had the nerve to complain about how much help she had given in just a few days.
Don’t you see how many years she has been married into the Qiu family? The daughter-in-law has become a mother-in-law, let alone her. Even the grandchildren have never eaten a candy from the old couple or passed through their thread.
After calling Mr. Qiu back that day, she found an opportunity to find out what was going on.
As expected, the old woman had nothing to hold back.
At first, Mr. Qiu denied it, saying only that he had met her and asked how her mother-in-law was. But he didn't believe it, so he lied and said he had heard everything.
As a result, Qiu Jianshe looked flustered and apologized and begged for mercy, saying that his mother was just meddling in other people's business and that his family was managed by his wife, so what others said had no say.
Qiu's mother asked him to repeat what his mother said to see whether he was really honest or just pretending to be honest, since she had heard it anyway.
The fool Qiu Jianshe told his wife everything, saying that his mother had asked him to lock up the grain, and that his mother-in-law was here to beg for money. He also said that his daughter was not going to school, and that Li Xiaojuan from Li Hu's family was the head of the family...
In the end, she concluded by asking him to send the food to her house first, and then to bring it back after his mother-in-law left...
Li Qingmei immediately cursed and said, "What a toad! Ugly and frivolous! If you bring it to her, you won't even be able to get your food back, not to mention the food itself."
Li Qingmei had been holding her breath, and now someone started a conversation, so she started talking about all the soy sauce, vinegar, etc. brewed by her mother.
Wang Cuiying was amazed when she heard this. "Aunt Li is really capable. If it were me, I wouldn't want to let her go back."
"What can I tell you? My mother can't stay idle all day. As soon as she comes into the house, she starts to take care of everything inside and outside. If it weren't for the summer harvest, Qingfeng and the others wouldn't have enough to eat. I really don't want to let her go back."
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No matter how busy the fields were, Qiu Yuling was almost paralyzed by the heat when she returned home.
He locked the door from the inside, held on and went to feed the mouths of the people in the backyard with plenty of food and water.
I said to myself: Eat, drink, and drink to your heart’s content while no one is watching.
Seeing that they had almost finished eating, she cleaned up the leftovers and then went back to her hut.
After hesitating for a moment, he closed the door from the inside.
Only then did she feel at ease to enter her farm space.
Without caring about anything else, I took a comfortable bath first.
After coming out, I felt a lot more relaxed, and then I sat down to eat slowly.
Nowadays, she rarely uses points to exchange for technology and hard work, and basically does everything herself to make a living.
It was hot and she had no appetite, so she made herself a fruit salad with taro as the staple food and watermelon as the after-meal fruit.
Open an old book and read leisurely while eating.
After dinner, she felt sleepy, so she decided to stay in the cabin and take a nap. It was neither too cold nor too hot, and it was really comfortable here.
But she didn't dare stay any longer. She dozed off for a short while before coming out. She had a lot to learn now: spinning, weaving, cooking, farming. It was always good to have many skills. She couldn't rely entirely on space.
In the past, she had occasionally worried about her so-called past and present lives, but now she has completely let it go. It doesn't matter where you live, this world is just a huge makeshift team. Maybe everyone is an NPC, or maybe everyone is the protagonist. It all depends on how you perceive it.
She was almost done with her work, she turned her sore neck and rubbed her aching arms, and it was time for her to prepare dinner.
He simply picked up a rabbit, endured the discomfort, skinned it and bled it, all in one go.
Let’s have braised rabbit meat tonight.
She hadn't sold her sheep in time because she was focused on expanding the herd, and she'd already sold a lot of wool. She realized for the first time that if she had the energy, selling the parts separately would be worth more than selling them in bulk.
She got out a bag and used it to spin yarn. Now that she had sheep at home, she could make some wool to cover her debts.
This was an era of planned economy, and coupons were indeed needed, but for hardworking farmers, they could be self-sufficient even without them.
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