In the field.
The workers were all diligently harvesting wheat.
Huo Junshan was not in the field today.
He was in the threshing ground, working with several men to stick the wheat stalks together with a stone roller so that they could come out of the ears.
There are many steps involved.
The old ox in front was pulling the stone roller in circles.
The person leading the old ox ahead is Huo Junshan.
The men behind kept turning over the spread wheat stalks over and over again.
So that the old ox can run it over.
This way, the wheat can be crushed to the maximum extent possible, with no waste.
Wheat was brought in cart after cart. The men first spread out the wheat and waited for the old oxen to thresh it.
They continued crushing the plants, without stopping for even a day.
This job looks easy, but it's actually more tiring than harvesting wheat.
Because it needs to be turned over constantly, wheat is continuously delivered.
They can't rest for even a moment.
At most, I'll just drink some water.
Large beads of sweat covered everyone's faces.
Huo Junshan wiped his sweat with a towel and took a sip of water.
Keep working.
It turned out he didn't want to come and work, but the captain insisted he come.
They even said that they would have to work hard to support their children in the future.
We cannot afford to relax any longer.
The work of threshing wheat is worth twelve work points a day, which means you finish work later than others.
Those who harvested wheat have finished work, but those who thresh wheat still need to gather the wheat together and cover it with something, otherwise there will be dew the next day.
It would be good if a few men slept here to watch over things tonight.
Originally, whoever was in charge of the field would oversee it, but Huo Junshan only worked here and didn't sleep here at night.
He was worried about leaving Yanyan alone at home.
The captain had no choice but to agree.
Yun Ningyan slept on the swing for a while, then looked at her hand and saw that it was already past eleven o'clock.
Huo Junshan is threshing wheat in the field today, so she has to go and deliver his meal.
I went into the space, put the rice on to cook, and then cooked a chicken.
She paused directly in the space.
She added a little potato to the chicken stew with hazelnut mushrooms.
This chicken is a wild pheasant caught in the mountains. It has been kept in the enclosure for a long time and is very fat.
She finally managed to kill the chicken, and when she cut open its belly, she almost vomited.
After finally getting everything ready, we started blanching the animals in the pot.
She soaked some hazel mushrooms and other mushrooms, and also peeled two potatoes.
We've just started stewing the chicken.
She made braised chicken with potatoes today.
First, she caramelized the chicken with rock sugar, then added two bottles of beer. She didn't add any water; that's how she makes it taste better.
I added a little more fermented bean paste and stir-fried it until the oil turned red, then put it into the chicken pieces.
Once the water boils, add the hazel mushrooms and appropriate seasonings, then wait for them to cook.
About half an hour later, the chicken was cooked.
She then chopped two more green peppers and added them in.
They then filled two lunchboxes with rice.
She was worried that Huo Junshan wouldn't have enough to eat, so she pressed the food down a bit more with the shovel.
Finally, I took out two lunch boxes and filled them with chicken pieces.
She took two pairs of chopsticks and a bowl.
He was also carrying a water jug, which contained water from the sacred spring.
They put everything into baskets and headed to the field.
Huo Junshan was starting to feel hungry, and Huo Guodong asked with a smile, "Third brother, shall we go home?"
Huo Junshan shook his head: "I'm not going back, I'll eat here."
"Then your sister-in-law will bring the food over later, and we'll eat together."
Huo Junshan shook his head again: "No need, Ningning will bring it over in a bit."
He looked at the village entrance and saw the little girl carrying a basket walking this way.
He said with a smile, "Let's all take a break, have some food, and then get back to work!"
"Perfect timing, my husband should be bringing the food soon, let's take a break!"
Others said the same thing.
Huo Junshan settled the old ox in the fodder area and let it eat too.
He quickly walked towards Yun Ningyan.
"Yanyan, are you hot? Give it to me!"
He reached out and took the basket from Yun Ningyan's hand.
Yun Ningyan smiled and said, "Are you hungry? Eat quickly, it's still warm!"
Huo Junshan led her to the base of a large tree.
Huo Junshan went to wash his hands in the river and then came over to eat.
Yun Ningyan took out the bowl and filled it with rice.
I used the little bit left in the lunchbox myself.
Huo Junshan frowned: "You only ate this little bit?"
"I just ate a lot of strawberries at home, so I'm not hungry right now. There are still some left at home, and I'll eat them if I get hungry."
The two began to eat.
The others also began to eat one after another.
Huo Guodong saw Yun Ningyan bringing over the food.
He laughed and said, "I was just saying that I wanted the third brother to eat with me, and then you came over."
Yun Ningyan smiled and said, "Big brother, why don't you come and have some too? I brought a lot."
Huo Guodong waved his hand: "You guys eat, your sister-in-law brought a lot too."
Huo Junshan looked at his lunchbox; it contained only a few pieces of cured meat.
So he simply took the lunchbox and scooped out half a lunchbox of chicken for Huo Guodong.
Huo Guodong initially said no, but Huo Junshan acted quickly and had already put it in his bowl, so he couldn't take it out again.
Seeing that Yun Ningyan didn't react and instead smiled at the two of them, he finally felt relieved.
Although he knew that his third son's wife was a good person, he was still afraid that the two of them would get angry!
The old father said more than once that he should get along well with his third son.
He knew his father's good intentions; the third son was a man capable of great things.
Who knows, they might need the third brother's help in the future?
Huo Guodong tasted a piece of chicken and couldn't help but praise, "Sister-in-law, your cooking is really delicious."
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