In the next few days, Xia Manni and the others put the rice grains drying in the yard into winnowing baskets one by one to winnow out the impurities.
This job was only for Xia Manni, so she didn't have to do any housework anymore. She became a tool to pick up impurities.
It took two days just to remove the impurities from these rice grains.
Then they used the rice huller, grinding the rice grains back and forth to remove the husks. This was quite physically demanding, and even Xia Manni could only keep up for an hour.
So the five members of the Xia family began to take turns grinding.
This work took them another three days, and the last task was to pound the rice.
Pounding rice is also an extremely delicate job. Although all five people can do it, there are only two rice pounding containers at home, so it took another five days.
The last step is to remove the impurities in the rice. They have a fan car at home, but it doesn’t work very well.
So the five of them worked half by hand and half using a fan cart, and it took them five days to pack all the rice into bags.
It took the five members of the Xia family a total of eighteen days to complete all the rice processing work, and they filled more than a dozen sacks just to pack the rice.
They ate half a bag of mixed noodles at home. In order to make everyone work well, Xia Manni specifically instructed them to eat well and have enough food while working.
Xia Manni even bought a lot of rat poison and spread it around the rice pile. She would occasionally have a few children come over to clean up, as this was the annual food supply for the five members of the Xia family, and nothing could be lost.
Who knew that you could release the mice, but you couldn't prevent people with bad intentions.
This day was the seventh day since their family finished their farm work. Not only their family, but most of the families in the village had also finished their farm work.
It is now the end of late autumn and the beginning of winter is just a few days away.
The five members of the Xia family have not been idle these days, but have been constantly going up the mountain to look for various mountain products.
They collect mushrooms, walnuts, chestnuts and hazelnuts and take them home to dry in the sun.
Xia Manni promised Sanwa that once she had accumulated a certain amount of fish, she would take it to the market to sell.
That night, everything was just like usual. After dinner, everyone was busy with their work for a while.
The eldest son took the third son to collect mountain products and bring them into the house. They would collect them every night and hang them out to dry the next day.
Erwa was using a machete to carve a wooden stick. Having been going up the mountain for the past few days, Xiaman found that having a thick wooden stick was quite convenient.
So Erwa cut wooden sticks for everyone every day. Today he cut one for Sinier, and the others had already cut theirs and were ready for use.
Si Nier continued fiddling with her bamboo baskets, while Xia Manni went to look around the granary. This was Xia Manni's daily habit; the first thing she did when she went to bed and woke up was to check on the granary.
"Okay, kids, it's time to go to bed." Xia Manni urged the children to finish the work in their hands and told them to wash up and go to bed.
Even the local dog was driven into the doghouse it had brought with it.
I don’t know when it started, but no one let the local dogs go out anymore. They would give them some wild vegetables from time to time, but they were reluctant to give them food.
Not only Xia Manni, but even the eldest and second child did not say anything about this matter.
Late at night, three figures quietly came to Xia Manni's yard.
"Woof woof woof woof..." Unexpectedly, as soon as they climbed over the wall, they heard a dog barking wildly. Several people were in a panic and one of them was even bitten on the trouser leg by the dog.
Xia Manni and others in the room got up quickly. Since the rice was harvested, Xia Manni would remind them every day not to sleep too deeply at night and to get up quickly when they heard any sound.
Xia Manni took a machete, several children took sharpened sticks, and Erwa even took a kitchen knife.
As Xia Manni walked out, she said, "Big boy, quickly knock on the basin."
Since there are thieves targeting their house, she must find a way to hand them over to the village chief.
She held the lit oil lamp in her hand and put it forward when she reached the yard.
Haha, it turns out we are acquaintances.
At this time, the sound of Da Wa knocking on the basin became particularly harsh in the quiet night, and many people heard it and rushed over.
"Still want to run?" Xia Manni grabbed a woman who was trying to run and put a machete on her neck.
When someone came over with a torch, the Xia family courtyard was suddenly brightly lit.
"Mother Da Wa, what happened in your family?" Village Chief Zhao heard his loud voice asking before he even entered the yard.
He knew Da Wa's mother's temper and personality, and she would never do such a noisy business unless there was something necessary.
He guessed that their house must have been robbed. Every year, people came to their village to steal food, and sometimes it was even the hooligans in the village who stole it.
He saw that the Xia family's grain harvest this year was pretty good, at least enough for their family of five to eat until next year.
How could someone covet such a small amount of food?
This thief is really blind. He probably doesn't know that there is a Xia Manni in the Xia family who can chop people.
But when he entered the yard, he finally understood why the villagers were so silent.
It turned out that there were three people standing in the middle of the yard, one man and two women.
The man had his trouser leg bitten by the Xia family's puppy, a woman had a machete held against her neck by Xia Manni, and another woman was stopped by four kids with sticks.
Wow, he said which thief is so blind, what's the point of stealing such a small amount of food? Look, he didn't succeed in stealing and ended up with such an ugly ending.
"Now that you're here, village chief, you have to take charge of us. We don't know what bad luck has befallen us. Even the little food we have at home has been targeted by thieves. We really don't know what to do."
She looked at the neighbors who had come over with a look of resentment, and then said, "I was mainly worried that the thieves today would go to our neighbors after stealing my house, so I dared to wake everyone up."
"Mother Da Wa, you did the right thing. The thieves came out a little earlier this year. If someone didn't know, they would think our Shi Zai Village was easy to bully."
"That's right, sister Mannie, you did the right thing."
"Yes, tonight we will give a warning to the thieves who have been targeting our village for ten years."
The surrounding villagers are also quite nervous at this time of year.
They were also worried that their own homes would be robbed. Seeing that the Xia family, which had the least food stored, was the first to be robbed, they all thought that their family would be the next one to be robbed, so they followed suit and denounced the incident.
"You damn thieves, why don't you raise your heads? You dare to do it but not take responsibility for it. You are worse than dogs." The uncles on the side continued to curse.
The village chief walked up to the man at this time, and only when the torch shone over him could he see the man clearly.
Although this person looked familiar, he had never seen him before.
"That's not right. Isn't the village chief showing off her man?" An aunt nearby also looked over and found that the man was the son-in-law of the Xia family.
This is the big show man, who are those two people?
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