Since we knew in advance when they would be back, we had already prepared many dishes downstairs, waiting for them to come back and sit down to eat.
After all, they have been away for such a long time, and everyone at home is worried that they don’t have enough to eat or drink outside. Now that they have some time, they have to make sure they have good nourishment.
Big Brother Xia is okay, he hasn't sung many songs in Beijing, but Second Brother Xia is not so good, he is visibly thinner than before.
Aunt Xia cooked a table full of dishes. After everyone finished eating, Brother Xia and the others were rushed back to the house to rest. After all, they had been traveling for several days and they had not eaten or slept well on the road, so they had to have a good rest when they got home.
After Xia Jin and the others helped to clear the table, they all returned to their rooms. When they got up after resting in the afternoon, they were no longer at home that day. They had gone to the threshing ground to check on their own wheat.
Father Xia had mentioned the injured family member who cared about them before. When they heard that they were going to use a harvester to harvest the wheat, they were very happy. If Father Xia had not told them that the wheat needed to be left for two days to dry, they might have come to harvest it for them that day.
He looked as if he was afraid that the whole family would run away. Actually, he was right. He was just afraid that they would run away.
After all, he had bought the harvester more than ten days ago, and all the necessary information had been released. This was the first company to come to him to harvest wheat.
He has to seize the opportunity well. He spent so much money on this harvester, and he doesn't want to wait until the end when he can't make any profit and then lose money.
He had previously thought that if he bought a harvester, everyone would come to him to harvest wheat and then have to line up. He never expected this scene to happen.
Not to mention queuing, he waited for several days and no one came. Today, someone finally came, and he had to win him over.
I originally planned to go to each village one by one, finishing the harvest in one village first, and then go to other villages. I would not go alone to look for it, but now it seems that having someone to look for it is good enough.
How could he be picky? After confirming the location and time of the Xia family again and again, he arrived early on that day.
It looked real, as if he was afraid that their family would run away. When it was time to finish shifting their work, he sat on the edge of the field and cried to Grandpa Xia and others, saying that there was no business.
Ask those who know him and need a harvester to recommend him.
While they were harvesting, Xia Jin also stood at the edge of the field to watch, thinking that although it was the first time for them to use a harvester to harvest wheat for others, their skills seemed pretty good.
When operating the harvester, the wheat ears fall in a straight line, and there are very few of them. The operator also looks neat and tidy.
If she didn't know that this was his first year doing this job, no one would have guessed that he was a newbie. She would have loved to recommend some clients to him, but unfortunately she didn't have any.
He may have the technology and the intention, but he misjudged the market.
These days, everyone can barely eat their fill, and it hasn't been a few years yet. Who would spend a lot of money to hire a harvester to cut the crops?
Moreover, it is not popular for a family with many branches to split up now. In a family, there are five or six young laborers, not to mention the elderly and children.
If people work hard, they can harvest all the wheat in the field in five or six days. Why waste so much money?
Moreover, most of the money in the village is in the hands of the elderly. They have saved every penny since that era and would like to spend it every penny. It is impossible to ask them to spend money to hire people to harvest wheat.
The younger generation may feel that it is not worth spending the money, but they are not in charge of the family and can only listen to the opinions of their elders. So it is conceivable that he will be out of work.
This is because their family is small, and with the addition of his two older brothers, there are only four of them harvesting a few acres of wheat. It does take some time, and it is very tiring to rush to harvest.
That's why Grandpa Xia and the others agreed to use the harvester. Another person who also went down the well threatened Grandpa Xia, fearing that he would be sick from exhaustion.
In this way, the news about their ancient harvester spread, and many old grandfathers and grandmothers in their eighties and nineties stood at the entrance of the village and said that their family had lost the ancient harvester.
They said that their family members went to the city for a few days, and they really thought they were city people. They used machines to do things that could be done with their hands, which was a waste of money.
They said they were overthinking it, using machines to help with such a small task. In short, they felt that their family should not use machines to harvest wheat, but should use manual labor instead.
They didn't have any bad intentions, they just felt their family had overspent. They'd only just been able to eat enough for a few years, and yet they were being so extravagant, and they were afraid their family would return to their previous state.
There were also some villagers standing at the edge of the field watching the harvesters cutting the wheat, and they were talking about it, all of which was about how much money their families had.
Then how much money do you need to earn in a year to afford this harvester? Some people seem tempted on the surface, but after asking the price, they decide not to use it.
After all, the price of the harvester plus the price of diesel is enough for their family to eat several meals of meat. Why wouldn't they use this thing?
Everyone in my family is very strong, so let them do the cutting themselves. When they get tired, buy them some meat to replenish their energy. It’s cheaper than this stuff.
However, they stood at the edge of the field, watching the harvester harvest such a large area of land in a very short time, and thought to themselves that this thing was really fast.
They had seen it before when the collective was in power, but only a few times in two years, because every time there was no queue in their village, so they had to use manpower to harvest.
So even though they knew about this thing, they had seen it relatively few times, and they were also afraid that it would be damaged after they borrowed it, so it was rarely borrowed in their village.
So they are still curious about this thing, and they don't dare to touch it easily because it is so expensive.
Looking at the big machine rumbling in the field and harvesting so much wheat in a short time, they felt envious. After all, it could be harvested so quickly, so they didn't have to stand in the hot sun like them and go to the fields to harvest wheat.
Reaping wheat is not an easy job. First of all, you have to bend your waist all the time. Every night when you get home, your waist feels like it's broken. Also, the weather is too hot and you sweat constantly. The wheat stubble is very prickly on your body.
So if they were given a choice, many young people would rather go and carry bricks than go home and harvest wheat. After all, this is really too uncomfortable.
But they had no choice but to choose a young man who was not in charge of the family. He didn't know how expensive food and daily necessities were, so of course he wanted to use it and even asked his elders for help. But no one listened to him and he was even scolded.
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