Seeing Gu Yanzhang standing motionless beside the bed, Chen Xuanxuan urged him, "What are you still standing there for?"

"Go quickly. There's still some salt in the jar! By the way, when you marinate the meat, don't put too much salt! Salt is very expensive! It's more expensive than the salt you've eaten before. Just scoop two spoonfuls of salt into the bowl. Don't put too much!"

Gu Yanzhang listened, responded in a low voice, and then hurriedly took the few pounds of meat and marinated it.

When he came back, he also boiled some extra hot water and took a bath.

Gu Yanzhang went back to his room to talk to his wife, but at this time he saw that his wife was actually asleep.

As for the box of snacks, ... except for a few pieces of oil paper and the wooden box thrown on the table beside, there was nothing left.

Gu Yanzhang patted his face lightly, took a breath, and went to bed.

After a dreamless night, when he got up the next day, Gu Yanzhang found that his wife was still sleeping soundly.

In the hot summer, the temperature in the mountain is still a little low after nightfall.

Chen Xuanxuan's body is not as good as Gu Yanzhang's. In this hot summer, she must cover herself with a thin quilt when she sleeps at night. Otherwise, she can't sleep. She doesn't feel safe.

Moreover, her life is getting more and more sluggish now. Sometimes she can't get up at eight or nine o'clock in the morning. As long as Gu Yanzhang and the others are not there, she can even sleep until one or two o'clock in the afternoon.

Yesterday afternoon, Chen Xuanxuan accidentally broke her own sleep record. She slept until four o'clock in the afternoon before getting up to cook.

With only one meal a day, her mother-in-law, Mrs. Yu, was quite satisfied. She was just dissatisfied that she didn't do farm work or anything else every day. But thinking about this family, she still had to rely on her daughter-in-law's family on weekdays, so she didn't dare to say anything to her directly. She didn't scold her for being lazy and gluttonous in front of the children.

After all, she had long understood that her daughter-in-law had a very bad temper! She would lose her temper at the slightest disagreement, and if she was not satisfied with a few words, she would not take out food or cook, leaving the whole family with nothing to eat. It was

difficult for Mrs. Yu to say anything to her, and it was even more difficult for Gu Yanzhang to say anything to her.

Because the kimchi, pickled vegetables, tofu and bean curd skin in this house are all made by his wife alone. She must have been very tired recently. Otherwise, she wouldn't be like this.

Thinking of this, Gu Yanzhang raised his hand and gently pinched the quilt for Chen Xuanxuan, so that she could sleep more soundly. Then he got out of bed quietly and walked out of the room quietly.

After he walked out of the room, he saw his mother calling him, "Brother Yan, are you up?"

"Your wife made breakfast for us early in the morning. This pot of porridge has been rotten for a long time. Come on, we have to eat quickly. Then our whole family will dig a cellar in the stove room. Your wife said that we will have to harvest wheat and cut sorghum in a few days. If there is too much grain at home, we have to build a cellar to store it. Otherwise, we can't move around here..." Yu

said this with a smile on her face.

As long as she thought that she would be able to see with her own eyes the scene of her own granary full of grain this year, she would be very happy.

What do farmers like them hope for most at the end of the year?

Isn't it just thinking about having three meals a day, being full every time, and then having a good life without worrying about food and clothing for the rest of your life?

Thinking of this, Yu smiled and handed over the bowl of porridge in her hand.

Seeing the full bowl of porridge in his hand, Gu Yanzhang couldn't help but said, "This porridge is really thick. I wonder if my wife has eaten it..."

"She has. Your wife ate before going to bed this morning. She often does this."

Gu Yanzhang listened and nodded gently. After he picked up a few chopsticks of various pickled vegetables, he began to drink the porridge in big mouthfuls. After

drinking a whole bowl of porridge, he filled a second bowl like his children.

Gu Yanzhang and his friends reluctantly stopped eating until the porridge in the pot was scraped clean.

This porridge... is really delicious.

Noticing that his sons were eating with gusto and were still sipping it, Gu Yanzhang urged them, "Hurry up, boys!"

"After eating, wash your own bowls. Don't think about asking your grandmother or your mother to do it. Last time, your mother got angry because you didn't wash the dishes."

Gu Dazhu and his friends heard it and quickly licked the bowls clean. Then, they used the water they washed their faces to wash the bowls.

...

After breakfast, the Gu family began to dig the cellar.

Gu Yu'an had dug cellars several times before. He knew how to do it.

Therefore, under his guidance, the Gu family only took seven days to dig their cellar.

The cellar was big and deep.

After Gu Yu'an threw some matches in it and burned them for three days and three nights, he told Chen Xuanxuan about it, "Daughter-in-law, our cellar has been dug. When our family harvests wheat and sorghum, this cellar will come in handy." Chen

Xuanxuan was very happy to know that the cellar had been dug.

"Now that we have a cellar, we can store more food. By the way, while it's still hot in summer, we have to quickly clean up the roofs of these two old houses."

"The thatched roofs and other things need to be replaced. Otherwise, when autumn and winter come, our family will have no way to clean up."

As the saying goes, every autumn rain brings a chill.

The rain in autumn is often heavy. The rain hurts when it hits people.

If the roof leaks, the people sleeping in their house will suffer.

Gu Yanzhang and his friends also knew the seriousness of the matter. After nodding, they began to prepare for the upcoming harvest day.

Harvesting wheat and cutting sorghum depend on the weather.

They dared to do this only when the weather was hot and the sun was high outside.

Otherwise, if they collected the grain when it was cloudy and rainy, the grain that was not dried would sprout or become moldy and infested with insects.

The weather was very good in recent days. There was no wind and no rain.

Noticing that the people in Chenjia Village and Gujiagang were all collecting grain in the past few days, Gu Yanzhang also took his parents and his four sons and went straight to his two acres of wheat field.

It took a whole day to harvest all the wheat in the wheat field.

They put the harvested wheat directly in the open space in front of the house to dry. They

dried it vigorously during the day and hurried to harvest it at night.

It took another five days to harvest all the sorghum in the sorghum field. Then Gu Yanzhang and his team began to prepare to thresh the grain...

Farming is not an easy job.

Harvesting grain is also not easy and worry-free.