After harvesting the corn, a small number of people will plant peanuts, and most people will harvest rice.
Deng Qingling followed the old man and was responsible for guarding the threshing ground to prevent birds from stealing the rice. They turned the rice over from time to time. The younger children could pick up the fallen rice or cut grass to feed the cows.
The main labor force gets up to work at around five in the morning.
I get up early in the morning to work, eat in the fields at noon, and then continue working until dark. It is eight or nine o'clock before I can have dinner.
In the summer, it doesn’t get dark until around seven or eight in the evening, so having dinner at eight or nine is no joke.
Women who have housework to do can delay or finish work an hour earlier.
Although there was a lot of food and meat in her space, everyone ate in the fields, so she didn't dare to cook too good a meal.
Normally, people are reluctant to eat well. The summer harvest is the most tiring time. It is not so tiring when there is plenty of oil and water. If you work hard all day long and don’t have enough to eat or oil and water, you will really be exhausted.
At noon, Deng Qingling fried eggs, stir-fried beans with shredded pork, and corn and multi-grain rice, put them in a basket, covered it, and went to deliver the meal to them.
Since they worked long hours in the afternoon, Deng Qingling would cook a few eggs for them so that they could fill their stomachs if they were hungry.
After harvesting the rice, soybeans and sweet potatoes are planted.
During the summer harvest, the thing we fear most is rain when we are drying the crops.
It looked like the weather was fine, but it started raining shortly after we started drying them. The sun was shining brightly just after we put them away, and it started raining again after we started drying them again. This happened several times a day, and everyone had to watch over them all day. They had to watch over them, because if they got wet, how could they pay their taxes?
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