Chapter 296 Autumn Harvest 2
Under the scorching sun, the girl waved the whip, shouted at the cows, drove the ox cart, and carried the rice back to the threshing ground.
A group of beautiful girls followed behind the ox cart. They were laughing and sweating, with their sunflower faces held high. They faced the scorching sun and chased after the cowherd at great speed.
The threshing floor was hard. Several girls were as strong as oxen. They threw bags of rice down from the ox cart without any mercy. The rice lay obediently and evenly on the threshing floor, and the whole floor was golden.
Yike, Wuniu and Liuniu stayed behind to dry the millet, while Han Guihua, Daniu, Erniu, Sanniu and Siniu went out to work as porters in the ox cart.
As soon as Yike's family started harvesting rice, the families of Hu Haohan, Li Youcai and Chen Shengli seemed to have received an order and mobilized the entire family to work in the rice fields. But there were only a few of them, and they were all doing their own thing, so the fields lacked a bit of atmosphere.
Li Xiaoying from Li Youcai's family was drying the millet on the threshing floor, Hu Fangfang from Hu Haohan's family was drying the millet, even Hu Lili had gone to the fields to help cut the rice, and Chen Fugui from Chen Shengli's family was drying the millet on the threshing floor.
Chen Fugui is not at all as selfish as his father Chen Shengli. After turning over and drying his own millet, he also helps Hu Fangfang to turn over and dry her millet.
Thousands and thousands of golden grains of millet lie on the ground of the threshing ground. They are like good and honest children, lying there cutely and motionlessly, looking up at the sky.
But these grains of millet are too obedient. Even if their skin is dried up, they will lie there motionless. Unless someone helps them turn over, they will lie there forever.
There were three people in Yike's family drying millet. Although there was a lot of millet, with Yike acting as a containment device, the millet became more obedient under Yike's shadowless feet and could turn over as many times as Yike wanted.
Wuniu and Liuniu looked at Yike's quickly moving figure on the threshing floor, and saw that the grains were scraped into long piles in a short while. Wuniu and Liuniu waved their big brooms, with an attitude of one man blocking the pass from ten thousand. Wherever Yike scraped the ground, even if there was a grain of grain left, it could not escape the sisters' big broom.
The stone dam ground swept clean by the big broom was exposed to the sun. The sun would shine hard on the stone dam whenever it got a chance. "I told you to hide, I told you to hide under the grain. If I don't burn you to pieces, I'm not the sun."
The stone dam was scorching hot. When Wuniu and Liuniu stepped on it, their little feet were burned. "Oh, it's so hot." Then, the two sisters ran back to the warehouse in shame to put on their shoes.
Yike laughed out loud, "Two silly girls, just now he deliberately asked them to go without shoes to try if the floor would burn after being exposed to the sun." And the two silly girls really went without shoes to try it.
"Okay, Yike, you are so bad. You did it on purpose, didn't you?" Wuniu glanced at Yike. She didn't expect Yike to be so bad. Humph, she won't play with her anymore.
Liu Niu pouted and said, "I'm going to tell my cousin's wife that you bullied us."
"No, I didn't know it was so hot. Okay, I'll go and dry the millet. You guys take a rest for a while. It's my compensation for you." After saying this, Yi Ke carried the millet rake and went out to dry the millet.
Wuniu and Liuniu smiled triumphantly.
Yike spread out the millet that had been scraped into a pile again to dry in the sun. The hot ground was sheltered from the sun's magical rays, making Hu Han feel "comfortable." The ground on the other side, which was covered with a pile of millet, was scraped away and swept clean by Yike without mercy.
The sun proudly continued to emit its dazzling magic light, and the surface of the ground was getting hotter and hotter. Just when it was about to give up, Guzi lay down again.
The hot ground on this side was blocked by the grains from the sun's scorching magic light, but the ground on the other side was exposed to the harsh blows of the sun's magic light.
This cycle repeats over and over again. Even the most well-behaved grain will be turned over and over many times to be exposed to the sun all over. The grain is then turned over evenly with a rake back and forth so that it is constantly exposed to the sun.
The scorching sun kept sticking to the grains, but they were not as lucky as the dam, which could occasionally block the sun's poisonous rays from the grains.
Gu Li was forced to lie naked in the sun for three days in a row, and at night he could finally hide in the barn and not have to come out.
Drying millet is really hard work. From 10 a.m. to 3 or 4 p.m. every day is the hottest time of the day, and this period is also the busiest time.
If it were an ordinary child, he would change his position and direction, and scrape, sweep, and rake the millet constantly. With the temperature outside being 40 or 50 degrees, even wearing a hat, it still cannot block the heat from the sun. After a day's work, being sweaty is a small matter. The key is that your skin will first turn red, then burn, and finally peel off. This is what makes drying millet scary.
This year, there is a new member in the threshing ground, and the children who are drying the threshing feel happy. Yi Ke did all the heavy work of scraping the grain. The children were only responsible for sweeping it clean. Yi Ke scraped and dried the grain, and after finishing his own work, he went to help Li Xiaoying, Hu Fangfang and Chen Fugui.
well! She is a little flower cow...
In the end, the threshing floor became like this: Yike was scraping quickly, and the other children were sweeping hard. Now the children did not distinguish between their own group, and they all swept together. Yike also scraped together. After drying the grain, they went to the warehouse together to rest and play, and came out again half an hour later to turn the grain over and dry it again.
Batch after batch of millet was dried, and more and more dry millet was piled up in the warehouse, and the wet millet from the rice fields was also brought back in bags.
"The weather is so good this year, thanks to God's help. The millet has been almost harvested and it hasn't rained yet, although it rained a little in the past few days. Haha, as long as it doesn't rain heavily, it's a good thing." Yi Ke thought boredly.
She half-closed her eyes and looked at the blue sky outside. The leisurely white clouds were stretching comfortably. Clouds not far away also floated over to join in the fun. Then, as if the clouds were suddenly summoned, they all swarmed over and crowded together.
The wind saw it from a distance and came over whirring, making the clouds so angry that their faces turned black. The dark clouds pressed down against the wind, getting lower and lower.
"It's going to rain, it's going to rain!" Yike shouted loudly.
Chen Fugui, Hu Fangfang, Li Xiaoying, Wuniu and Liuniu all ran out of the warehouse and looked at the dark clouds in fear. They were like ants surrounded by fire, running around in panic, or like a group of headless flies flying around.
"Hurry, pile the millet into piles first." Yi Ke gave orders loudly, and the group of headless flies stopped flying around and hurried to do things according to Yi Ke's orders.
One is to use a rake to push the grains from all sides to the center and form piles.
Yike was extremely anxious. The harvested millet must not be exposed to rain. If it was exposed to rain, the quality of the millet would be affected at best, or the millet would sprout and become inedible at worst.
At this moment, he wished he had three heads and six arms so that he could quickly store the grain into the warehouse.
Dark clouds were hanging overhead, the wind was howling, and the adults in the rice fields were rushing back in ox carts. They were driving the ox carts so fast that they were almost catching up with the speed of the minibus.
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