After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole village begins to enter the busy autumn harvest.
It's much quieter here in Su Xia. Thinking back to this time a year ago when I first came here, I could only secretly adapt to the status quo and never dared to go out.
Su Xia is now making lunch at the old house.
Why....
Autumn harvest is the most tiring time of the year, so Chen's mother came early and asked Su Xia to help cook for an afternoon.
This way we can eat directly when we come back, and have more time to rest.
Su Xia was steaming buns helplessly. Before leaving, Mother Chen took out all the food for the afternoon.
Su Xia watched as they steamed buns, stewed a pot of beans, potatoes and pumpkins in the yard, and fried a pot of vegetables.
She thought that the people in the old house were usually nice to her, and she and Niuniu also ate here.
늀 took two eggs from home and cooked a pot of tomato and egg soup.
When it was almost done, everyone from the old house came back together. A group of people smelled the fragrance coming from the kitchen and couldn't wait to wash their hands and faces to prepare for dinner.
Xia Lai Di and Liu Chun Xia quickly washed their hands and came over to help Su Xia set the table. After all, she was Su Xia's sister-in-law, and they felt embarrassed to eat ready-made food.
Mother Chen looked much more satisfied, hum...
The two of them breathed a sigh of relief.
A group of people sat down, looking at the table full of appetizing food, everyone was very excited.
Mother Chen looked at the eggs and looked at Su Xia unhappily.
"Why did you bring the eggs again? How many eggs can your three chickens lay? You might as well keep them for your granddaughter."
Chen's mother served a bowl of soup with lots of eggs, placed it in front of Niu Niu, and also gave her a steamed bun.
Niuniu raised her little face to Chen's mother and said sweetly, "Thank you, grandma!"
Mother Chen was very fond of Niu Niu and touched her hair.
Su Xia felt so embarrassed looking at the little boy who was as fat as a ball.
"Mom, she's so fat that she can't even see her legs when she lowers her head. She can't even see her feet when she eats."
Everyone at the table looked at the round Niuniu and hurriedly lowered their heads to look at their feet. They seemed to have seen it, and breathed a sigh of relief like little kids, and then started eating again with mouthfuls.
Suddenly he burst into laughter.
꺶Ya and her sisters looked at Niu Niu with envy. They also wanted to be favored by their grandparents like Niu Niu.
Mother Chen coaxed Niuniu beside her: "Your mother is talking nonsense, don't listen to her, eat slowly."
Chen Jiandang and his wife, Chen Jianjun and his wife, always knew that Chen's mother favored Niu Niu, so they would give her delicious food from time to time and take her for a stroll around the village when she had free time.
But the few people were not jealous, after all, he was just a child.
Su Xia felt it was an eyesore when she saw the loving look on Chen's mother's face.
I asked Chen's father about the autumn harvest.
"Dad, what's the situation with the fields? Can we get more grain this year?"
Thinking of the rice cobs I broke off in the morning, although they were not particularly big, the rice grains were full, and the yield should be better than before.
Without waiting for Chen's father to answer, the always positive Chen Jianjun answered Su Xia.
"Sister-in-law, you don't know this, but the corns are much heavier this year, and they grow denser and better than last year. Don't worry, there will be more food this year."
Father Chen also added: "It rained twice in the second half of this year, and the fields have been watered continuously.
Well...speaking of this, it’s all thanks to you for digging the well a few meters deeper! ”
Father Chen feels fortunate now when he thinks about it.
Mother Chen looked at the old man with a frown on her face. She didn't know who was so angry that he went home. She kept complaining that it was unnecessary. It was obvious that water had appeared ten meters deep, but why did he have to dig a few more meters?
"snort....
You have to watch out, when the time comes for food, the old man’s family can’t be short of food. ”
Speaking of this, Xia Laidi and Liu Chunxia looked at their sister-in-law with envy, thinking about how she had received a batch of grain and also received money sent by other villages.
땤늀She and a 눁-year-old child ate...
Why....
It turns out that comparing yourself to others will make you angry.
Father Chen was also concerned: "Don't worry, I will always keep an eye on Captain 꺶."
This is related to my daughter-in-law's food ration for a year, so I must take good care of it.
I thought about how ever since several villages started drawing water from my old home, everyone would greet me with compliments when they saw me.
This is also the feeling I had when my father went to the army.
This is also the reason why Chen's mother went to the village to chat more diligently than before. In the past, when she went out, she would be scolded by a bunch of old ladies for not having grandchildren....
Humph - who dares to say now that her daughter-in-law saved the entire village?
As Su Xia listened, she saw that although the faces of several people were very tired, there was more hope in them compared to last year.
Su Xia ate the food in the bowl silently, thinking about when she first arrived in this time and space. Although she encountered famine, her strength was like that of an ant compared to an elephant.
But seeing that everyone around me is fine, I feel more comforted.
Besides, this is the last year of disaster. After next year, the weather will return to normal, and there will be more food and naturally more supply.
After dinner, Su Xia took Niuniu home, and the remaining two siblings cleaned up.
After that, the villagers began to break the rice. Before moving it to the village granary, all the women, regardless of age, would rub the rice grains, trying to get them all out before the grain was delivered.
Captain Zhao was busy like a top. He would run to the rice field to see if anyone was slacking off, and then go to the granary to see if anyone was working seriously.
The wife of the captain of the granary couldn't stand it anymore when she saw her man coming over again.
"Stinky old man, if you have time, why don't you go over and cut the rice stalks?"
A group of older people in the village also joked: "Captain, why are you thinking about your wife?
Yes, the captain didn’t think enough at night, so Bai 꽭 came to watch again? ”
There was also a courageous one: "Captain, if you are strong, take a sickle and cut rice!"
A group of people started laughing "Haha..."!
Ha ha......
Hahaha.....
At this moment, Captain Zhao's tanned face strangely looked red.
He glared at the gossipers, snorted, and ran away indignantly, but his back looked a bit like he was fleeing in despair.
The captain's wife saw the man running away and didn't care.
Seeing that the group of people were still laughing, he then shouted:
"Okay, get to work. When you guys come over to deliver rice later and find out we still have some left, they'll definitely laugh at you."
A courageous woman saw that the captain's wife was not angry, and said in a loud voice: "If the masters dare to laugh at us, we will not be allowed to sleep on the kang at night.
Don’t you agree, sisters? ”
A bunch of people started laughing again...
They all laughed, but everyone unconsciously quickened their pace, they just wanted to eat earlier.
The captain, who had fled here, ran to the rice field and saw his son watching the villagers picking rice. He felt relieved when he saw that there was no chaos at all.
I thought my son was becoming more and more like a captain, and I thought that in two years, I could give this captaincy to my son.
Zhao Xiaolin looked at his father's ugly face when he first came over, and thought something had happened.
But now he seems happy again, with a head full of question marks, wondering what has upset his father.
After twenty years of hard work, all the rice in the village has been stored in the warehouse. There are two more warehouses of rice than last year.
The secretary looked at the captain excitedly and said, "Brother, the villagers won't be hungry this time."
As he spoke, he secretly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
Captain Zhao thought about how he had run himself ragged last year but no emergency food came, causing many families in the village to have no food to eat and had to survive on wild vegetables and weeds.
Looking at the warehouse full of golden rice, I finally feel worthy of my position as captain.
"Okay, we still have to get busy. Find someone to pack the grain that was handed in, and let the accountant stay and start checking the public."
"Only after we send the food down can we sleep peacefully."
The secretary, accountant and villagers who were helping in the back were all excited when they heard about the food, and began to work according to the captain's instructions.
As for Su Xia, she was busy pickling pickles, cucumbers, sour beans, peppers and eggplants every day.
I helped the old man cook in the afternoon, took a nap after dinner, and then started to turn the soil and plant cabbage and radishes as winter storage vegetables.
But people in the village can still eat sweet potatoes, potatoes and cabbage, and they can pickle sauerkraut by themselves.
Cover the planted seedlings with straw. After all, it is October now and it starts to get cold sooner or later.
As for my belly, it slowly started to swell.
Why.....
I can't hide it any longer, really. I feel ashamed and angry when I think about it. No one in the village has been pregnant in the past two years, and this time I'm pregnant. Doesn't this indirectly tell everyone: Chen Jianguo has not been idle for the past few days since he came back?
It’s so infuriating. I really want to beat someone up, but Chen Jianguo is not here.
Niu Niu beside her hurriedly shoveled rice into her mouth. Her mother got angry all the time and kept scolding her father, so she had to run away quickly.
In order to avoid being scolded, I have to talk to grandma and ask dad to come back quickly. I am afraid.
After eating, Niu Niu ran to find her grandma.
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