Chapter 325 A bumper rice harvest
"Hurry! Aying, harvest yours first today!" Yang Dalang, Yang Erlang and a group of people shouted in the field.
"Thank you all uncles for your support!" The women and children of Su Ying's family brought mung bean soup and white flour buns to the field.
The road to Jinfengzhai was completed, and the rice in the fields was ripe. The villagers came spontaneously to help the Su family harvest.
Su Ying got up early and prepared a lot of food.
Eight threshers were carried to the fields, and eight groups of men each worked on two acres of land. The remaining threshers helped to be carried to the yard to dry in the sun.
The golden rice ears are heavy, plump and round.
When you step on the pedal, rice grains in the bucket fall out with a rustling sound, and the sound is pleasant and melodious.
The ridges of the fields were full of people, looking at the rice ears and guessing what the yield per mu would be.
Just like wheat, every acre is weighed, but the moisture content is the final weight after it is dried.
The rice seedlings were all grown uniformly in the Su family's paddy fields. They were forced to bloom when the flowers bloomed. The rice ears in every household were full and numerous, and the yield was estimated to be similar.
It’s no wonder that this rice season is a bumper harvest. It’s the first such harvest in twenty years, and everyone’s face is beaming with joy.
With such high-yield rice for two seasons a year, plus winter wheat and beans, we can have white rice and white flour buns for every meal in the future!
In fact, every household in Huanggou Village now has savings and can be considered a small wealthy person, but they still feel uneasy because their granaries are not full.
Only when the granary is full will you feel at ease, and when you have food in your hands, you will not be panicked!
There is strength in numbers. By noon, half of the harvest had been completed. Everyone stopped to rest, drink mung bean soup, eat white flour buns, and chat about the follow-up arrangements.
The harvest can be completed today, the land will be plowed tomorrow, some green manure will be applied, and the land will be dried for two or three days before the next season of seedling cultivation can begin.
There were no male members in the Su family. After Su Laoer arranged the road construction in Wuxian and Tongxian counties, handed over the work to the manager from the Ministry of Works, and arranged for Yang Dalang and Yang Erlang to connect, he took his men to Dayuling to survey the terrain.
I didn't wait for a reply from Chang'an. Since I had decided to do it, I made full preparations.
The county government is also the busiest during the busy farming season. Su Boyan followed County Magistrate Hu, and Su Shiyan, Su Chenyan, and Su Quanyan followed County Magistrate Lin in Tong County. They all started working around the clock and could not come back at all.
The villagers came voluntarily to help with the harvest. Su Ying found a way to send her own children to study abroad for free. At this time, the men in every family had their work arranged.
Later, he was responsible for the construction of official roads in Wuxian and Tongxian counties.
The few men who stayed at home were also managers of the oil press and vermicelli factory, and they all had to receive wages.
Not to mention the women, as sericulture, silk reeling and weaving are divided into three parts, each with their own duties, and their work is not in vain!
Even the children who raise silkworms and harvest honey can earn work points and calculate their income.
The people in Huanggou Village felt that the ground was full of gold and they could never pick it all up.
The newly joined Zhou and Song families have earned a lot of money in the past month and bought a lot of food, so they don’t have to count every meal.
Without Su Ying's call, everyone came to help spontaneously.
"Aying, what do you want to eat for lunch?" Wang Sanlang joked.
"We bought a sheep and have stewed it. Everyone can eat as much as they want at noon!" Su Ying said with a smile.
"Aying, aren't you losing money? How much does a sheep cost?" Pei Sanlang joked.
Although everyone is not short of money and it is no problem to eat meat every now and then, it is still too extravagant to buy a fat sheep to entertain everyone at one time.
"Please don't feel bad about eating! Besides, you uncles have worked so hard for so long building the road, you deserve to eat something good!" Su Ying said happily.
"I'm a ninth-rank Jinzuo steward, I have a salary, I can afford it!"
"See, it's different with a salary! Rich and powerful!" Pei Sanlang laughed, "Then I must eat more today! Eat the rich man!"
"Yes! Eat the rich man!" Everyone laughed.
Fulu and Fuxi drank mung bean soup, hid in the shade, and looked around with a smile. This place was truly a paradise.
Although it’s a busy place and everyone is hardworking, it’s also really laid back and every household is friendly.
Life here is so beautiful. Every family has soybean oil and honey, and even every family gets a share of the newly produced vermicelli.
The silvery white vermicelli is so delicious. The sauerkraut vermicelli soup, the cold-mixed shredded vegetables, and the vermicelli fried with meat are all dishes you can’t find in Beijing.
Su Ying, their immediate superior, was easy to get along with and didn't hide anything. Not only did she take them to harvest honey, learn to press oil, and make vermicelli, she also took them to watch cement being made and roads being built.
They were even taught how to raise colored silkworms. When they learned that the breeding principles of colored silkworms were so simple, they were stunned.
After only a month here, I not only gained weight, but also gained a lot of knowledge. Being taken flying by Su Ying, it felt like a thousand years had passed.
The two people who didn't like to laugh much now smiled like Maitreya Buddha, with kind eyes.
"Sister!" Chunbao was holding something in his hand and happily ran towards Su Ying to present it. Every time, his sister would give him delicious food.
"What did Chunbao hold?" Su Ying took it. It was a small fish. "Oh, there are fish in the paddy field?"
"Yes, quite a lot! Just a little smaller!" Zhou Wulang followed behind, his face red from the sun.
This kind of small fish is very strange. Although you can't see the fish species, as long as it is grown in a paddy field, many of them will appear inexplicably. They can't grow big and are at most the size of two fingers.
"Drink the mung bean soup quickly!" Su Ying scooped a large bowl and handed over a big white steamed bun.
Zhou Liulang followed his brother silently and waited, and Su Ying did not fall behind.
"Okay, this is our Chunbao's! Chunbao is really capable today!" Su Ying gave Chunbao a big steamed bun and poured a bowl of mung bean soup to feed him.
The mung bean soup was made with brown sugar, which was fragrant, sweet and thirst-quenching. Chunbao drank it up in big gulps.
"Uncles and aunts, there are many small fish in the paddy fields. After we finish harvesting the rice, we can catch small fish, loaches, and eels and make delicious food tonight!" Su Ying suggested.
"That thing has no meat and it's very fishy. How do we eat it?" The men couldn't figure out how to get rid of the fishy smell.
"Fried! I guarantee you'll like it after eating it tonight!" Su Ying said with a smile.
"Great! We can catch a lot from these ten acres of land! We'll have a treat tonight!" When they heard there was something delicious to eat, everyone worked harder.
They all said, "If it tastes good, then we have plenty in our paddy fields, and we can fry them all and eat them!"
At the end of the Wei hour, all the rice of the Su family was harvested and dried in the yard and on the roadside.
All the men in the paddy fields started catching fish. "Quick, here's one!" "Here, catch it!"
Catching fish at this moment is more like an entertainment activity. Chasing small fishes around in the paddy fields, the water soon becomes muddy.
Someone smart enough used a dustpan to catch them, and soon two or three small fish jumped in the dustpan.
The two brothers Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang followed the ditch leading down from the pond and pulled out a lot of loaches from the grass.
Loaches are very clever. They hide under the grass beside the ditch and you won’t notice them if you’re not paying attention.
We caught two and a half large buckets of small fish, half a small bucket of loaches, and a few eels.
Xiaotao and Atang took advantage of their mother and sister not paying attention, took off their shoes and socks and went to the fields to catch fish, getting covered in mud.
Looking at the twisting eel, Xiao Tao was frightened and thought it was a snake. The children in Chang'an City had never seen one, which made everyone laugh.
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