Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 210 Weeding

The carrots can be picked in two days and made into dried radishes.

The next day.

After finishing his meal, Ji Wenhe took a stroll in the vegetable garden, picked all the long beans he could, and hung them on the fence in the yard to dry.

Then take a basin of wood ash and sprinkle it on the ground, sprinkling less on the vegetable leaves.

The cabbages were not growing well to begin with, and they were being eaten by bugs. I felt so sad.

"I came here early in the morning to spread the wood ash."

Ji Wenhe looked up and said, "Yes, Aunt Zhou. It's cool in the morning and the sun is not very strong. You can go to the field and cut the grass."

Zhou Xiaoyu walked over to her from the ravine, sickle in hand: "The grass in this field must be mowed every month. It won't work if you don't mow it."

"My mother-in-law went there a few days ago, and there was still half of her hair left to be cut. I thought I would go today and let her rest at home."

"Aunt Zhou, you are so hardworking. Every day I see you going to the mountains to find firewood, or going to the fields to cut grass, or looking for wild vegetables to feed the chickens."

"Don't work too hard. Take a break when you have time. Even the strongest body can't stand being turned around."

There is a lazy man in the family, no, there are two. His father-in-law does not help with housework at all except working in the fields.

But her father-in-law is better. Her husband is the one who makes her so angry.

"How can I rest? I can only come to your house to talk when my mother-in-law is busy in the fields."

Zhou Xiaoyu gets angry when talking about this.

"You said I was unlucky. I looked at so many people when I was a girl, but I chose your uncle Zhan Guo."

"If I had known he was so lazy, I would never have married him. I have suffered all these years without any happiness."

Ji Wenhe took two steps back, grabbed a handful of wood ash, and sprinkled it on another cabbage: "If you don't do the housework, I don't believe that Uncle Zhan Guo will really not move."

"You're right, he really doesn't do anything. The dishes are getting moldy and the clothes are getting smelly, but he doesn't touch them."

"Oh, you don't know, he would rather starve than cook."

She had tried this before, just leaving the clothes there and not washing them for him.

But she was not stupid. She went to her mother-in-law and asked her to wash it for her.

If the mother-in-law doesn't work, go find her father-in-law.

As soon as her father-in-law came, she would quarrel with him because he spoiled his son too much.

Anyway, her husband will never change in his life, so she doesn't expect it anymore.

"Okay, you keep busy, I'm going to go cut the grass in the field while it's cool now."

"Hey, Auntie, take care."

Ji Wenhe looked up and glanced at her back. It is said that a diligent mother will most likely have a lazy son.

If there is a diligent wife, there will also be a lazy husband.

If it were her, she wouldn't help him wash his clothes or cook for him.

If he had the guts, he would starve himself to death!

I sprinkled some wood ash on the vegetable field, took the empty basin and went to the river to wash it clean.

Seeing someone in the paddy field, she also went to look around her own field.

On the way back, I met Zheng Liutao by the creek, carrying a basket from the cemetery.

"Aunt Zheng."

"Hey."

She smiled, nodded, then walked past her and stepped onto the wooden bridge.

The aunts said that she didn't like to interact with the villagers and she was rarely seen in the village.

I have been in the village for so long, but the number of times I have met her can be counted on one hand.

He walked to the shed and said to Shen Wenshan, who was weaving a net, "The paddy field is growing grass."

"We also went to the paddy fields last night. My eldest brother said that we should wait and see if it rains in the next two days. If it rains, we can go to the fields to pull weeds. It will be cool."

"I was thinking of going in the morning and evening, when there's no sun and it's quite cool."

Ji Wenhe turned his head and saw someone walking towards him with a cloth bag in his hand. He was here to buy something.

"Wenshan, someone is coming."

She took the basin home, put on her straw hat, carried her empty basket, and prepared to go weed the field.

Bring back the weeds you pulled out and see if the chickens will eat them.

"Oh, Rongshan's wife comes to weed the fields so early."

"Your land is small, so you can weed the land in one morning. It's not like ours, where we have to work for several days."

Ji Wenhe straightened up and looked at the person walking over from the ridge of the field. For a moment, she was a little confused. Was she saying this to show off how much land her family had?

"Auntie Qin, you should also come and weed the fields. Your family has a lot of land, so it's really hard, but the harvest is good."

Qin Hehua bared her teeth and said, "The harvest from the three plots of land next to yours isn't that good. It's not as good as the plots of land over there. The harvest there is better."

"..."

Looking carefully at her expression, it didn't seem like she was doing it on purpose, as she was looking at the seedlings in the field seriously.

"Okay, go ahead and do your work. I just came over to take a look. The paddy fields here are not good. The rice seedlings are not growing well."

She walked and shook her head while speaking, and Ji Wenhe looked up at the sky in silence.

This lady...seems...not very good at speaking.

I pulled weeds in the field for a while, then the sun came out and it became very hot.

Walk slowly along the ridge of the field and wash your feet by the river.

Put on hemp shoes and go back from the foot of the mountain.

"Sister-in-law, where have you been?" Shen Suya sat under the shed with silk thread in her hand.

"Going to weed the fields. It's going to be too hot."

Shen Wenshan raised his head: "Sister-in-law, didn't you say we were going?"

Ji Wenhe waved his hand: "I won't go next time." His waist ached from being tired.

Sitting on a small stool, he took off his hat and fanned himself: "Xiaoya, how much can you make from knitting in a month?"

"It's less than a hundred coins. The thread is hard to make and I can't make any mistakes. My mother isn't very good at it, so I didn't ask her to help me."

"Unlike my sister-in-law, with their help, she can earn a hundred coins a month just by making silk."

Indeed, without their help, she wouldn't earn more than a hundred coins a month.

When they came back in the evening and had not eaten or had dinner, as long as it was still light, they would move their benches and sit in the yard to make knitting nets, even on rainy days.

Including her, there are four of us.

Ji Wenhe put down his hat and took the red rope from the basket.

"The more you knit, the more money you can make. The old men in our village have nothing to do but stay at home, wandering around here and there. It would be better for them to learn knitting."

Shen Suya pouted: "They said this was done by women."

"Tsk, they don't have anyone to help them. It won't kill them to earn some pocket money."

It's what women do.

People here are very patriarchal and believe that women can do things that men cannot.

But I feel that most of it has to do with women. If they don’t do it well the first time, they are not allowed to do it.

They were not allowed to enter the kitchen, saying that the food was not cooked well or was not fully cooked.

If you can't do it well, try it a few more times. Everyone is born with the ability to do it.

While making a net, Ji Wenhe looked towards the wasteland and said, "Xiaoya, have your chickens laid eggs?"

"No, my mother went to check every morning and evening, and there was not a single egg."

Sometimes she would go to see it, go happily and leave disappointed.

"My family didn't lay any eggs either. I don't know if it's because they're not eating well."

"My sister-in-law's chickens are bigger than ours. I think they'll start laying eggs in a few days."