Spring scenery in the fields

Chapter 241 Zhu Danian Helps

Having a lot of land has its advantages. You can sell the crops for a lot of money, but planting them is also very tiring.

Ji Wenhe piled the rice up and said, "Uncle Danian, let's go home and have dinner."

Shen Rongshan, who followed him, said helplessly: "Master, didn't I tell you not to do it? You can just rest on the side."

Zhu Danian glanced at him and said, "How can this little bit of work tire me out?"

She smiled and said, "Okay, let's go home and have dinner, and then take a rest."

Shen Wenshan was the first to go home, wash his hands, open the lid of the pot and serve the rice.

"Rongshan, I estimate that you can harvest more than 100 kilograms from your seven mu of land."

Shen Rongshan nodded: "We should be able to collect more than 100 kilograms, not less than 100 kilograms."

"Your family now raises chickens, ducks and geese, and you throw the chicken manure into the fields. If you raise them well, good land will be created by the chickens."

Ji Wenhe took over the conversation: "I'm planning on it. After the wheat is planted, come and have a meal after some time."

There is still too little chicken fat, but we already have so many chickens at home and don’t want to raise more. In the winter, feeding them will be a problem.

After dinner, the two sat under the shed to rest.

"I heard that your family bought a donkey cart." Zhu Danian was a little curious. "You told me a while ago that you didn't have enough money. Did you go back to the mountains?"

Shen Rongshan thought about it and decided not to tell him the truth, because he had not asked Ji Wenhe if he could tell his master.

"We can buy a donkey cart with all the money we have. Master, we told the villagers that we don't have much money and asked you to borrow money. Please don't let it slip."

"I know what you mean. Don't worry, they can't get anything out of me. I don't want to talk to those gossipers."

He loves to ask questions all day long. It's fine if he just asks, but he tells one person to tell two people, two to tell three people, and the more he tells, the more outrageous it becomes.

Zhu Danian patted his legs and stood up: "Let's go, get busy, take advantage of the good weather these two days and finish the work quickly."

It would be bad if it rained.

Shen Rongshan picked up the sickle and shouted into the house: "Wen He, we are going to the fields."

The person in the inner room replied: "Got it, I'll be there right away."

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, seven fen of land was harvested.

Ji Wenhe walked up to him holding a water pitcher and said, "I don't know when Yuanshan will be back. I think I'll go to Uncle Sanbao's house and borrow a donkey cart to plow the land. I'll give him two cents and plow the land today. If it's early, we can plant wheat today."

Shen Wenshan bent down and picked up the rice: "Brother, you go to Zhaojia Village to borrow some, I will go back to thresh the rice."

"Okay, go ahead and let Master go home and rest. Stop working."

He has been helping since he finished his meal.

Shen Rongshan handed her the sickle and asked, "Do you have any money with you?"

She shook her head: "No, tell Uncle Sanbao and give him the money when you return it."

"Okay, then I'll go."

"Ah."

Ji Wenhe took the remaining rice back.

Walking across the wooden bridge, I ran into He Yuxiang's mother-in-law, Ma Shuangping, who was holding a pottery jar in her arms.

Judging from his appearance, he was a handsome person when he was young, but due to his poor health, he seldom wandered around the village.

"Wen He, your family has harvested all the rice."

"Yes, Aunt Ma, our family only has seven acres of land, come quickly."

She nodded and smiled: "Go back and get busy. I still have work to do at home."

"Hey."

I heard from Shen Rongshan that his family owns five acres of land.

Except for Shen Zhong's family, they have the most land. Wang Erfeng's family and Zhou Xiaoyu's family have four acres of land. Other families have three acres, Shen Ping's family has two acres, and their family has the least, with only seven mu of land.

After threshing, the rice needs to be dried and then packed into sacks. If you want to keep it for yourself, you need to take it to someone who has a wooden or earthen rice husk to remove the husk.

She hadn't seen what it looked like yet, so she would go with him to take a look in a couple of days.

Shen Rongshan went to Zhaojia Village and borrowed a donkey cart, a curved plow and a harrow.

Ji Wenhe stood at the edge of the field and watched him harness the plow to the donkey.

She had seen a plow before. When she was a child, she lived in the countryside and saw people using it.

The one next to it is a bit like a rake, with sharp serrations at the bottom and handrails on top.

"Brother Shen, I forgot what this is called?"

"A hoe."

"Oh~"

He went on to say, "The plowed land is not flat and has large clods of soil. The harrow can break up the clods and make the field smooth."

Shen Rongshan whipped the donkey and the donkey began to move forward slowly.

Ji Wenhe looked at the plowed land. There were indeed many clods of soil. If it was not leveled, it would be impossible to plant wheat.

After looking for a while, he turned back.

The threshed rice is placed in the sun to dry next to the shed. It is sieved through a sieve to filter out the dirt.

If you keep it for your own consumption, you have to make it cleaner. If you sell it, people won't make it so clean, leaving dirt and pebbles in it to increase its weight.

However, this cannot be done often. If you do it too much, people will no longer come to the village to harvest rice.

Ji Wenhe put down his sleeves, otherwise the rice would make his arms itchy. "Wenshan, you go take a rest. I'll do it. You'll take over later."

Shen Wenshan put down the rice in his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve: "Sister-in-law, is my brother back?"

"I'm plowing the fields. Go back and have some water and rest."

"Yeah." He nodded, picked up the pottery jar next to him, poured a bowl of water, and drank it all in one breath.

After sitting at the foot of the mountain and resting for a while, I saw Shen Yuanshan coming back driving a donkey cart.

"Sister-in-law, we didn't sell much noodles today. Everyone is busy working in the fields."

We fed the donkey on the way, so we came back a little late.

"Everyone is busy these two days, so we'll sell as much as we can."

He tied the rope to the tree and rolled up his sleeves: “Sister-in-law, come here.”

Ji Wenhe looked back and said, "You move the goods to Aunt Lan's house first. I think someone will come to borrow our donkey cart to transport rice later."

It's very troublesome to carry the baby back and forth.

When the villagers saw him coming back, they had to lend him money. If they didn't, it would easily put a strain on their relationship.

Sure enough, after a while, He Yuxiang and Qin Hehua came running over together.

The two men ran faster than each other.

He Yuxiang waved at Shen Yuanshan from a distance and shouted, "Yuanshan, can you lend me your donkey cart to transport rice?"

Qin Hehua was not to be outdone and shouted along.

"Yuanshan, I was the one who asked first. Please lend it to me for household use first." She looked at the person next to her, "Aunt Qin, please lend it to me for household use first. My family has little land. I will lend it to your family after I use it up."

"That won't do. My rice is still in the field, waiting for Yuanshan to come back and borrow the donkey cart. If I don't bring it home, it will get wet in the night and all the rice I worked so hard to grow will be gone."

Wang Erfeng also came over from behind.

Seeing the two people fighting for it, Shen Yuanshan quickly ran to Ji Wenhe and said, "Sister-in-law, what should we do? Who should we lend it to?"

She sighed softly and walked over: "Aunt He, Aunt Qin, stop arguing, just pull one trip each, that should be fine."