Chapter 122 Take care of yourself first
But in the countryside, as long as you work hard and find some scraps and corners, you can grow something to eat at home.
After the meal, the brothers rested for a while and then went down the mountain to work. Yuan Bingbing reached out to hold Xia Chan's arm and joked with a smile, "Xia Chan, I didn't expect that all four of your brothers are pretty good-looking. You must be very happy to have these four handsome brothers around you every day, right? Can you even eat a few more bites?”
Xia Chan smiled sheepishly, "It's indeed very eye-catching and happy, but I didn't eat much because I only have such a big appetite." Then Xia Chan also teased Yuan Bingbing, "Whose brother do you like me? Do you want me?" May I introduce it to you?”
夏蝉觉得自己的四个哥哥都很好，如果娶媳妇了，肯定会让媳妇儿幸福的。
Yuan Bingbing blushed shyly, "Oh, I have a fiancé."
Xia Chan thought in her heart that if Yuan Bingchao was more powerful, she would soon be without a fiancé.
Uncle Yuan is looking for a partner for his daughter, but he doesn’t know if he has done a thorough investigation. Although this Cui Haiyun has a good-looking face, his temperament does not look like that of a gentleman. Why are parents so determined to arrange such a life and death for their daughter? object.
At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Yuan Bingbing's eyes lit up, "My dad must be here, I have to go."
Seeing Yuan Bingbing like this, Xia Chan thought of herself. In the 21st century, she could not sit still when she went to other people's homes. She had to go home after lunch and was so anxious.
Xia Chan picked up the hemp bag filled with vegetables and went out with Yuan Bingbing. Sure enough, she saw Yuan Daman standing outside the courtyard gate. Xia Chan put the hemp bag on the ground and said to Yuan Daman, "Uncle Yuan, these are vegetables grown at home." , you can take it back home to try it out.”
"Xia Chan, thank you. Bing Bing didn't prepare anything for you when she came to your house to play, but she even took food with you. How embarrassing!" Yuan Daman was a little embarrassed. The last time Xia Chan brought two baskets of things to their house, This time it was such a big package. They really took advantage of Xia Chan.
"Uncle Yuan, Bingbing also brought me a lot of things that we can't buy here. I'm very grateful to Bingbing." Xia Chan said with a smile.
"Xia Chan, let's go then. I'll come over to play with you next time." Yuan Bingbing happily waved to Xia Chan and left with her father.
Xia Chan sighed inaudibly. She didn't know how long she could stay like this happy. I hope she wouldn't be too shocked by then.
Xia Chan turned around and went back, tidied up the house, and then went out with her backpack.
After the beginning of autumn, every household begins to prepare things for the winter, such as firewood, wild vegetables, mushrooms, nuts... Although it is not the autumn harvest yet, every household is very busy.
Everything that can be dried and preserved is dried, and everything that needs to be pickled is pickled.
There are no crayfish or eels to catch anymore. My brothers go out to chop and prepare firewood every day. Of course, they don’t chop down trees, but chop down some messy branches and dead trees. Those living trees must be It cannot be cut.
They would also bring back wild vegetables and fruits when they came across them. After all, they had done everything since they were young and knew nothing about them. When they encountered them, they would pick them together.
Xia Bin also used his spare time to research the lobster net. It is made of bamboo strips and is heavier, but it can still be used. However, we can no longer catch crayfish this season, so we can only make a few more lobster nets. The utility room is reserved for tomorrow when summer comes. There is no such thing as seven-day National Day entertainment in this era. There is only one day off on National Day. The team leader also knew that this day was a rare holiday, so he did not send Xia Chan to drive the tractor. People who wanted to go to the town had to walk there by themselves. Or go by bullock cart.
Xia Chan had a full day off, so naturally she wasn't in a hurry. She slept until after nine o'clock in the morning. When she woke up, she was still unwilling to get up. She continued to lie in bed. After a while, she slowly got up.
The brothers went out to chop wood, and breakfast was warm in the pot.
After Xia Chan had breakfast, she went to the swamp, because the taro on the edge of the swamp was in harvest season. She squatted on the edge alone and started to pick the taro. She had been harvesting it for a long time last year, and this year Naturally, this is also the case. You can only harvest a few hundred kilograms a day and harvest slowly.
The production team will have the autumn harvest in half a month, and there is no problem for everyone to have enough to eat, so she will not hand over the taro for the time being. Whenever she is needed, she will naturally hand it over. Now she will hand it over when it is not needed. Make good money.
Take care of yourself first before you can help others.
When Xia Chan went back, she also went to the big persimmon tree last year. Sure enough, the tree was full of huge persimmons, but they were not very yellow yet, and some of them had a little yellow on their skin. Picking them at this time It was still too early, and the persimmon cakes would not taste very good even if they were made into them, so Xia Chan decided to wait until the end of the month to wait until everyone has finished harvesting the food.
One tree can make 180 kilograms of persimmon cakes, which is pretty good.
In mid-October, Xia Chan went to the high school in the town to take the midterm exam. Since Xia Chan couldn't take the exam one by one like other students, she sat in the class teacher's office and took the exam.
The papers for each class were placed in front of her.
After she finished one exam, the class teacher took the test paper to the corresponding teacher and asked the teacher to mark her first. When the scores came out, Xia Chan was very satisfied, and the class teacher was also very satisfied, because Xia Chan's score was ranked among the best in the class. Made it into the top five.
But after all, Xia Chan had to work in the village, and the teacher couldn't ask her to sit in the classroom, so he could only let her study at home. If she had any questions she didn't understand, she could ask the educated youth for help.
Not two days after the exam, the production team held a village meeting. The main content of the meeting was that the autumn harvest will start tomorrow. I hope everyone can have enough food and refresh themselves, and then have a good autumn harvest. They also said that the autumn harvest will begin tomorrow. That’s it, let’s share another fish with everyone.
Of course, Xia Chan told him about this fish.
Everyone was very happy after hearing this, and everyone was full of energy.
Early the next morning, the autumn harvest officially began. As soon as the work bell rang, everyone went to the fields to harvest potatoes. After all, it was the first time for some educated youths to harvest potatoes. They were afraid that they would dig up the potatoes, so they asked them to pull out the potato vines. You only need to pick the potatoes at the roots. As for the remaining potatoes in the soil, the veterans in the village will dig them up. This will also prevent the potatoes from being dug up.
The strong laborers loaded the potatoes into the tractor basket by basket until the entire tractor was filled, and then Xia Chan transported the potatoes to the warehouse.
Due to the delay of heavy rain, potatoes were replanted late. The individual potatoes were not as big as last year, and the yield was not as high as last year. It was only about 80% of last year, but it was already very good.