Chapter 86 Strange
Mid-to-late July is the season when early rice matures every year. Places where two crops of rice are planted are often plowed immediately after the early rice is harvested, and then they rush to plant late rice. This process is called "double grabbing". Double grabbing means time.
It is also the hottest period of summer in the year. Fang County has many mountains and trees and a cool climate. Compared with other plain areas, early rice is harvested a few days later and does not start harvesting until late in the year.
The weather has been beautiful for three or four days in a row, and villagers cutting rice, plowing fields, and transplanting rice seedlings can be seen everywhere in the farmland. The roar of threshing machines and small harvesters continues, accompanied by people's laughter, which can be heard far and wide. Far.
At the end of June and the beginning of July, the whole country was hit by floods. Dozens of counties and cities were affected to varying degrees. Many crops were flooded and there was no harvest. Those crops that escaped the floods also suffered a large reduction in production. Only a small number of crops near mountains and rivers in Fang County were affected. With the floods raging, it was basically a bumper harvest.
The bumper harvest after the floods is undoubtedly a joy to see. Even if the continuous heavy rain caused the seedlings and corn to fall down and the yield was reduced, at least more than 70% of the harvest is still available.
It was already mid-afternoon when Leyun returned to Jiudao Township. In the villages she passed along the way, rice was drying on the roads everywhere, and the yellow millet was like gold sprinkled all over the ground.
Millet is also drying on the village road in Meizijing Village, and the road is only wide enough for traffic. Le Xiaoxiao is carrying a backpack and riding his bicycle straight towards home. The front basket and rear rack of the bicycle are stuffed bulgingly. drum plastic bag.
She was afraid of meeting people on the road. If there was nothing in the car, she would take out some things when she came back. If someone said something and noticed something strange, she would not be able to explain clearly, so she first took out some things from the space. Things are packed and tied to the car and put in bags.
Most of the villagers went to the fields to harvest rice. Only the elderly or young children were at home. They met few adults along the way and they arrived home soon.
The small ground outside the Le family's house is also covered with a layer of golden rice, reflecting the sun and shining brightly.
"Uncle Zhou's family has harvested rice?" Le Yun murmured softly. She remembered that the early rice planted by Zhou's family this year was a new variety, and the cycle was three days later than before. She estimated that it would not be harvested until the 29th.
The Zhou family farmed the Le family's fields, and the school used to be on holiday every year during the double harvest season. She went to the Zhou family every year to help cut rice and plant fields. This time she went to the mountains to plan a good time, and expected to have enough time to come back to help.
The ground was dry and could only allow people to pass by. Leyun parked the car on the cement hardened road outside and was about to move the car when she heard a happy "beep" sound. She turned around and saw Cheng, who lived next to the Zhou family. The daughter-in-law of Cheng Wu's son, who is the same age as her father, came back driving a tricycle to transport grain.
The son of the Cheng family is about the same age as Brother Zhou, his name is Cheng Youde, and he has a good relationship with the Le family of the Zhou family. The daughter-in-law of the Cheng family is named Liu. Le Yun calls her Aunt Liu, or Aunt Liu. When she sees someone, she stops the car and shouts Voice: "Aunt Liu, congratulations on the great harvest."
"Hey, Lele, are you finally willing to get out of the old forest and go home?" Sister-in-law Liu burst out laughing when she saw the Lele girl. Little Lele has been in Maoshan for more than 20 days and is still white and tender, which makes people jealous.
"Hmm, I miss my dad and my aunts, so I'm back. Aunt Liu, long time no see. Did you miss me?"
"You are the only one who has a sweet mouth and knows how to coax people." Sister-in-law Liu was so amused that she almost laughed out loud. She drove the car next to Lele's house and stopped briefly: "Lele, the millet in front of your house belongs to me. You are back just in time. In a while, Go through it for me, let it dry for a while, then collect it in the evening and put it into the warehouse.”
"Hey, the millet is from Aunt Liu's family. I thought it was from Uncle Zhou's family."
"The Zhou family will start harvesting rice tomorrow. Brothers and sisters Zhou Qiufeng will help our family cut the grain today. We will finish the harvest tomorrow and help the Zhou family harvest the grain the day after tomorrow."
In rural areas, it is normal for people to exchange jobs with each other. Whoever's rice matures later will go to help the family who harvested it earlier, and then the person who harvested the rice first will help the family that matured later. Everyone exchanges labor. There are more people and more work. quick.
"Okay, Aunt Liu, don't leave yet. I'll give you something and you can take it back." Le Yun responded. Seeing that Aunt Liu was about to accelerator again, she hurriedly stopped her.
Sister-in-law Liu released the accelerator and brake again and looked at the little girl from the Le family. When she saw the big and small bags tied to her car, she couldn't help but sweat. Was Lele going into the mountain to be robbed?
Le Yun quickly ran to the garden fence, took a plastic bag from the fence that someone had hung for drying, went to the bicycle, opened a bag, took out a bunch of fungi, put it in, and gave it to Aunt Liu: "Here's what I have." Grandpa Cheng Wu is just a side dish with you.”
"Is this a turkey tail mushroom?" Sister-in-law Liu looked at the thing handed over by the Lejia girl in surprise, and pushed the bag back: "Tomorrow, the 29th, street day, you can take it to the street and sell it. This is expensive."
"This is for Grandpa Cheng Wu to eat. Aunt Liu will just keep it. You have to take it out to ventilate it when you get home. It may get suffocated if you keep it stuffy."
"...Okay." After thinking about it, Sister-in-law Liu didn't push it back forcefully. The Lejia girl had been very good to the elderly since she was a child, and she was the favorite child of several elderly people nearby.
Seeing Aunt Liu driving back, Le Yun picked up her bicycle and went home. She was stunned when she took out the key and opened the door. There was a pair of happy words posted on the door!
Do you want to post happy words properly? Question mark, question mark, question mark, there were only question marks in her mind. She didn't need to do that if she won the top prize. Besides, she didn't put the word "happy" on it in the first few days when the college entrance examination results came out, and there was no need for it later.
Full of questions, I opened the door. The house was clean and tidy, with happy words posted on every door. The antique TV in the main room was gone, replaced by a large color TV and a long wooden sofa. chair.
!
Le Yun was confused and completely confused. Her father was a frugal man who never spent money lavishly, let alone those dispensable furniture. Where did these come from? of?
After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't come up with a reason. I carried the car into the house, opened the door to my room, unpacked the backpack bag, and quickly went about my own business, cleared out the contents of the backpack, and hung the bag on a nail on the wall. Ventilate and dry in the shade, then go to the second floor to get a bamboo sieve, pour out some medicinal materials for ventilation, pour some fungi into the sieve, and ventilate the main room first.
She took out what needed to be poured out. She took a bag of cucumbers and tomatoes to the refrigerator room. She sold some vegetables last time and planted some more. There was a lot of stock. This time she had enough excuses to go into the mountains, so she took out a bag of cucumbers and tomatoes. Big bag of tomatoes and cucumbers.
Carrying things to the back room where the refrigerator was kept, the room was neat and tidy. Looking for a basket to put tomatoes and cucumbers in, Le Yun opened the refrigerator and found that it was full of chicken, duck, pork, eggs...
Ouch!
Seeing the stock in the refrigerator, Classmate Le's face turned into dough. Her refrigerator usually only stocked bacon, and it was rarely full. The situation now was completely different from before.
Her father was used to being frugal, so there was no way he could have so much inventory. Could it be that relatives were here?
relative? However, in terms of relatives, their family only had the great-grandmother and her natal family. The great-grandmother’s maiden name was Hu and she was from a neighboring village. The Hu family only had two daughters. The eldest daughter had a son-in-law, and the second daughter was her great-grandmother. When my grandfather and my great-grandmother were still alive, the Hu family moved to the provincial capital. At first, they were still in love. Later, when my great-grandmother’s parents passed away, the relationship between the sisters became weak, and they broke off after repeated visits;
Grandma's natal family is the Chen family in this village, and she is related to Zhang Jing's father's bloodline by marriage. The Chen family and the Le family were closely related when her grandparents were still alive. However, her father's leg was broken and she had to borrow money. They had a falling out and have no contact so far.
Therefore, it can be said that the Le family has no relatives.
If they were friends, it wasn't very likely. Most of the friends her father had in the past were pig friends and dog friends who couldn't get along with each other through thick and thin. Ever since his father injured his leg, his friends had almost become strangers.
With no relatives or friends coming to visit, who gave her home so many things?
If someone is so generous, it's only my father's boss. If it's really Boss Wu who comes to the house and buys meat, it's understandable, but what about the new furniture at home?
Wondering, Le Yun was extremely depressed. She closed the refrigerator door and rushed to turn over the grains for Sister Liu. After finishing her work, she packed up her clothes and went into the kitchen to heat hot water. She found thin smoke coming from the fire pit and the pot rack. Put a pot with boiling water. Open it and see that the water is warm.
strangeness!
So strange.
Full of wonder, Le Yun looked around in the kitchen, here and there, here and there, but still had no clue, so she had to pick up her own bucket and basin, fill them with warm water and go to the bathroom behind the house to take a bath. Her aunt just passed away and she didn't dare to wash in cold water. She didn't dare to wash in cold water for several days in the mountains. She could only wipe it with a towel. Although there was no smell, she felt uncomfortable.
I washed myself from head to toe and put on a short-sleeved T-shirt and cropped pants again. I felt very light and refreshed.
She straightened herself up, threw her things aside, and ran to the pig pen room. She just heard the quacking of piglets and ducks, and she had to go and see what was going on.
When you open the door and enter the pig and cow house, you will see a group of chickens and a few ducks squatting lazily on the ground. There is a plastic basin filled with water and a trough for food on one side of the wall. There are two piglets in the pig pen. .
Chicken, duck and pig are all available, giving it a farmhouse feel.
Leyun was even more confused this time. What was going on? She just went to the mountains for a trip, why was she so different when she came back home?
I can’t figure it out. Really, you said, I just went out for twenty days, why did there be such a drastic change?
Full of tangles, Le Yun closed the door of the cowshed, took the clothes to be washed in the well of the water press, and dried the clothes upstairs. Then she went downstairs and carried a few bamboo sieves upstairs. Some herbs and fungi still had to be dried. Easily damaged by sun drying.
After drying the things, I took out some washed polygonatum and rehmannia glutinosa from the space and put them upstairs to dry out the moisture. Then I went downstairs and sat down to wash the fungi. After cleaning a few versicolor fungi, my empty brain suddenly shook and I looked up. Xiang Jia, that, couldn't be what she thought, right?
My lovely children, I am going back to my hometown in the countryside to spend the New Year with my parents today. I will not return until around the 9th day of the lunar month. I will miss you all, and you will also miss me. I would like to wish you all the best in advance. Happy New Year, may everything go as you wish, may everything go well in the new year, and may everyone prosper!
(End of chapter)