Chapter Forty-Five
The wheat of crooked liutun is getting goldener and goldener day by day, and it is about to open the sickle, and Ge Zhishu has also returned from his hometown.
These days, wheat birds fly in wisps toward the wheat fields, land on the fields, and cries one after another in the ridges, "Grunt, cuckoo, grunt." The intellectuals asked the wheat birds what they called, and the old farmers translated it as "Why this stupidity!" What a mess! "Say it's urging us to cut the wheat." The young people said, the wheat birds are also idle, you are not tired, why do you have to count us confused!
Li Huanzhang said, I don't know what happened, when I heard that I was going to open the sickle, I immediately felt waist pain. Oh my God, please, when will we spare us from cutting the wheat?
The old farmers replied quickly, and I said to you, kicking a leg and killing an egg will naturally not cut it. Hey hey hey hey...
This year's "three summers" are not as good as last year, last year was cut wheat and planted corn, this year is cut wheat with hands to turn the ground and irrigate rice seedlings. The intellectuals asked, when will the rice seedlings be planted? The old farmers said, Hum, you can't spare you in a month and a half and ten days! The intellectuals grinned when they heard it.
This is cut and planted, and water is not a small problem for people to drink. The team decided to set up several boiling points in the village, and the pond at the north end was one of them. Two cauldrons of boiling water have been set up next to the hut of the pond, and Captain Liu said that he had given it to him, saying that in the future, the second son would be busy with the team, and during the "three summers" period, you two sons should not only serve the fish pond well, but also provide water for the people in the north, which can not be delayed. Where does The Great Twin dare to talk about the conditions, and hey promises to be crisp.
Tomorrow, the second son will go with the team to cut wheat in the middle of the night, and the eldest son will take out the white noodles he has saved and let his daughter-in-law burn a few noodle cakes for him. At dinner, the three of them drank a pot of cornmeal and grabbed the soup, and after eating the meal, the second son wanted to go back to the earthen house to rest, and the sister-in-law handed him a cloth bag containing the cake, and the second daughter knew that it was eaten, touched, swept, opened it to see that it was a pure white cake, and he stared at the brother-in-law and was stunned. The eldest son said, take it and eat it, the work is tired. The sister-in-law instructed that she would not be willing to eat, and after eating, she would go to the house to ask for it. The second son was so excited, holding the cake bag, biting his lower lip and nodding vigorously, and when he came out of the house, the tears fell away.
The two sons of Da Wei were working on the fish pond and boiling water, and they were busy with a sky-high price. The work in the fish pond seems to be light, but it is actually quite tiring. The first thing is to feed the fish, to throw the feed at a fixed point, and to cut enough fresh reed grass for the grass carp to eat. The most tiring and most delayed work is to cut the reed grass, that reed grass in the crooked willow tun is not a piece of the ground to grow, even if it catches a piece of the piece, today cut, it is impossible to be elderly tomorrow, so you have to look around everywhere, cut a pick will take half a day. The home should ensure uninterrupted inspection, not only anti-theft and anti-vandalism, but also observe and salvage floating dead fish, open the pump at the right time to oxygenate and so on. The eldest daughter-in-law belonged to the non-staff members, and the team could not give them both work points, so they had to rely on those chickens and ducks to lay eggs to make some supplements. The eldest daughter-in-law was worried about marrying a daughter-in-law to the second concubine as soon as possible, and suddenly added fifteen or six chickens, ducks, and geese, and the daughter-in-law had to serve the chickens, ducks, geese, and dogs every day, follow the fish pond, and also cook and eat, which was busy boiling water for people to drink, and from time to time had to carry water to the ground.
At the beginning, the team sent a cart of firewood that was good to burn, and it could not burn for three or five days before it was burned. Later, the wheat straw was sent, and the wheat straw was thin, and the black ash dust after burning drifted all over the world with the wind, floating to the body, floating to the ground, floating into the house from the pores of the screen window, and the surface of the fish pond was also floating a layer of black. The eldest daughter-in-law just stared at the stove to boil water, and her face was as neat as a chimpanzee.
Cutting wheat these days is simply hot, and when the male intellectuals are so hot that they take a bucket of cold water to pour on their heads, pour it down, just like the blacksmith's room quenching red iron, "snorting" and getting cold. The villagers were horrified when they saw it, and they didn't want to live? Enough to get sick! The intellectuals said, "It's hot, it's hot!" The fellow villagers said that they would endure it, and they would not get sick if they mixed up the water for half a day and soaked in the ditch. Yu Deshui was happy as soon as he heard it, saying that when the water was transferred, he would soak in the water and not come up.
Within a few days, the big rivers and small rivers were all locked, and the ditches of crooked willow tunzi were filled with water overnight. The ditch that revolved around the tunzi had just been cleared at the bottom of the winter last year, and Yu Deshui went down to touch it, and a person who raised his arm high could not reach the end. The others did not have his good water nature, and the bolder ones dragged the thorns on the shore to bubble in the water, cool and cool. The timid ones did not dare to lean forward, standing on the shore and watching him drill into the water like a loach. Captain Liu looked at the stranded ridge in the field and asked, Whose ridge is it? People also don't nominate surnames, just say that they are the ones who know the young children. Captain Liu shouted and asked, where are they going? No one wants to talk about it. Captain Liu shouted again and asked, where are they going?! I don't know who answered, saying that they all went to the ditch to take a bath and grin. Captain Liu was in a hurry, and when he waded through the wheat field, he pulled his neck and shouted, Hey, what are you squad leaders doing? yes! Even a baby can't be controlled, your captain is still not right? yes! ......
The wheat of crooked willow tun is cut, bundled, transported, stalled, milled, lifted, dried, and put into the pocket, and it is not tossed for ten days. But the time of farming could not be delayed, so he had to cut a head of wheat and insert a seedling. The Zhiqing had not planted seedlings, Captain Liu gritted his teeth and stomped his feet fiercely, and the guys blasted all their men and women to the north to plant seedlings. Tunli people generally rarely play barefoot, and they sew one end of the sleeve with the cuff of the sneaker as rubber boots. In this way, one is to prevent the foot, and the other is to waterproof the blood-sucking ant bite. Zhiqing followed suit and made this simple rubber boot, went into the water to try, it felt good, but the sleeve pocket water, walking inconvenient.
The work of planting seedlings is also very troublesome, first of all, someone has to pull out the rice seedlings from the rice field, tie them into small bundles one by one, and then the pickers pick them to the edge of the paddy field, throw the ground down, and then the rice transplanters will plant them one by one in the underground field, and the fastest seedling planting speed will go down one by one, and the latter will go down one by one according to their own ability, otherwise the slow people will be locked in the dead door. The work of planting seedlings is quite exquisite, requiring each person to occupy three feet wide, the distance between feet is one foot, and two seedlings are planted on the left, middle and right.
The first time the Zhiqing planted seedlings, they couldn't get the gist, and the villagers were very interesting, and even taught them to read and slip along, "The left hand touched the seedling close to the water, the big thumb brother (finger) split (split) the straw twisted a few roots, the right hand took the seedling and inserted it into the mud, and stepped back like a chicken pecking rice." "It is indeed quite smooth to chant, and the young intellectuals react quickly, while following the chanting, the two hands follow the comparison, and soon learned."
In the crooked willow tun, planting seedlings is a woman's strength, every time at this time, the eldest daughter-in-law and the little daughter-in-law will show their skills, one by one are secretly competing, no one is convinced, even if it is in the menstrual period, they are willing to test in the mud and water. Ou Liping was catching up with the menstrual tide for a while, seeing that everyone was so windy and fiery in the water, she was not embarrassed not to follow the water, but when she went into the water, her body could not resist, there was no way, she always ran up to the dry land in half a section, and then she carried the muddy water of her legs into the woods, tossing and turning for a while before coming out. The women who planted the seedlings looked down on the female intellectuals from the city and thought they were squeamish.
The eldest daughter-in-law has not eaten well these two days, vomiting after eating, and vomiting when she does not eat. Da Wei did not know that it was a pregnancy reaction, and pulled her to find the plowing smith Lao Chu to beg for medicine. Lao Chu sucked his neck and counted him, saying that you see your turtle grandson, your daughter-in-law is pregnant with a baby, what are you looking for? Go and go, go fast, go fast, don't go again, let that knife slash you a dog day! Da Wei opened her eyes wide with joy, hey, do you have a baby? Oh yes, I have a baby, I have a baby! He jumped high and pulled his daughter-in-law towards home, and he patted his daughter-in-law and smiled, hey hey hey, hey hey, we have a baby, we have a baby! He said this sentence many times, he said it again, and his daughter-in-law smiled at him, hehehehe, there was a baby, there was a baby.
The daughter-in-law is pregnant with a baby, and the eldest daughter has more momentum to work. He got up early every day to cut the grass, hating that he couldn't take care of the work outside the family alone. It's a pity that he can't take care of here but not there, and he can't bear those jobs on his own. There was a woman who was old and said to him, saying that she had just become pregnant and was so squeamish, what should I do, I gave birth to a bunch of miles, which time Huaiwa delayed the work? Feel free to let her do it. Therefore, the eldest daughter-in-law still serves the chickens, ducks, geese and dogs every day, still follows the fish pond, and still boils water for people to drink. The wheat straw sent by the team was about to burn out again, and the newly beaten wheat bran was sent in the past two days. It was difficult for Mai Cha to summon, only smoke, no fire, smoke their eyes red, the face full of sweat, and then fell a thick layer of black ash, so that the hand wiped, the whole person can not see. In this way, from time to time, he still picks a pick to the ground to bring water to people to drink.
The women looked at her from afar and shouted, "Yeah, is this the big twin's family?" Oh my God, why do you make a flower cat? ”
The eldest daughter-in-law picked up the child in the water and asked, "Is my face dirty?" Is my face dirty? ”
People laughed, "Oh, isn't it a face?" Who sees your dirty ass? ”
The eldest daughter-in-law "giggled" in her heart for a moment, rolled up her sleeves and wiped it on her face, and her face was black and gray and sweaty, and the more she wiped it, the more ugly it became.
The second son-in-law walked up with a pick of rice seedlings, and a group of people shouted at him, "Erzi, do you know who she is?" ”
The second sister-in-law saw her sister-in-law standing there with a confused face, and she smiled herself. He said, "Mo joke, why don't you know?" Do you see you, my sister-in-law is offering you water to drink, and she is still laughing? Don't laugh! ”
"Yikes! The women covered their mouths and laughed and began to coax.
When people drank the water, they went down to the paddy field again, and the second concubine also took the bowl and drank the water, and the sister-in-law asked him, "Why don't you come to the house?" ”
The second son said, "Cough, get up early and get dark at a high price, and it's not good to go home and sleep well." ”
My sister-in-law said, "If you don't go home, you won't be able to sleep well." ”
Erzi's face turned red, he lowered his straw hat, glanced at the four sides, and then whispered to her, "Look at you, don't be blind, let people hear strange is not good!" ”
The sister-in-law blinked her eyes and did not squeak again.
"Let's go, I have to send rice stalks." The second concubine said and picked up the rice straw picker, just took a step and turned his head, "Oh, is my brother okay?" Go back and ask my brother okay? "Say it, turn around and pick the pick and leave."
"Not good, not good, not good!" The sister-in-law pursed her mouth behind him and muttered, and when she saw that he did not look back, she stomped her feet angrily, and suddenly felt her heart turn over, "vomit, vomit" and vomited there.
Over the years, every time the second child is responsible for picking seedlings, although this work is not as cat waist and stomach as planting seedlings, but it is enough at the end of the day. Carrying two baskets full of rice seedlings you have to throw them in front of the rice planter, you have to provide for the bunch of people to have seedlings, so you have to frequently go back and forth between the seedling puller and the rice transplanter, and you keep picking along the way, and you keep walking in the muddy water one foot deep and one foot shallow, and you have turned your legs when you walk.
It was more than four o'clock in the afternoon, the second son felt uncomfortable, he took off the rice seedling pick and hurriedly ran into the willow forest to, and after a short time, The District Liping who planted the seedlings also entered the willow forest, she eagerly undid her pants, looked around, felt uneasy, and walked towards the side of the ditch, her legs were easy to slip with muddy water, and she walked carefully, and the second son was crouching behind a willow tree three or four meters away from her, he was nervous and excited, so he stared at it with his mouth open and his eyes wide open, looking at his heart and jumping uncontrollably, it seemed Ou Liping really couldn't hold on, came to the ditch and hurriedly took off his pants, the second son saw the white ass and whistled and gasped, Ou Liping squatted down and peed, at this moment, a cauliflower snake came out of the thorn bush in front of him, she did not notice, but the second woman could see clearly, he did not dare to make a sound, lifted his pants and stared at it so closely, he hoped that the snake would quickly slip away, unexpectedly, the snake was so sloppy to look for her, he instinctively wanted to remind her, before he could shout, Ou Liping had seen the snake She screamed and hurriedly lifted her pants, it may be a puddle of water flowing from the shoes under her feet, the sole of the shoe slipped, and she fell on her back to the sky, and she screamed and grabbed her hands randomly, grabbed and shouted at the legs and slipped out of the water, the second woman was frightened, he wanted to quickly pull her, but he did not dare to go over, he thought, if you don't expose yourself as soon as you pass? Alas! ...... Just as she was hesitating, Ou Liping's entire body slipped out of the water.
"Yeah, yeah! Erzhu stared at it and couldn't help but cry out.
"Help, help—"
Ou Liping's voice really shocked the soul of the second son, and the second son jumped to her near him in three steps and two steps
Standing on the edge of the ditch, she shook her hands at a loss, "Mo panic, Mo panic, I came to help you, I came to help you." Ou Liping had a hand that seemed to be holding a purple locust strip, and she was fluttering in the water with a frightened face, she had already choked on a few mouthfuls of water at this time, "Two... Second uncle... Hurry up... Save me..."
"Hey, hey, Mo shout, Mo shout!"
Erzi was so scared, he didn't dare to let her shout, he moved his feet at the water's edge, trying to find a suitable angle to reach her, did not think, the foot slipped directly into the water, this time he was frightened, that face was frightened has lost his personal appearance, hands and feet are constantly fluttering, even a life-saving two words can not be shouted.
Ou Liping was still quite awake at this time, she knew that the second uncle would not be able to drink water, she thought that this was not saved, clutching the purple locust strip in the water fluttering and struggling, "Help! "The instinct to survive made her shout hoarsely again. She saw the second uncle swooping close to her, getting closer, the person sank, she felt her ass was arched a little, with this strength, she flew to the shore three times and two flutters, climbed up to the shore, and the purple locust strip was still clutching it in her hand. Frightened, she fell and crawled and fled outside, did not move a few steps, suddenly turned her face back, what about the second uncle? ...... They looked at the surface of the ditch in shock, the water was still rolling, and there was no shadow of a person on the surface of the water.
"Ah—" Ou Liping screamed violently, and then she fell and ran and shouted, "Help! - "Help! ——”
The undercurrent in the ditch was quite large, and a group of people came down in the water and touched it for nearly two hours, and finally Yu Deshui touched the body of the second son at a distance of more than fifty meters from the place where the incident occurred.
When the two of them heard that the second son had drowned in the ditch, his eyes straightened up. The eldest daughter-in-law did not believe it, and said how could she? I sent water to see him well! Da Wei didn't say anything, dragging his daughter-in-law crazy and running towards Liu Linzi.
In the willow forest and on the edge of the ditch, the black pressure stood full of people, and the big twin stumbled away from the crowd, and when he saw the second son lying there quietly, Gollum suddenly collapsed on the ground. The eldest daughter-in-law then squeezed in, and when she saw the corpse of the second son, "Wow—" The ground cried out, "Heaven and Earth Mama!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aren't you waiting to see the baby? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
People persuaded, pulled, the eldest daughter-in-law knelt on the ground and refused to get up, she cried and shouted, chanting, and the two hands slapped the ground "snapping".
The big widow mooed and cried, "Second son, second son, brother promised to tell you daughter-in-law, aaaah..."
He cried for a while, chanted for a while, and repeatedly said that he wanted to marry his brother's daughter-in-law, "Second concubine, second concubine, our chicken and duck can't wait for a month and two months to lay eggs, you can't wait for it!" Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The two of them were already crying into tears, and the women were crying together and sighing to wipe their tears, and the men were all red-eyed.