Little Farmer Big Star

August 25.

As soon as it was dawn, the Li Fan family had already woken up. Today is a busy day and a rewarding day.

While his mother was making breakfast, Li Fan punched outside the yard for a while. Boxing and exercising every morning has become his habit.

Just after punching, the third uncle and the third mother also came over with a basket. Even the little girl followed behind, yawning as she walked, as if she hadn't woken up. Today, I beat Li Fan's millet, and the third uncle's family is eating here.

"What are you doing, girl?" Li Fan asked, looking at the sleepy little girl.

"I'm going, it's fun." After the little girl finished speaking, she yawned again and followed the third uncle into the yard. Li Fan smiled and returned to the yard to prepare for breakfast.

After breakfast, the whole family is ready to go. The first stop is Dongzitian.

The father carried the mixing bucket, the third uncle carried three baskets, and there were several sickles in the baskets. Li Fan was carrying a double threshing machine. The threshing machine is manually operated and can be operated by two people at the same time.

Threshing machines have only emerged in the last decade or so. With this stuff, threshing millet is much easier. In the past, when there was no threshing machine, it was all operated manually, which was a lot more tiring than it is now.

The people in the village threw the millet with pure human power in the past, calling it "hand mixing bucket". Now if there are young people in the village who say they are tired of threshing grain, they are often taught by my father's generation, "Now that we have a threshing machine, why are we tired? Bucket', I have never called tired."

On the way, I encountered many villagers carrying baskets, mixing buckets and threshing machines one after another. It was still early, and there were no tourists. After the construction of hotels and restaurants in the future is completed, there should be tourists in the village at this time.

Half an hour later, Li Fan's family came to Dongzitian. There are two villagers who are older than Li Fan and the others, and have already finished a small part of the fight.

Take off your slippers and don't pull up your trousers. Li Fan, his parents, and his third uncle and Sanniang took the sickle and went directly to the field to start cutting rice. Everyone was wearing long trousers, and they stepped in the water together. Not only can prevent mosquitoes, but also can prevent being cut by seedlings.

The little girl was fighting with the other two bear children on the field ridge.

Dongzitian is a dense field, with deep mud and water, and people can step on it and sink deep into it. It is a little difficult to move. But the yield of rice will be greater than that of dry fields. In addition to the current Dongzi field, Li Fan's family also has a square field that is also a thick field. The other four open fields are dry fields.

Of course, there is another advantage of Nongtian, that is, it is easier to move the mixing bucket. In addition, occasionally encounter a fish, a lobster. Interesting is also much more than dry field.

Dry fields do not have water all year round, but only during the rice-growing season will the fields be plowed to store water. In addition to rice, dry fields will also grow some other things, such as rape and the like.

Several people were talking while cutting rice. Parents, mothers, uncles and mothers are all sighing, the older you get, the better your health seems to be. Now that I have cut so much rice, I don't feel tired at all, and I feel much more relaxed than last year.

Li Fan laughed and didn't say why. Just saying that good health is a blessing. It means that their luck has come. Naturally, the parents laughed and cursed.

The part of Dongzitian belonging to Li Fan's family is rectangular.

It is about 5 meters wide and 60 meters long. Now several people have cut more than 20 meters and can start threshing.

So, only the father was left to continue to harvest the rice, while Li Fan, his mother, and the third uncle and Sanniang returned to the field, ready to start threshing the millet.

Several people first carried the cut rice and placed them in two piles on the left and right. Li Fan and his third uncle dragged the mixing bucket into the water. Half of the bucket was rectangular, about 2 meters wide, 3 meters long, and about 50 centimeters deep. The bottom is in the shape of a hull.

Li Fan put the threshing rack on one side of the mixing bucket, and surrounded the other three sides with fences to prevent the grains from splashing out.

When everything was ready, Li Fan and the third uncle stepped on the pedal of the threshing machine with one foot each. With the rhythmic stepping of the two, the threshing wheel turned rapidly. Mom and Sanniang were on both sides, delivering rice to them respectively. The people in the village call it "handling the handle".

At this time, one after another

Several villagers came to Dongzitian. The sounds of the threshing machines rose and fell to each other, mixed with the chatter and laughter of the crowd. A fiery scene.

With the passage of time, the sun has been hanging high in the sky. Some tourists also appeared one after another in everyone's sight.

Although the sun is very strong these days, the village is still hot, but it is not stuffy at all. Coupled with the fact that many places are still cool, it is definitely a good place to escape the heat.

Therefore, there are still many tourists who come to the village every day.

Some tourists heard that these days were the time for threshing in the village, and they brought their children to the village on purpose. I want the kids to see how the rice they eat every day comes from.

The bear children who were fighting on the field ridge did not know when they descended into the field. It is a lot of fun to fish in the area that has been played. If it is normal, because the water is relatively deep, the fish is not easy to catch.

But now after the repeated trampling by everyone, the water has become very turbid. Catching fish is relatively easy. Coupled with the roar of the threshing machine and the voices of everyone, the fish were frightened, and they would scramble from time to time. It's easier to catch.

In some cases, the fish will even jump on the rice straws piled up in the fields. Of course also jumps to the pedals of the threshing machine. Li Fan had already picked up several carp at his feet, all of which were four-finger-wide carp. Some fish jumped up and jumped back into the water before they had time to pick them up.

These few fishes picked up will naturally become the midday meal. This can be a gift from nature and cannot be wasted.

As for lobsters and snails, there are more, and everyone is too lazy to catch them.

After 10 am, the whole mixing bucket was full of millet. These grains must be picked back first.

So, several people pushed the mixing bucket to the field. Transfer all the millet in the mixing bucket to the basket, and fill it with three big picks. Li Fan and the third uncle each chose to go home. Mom also went back to cook. The little girl is also with you.

Dad and Sanniang continued to cut the rice, and with one third remaining, the rice in Dongzi Field was finished.

Back at home, Li Fan and his third uncle emptied the millet in the yard to dry. With such a big sun, it can be put into the warehouse after two or three days of drying.

After drying the millet, the two returned to Dongzitian.

At about 12 noon, the villagers stopped work and went home one after another, and Li Fan and the others were no exception.

After returning home for lunch. After a period of rest, at 3 pm, everyone continued to go out to work.

In the afternoon, the Dongzi field was still in full swing.

Not just Dongzitian. Today, the whole village is filled with the roar of threshing machines and the chatter and laughter of the villagers.

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(To be continued.)