Chapter 123 Not Easy

When Han Li and his friends came back from the threshing ground, everyone looked dusty.

Yun Yingying felt that both her arms and legs were numb. If they were not on the street, she would have wanted Han Li to carry her back.

Even so, when she passed by an empty alley, she would grab one of Han Li's arms to relieve her current fatigue.

Yun Jingjing was different from usual today. She did not lecture her sister for holding Han Li's arm.

Han Li: "Be good, hold on a little longer and we will be home. Take a hot bath after you go home, and then I will massage your arms, waist and legs. I guarantee that you will be tired tomorrow."

Yun Yingying: "I just want to lie on the kang and sleep now. I don't want to take a bath or eat at all."

"If you don't take a bath, you will smell bad tomorrow. If you don't eat, you won't have the strength to work tomorrow, and you will suffer more than today."

When Han Li and his friends arrived at the door of their house, He Mi, Hao Hongmin and the other four had just arrived.

It turned out that He Mi and Qi Zhaodi went to help Hao Hongmin and the others for a while, and they came back together after they were done.

Even though she was exhausted, Yang Xiuying immediately started sharing the news she had received as soon as she saw Han Li.

"Han Li, you are so mean. You didn't even offer to help us with some work."

"There's nothing I can do about it. The plot of land you were assigned is too far from me. It would be inappropriate for me to go there on purpose."

Yang Xiuying: "Forget it. I hope we can get a plot closer tomorrow. But do you know what happened just now?"

"What?"

"The new Xiong Xianjin cut his calf at dusk. He bled a lot and it was scary. He rolled on the ground holding his leg and screamed. The sound was louder than the donkey in the cowshed. People who didn't know would think he was dying. The team leader couldn't persuade him. Later, Village Chief Zhao came over and asked two people to hold him down and look at the wound. Then he sprinkled a handful of wood ash on it and said that if Xiong Xianjin dared to scream like this when he was in the army, the squad leader would have whipped him twenty times to relieve the pain. But Village Chief Zhao finally approved him for a day off."

Han Li smiled at this and thought that Xiong Xianjin was much better than those young men in later generations.

I didn't feel like cooking at night, but I had to eat this meal, otherwise tomorrow's situation would be even worse.

Yun Jingjing cut a piece of bacon and fried it, added enough water for three people, and finally took out the pancakes she baked with Hao Hongmin and others yesterday, cut them, poured them into the pot with vegetables, and boiled them immediately. The bacon pancakes for each person were ready.

It was simple and quick with vegetables, meat, staple food, and soup. If you don't like it, you can add salt, vinegar, and chili.

When they were eating, the water in the pot outside had boiled, and the temperature in the bathroom had also increased.

Yun Yingying stayed to clean up the mess, and Yun Jingjing went home to get the clothes for the two to change.

Han Li sat on the kang and watched her bend over to wash the dishes.

Seeing that the arc she presented was too different from He Mi, Han Li thought that if he trained more, he should be able to reach a higher level.

As he thought about it, his hand reached out, and Yun Yingying almost broke the bowl, and rolled her eyes at him in annoyance.

"Stop messing around. Can't you see I'm busy? I'll come out before my sister later."

At this time, everyone was sweaty. The most intimate contact was what they had just done. It would be inappropriate to get any closer.

In the following days, everyone was rushing to harvest soybeans. During this period, there were many small things but no big things.

The small things were basically caused by the new educated youth, so many people had their work points deducted.

After all the soybeans were harvested, they were all pulled to the threshing ground to dry and then they were ready to start crushing and threshing.

Han Li's harvest during this period was not small. Those bean pods that fell on the ground and were not discovered were all broken up and collected by him.

After these soybeans were dried, Han Li wanted to keep them for frying, grinding soybean milk with a small stone mill, or exchanging them for tofu at the commune. In short, they had too many uses.

The beans on the threshing ground were not ready yet, and many people's physical strength had not recovered yet.

Potatoes, sweet potatoes, and peanuts were all ready to be harvested. Here they were collectively called "qi", which means "qi qi potatoes", "qi qi sweet potatoes", and "qi qi peanuts".

Working in the fields of these three crops is different from cutting bean stalks. Everyone is very enthusiastic.

Because you can eat while working at this time. As long as it is not too much, the team leader and others will only grumble when they see it.

Today we are going to harvest sweet potatoes. Everyone went to the field before dawn.

After arriving at the edge of the field, we first sent someone to cut the sweet potato vines with a sickle.

Then they will be carried aside for use. When you are free, you can pinch the leaves on them.

The rest will all be pulled into the cowshed to feed the livestock. Nothing on the sweet potatoes will be wasted.

Then it is the time that everyone is most looking forward to. The ox-horse plows the field and plows deeply from the middle of the ridge with sweet potatoes.

At this time, those who can hold the plow are all veterans, and ordinary people have no chance to get started.

After the plow passes, most of the sweet potatoes are exposed. At this time, everyone will pick up the ones on the surface first.

At this time, the big sweet potatoes are thrown into the basket, and after it is full, it is carried to the roadside and waits to be pulled away together.

Those not-so-big sweet potatoes became everyone's targets. After picking them up, they would rub them on their clothes and take a bite when the captain wasn't paying attention.

The captain also turned a blind eye to this, otherwise he would have heard the sound of people chewing sweet potatoes all over the ground.

After picking them up once, everyone would use the target to scoop them up again.

It's not over yet to scoop out and pick up those sweet potatoes hidden in the soil.

Everyone would use shovels and hoes to dig them up again, trying not to let any sweet potatoes slip through the net.

The idea of ​​returning every grain to the warehouse is good, but even if everyone has dug them up so many times, there will still be many sweet potatoes that slip through the net.

In previous years, these sweet potatoes would be dug up by mice, educated youth, or children in the village.

But this year, all of them are cheap for Han Li, and he has already thought about how to use the sweet potatoes.

Cornmeal sweet potato porridge, dried sweet potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes in a brazier, etc.

The situation of everyone eating while working resulted in less food for everyone at noon today, and some people even didn't eat.

When they got off work in the evening, some people would even put a few sweet potatoes in their pockets before it got dark, but this was done secretly.

Han Li did not take a single sweet potato, but he put it in when he got home.

Throw a few pieces under the stove first, and they will slowly cook when cooking.

As for putting it in the pot, it is better to eat at this time to ensure everyone's physical strength.

So Yun Jingjing changed eggplants in the evening and stewed a pot with bacon, and corn cakes were attached to the edge of the big pot.

Today is another Susu day, and there is nothing to do about it.

After coming back every day, everyone is sweaty, and it is uncomfortable to be intimate at this time.

After dinner, Yun Yingying seemed to be falling apart.

If Yun Jingjing hadn't pulled her home, Yun Yingying would have just lay here to rest.

Everyone got the sweet potatoes and peanuts these days, and both the educated youth and the villagers were very satisfied, after all, they saved a lot of food rations these days.

Needless to say, Han Li's harvest was great. He could not finish eating all the things that fell on the ground in two years.

Of course, he could not bear to eat only these things, but he still had to harvest corn later, which was the standard of this era.

When walking into the potato field today, everyone's spirits were not so high, because potatoes could not be eaten raw.

Several villagers stopped at the edge of the sorghum field on the way, looking at the red sorghum ears and the few green leaves left.

"Sorghum can be harvested, but harvesting sorghum is a strenuous job."

Han Li did not quite understand at first. He thought that sorghum should be easier to harvest because it was tall.

At least he did not need to bend down all the time like when cutting bean stalks, but reality soon gave him a lesson.

Sorghum stalks are tall and thick, and it is much more difficult to cut than bean stalks. The key is that sorghum needs to be bundled when harvesting.

Han Li looked at the villagers and saw that they were almost the same as when they were cutting bean stalks. He held the sorghum stalks with one hand and waved the sickle with the other hand.

Use your knees to hold the sorghum stalks and walk forward until you can no longer hold them with your arms. Then start to bundle them.

Pull out two sorghum stalks with your hands, and twist them with your left and right hands to form a "kidney".

Then use this kidney to bundle the harvested sorghum into a large bundle, put it behind you and start cutting again.

When you finish cutting a round, the villagers will press the sickle on their waists and start to hold the bundles of sorghum.

First, make these bundles of sorghum into a human-shaped frame, and then continue to fill the surrounding with sorghum bundles.

Keep piling the sorghum into a "sorghum pile" like a pointed tent, and then start the next round of harvesting.

So harvesting sorghum is not only a physical job, but also a technical job.

Han Li was only able to skillfully bundle after cutting half of the round, but there was no problem with piling sorghum piles.

When Han Li finished work, he looked into the field and saw that the ground was full of uneven sorghum piles.

The reason why everyone piled the sorghum like this was because the threshing ground had not been vacated.

Stacking sorghum in this way can prevent moisture and reduce the harm of mice.

When there is space on the threshing ground, everyone will pull all the sorghum back for simple shelling.

After a few days of busy work, only corn is left in the field that has not been collected.

However, I heard from Captain Liang that as long as there is space on the threshing ground, we will start harvesting immediately.

These two days have been threshing, shelling, threshing, winnowing, drying, and bagging.

When chatting, the villagers said that the weather this year is very good, and everyone has saved a lot of things.

Han Li asked without knowing, of course, and the villagers said that one year it was cold and snowed early.

The dryness of the grain did not meet the standard for submission, and the urging from above was very tight.

So everyone moved all the grain to the kang and used the kang to dry the grain little by little.

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