Chapter 45 Autumn Harvest
Thinking of this, Mu Sheng's face was always frowning. Although he knew that Liu Yaomei would not ignore it, he was afraid that Liu Yaomei would come back to save money to save money.
My uncle Mugen, who is almost forty years old, has a sad face that surrenders to the difficult life. When he was young, he was also a pretty man. Now his face is covered with dark spots on his face, which looks very old.
The poorer the people are, the more they like to care, and the more they care, the poorer they are. This is vividly expressed in the Mu family.
None of the family looks relaxed on their faces, and they are all suffering and mean. How can life be better?
After walking for about half an hour, I arrived at the field of the production team under the Mu family. At that time, the rural contract responsibility system had not yet begun. Yingwu Village was divided into twelve production teams, each with twenty or thirty families, and fifty people. There were only about thirty people who could go to the field to work every day.
After doing this, it doesn’t matter if you put the usual production tasks, but in the busy farming season, every production team will be short of manpower.
Like the men in the Mu family, they usually earn tens of tens every day, and those wives also scored 8 points. Mu Xiu, the younger children, also scored 5 to 6 points a day.
In fact, the Mu family's life is quite good in the village. If it were a sensible old man, he would definitely live much better than he is now.
Mu Xiu stood up and took a deep breath. She felt that she was about to collapse.
In her previous life, Mu Xiu was an orphan, and she had no land to plant. Moreover, there was a simple harvesting machine in the village at that time, Mu Xiu was just doing some easy tasks.
Now for Mu Xiu, harvesting wheat is too difficult. His small body is too weak, and doing this kind of physical work is simply deadly. In the end, Mu Xiu's speed is getting slower and slower. Old Man Mu looked at Mu Xiu's pale face and said a few words, let Mu Xiu follow behind to pick up the lost rice.
But even so, after working for several hours, Mu Xiu was so tired that he was out of breath. In addition, he kept bent down and his waist was almost broken.
Zhou Shuilian was not much better. She had just given birth to a child and was short of qi and blood. She also fed Xiaohua twice in the middle. She kept holding on to her body. She looked up several times and saw Mu Xiu’s face turned pale. Zhou Shuilian couldn’t help but feel sorry for her.
Old Man Mu is taciturn and silent on weekdays. Under Liu Yaomei's strength, he is like a non-existent transparent person. At this time, he glanced at his hard-working second son's family and couldn't help but sigh.
"Dad, there is no water." Wang Guiying said to Old Man Mu.
Old Man Mu looked at the sky and it was almost noon. He only heard him shouting: "Xiu, go to the well to get some water back."
"Hongxia, go home to get your meal."
Hearing Old Man Mu's arrangement, Wang Guiying immediately showed a look of dissatisfaction on her face.
Everyone knows that there is a wellhead nearby. If you go to get water, you need to queue up. There is a big tree next to the well. It is very cool under the shade. You can take the opportunity to rest for a while while waiting to get water.
Zhou Shuilian showed joy on her face, and Mu Xiu could go and take a break.
"Dad, Mu Xiu is too short. This well is not the same as the well at the doorstep. What should Mu Xiu do if she falls down? Besides, only her small body can bring back a lot of water and let Hongxia go." Wang Guiying's eyes turned and she immediately smiled.
Old Man Mu glanced at the thin Mu Xiu, and then looked at Mu Hongxia, who was half a head taller than Mu Xiu and was strong all over his body. He knew that what Wang Guiying said made sense. The well was indeed much taller than the well at the door of his house.
Although Old Man Mu felt a little unwilling, it would not be great if Mu Xiuzhen fell into the well, so he could only wave his hand, "Xiu went back to get the food, Hongxia went to fetch water."
From the working field to the Mu family, it is not far away, but not near, it is only half an hour away. It takes almost an hour to walk back and forth, and so many people have a very heavy weight to carry over.
"Dad, I'll get it." Zhou Shuilian raised her head and said hurriedly.
"You can still harvest more wheat. Show me, look at how much rice she has harvested this morning. What can she do?" Wang Guiying curled her lips. "Mom, it's okay, I'm back." Mu Xiu wiped her sweat, then walked to the ridge and went back to get everyone's lunch.
Wang Guiying looked at Zhou Shuilian with pride and asked her daughter to fetch water.
"Oh, it would be great if I could take out the space harvester now." Mu Xiu, as a student of Agricultural Science University, saw that everyone had been working for so long and were exhausted one by one, and had only harvested less than one-tenth of the rice. She missed the modern machines so much now.
Mu Xiu was thinking about the knowledge he had learned along the way, how to make simple auxiliary tools to improve efficiency. He thought about it while walking, and soon he arrived at home. There were too many places and few people, so every household had a large yard. The Mu family had a large population, and the yard was considered large in the entire village.
Although Mu Xiu has been traveling here for more than a month, she has only been here for three nights in this so-called home. If it weren't for the original owner's memory, she would probably not even be able to find the toilet.
Mu Xiu came directly to the kitchen, and Mu Zhi was putting the steamed corn and sweet potato steamed buns into the basket. The steamed buns were hungry and convenient.
"Go and get some water over, I'll pack it soon." Mu Zhi turned her head and saw that it was Mu Xiu who came back, so she pointed to the bucket beside her.
Mu Xiu looked at Mu Zhi curiously. In the original owner's memory, Mu Zhi's relationship with Mu Shu was not very good. Mu Zhi was also indifferent to everyone in the family. However, in the end, Xiaohua fell ill, Mu Zhi took out so much money to Mu Shu, which was simply a thrilling curiosity.
Mu Xiu picked up the wooden barrel and went to the well outside the yard to get water. The main house of the Mu family faced north and south, six houses besieged in a shape of the city, and the gate was on the south side.
The main house is where Liu Yaomei and Old Man Mu live. There is an ear room inside. It is where Liu Yaomei puts food. To go there, you must pass through the bedrooms of the two of you.
The room next to the main house is the room of my younger sister-in-law Lanzhi. It can be said that it is the room with the best light except for Liu Yaomei's room. Liu Yumei had already looked at this room and waited for Lanzhi to get married quickly and freed it for her son Mu Zhijun. Helplessly, this sister-in-law has not yet been married.
Chapter completed!