Chapter 29 Harvesting Wheat
Gao Baosheng's wheat field was tidied up so quickly, and it was much smoother and sturdier than in previous years. The villagers nearby were all envious when they saw it. They were not only slow in pushing Xiao Luqi, but also inefficient. They wanted Baosheng to help, but they couldn't ask for help.
Gao Baosheng was packing his things and getting ready to go home when he saw Heizi's father walking over with his younger brother Hei Wa.
"Village Chief, Baosheng, your car is convenient, can you help us? I went to the countryside yesterday to buy some beef, how about I bring you two bowls later?" Heizi's father looked at Baosheng and said.
Gao Guoliang didn't say anything. Gao Guozhong and others all looked at Baosheng. It was difficult to refuse, but it was also difficult not to refuse. After opening an opening, Baosheng would not be able to help everyone.
"Brother Bai Lin, my car also needs oil, so let's do it! Just pay for the oil. Give me one yuan and I will grind the wheat field for you." Gao Baosheng said.
The price of one yuan is already considered cheap and cannot be cheaper. It is really the price of gas. Heizi's father couldn't help but nodded after hearing this.
"Then thank you Baosheng. I'll ask my wife to send the money and beef later!" Heizi's father led Baosheng to their wheat field. Baosheng finished the work in ten minutes. At this time, other people in the village
Come over if you see it.
As a result, all the remaining 12 Gao Baosheng families in the village helped, and everyone could ask for just one yuan. Knowing that Baosheng really only charged the gas fee, everyone was very grateful.
When he came back in the evening, Gao Baosheng felt more tired than driving to Pagoda City to pull sand control grass. He had to train a deputy for himself, otherwise he would be exhausted in the future. This kind of farm work is not as good as driving on the road, the driver said.
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"Baosheng, you did a good job today. We helped you, so we don't want them to owe us any favors!" Gao Guoyao praised Baosheng during the afternoon meal at Baosheng's house.
"Our village is so big, so we have to help if we can. If we don't help, people in the village will definitely say that even if they all help, everyone in the village can accept it," Gao Guoming said.
"We are not here to make money. We only need to help people without being criticized by the villagers. Driving to work in the village is much more expensive than driving on the main road.
I will definitely not be able to drive alone in the future. Fourth uncle, you can learn to drive with me when you have free time!" Gao Baosheng said.
Gao Guoming nodded happily after hearing this. It was also very good to learn how to drive at this time. Gao Guozhong and Gao Guoyao showed envy in their eyes.
Gao Baosheng wants to build a house for his fourth uncle. This matter has been decided, and now he is asked to drive. Although Baosheng and his fourth uncle played a lot since childhood, and the two are close in age, this is too much for Gao Guoming.
"Next year, fourth child, you will be 29 years old. When the house is built, I will call you aunt. If you and Baosheng learn how to drive well, next year it will be easy to call aunt." Gao Guoliang, as the head of the family, said.
"Brother, I understand, Baosheng, thank you!" Gao Guoming said gratefully.
Gao Guoming is almost thirty years old and still lives with his third brother. He is the most unpromising person in the countryside. Now that he has learned how to drive and has his own house, he is suddenly different.
When the two brothers Gao Guozhong heard what their eldest brother said, they also knew that the younger brother's marriage was the most important thing now. How could they ignore them when Baosheng was already promising.
"Brother, I want to learn too!" Yi Gong was unwilling after hearing this. He always thought that he was the person closest to Baosheng. If he had the opportunity to drive, how could he be left out?
"You are not 18 years old yet. If you drive out and the traffic police find you, they will immediately arrest you and impound our car!" Gao Baosheng said.
"Then... forget it then!" Gao Yigong lowered his head to eat after hearing this.
Everyone in the village felt proud that they had helped the people in the village. After finishing the work for the whole village one day earlier, they could plant trees. The earlier the trees were planted, the greater the chance of survival. This was a contribution to the entire village.
When it was dark the next morning, Baosheng was woken up by his mother for the first time. Before they went out after breakfast, they saw the second uncle and the third uncle all coming over after eating.
"Sister-in-law, please stay at home with mom to watch the children cook. We, Baosheng, and the eight volunteers should be able to cut all the wheat today," Hu Huihui said.
Everyone agreed. In the end, Baosheng’s mother did not go, and the others got in the car and went to the Green Sea Lake together.
The four Baosheng families share four acres and sixty acres of land together, occupying about one-sixth of the good farmland in the village on the edge of Green Sea Lake.
The children did not follow today. One reason was that it was dangerous for children to play by the lake, and the other reason was that it was still too hot. When we got there, Gao Baosheng parked the car by the lake, and he and everyone went to cut the wheat with a sickle.
The result seemed to be a very simple action, but Gao Baosheng saw the difference between experienced hands and novices. The wheat stubble he cut was high and low, and it took a long time to tie up the wheat straw. His father and three uncles were faster than him.
More than twice as much, he kept cutting like this for an hour. When the sun just rose, he had already drank half a pot of space water.
"Baosheng, go and carry the wheat to the car with Yi Gong! You are not used to using a sickle and you will get twice the result with half the effort. If you pull the wheat back earlier, in case of sudden rain, we will have time to protect the wheat." Gao Guoliang said when he saw his son's appearance.
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Gao Baosheng nodded. Yi Gong was still too young and cut the wheat slower, but the two aunts were very fast, at least better than Baosheng.
Gao Baosheng nodded, put away the sickle and went to move the wheat bundles to the carriage. At this time, Gao Baosheng saw Shen Ruobing coming too.
"What are you doing here? It's hot out here!" Gao Baosheng said when he saw Shen Ruobing.
"Help! I've been reading in the house for a long time, and I need to balance work and rest," Shen Ruobing said.
Gao Baosheng didn't want Shen Ruobing to help him, so he didn't ask Shen Ruobing to come to his home in the past few days. The reason was that during the autumn harvest in rural areas, girls go to boys' homes to harvest wheat, which means that the girl identifies with the boy and his family and hopes to marry the boy.
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This is the custom in Baosheng's family. If he comes, if his parents seriously give her a meeting gift, it will be difficult for everyone to see each other again. Baosheng and Shen Ruobing's relationship is okay, but they have not reached the stage of being a couple at all.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! What Gao Baosheng wanted to say, he thought about it and let it go. He would tell his parents later, but it was better not to let Shen Ruobing know. He didn't care what the villagers said. .
"With your skin, it only takes half an hour for you to tan in this weather. If you are not afraid of the dark, just follow me." Gao Baosheng said.
Lifting sheaves from the wheat field was an easy job, but Shen Ruobing slowed down after running three times. She took off her sunhat to fan herself in the wind, and Gao Baosheng handed her his kettle after seeing it.
"Why are you giving me water again?" Shen Ruobing asked deliberately when he saw the kettle handed by Gao Baosheng.
"Forget it if you don't want to drink!" Gao Baosheng pretended to take it back.
"Who said I won't drink anymore!" Shen Ruobing quickly grabbed the kettle and drank a few gulps. He took the kettle lid from Baosheng's hand, covered it and put it on his back.
The two were playing around here. Gao Yigong passed by them carrying two bundles of wheat. Seeing the two people's inadvertently intimate movements, he ran to tell his parents. Everyone in the field focused on Shen Ruobing. Although this place is close to the school and Shen Ruobing came here just to help, it seems that the situation is not simple.
"Brother, you and Teacher Shen sit in the front, while I sit in the carriage and look at the wheat." A cart of wheat was full, Gao Baosheng tied the wheat with a rope, Shen Ruobing got into the front cab, but Gao Yigong went to the back of the car.
"Then you still want to watch the wheat? You can sit in this car, and it's not safe to sit on the wheat sheaves. Get down quickly." Gao Baosheng said.
"If I don't come down, you and Teacher Shen have a good talk. I'll be fine up here." Gao Yigong said.
"If you're not afraid of the sun, just stay up there!" Gao Baosheng returned to the cab.
"Your family is very strange today." Shen Ruobing said when she saw Gao Baosheng coming back.
"It's okay, don't worry!" Gao Baosheng saw that Shen Ruobing was wearing light makeup today, and he suddenly felt that he should spend more time with her.
Shen Ruobing is the only one who can really talk to her in Gaojiawan. She is somewhat interested in him. She has shown maturity and stability beyond her years, which must be somewhat attractive to Shen Ruobing, a little girl. , but it is too early to say that this can bring the two people together.
In this era, the generation gap between urban people and rural people is unimaginable. There is a huge gap between the commercial grain household registration and the rural household registration. It would be extremely difficult for a person with a commercial grain household registration in the city to marry into a rural area under normal circumstances. Even if it is heavy If Bing is willing, she also has to consider the pressure from her family and society.
"I feel like you are avoiding me!" Shen Ruobing was a little unhappy.
“With the availability of cars this year, harvesting wheat has become much easier. We can almost finish the harvest tomorrow, and the autumn harvest will be almost completed the day after tomorrow.
When the time comes, I will go to Zizhou County to pull saplings, and you can help me at my house. The book I gave you has knowledge about sapling transportation, and you can give me some guidance. I hope the saplings planted this year can live longer." Gao Baosheng said this.
Although Gao Baosheng did not answer her question, Shen Ruobing also knew why Gao Baosheng rarely talked to her for so many days. She already had some interest in Gao Baosheng, and it was very difficult for the two of them to be together, and Gao Baosheng also knew it.
"I know, I'll check it out when I get back to school!" Shen Ruobing lowered his head and said.
When the car arrived at the wheat field, the three of them put the wheat bundles in the middle of the wheat field of Gao Baosheng's family. This was Baosheng's wheat.
Then he drove to the pond. Shen Ruobing drank Baosheng's water and felt strong enough to work. He followed the two Baosheng brothers and kept busy. Baosheng's two aunts nodded happily.
Nine people worked, with an average of half an acre of land for each of them. By one o'clock in the afternoon, all four families had finished harvesting wheat and transported all the wheat back to the wheat field. It was just after two o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, Baosheng's mother and grandmother I brought food to the wheat field and delivered it to them.
Everyone in the village is busy at the wheat field, but everyone relies on poles to pick wheat from the wheat field. It takes more than two days to cut it and transport it back.
While they were eating, Yindi's mother came to Liu Fenglan with some dried apricots. Gao Baosheng knew that she would definitely come to ask for a car to help. As expected, Liu Fenglan quickly told Baosheng to ask Baosheng to pull wheat for Yindi's house tomorrow afternoon.
People in the village should help, and Baosheng does not object to helping the villagers, as long as the help is not unprincipled.
After lunch, Gao Baosheng and his family spread the wheat in the wheat field, and Baosheng drove the wheat field to grind it to separate the wheat kernels from the ears. This is the most important and tiring work in the autumn harvest.
Gao Baosheng drove his car to grind the field, and his father, uncle, aunt, and mother kept shaking the smashed straw. Shen Ruobing also followed suit and participated.
Yindi's mother and several young children started to help. Other people in the village had just finished eating and all came to help. At one time, there were dozens of people working on the wheat farm of Baosheng and his three uncles. People, so lively.
In just an hour, all the wheat straw and wheat ears in Baosheng's house were separated. Gao Guoliang piled all the wheat grains with some wheat into them and asked Baosheng to grind the wheat straw again. Rural people were not willing to waste a grain of grain.
The second round of grinding yielded about 20 kilograms of wheat. If sold, the price would only be enough for the fuel consumption. Seeing the satisfaction of his parents and uncles, Gao Baosheng said nothing more.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun has not yet set, and the weather has become cooler. Gao Guoliang started to raise the field with a wooden lift (using natural wind to remove wheat, straw and dust from the wheat grains). Their autumn harvest was unexpectedly completed so quickly. We have reached the final stage.
Clean up the wheat today, and start drying the wheat tomorrow. After drying, you will hand in the public grain. Even if the autumn harvest is over, it will take more than a month for the corn to mature. And there is no need to rush to receive the corn. It can be consumed slowly until winter. .
At dinner in the evening, everyone said at the dinner table that Shen Ruobing was beautiful, that city girls could also do rural work, and that there was no better girl than her from far and wide.
Shen Ruobing understood what everyone meant, but she lowered her head and said nothing. Liu Fenglan waited for a long time with the fifty yuan, but finally did not give the money to Shen Ruobing.
When I sent Shen Ruobing back in the evening, the other party didn't say anything. Gao Baosheng just told him about buying desks and chairs, then watched her close the school door and went home.
On the next day, after Gao Baosheng had breakfast, his three uncles came to his home together. Everyone loaded the wheat they brought back yesterday into the car and went to the wheat field to dry, but they saw Shen Ruobing coming again.
"Teacher Shen is here!" Gao Guoliang saw Shen Ruobing coming and just asked politely. He could also see what was happening between his son and her.
"Good morning, uncle, I'm here to see Baosheng!" Shen Ruobing had some dark circles under his eyes, but his condition seemed much better than yesterday.
"What's wrong with you? Did you suffer from insomnia yesterday?" Gao Baosheng looked at Shen Ruobing's appearance and couldn't help feeling a little distressed.
"You are the only one who is heartless! You didn't sleep at all last night," Shen Ruobing said.
"Then don't be busy today and go to bed quickly. How can your body bear it in this hot day?" Gao Baosheng said.
Chapter completed!