allonlinenovel Chapter 166 Autumn Harvest, being rich and willful?
Chapter 166 Autumn Harvest, being rich and willful?
The golden autumn sunshine is warm and peaceful, the autumn breeze in the countryside is gentle and soft, and the blue sky and white clouds are elegant and melodious, forming a beautiful picture of autumn harvest.
Everyone in the village was busy harvesting rice. Yao Qingnian also returned to the village. She had never experienced the autumn harvest and wanted to take this opportunity to experience it.
After preparing everything early in the morning, he went to his own fields with Lu Mingchuan and Liu Shuyue.
Yao Qingnian's embroidery workshop was closed for two days. Lu Minghai and Lu Shuangshuang were harvesting in the fields, but there was no sight of Ge. It was probably because she was hit hard by Yao Qingnian when she was putting up the beams two days ago, and it happened to be the autumn harvest season, so she was recuperating at home and being lazy!
"Brother, Shuangshuang!" Lu Mingchuan went over and greeted him.
"Mingchuan, you are here to harvest rice too!" After what happened two days ago, Lu Minghai couldn't raise his head and was too ashamed to face his younger brother.
"Yes, big brother. We'll get busy first." After greeting each other, the two brothers went about their business.
Yao Qingnian was full of curiosity and excitement. She had watched other people’s autumn harvest on TV before and it was so much fun. They could eat watermelons and, if they were lucky, even pick up bird eggs.
The golden rice fields looked like a golden ocean under the sunlight. Yao Qingnian excitedly rushed into the fields, followed Liu Shuyue's example, bent down, held the rice stalks, and cut off handfuls of rice ears with a sickle.
However, Yao Qingnian ignored the sharpness of the rice leaves. As she moved back and forth in the rice fields, her arms kept rubbing and colliding with the rice leaves. Unconsciously, many thin cuts appeared on her arms.
At first, Yao Qingnian didn't notice it, he just felt a slight sting in his arm. When he took a break, he found that his arm was covered with red scratches, some of which were oozing with small blood beads.
She felt a little regretful. This autumn harvest was not fun at all.
Liu Shuyue saw it and asked her to go to the ridge to rest: "You are so delicate, you should go back! Your father and I will cut the grass slowly."
Yao Qingnian's arm was painful and itchy, which was unbearable. He took the ointment from the space and applied it, and it felt a little better.
She looked at her own fields. Although there were not many, it would still take the old couple several days to finish them at the current pace.
Yao Qingnian simply went to the river to wash the mud off her hands and walked back home. Her action inevitably caused people to gossip: "Look at Yao Qingnian, she only worked for a short while and she went home to be lazy. Alas, you are such a waste of time!"
The person who spoke was Sun Xinghua from the village. Originally, Lu Mingchuan's family was the worst off in the village. The husband was disabled and the daughter-in-law was vicious. There was chaos at home every day. However, in the past six months, everything has changed dramatically. Not only did Lu Mingchuan's legs get better, but Yao Qingnian also became successful and built the largest blue brick and tile house in the village. Whenever he went out, his eyes were bright and he was always talking and laughing.
Such changes will inevitably arouse the envy of some people in the village, to put it bluntly, jealousy. So when there is a little disturbance in their family, there are people who make up gossips about her family behind their backs, while pretending to obey them but actually doing so.
"You idiot, just do your job, why are you so talkative? If you have this ability, I will not say a word to you when you go home and lie down every day, and I will serve you comfortably." Sun Xinghua's man Ye Mazi scolded her. His face was gaunt and his complexion was dark, but he could not hide his shrewdness. Although he was also jealous of the Lu family, he did not show it on the surface.
Yao Qingnian returned to the village and came to the new house. Shi Yongshan was directing people to move things. The foundation of the workshop next to it had been laid. According to Yao Qingnian's request, more people were hired to speed up the work. In total, there were about a dozen people busy.
"Uncle Yongshan."
"Qingnian girl, I have found some more people to work for you. It is estimated that the new house will be ready for people to live in in about half a month. This workshop will be completed for you before the end of next month." Shi Yongshan said with a smile, pointing at the house in front of him.
"Uncle, can you help me find five or six capable people to help me do something else today?"
"What is it, girl? Of course, I can just delay the house for a day."
"Harvest rice for my family..."
"Huh?" Shi Yongshan thought he had heard it wrong. No one in the village would hire someone to harvest rice. Wouldn't that be a waste of money? He thought he had heard it wrong.
"Uncle, harvesting rice takes too much time. Just call a few people out. I'll pay them the same way."
"Well!"
Soon Shi Yongshan found six men. When they heard that they were going to harvest rice, they were very enthusiastic. This job was much easier than moving bricks and tiles to build a house.
Yao Qingnian took a few people to her own fields. With so many people, her family could finish the work in one day and try to harvest the grain today.
Six people only cost 200 coins, which saves a lot of effort, it's a good deal! Seeing Yao Qingnian with so many people, the people working in the fields stopped and looked at her: "Qingnian, what are you doing?"
"Auntie, I want to ask these brothers who are building houses to help my family harvest rice."
Hiring someone? Is this what it means to be rich and willful? The villagers looked at her enviously.
When they arrived at their own field, Lu Mingchuan and his wife looked up and were stunned to see so many people.
"We are too slow. I asked the workers who were building the house to come and help. Dad, you still have to go to the village entrance to collect lobsters in the afternoon. More people will make it faster."
"This..." Without waiting for the couple to react.
"Brothers, let's get started!" He called a few people to go to the fields to help with the harvest.
Men who have been working all year round are much more efficient than women like them. In just one morning, more than half of her family's fields were harvested.
Yao Qingnian was responsible for delivering water, and then he walked around nearby and acted as a supervisor. He cooked and brought lunch over at noon. Everyone had to eat their fill to have the strength to work.
The men who were called here didn't expect that they would be provided with food and their wages would be paid as usual, so they worked even harder.
Bored sitting on the edge of the field, Yao Qingnian simply went down to the river to catch snails. It had been a long time since the last time he picked them up. The small ones had grown up and were clinging to the rocks and water plants. In a short while, he had picked up half a bucket of snails.
Harvesting rice, a job that would normally take the old couple three or four days to complete, was completed in just one day with the help of more people, and all the rice was delivered back to them.
There is a special threshing floor in the village, with each household occupying one. Your family uses the grain and my family uses it. When soldiers come, we can all collect the grain.
Yao Qingnian lived in the Jingyuan Dynasty, a fictional era. Grain payment was calculated per head. Every adult over the age of fourteen had to pay three dan of grain per year, children between the ages of seven and fourteen had to pay one dan of grain per year, and those under the age of seven did not have to pay.
There are four people in Yao Qingnian's family, including Lu Huaijin. Yinuo is not yet of age, so he has to pay a total of 12 dan of grain, which is about the harvest of two acres of land.