Husband and wife are hot on the kang

Chapter 139

In the evening, to celebrate the completion of the little master's "licorice apricot", Huang Zaichu showed eighteen martial arts skills and prepared a large table of vegetarian dishes. .

At night, Shi Hongda fanned Yu Liangji, and Yu Baobao had already been put to sleep by Yu Liangji.

"I'm going to harvest apricots tomorrow." Yu Liangji suddenly said this while he was half asleep and half awake.

"Still making licorice apricot?" Shi Hong asked him in a low voice.

"Well, I still make licorice apricots." Yu Liangji muttered: "If you don't make them, they will be destroyed! It's a pity."

"Why do you have to make licorice and apricots yourself? Can't you let someone else do it?" Shi Hongda knew that Yu Liangji was not a stingy person. Last year, he took out a manual thresher, as well as the columbine cart and plow.

"They are all honest people. I think I will come first. In winter, I sell the licorice apricots for money. When they see the benefits, they will come to them. I will teach them how to make the apricots in the village. It will be wasted in vain, and the licorice and apricots have been stored for a long time, and they can be sold at a high price during the winter and Chinese New Year." Yu Liangji became more sober.

Things in the Northland have always been scarce. They have no shortage of wild animals, such as cured meat, rabbits, and dried roe deer. What they lack are fruits and vegetables. The persimmon cakes bought and sold here in previous years are more expensive than those elsewhere.

Also during the Chinese New Year, the frozen pears trafficked over are also very expensive, all because the Northland itself doesn't have any outstanding fruits, and there is no way to preserve them.

Therefore, after the autumn harvest in the Northland, the fruit remains high. It’s not that there are no greenhouses to cultivate all kinds of southern fruits, but the effect is very little. The fruit produced is no more than the rich and noble families in the Northland. Don’t think about it .

"Okay, I got it, go to sleep." Shi Hongda bowed his head and kissed Yu Liangji, fanned him earnestly, and coaxed him to sleep.

Yu Liangji closed his eyes and gradually fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Shi Hongda took Liu Wenxi and Batu out, collecting apricots from door to door, but all apricots that were ripe!

But you have to pick good ones, not soft ones, ones with worm eyes and spots!

Everyone who doesn't know who?

If it is less than what people ask for, of course it will give the best!

However, the apricots from the two brothers of the Fu family were confiscated.

Shi Hongda never came to the door!

The person from Fu Erzhuzi's house saw Shi Hongda go to collect apricots from other people's house at the door, and didn't even look at their house. Their house also has apricot trees, so of course there are apricots, not a lot!

Especially the old Sun's family next door, when he came out to give Shi Hongda a gift, Shi Hongda gave them a bunch of copper coins, his teeth itched with hatred!

"Mom, I want to eat mahua!" Fu Jiaqiang came back from the field, covered in steam. He just came back from the riverside for water. He was hungry and wanted to eat mahua.

There are twists sold in grocery stores, but they need two steel plates for each. For peasant children, one steel plate is reluctant to spend, let alone two steel plates.

"What to eat? You know what to eat all day long!" Fu Erzhu's family slapped Fu Jiaqiang back into the house, closed the door, changed his clothes rudely, and sweared at him while doing laundry and cooking. .

The production of licorice apricots at Yu Liangji's family did not stop until the end of June, because at this time, the apricots were already ripe, and all the apricots that should have fallen had fallen off, leaving only a leafy green tree leaf.

In July, the temperature is still very high, the corn in the field is sprouting, and basically all kinds of melons and fruits at home can be eaten.

Watermelon is loved by the family because of its sweet taste, but Yu Liangji strictly restricts children from eating melon because he is afraid that they will have diarrhea.

Most of the people in the family eat behind their backs. When they see it, they will give a piece of sweet mouth at most, and don't think about the rest.

In order to coax the children, Ms. Huang specially made mung bean cakes from the mung beans at home and gave them to eat, so that the children could calm down.

After all, melons and fruits are not as sweet as mung bean cakes with white sugar!

The weather is hot, and Yu Liangji is not willing to move. The bath water in the shower every day does not need to be burned, but directly exposed to the sun, so hot!

"You said, did the fish in the river die of heat?" Yu Liangji played a fan, drank mung bean soup, and joked with Shi Hongda.

"I can't die from the heat. I've already got into the fruit at this time, and the river is moving. When the water passes through a shady place, the temperature will naturally drop. It's not standing still." Shi Hongda also played a fan. Biting a slice of watermelon.

Cool watermelon entrance, happy!

Yu Liangji watched him eat watermelon enviously, and Yu Baobao was holding mung bean cake next to him, without even looking at Uncle Shi.

There is no way, the stomachs of both the uncle and the nephew are not very good, Yu Liangji was very afraid of how the baby would be at first, but he was greedy, and he ate too much melon and fruit, and he had diarrhea!

Luckily, Liu Wenxi is a man of many talents and can also do some medical skills. When he saw that there were many melon stalks and watermelon rinds on the plate of the little master secretary, he said that he eats melons, drinks some mung bean water, eats lighter meals, and cooks. Put a little more salt in time, just eat two meals.

There is no need to call a doctor for such a small problem!

Sure enough, one day later, Yu Liangji was healed, and then he was treated like the four children. He couldn't eat melons and fruits, and he was given a piece of watermelon at most. Is there any more!

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Qiqiao Festival, the female family members made snacks and begged for cleverness with needlework. Again, because of the filial piety, the Yu family did not have a very lively life. It was very lively outside, and many people took their daughters out for a parade Well, even if there are only a few people in Shibalipu, they still have to walk around.

After the seventh day of July, the beginning of autumn began. Although the temperature was still hot, it didn't last too long. After several downpours, the temperature finally dropped.

The people who felt the coolness were very happy, and Yu Liangji finally saw the natural weather in the north. Fortunately, the crops such as corn and sorghum had a tendency to mature after being hot for such a short time.

By the beginning of August, the temperature is already very good, and you can wear long sleeves in the morning and evening, and early autumn has begun.

After listening to Yu Liangji's lecture, Lin Jie and Hong Zetao raised one thing.

"I want to take the imperial examination. I don't know what you mean?" Since the two of them listened to Yu Liangji's lecture, they automatically respected Yu Liangji as "Mr."

"No way." Yu Liangji objected: "You are all exposed to these things for the first year, and you haven't mastered them yet. How do you take the exam? Even if you go, you will lose your name."

He hit the two college students without any reservations. Their horizons were still not wide enough, otherwise he wouldn't have talked about everything when he was chatting with them after lectures.

In the future, he will travel to many places with the professors of the Agricultural University, and also drilled in deep mountains and old forests, just to find a kind of wild plum as a mother plant for grafting, which can resist many diseases and insect pests.

And coming from the era of the information explosion, the vision of looking at the world is naturally not comparable to the two of them.

Want to take the Juren exam with just such a little ability?

Certainly not!

"Then when do you think it's appropriate for us to take the exam?" Lin Jie thought for a while, and found that it was really similar to what Yu Liangji said.

The two of them know what they are capable of. With a direction to learn, they have ambitions, and they always want to give it a try.

"The next year, next year, you two have to study hard, and Mr. Hong, you must memorize those military books!" What Lin Jie needs is flexibility, what Hong Zetao needs is to memorize by rote, this guy's skill , absolutely no problem!

The two of them finally listened to Yu Liangji's words, gave up the idea of ​​giving it a try, and stopped to prepare the lesson plans. After all, it was already August, and school would start for the children after the [-]th.

Corn is the first grain to mature, and then the peanuts grown at home are also ready for harvest.

The helpers also arrived. Yu's family had a lot of large animals, and the horse-drawn carts and ox carts could be used, as well as the donkey carts, so all the big animals started to move.

Even Liu Zongshi has got started, she can drive a car, Aya will go with her, Aya can also drive a car, and can take care of livestock. In addition to the child and Chef Huang’s family, there are Yu Liangji and Yu Baobao in the family. nobody!

The corn stalks were packed very quickly, even the corn stalks were bundled and brought back, and they were placed in the original stacks, with greenish green in the withered yellow. At this time, the corn stalks cannot be burned, but Shi Hongda brought them back in advance. The man brought back two dead trees from the mountain, enough for the fire at home.

In two days, all the corn on the ten-acre field was recovered, and it was the bare type, so there was no need to peel it twice.

This is the intention of the helpers, which saves a procedure and a lot of effort.

All that's left is peanuts.

Just loosen the soil and pull out the peanuts, and there is no time to come back and dry them in the sun.

They weave the peanut seedlings into ropes, revealing a bunch of peanuts underneath. When they came back, they hung the peanuts on the rack to dry, and they harvested very well.

It took two and a half days for the peanuts to be packed, and in the remaining half day, they helped pick up the potatoes next to them with farm tools.

Potatoes are growing well. Although there are only two acres of land and three long ridges, although the potato seeds have not been optimized, they still yield about [-] catties.

But it's not enough to eat, and Yu's family's planting is also a bit simple. Beans and so on are planted a little bit, but Shi Hongda planted it on his own initiative. It's all for saving seeds, and nothing is planted!

Because after all, I am opening up wasteland, and there are few cultivated fields.

The millet is also returned, and it is sent directly to the threshing floor, where it will be crushed with rollers after drying for a while.

Because of the wall, people have to watch the gate at the other end of the threshing ground. The old village head has long stopped working in the fields, so the old man went to see the gate in person.

The Yu family's land is not the most in the village, but it was the first one to be cleaned up. The helpers spent five days, and Yu Liangji settled the bill readily. Come and help.

After sending the people away, the Yu family also started threshing millet, because their family was the first to clear up the field, so they were the first to thresh millet in the threshing field.

The place is very spacious, and a donkey is used to grind it two or three times with a stone roller, grow it, remove the dross, and leave the solid and plump millet, and use an inverted fontanelle to remove the shell and get millet.

When autumn comes, the weather is cooler and the most important thing is that there is much less rain. Sometimes even if it is cloudy, it only rains lightly, and the air is very dry.

Yu Liangji asked Liu Wenxi to go out to harvest agricultural products, mung beans, red beans and soybeans, which are all necessary. Shi Hongda also went to the county town to buy a lot of new rice and came back, which weighed [-] catties. I didn’t know that their family was going to open a grain shop. Woolen cloth.

It looks like a lot of potatoes, but it’s just a pile. There are 1000 people in the family, and more than [-] catties of potatoes are not enough. However, Aunt Qiao’s family next door grows a lot. In the past, Aunt Qiao would go to the county to sell some To subsidize the family, there is no need to go to the county now, Yu Liangji has covered it all!

"Now I can save trouble, and don't have to go to the county seat." Shi Hongda happily patted Xiao Wu on the shoulder, Batu and the others were carrying potatoes home.

Qiao Xiaowu smiled shyly, and pointed to the three sacks of potatoes next to him: "These three are given away, and I can save myself going to the county to compete with others."

During the autumn harvest, the agricultural products are all down. Don’t have too many people buying and selling potatoes, cabbage and Danqiu scallions in the county. Brothers are also required to help clean up the autumn harvest.

Now it's all right, let the neighbors buy all the potatoes that can be sold, and even send someone over to get them!