Chapter 27
Chapter 27: Pick Up Millet
Chapter 27 Picking up millet
In the evening, Gu Yunjiao was lying on the bed, thinking over and over again.
She is still in the stage of puberty, and her top priority is to take good care of her body and grow fat, otherwise it will be too late after this period.
This body is actually in good shape, but in the past six months, there have been consecutive changes, and the standard of living has plummeted, so the body has become thinner.
But the trouble now is that in this family, although rice and vegetables are basically enough to eat, she needs to supplement protein, that is, meat.
She recalled that there was a butcher’s shop in a town two miles away from here. The trouble is, even after buying meat, it is not convenient to cook and eat it.
This family is like a wolf, and she doesn’t want to take advantage of those people.
How to do it?
Gu Yunjiao suddenly thought of her own medicine store. She had tried it, and she could put things outside.
How about she make a pot inside and eat meat by herself?
Soon she rejected this idea again. The medicine store was set at a constant temperature and humidity, because many Chinese herbal medicines are prone to mold and insects.
Now it is a confined space, cooking in it, and the oily fumes will not be able to get out.
Gu Yunjiao was worried and couldn’t think of a good solution for a while.
One day later is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Jiang’s family celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is no different from usual.
Not to mention moon cakes, even the dishes on the table didn’t add a single one.
It can be seen that everyone is a little dissatisfied, but no one dares to say it.
In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Mr. Jiang knocked on the pot in the yard and woke up the whole family.
Everyone hurriedly ate some multigrain cakes that were fried last night, and went to the fields in the just-bright sky.
Mr. Jiang didn’t say anything that Jiang Youzhi’s hands couldn’t do farm work, and when he got to the field, he split the sickle.
Thank God, there are six sickles in the family, the second uncle and the third uncle, Jiang Erlang Jiang Youzhi, are all strong laborers, and each person has a sickle.
Mr. Jiang is strong and strong, and he is also a good worker at work. He took a sickle himself, and gave the rest to Shiro.
Shiro is fifteen this year, and although he looks thin, he is not lacking in strength.
The women and children of the family were arranged to thresh the grain.
Chen Shi asked Gu Yunjiao and Da Ya Er Ya San Ya to pick up the millet that fell on the ground.
The work of picking up millet is much easier than harvesting, that is, you have to get up and squat down or bend over constantly.
Across the ridge is the Zhang family’s field. Taohua, the newly married daughter-in-law of the Zhang family’s eldest son, only entered the door a few days earlier than Gu Yunjiao. Homely.
This is Gu Yunjiao’s only friend in Qingshan Village.
Peach Blossom was also arranged to pick up the millet. At this time, the sky was already bright, and she happened to be picking it up by the ridge, and Gu Yunjiao was not far away, so she picked up the millet while gossiping with her.
Gu Yunjiao agreed, huh huh, and kept busy with her hands.
Peach Blossom said mysteriously: “I heard that Zhao Li’s family is going to find a marriage for his youngest son, and entrusted the money matchmaker from the next village.”
Gu Yunjiao responded casually, suddenly remembering that the matchmaker Qian was her second aunt.
Peach Blossom looked envious, “It would be a blessing for anyone to marry into his family, his family has a lot of fields, and his youngest son is an old man. The pain in the family is like eyeballs. It is said that he is determined to find a good one for him. Woolen cloth.”
Peach Blossom said and threw down the millet in her hand, stood up, “Oh, this millet picked up my head—” Dizzy, she fell to the ground before she finished speaking.
(end of this chapter)