Chapter 233: Humorous Li Long on the wheat field

Li Long left, Gu Xiaoxia hurriedly finished the rice in the bowl and prepared to tidy up.

Teacher Wang walked to the door and asked with a smile:

"He left?"

"Left." Gu Xiaoxia blushed and said, "He brought some dried mushrooms, Teacher Wang, I'll share some with you..."

"No, I don't cook well, it's a waste to take it, I smell your rice aroma... eh? What is this?"

Her gaze was fixed on that half basin of wild strawberries.

"He said it's wild strawberries from the mountains, quite delicious." Gu Xiaoxia carried the basin in front of Teacher Wang, "You try it."

Teacher Wang picked up a grain and tasted it, her eyes lit up:

"Eh, it's really quite delicious, he truly has a heart."

"There is also half a bowl of jiu pian zi, Teacher Wang, do you want to eat?"

"Eat, I'll eat." Teacher Wang didn't have any embarrassment, she and Gu Xiaoxia had a good relationship, often shared things, "I originally planned not to eat anything today, as a result, I smelled your rice aroma, just now I planned to come over, heard his voice, so I didn't come over."

Gu Xiaoxia scooped rice and handed it to Teacher Wang, Teacher Wang tasted a mouthful, saw the pickles on the table, picked a chopstick and mixed it, tasted it again, nodded with satisfaction, eating while saying:

"Determined him?"

"Hmm."

"Then what about the son of Vice Principal Wang?"

"I clearly refused him." Gu Xiaoxia said, "I told him, I have a partner."

"That's not a fuel-efficient lamp, won't give up easily." Teacher Wang raised her eyebrows and said, "He works in the township, the distance here is close, might come over to find you frequently."

"Then I won't see him." Gu Xiaoxia's will was very firm, and she didn't take this matter to heart, "If he comes again, I will directly refuse in front of many people, if he wants face, then he won't come again. If it really doesn't work, I'll go to their unit... I don't believe he doesn't pay attention to the influence at all?"

"You... don't say, I believe you can do this." Teacher Wang looked at Gu Xiaoxia seriously, and said with a smile, "This Li Long truly has good fortune."

"Actually I feel it's my fortune." Gu Xiaoxia blushed, but her tone was very firm, "If it weren't for him, I should be cutting wheat in the wheat field at home now... Teacher Wang, you don't know that cutting wheat, it's truly too tiring, bending over for a day, waiting until night, feeling that waist isn't one's own anymore..."

"It seems, you truly have suffered."

"The suffering we ate is still little, my dad, Li Long's brother's generation truly ate suffering... They are already used to it, I can't get used to it... If it weren't for Li Long, I might really have stayed in the village for a lifetime." Gu Xiaoxia sat on the edge of the bed and said, "So, I know he is sincerely good to me..."

"But this isn't love." Teacher Wang said while eating, "Being good to you, you can repay, if you don't like him..."

"I like him!" Gu Xiaoxia interrupted Teacher Wang's words, and then she was startled by her own answer.

Was this something that could be said?

"That's good, that's good." Teacher Wang smiled, "I was just worried you couldn't distinguish what is gratitude and what is love... hmm, the soup rice you made is not bad."

Gu Xiaoxia blushed and lowered her head, not speaking.

When Li Long returned home, Li Juan and Li Qiang were both waiting for him.

"Come, come, come, Juan, Qiangqiang, this is wild strawberry, take this basin and give it to your grandma, mom to taste." Li Long got off the bicycle, saw the two children looking at him with wide eyes, smiled and handed the wild strawberry basin to Li Juan.

Li Juan took it, Li Qiang also leaned over and grabbed the basin edge, the two carried it and went to find Du Chunfang.

Du Chunfang was sitting in the courtyard, seeing Li Juan and Li Qiang carrying the basin over, said with a smile:

"Good, good, good, give it to your mom to eat, I won't eat."

"Grandma, you eat!" Li Qiang said very loudly.

"Good, good, good, I'll eat." Du Chunfang was extremely happy, grinning and laughing, she reached out and took a few wild strawberries, then pushed the basin away, "Go give it to your mom to eat."

Li Long put down the bicycle, took down the dried wild mushrooms from behind the bicycle, found a basin, poured some and said:

"I'll take these mushrooms to Old Luo... too tired, going back to sleep."

"Go, go, go, you hurry back and rest."

Li Jianguo was washing his face by the pressure well, washing while saying:

"Daqiang came over earlier to ask, asking if we are setting nets today..."

"Where does he have such great spirit, not setting, not working these two days." Li Long said, "Have to rest well for two days."

Returning to the Old Horse Number, Old Luo was feeding the small deer with newly cut grass. Li Long saw the small deer was still quite lively, just that large roe deer was a bit wilted, the small wild boar was also twenty or thirty kilograms, still grunting loudly. At this time, it was already dark, otherwise, it wasn't a residential point near the Old Horse Number, otherwise, someone would definitely come over to say something.

"Old Old Old Luo Shu, this is dried mushrooms brought from the mountains, this is a root of Codonopsis, not very full, wait until autumn when I dig a full one I'll bring it to you." Li Long said.

"Yo, this Codonopsis is truly large..." Old Uncle Luo looked and was also startled, "This isn't easy to get, right?"

"There are many in the mountains," Li Long said with a smile, "Soak in boiling water, or boil to drink, it's for replenishing qi."

In this year, most old people believe in traditional Chinese medicine, so they believe in things like replenishing qi and blood.

When eating breakfast at home the next morning, Li Jianguo said at the dining table that it was time to shade the wheat field.

Because the wheat was about to be cut.

Actually, this work should have started half a month ago in previous years. This year, the whole village urgently took the job of tying large brooms, now the strong laborers were all tying large brooms, so this work hadn't started yet.

The Li family had returned, so this work could start.

Actually, when dividing the team's production at the beginning of the year, Xu Congjun had already clarified that those wheat fields that originally belonged to the public now belonged to the nearby private individuals. The public still used these fields for threshing, if private individuals threshed, then they each did it in their own wheat fields.

Wheat fields were usually relatively fixed, because the places selected first had to be close to the residential point, secondly had to be flat, and it was best if they weren't far from the plots.

In those years of harvesting wheat, threshing, harvesting oil sunflowers, sunning corn, all were carried out in the wheat field. When harvesting wheat, some people would even sleep in the wheat field at night to watch the wheat.

And at this time, children usually liked to play on the soft wheat straw—the wheat straw was pressed very softly by the roller when threshing, not pricking at all, lying on it was very comfortable, the kind that could directly sink people in.

Children who liked hide-and-seek liked most to dig a hole in the wheat straw pile at this time to hide in, and then pull the wheat straw to block the hole. Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't be found like this.

Of course, finally, the biggest possibility was that the person hiding in the hole came out by themselves, either because it was too hot inside and they couldn't stand it, or the person looking couldn't find them, finally went home, no one looked, and they came out by themselves.

Li Long remembered that in the previous life, there were children playing hide-and-seek, digging a hole in the wheat straw pile to hide themselves, and blocking the hole with wheat straw, as a result, they fell asleep inside (hypoxia?), and then waited until dark and didn't go home, the people in the entire residential point were mobilized to look for them, finally, it was the shouting that woke the child up and they drilled out by themselves.

Of course, they couldn't avoid being beaten.

At this time, the most warned thing in the village to children was not to play with fire.

Fortunately, the children were quite obedient in this regard, in the previous life, didn't hear of any wheat straw pile catching fire in the ten or so wheat fields of the three residential points of the whole village.

"Then shade it, anyway there isn't much work in the field." Li Long said, "It will be finished in half a day."

"Later I'll go call people." Li Jianguo as a commune member representative, now a villager representative, had this bit of initiative—or rather, these village-founding veterans were the batch with the strongest initiative in working.

The sense of being the master was very strong.

After Li Jianguo walked through several nearby households in the residential point, he returned and said:

"Let's go, each household sends one or two laborers. Dad, Mom, you don't go, Juan's mom, you and I go..."

"Sister-in-law don't go, Brother, I'll go with you." Li Long said, "I won't participate in the team's work of cutting wheat in a few days, I'll just show my face today for shading the field."

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"Go, go, go." Li Jianguo said with a smile, "You just be lazy."

Li Qing Xia saw that the brothers were joking, he turned his head and looked at Du Chunfang with a smile, Du Chunfang still wanted to defend Li Long a few words, but was pulled by Li Qing Xia, signaling her not to say much.

The brothers were getting along well, what you said was superfluous.

Li Long and Li Jianguo carried iron shovels to the wheat field, Sister-in-law Lu had already arrived, also bringing Tie Tou.

Others arrived one after another, and the work had already started.

Saying it was shading the field, actually this was a whole set of work. Shading the field was just one of the items.

The wheat field was used up the previous year, because the ground was pressed relatively solid, so actually, it didn't grow grass on top, just had garbage. So first, sweep away the garbage on top, and then use an iron shovel or hoe to carefully and densely turn up the top three to five centimeters of soil.

At that time Li Long didn't know the principle, it was still in the previous life when he saw the explanation on short videos, saying it was to cut off some capillary phenomenon, so that when it rained, the rainwater on the ground surface wouldn't seep down, and the dampness underground wouldn't rise up.

After shoveling this layer, water it, after watering, cover it with wheat straw—this step was called shading the field.

Wait until the ground skin under the grass was dry, the rest was to use livestock to pull the roller and start rolling on the wheat field, rolling until the ground was tight and solid, and water wouldn't seep when splashed, only then was it considered good.

Next, each household divided the blocks, preparing to pile their own wheat stacks around the wheat field—according to the previously agreed order to thresh. Usually, when threshing, everyone came over to help, this time was the most lively.

Of course, later winnowing, loading wheat, etc., were all done separately.

It was just that in later generations, with the shortage and increase in value of land resources, merging villages and teams, three residential points became one residential point, plus mechanized harvesting became the norm, the wheat field disappeared.

And later when threshing grain again, wanting to sun it, could only sun it on the asphalt road, greatly affecting the passage of personnel and vehicles.

Li Long remembered seeing news in the previous life, saying that in the interior, there was sunning grain and straw on the road, causing a large amount of poles to be rolled into the bottom of the oil tanker, then entering the gas station to refuel, then the straw self-ignited, igniting the oil tanker, causing the gas station to explode, causing quite a few deaths and injuries.

Finally, the whole country seemed to strictly investigate the phenomenon of sunning grain on the road, and such situations became less.

The team here later also had sunning corn on the roadside, because the corn received by the combine harvester had relatively large moisture, grain merchants didn't collect it, had to sun it before selling. But without the wheat field, if corn wanted to be sunned, it could only be on the road.

Later, it wasn't allowed to sun on the road, then what to do? Could only let the corn stay in the field for enough time before harvesting, and then no matter how much moisture, sell it directly.

Later, they didn't plant grain anymore, all planted cotton.

In the year Li Long had the cerebral hemorrhage in the previous life, the above notified to ensure that sixty percent of the land was planted with grain, ensuring grain security, so they started planting wheat again.

Villagers working together was actually quite happy, everyone didn't have much pressure, talking and laughing, Sister-in-law Lu was still teasing Li Long:

"Little Long, your age has also arrived, introduced you to quite a few you didn't like, later found out you and Xiaoxia were dating... to what step are you two? When to eat your wedding banquet?"

Women talking about these topics were usually very interested, the fire of gossip burned fiercely, and generally at this time, young men couldn't handle it.

But Li Long wasn't in this case, he said while shoveling the grass on the field:

"Still have to wait for a period of time, melon ripe and stem falls, right, dating is dating, have to talk and then say, we haven't talked enough yet!"

"Yo, Little Long is different now," Old Chen family aunt from the back courtyard said with a smile, "It seems good things are coming soon, this year the team divided the land, Little Long also pulled two big jobs for the team, everyone has some money in their hands, in autumn you two handle the matter, just right to give you gifts!"

Old Chen family was also tying large brooms, up to now, had already tied sixty or seventy—that was more than one hundred yuan! (The team provided iron wire and handles)

She was sincerely grateful to Li Long, otherwise, all year round, although the team's work point price had increased several times, how much money could be divided at the end of the year was really hard to say!

According to the team, this tying large brooms, what was taken was cash!

Li Long said with a smile:

"Aunt, don't worry, when it's time to handle the banquet, definitely will inform you, it's fine if you don't come then, as long as the gift arrives..."

"Hahahaha!"

"Little Long is still quite able to joke..."

Li Long's joke made everyone laugh loudly, the atmosphere of the wheat field suddenly became happy.

Li Long was still working here, the team's big loudspeaker rang:

"Pu pu, pu pu! Li Long, Li Long, hear it and come to the team leader's house quickly, have your phone call, emergency phone call! Li Long, Li Long hear the broadcast and come to the team leader's house quickly, have urgent matter, have emergency phone call looking for you!"

Li Long felt a bit surprised listening, Li Jianguo hurriedly urged him:

"Go quickly, emergency phone call, maybe it's from the supply and marketing cooperative..."

Li Long carried the iron shovel and ran, Li Jianguo hurriedly said:

"Put down the iron shovel, what are you taking that for?"

Only then did Li Long react, ran home, rode his bicycle and hurried toward the team leader's house.

Xu Chengjun was waiting anxiously.

Because he heard it, the one calling was the section chief of the supply and marketing cooperative, the voice was quite urgent.

Don't let this task have any problems... if that was the case, the trouble would be big.

After all, had already tied so many large brooms!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 234 =====