Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 365 Autumn Harvest 3

The Taoist priest threw the corn he had peeled on the ground and said, "I quit. Let's go back to sleep."

The next day, Xu Han and Lu Chuan got up before dawn again.

We have to harvest beans today, and we have to do it early. Otherwise, when the sun is high at noon, the beans will be dried out and burst when touched.

A few people can only harvest in the morning, so that the soybean pods will not be too dry after being moistened by dew all night, so the beans will not fall during harvesting.

Lu Chuan, Xu Han, the Taoist priest, and Grandpa Zhao each held a sickle and stood in a row, cutting together.

You harvest soybeans one step at a time, and you don't just harvest one row of soybeans, you can harvest several rows at a time.

The harvested beans are placed on the oilcloth so that the soybeans that are accidentally exploded will not fall to the ground, and it is also more convenient for Xu Han to transport the soybeans directly back home.

Corn is dried in the backyard, so soybeans can only be dried in the front yard.

In a moment, the yard was filled with grain drying in the sun, which looked very festive.

Xu Han felt as if she was back in her childhood. This was the scene at home every autumn harvest when she was a child.

The four of them worked very quickly together. No one took a break in the morning. They just ate a few bites of breakfast and then continued working.

I worked until about ten o'clock before I stopped to go home and rest. The sun was getting hotter and hotter, and if I continued working for a while, I would get heat stroke.

By the afternoon, the bean stalks had become dry, so Xu Han stopped letting people harvest the beans.

The family will take a half-day break and continue working tomorrow.

I didn’t do nothing during my break. The corn husks in the backyard had not been peeled yet, so I took this time to peel them and hang them up to dry.

Xu Han reminded Lu Chuan, "Originally we were supposed to harvest the rice right after that, but I saw today that the rice in the field is not particularly dry yet. Let's wait a few days until it is completely dry before harvesting. Otherwise, if we harvest it too early, the rice will not be full."

"Well, let's wait a bit. We can process these soybeans and corns in the next two days and store them in the granary after drying them."

"Well, just don't forget it. These corns will need to be dried out in the sun for a few days. Then, thresh them and store them."

Lu Chuan paused for a while and then said, "Grind some cornmeal next time. I haven't eaten cornmeal pancakes for a long time."

"Okay, I'll grind some new corn this year when I have some free time, and then I'll make you clay pot chicken with corn pancakes."

Grandpa Zhao agreed, "That's fine. I haven't eaten it for a long time. I must make a clay pot chicken after the rice is harvested."

"Okay, okay, I'll add some steak in there later. I guarantee you'll want more after eating it."

We continued to harvest soybeans the next day, and finally finished harvesting all the soybeans in two days. Now they are piled in the front yard to dry.

After being exposed to the sun, many soybean pods made crackling sounds and the round soybeans rolled far away.

After the beans were dried for a day, Lu Chuan began to use oxen to pull a stone roller to press the beans in the evening to separate the bean stalks and the beans. The beans were then dried separately, which allowed them to dry faster.

After a week, they finally dried all the corn and beans in their house.

However, the corn has not been threshed yet and cannot be placed in the space for the time being. Unthreshed corn takes up too much space.

So Xu Han piled all the corns into the shed that had just been built a few days ago.

After you have time to thresh the seeds, dry them in the sun for a day to completely dry them out before storing them in the storage space.

As for the soybeans that are completely dry, after the wind blows away some dust, just put them directly into bags and store them.

It is already early August and after a week the rice has fully matured. The workers had no time to rest and immediately started the busy work of harvesting rice.

Harvesting rice is different from harvesting wheat, soybeans and corn. When harvesting rice, you can harvest the rice and thresh the corn at the same time.

Threshing millet requires a mixing bucket and bamboo mat, and the method of harvesting millet is the same as harvesting soybeans.

But they cannot be piled together like beans. They need to be placed in small handfuls to facilitate threshing later.

The harvested rice is placed in the paddy field, and then the mixing bucket is also moved into the paddy field.

In order to prevent the millet from running out during threshing, it is necessary to surround the three sides of the mixing barrel with bamboo mats to raise it up to prevent the rice from falling into the paddy field and being unable to be picked up.

Xu Han, Grandpa Zhao and the Taoist priest were responsible for harvesting the rice, while Lu Chuan was responsible for threshing the rice.

Because Xu Han and Lu Chuan had never grown rice before, they didn't have any tools to thresh the rice at home.

This mixing bucket was made temporarily a few days ago. No one had thought about it at first, but it was not until Grandpa Zhao mentioned it that Xu Han realized that the most important thing was missing.

Pick up a handful of millet and throw it hard into the mixing bucket. After being beaten, the mature rice will fall into the mixing bucket by itself.

When there are no grains of rice on the straw, you can stop thrashing and switch to the next handful of rice and continue thrashing. Repeat this process until all the rice is thrashed.

Because threshing is a very strenuous job, Lu Chuan and the Taoist priest took turns threshing the grain.

When the grain in the mixing barrel accumulates to a certain amount, it is directly loaded into sacks and transported home to dry, and then stored in the granary.

The harvested rice straw needs to be tied into large bundles and then placed in the paddy fields to dry. After drying, it can be collected.

Whether it is used to build a thatched roof or made into straw ropes for tying things, it is a good choice.

It took the four of them five days to harvest all the rice.

After harvesting the rice, everyone was exhausted. Xu Han was so tired that she didn't even want to move. She even hadn't cooked in the past few days.

These days, the meals they ate were all prepared in the space in advance.

Not only that, but during these busy farming days, the house was not kept clean and we just made do with it in a sloppy manner.

Only when there is a place that is extremely dirty will I clean it up a little.

As soon as the busy farming season was over, Xu Han began to prepare for the general cleaning.

Now, except for the rice drying in the backyard, the rest of the place is empty.

Xu Han first swept the house inside and out, and then mopped it.

Also wipe the dust off furniture such as tables and chairs with a rag.

After finishing all these, I washed all the four-piece sets of clothes that I had accumulated recently.

Seeing that Xu Han was already very tired just from working inside the house, Lu Chuan took the initiative to help clean up the yard and the area outside the courtyard.