Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 498 Everyone Harvests the Autumn Harvest 2

In the evening, after a tiring day, no one wanted to go through the trouble of preparing a big meal, so Dan Niang and Mrs. Li and the others prepared some shredded pork noodles, which was both filling and meaty.

The Taoist priest finished a large bowl of noodles in one breath, and heaved a long sigh of relief, saying, "I've been tired all day, and now I can eat a bowl of hot noodles. It's so blissful."

Lu Chuan also said, "It's delicious. One bowl doesn't fill you up. I'll serve you another bowl. Do you want more?"

Mu'er ate from the bowl and raised her hand and said, "Daddy, I want more."

After saying that, he picked up the bowl, tilted his head back and drank the last bit of noodle soup in the bowl.

Seeing that his brother had finished eating, Ze'er also quickened his pace and ate, "I've finished eating too. I want some too."

Lu Chuan took the bowls from his two sons and was about to leave with the tray when the Taoist priest called him again, "There's also mine."

Grandpa Zhao also said, "I'll have another half bowl."

Seeing that everyone was adding to their rice, Xu Han suddenly felt that she could eat half a bowl more, "I want half a bowl too."

Lu Chuan took the bowls handed over by everyone and went out with the tray.

Xu Han followed and added some water into the kettle.

After dinner, everyone sat in the backyard, peeling corn husks and talking about tomorrow's work.

Xu Han said, "There's no room in the yard to dry the rice. There's still rice in the field that hasn't been harvested. Do we have to continue harvesting it tomorrow? There's no place to dry it after we harvest it."

The Taoist priest continued, "I see that the rice in the paddy fields has all matured today. If we don't harvest them now, they will probably fall to the ground. Why not strike while the iron is hot and harvest them all tomorrow?"

Lu Chuan also agreed, "I also think it's better to harvest it all at once. We can thresh the rice directly after harvesting it. Today we can work overtime to husk the corn, and we can make room tomorrow."

The servants who had not returned also agreed, "Yes, if there is really no room for drying the beans, we can pile them together first, and then there will be room. As long as we harvest them, there will always be a place to dry them."

Xu Han thought about it and felt that what everyone said made sense, so she agreed, "That's fine. But let's forget about peeling corn overtime. Everyone is tired all day, so let's go back and rest early."

When you go to harvest rice tomorrow morning, let these girls stay behind to peel corn, so that neither side will be delayed."

Zhou said, "That's fine, but it's not too late now. Let's help peel the corn for a while. There's a lot of corn in these four acres of land. We can't rely on just a few of them.

We have a lot of people, so we can peel off a lot in a short time."

No one else had any objections, so everyone started peeling some more corn husks.

The peeled corn husks were soon piled up into a pile, and Wang Lin and Zhu Chunsheng quickly began to transport them outside.

Lu Chuan warned, "It's too late now. It's hard to walk on the dark road, and it's hard to transport the goods to the open space on the other side of the valley. You should just pile them at the gate of the yard first, and then transport them there tomorrow morning."

"Oh, okay, we got it."

The group worked for another half an hour before the servants went towards the valley.

At night, while drying her hair, Xu Han said to Lu Chuan, "I didn't expect that with so many people, the work could be done so quickly. In previous years, it would take at least three or four days for a few of us to finish the work. Look, with so many people, they have harvested all the corn and soybeans in just one day."

Lu Chuan put down the towel in his hand and came over to help Xu Han wipe her hair. "Yes, these twenty-plus acres of land are nothing to us. I'll take them to open up the land when we have nothing to do in the winter.

Otherwise, the food grown from these few acres of land wouldn't be enough to feed so many of us."

Xu Han smiled and said, "We need to open up a few more acres of land. Otherwise, if we continue to eat like this, I'm afraid everyone will go hungry."

Lu Chuan added, "Don't go to the fields tomorrow. Just stay home with them and peel corn."

"Okay, I won't go. I'll just stay at home and shell corn and cook."

As she spoke, Xu Han felt her eyelids becoming heavier and heavier. She had gotten up early in the morning and had worked all day. Now that she had just relaxed, she felt sleepy and could no longer hold on.

In the end, Xu Han fell asleep without even waiting for her hair to dry.

Lu Chuan glanced at his sleeping wife and felt heartbroken.

Why do I suddenly feel like I'm tiring my wife even though we already have servants at home?

It seems that Xu Han cannot cook by herself tomorrow. Cooking for so many people by herself is a big project. She will have to ask Dan Niang to come back to help tomorrow.

As he was thinking, Lu Chuan fell asleep unknowingly, and when he opened his eyes again, it was already the next day.

I am still very busy today. I start working as soon as I open my eyes without stopping for a moment.

The couple took different people to do different tasks. Lu Chuan was responsible for the outside work, and Xu Han was responsible for the household work.

Not only that, someone has to feed the chickens, ducks and geese in the orchard, and housework cannot be neglected. Someone has to do all these things.

In the morning, Xu Han led people to peel corn, and Lu Chuan led people to harvest rice. The harvested rice was threshed directly in the field, and the threshed rice was pulled back to dry. This saved a lot of unnecessary trouble.

At noon, the sun was shining brightly and too strong outside, so Lu Chuan asked the women to come back and rest. He took the strong laborers to turn over and dry the soybeans in the yard, and started to crush the soybeans for the first round of screening.

The soybeans that have been exposed to the scorching sun for a whole morning are now very brittle, and the pods burst easily when pressed by a stone roller.

There are people in front pulling the roller with cows and donkeys, and there are people in the back holding a fork to turn over the area that has just been flattened again, and then continue in a while.

After going back and forth several times, most of the bean pods were exploded. Han Qi took a broom and swept the beans that popped out into the bean pile and continued to dry them.

After drying for a day today, the bean stalks can be transported out by the evening, leaving only the soybeans to continue drying. After drying, they can be stored in the warehouse.

After a whole morning of hard work, the corn in the backyard had been peeled and was now waiting to be dried in the sun before being threshed and stored in the warehouse.

In the afternoon, everyone worked together to continue harvesting rice, and it was not until dark that we finally finished the work.

It was supposed to be a busy autumn harvest, but everyone finished it all in just two days.

At night, the Taoist priest looked at the grains in the yard and laughed happily, "Hahaha, this year is probably the fastest year for autumn harvest. In just two days, so many of us have harvested all of them."

"Yes, there is less land this year, but next year there will be more land and we will definitely be busy for a few days."

After dinner, Xu Han said to everyone, "Everyone has worked hard these past two days. You can take a rest tomorrow morning and continue building the house in the afternoon."