Raising a family through the 1970s

"Brother Tian, can you drink some water?"

Yao Xiujuan took the clay pot from home from the ground and walked to Chu Tian's side.

Chu Tian was really tired, he slowly straightened up his stiff waist, maintained a movement for a long time before slowing down, saw Yao Xiujuan pour a bowl of water and handed it to her, did not drink it, but asked first, "Have you drunk?" Yao Xiujuan

nodded, "Drink, drink it quickly."

Chu Tian poured two bowls of water in a row, only to ease up, raised his hand and looked at his watch, and found that it was not yet eight o'clock, and then saw that he had not harvested an acre of land after more than two hours of busyness, and handed the bowl to Yao Xiujuan.

"Xiujuan, you can rest for a while and then ·····."

As he spoke, he bent down and continued to work, no way, the captain divided twenty acres of land for him and Xiujuan, if he didn't work hard, I don't know if he could finish harvesting the wheat of these twenty acres of land before tomorrow night...

Yao Xiujuan looked at Chu Tian's back, which was already soaked with sweat, and suddenly felt distressed, but what could she do if she was distressed?

During the autumn harvest, there was no talk of starting work at nine o'clock, and everyone was busy until it was completely dark, and it was about eleven o'clock.

Captain Sun didn't talk too much nonsense, only said a word, and gathered at half past six tomorrow morning, and then disbanded.

When Chu Tian and Yao Xiujuan returned home, Mrs. Chu had already made dinner, and the two of them finished their meal quietly, washed and lay down to sleep

Everyone was busy for half a month, and the wheat was all harvested, and everyone had not taken a breath, and then the soybeans could also be harvested, in the same way, Chutian cut in front, and Yao Xiujuan helped bundle ····· in the back

Fortunately, there are not many soybeans, a total of only more than 100 acres of soybeans, all harvested in a few days, wheat and soybeans are harvested, everyone can take a breath, because corn still needs more than half a month to harvest, cotton is another month.

However, it is still not possible to relax completely, because the follow-up drying, shelling, and warehouse closing cannot be delayed.

The time of the autumn harvest passed very quickly, followed by the harvest of peanuts, corn, and planting onions, cabbage and other winter vegetables, and the busy day soon passed more than a month to the end of September, at this time the cotton has bloomed, and the captain began to arrange for the team members to pick cotton.

Cotton is not like corn can be cut directly by the roots, people do sit on the ground little by little peeling, cotton is blooming one after another, people have to pick repeatedly on a piece of land, and the cotton in Xinjiang is different from the cotton planted in the mouth, the cotton in Xinjiang is very short, only about fifty or sixty centimeters high, you must bend over...

Here, Sun Weiguo couldn't stand it anymore and shouted at Chu Tian, "Brother Tian, I can't do this job, I haven't picked cotton, isn't this all women's work? Why do we want to do this? You see how there are men in the cotton field..."

"Then let's go dig sweet potatoes or potatoes, right?" To

be honest, Chu Tian is really not used to this job, he has big hands, and the cotton shell is a small one, every time he pulls cotton, he has to be pierced by the sharp tip of the cotton shell, he didn't pick much cotton, but his hands were pierced with big holes and small eyes...

Sun Weiguo nodded again and again, "I don't want to pick cotton anymore, it's so difficult, it's more tiring than letting me carry food..."

Yao Xiujuan heard the conversation between Chu Tian and Sun Weiguo in front, turned to look at Chu Tian, and said with a smile, "Brother Tian, Wei Guo, you go to the captain to change jobs, right?"

She actually told Chu Tian in the morning and asked him not to pick cotton, he had never picked it before, he had no experience, and he would definitely not be able to stand it, but Chu Tian was unwilling, and what kind of experience did he need to pick cotton?

"Hmm.

Chu Tian also remembered Yao Xiujuan's bitter persuasion in the morning, and couldn't help blushing a little at this time, he really listened to the persuasion of others to eat enough, but he didn't listen to the persuasion at all, and it was he who suffered as a result...

When I came to the sweet potato field, I found that basically the men were doing it, and only a few women were sorting out the size and quality of the sweet potatoes on the ground.

When Chu Min saw Chu Tian, he smiled and said, "What's the matter, I can't stand picking cotton?" Chu Tian blushed, but still pretended to be calm, "What can't stand it? I think there are too many people in the cotton field..."

Chu Min, who hadn't finished speaking, interrupted with a smile, "Yes, yes, yes, we don't have you in the sweet potato field." "

Chutian," ······

"Huh.

Chu Jie, who was turning the ground next to him, couldn't help laughing, and when he saw Chu Tian looking at him, he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Xiao Shi, Brother Min is right, the sweet potato field is the most lacking, and you are the most inseparable."

As soon as the words fell, some of the other cousins of the Chu family burst into laughter.

“······"

Chu Tian thought helplessly, there is no end to it? Funny to him?

When he got home from work, Chu Tian saw that Mrs. Chu was busy

in the vegetable garden, so he walked over, "Grandma, what are you doing?" Old Mrs. Chu turned around when she heard this, and said with a smile, "Good grandson

, why didn't Xiujuan come back?" Chu Tian walked into the vegetable garden, "The cotton field and the sweet potato field are not in the same direction, I will come back first after work, Xiujuan probably hasn't come back yet, right?"

As he spoke, he pointed to the vegetable seedlings that had been pulled out on the ground, and said suspiciously, "What are you doing

?" Old Lady Chu nodded, "Ah, I didn't look at the tomato seedlings and eggplant seedlings, the bean seedlings were all dry, so I picked all the remaining tomatoes, eggplants and beans, and the seedlings were pulled, thinking that it was still September, and the snow here in Xinjiang would not be until mid to late November?"

I thought, now plant some late cabbage, evening radish, green onions, and skin teeth or something, and harvest them before the snow, and we can have more vegetables to eat in winter..."

Chu Tian's eyebrows raised slightly, and after thinking about it, he took the hoe erected on the side and said, "Then I'll turn over the ground..."

Old Mrs. Chu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "No, no, you've been tired for more than a month, I'll just turn it over..."

Chu Tian didn't listen to her, but directly began to do it, and said while turning the ground, "Grandma, it's been okay in the past few days, I'm not as tired as when I harvested wheat and corn before, especially today, the captain divided me and a few cousins in a field, they did it quickly, and they all helped me when they finished it·····

." Hearing this, Old Lady Chu stood aside and nodded, "They are the elder brothers, and you are the youngest, so they should help you."

Chu Tian only smiled at what Old Lady Chu said, and didn't say anything more, after all, he felt that no matter what he said, it was not very good.