The wheat harvest season is here, Li Wanquan, Li Wanxiang and Liu Xiuzhen are about to go out to be wheat tourists, and Liu Erhua is left at home to take a group of juniors to do farm work.

Farmers farming is a life that never stops. After sowing in spring, the crops and seedlings in the fields have grown, and they have entered the field management stage throughout the summer. The main grains planted by Li Qinglin's family this year are corn and sweet potatoes. The most important farm work at this time is field management, and the most important job in field management is two words: hoeing the ground.

Local agricultural proverbs say, "A thousand hoe silver, ten thousand hoe gold, and one hoe does not move the grass to root." "There is fire under the hoe, and water under the hoe", which refers to the importance of hoeing the ground. The functions of hoeing the ground are: one is to remove weeds and miscellaneous seedlings to avoid competing for fertilizer and water with crops; the other is to retain water and fertilizer. In drought, the capillary structure of water evaporation in the soil can be cut off to preserve the water in the soil. After heavy rain, the surface soil will be flushed to increase the surface area of ​​the soil exposed to the air, which is conducive to evaporation of water.

This hoeing is indeed a technical job, and it requires at least three hoes. The first hoe of corn is the most important, commonly known as "sapling hoe", also known as "selected hoe", and the technical requirements are also the highest. In order to increase the seedling rate in spring, more than one seed is usually sown in one place. The most important thing in the first hoe is to remove weeds and excess seedlings, and keep the best seedling every one or five feet.

As the saying goes, "The seedlings are easy to hoe when they are dead, and the seedlings are hard to hoe when they are dead." At this time, weeders need to use their eyes as rulers, measure their hearts, and make sure their hands, otherwise it is very easy to hoe all the good seedlings together. In addition to keeping good seedlings, there are also some special methods of hoeing, which is what the saying is called "three hoes and one hoe". "Three hoes and one hoe" requires a hoe in front of this preserved good seedling, one hoe on the left and one hoe on the right, and the soil hoe finally forms a shovel at the root of the seedling.

Before Li Wanquan left, he had already taken Liu Xiuzhen and Li Qinglin to hoe the corn at home. Li Qinglin had not had much left to hoe alone, so he didn't have much work. Staying at home was just to see the home.

Li Qinglin thought hoeing was a very light thing at first, but he didn't expect hoeing to hoe the ground to be really not easy. This year, he was teased by Liu Xiuzhen several times when he first got off the ground.

The standard action of hoeing the ground is to stagger the front and back legs, and requires the front legs to bend, the back legs to bend, the waist should be bent, and the hands should be correct. At first, Li Qinglin stood parallel with his feet, bent over and raised his butt hoe. Liu Xiuzhen laughed at him: "Are you stepping on lotus roots?" Later, although Li Qinglin stood back and forth, he stood straight, and Liu Xiuzhen laughed at him: "Are you rowing?" Although Liu Xiuzhen's words were rough, they were not rough, and the metaphor was particularly vivid.

"The style of the handle depends entirely on the posture!" Liu Xiuzhen said as she took the hoe in Li Qinglin's hand. She began to demonstrate to Li Qinglin, teaching him how to hoe, how to dig and bury the soil with the two corners of the hoe. These actions of using the hoe also have both vivid and nice names, such as a chick pursing her lips, a quail falling eggs, a starling bath, etc.

Under this kind of teaching by example, Li Qinglin gradually began to hoe the ground, and even Li Wanquan also commented on him: "If you hoe the ground more, it will be a good way."

Li Wanquan and the others left. Li Qinglin hoeed the remaining land in two days. Wei Sanya was taken care of the livestock at home. In addition to lining mules and practicing martial arts, Li Qinglin either used to trap rabbits or build guns with Qian Duogui. When Liu Zhenghong left last time, he ordered two of Qian Duogui, and his master also ordered one, so Qian Duogui has been working overtime during this period.

Li Qinglin and Qian Duogui worked day and night, and all the guns made by Master Qian Duogui were sent away, but Liu Zhenghong still did not come to get the guns made. Li Qinglin judged that Liu Zhenghong had either been arrested or had escaped.

Qian Duogui pressed two guns in his hand. He asked Li Qinglin if he would sell it. Li Qinglin sighed and said, "Save one, and the other one will be sold!"

The wheat harvest season has passed, and Li Wanquan and the others are back. This year the wheat is growing well, and Li Wanquan and the others are earning more than in previous years. When they come back, they are all back with a full load.

Because Li Qinglin had a mule cart at home, he was invited to transport grain from time to time, so he made some money.

Taking advantage of the money, Liu Xiuzhen immediately asked the matchmaker to formally propose marriage to Jiang Meizhi's family. With the consent of Jiang Meizhi's parents, the matchmaker used Geng Tie to exchange the birth date and eight characters, and then took it to the ancestor to "combinate the eight characters" to divine good and bad luck. In fact, Liu Xiuzhen had already asked the ancestor to marry her for a long time. Of course, it was both auspicious and auspicious, and the eight characters were in harmony.

After combining the eight characters, the Li family first chose an auspicious day to ask the media to discuss the appointment, and the Jiang family proposed the standard for the amount of betrothal gifts.

After the engagement was completed, the Li family and the Jiang family were officially engaged, locally called "Gonghongshu", also called "Gongshu". The Li family first sent ten copies of the books to Jiang Meizhi's parents, and then asked the matchmaker to ask for the matchmaker. On the day of engagement, Li Qing's Lin family hung lanterns, burned incense and lit candles, and the Li family asked the deacon to write "Please ask for Yunshu". The matchmaker brought the red posts and betrothal gifts of "Gongshu" to Jiang Meizhi's house. Jiang Meizhi's house accepted the red posts, and the matchmaker brought back the green posts of "Muyun Yuqing". The "Gongshu" ceremony officially ended.

After Hongshu, if the Li family wants to formally marry, they have to ask the media to invite Jiang Meizhi's parents to drink a drink. The local name is "Haqin Wine". During the banquet, the two parties agreed on a date for the marriage and then went back to do various preparations for the marriage.

Liu Xiuzhen is a decisive woman. In a short time, she spent Hongshu, gave a betrothal gift, and drank a kid. Li Qinglin's wedding date was determined to be on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month.

This series of events dazzled Li Qinglin and was deeply touched.

From the appointment to the appointment to the date of appointment, no sign of Jiang Meizhi was seen. She used to know that women had a low status, but she didn't expect that they would be so low. If she hadn't seen herself accidentally, wouldn't Jiang Meizhi live with someone she didn't know and didn't know for the rest of her life? Even if the woman is not satisfied with her marriage in the future, she will have no possibility and no right to escape from this marriage.

Anyway, the marriage has been settled, so the Li family is waiting for the twelfth lunar month to marry the newlyweds.

Li Qinglin was going to be the groom again. He felt a little sorry for Wei Sanya, and always wanted to compensate Wei Sanya in other aspects. Last time, the money was expensive and sold two guns and divided them into twenty oceans for Li Qinglin. Li Qinglin secretly gave Wei Sanya five oceans to buy something she liked for food or clothes. Wei Sanya just smiled happily with the money, and did not buy food or clothes. Finally, she put the five oceans in a jar and hid them in the kang hole.

Li Qinglin knew that if it weren't for buying it himself, Wei Sanya wouldn't spend money, so he would take Wei Sanya and Li Qingqi to the town as long as he had the opportunity and buy her food and clothing.

It was almost July, the temperature was rising day by day, and the weather was getting hot day by day, and people began to wear short summer clothes. Wei Sanya developed very quickly during this period, and the old clothes they used to have no longer worn at all. Li Qinglin chose a day to go to the market and took Wei Sanya and Li Qingqi to Changsheng Town to buy cloth, preparing to make new clothes for Wei Sanya.

There was no farm work arranged at home today, so Li Qinglin and the others didn't need to hurry. When they arrived in the town, Li Qinglin first listened to a storyteller's book as usual, and then took the two of them to eat blood sausage and flat flour, and prepared to buy cloth after eating it.

Li Qinglin was originally planning to invite a tailor to go to his house to make clothes like last time, but Wei Sanya firmly disagreed. She said that summer clothes were very simple, like Liu Erhua and the others sewed their own clothes, and they just sewed their own clothes by themselves. Seeing that she was very determined, Li Qinglin did not insist on hiring a tailor anymore.

Since Li Qingqi ate the roast chicken brought back by Li Qinglin, he claimed that his favorite thing was roast chicken, and now his favorite thing was fried blood sausage. Because after Li Qinglin brought him to eat fried blood sausage last time, he felt that blood sausage was better than roast chicken.

Fried blood sausage is a local snack. It is not very good-looking, but it is popular and is loved by the people. Locals blend flour, pig blood, sesame oil, and five-spice powder, then pour it into the washed pig intestine and steam it in a trunk, let it cool, and then slice the enema and fry it. When eating, dip it in garlic paste while it is hot.

This fried blood sausage is delicious, with thick fat, heavy taste, and economical price. It is the best choice for people like Li Qingqi who have little oil and water in their stomachs.

After breakfast, the three of them got up and went to Jinda cloth shop to buy cloth.

On the way to the Jinda cloth shop, Wei Sanya suddenly pulled Li Qinglin's sleeve, pointed at a short man in front, and said to Li Qinglin in a low and nervous manner: "Qinglin, the person in front is the Japanese who fought with your mother last time!"

The Japanese? They even fought with Liu Xiuzhen? What did they do to this small town in northern Henan? Is it to investigate the reasons why the two spies were killed?

Li Qinglin immediately sent Wei Sanya and Li Qingqi to Jinda cloth shop to select cloth, and then went to find them after the selection.

After Wei Sanya and the others left, Li Qinglin touched the dagger inserted between his waist and decided to quietly follow the Japanese.
Chapter completed!