After being widowed, I pampered the rough man general by farming

Zhu Jiangjiang suddenly felt that it was really inconvenient not to have a man at home.

No, in order to make a pounding board, from tree cutting to installation, she had to ask a few powerful men in the village to help.

She is a widow, so it's not good to be like this all the time, but there is no way, she can't let six-year-old Pei Xiaoyu go up the mountain with her to carry the tree back, right?

So, after installing the pounding board, she came up with the idea of ​​buying a permanent worker.

"What are you thinking about? It's illegal!" Zhu Jiangjiang patted his head to drive away the thoughts that shouldn't be in his mind.

This kind of thing, she just thinks about it, but she can't do it.

"Sister-in-law, it's done, let's see if it works." Xu's rough and loud voice brought Zhu Jiangjiang's thoughts back to reality.

Zhu Jiangjiang was taken aback, and came back to his senses and walked towards Shijiu.

After trying to step on it twice, the support of the pounding board is deeply buried in the ground, it is very strong, and it does not shake or take a lot of effort when stepping on it.

"Third uncle, thank you all very much for your hard work. Let's come to my house for dinner tonight."

Zhu Jiangjiang sincerely invited but was rejected, Mr. Xu waved his hand and said, "No, no, no, when everyone will use this thing in the future, you don't have to be polite to us."

During the two days when she felled trees to make pounding boards, she kept her head buried in the fields.

Spraying the insecticidal water in the morning and evening, and weeding the fields when the sun was high at noon, everyone in the village felt distressed when they saw how diligent they were.

After all, it was built without a pillar at home.

The sympathetic eyes of several people did not hide it, and Zhu Jiangjiang who was sympathized only had an embarrassed smile on his face.

Well, it seems that she really has to find a chance to prove herself.

Zhu Jiangjiang fried the tea seeds that Pei Xiaoyu and the others picked in the past two days, brought them over, and poured a large basket directly into the stone mortar.

The stone mortar is half full, so it won't splash out when pounding.

The scorching sun scorched the earth, hiding in a small deserted village where few people go out, I saw Zhu Jiangjiang alone, wearing a straw hat, pounding tea seeds.

The pounding sound of "bang bang", heavy and rhythmic, accompanied by the cicadas singing near and far in the mountains, reached the ears of everyone in Xiaohuang Village.

After the tea seeds were mashed into mud, Zhu Jiangjiang scraped them out with a gourd ladle and poured them into a cloth bag, and then pressed them with a large stone plate to slowly squeeze out the tea oil.

There is no oil extraction tool, so we can only wait patiently.

The crops in the field have finally been sprayed, and there is still some limestone left. Zhu Jiangjiang looked at the crops of the villagers next to him, and silently helped to spray.

Take it as a thank you to them for helping her make a pounding board.

The tea seed cake is squeezed out of tea oil and then dried in the sun, and it will disperse when pinched.

If there is animal manure as fertilizer, it would be best to add tea seed cakes and scatter it in the field, but unfortunately she didn't have any.

Zhu Jiangjiang carried a hoe on his shoulder to the front of the ditch in the field, trying to control the water flow to be smaller, so that the tea seed cake powder soaked in the ditch would have enough time to decompose.

"Look, my sister-in-law's field is growing really well, and the rice is heading."

"Yeah, everyone's crops haven't headed yet. Why does her rice head so fast? Is it related to her killing insects?"

When Zhu Jiangjiang came back from blocking the flow of water by the river, she saw the villagers watching her field and touching the crops in the field.

"Impossible, don't you think my rice is heading?" Xu Laosan turned around and pointed to his own field.

"Old man, a few days ago, I saw my sister-in-law killing insects in your field. Otherwise, why didn't everyone's crops start earing, and only yours and Pei's fields grew well?" one person said.

These words sparked a small discussion among the crowd, and after the discussion, there was silence.

Because they seem to have begun to believe that the growth of the rice is related to Zhu Jiangjiang's killing insects on the crops.

"Could it be that we really should kill insects on the crops?"

"Is it too late to kill the insects now?"

Some people raised doubts, but no one answered.

Only Zhu Jiangjiang spoke up, "It's too late, everyone just sprays the crops with lime water. I have soaked the tea seed cake powder in the ditch. When the water flows over, everyone can open the gate to water and kill the insect eggs."

The villagers turned their heads when they heard the sound, and Xu Laogen stepped forward excitedly to confirm with her again, "Is it really possible?"

"Yes!" Zhu Jiangjiang nodded with certainty, "Also, I hope that everyone can harvest this crop of rice before the end of July."

Just as the people were about to go back to pick up stones to burn and spray them with water, Zhu Jiangjiang's words stopped them again.

"Why is this?"

"Because...it may rain heavily this year." Zhu Jiangjiang frowned, not knowing how to explain it, so he could only hint like this.

Should she tell them directly that there will be floods at the end of July, when the crops will be flooded and there will be no harvest?

They have to believe it too.

Unsurprisingly, the villagers didn't take her words to heart, "That's it? What are you afraid of if it rains? It won't be a problem if it doesn't rain in summer."

As soon as the villager finished speaking, he heard a low-pitched thunder above his head, and the bright sun in the morning became drowsy now.

"Look, the rainy season is coming."

As they spoke, the villagers greeted them home in twos and threes, and dispersed.

Zhu Jiangjiang walked behind the crowd, with rice rustling by the wind beside her. She looked up at the gloomy sky, and secretly sighed in her heart: the rainy season has really come.

The rain in summer falls as soon as it is said, and it rains from the sky within half an hour of the sound of thunder.

Fortunately, during this period of time, she has been busy killing insects on the crops. She didn't pick much tea, and the limited space in the house can still put the tea that is drying.

It's just that the thatch on the roof is too dry and thin, and the rain leaks.

"Little fish, take all the pots and bowls at home to catch the rainwater, and don't let the tea get wet."

Zhu Jiangjiang hurried to get all the wooden basins and buckets at home, and put buckets under the places where the rain leaked heavily to catch water.

There are still a few places where the rain is small, and the pots and bowls can barely catch it.

While the two were busy moving the tea leaves, they were looking for rain leaks. It was the heavy rain that let Zhu Jiangjiang know that Pei's house was even more dilapidated than she had imagined.

The sister-in-law and sister-in-law have been busy for a long time. There are four rooms in one main room, and there are as many as a dozen leaks.

The beds, tables, and tea racks are all filled with buckets and bowls for collecting water.

It was really raining heavily outside and light rain inside.

The rainwater dripped from the roof and splashed in the bowl, the earth sill at the door was also seeping, and it was already wet, and the house was muddy again, making the surroundings wet.

Zhu Jiangjiang now feels wet all over his body.

She originally wanted to wait for the crop of rice to be harvested and sell the money before building the house, but now it seems that building the house is urgent.

However, she is not the only one who is worried that Pei's house will not be able to accommodate people?

Standing under the pavilion, Pei Ji watched the rainwater falling from the eaves, and murmured, "I wonder if she has repaired the roof..."