After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the next step was to harvest.
Perhaps because of the anger of the people in the village, it was more stressful to collect this little bit of stuff outside than it was to collect the grain in the space they had before.
The families who had chickens and ducks in the village also brought their chickens and ducks to the field to eat some of the scattered grains, and they were naturally no exception.
Because this time the whole family went out, they did not go to cut the grain first in the morning, but they ate breakfast at home and then drove the chickens and sheep with their tools, followed by rhubarb, to the field together.
The sun had already come out, and the dew on the rice stalks had dried up, so the grain that was thrown out was not so damp, and could be dried for at least one day less than the dew-soaked grain.
The four men found a corner, cut out a piece of open space for the threshing machine, and began to divide the work, as usual, Zhou Yan and Lu Baichuan in the front of the beating, Lu Jianguo in the back of the grain into a bag, full of a load of Zhou Yan or Lu Baichuan to the roof of the house to spread out to dry.
As soon as the threshing machine started to spin, several chickens started to run around in circles, picking up the occasional grain splattered on the ground to eat, rhubarb also lay in the shadows next to it, and occasionally if a chicken ran away, it would actually run over to catch it back, and several people watched in amazement.
A few sheep, on the other hand, didn't bother to join in the fun at all, and ate the young grass that was usually covered by the hanging ears of rice on the ridges next to them.
A few people buried themselves in the work, except for the occasional thirsty when drinking water, did not talk, good weather is now cooler, it is not so hard, but all kinds of hairy grass stuck to the body, also itchy unbearable.
The first thing you need to do is to take a break from the rest of the world, and then go back to your home and take a break from your family and your friends. It's been a while.
The weather was good these days, so we didn't have to worry about rain when the grain was half dried, so we worked in the fields without worrying.
Because everyone did not have a lot of land, those who had a lot of people in their families, after collecting their own, went to help those who were less busy for a day, but after three or four days, the large golden rice was harvested back home.
After the rice was harvested, everyone's heart was at least halfway down, and the remaining corn and other crops in the field could be harvested slowly.
Every evening, there were not only chickens and ducks scavenging for food, but also children digging for loach and playing hide-and-seek in the fields.
The next day, after the harvest, Lu Jianguo took them to tie up the straw tips one by one, spread them out below, stand them up to dry, and take them back when they are dry, so that they can not only warm the goats in winter, but also chop them up and mix them into the grain for sheep food.
This day after tying the straw, Zhou Yan and Lu Bachuan also went to dig a half afternoon loach, because they have good eyes, strength is also big, find a ventilation hole, a few hoes down, can dig the loach, to the later two around a circle of children to watch, two people see the situation is not good too much, just dig a while to go back, afraid of the next loach in the ground are dug, the children have to cry out.
But even on this half afternoon, the two also dug half a bucket of loach, which also mixed with a lot of eels.
There was a lot of work to be done in the autumn. In addition to retrieving things from the ground, they also had to sort and store various kinds of grain and vegetables.
Collected grain, after drying, but also over the windmill, blowing away the weeds with empty shells, corn back, just to turn out the skin to the Department of hanging in the roof of the empty room ventilation to dry on the line, do not care.
Before Ye Yuanrong also planted a lot of mustard, also to cool semi-dry, and then yard into the jar, do salt dishes. When harvesting the rice, those chickens ate well, this time laid a lot of eggs, completely enough for them to eat normally, so the ducks in the space laid more duck eggs, they also went to the back of the mountain to dig some yellow mud back, mixed with salt, made two jars of salted duck eggs.
At this point, the most you can do is wear a jacket.
Only just discovered, give busy forgot an important thing.
According to the memory of his last life, the S city he was in was still south of the Tropic of Cancer, and it had been snowing for more than a month, although this side was also a southern city, but in the end there was a difference of several hundred kilometers between the S city, not to mention that this province used to be known for its wet and cold, once a year, there was even a once-in-a-decade snowstorm.
During breakfast, Zhou Yan wanted to mention this matter, but didn't expect that Lu Jianguo was exceptionally sharp, before he brought it up, he said that he felt that the temperature was changing too quickly, and that it would probably be a cold winter.
Zhou Yan was dumbfounded, but yes, they, the older generation who had worked for the Zhuang family, were definitely much more sensitive to climate change. In his last life when he was at the base, he had heard that many old people expected the winter to be cold and had already saved a lot of clothes and food.
After the meal, they planned to go to Lu Jianye's house to ask if the village had any plans.
Unexpectedly when they arrived, there were already quite a few people there, and when they saw them, Lu Jianye immediately greeted a few people and sat down, saying, "You guys came just in time, I was just about to go look for you."
The radio was at Lu Bachuan's house before, since everyone was busy with farming this time, they hadn't listened to it for a little over half a month, and this time, they just happened to bring the radio with them.
Lu Jianguo pointed at the radio they were holding and said, "I think you're looking for this."
Lu Jianye hit the ground running: "Same same same."
Since everyone was still waiting, they didn't delay, and Zhou Yan put the radio away and turned it on.
In fact, without listening to the radio, according to the experience of the old people, they could also expect a cold winter, and after hearing the radio confirm that the north has been blizzard, and the southern winter will not unexpectedly also have a hundred years of snow, everyone's heart is instead solid, left and right is just a cold winter, and now that they know early, they can also prepare early.
Now there is no electricity, we cook with gas all year round, even if there is a honeycomb coal at home, also have a small inventory, want to comfortably spend a cold winter, it is absolutely impossible.
And because they had experienced a snowy winter many years ago, everyone had some experience of what to prepare.
Most of the people in the village were present at this time, and after some deliberation, they decided to pack up their things at home for the next two days, after which they would have to go into the mountains to cut the firewood they needed for the winter.
Although the mountains outside were dangerous, but if there was no firewood to warm the winter, everyone didn't feel like they could live in peace, so they didn't disagree.
After this was sort of settled, Lu Jianye asked Zhou Yan and the others, "Since the winter will be so cold, the mother and son probably won't be able to survive it, so why don't I go over with you guys in the afternoon and take them back to our village?"
When the villagers heard that they were going to pick up someone and bring them back, they opened up a discussion, not realizing that there were survivors in their neighborhood, but there were also people who asked, "Who will they stay with when they pick them up?"
I've just heard that it's two orphans and a widowed mother, it's fine if it's just two more people, they're afraid that when the time comes to let live in their own home, it'll be a big deal, you know it's not easy for anyone to live now.
Lu Jianye: "We have so many old houses, can't we have a house empty for someone's mother and son to live in?"
The village people just relieved, these years most people have built a new house, the old house naturally vacant, usually just put some farming tools with firewood these, but the house is still mostly good, living people is no problem, just the pattern may not be newly built so beautiful and convenient.
It's no big deal to listen to Lu Jianye say so, even if you lend out your own house, it's no big deal, after all, people are widows and orphans.
And people are not related to themselves, even if they take them back, it is unlikely that they will have to live in their own homes and rely on themselves to support them.
The village people are ordinary people, everyone also has a compassionate heart, after thinking about these, instead of thinking that a woman and a child, they a village people, one person family save a little out, will be able to support, the heart can not help but for their own such kind thoughts.
The more the brain of a woman with a child how poor, have not yet met the opposite want how to help people.
The first thing you need to do is to take the radio with you, and it's not just a woman, it's also a good idea to go with your aunt.
The group of people set off in a grand manner, just to make sure to bring people back, except that as soon as the boat docked, Zhou Yan heard the sound of zombies banging on the door, as well as the sound of children crying in low voices.
The sound of the banging door wasn't unlike the one he heard last time, Zhou Yan thought badly, and didn't wait for the boat to stop, so he quickly ran towards the shore and climbed up the river bank in three to five steps.
The company has been in the process of developing the new product for the past few years, and the company has been working hard to develop the new product.
The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the front door of the house and see if it's a good idea to open it. Breath, at least the people were still okay.
It just so happened that several zombies also heard the sound turned over and pounced on him and Lu Baichuan, the two of them naturally would not show mercy and knocked down the zombies with three strikes.
The next thing the two heard was footsteps coming down from upstairs, thudding, and a moment later they were at the door, then the sound of a lock being unlocked, then the door was opened, and a little boy ran out of it with messy hair and red eyes, running to the two and pausing, then jumping on Zhou Yan and hugging his thigh, his voice hoarse, saying, "Uncle, you've finally come. Mornings are about to be scared to death."
It was the first time that Zhou Yan was held by a child crying like this, and he didn't know how to put his hands away, so he could only look at Lu Bachuan at a loss, hoping that he could help him.
The good news was that the little boy's mother also followed out and touched the little boy's head and said, "Come here in the morning, look at how dirty you've made uncle's pants."
The little boy looked up at the words and saw Zhou Yan's trousers leg was moist, so he stepped back a little and said with a little apology, "Uncle, I'm sorry to have soiled your trousers."
Zhou Yan also saw him let go and finally relaxed, squatted down and touched his head and asked, "It's okay, uncle knows you're because you're too scared."
After saying that, he stood up again and asked the child's mother, "How long have these walkers been around here?"
The woman didn't look very good either, but could tell that she had calmed down by now and said, "Almost three days."
Lu Baichuan frowned and asked, "How did they get in here?"
The woman said: "The gas in the house is not enough, the day you threw some firewood in, has been used up, there is no fire to cook, children can't eat, I thought to see if I can go out to find some firewood in, the first time to go out is still sound smooth, I didn't expect to go out a few days ago, accidentally encountered these monsters, it was too late to close the door outside. Was followed in by them."
The last time they'd come over was on mid-autumn day, but then they'd been so busy with the harvest and all sorts of things that they hadn't been here since, and it had been almost two months now, so if there was no more gas, the two trees really wouldn't burn for long.
It wasn't a matter of a few people standing in the yard and they had a purpose when they came over today, so when they saw the walkers were gone, they went to get the few people in the boat.
At first the woman was shocked to see such a large group of people, but instead it was the little boy who didn't feel any fear and pulled Zhou Yan and Lu Bachuan to ask this and that.
The first thing you need to do is to get to the bottom of the matter, and you'll be able to get to the bottom of the matter.
In fact, after these few days of being besieged by zombies, the woman was already scared, and after hearing them say that this winter would be particularly cold, so the scales in her heart tilted even more, and after only a little consideration, she agreed to their proposal.
The woman finally plucked all the vegetables that were still growing in the vegetable patch and brought them with her, and circled around the house before locking the door of the house. The zombie corpses were cleaned up and finally locked the iron door to leave.
It wasn't until he reached the ship that Ye Yuan Rong smacked his head and remembered to ask, "Don't you still have to leave a letter for the kid's father? And then if he comes back, so he can find you!"
The woman laughed and said, "It's already left."
After saying that, she looked at the house that was getting farther and farther away.
The little boy, however, was extremely excited and kept asking this and that to Zhou Yan and Lu Baichuan, adoringly asking how he could be as powerful as them and kill so many monsters.