sbdcsierra Chapter 853: Too Tired and Hurt
Chapter 853: Too Tired and Hurt
Zhou Guo thought about it and decided that the only thing that was different this year from previous years was the new wheat seeds.
He said, "I didn't do anything except sell the new wheat seeds at home. This year, the results of everyone's trial planting were good. The lowest yield per mu was three and a half stones, which is much more than the seeds I kept at home."
Once you say this, your family will understand.
The old man said, "No wonder, there have been several groups of people coming to our house recently. If you don't come back, I guess these people will stay at home."
Li said, "The new wheat seeds are a big deal. What are your plans? Will you give them or not?"
Zhou Guo shook his head. "I would like to give it to you, but I have to have something. This year, we have only collected more than 1,000 shi. One share is given to five prefectures, so each prefecture has more than 200 shi. What can we do with this? The big families have so much land that it is not enough to give it to one of them. I can't make it even if I change it."
Upon hearing this, Li became anxious, "What should we do? These people are not ordinary people. Isn't this offending people?"
Zhou Mai said: "Mom, how can we say that we have offended someone? We didn't promise them that we must give it to us. They came to us on their own initiative."
The old man nodded, "What can we do if we really don't have them? Can we rob them? Even if we rob them, there won't be that much."
"That's right." Zhou Guo lay down on the rocking chair calmly, "Besides, it's not that I don't agree to give it to you, but I have the final say on when to give it to you."
Seeing that she was confident, Li was relieved and said, "That's good. What do you want to eat? I'll make it."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I want to eat braised pig's tendon, the kind that is stewed until it is soft."
Li smiled and said, "I see. You know how to eat. A cow only has so much. It's hard to come by. Whenever I see some for sale, I buy them all and store them."
Everyone knew that she loved to eat it, so anyone who saw it on sale at the market would buy it and freeze it in the freezer. It could be kept for several months, so the family would have it available whenever they wanted to eat it.
Zhou Guo took a big bowl and ate a piece of stewed soft pig's tendon. It was so soft and sticky and delicious that he sighed. He had not had many good meals after living outdoors for a month or two.
After working so hard for so long, I became lazy as soon as I took a break. I lay in the rocking chair all day and didn't want to get up.
When invitations came to her house and people came to visit, Li had no choice but to announce to the public that she had not returned yet and she didn't know where she had gone.
I lay there for two days, eating and sleeping every day.
The old man finally couldn't stand it anymore and asked, "You are almost growing old in this rocking chair. You act like an old lady every day. You look older than me, your teacher."
Zhou Guo didn't even open his eyes, and said, "Master, you don't know how tiring autumn harvest is. Others only work for a few days, at most half a month, but I've been busy since harvesting grain, and I've spent half my life on it. Please let me rest for a while. I can't get up for at least ten days or half a month."
The old man choked, thought about it, and looked at the child's tired face, unable to speak. He turned around and went back into the mountain with the bucket.
Wu Ya looked at him and smiled secretly, and said to Li: "Second Aunt, you see, although the master talks harshly, he still loves Guoguo very much. He is going to the mountains to catch fish now. He hasn't been to the mountains for a long time."
Li smiled and said, "He loves her more than anyone else. Most of the tendons in the house were bought by him. He is just worried because she is so young and has no energy."
Here I sigh.
Being too tired is not a good thing after all. It will take years to recover the damaged vitality.
She could only cook different kinds of nourishing soups for her every day.
The whole family has a consensus, and even walks quietly.
Neither Li nor Wu Ya went out of the house and announced to the outside world that they were not at home, fearing that the villagers would come and disturb their rest.
Fortunately, houses are built big nowadays, and if you stay in the house every day, no one will really know whether you have come back or not.
Zhou Guo rested at home for a few days, and his blood and energy gradually recovered, and his spirits also improved.
The family breathed a sigh of relief.
Li said, "Don't do this next time. You said you have a lot of people under you. Why don't you just hand it over to Wu Jianghu and the others? Why do you make yourself so exhausted? I'm really scared of you."
Zhou Guo said: "They have a lot of responsibilities, and I have to do some things myself."
The old man asked, "What are you going to do next?"
Zhou Guo calculated the time and said, "My uncle will be coming out in a few days. It will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in a few days. The crabs in the pond will be edible. I will go and celebrate the festival with him."
Speaking of which, since Zhou Dacang joined the army, he has not celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival at home on the night of the full moon.
Li made the decision and said, "Then the whole family can go together. Anyway, there is nothing to do in the mountains now, and the rice in the fields has been harvested. We can just leave Huzi to look after the house."
Zhou Mai and the others were all happy.
If you want to leave, leave early. If you stay at home, there will be messages arriving at your door every day.
Everyone packed up their things that night, and the whole family left early the next morning.
Including the big dog Black Bold.
Seeing this, the villagers asked, "Mother Guoguo, where are you going?"
Li said, "It's almost the holidays, and our Guoguo doesn't have time to come back. We can't let the child spend the holidays alone. I'll take my family to look for her."
"Oh, your Guoguo is really hard-working. He has been out for so long and hasn't come back yet. Don't let the child get too tired."
The villagers sighed, "It seems that this money is not something that ordinary people can earn. Zhou Guo is so busy that she doesn't go home all year round. If she wasn't a girl, I would have suspected that she had joined the army like her uncle."
"Yes, I think it's okay for us to make a little money this way. At least the whole family is together and it's not that tiring."
Everyone nodded. Although they knew that this was just what they said to comfort themselves, who was willing to admit it?
After all, even if they want to be busy, they can't be busy.
Two miles out of the checkpoint, Zhou Dacang saw Zhou Guo.
He was delighted, then frowned, and rode forward to ask, "Why are you here?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I'm here to pick you up. I was thinking if you didn't come out I would have to ask the big brothers at the checkpoint to write to you. Tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Festival. You haven't spent it at home in all these years. This time our whole family is here. Your family is waiting for you to go back and celebrate the festival."
Zhou Dacang felt warm in his heart and said, "Then you don't have to come here to wait for me. Do you know what this place is? This is not a place that anyone can enter casually."
Zhou Guo said: "I know, but I'm so far away from the checkpoint and I haven't passed it yet."
Holding the reins, he said, "Let's go. I told you that the crabs in the pond are ready to eat. I had someone fish one out this morning. It's very fat. Eat as many as you want."