This is because Li Zhouzhou is not here. If he is here, he will say that family is the most important. Eating a few more bites of meat and eggs doesn’t cost much. Only when you are full and well-fed can you have the strength to work. Saving money is not from this.

　　If you work yourself to the point of hurting your health, it will be bad in the future. Li Zhouzhou would rather save money on clothes, not buy new clothes, mend old clothes, and take clothes apart to dry them. It’s a lot of trouble, but it’s probably to save money.

　　Or you can be more diligent and raise more chickens or pigs, which can also be income.

　　That day, they worked from dawn to dawn, took a break for lunch, and worked until sunset. They harvested a total of four and a half mu of wheat. The three members of the Li family carried the wheat bundles to the yard, taking turns to do so, and one person had to stay behind to watch over the field.

　　It was already dark when we finished eating in the evening, and we ate by light of oil lamps.

　　”Tomorrow will be almost done. We can pick up some wheat ears the day after tomorrow and it will be almost done.” said Li Da.

　　The family has ten mu of dry land, and wheat and sorghum can be planted separately, so nine mu of wheat and one mu of peanuts and beans are planted. After the wheat is harvested, there is still time to plant two mu of sorghum. The sorghum is not sold, but kept for home consumption. The wheat is to be sold, and only a small part is kept for consumption.

　　The rest of the land can be left empty to allow the fertilizer to grow, but you can’t tire yourself out.

　　During these two days, Gu Zhao had never been so tired. He really didn’t think about anything and fell asleep as soon as he touched the kang. He was very clean and had no dreams. When he woke up, he ate and went to work in the fields. He persevered entirely by relying on his willpower.

　　Li’s father and Zhou Zhou worked much harder and were much more tired than him, but Gu Zhao did not give himself the excuse of “lack of motivation and energy”. He just did whatever he could, took a break when he was tired, and then continued working.

　　On the third day, the fields were harvested cleanly, and even the wheat ears were picked up in several baskets. The front yard of the Li family is large. It should be said that every household in the village has a spacious front yard with compacted loess on the ground. On weekdays, the yard is used to hang clothes or something, and it is a good place to work during the busy farming season.

　　Drying, grinding and bagging the wheat.

　　The wheat in the side room was piled so high that there was no place to stand, and most of the woodshed was cleared to store the wheat. Less than three days after the harvest, after noon, Li Zhouzhou was washing dishes when he heard a loud bang. It was raining, and it was a heavy rain.

　　Li Da sat under the eaves and drank water, looking at the weather and said, “It will be nice after the rain.”

　　The villagers rely on the crops for their livelihood, so they all harvested the crops early. If there are some lazy people who harvested the crops late, the fields will suffer. I just hope they don’t harvest the crops for too long, otherwise the wheat will be soaked.

　　Li Zhouzhou leaned his head out to look at the rain, thinking that Uncle Wang’s family was in trouble, and there were still four or five acres of land that had not been harvested. He said he wanted to help, but Uncle Wang wouldn’t let him, saying that he knew what was going on. Before Li Zhouzhou could figure it out, his husband persuaded him to listen to Uncle Wang.

　　Now that it’s raining, Li Zhouzhou starts to worry about Uncle Wang.

　　Uncle Wang’s family has five mu of paddy fields and ten mu of dry fields. The rest were sold in the early years. After Wang Ergou died, if they wanted to harvest the dry fields, they had to wait until the crops were harvested in the fields before the village could take them back. In previous years, Wang Ergou’s husband could only harvest half of the ten mu of dry fields. They said their waists and arms hurt after working for more than a day. Uncle Wang was anxious and afraid of rain, so he harvested the rest by himself.

　　This year, Wang Ergou died, and the village rushed to harvest. The old farmers had already started. Wang Ergou’s father was also anxious, so he asked his daughter-in-law why he hadn’t harvested yet. Uncle Wang went to the fields with his father-in-law. In previous years, Uncle Wang worked hard. When his father-in-law complained about arm pain, he said, “It’s okay, Dad, take a rest and I’ll do it.”

　　Now it was Wang Ergou’s father who was resting, and Uncle Wang also worked, but he worked for a day and couldn’t say anything the next day because he was too tired to get up, thus interrupting what Wang Ergou’s father wanted to say. After resting for a morning, Uncle Wang delivered food in the afternoon and worked again for another afternoon.

　　After such a slow process, most of the crops in the village were harvested, and Wang Ergou’s field only had five acres left.

　　Everyone in the village knows that Uncle Wang has been in poor health since Wang Ergou died. It’s normal after all these years of hard work and such a misfortune.

　　So the main force of the harvest this year is Wang Ergou’s father. If he wants to be lazy and stop working, the crops will be left in the field. Uncle Wang said it well, Dad, you can take a break, anyway, the wheat can’t run away, so there’s no rush.

　　Then it rained.

　　Wang Ergou’s parents were so anxious that they begged God not to rain continuously and scolded Wang Xue for not harvesting the crops early. Wang Xue just let his parents-in-law scold him without saying anything back.