First of all, clean up a threshing floor-one of the things that harvested wheat in those years.
About a week before mango seeds, I returned to my hometown in the countryside. We are probably all from the countryside, but we seldom go back to the countryside.
Some people joked that the city has a deep routine and I want to go back to the countryside. However, many times they just think about it, or at most go back when the wheat is busy and stand in the field and wait for the harvester to go back and forth several times. Broken wheat straw is scattered in the ground as fertilizer, and the wheat is left. The car to buy wheat was towed away by the horizon scale, and the money was put into the pocket, so the annual busy harvest task was completed.
Ten years ago, at least twenty years ago, the wheat harvest would never be so simple. At that time, it seemed that only people, including adults and children, were harvesting wheat.
As long as I can remember, after Xiaoman, my father became busy. First of all, clean up a "special" place, which is called "field". For example, the playground is a place where students go to physical education class, the magnetic field is an attractive place, the theater is a place to see plays, the Dojo is a place to do things, the Dojo is a place where condemned criminals behead, and the threshing floor is a place where harvested wheat is.
This place is first of all "feng shui" is better, no matter the east wind or the north wind, you can come in to prepare for the later promotion; Water is convenient for taking water for bathing. At the same time, it is convenient and fast to be close to your own wheat field and home. The choice of place is similar to the "general horse drinking problem", which is also a mathematical problem brought to me by my father in practice.
As usual, plant something on the threshing floor. Every piece of land of farmers will not be abandoned, only lazy people, no lazy land. Usually broad beans, peas or barley, they mature early and are easy to grow. After my father chose a place, he spent time working there. I will also use my time after school to pick it up with my father. It may take most of the time just to pull out the broad bean stems or barley roots.
The size of the threshing floor depends on the number of wheat fields at home. More wheat fields are bigger and fewer wheat fields are smaller. Finally, the road was built at the east end of the village, so people put the threshing floor on the side of the road, saving a lot of effort, and the vehicles coming and going can also play the role of threshing.
When I was very young, I always wondered how my father knew when to be busy and what to do. So I couldn't help asking my father when I was harvesting wheat stubble. My father smiled and told me gently, "You don't have to learn to grow crops. You can do whatever others do, as long as you have breath in your eyes."
Can you still get it out of your eyes? I tried to vent my anger with my eyes, but it was difficult. In the end, I can only close my nose and mouth and vent my anger through my ears. Then I thought about it all night before I realized that venting anger through my eyes means learning to observe, learn to learn and learn to think. Experienced farmers don't know that today is Christmas and tomorrow is Valentine's Day, but they know that "the spring rain surprises the spring and the valley, and the summer is full and the summer is hot." In autumn, the autumn frost falls, and the winter snow is raining. "The truth.
Clean up the things on the ground, then dig with a shovel and level the ground at the same time. Rake the larger soil with a nail rake, sprinkle a layer of wheat bran or wheat bran left over from previous years, and then pull the wheat bran on it again to fully blend the soil and wheat bran.
The chisel was originally a chisel stone, usually a triangular stone piece with holes in each corner, which was used in conjunction with the chisel to enhance the threshing effect. Farmers who have no money to buy stones sometimes use half a millstone instead, or have plenty of food and clothing themselves. In winter, wheat bran and wheat bran mud are often mixed together when they are free, and then they climb into a triangle with Vitex negundo as the skeleton to enhance their involvement, then they are filled with the mixed mud, and a hole is poked at each corner with a tree stick, and a rash occurs after drying. When you use it, bring a handful of wheat straw or broad bean straw behind you, which is similar to the effect of stone cutting.
The threshing floor dug by the chisel is flat and square. Bring some water from nearby in the evening and splash it on the threshing floor for a dip. Occasionally, I will bring some small fish and shrimp to become a delicious meal for passing cats.
The next morning, when the sun rose, the bright sunshine shone on the mottled threshing floor, golden and round. The splash is half dry. The early father sprinkled a layer of wheat bran on it, and the stone was made. The rolling field is about to begin.
In order to make the threshing floor durable and easy to use and not crack under the scorching sun, threshing floor is a very important process. Cattle and horses can't be used, which will destroy the threshing floor spilled yesterday. We have to find someone to turn it over. It's more difficult to turn it by one person, so it's better for two people to cooperate. I often become my father's helper, holding one end of the pole in a big circle, where my father controls the trajectory of the stone.
The threshing floor is usually rectangular, and the rotation track of gravel is a circle. To cover the square with a ring, I can only press the rubble one by one and turn around. Although my shoulder pole is relatively long, I don't exert much force, but I have to run faster to keep up with the pace of the inner ring. This is the most basic area coverage problem I have encountered.
The threshing floor that has been rolled several times has become more and more flat, and it has become a good place for children to play. Playing pickup truck, skipping rope and pushing hoop is really fun.
Then sweep away the excess wheat bran, no dust, no potholes, waiting for the wheat harvest.