strictlysupreme Chapter 370 Shen Mansion Sends People to Help
Chapter 370 Shen Mansion Sends People to Help
Lai Fu smiled at Gu Qingqing and said, "It was Manager Shen who thought that your wheat would be harvested soon and was afraid that your family might not have enough manpower, so he specially arranged for us to come and help."
When Gu Qingqing learned that they were here to help her family harvest wheat, she quickly waved her hands and refused, "Ah! No, no need to bother you and these two brothers. We started harvesting yesterday, and we will be almost done today."
There isn't much work to do at her house! Why is Manager Shen still thinking about it?
"Madam Wen, you are joking. After the harvest, don't we have to take the crops to the threshing, sifting and winnowing? It is always easier to get things done with more hands. Look, the manager has specially asked me to drive the mule cart here to help your family bring some wheat stalks back. The sooner the crops are harvested, the sooner you can get home and feel at ease," Lai Fu raised his hand and pointed at the mule cart beside him and persuaded.
Gu Qingqing naturally understood this principle, but her family was not as busy as she imagined!
"Madam Wen, please let us go over and help. Otherwise, Manager Shen will definitely blame me for my poor performance when we return." Lai Fu said in a flattering tone when he saw her hesitation.
"Then I...wait a minute."
If they are going to help me, I must go back with them.
Gu Qingqing looked at her donkey cart, then at the other person's mule cart. She suddenly turned to Luo Meihua and said, "Meihua, why don't you try driving the donkey cart? You've been familiar with it these past few days, and it let you drive it the other day. I'll leave the donkey cart to you. It will be convenient for you to come back in the afternoon. Why don't you try it?"
Gu Qingqing thought that if Meihua could drive the donkey cart, then she could follow the mule cart back. In this way, Meihua would be busier today. If her family could get things done this year, she could go to town alone tomorrow and leave Meihua at home.
Luo Meihua listened to what Gu Qingqing said and said confidently, "Okay, I'll drive the donkey cart to town. Although your donkey is a bit stubborn, it doesn't like to cause trouble."
Seeing that she dared, Gu Qingqing walked directly to the donkey, coaxed and persuaded it, and promised to give it delicious food when she came back. In a word, she wanted it to be obedient.
Then Gu Qingqing handed the reins to Luo Meihua and moved her aside. Hearing her command of "Gee, gee," the donkey turned its head to look at Gu Qingqing, then walked forward with the clatter of its little hooves.
Luo Meihua was extremely surprised. She didn't expect that she would succeed. She just turned around and smiled at Gu Qingqing, then hurriedly followed the bus.
Gu Qingqing looked at it for a while and thought, wow, it didn't look like Luo Meihua was driving the donkey cart, but more like an old donkey who knew the way and was taking her to the town.
Regardless, this is a good start.
After watching for a while, Gu Qingqing saw the man and the donkey walking away, so she got on the mule cart, took a few people back to the village, and went directly to the fields.
Before Gu Qingqing reached the end of the field, she couldn't help laughing when she saw the group of black shadows moving around in her field.
Has her field become a nest for children?
In addition to Li Xin and Erhua, there were also Zhao Xi and Wu Fang's eldest son Zhao Sijiao, Zhao Feng and Yang Xing's eldest son Zhao Danju, and Zhao Zhong and Zhao Qin's son Zhao Jianghe.
They shared a basket and picked up the fallen ears of wheat from the open space where the sheaves were already tied and put them into the basket.
Even Dahei is there, but he is not working. He is catching grasshoppers in the field...
"Laifu, this is my family's land. You and these two brothers wait, I'll go call the child's father."
Gu Qingqing walked towards the field as the other party nodded.
Dahei was the first to discover Gu Qingqing. He barked and everyone else noticed him.
You Qi Wen Wuyan raised his hand and wiped the sweat off his face with the towel around his neck, then walked towards Gu Qingqing.
"Wuyan, I just went to the town and met the mule cart from the Shen family. They said they were here to help us with our work, so I brought them here. Why don't you go over and take a look first?" Gu Qingqing said to Wen Wuyan.
"Let's go." Wen Wuyan said as he headed towards the road.
Gu Qingqing looked at the two brothers who were in the car just now. Wow, they are so professional. They even brought their own sickles.
Wen Wuyan went over and greeted the other party. After chatting for a few words, he directly called Zhao Dong over.
The two people who stayed in the Shen Mansion and Zhao Bei continued to harvest the wheat here, while he and Zhao Dong began to load the wheat onto the truck and pull it back.
Gu Qingqing heard the two people from the Shen family saying: We originally thought that the harvest on our farm was much better than last year, but we didn't expect that the Wen family's wheat ears were more and the grains were fuller.
I think the Shen family also used the method of fermenting manure.
Gu Qingqing had no idea what the two of them said, and she began to move the bundles onto the car.
Old Yang wanted to help but Lai Fu stopped him and said, "Old man, please help me lead the mule. I am young and I can do the work."
Old Yang laughed when he heard this and said, "Forget it, let me do it. Your mule is so tall that I don't dare to lead it."
How can Old Yang be afraid?
Of course not!
Lai Fu hurriedly defended himself, "It's very docile, not shocking at all."
"Daxin, come here." Old Yang called to Li Xin.
In the end, the task of leading the mule fell on Li Xin.
Now, the other children were envious and no longer rushed to the fields to pick up wheat ears. They all gathered around the mule. Zhao Sijiao was brave enough to pick up a handful of grass from the edge of the field and put it into the mule's mouth.
As a result, the mule just smelled it but didn't eat it.
Lai Fu, who came over with a bundle of wheat straw, saw this and said with a smile, "It has a chewing rope in its mouth, so it can't eat it."
Zhao Sijiao said with regret, "Ah, then uncle, can you take off its chewing rope? We can feed it grass."
Lai Fu smiled and said, "He's not hungry," to reject the children's request.
If he were here, let alone chewing the rope, it wouldn't matter even if there was no reins. Now the Wen family's children are guarding the mule, and the mule is very docile. If you're not careful and it gets angry, and the chewing rope is not in its mouth, the children won't be able to stop it.
Li Xin was the oldest among the group of children, and he had a bit of a bossy attitude. When he heard Lai Fu's words, he said to Zhao Sijiao and Danju, "We just picked up the wheat ears in the empty field. You see, this ridge is already bare. Go and check if there are any more fallen wheat ears on the field."
Seeing that they couldn't feed the mule, the children regretfully dived into the field to look for fallen ears of wheat.
Gu Qingqing looked at the sky and told everyone that she would go back to cook first, "You can go home according to the time."
"Hehe, if you ask me, since there are so many of us, why don't you guys go back and eat, and then bring ours." said one of the people who came to help.
"That's right. It will take a lot of time on the way back. We won't go back to eat. Let's work hard to finish cutting the rest in the afternoon and bring it all back to you." Lai Fu said.
"This is inappropriate. How can you come here to help with the work and not come home to eat?" Wen Wuyan disagreed.
"We'll finish it for you today, so you don't have to come tomorrow," said another person.
Finally, seeing that they were really working with all their might, Gu Qingqing had no choice but to give up and agreed to deliver lunch to the fields at noon.