Miss the time of "double robbing"

I don't know whether it is human nature or living in the countryside since childhood. Every time I see rural self-reliance in growing vegetables and cooking, I feel particularly beautiful. When I was a child, I often complained that dogs in the city lived more easily than people in the mountains. Hunan, which lives in the hilly area, is always a hillside, which is particularly hard for my mother. She has to carry a load of 100 kilograms up the mountain after finishing her work. Every time I go uphill, her mother scolds me, and this damn slope makes her breast-feeding strength come out.

There are two kinds of rice in Hunan, so there are "double guns". Having two guns is the most tiring and hottest time of the year. But for our children, this is also the most interesting time. Whether transplanting rice or cutting rice, dad is responsible for distribution. Three brothers and sisters attach great importance to fairness. There will be protests if there is a slight inequality. If dad doesn't, he just needs to help the rope keep fair. Of course, my brother is the most disadvantaged, who makes him the smallest. But we also turned a blind eye to his mother's last help. Once we finish the assigned work, we can do some interesting things, such as catching crabs and picking up screws, picking wild grapes, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming. Picking up snails is our favorite thing to do. On the one hand, we all love to eat snails. On the other hand, in the end, my mother will go with us to pick them up.

I still remember one time, my sister and I went to pick up snails after work. We swam for a while to pick up snails. Very interesting. Pick it up and find that the wild grapes by the river are ripe. Ha, ha, ha. Great. After I picked up the edible snails, I ran to the shore to pick grapes to eat. When I was almost ready to go home, I found that the sun was getting bigger and bigger and no one was at work. Everyone went home, and we knew that we had been playing for a long time. When we came home with a nervous heart, we found that mom and dad didn't blame us and left us a delicious blood duck.

Blood duck is also the most common dish in busy farming season, and it is eaten almost every other day. Keep ducks at home. Dad always kills them when he comes home to get things, and starts to blow them up as soon as he comes back at noon. Fried duck with eggplant or bitter gourd is delicious. Blood duck with spinach will soon have two bowls of rice left in its stomach. June and July are also the season to eat watermelon. Eat another watermelon after dinner and spend a hot noon. The working conditions of farmers are very difficult. The sultry summer is the busiest time of the year, and the sun of more than 30 degrees at noon bakes the rice fields. The leeches that crawl on our legs from time to time make us tremble with fear. Leeches can't be killed, and no matter how hard you hit them with stones, you can get up. I really hated it at that time, but it was inevitable. Even today, I will wake up in the dream that leeches climb onto my thighs. It was too hot at noon, and I wanted to wait until the weather was cooler, but as soon as the sun set, mosquitoes came out. The wet trouser legs in the paddy field are its favorite place to bite, so the sound of flapping comes one after another. People who work in neighboring farmland will tease each other and kill mosquitoes if they don't go back. But farmers have this awareness, no matter how tired, they must complete the expected work. Sometimes my parents don't come home until 8.9 o'clock. At this time, my grandmother will complain at home that she has no concept of time and will not come back at this time. Complaining is always complaining, and grandma will always do what she can, waiting for dad to come back and cook and eat together. When we were young, we went to the river to play with the children very early. I don't know how to get home without playing with water (taking a bath) for an hour. Growing up by the river, we can walk and swim. At that time, taking a bath was to jump into the river for a swim and rub it a little, even if it was a good bath. We'll put some soap if we can. Most of us only swim once. I don't know if it's clean. Anyway, personal hygiene never needs parental control. The first thing my parents did when they came back was to take a bath. After a day's farm work, my clothes are mixed with sweat and all kinds of mud. It's refreshing to take a bath at this time. Dad is the fastest. He washes by the river like us. After a quick bath, he began to cook. Dad's cooking has always been the best, full of color, flavor and taste. The taste is a little heavy, and the smell of the food can float to the river to attract us to go home for dinner. The food at this time is also the most fragrant. The best chefs are hungry, not to mention the really good ingredients. Basically, every meal has meat, chicken, duck, pork and small fish to improve life. Chickens and ducks are raised by themselves, and pork has to be paid, so it is common to get credit. The pork seller ran to the farmland and shouted, if he wanted it, he would leave the pork without money. Everyone is an acquaintance, and credit is inevitable. Eating fish is the hardest and easiest. He needs someone to go to the river to get it himself. Whether it's electric fish or net fish, he needs some skills. As a farmer who depends on the weather for food, the time of double guns is also the most precious. He doesn't want to waste it on fishing during the day, so often after dinner, his father begins to go fishing with his battery. So there was fresh and delicious fish soup to drink the next day.

Sometimes, just after going to the farmland to prepare for transplanting rice seedlings, it began to rain before dawn, and the family hurried back. Rice is still drying at home, sweeping and pushing, and the whole family is racing against time with God to take it home quickly. Don't put the rice you take home in a bag, but spread it out at home. Hot and humid rice germinates most easily, so all the places where a family can stay are covered with rice. After a harvest peak, we immediately rushed to the farmland to continue our work. Our hearts are satisfied because we have just completed a task, and our parents' hearts are tied up. I wonder how long it will rain.

Tao Yuanming is happy to be a farmer. He can "plant beans in Shannan, the grass is full of bean seedlings, the morning is prosperous, and the lotus flowers are taken home." However, parents who have no hope of turning over all their lives will be so anxious that they can't sleep when the grass is full of bean sprouts, and pull up the grass overnight. Being a farmer is free, no one supervises your process, but the biggest supervisor is God, who has no clear instructions. Only those who are familiar with experience can plant the fields better. The busy farming season is the busiest time for farmers, and it is also a very happy time when they were young. At this time, the family has the same goal and is happy, and parents basically don't quarrel. Ending the busy farming also ends the most harmonious 1 month for a family. High-intensity exposure tanned our skin, warmed our hearts, and made the years to come stand the quarrel at home.

After the double shooting, our parents will specially entertain us and take us to the streets, play and do some shopping. The only photo of the three brothers and sisters was also taken at the end of the busy farming season. Miss that happy and difficult time.