Sutton's Burdened Heart Chapter 39

The wheat has been watered for the last time, and it has been sunny. The so-called "when the wheat is ripe", at this time, farmers in the north have to go to the wheat fields several times a day. Even the laziest farmers have to go around the fields after the sound. Once you see the wheat fields in your field turning yellow, you should pick up the sickle and go to the ground.

Harvesting wheat is hard work. In the north, there is a folk song about the "four major tiredness". The "four major tiredness" in it are "raising manure, threshing grain, harvesting wheat, and sleeping with your wife" (actually, the fourth tiredness is definitely not so elegantly expressed) , harvesting wheat ranks third. 

Now with the harvester, it only takes two cigarettes to harvest an acre of land. However, the cost of renting a harvester is too expensive, costing five to ten yuan per acre. Therefore, there are still a small number of people who rent harvesters to harvest wheat. At least in the Xiaodao River Basin, harvesters will not be used on a large scale until the mid-1990s.

However, at Zhang Suping's insistence, their wheat was harvested with a harvester. There is really no one at home! My father-in-law is semi-ill, and my eldest brother-in-law has just been discharged from the hospital. In addition to taking care of them, my mother-in-law also has to take care of a lot of things at home. 

It is too difficult for Zhang Zhilin and Suping to harvest seven or eight acres of wheat. Originally, the eldest brother and the second brother said that they would come to help after harvesting the crops in their own fields, but Suping also insisted on using the harvester. Nowadays, there is too much work in the fields. After harvesting the wheat, you still have to thresh, go to the house, dry the water, and go to the house. When you pack the wheat into the urn, you have to pull out the grass, plant corn, and water it. The eldest brother and the second brother both have a lot of land at home, and their construction stalls are becoming more and more prosperous. If you work less for a day, you will make a lot less money!