Ten days later, the Yang family's busy farming season was mostly over, and the corn and corn stalks had all been brought back.
The corn stalks were stacked into piles to be used as firewood in the future.
The corn was piled up in the yard, and the whole family sat there working, shelling the corn, delivering what needed to be handed over, and milling the rest for flour to keep as food for the year.
But this year, we probably don't need to mill as much since cornmeal is no longer the main staple, so we don't need to shell much corn. Whatever is left can just be stored for now.
The ox cart and horse cart were, of course, borrowed by Xiaocui's family, and Yang Dong went along too.
The second daughter-in-law sat there shelling corn and said, "Mom, I'm just saying, this marriage shouldn't have been agreed to. Look at Xiaocui's family; they knew to use our ox cart and horse cart but haven't been out in the fields for ten days."
