Chapter Forty-Six: Six Zero Farmer's Mother-in-law (22)
At the end of August
Qiaomu received the manuscript fee from the People's Daily.
The amount of manuscripts was not large, totaling five yuan, but Qiao Mu still read the invitation letter in the reply letter back and forth many times, smiling foolishly.
Supplying articles to the People's Daily and providing articles to other newspapers are two completely different concepts. They can be described as worlds. Qiao Mu has experienced many worlds in the past, many times that are not very advanced, and even wrote manuscripts, but he has never written them to the official media.
It's inevitable that I'm a little excited for the first time.
This represents a recognition, and it also means that her articles can be seen by some leaders. In the future, they may be able to slightly change the future through some subtle descriptions in the article.
Thinking of this, Qiao Mu felt a sense of responsibility coming to his heart and wanted to do more, so he immediately started writing the manuscript again excitedly. Even the local literature used to find her son was temporarily put aside and first investigated the editorial.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
At this time, Qiao Mu and his wife secretly planted sweet potatoes on the mountain were also at the time of harvest. In order to prevent others from causing trouble, they also went up the mountain to dig sweet potatoes secretly. They took more than a dozen or twenty people to dig them, so it was safe to have few people.
In the mountain canyon, Qiao Fuhua was bringing more than a dozen young and strong young people to dig sweet potatoes here. However, as they were digging, everyone felt something was wrong. It was not that the current people were following me, but mainly because everyone suddenly felt that the sweet potatoes dug out were more, and they were even larger in terms of size and quantity than they had grown before.
"Old village chief, isn't this sweet potato a little wrong? Why do I feel that this sweet potato is not only big, but also has a large number of knots under it!
It is too exaggerated to think that there are five or six kilograms of sweet potatoes underneath. Is it true that the radio from the commune is right? There is really a grain yield of tens of thousands of kilograms per mu in this world?"&1t;i>&1t;/i>
Qiao Tiehua pulled out a whole sweet potato, and it felt something was wrong when he picked it up. He had been a butcher for many years before. Although he had not sold meat for nearly ten years, his skills were still there. You could tell how much a thing weighs just by picking it up, and the difference was definitely only one yuan.
"I don't know either. The sweet potato seedlings were made by Grandma Qiao, but the variety of sweet potatoes is really good. Not only are they large in size and large in number, I dug two of them yesterday and tasted them. The taste is much sweeter than the sweet potatoes we planted before.
Don’t worry about these, isn’t it a good thing to have too many sweet potatoes below? Anyway, we planted them secretly and don’t have to pay the public grain. You should hurry up and dig them. I’ll take the time to go back and go to the evening to ask what happened to Grandma Qiao.”
Qiao Fuhua had already dug one yesterday to see if he could harvest it. He had already been surprised and happy, so he was naturally very calm at this time, and he was still urging everyone.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
Qiao Tiehua thought about it, and anyway, the sweet potatoes will be divided into every household. I want to know if they are really high-yield. At worst, I can leave some sweet potatoes a little. I will know if they are planted next year. However, if they are so high-yield every year, they may not have to go hungry again in the future.
Thinking of this, I became excited and had more energy to work, and my enthusiasm was no less than the enthusiasm I had when I first divided the land.
After digging one day, they had more than a dozen people in their group actually dug out a full ten acres of sweet potatoes, and they dug out no less than 100,000 kilograms. It is definitely impossible for them to transport them down the mountain in a short time, and if one person is to die of a single person, he can only carry about a hundred kilograms.
So, when the sun was about to set that afternoon, but the sky was still a little brighter, the old village chief quickly ran down the mountain to ask everyone to go to the mountain to help carry sweet potatoes together.
Anyway, it's getting dark now, and no one will run to their mountain at night or do what they do in their village. So the old village chief is not polite at all when he calls people. He has to go almost any moveable. He must hurry up and transport all the sweet potatoes back before the sky is completely dark, otherwise it will be difficult to go down the mountain.&1t;i>&1t;/i>
If a dozen people are lucky enough to get a hundred thousand pounds of sweet potatoes, the amount of time must be quite slow, but if hundreds of people are lucky enough to get a lot of time together, the amount of time will get a lot of time. However, after two rounds and backs, all the sweet potatoes will be transported to the original grain warehouse in the village.
In the grain warehouse, although everyone is hungry and tired now, looking at the pile of sweet potatoes in the grain warehouse, each of them is smiling and full of joy. Qiao Fuhua saw that everyone is so happy, considering that many people may have already lost food, so he did not waste everyone's time, so he immediately stood up and said:
"I'm not talking nonsense anymore. I'll give you this sweet potato now. Uncle Qiao San, you and Dazhu Ergou are helping everyone to call sweet potatoes. There are a total of 100 households in our village, with a total of 1,072 people. Each adult strong man will be divided into 100 kilograms first, the elderly and women will be divided into 80 kilograms, and children under ten years old will be divided into 60 kilograms. In addition, those who go up the mountain to dig sweet potatoes today will be divided into 20 kilograms, and those who carry sweet potatoes down the mountain will be divided into 10 kilograms. Do you have any opinions?"&1t;i>&1t;/i>
"No objection, no objection, old village chief, please share the sweet potatoes quickly. I haven't eaten serious food in my stomach for almost half a month."
"Yes, village chief, please divide it quickly!"
"Yes, village chief, we have no objection!"
The old village chief's division method is already quite fair, and everyone is really hungry now, so they all want to get some sweet potatoes back and eat them quickly. It feels really uncomfortable to be hungry.
"Okay, start weighing!"
Seeing that everyone had no objection, Qiao Fuhua immediately asked Uncle Qiao San to start distributing the grain. Everyone knew exactly how many people in each household in the village, so naturally there was no false claim. The amount of pounds should be distributed is as much as pounds.
After the division was completed, everyone had divided the amount of it, and there were more than 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes left in the warehouse. Zhang Fuhua looked around and found that Qiaomu had not come, so he immediately said:
"There are more than 200 kilograms left, but Grandma Qiao did not come here today. The sweet potato seedlings on the mountain were provided by Grandma Qiao. I don't know how much it cost or how much favor it cost, so all these more than 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes are given to Grandma Qiao. Don't have any objections, this is what Grandma Qiao deserves.
I also think I've given less!
After all, if we didn’t have Grandma Qiao, we wouldn’t be able to get a share at all. In the next few days, we would have to go up the mountain to dig, and then we would give the remaining ones to Grandma Qiao every time we would get it!
OK, go back if you have no objection!
I've kept my mouth shut. If anyone dares to leak the news, he will get rid of the clan immediately!"
This time, everyone distributed sweet potatoes of all ages. The family with the smallest number of people all distributed about 200 kilograms. In addition, they all knew where these sweet potatoes came from, so naturally they would not have any objections.
Everyone said they had no objection, and after they were supposed to be what they should be, they hurriedly picked up the sweet potatoes that belonged to their family and went home to eat them.
Chapter completed!