Chapter 28 The End of the Summer Harvest
The accountant was also very happy. Although Li Dequan is a village accountant, he only has a few dollars a month for subsidies, and his family's five children are living a tight life.
"Wenzi is a child who is particular. He said he gave us fish a few days ago, but later he lost the fishing gear. He didn't expect that he could still think of us when eating meat today. Aunt Ba Huang Chunping said with a smile."
"This child is indeed not simple. He is a mature young man. He spoke easily in front of the commune director a few days ago. He also mentioned me by the way. I went to the commune for a meeting yesterday and received praise from him. Li Dequan nodded and said.
"Well, I'll get closer to Laowu's family in the future. The second boy from Laowu's family will definitely be amazing in the future. Huang Chunping smiled at the children who were snatching meat to eat."
In the following time, Li Wen worked hard in the village during the day, and went home to grow vegetables and raise chickens in the space at night, and lived a comfortable life.
Dangdangdangdang, "This afternoon, every household brings sacks and starts to distribute grain," said Li Junli, the production team leader, standing at the entrance of the village committee, knocking on the bell under the big tree!
This morning, the village party secretary took the strong laborers from the village and used carriages and people to pick them to hand over the public grain of the village this year, leaving a part of the production team for spare, and the remaining grain will naturally be distributed to the members today.
There are six laborers in the Li Wen family. My father and second uncle have full work points, while my mother, second aunt, eldest brother and second brother don’t have much work points.
Today, the production team will arrange calculations and get off work early at noon.
At noon, the family ate something casually in the yard and hurried to the village to collect the food with the grain bag.
When the family arrived at the square in front of the village committee, it was already crowded. It seemed that everyone was waiting for the entrance to the food.
Li Wen and his wife have a total of 2,000 mu of irrigated land in Sanxing Village. In addition to 1,500 mu of fixed grain planting every year, the other 500 mu are planted with rapeseed or some coarse grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.
It seems that there is still a lot of land, but because it is located on the loess high slope, the soil has been severely degraded after thousands of years of cultivation, and the crop varieties are not good. In addition, the lack of water, fertilizer and pesticides, the yield is not high. The weather this year is not very good, and a yield of wheat per acre is only more than 200 kilograms.
In recent years, the country has been in a difficult situation and the proportion of public grain is relatively heavy. Therefore, after paying the public grain and the village's spare grain, leaving behind the grain seeds, and not much left.
It was almost evening when it was Li Wen's turn. He divided less than 300 kilograms of wheat and twenty kilograms of rapeseed. The remaining one was peas and there were not many mixed grains for mung beans.
Many families have less food, and they say that they have miscalculated the work points, and they have started arguing with the village committee. Some people usually eat the food for the first time because their family has too little labor. After they get the food for the village, they immediately have half of the sacks empty. The men sit in the wheat field and are depressed, while the women and children cry loudly.
The whole family was already sweating profusely when they carried the food on their shoulders and took it home. "It's so tiring to line up," Li Wen said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Isn't this the same thing every year for distribution of grain? This year, our family is very active. It was already midnight when I got home last year," said his mother Wang Chunmei.
There is not much food this year. It has been several years since there are natural disasters and man-made disasters. My father took a sip of the dry tobacco."
"Yes, less than 300 kilograms of wheat and some miscellaneous grains. If you want to eat it until the summer harvest next year, it will probably be difficult. Uncle Second said, "
"Will our family change some coarse grains tomorrow? The less than 300 kilograms of wheat will soon be gone, and my mother Wang Chunmei looked at her father and said."
"Yes, his uncle, why don't he go to your friends and Decai to exchange some coarse grains like last year, and the food he had collected in autumn should be eaten until next year," said the second aunt.
"Young mother, and his second aunt, don't need it. Our family will definitely have enough food next year, and maybe there will be still left," the father knocked out the cigarette pole and said with a smile.
"You forgot that our eldest son will go to the factory to work after the New Year? Then they will eat and live in the factory, and they can still subsidize their families after receiving their wages. Li Deyou smiled and raised his head."
"Oh, I really forgot. His aunt brought the indicators of the two children some time ago. Our Awu and Aquan are about to have a public meal," said the mother Wang Chunmei and second aunt, laughing proudly when they heard this.
"This year, we eat all the wheat in our family, and we also eat fine grains. In recent years, people have been eating corn flour and sweet potatoes every day, and the second uncle said with a smile."
The children clapped their hands straight after hearing the words. Nothing can make them happier than eating white flour steamed buns and noodles.
"Tonight, our family eats fish to improve their lives. The old lady Guo Xiuyun walked out of the kitchen and said with a smile."
Before he started working in the afternoon, Li Wen used red sewing needles and sewing threads to make a pair of fishing gear and took a group of children to the village reservoir to catch several carp more than a pound.
The fishing gear storm has passed recently. Li Wen occasionally takes his homemade fishing gear to the reservoir to fish, and sometimes returns home with his hands, but most of the time he still gets one or two gains.
The young people in the village also followed Li Wen to make fishing gear, and even asked Li Wen about the recipe for making bait, so recently many families in the village have started eating fish every now and then.
After dinner, Li Wen came to the backyard. In the past half a month, the piglets were fed bran pig grass several times a day, and they were full every day. The growth rate was fast and almost thirty kilograms. In a few days, after the silage was fermented, they could feed large amounts of silage, which was much nutritious than simple grass and bran.
Returning to the room, he tied the door and tied it. Li Wen returned to the warehouse space. Since his rebirth, Li Wen has not lost the egg and milk project, and his size has grown a lot. His size has soared in the past month. Last night, he measured it in the space and it was already 1.43 meters.
The newly planted corn in the yard is half a person tall, and the yard is full of pumpkin vines. Under Li Wen's manual intervention, pumpkins the size of fists are full of pumpkins the size of a fist.
The cucumber flowers on the shelf were already covered with yellow flowers, with more than a dozen cucumbers hanging in scattered. Since there was no bee, Li Wen had to take a few chicken feathers to artificially pollinate the cucumber and pumpkin. The pumpkin is easy to say, but the flowers are relatively large. The small yellow flowers of cucumber took Li Wen a lot of effort.
When I arrived at the front door room, the five little rabbits weighed two pounds and were no longer small. Dozens of chickens and ducks had their downs and had their feathers growing, and they were chattering all day long.
Dozens of fish of all sizes swim freely in the small fish pond.
Li Wen laid a layer of soil into the pool some time ago, threw away some broken bricks, rotten tiles and stones, and even got some aquatic plants from the reservoir and threw them inside.
A few days ago, I saw a lot of fish eggs born under some aquatic plants and rubble. "It seems that the temperature in the space is very suitable for fish growth, Li Wen smiled and said to himself."
Li Wen has not been idle recently. He has written a lot of essays, poems and novels, all of which are stored on the table in the lounge. He just waited for the newspapers and magazines to submit the articles before they returned.
"Tomorrow I will catch bees, and the honey at home was just eaten by Li Tao and a few greedy people," Li Wenmingtian was going to use this as an excuse to go up the hill in his second aunt's village.
After dinner the next morning, Li Wen said, "Dad, there is no work in the fields these days. I am going to go to the mountain behind Xiaoyong's grandfather's house to find out if there is any honey nest. It just so happens that our honey is gone."
"I'll go too, we'll go to my uncle's house, too," Li Min, Li Yong, Li Tao, and the little guy Li Juan raised their hands and shouted when Li Wen was going to fuck bees.
"Okay, go, but you can't go there. Bees sting people in the mountains. It hurts a lot. Awen, take a few little guys and watch them and don't let them run around," said his father Li Deyou.
As he said that, Li's father picked up Li Juan and said with a smile: "Today, go to the commune with dad to grind noodles, there will be delicious food at that time." The little guy nodded immediately after being seduced by his father.
After dinner, Li Wen and his men slipped away quietly with their baskets on their backs. This little guy can't take him. He is still young, so they are going to get honeycombs. This little guy doesn't run fast and is easily stung."
The county town where Li Wen is located has no strange peaks and ridges, and the mountains are all small hills with an altitude of hundreds of meters. In addition, people have lived for thousands of years, and carnivores have long been extinct, and at most there are a few wild boars scattered, so there is basically no danger.
The few people were going to Shibei Mountain this time. The altitude of Shibei Mountain is only five or six hundred meters. This mountain is named after a thousand-year-old ancient stele.
Second aunt's family is at the foot of Shibei Mountain. The village also farms, but it is close to the mountain, and there is less land suitable for cultivation. The villagers occasionally go up the mountain to get some mountain goods and hand them over to the supply and marketing cooperative for food.
"My uncle is amazing. He beat a wild boar two years ago and gave us two kilograms of pork." Li Yong is a naughty king, but he admires his uncle and keep flattering his uncle along the way. He doesn't know if his uncle can sense it.
"Brother Gazi, I'm here again," Li Yong saw one of the few children sitting on the big tree at the entrance of the village and shouted loudly.
"My cousin is here, I have to go and play with him," Cui Erga, who was eight or nine years old on the tree, said to her friends, and then slipped down from the tree.
"Xiao Tao, Xiao Yong, you guys come to me. Cui Erga looked at his two cousins and said with a smile."
"Brother Gazi, today I will take my brother Wenzi to get a honeycomb," Li Yong said to Cui Erga in a low voice.
"Digging the honeycomb, the hornet's nest is still a honeycomb," Cui Erga's eyes lit up.
"It must be a bee. The hornet's meat is not enough to be stuck in the teeth. What can it do if Li Tao said."
"Ergazi, call your friends. Who knows that honeycombs, as long as they exceed the size of their rice bowl, take us there. I will give him a cent. The bigger the honeycomb, the greater the reward," Li Wen knew that there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and said excitedly.
"Brother Wenzi really gives money?" Ergazi immediately jumped up and ran to the big tree and shouted, "Egou, Ermao, come down quickly, who do you know that honeycomb? My Brother Wenzi has a reward, one cent."
Three or four kids in the tree slipped down one after another, "I know," shouted a little kid with bare upper body and feet.
Chapter completed!