At the bottom of the mountain, Li Min couldn't forget the chicken soup. Although she went up the mountain to eat meat for two or three days, she also plowed the land for two days. She also worked hard, but her elder brother did not allow her to follow him up the mountain.
Sister-in-law Niu’s family has a bumper harvest of cabbage from one acre. Each cabbage is tightly packed and each cabbage weighs four to five kilograms.
Ouyang Lei was notified to collect vegetables again. He thought they were vegetables from the Li family. When he arrived in Kushan, he learned that the Niu family had planted an acre of Chinese cabbage behind the village.
He didn't plan to ask for more, but when he saw this dish, he immediately accepted it.
Brother Niu didn't dare to do this, so he still only gave him half and half to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Moreover, this half is still half of half of an acre of land.
Because Sister-in-law Niu wants to give Tian Jing a thousand pills and keep another thousand pills for relatives.
Tian Jing was not at home, so Li Zhengguo took the decision and only collected 500 pills. Ouyang Lei took the remaining 500 pills.
The members' fields have all been planted with winter wheat, because at this time, only winter wheat is suitable, and only in this way can we have two crops a year.
Moreover, everyone has seen how good the wheat from the Li family, Wang family and Niu family is.
This time, the members' wheat seeds were all obtained from the team. Of course, the wheat seeds collected by the commune were guaranteed to be used in Kushanli as soon as possible.
The team only gives free seeds to those in the first season. For subsequent ones, you can keep them yourself or go to the team to change them.
Cadres also took the lead in cultivating the one hundred acres of land in the team, and selected some hard-working and capable young people to help plant winter wheat and receive work points.
The families of these young people are very willing, because now it seems that the work points are not worthwhile, but the team owes the Li family so many work points...
The work points in the future may not be good benefits, maybe..., haha, in short, it is right to follow the Li family.
Now that winter wheat is planted, the village is completely idle.
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Li Jianguo came to Li Zhengguo to borrow money. He wanted to take his daughter to the provincial hospital.
Li Zhengguo took 500 yuan, which was all obtained from Ouyang Lei's help selling vegetables.
Although the agreement states that half of the vegetables will be used to repay Ouyang Lei for the plastic cloth, but no matter how expensive the plastic cloth is, it can't be so expensive that several years of vegetables can be used to pay for the plastic cloth, right?
Ouyang Lei is a good person. At first, when he took away half of the money, he would give back an appropriate part of the money. Of course, he would compare it with the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperative.
In this way, the people who used his plastic sheets were very grateful to him, including the branch secretary and captain who knew the twists and turns.
Li Jianguo retracted his hand in fright, "Two hundred is enough."
"You are poor and you are rich. You don't know what you will encounter when you go out. What if you are not able to control the sky and the earth? Take it and sew it separately inside your clothes. Be careful."
"Okay." Li Jianguo accepted, "I will definitely pay it back."
"I believe my cousin."
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In the mountains, it took ten days to ginning cotton, so Tian Jing went out early and came home late to accompany her mother-in-law for ten days.
All the lint was packed in sacks. Mother Li felt a little distressed, but she also felt sorry for the cloth used to make the cotton bags. Fortunately, there was a lot of cotton and she didn't care about the ones caught in the sacks. Moreover, the cave was not humid, and the sacks were placed on the kang.
on.
"When Yamashita is finished, we will make quilts again."
"No, just do it at the foot of the mountain. There is enough cotton at the foot of the mountain. If it's not enough, I'll come back and get it."
Her mother-in-law worked as if she was risking her life, but Tian Jing would not let her come to Qingsong Rock to enjoy the breeze in late autumn.
"Okay, let's go back. It's time to pick the cotton at the foot of the mountain."
"After you go back, mother, you need to rest for a few days. There are too many people paying attention to that one acre of land, and they will pick one flower after spitting it out. How can you be of any use?"
The cotton at the foot of the mountain is not ripened by Tian Jing like it is on the mountain, so it doesn’t matter how much you pick every day, it depends on how many cotton bolls are spun out every day.
"Okay, I'll rest for a few days."
Mother Li did not refuse. Although she was busy, she felt that the busier she was, the better her health was. Every day her daughter-in-law cooked chicken soup and fried rabbit for her, she became fat.
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Went down the mountain early today. Sister-in-law Niu was helping to tie corn husks in the Li family yard. When she saw Mother Li, she was surprised and asked, "Where have you been with Tian Jing these days? I haven't seen you in a few days. Do you think you've gained weight?"
"Really? I feel like I'm getting fat. Are these freshly cut corns?"
When Mother Li gets off topic, Sister-in-law Niu goes off topic.
"Yes, they came from your cotton field. They were skinned and dried in the field. They were pulled out when they were almost dry."
As Mrs. Niu spoke, her movements in her hands were not slow, and she tied the corn cobs into knots in twos.
When the cotton is interplanted, only one cob is left for each corn plant. One cob weighs a lot, three taels is too much.
Mother Li wanted to sit down and work, but her daughter-in-law and daughter pushed her into the house to rest.
More than two thousand corn cobs were hung on bamboo poles under the eaves of the main house.
Finally seeing Tian Jing, Mrs. Niu began to mutter about her own affairs.
Farming was slack, and the family separation originally scheduled for after the Mid-Autumn Festival was put on the agenda. Aunt Niu divided her younger son and his wife.
Households have been divided, and a foundation has been divided at the far west end of the village, west of Li Rongguo. As for when it will be built, we don't know yet.
Mrs. Niu agreed that her younger son and his wife would stay at home after the Chinese New Year, because even if the house was built, they would not be able to move in right away.
Brother Niu and Aunt Niu can't kick their biological brother out, right?
"Tian Jing, do you feel that I have suffered a big loss by dividing the family? I wish I was the one who was separated, so that I could be closer to you."
Tian Jing sighed, this Mrs. Niu is a powerful mother-in-law, but it’s a good thing that Brother Niu is so scheming.
"Sister-in-law Niu, don't worry. If your sister-in-law wants to take advantage of me, there's no way."
She doesn't want to help others with a good harvest, but she still wants to be considered Brother Niu's family.
Sister-in-law Niu understood that Tian Jing answered her question sideways, and she was so angry that she wanted to kill her.
Tian Jing comforted Sister Niu, "Now, the more your mother-in-law helps, the more miserable their lives will be after your mother-in-law is gone. Looking at the future, what do you think you will do now? Sometimes, suffering is a blessing."
"Yes, you are right, I will wait and see what the future holds."
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On the second day, Tian Jing asked her mother-in-law to pickle sauerkraut.
Li Min washed the pot and boiled water, and Barley followed up and broke off the old cabbage outside the cabbage.
Blanch the cabbage in cold water and marinate a jar full of it.
Tian Jing sipped her saliva, "Mom, when can I eat it?"
"One month."
"It's been too long, Mom, can you make me some fried pickled vermicelli?"
"good."
Mother Li smiled happily. Her daughter-in-law's behavior meant that she must have a boy in her belly.
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The Li family's wasteland is surrounded by commune members every day, just to see how the cotton harvest is.
More and more cotton bolls were spun out, and members of the commune simply went into the fields to help pick them.
Within a few days, only cotton stalks were left in the field.
The commune members came to Li's house to help pick cotton seeds again, but they refused to let Li's mother use the cotton seed separator to ginning cotton. They wanted the cotton seeds and were worried that ginning would damage the cotton seeds.
They also want to grow cotton. How convenient would it be to grow it for their own home? They need tickets to buy cotton, but they can only buy a few kilograms.
Because they are growing on wasteland, the Li family's cotton this season belongs entirely to them and does not need to be handed over.
Mother Li looked at her daughter-in-law.
Tian Jing clapped her hands, attracting everyone's attention, "I understand how you want cotton seeds, but I still say the same thing, you can take the seeds, but I don't care about the harvest."
"We know, we know, thank you Tian Jing." The members thanked happily.
"Wait until I finish." Tian Jing signaled everyone to be quiet. "In order to save the amount of cottonseed, it is best for everyone to raise seedlings and transplant them. An acre of land is only eight taels at most. Each person can take away one catty and leave the rest.
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"Leave it to me, leave it to me."
Captain Ou ran in and opened his mouth to criticize the members, "I was almost late, and you came to ask for cotton seeds behind my back?"