Chapter 464 The villain's daughter in the 1960s (4)
Shi Jiangcai didn't have time to mind other people's affairs, so he sent Aunt Caihua away with a smile, and she went to Sister Jiang's house next door and spent 10 cents to buy two chicks.
Now it’s not that we are restricted from raising beasts like chickens and ducks, but simply that we don’t have to eat them, so where can we feed the chickens and ducks?
If it were just Shi Jiang and Yuanyuan, there would be no problem eating whatever they wanted.
However, when you turn on the fire and cook, the aroma will spread out.
When someone discovers it, it will be a big trouble to explain it.
Therefore, the best way is naturally for everyone to have food.
But there is no water in the fields, and the rice cannot be filled with slurry. When the autumn harvest comes, there will inevitably be a lot of flat rice. By then, one acre of land will not be able to get a few kilograms of rice, and the amount handed in will not be enough. Where can everyone get food?
In Shi Jiang's opinion, under the current situation, it is better to replant potatoes and sweet potatoes.
In that case, by mixing several things together and cooking them, you can at least keep your stomach full and not starve to death.
However, if you want to plant other crops in the fields, you must have the consent of the captain.
Most families can only plant two pieces of land on their own private land and receive subsidies.
But in this case, it will be a drop in the bucket.
There is simply not enough food for a house with many people.
As the captain of the brigade, Zhao Yuanhua didn't know this truth, but there was a task from above. If he asked people to plant other crops in the current fields, someone would go to the county to sue him every minute. When the time came, he would not mention the position of the brigade captain.
You may not be insured, and you may still have to suffer the consequences.
So, when Shi Jiang came to the door, no matter how hard he tried to persuade him, he just shook his head and refused to agree.
It only says that only rice can be grown in those fields, and nothing else can be grown.
After hearing what he said, Shi Jiang had no choice but to lower his head and think for a while, and then said.
"Captain, I know this is embarrassing for you. Let's do this. We won't move on the rice fields in the village. However, the sandy land next to the village is not good for growing other things. Why not just use it to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes. That's where we should be.
It's the beach by the river,
Now there is no water in the river, and you can see the river bed. So much land is exposed, and it is empty. It is better to let everyone dig the seeds together. In that case, we can also plant more. If there is a little harvest, everyone can
There’s no need to go hungry, don’t you think?”
"You mean that patch of sand by the river?"
Zhao Yuanhua was a little surprised, but compared to growing other crops in rice fields, it would be better to be criticized when the time comes.
He also knew that this kind of sandy land was not fertile enough, so it was very likely that if potatoes and sweet potatoes were planted there would not be a high harvest.
However, in this current situation, he can only treat a dead horse as a living doctor, and he can take whatever he can.
Anyway, not many potato and sweet potato seeds are needed to plant such a piece of sandy land.
Once the potatoes sprout, one potato can be cut into several pieces.
As long as the sweet potato seedlings are grown, then the stems can be planted.
However, if you need everyone to farm together, you need to be given work points.
Nowadays, work points are money to everyone. At the end of each year, the labor force in the village relies on these work points to share some money and live a good year.
In the final analysis, Zhao Yuanhua still has to bear the responsibility.
Therefore, when Shi Jiang was waiting for Zhao Yuanhua's answer, originally planning that if Zhao Yuanhua didn't agree, she would plow as much as she could, but Zhao Yuanhua nodded and agreed.
When the men in the village learned that they were going to cultivate potatoes and sweet potatoes in the sandy land by the river, many of them were unhappy.
They feel that if they are hungry and have no strength at all, they have to go to the sandy land by the river to cultivate things. Not only is their strength wasted, but the key to planting is also a waste of seeds!
However, the captain has spoken, and even if they don't want to, they can only hold their breath and go to work.
At least you still get work points, right?
However, Shi Jiang went to ask the captain to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes on the sandy land by the river, and everyone knew about it.
Many people couldn't stand Shi Jiang's behavior, and they all accused Shi Jiang of being too full to hold on.
Shi Jiang didn't care what they said. Although the river was dry, there was still some water vapor at the bottom of the river bed if he dug down.
Potatoes and sweet potatoes planted on the sandy ground by the river have roots that penetrate deeply into the ground and can naturally absorb water.
Compared with the shriveled rice in the rice fields that had no water to fill the grains, although the growth of potatoes and sweet potatoes was not as good as in good years, it was not too bad.
As for these potatoes and sweet potatoes, it can be said that after they were planted, except for Shijiang who came to check on them from time to time, no one in the village was optimistic about them, so they didn't care much about them.
When the autumn harvest came, it turned out that the rice yield in the rice fields was truly terrifying.
After sifting through the shriveled shells, if half a pound of shells is left, that’s already pretty good.
Thinking of the amount of grain that had to be handed over, Zhao Yuanhua, who was less than forty years old, almost became bald.
Or Shi Jiang said, there are still potatoes and sweet potatoes that have not been dug out in the sandy land by the river!
At first, everyone didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it would be great if they could dig hundreds of kilograms of sweet potatoes.
However, everyone was shocked when loads of sweet potatoes and potatoes larger than an adult man's fist were carried to the dojo where the rice was dried.
After the shock, there was a surprise, and I was extremely excited.
These sweet potatoes and potatoes are delivered together with the rice, at least there is still a lot left.
By then, every household in the village will be able to share a lot.
In addition to the things grown in my own plot, how about I can have a good time this year.
The people in the village, how much they complained about Shi Jiang before, now they are so grateful to her.
Shi Jiang didn't take this to heart.
Instead, he went to find the captain again. This time he planted sweet potatoes and potatoes on the sandy land. After the Chinese New Year, watermelons will be planted after spring begins.
Watermelons grown in sandy soil are much more delicious than those grown in dry land.
The most important thing is that the brigade headquarters in the village must have more income.
If you have money, even if the food in the fields is not enough, you can go to other places to buy some for first aid!
When you are really hungry and have no food to eat, you can't just wait for the authorities to send you food to save your life, right?
Because of the bumper harvest of sweet potatoes and potatoes, Zhao Yuanhua nodded in agreement without hesitation to what Shi Jiang said this time.
Moreover, he also handed over the task pigs in the village and killed the remaining pig, which was not worthy of mention, so that the whole village could eat some meat and live a good year.
Almost everyone in the village cheered for the captain's decision.
The men scrambled to tie the pig's feet, then pinned it down on a stool and waited for the village pig butcher to come and bleed it.
The women went home one after another and came over with bowls. When the pig blood was released, they sprinkled a handful of coarse salt on it, then stirred it and solidified it into a pig blood clot, so that the whole family could share a piece of it.
When the time comes, cook it with the old tofu, some home-pickled mustard greens and dried chili peppers, and eat it to warm your stomach and fill your belly.