The crops in the fields have been harvested, but there will be grain falling on the ground in the fields. According to rural practice, three or five days after harvesting the crops, they will be opened for harvesting.
That is to say, no matter who owns the land, anyone can go to the fields to pick up the grain left on the ground. If these grains are not picked up, they will eventually be used by birds, animals and voles.
After the pellets were returned to the warehouse, the government announced on the third day that the autumn harvest activity would be relaxed, and the elderly, children, women, and disabled people in the city were encouraged to go to the fields to pick autumn autumn to subsidize their families.
As soon as the news came out, the whole city was excited. Picking up autumn is not only a way to make money, but also an activity that the people love to see. Everyone who participated was very excited.
After playing wildly for a few days, the children in Duolun City were carried by their parents with small backpacks on their backs, small shovels and small hoes. The older brother took the younger brother, and the older sister led the younger sister, leading the family's children.
The yellow dog runs towards the fields to pick up crops on the ground.
Brothers Si Xiaosong and Si Xiaobo also prepared their tools and went out of the city to pick up autumn with their backpacks on their backs. Their family said that no matter how much they picked up, it would belong to them, which made them extremely happy.
They also plan to go to the black pine forest in three days. After all, as everyone picks up, the autumn harvest will be greatly reduced. After all, it is getting harder and harder to pick up good food.
They plan to sneak out in three days, cross the barbed wire fence, dig out the nests of chipmunks and squirrels, and get some pine nuts and hazelnuts to sell. Those are valuable items, and the price is many times that of grain.
Gathering autumn is mostly the work of women, children and the elderly.
Generally, after breakfast, the people who gather autumn will put on their baskets, pick up the baskets, pick up shovels and three-tooth rakes, and set out.
Due to physical constraints, the elderly and children generally pick up in fields closer to the city, while half-year-old children and women go to fields further away.
And often the farther you go, the richer the harvest, and returning home with a full load is quite eye-catching.
The annual gathering in autumn is mainly about picking up the grain left during the harvest, because grain planting area is the largest and can be found everywhere. Corn, sorghum, millet, millet, soybean, etc. are most commonly grown outside Duolun City. They are all being picked up.
List.
These are good grains, the same as those harvested normally.
The most interesting thing is picking up corn cobs.
At this moment, the corn stalks after harvesting the cobs are cut down and lying on the ground. As long as you step on them one by one with your feet, you will often feel something round under your feet. This is undoubtedly a corn cob that has not been broken off cleanly.
There is a lot of corn planted this year because of its cold resistance and high yield. In the first two days, Si Xiaosong and Si Xiaobai were able to pick up a basket full in half a day. When they go home and cook it, whether it is sticky corn or sweet corn, they are all suitable for children.
Favorite.
When they went home at night, they stuck an iron skewer into the stove pit and roasted it. It was very delicious. Even though they were kicked several times by my mother because it interfered with cooking, they didn't care.
However, as everyone picks up, the harvest will be much less the next day.
After picking corn for two days, they decided to pick soybean pods, which is the boy's favorite thing. In addition to picking up bean pods and bean grains left on the ground, they also looked for vole nests in the soybean field.
This is not just for fun. A vole nest can often dig up two to three kilograms of soybeans, which is also the ration for the vole family to spend the winter. How many nests of voles are dug in a day is equivalent to more than thirty kilograms of soybeans.
You can exchange it for tofu. If you pay a processing fee, one pound of soybeans will produce four pounds of old tofu.
You can also exchange for soybean oil. 100 kilograms of soybeans can be exchanged for 12 kilograms of soybean oil. There is no processing fee for this. Just give the soybean cake to the oil pressing shop.
And starving the voles to death can reduce the number of rodent infestations next year.
As long as you dig a few vole nests, you won't have to worry about running out of tofu during the Chinese New Year. It's cold here in Duolun, so frozen tofu can last all winter. Soybeans can also be used to make miso.
It can also be eaten as a snack. It is also delicious fried in salt water. However, you cannot drink cold water after eating, otherwise you will fart in the quilt.
Children, the elderly, the disabled, older girls, and younger wives picked up the abandoned crops, while yellow dogs ran wildly in the fields in groups, catching and eating the voles that escaped everywhere. These guard dogs usually do not have meat.
You can eat enough in these days.
Autumn is their favorite. Dogs are very nimble in catching field mice, no worse than cats. It’s just that cats have an advantage in small homes.
After the crops were harvested, the vole holes were exposed. In addition to the Si family brothers, the half-grown children in the Xingfu Club would also block some of the holes and leave only a few, then light the straw, smoke them, and even pour water to drive the vole out.
Drive them out of the remaining holes so that the dogs can catch and eat them.
Another excellent way to dig mouse holes is to "pierce the waste warehouse with a spear." The waste warehouse is the granary for digging mice.
Rats are very smart animals. They also need to store food for the winter in autumn. They build a special warehouse for storing food in holes underground and store the food for the whole winter in this warehouse.
A few days ago, during the autumn harvest, everyone would put the cut crops on the ground. When the farmers were not paying attention, rats would come out of the holes and bite off the ears of grain.
Then, one mouse lay on its back holding the tassel of grain that it had bitten off. Another mouse bit the tail of this mouse, dragged it into the mouse hole, stole the grain, and stored it in the bottom hole.
The tools used for "piercing the warehouse" are very simple. You can just use a spear that is available in every household. The top of the spear is pointed, so it is easy to pierce into the ground. There is usually a spear one inch behind the blade.
The barb, like a fishhook, is pierced into the ground and can pull out things from the ground when pulled out.
The person who "Zhao Hua Cang" kept probing around the entrance of the mouse hole. When there was an empty place, a little crop ear was brought out on the barbed hook, which meant that he had found the mouse bureau. Then he dug it with a shovel and found the grain.
Si Xiaosong and Si Xiaobai are very experienced in digging mouse holes.
You can see a lot of details by looking at the appearance. If the mound is old and as hard as stone, it may have been abandoned by voles for various reasons. If it is too new and there is too little soil, it means that the voles have just killed it.
It’s a hole, and there can’t be many good things inside.
The only way to take action is to follow the winding field ridges, carefully observe the paths that mice often walk, and see a large mound of soil in the distance. The floating soil is half dry, half wet and granular.
The best target. This kind of hole contains the most things.
Si Xiaobai found the vent of the rat hole and sealed it with mud. Si Xiaosong first dug a few times at the vertical weir with a hoe to expand the cross-section of the hole to facilitate subsequent excavation.
Si Xiaobai kept digging with his fingers, judging the function and direction of the rat hole through the hardness and thickness of the hole wall. The area leading to the granary had a relatively hard and smooth hole wall due to the high number of entries and exits. This was exactly the reason for the two
The direction of the brothers' main attack.
After digging about half a meter, some wheat grains and bean pods came out here and there. Si Xiaobai couldn't help shouting excitedly, and dug forward a few more times. The cave, which was originally as thick as a tea cup, suddenly became much larger, and finally
I saw the real "warehouse".
Around the main cave, like a dry well, there are several neatly arranged small granaries distributed horizontally. White, plump soybeans are piled up tightly and orderly, tightly fitting and well-proportioned.
"Brother, we are now rich. Look, we have five kilograms of soybeans." Si Xiaosong