Chapter 17: Farming
Song Xiaoyue helped carry the wild duck, and the two walked to the road to the town and waited for the ox cart.
After waiting for a while, I waited for the ox cart, paid two cents, and sat down with the barrel!
There were also three women and two girls sitting on the ox cart, one of the girls turned out to be Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan was very happy to see Song Xiaoyue, and the two of them chattered.
Now the traffic is not developed, everyone to the city is sitting in an ox cart, some people smell the fishy smell, and look at the back basket is so heavy.
"What's in it, it can't be meat, right?"
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"Aunt Lu, it's nothing, it's just some pickles pickled by my eldest daughter, and I brought it to my relatives in the city. ”
She didn't dare to say that she would sell it on the black market, although everyone knew about the existence of the black market, but few people dared to really say it, and it would be bad to be speculated by Ann when the time came.
"Yo, how can there be such a fat duck?"
"It was also caught by my family Yue'er, so I sent it to my relatives together. ”
Mother Song explained gently and patiently.
"Aunt Lu, don't ask, each family has its own affairs, how sad it is for you to ask from east to west!"
The woman who said this is Xiao Yan's Song mother Chen Fanni, who is about thirty years old, with good facial features and a slender body, it seems that Xiao Yan has inherited her mother's figure. Because she usually has a good relationship with the Song family, Chen Fanni also spoke to the Song family.
"What's the matter with you, the owner of the family hasn't spoken, I want you to talk more, it won't be because I'm afraid of these things, you want it too"
This Aunt Lu choked back unconvinced, and swept a roll of her eyes to Chen Fanni.
"Am I meddling? You're always meddling, aren't you? What do people have to do with you?
It seems that this Chen Fanny is also a powerful person. However, Song Xiaoyue really likes her very much! She herself is too lazy to speak, if this woman surnamed Lu continues to ask, she can't guarantee that she will not give the other party good fruits to eat like Chen Fanni, since someone has already come forward, she will no longer cooperate to attack, lest this Aunt Lu be angry and ruin her body, and then she will have to pay for their family's medical expenses!
Aunt Lu was angry, her eyes turned around, and her goal turned around, this time it was on Song Xiaoyue and Xiao Yan.
"Yo, these two little girls are still sticky together, when to say a mother-in-law, I see that the swallow is short, and Yue'er is the same as a man, I'm afraid it's difficult. ”
Song Xiaoyue is wearing a set of off-white pants today, with long legs and a thin waist, and she is extremely handsome. This dress looks like a beautiful little boy.
Although Xiao Yan is short, she has good facial features, so she definitely doesn't have to worry about getting married, but being short is her heart disease, and she is very sad to hear it.
Unexpectedly, Aunt Lu's words had already touched Song Xiaoyue's scales, and she didn't want to look sad at her good friend, so all the thoughts she had held before about taking a step back and opening up the sky were all left behind, and she stood up and looked at Aunt Lu angrily.
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"What's the matter with you, why are you so fond of talking nonsense, you dead old woman, you have time to meddle with other people's affairs, you might as well look at your pants, they are all exposed1"
The words startled a thousand waves, and the whole car looked at Aunt Lu because Liu She was sitting rudely, and she could just see the flower shorts in the pump line.
This year, everyone is dressed very plainly, and things are sewn with thread feet, and this pump thread is a large piece, if it is not dealt with in time, I am afraid that when it comes to the town, this pants will not be available.
The whole car laughed, and Aunt Lu closed her feet in shame, and her old face turned red. The arrogance just now was extinguished at once, and this farce finally came to an end.
The other woman in the car was named Zhu Qiongmei, who was in her forties, and had never spoken, and turned a deaf ear to Aunt Lu's ugly leaves, until she saw Aunt Lu's pants torn holes, and laughed with everyone.
And the other girl is Zhu Qiongmei's youngest daughter Wen Hui, Wen Hui is also fourteen years old this year, she is the only girl in the Wen family, and she has five elder brothers, and she loves her even more. She has no features, ordinary facial features, medium build, and the only advantage is that she has white skin. This makes her personality a little inferior, and she rarely speaks.
Because Aunt Lu was embarrassed to speak, she was safe and sound along the way, and there was no more trouble.
When they came to the town, everyone separated, and even Xiao Yan followed her Song mother.
Song Xiaoyue and Song's mother walked to the black market, found a corner alone and began to put things away.
"Let's take a look, the fat, tender, and lively big fish are not many, six cents a pound!"
"It's too expensive, the grocery store only sells it for three cents a catty, is anyone buying it so expensive? . ”
Mother Song whispered in Song Xiaoyue's ear.
"It's okay, look at me, I promise to sell it out for you. ”
"There are also big and sweet peaches, juicy and fleshy and crispy, thirst-quenching, beauty and beauty, as long as a dime, a dime a big peach!"
The pedestrians were attracted by Song Xiaoyue's unusual shouting, and they surrounded them at once.
"Your fish is more expensive than other people's, and you can't sell it!"
"Why can't I sell it, my fish is different from other fish, if a fish swims ten times, my fish must swim hundreds of times, the fish meat is strong and chewy, otherwise I don't dare to sell it at this price, you can buy it back and taste it first, I promise you buy it today, Ming'er will still miss the fish I made." ”
Everyone was so fooled by Song Xiaoyue, everyone grabbed it one by one. Mother Song was in a hurry to give this title and that title, and Song Xiaoyue was responsible for collecting money and finding money, but she also had a clear division of labor, and sold out all the fish at once. After counting the money, before selling it for more than six yuan, you can buy a lot of rice.
"Let's take a look at it, delicious peaches, guaranteed to let you eat one and want to eat the second, peach sale, today only a dime a dime, wait for the next time to increase the price, three cents a piece, hurry up and take advantage of today's discount to buy ah." ”
The girl was moved by Song Xiaoyue's words, picked a few and put them in her basket, and handed them to Song Xiaoyue's mother Song.
Selling things is like this, someone starts, someone will follow suit, and all of a sudden, a few more girls and daughters-in-law come around. Everyone, you two pounds and I picked up three pounds, and then left satisfied.
After a while, the peaches were also sold out, and there were a few yuan, and they received more than a dozen yuan in just one or two hours, after all, their family used to grow food, and they only had an income of dozens of yuan a year.
The people next to him saw that Song Xiaoyue's business was so good, and their eyes turned red. Song Xiaoyue didn't care about him? Counting the money triumphantly, handing it to Song's mother to collect, she was ready to shout again.
"How do you sell this wild duck?"
Before Song Xiaoyue could speak, someone came over and asked for the price.
Song Xiaoyue was overjoyed, and immediately launched an extraordinary flickering technique.
"Uncle, you have such a good eye! My wild duck was caught in the foggy mountains of our village, you see, how fat and flexible. It's not expensive, you take the whole one, and you can lay eggs when you go back, five cents a pound. ”
The old man touched the sternum of the wild duck and nodded in satisfaction.
"Okay! I want it!
Mother Song took it and weighed it, good guy, eight catties.
"Uncle, look at it, we won't eat you, it's eight catties, right, four yuan. ”
"Little girl, you have a really sharp mouth. !”
Song Xiaoyue took the money with a smile, anyway, it's good if it can be credited, and anyone else can say anything.
After a while, the fifteen eggs in her family were also sold, one dime a dime, and five a piece.
The money Song Xiaoyue sold today is equal to half of the money that this family made in previous years, Song's mother was very happy, they also went to the mountains in the past, but they were not so lucky, and the girl could catch so many good things as soon as she entered the mountain.
The two ordered two bowls of Chaos at the Chaos stall for less than a dollar. The two of them ate with relish, and in the end, they even drank the soup to the bottom, and they also needed food stamps to eat dumplings chaos, otherwise it would be useless to have money.
Then, with the money they earned, they bought other things they needed on the black market, of which oil and salt were the main ones, and a small piece of pork belly.
I spent six yuan like this, although I was a little distressed, but I was in a happy mood and my whole body was smooth. Song Xiaoyue finally understood why those women in her previous life liked shopping so much, and they liked shopping so much, it turned out that this was the case, Song Xiaoyue experienced it for herself today!
When passing by the seed store, Song Xiaoyue remembered the four farmlands in her space, and involuntarily pulled Song's mother in.
The seed store really has all kinds of seeds, Song Xiaoyue was dazzled and excited. But she couldn't ask Mother Song to buy seeds for her, so she could only plan to get something next time and take it to the town to sell it and come over to buy it, Song Xiaoyue was reluctant to pull Mother Song out.
Because Song's mother said that eating out was expensive, the two of them rushed home before dinner.
By the end of May, the paddy in the fields is ripe and all other produce can be harvested!
When the farm is busy, the family will not let the children go to school, and the whole family will go into battle to harvest, even the Song family is no exception.
Early in the morning, the whole family of five hurriedly finished breakfast, Song Xiaoyue, Abba, and Grandma and younger brother took the farm tools and went to the field, leaving only the eldest sister to cook at home and watch the house.
Song Xiaoyue's family planted two acres of rice, one acre of sweet potatoes, one acre of potatoes, and one acre of peanuts. 、
The villagers have to plant two plots of land, one is the collective land of the production team, and only when the collective land is well used can they seek to cultivate their own land.
Now every year it is handed over to the commune 100 catties per mu of peanuts, sweet potatoes and potatoes are relatively high-yielding, so one mu costs 250 catties, and others like peanuts have a low yield of 100 catties per mu, so although a lot of grain is received every year, it is not much left after paying to the commune to support national construction
Now it is divided into poor peasants, middle and lower poor peasants, poor peasants have no land, and middle and lower poor peasants have land to be self-sufficient.
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Song Xiaoyue's rice grows the best, with full grains and many ears. It is estimated that there are about 500 catties per mu, there was no hybrid rice in that era, and the yield of 500 catties is already a high yield, and there should be a lot left after handing over the production team this year, and the whole family is very happy.
Song Dad and Song Mom took a sickle to harvest rice in the field, Song Xiaoyue and Song Hao carried a small basket on their backs to pick up rice ears in the field, the harvest in the field was good, people were happy, and they were not tired of doing the work.
Soon, the eldest sister came over with a basket, beckoning Song Dad and Song Mom, who were working hard, to come up and rest and eat something, Song Dad and Song Mom stacked the rice stalks and went up to the ridge together, and Song Xiaoyue and Song Hao couldn't wait to come up.
When the farm is busy, the food at home is a real dry method, the boiling water pipe is enough, otherwise you will suffer from heat stroke if you can't eat, Liangbai opens to the cellar and hangs a rope, and takes it out after hanging for half a day, the water is cooler than putting it in the refrigerator, and it will not hurt the body when eating.
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After everyone finished eating, they continued to work in the fields, and the eldest sister also packed up her things and went home to cook lunch!
In the hot summer, although it is hot, no one has stopped, or finish it early, and when the rice is overripe and pressed, it will be distressing to rub off some, and everyone will go to the ridge to rest when they are tired.
The sun unconsciously climbed to the middle of the sky, and people went home one after another, Song Dad and Song Mom were worried that the children would be hungry, so they went the earliest, and after they arrived home, the family had already prepared a meal.
The eldest sister in the family had already prepared the meal and placed it neatly on the table of the Eight Immortals.
A large pot of radish soup, a bowl of braised pork with fat and thin, a plate of hot and sour shredded potatoes, a small plate of peanuts, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, and five eggs.
This is already a very rare good dish, there is only a small bowl of braised pork, and there is not much left after one piece per person, this is because Song Xiaoyue went into the mountains to harvest some good things before she could eat a bowl of braised pork. !
After eating, everyone went to take a nap again. In the afternoon, we went to the field again.
For three days in a row, the rice was harvested, and Song's father and Song's mother threshed the rice again, pulled it to an open place to dry, and produced no more than 1,000 catties of rice, and dried a large area. Song Xiaoyue and her younger brother's task is to expel the birds that came to steal the grain, and they are the youngest children in the family, so they don't have to continue to go to the ground.
The weather in June is a rainy season, a few dark clouds drift in the sky from time to time, leading Song Xiaoyue and Song Hao to be frightened, although there is no weather forecast, but the farmer family naturally has a judgment of the rain, for example, if the dragonfly flies fly low, it is going to rain, you have to quickly cover the millet to avoid rain.
Song Xiaoyue had no experience at all, and as soon as the sky darkened, she and Song Hao hurriedly gathered the rice. When the sky cleared, the rice was spread out to dry again, and after a few days, I was half tired to death. But fortunately, it didn't rain, and Song's father and Song's mother were also pleased.
When the rice was dried, Song's father and Song's mother collected the peanuts again, and Song Xiaoyue and others were going to start drying peanuts again, and some of these peanuts were kept for themselves to eat, and some were handed over to the commune.
The three hundred pounds of peanuts made the two of them exhausted, and they dried it for four days
to dry the peanuts enough. There is a standard for judging whether peanuts are dry enough, that is, you can easily rub off the peanut coat with your hands.
After the peanuts were dried, Song's father and Song's mother also took back the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the field, and the potatoes and sweet potatoes did not need to be dried, which also saved a lot of effort.
It took ten days before and after this farming work, and everything was done, just waiting for the production team to collect taxes.
When the production team came to collect her family, her family still had almost 600 catties of rice, 200 catties of peanuts, 300 catties of potatoes and 300 catties of sweet potatoes, which were the rations of her family in the second half of the year.
In the past, Song's father and Song's mother would secretly take some food to exchange for some daily necessities, or other food and drink, to prepare for the Spring Festival.
Sweet potatoes and potatoes are grown in every household, and this thing is cheap, and it is not cost-effective to sell it, so the rest of the tax is left at home for rations and vegetables.
Song Xiaoyue saw a large pile of sweet potato vines stacked in the yard, so she asked Song Ma what is the use of sweet potato vines? Song Ma said that sweet potatoes can be eaten by pigs, and sweet potato vines are also called sweet potato leaves, and there is a local dish with shrimp paste to stir-fry.
Song Xiaoyue, who had been drying things for several days, became a lot darker, and one night, while everyone was resting, she pulled some sweet potato leaves into the space.
The space changed, and Song Xiaoyue almost couldn't recognize it. In particular, the fish pond seems to be full of fish, and the reproduction rate is too fast!
There were a lot of birds perched on the edge of the pond, could this be the nest she caught last time?
The wild animals she caught were all playing on the other side of the opening, no matter how many wild animals there were, there was no pressure to put them in the space, and with the blessing of the space, this blood livestock grew very well.
On the other side of the meadow, there is also a group of rabbits grazing on the meadow.
The pheasant and the hare were separate and unrelated, but they got along well.
And she found that the space not only accelerates the growth of crops and strengthens the body of livestock, but also has the function of keeping fresh, and a little food can be kept fresh until the next time.
And the banana tree on the other side of the hill has grown so tall that it may not be long before it buds.
Song Xiaoyue was encouraged and went to plant sweet potatoes.
She has never planted sweet potato vines, and she also took the experience from Song's mother, as for whether it can be successful, it can only depend on whether this space is given or not, since he found that he can plant with ideas, he has invisibly saved a lot of effort.
After finishing his work, he opened a communication to the ranch and dug a small puddle in the pasture so that the pheasants and hares could have water to drink.
Song Xiaoyue looked at the slightly dark skin, and went to get a wooden basin to take a bath again.
After taking a bath, the skin really recovered a lot and was a lot more delicate.
In addition to drinking it herself, Song Xiaoyue also filled a small bucket, since this thing has this effect, then leave some for the family to drink, bless them with good health, it is better than eating any elixir.
Carried a bucket of water out of the space and put it in her room, Song Xiaoyue secretly went to "check the enemy's situation" again, everyone was still asleep, the recent farming has really exhausted everyone, Song Xiaoyue quietly retreated, poured the spring water raised into the big tea jar that usually drank water, and then yawned and went to sleep!