This is not a particularly poor village, and the road into the village is still a one-lane cement road. When they started to build a village-to-village connection, their village benefited from it.

At first glance, it is relatively open and flat land, and you can see mountains around the village. However, the mountains are not high, estimated to be 100 meters high, and they have been reclaimed and turned into layers of dry land.

On the land, cassava, which is the most common in rural areas, is grown.

Although cassava is widely cultivated in China, it is not native to China, and is said to be native to Brazil, which is also known as the Americas.

Those who observe life carefully will find that many of the grains in our recipes are actually native to the Americas. It has to be said that the Americas are rich in products.

Someone once said that if China started thousands of years, there were such food crops as potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava, and corn. There would not have been so many peasant uprisings in China, and there would not have been so many dynastic changes.

The people rebelled because they couldn't survive and there wasn't enough food to eat.

At this time, the autumn is high and crisp, and it is the time to dig cassava. Farmers dig cassava home, scrape off their coats, cut them into slices, soak them in water, and then scoop them up to dry them and wait for them to be bought by cassava buyers.

The tuber root of cassava is rich in starch and is one of the raw materials for industrial starch. Because the tuber root contains cyanic acid toxin, it needs to be rinsed and soaked before eating. Cassava has been cultivated in China for more than 100 years, and is usually strains with pale green branches and leaves, or purple-red, with the former being less toxic.

Today, people are largely free from hunger, and foods like cassava are usually not eaten much, even in rural areas. Everyone either dried it and sold it, or kept it to be powdered and fed to the pigs.

If you sell it, cassava is very worthless, three or five cents a catty, even if the cassava is piled up as high as a hill, you can't buy a few thousand yuan.

Sometimes, Zhang Fan couldn't understand why the common people still planted cassava in large quantities when they were so lowly?

But in fact, rural people are all traditional ideas. The older generation told them that they must store food at home, have food in their hands, and do not panic!

As a high-yield grain, how can cassava be abandoned by the common people?

"Do you have one in your family?" asked Zhang Fan with a smile.

In the past, his aunt liked to plant two rows of cassava around the cornfield. Sometimes I forgot to dig it, so I kept it for the next year, and the cassava became long and big, as thick as a cassava leg.

"Yes, I didn't finish digging in the previous year. Zhou Shiquan replied.

There is really no labor force at home, and the eldest brother has to do some casual work, take care of his parents, grandmother, and serve some rice and the like.

Cassava, as a less popular food, is secondary, so I dig it up when I have time. If you don't have time, stay on the ground first, and it won't rot on the ground anyway, but will continue to grow.

"Senior brother, do you like to eat cassava?" Zhao Yuqing asked curiously.

Zhou Shiquan and they were surprised that Mr. Zhao actually called his boyfriend brother, but it sounded so comfortable!

"I don't like it very much, but I just miss the taste of tapioca flour to make glutinous rice cakes. "That's the taste of childhood, the most eaten glutinous rice is cassava glutinous, especially the next meal, fried in oil, crispy and fragrant taste, a little nostalgic.

I still remember the scene when I was a child digging sweet potatoes and cassava roasted and eating. But cassava didn't dare to eat more, and it was infiltrating to listen to what those adults said.

For example, to scare you, if a child who ate cassava and faked his death in the past, he was actually drunk to death, and before he was completely dead, he was thought to be dead by his family and buried in a coffin. After digging up the bones a few years later, I found that the bones were on the side, indicating that they had struggled and died unjustly.

"Senior Brother Zhang, we have cassava flour at home. Zhou Shiquan hurriedly said.

Actually, there is no cassava flour in their village, and it is all powdered early and sealed in a large porcelain jar. In addition to eating for his own people, he mainly keeps it to feed the pigs.

"Okay, then I'll go back and bring some. Zhang Fan did not refuse this kindness.

Seeing that Zhang Fan asked for their family's cassava flour, the two siblings had heartfelt smiles on their faces. Secretly thought: This senior brother is really good, he is rich, but he doesn't look down on people, and he is very comfortable with him.

A car entering the village still attracted the attention of the villagers.

At this moment, Zhou Shizong, the eldest brother of Zhou Shiquan's siblings, is helping a villager build a house in the village, and he is responsible for moving bricks and shoveling sand. It's just working as a coolie, doing some unskilled work, tired and dirty.

However, Zhou Shizong is very happy, because he can earn two or three hundred yuan a day because of this kind of work.

If you can work every day, you can earn more than 6,000 a month. However, this kind of work is not done every day, and two-thirds of the work time in a month is very diligent.

Even so, he can still earn more than 4,000 a month as a casual worker. But there are many old, weak, sick and disabled people in the family, except for seeing a doctor and taking medicine, there is nothing left.

Zhou Shizong is a filial son, although his mother is mentally abnormal, she has not given up treatment, and would rather suffer a little by herself.

is not tall, but he is sturdy, and his knife-like face reveals a strong spirit, perhaps this is the sign of the people's soldiers.

Because of carrying bricks, my shoulders were all red. The layers of thick cocoons on his hands, without gloves to move bricks, are also powerful enough. The hair on the top of his head was still stained with cement, and his inferior clothes had been washed out of color by sweat.

"That's my brother. The little girl shouted loudly as she passed by in the car.

Seeing her brother, her whole person became lively.

Zhang Fan had no choice but to stop, and saw the young man with a lot of energy on his body, turning his head to look at this side. I was surprised to find my younger siblings in an SUV.

Zhou Shiquan's two brothers and sisters all ran down, especially the little girl, who circled around her eldest brother, like a little magpie, which was completely different from her quiet and timid personality before.

It can be seen that she really regards her eldest brother as a dependent, so she will be like this.

Zhou Shiquan quickly explained to his eldest brother and introduced Zhang Fan and Zhao Yuqing, who drove them home. The little girl even chattered about the trivial things that were given to them to eat.

"Don't get so close, big brother is dirty. You go first and greet your guests and take them home. I'll talk to Uncle Wu in a while, and then I'll go back. Zhou Shizong said.

At this time, the fifth uncle in his mouth came over and said with a smile: "Shizong! Since there are guests at home, you should go back first, there are enough bricks for today." ”

Wubo is the head of this small engineering team, and he is basically asked to help when several villages around him build buildings. Zhou Shizong just ate under him, and the fifth uncle also knew Zhou Shizong's family situation, took great care of him, and notified him as soon as he had work.

Of course, people also see that Zhou Shizong can really endure hardships, and he has never complained about heavy work, tiring work, and dirty work. Such a good employee, of course, has to be taken care of.