Chapter 8: Two Bright Recommendations

The rice seedlings of the production team are still shallow, and it is not yet the time to plant the seedlings, the tea has been picked and sold, and the money for selling tea this year is almost the same as last year, and it can be picked again in a few days, which is twice as much as last year. Uncle has been in a good mood recently, and the production team has begun to change, and he doesn't have to worry about managing it anymore.

I came today to tell Li Ya that there is no need to herd pigs when earthworms breed. Li Ya said: "If you don't need to put pigs, feeding pigs is not a light job, and more than a dozen pigs can be busy cooking pig food." "Actually, Li Ya is now in the field, whether he can put the pigs or not, and the corn and sweet potatoes that are planted from the space are not often piggybacked, but the time to read books has decreased, which is a pity.

The uncle smiled: "It's not that you're busy, I'll rearrange the two older ones to feed the pigs, and you go to work with others." ”

Li Ya thought it was okay, but he still said: "Why don't you build a chicken farm with the production team, and I'll go and put the chickens?"

Uncle said: "There are only a few chickens in a family, and they are all baby bumps in each family." ”

Li Ya said with a smile: "Didn't the production team just sell tea for a little money? Buy eggs to hatch chicks, so that you can run a chicken farm?"

The uncle's eyes lit up, and he slapped his right hand on his leg vigorously, and hissed, "Just do as you say! Good fellow, this is self-inflicted." ”

Li Ya didn't dare to laugh when he saw it, so he had to change the topic and said: "Also, the young people in the village rush to learn how to fry tea, make wine, study medicine, and learn to build a house when they are free." In the future, if you have a skill, you can also go out and earn some money and come back. ”

Uncle sighed: "Yes, our generation was fighting when it was supposed to learn things, and they all went to the ground to earn their lives, alas! Now that the country is peaceful, you young people should really learn the things passed down by the ancestors, otherwise the old generation will be gone, but the inheritance will be broken, and it will not be easy for future generations to pick it up." ”

In the evening, the meeting was announced, and at the meeting, the uncle announced: "Today's meeting has only one meaning, so that young people can learn more things while the farm is free." I discussed with the sixth master and the ninth master and the uncles, studying medicine is a long-term thing, there is no effect in a short time, and the third uncle will inspect a few children with understanding to teach, and the rest of the fried tea and roasted wine will be learned, that is, if you want to learn carpenters, stonemasons, and craftsmen, anyway, you can't herd sheep when you're young, and you can't learn if you want to learn after this time. ”

A voice asked, "My family can also learn?"

The uncle saw that it was his cousin Li Mingju, and said: "This has been discussed, there are four foreign surnames in the village, and they are still relatives, except for studying medicine, everything else can be." Talk to your child about what to learn, sign up, and start learning tomorrow. Li Mingju also knows that it is already generous to take out the two skills of roasting wine and roasting tea, and it used to be passed on to men but not women, let alone foreign surnames.

There was a lot of noise for a while, and then there was a mess of walking around. Suddenly, a girl asked the eighth master: "Eighth master, I want to learn to marinate meat, is it okay?"

Although many people have eaten the pickled meat of the eighth master, only this girl realized that this cured meat is also a good skill. The skill of the eighth master of cured meat is learned from Xuanwei, Xuanwei's ham is very famous, and the eighth master learned to make Xuanwei ham when he was young.

When the eighth master saw that someone wanted to learn to marinate meat, he nodded happily and said, "Yes, yes." ”

When the young woman saw it, she could do it, and she could also marinate some meat and eat it at home. If you are excited, you will act, and in the end, the number of people who signed up for the eighth master is actually the most.

When the meeting ended, the uncle remembered the chicken farm, and said busily: "There is another thing, this is not raising earthworms, the production team pays for chickens, and the above is not only allowed to raise four chickens, then our production team collectively raises." Those who have an old hen holding a nest (the symptoms of the hen to hatch the eggs, at this time the hen is very short-tempered and constantly make rapid sounds) go back to hatch the eggs, and their relatives also tell them. ”

Uncle does not often take a turn in the production team, and finds that although the production team is still like that, it is indeed different. ”

Li Ya also sighed at the greatness of the ancestors of the old Li family. Recently, the last two generations of the old Li family saw that Li Ya's generation had changed a lot, and decided to let some of the fourth-generation men participate in the secret, and Li Ya knew the history of the Li family from the genealogy. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the old Li family was a small landlord in Hangzhou, and tea was the main source of income. Qing soldiers into the customs, the world is erosive, as a small landlord in business, the Li family is naturally much more well-informed, there are pirates on the sea, there are Western devils, the Li family had to flee all the way to the west, the last few times in distress, people scattered, and finally arrived here only the ancestor and a child, tea seeds were brought at that time. After settling here, the ancestor gained a firm foothold here with his medical skills. The Siming of Siming Mountain is Siming, which is not only the ancestors who miss the stable days of the Ming Dynasty, but also the thoughts of their relatives who have been separated.

Later, the world stabilized, the Li family increased the number of personnel, and began to learn to make wine, these three skills have been handed down in this way, and medical skills have become more and more sophisticated as the ability to settle down here.

However, the troubled times came again, and the prosperous Li family suffered a bandit ransack, although in the end with the help of the nearby village to kill the bandits, but also many casualties, money looted, which is why the Li family later practiced medicine in the surrounding area and met poor people even for free. Unite more closely with nearby villages, and others will try their best to help you when it is critical.

Originally, they gradually recovered their vitality after a few decades, but who knew that when they encountered the Anti-Japanese War, many young people were forcibly pulled to the battlefield, and none of them came back.

In this way, after more than 300 years of multiplication, there are only about 20 Li families.

However, the ancestors of the Li family still left many things, gold, silver, jewelry and antiques. Li Ya, as an old man in the clan, knew about the cellar behind the ancestral hall, and these things were placed inside, and some vintage wine was also stored in it. At the same time, it also confirmed Uncle Li Ya's speculation that a sum of gold and silver was indeed used to build a house in the village.

In fact, Li Ya understood that the Li family did not leave much money, as a family with a three-hundred-year inheritance, the gold and silver were only a few hundred taels, and the antiques were better, but the value was not high at that time.

With such a little thing, it is almost the same to keep it for the memory of the ancestors or to save the emergency at the critical moment in the future, and the good life of the clansmen still depends on their own minds and hands. The new method of raising pigs and chickens is already being implemented, and this is just the beginning, and other methods will be thought of in the future, and life will definitely get better and better.

On this day, my uncle came over again, of course, for the meat. I heard that Li Ya's production team finished planting three days before Qingming, and I couldn't help but sigh that the members of my own production team were grinding foreign workers.

Dad Li asked his uncle about raising earthworms, and Li Ya made tea and came over. The uncle took a sip and said in surprise: "Mingqian tea?"

Li Ya briefly said what had happened, and said, "If my uncle likes it, I'll take some back, I'll pick more." The uncle nodded and smiled.

After entering the forest, Li Ya took his uncle to the side, and climbed up the hill for a while, Li Ya pointed to the front and said proudly: "Uncle, how about you look at the flat place?"

The uncle looked at it again and again and asked hesitantly, "This is the bud valley?"

Li Ya approached first and replied, "Of course, it's bud grain, and yams (sweet potatoes), all of which I planted." ”

Uncle worried: "This is against the policy. ”

Li Ya said confidently: "I didn't occupy the land of the production team, and I didn't miss work, I took the time to plant something on the barren mountain, I can make more efforts to work when I am full, and I can also save the food of the production team, this should be the production team taking advantage of me, and I will make more contributions to the production team." ”

The uncle said: "You can talk about it." But I still came quietly and didn't let others see it. ”

Li Ya said with peace of mind: "This is originally an old forest, and I don't go here for hunting, so it's very safe." ”

When I got closer, my uncle estimated that there was only half an acre in total, because it was interplanting of corn and sweet potatoes, and the corn row spacing was very wide. But your two crops are growing well. There was also a large piece of land that had been turned out next to it, and there was nothing in it, and he asked, "What is planted here?"

Li Ya said: "Keep it and wait for the team to pick up some and plant them when the seedlings are evenly budded, and then you will come and get a few hundred catties when the time comes." ”