The second grandmother's house opened a big meat dish today, and one person had a bowl of meat, and they all enjoyed it. Gui Ping said happily: "Dad, let's kill a pig again for the New Year, and the rest of the water is more than the meat our family bought." ”

The second master glared, "Good things can't be taken up by our family, and this time it's the old and young masters who take care of us." Gui Ping didn't understand, but seeing the second master's loud voice, he stuck out his tongue, and didn't dare to ask.

After lunch, the people went to work, the women went to collect cotton, and the fields were filled with cheerful laughter. Everyone exchanged their own meals, did not delay the work in their hands, and quickly picked up the cotton with both hands.

The cotton is blooming just right now, a piece of white flowers. Pick one and grasp it in your hand, you can feel the cottonseed slightly prickly in the palm, which means that the cotton is ripe well and the cottonseed is full.

Everyone speculated about this year's cotton output, and they all said that the production capacity per mu reached 150 catties of lint, and it turned out that the production capacity per mu was 100 catties of lint.

Everyone is looking forward to the team to divide some cotton seeds, plant cotton in their own land next year, weave more coarse cloth, and the quilt at home is full of patches and replaced with new ones.

A machine of cotton cloth can weave up to 12 hooks, a hook cloth with about two and a half catties of lint, cotton quality is good, the thread of the long spinning is fine, and the cotton used is less. One hook of coarse cloth is enough for an adult's clothes, and two hook cloths are the inside of a quilt.

Originally, the rations distributed by the team were small, and the plots of each family were planted with food. This year, the team distributed a lot of food, and everyone began to think about planting cotton and improving their clothes and covers.

In the evening, the round moon rose from the east, and the second grandmother and grandmother took out mooncakes and apples and put them on the dinner table.

Grandma said that she had to burn incense and bow during the Mid-Autumn Festival to pray for the moon god to bless her health. Now those are superstitious activities and are banned, and each family places some tributes to show their gratitude.

The moon cakes and apples at the second grandmother's house were sent by the second daughter Guixiang. The married daughter gave her mother's family a lot less gifts. Generally, it is a pound of moon cakes, three or four apples, and the mother's family is reluctant to leave them, leaving half a pound of moon cakes, two apples, and the rest is pressed back for the children to eat.

Because the osmanthus has just gotten married, there are quite a lot of gifts sent, two catties of moon cakes and ten apples. According to the usual practice, the second grandmother only left half a catty of moon cakes and two apples, which are now placed on the table. Osmanthus sent half a catty of moon cakes and two apples to his uncle Han Decai.

The second grandmother used a knife to cut the mooncake into eight pieces, and the two apples were also cut into eight pieces, one for each person. She and the second master were reluctant to eat, so they took a small bite and handed it to their nephew.

The dog was so sensible that he didn't pick it up. "Grandpa, grandma, you eat. When I grow up, I will buy a big bag of mooncakes at Didi's house and let you eat mooncakes every day. ”

The second master said happily: "Good boy, grandpa is waiting to eat the moon cakes you bought." ”

The second master and Grandpa Youyou sat together and chatted about building a house. He is going to build the foundation of the house after the autumn, and he sells three pigs during the New Year, and the money will be enough to build a house, and he will start next spring. The second master said happily: "I will buy pig seedlings after the New Year next year, and try to feed two pigs a year." ”

Grandma gave him a suggestion, "Second master, you go and catch a few heads and feed them now, and when you grow up in two months, your three heads should also be sold, which is just right." ”

The second master was embarrassed and said: "There is a place, but what to feed in winter, a few pigs can eat a lot." Besides, Guilian is still feeding ten heads. ”

Gui Ping said quickly, "Dad, I won't play anymore, I will run home twice in one day, mow more grass and come back to dry and feed the pigs." ”

Baojing and Guixiang also said: "Dad, let's get up early and go to the river beach to mow the grass, let's buy piglet seedlings now, and let's build a house next spring and kill pigs." ”

Grandma also followed suit: "Second master, the children have grown up and are also useful, they can help you, what else do you have to worry about." ”

The second master was also happy, "Okay, tomorrow I will go to Zhangji to catch and buy pig seedlings, and you have to be responsible for cutting pigweed." ”

"Don't worry, I'll count. Gui Ping almost patted her chest.

After breakfast, the second grandmother asked Baojing to go to his second sister's house and send a big elbow. The second master and grandma drove the donkey cart to Zhangji to catch the market, and they all went to catch pigs and seedlings. Originally, you didn't want your grandmother to buy pig seedlings, and she didn't lack the money.

Grandma didn't think so, "We don't do anything, where do we eat and drink, others can't doubt it, and we can't let people misunderstand our consignment point." ”

Grandma thinks about everything, just feed it, it's a big deal to work harder, anyway, the second master's family has to take care of feeding herself.

It's time to plane the spring sweet potatoes, and the river beach is lively. Millet, mung beans, sweet potatoes and other miscellaneous grains are planted in the river beaches, and sweet potatoes are barren and thin, and are planted in the newly opened wasteland.

It's time to harvest the alfalfa in the river beach again, and some of them have already bloomed purple tidbits. Everyone took advantage of the time to rest from work, and cut down a piece of work after a while. Now, the sun is not so poisonous, and it is just right to dry alfalfa on the spot.

The children all sit in the field and pick sweet potato leaves, go home at noon and steam them to eat, and there are also those who pick tender sweet potato stems, saying that they can cook. Seeing Gui Ping picking, Youyou also followed the tender sweet potato stalks.

When I returned home, I showed the sweet potato stalk to my grandmother as if I was offering a treasure, and my grandmother smiled bitterly and said, "I'll make it for you in a while, and you'll know if you eat it." ”

Run around to see the little piglets that grandma bought, the four little pigs huddled together, lying in the sun, the fat little pig, quite cute.

Didi and Gou Yu ran back and forth, their little faces flushed with excitement. Yoyo looked at them with disgust, "It doesn't stink, hurry back and wash your hands." ”

For lunch, grandma not only steamed sweet potato leaves, but also fried sweet potato stalks. Steamed sweet potato leaves are really delicious, and the sweet potato stalks want to vomit when you eat them in your mouth, which is bitter and astringent, but the aftertaste is fragrant.

Looking at the long bitter gourd face, grandma said, "It's not delicious, I remember that the bitter rice is made with it, can it be delicious?" But even this was not eaten before, even now, people are reluctant to throw it away, and they all eat it in their stomachs, so that it can be full." ”

The river beach is full of sand, sweet potatoes grow very well, the big ones have more than one catty, everyone says that this year's sweet potato mu yields 5,000 catties. There was nothing left in the spring sweet potato team, and all the parts were given to everyone, and each person shared more than 200 catties.

The sweet potatoes are pulled back, and every household is drying the sweet potatoes. The roof is spread out to dry, and the rope is hung to dry. Large pieces of dried sweet potatoes, small pieces of sweet potatoes are eaten by slipping. The steamed sweet potato is sweet and noodle, very delicious, and you especially like it.

In later generations, sweet potatoes were known as the preferred food for anti-cancer and were very popular among people, but due to the large amount of manpower required and the low degree of mechanization in the production process, the price of sweet potatoes was higher than that of wheat.

Youyou asked: "Grandma, how good it is to eat fresh sweet potatoes, what are you doing with the hard drying of sweet potatoes?"