"Spring sweet potatoes don't grow long, and they are easy to spoil when it's hot. Besides, spring sweet potatoes contain a lot of starch, and there are many dried melons, and three catties of raw sweet potatoes can dry one pound of dried melons. If it weren't for the high yield of sweet potatoes, the people outside the embankment would have starved even more. ”

After listening to grandma's words, Yoyo settled the account. Spring sweet potatoes yield 5,000 pounds per mu, three pounds of dry potatoes, except for small sweet potatoes, one mu can also dry 1,500 pounds of dried sweet potatoes, now this should be the highest yield of crops.

The per capita cultivated land outside the embankment is small, less than two acres per person, most of it is sandy land, and the yield of other crops is low, so it is suitable for planting sweet potatoes. No wonder it is said: sweet potato rice, sweet potato bun, you can't live without sweet potato.

The sweet potato seedlings were distributed to each family, and the second grandmother had a job. Pick off the young leaves and young stems on it, steam the sweet potato leaves every day, make sweet potato leaf nests, and dry the excess and put it away. Tender sweet potato stalks are scalded with boiling water, dried in the sun, and eaten again when there is a shortage of vegetables in winter and spring.

Just to clean up this large pile of sweet potato seedlings, her old man was busy for three or four days.

The tenth day of the lunar month is the autumnal equinox, and the team begins to sow wheat on this day. The white dew is early, the cold dew is late, and the autumn equinox is just right to plant wheat. Tractors can plow, harrow, pull and run, but they can't sow seeds, and they rely on manual labor and livestock to grow wheat.

The old wooden cocoon, with an ox driving in front of it, two laborers helping to pull it, and a laborer shaking it in the back. Each of the four women pulled two small stone pans and pressed the wheat behind them.

Now the cocoons are two-legged, shaking the cocoon is a technical work, an acre of seeds, good technology is planted, no more, no less.

Shaking is also a work of strength, and even those with little strength can't do it. A building has to use seven people, and the maximum number of acres is 20 acres a day.

Han Tun planted 900 acres of wheat this year, almost half more than before. Planting wheat has become a big thing, both men and women go into battle, plus some semi-laborers, the old people mix poison bait, and the young people sprinkle poison bait.

The poisonous bait is to fry the wheat bran to make it fragrant, mix it with pesticides, and sprinkle it evenly in the sown wheat field, mainly to prevent and control the underground pest of mole crickets.

It's not light to pull and shake, and it's faster than pulling a car, and I'm tired after a long time. It's the autumn equinox now, and the temperature is only in the twenties. However, the clothes on the backs of the people were soaked with sweat, and some of the male laborers were in the way, so they took off their gowns and put them on their shoulders.

Everyone cooperated well, and someone wiped their sweat and was pulled down. The rope that pulled the building loosened, and the people beside him shouted, "It's time to exert yourself, your rope is bent." There was a burst of laughter from everyone, and the person who was laughed at blushed and ran a few steps to keep up with the team.

Yoyo's mother pulled the cocoon for a while, went home and took off her gown, and saw that her shoulders were bloodshot and swollen. Dad smeared ointment on her, and Grandma made her a mat out of rags, and she had to pull it again in the afternoon.

In six days, 900 acres of wheat were finally planted. Except for picking cotton, there is no work in the field for the time being. The team organized everyone to go to the river beach to cut alfalfa, cut it and dry it on the spot, and then pull it back when it was dry.

Each family also gets up early and goes to bed late to harvest alfalfa, and each family feeds a few pigs, and the feed for the winter has to be prepared. Fortunately, there are few villages and many wastelands in the river beach, so Yoyo has a place to cheat.

Youyou asked grandma to take it to the production embankment next to Pingcheng County, and released the amount of machinery to collect alfalfa into the space, grandma had already bought the pig seedlings, so she had to prepare enough feed.

After harvesting the alfalfa, the team organized everyone to cut the dustpan willows. The first year was planted, and it was planted in the summer, although the ground of the river beach is strong, the dustpan willow is not too good, and the branches are relatively thin, but it is just right to make fine handicrafts for export.

The dustpan willows are cut and transported to the village forest, and the women work hard to peel off the outer skin of the branches, and the white branches are dried under the trees and slowly dried in the shade. Such dried branches are soft and can weave all kinds of exquisite crafts.

At the end of the month, the weather is much cooler, and you have to wear thick clothes in the morning and evening. The consignment point at home is still the goods purchased at the beginning of the month, and it is time to buy them. In addition, you should also go to Linshui to see how Li Baoguo's clothes are selling.

Just go, on the first day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, grandma led you to Linshui. This time, grandma didn't use a donkey cart, but took more than 100 eggs on a bicycle and handed them to the food station, and the two went directly to Linshui.

Li Baoguo saw his grandmother, he was happy, and he kept talking, and he listened to it for a while, which basically means that autumn clothes sell well, and people especially like them.

Li Baoguo handed 54,000 yuan to his grandmother. "Sister, you hurry up and prepare the goods for your brother, this time it will be 3,000 sets, the same 500 sets. You'd better get some more uniforms, those have already been sold out, and a lot of people are looking for them, but I didn't dare to say yes. ”

"Women's clothes are no problem, I'll send them to you when I have time recently, and the military uniforms depend on the situation. Brother, I still have some business, so I'll go back first. "Grandma still wanted to go to Pingcheng, so she said goodbye to Li Baoguo,

"Sister, you can't stay and eat a meal for your brother, it's been a long time since we sat down to talk. Also, I bought you a few pieces of furniture, have you seen them?"

"I didn't go to that yard, I'll come to you when I get there. Next time, I'll eat at my brother's when I come back. ”

Seeing that grandma was determined to leave, Li Baoguo said again: "You Yuyu is missing you these days, her socks are almost sold out, and she said that she wants another 5,000 pairs, sister, if you want it, bring it to her." Also, I heard her mumble that it was cold, and the glass headband was a little cold, so you could change her into a few new styles, suitable for winter. ”

"Socks are in stock, headbands, I'll find some suitable ones for her, and I'll bring one next time." Brother, I'll try to come as soon as possible, we'll talk about it next time. Grandma said goodbye to Li Baoguo and hurried to the bus station to catch a bus to Pingcheng.

Sitting on the bus, Yoyo remembered the request made by Grandma Yang last time, asking for some buttons suitable for autumn and winter clothes, so he calmed down and used his consciousness to contact the brain and find suitable buttons in the space.

Not only did I find some suitable plexiglass buttons, but also some shiny metal buttons, all of which are relatively large buttons, suitable for autumn and winter clothes. Yoyo took out the sample and asked Grandma to check it.

Grandma read it and said it was all good, but she didn't come up with an idea. "Yoyo, let's go to the department store first, is there a metal button? ”

It was just eleven o'clock when they arrived in Heicheng, and the two went to the department store and went straight to the haberdashery counter. It seems that Zhi Brain's judgment is still reliable, and there are really several more metal buttons on the counter. The price is also high, 05,000 yuan a, and the bigger it is, the more expensive it is. However, there are really young girls.

Yoyo also discovered a phenomenon that women's necks were tied with a "handful of grabs", and most of them were high-end scarves with gold threads. Scarves and buttons are small commodities and are at the same counter with buttons.