Chapter 17: The new daughter-in-law returns to her parents' home

The piglets were bought, and Yoyo fed them secretly in accordance with the best pig raising plan formulated by Zhibrain, and gave the two piglets epidemic prevention and feeding.

Every time Grandma feeds the pigs, Yoyo follows. When Grandma turned around and left, Yoyo added the piglet-specific feed ordered online to the pig food. The two little pigs both had round bellies, which gave grandma a sense of accomplishment.

On the afternoon of the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the second master set up an ox cart and asked Baojing to pick up his second sister. The custom here is that the new daughter-in-law must go back to her parents' house for 15, "15 don't look at the lamp of her mother-in-law's house, see her husband's father-in-law, 16 don't empty her mother-in-law's bed, empty it will disturb her mother-in-law."

When I came back, I was followed by more than a dozen people who watched the excitement, all clamoring to see the big flower cake of the osmanthus mother-in-law's house. The second grandmother was afraid that there would not be so many people standing in the narrow room, so she untied a big burden in the car.

There are three layers of flower cake, and the bottom is supported by a two-finger-thick round white flour cake, with a diameter of more than two feet. On top of it is a circle of flower cake noses made of white flour, and a red date is dotted in the middle of each flower cake nose. The three-layer flower cake has three noses, the lower one is like a goldfish tail, the middle one is like a butterfly with wings spread, and the top one is like a blooming flower, which is very beautiful.

"Second grandma, the value of your daughter's raising, the flower cake you take (take) is the first in our village. ”

"A few villages have to be the first one. ”

"Aunt Osmanthus, why is your mother-in-law's family steaming, this must be more than a dozen catties, right?"

Osmanthus replied happily: "Twenty catties is still high, my mother-in-law is looking for a big pot in the team to steam, I'm afraid that it will not be cooked and steamed for most of the time." ”

Before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there was no work to be done in the fields, and although the commune still advocated a revolutionary Spring Festival in the past two years, it did not arrange a Spring Festival battle.

Villagers who lack entertainment programs gather on the streets during the day, chatting and playing farts, turning over all the old and new rare things in the village.

Yoyo took his younger brother to run around, drilling around in the crowd to listen to the news (information), and slowly figured out the situation in the village.

Hantun Village is located in the northeasternmost corner of Hongcheng County, belonging to Zhangji Commune, and to the east is Meizhuang Village of Shuikeng Commune of Pingcheng County. To the west is Shimiao Village, a large village of more than 2,000 people, and to the south, Zhoulou Village and Hantun are separated by the Yellow River embankment.

The village is 10 miles away from Zhangji and 50 miles away from Hongcheng County. It is 7 miles away from Shuikengji, and it is farther away from Pingcheng County, with more than 80 miles.

There are more than 52 households in the village, with 316 people. There is only one east-west street, and the village is surrounded by more than half a mile (about 250 meters) of village forests, most of which are planted with waterlogging-tolerant willows.

There is a production team in the village, and the thirteen surrounding villages belong to the Xiangyang team. My uncle and grandfather used to be the village party secretary, and now he is the captain of the production team, so the people in the village call him the branch secretary and the captain.

There are also accountant Han Daowei in the production team, Han Yuchen, the custodian, and Han Aiguo, the militia captain, that is, Youyou's uncle. Clerk Han Guijin, she is also the women's captain of the team, also known as the captain of "Mulan".

Han Guijin is Han Decai's only daughter, her family's living conditions are good, her father is an honorary disabled soldier, after graduating from high school, he returned to the village to work, and she is also the most educated woman in the village.

There are more than 1,000 acres of cultivated land in the village, more than 3 acres per capita. The Yellow River to the north is about two and a half miles (2.5 miles) from the village. The Yellow River turns north on the east side of the village, leaving a large area of wasteland in Hanqiao Village, which is increasing every year. The people in the village go to the river beach to open up the wasteland when they are not farming, so the cultivated land in the village also increases by 30 to 50 mu every year.

Wheat, sorghum and soybeans are the main crops, and most of the arable land in the shoal area is relatively fertile and yields are relatively high. The yield per mu is more than 200 catties of wheat, 300 catties of soybeans and 400 catties of sorghum.

The crops here are usually 500 acres of wheat in two years, 300 acres of spring land are planted with sorghum, 100 acres of spring land are planted with cotton, and the remaining 100 acres of spring land are planted with millet, millet, mung beans, red beans and other small grains, and then some spring sweet potatoes and melon orchards of 20 or 30 acres of land. Beans and sweet potatoes were harvested for wheat, beans and sweet potatoes were harvested for spring soil, and sorghum and spring crops were planted the following year. All kinds of spring crops were harvested and wheat, and they were harvested three times in two years.

After the public grain is handed in, the grain is divided according to the population and the division of labor, and each has half of the grain. Each person can divide about four or five hundred catties of grain a year, including about 150 catties of wheat.

Most families have enough to eat, and in the commune it is a well-known Hongqi village. Especially for wheat, many production teams in the Dili Feitan area have less than 10 catties of wheat per capita.

The soybean area is large and the yield is high, and the team gives the members soybean oil twice a year, 2 catties per person once a year, 1 catty per person once in August 15, and less than 3 taels of oil per person a month.

At the end of the year, the final accounts will be made before the Spring Festival, and the ones that should be left are enough, the ones that should be divided are finished, and finally the money is divided. The money is distributed according to the amount of work (except for the five guarantee households, which have basic guarantees). After the team accountant has set aside enough production funds for the next year, the remaining money is converted into how much each work is worth, and then calculated according to the work score of each household, and the amount of money that can be shared by each family is obtained.

Ten centimeters is a common value, and a young and strong male laborer does 10 centimeters for a day's work. Women's labour is 7 cm, and most of the half-grown children and the elderly are 6 cm.

Hantun Village is generally worth more than three cents, and a good year is as high as five cents, which is several times higher than that of a village with eight cents. Therefore, each family can divide two or three hundred yuan for more than a year.

Each family also has a share of their own land, which has been carefully served by everyone and turned into a high-quality field. It is a pig feed field that the state divides in order to encourage members to raise pigs. However, at this time, people can't eat enough, and the food they grow has to take care of people's stomachs first. However, the area is too small, and no matter how high the output is, it can't collect many catties of grain.

Along with the Yellow River is the Yellow River embankment, which is surrounded by the Yellow River embankment to the east and south, about two miles (one kilometer) from the village. The embankment is about 10 meters high and about 4 meters wide above.

The Yellow River embankment is guarded by neighboring villages, and a two-room brick house is built at a distance of 500 meters, which is a flood control house, also known as a weir house, which is provided for the embankment watchers to live, and the Yellow River embankment that Hantun Village is responsible for guarding is two kilometers long.

At the bottom of the Yellow River embankment, there are rows of willow trees planted at the bottom of the 20 meters on the side of the Yellow River, and the tall willow trees are as tall as the thick willow trees, which effectively prevent the river from scouring the embankment.

The slopes on both sides of the embankment are planted with eight roots, which is a kind of wild grass with a particularly developed root system, which is drought tolerant and has strong vitality, and the grass more than one foot high is thickly spread on the slope of the embankment, which can slow down the impulse of water and play a protective role.

It is strictly forbidden to graze sheep on the embankment of the Yellow River, but after the grass dries up in early winter, it is distributed to each household for harvest. In winter, every house in Hantun has a tall pile of hay in their yard.

A large number of willow trees in the village forest and berm forest, and the hay on the yellow embankment provide rich forage for the villagers to raise sheep, and every household in Hantun Village has more than a dozen sheep.

Although this era is poor, the social atmosphere is good, and it can be said that the road is not left behind, and the house is not closed at night. Every family in the village raises sheep and feeds chickens, and there are free-range chickens and sheep running around the village forest outside the village, only those who have been lost have never heard of being stolen.

People are deeply disgusted by the behavior of abduction and oppression of the good, and occasionally there is one, and the lightest punishment is to criticize and fight in the streets, wearing a high hat with the crime written on it, and hanging a physical object that corresponds to the crime around his neck, and fighting in the whole commune from village to village, for at least ten days, one person makes a mistake, and several generations cannot raise their heads.