After doing the math, it is three cents and one catty, and one acre of watermelon can be sold for three hundred yuan. If you plant wheat and soybeans, the yield of 300 catties per mu is a high yield, wheat is three cents and one tael, soybeans are two cents and one tael, and the maximum income per mu is 160 yuan, and the labor intensity is much higher than that of planting melons.

"Grandma, why don't you plant more of it? He asked puzzled.

"Silly boy, they are all planted into watermelons, and these fifty acres are not easy to sell, and we dare to plant so many with tractors in our village. As soon as dawn, your uncle and Gao Gaosan drove to Pingcheng. ”

You thought about it for a while, grandma was right, at this time, all the big watermelons were planted, the smallest one had twelve or thirteen catties, and the big one was more than twenty catties. It's three cents a catty, and a watermelon costs four or five cents, and it's about to cut a pound of meat, and people in the countryside are generally reluctant to buy it. Besides, basically every village has a melon garden, and the good ones are sold, and the rest is distributed to everyone in the end, and the children can eat it.

If there were no tractors, I really didn't dare to plant more, and I wouldn't be able to sell much in the commune's bazaar. I relied on a rickshaw to sell it in the city, and I couldn't get it back in a day.

No wonder it is commonly said that in remote and backward areas, convenient transportation has always played a key role in economic development, and remote and backward are really twins.

After eating, grandma was busy. Peel off the hard skin of the watermelon, dig out part of the melon pulp inside, and put it in a basin for Didi to dig and eat with a spoon.

Cut the watermelon into an inch of square quickly, according to the ratio of half watermelon and half sauce beans, add cut ginger shreds and pepper, fennel, horn and other spices, according to the ratio of ten catties of sauce beans and two catties of salty salt, all kinds of things are placed in a large basin and stirred evenly.

Grandma found a large ceramic jar of two buckets of sixty catties, put the mixed watermelon sauce beans into it, and sealed the mouth of the jar with a clean white coarse cloth to facilitate the evaporation of the water inside. It was covered with an enamel basin upside down, for fear that it would rain and get water.

The jar is placed under the eaves of the hall and dried for a month before it can be eaten. No wonder people say that watermelon sauce is dry, and it really has to be dried.

At noon, grandma made cold noodles, cut thin hand-rolled noodles, mixed with cucumber shreds, mixed with garlic juice, vinegar and sesame juice with fried sesame seeds peeled and ground into a paste, sour and spicy refreshing, cool and delicious, and ate a big bowl leisurely.

It was very hot, and the children still went to the river beach to mow the grass as usual, but they went back quickly. When I got home, I ran to the pond pit in front of the village, and jumped into the water to bathe in my clothes.

In the spring, the pond pit dug by the embankment is more than two meters deep, and there are several heavy rains in the summer, and the water in it is more than one meter.

The bottom of the pond pit is relatively flat, unlike the big puddle in the east of the village, there are small pits at the bottom of the pit, you have to be careful at all times, and the children in the village like to go to the pond pit to bathe.

A seven-year-old girl also went into the water, but in pants. The children of the village can swim, ugly dog planing, leisurely backstroke.

Older children teach children, and they learn when they play, and adults don't care. But I didn't hear of anyone drowning, even if I drank two sips of water, came out and coughed twice, and then went down again.

Youyou followed Hao Hao and soaked in water all day long. We were disabled and couldn't swim in our previous life, so we must swim happily in this life.

Brother Zhiyuan taught her to swim, and Sister Zhizhi watched Didi and Zhiru from the edge of the pit and didn't let them go into the water.

Yoyo is not a child after all, he lost the stupid boldness of a child, and he was afraid that he would learn slowly, so he learned to pick up the dog twice in two days.

Hao Hao frowned in disgust: "It's ugly to death, it's so stupid." ”

Hao Hao swam really well, lying on his back on the water easily, kicking hard with his feet, and he rushed out of the distance. A dozen kids competed, and he was always number one.

But he didn't have the patience to teach Youyou, he only cared about playing by himself, and it was Zhiyuan's brother who guarded Youyou, afraid that she would have an accident.

In fact, swimming is the same as learning to walk, and it is easy to take the first step. Yoyo has mastered the skills of swimming, and his progress has been rapid, and after a few days of kung fu, he can also paddle on the water on his back.

However, after a few days, the sun was shiny and shiny. By the time she found out, it was too late. She was so angry that she ran to swim when she had time, and anyway, she got a tan, so she had a good swim, and she had to fall one end at both ends.

The water in the big pit at the east end of the village is two or three meters deep, and my grandmother repeatedly told the children not to go there to play in the water. The male laborers got off work and went there to bathe. The women waited until it was dark in the evening, and went down to wash.

At night, the men were far away from the big pit in the east of the village, and they went to the pond pit in the south of the village to pounce twice. At night, people are not allowed to go into the water, mainly because the water temperature is low, and the children are afraid of getting cold.

Hantun Village grows a lot of soybeans and has a high yield, so the team concentrates on collecting oil and distributing it to each family, and the remaining soybean cakes are all put into the melon field in addition to feeding the livestock.

The watermelons in the team are crispy and sweet because of the bread fat, and they are all sandy. Since the watermelons planted in the team have opened a garden, the Yoyo family has to eat two large watermelons a day. Soak the watermelon in the well water in the morning, and eat it cold at noon, which is comfortable from the bottom of your heart.

The second grandmother's family was reluctant to buy watermelons, and the first watermelon team was not divided, taking advantage of the high price, they all pulled it to the market to sell it for money. The people in the village wanted to eat it, so they went to the melon orchard to buy it. However, most people have never bought it, and only relatives who come to the family to buy one are close.

Didi ran to shout for the dog leftover every time he ate melon, and Zhang Liugen stopped it at first, but the child didn't understand, one pulled and one stopped, Didi and the dog leftover were in a hurry. The second grandmother spoke: "Let him go, our family owes them a lot." Let's keep it in mind and pay it back slowly in the future. ”

Every time the family eats something rare, grandma says: "It's a shame that we live outside the village, here we and the second master are two, if we live in the village, other people's families are reluctant to eat, and we can't eat this way." ”

Only then did you understand why grandma sold melons every time she sold them in the name of giving melons to the people of the supply and marketing cooperatives, and she wanted more than a dozen at a time, she was afraid that the people in the village would be exquisite.

After two days, the weather suddenly became muggy, and you were woken up in the morning. She sat up and saw that the mat beneath her was soaked with sweat, leaving a humanoid silhouette.

Take out a temperature and humidity meter from the space, and after a while, the temperature stopped at 33 degrees, the key is that the humidity is as high as 93, no wonder it is so stuffy, which is called "sauna day" in later generations.

Yoyo ran out, his brother had already come back from mowing the grass, he was chopping pig food, and his mother was doing the laundry. Fortunately, every night before going to bed, grandma collected the clothes of herself, grandpa and the three brothers and sisters, put them in the space and washed them, and dried them in the yard early the next day.

Mom just washes her and Dad's clothes, and for this reason, she has repeatedly asked not to let her grandmother wash clothes, but she has never received a response, and now she is used to it.