Chapter 15: Autumn Harvest
This summer passed in Luo Qingyan's study of cultural knowledge, learning traditional Chinese medicine, picking medicines, picking mushrooms and fungus, and concocting herbs. During this period www.biquge.info Luo Zhentang took his granddaughter to the mountain to collect medicine as soon as he was free, and encountered a lot of precious medicinal materials, and the ginseng alone met twice, although it was not as big as the first time, Luo Zhentang also admired the good luck of his granddaughter. And Luo Qingyan's dried mushroom fungus has also saved a lot, so he will wait for the opportunity to send it to the purchase station to sell.
The vegetable garden at home also harvested a lot, and Luo Qingyan took out several vegetable seeds from the space under the pretext of buying vegetable seeds in the county seat, and planted some with the help of his grandfather. Luo Qingyan secretly poured some spiritual spring water in the space from time to time, and the vegetables grew very well.
Luo Qingyan cooks in different ways every day, and Luo Zhentang praises every day for eating. There are only two people in the family, and the dishes must not be finished, so they often send some to Liu Liying's house, and the rest that can be dried into dried vegetables are dried vegetables. Winters in the north are particularly cold, and there are only a few kinds of vegetables. Luo Qingyan deliberately dried some more dried vegetables and kept them for the winter.
Summer goes to autumn, and in a blink of an eye it is the season for the dealer to harvest. The golden autumn earth, the autumn breeze is cool. The corn grew a long beard, and the sorghum raised a red torch. Cotton has snow-white flowers, and soybeans have bulged with plump pods. The captain led everyone to start the autumn harvest, and people couldn't close their mouths happily when they saw this harvest scene. I think that this year's wind and rain will be smooth, and there will be a bumper harvest of grain, so I can share more grain.
The children also joined the autumn harvest, but to pick up the grain particles that had fallen into the field. Whoever picks it up is theirs, which greatly reduces waste. All the children are dispatched, and it doesn't take much effort, as long as you pick it up, it's your own, this is extra income, who doesn't care. Now that food is so scarce, it's a little bit to pick up.
Liu Changjun and his school-going children also took autumn vacation, and they also went to the fields to pick up grain every day. Luo Qingyan also went to the field with Liu Liying and Liu Changjun to pick up grain. After picking it up, when I went home, I secretly took out a small amount of food from the space and mixed it with the pickup.
After harvesting corn, soybeans, sorghum and other grains, they began to dig sweet potatoes and potatoes again. The children moved to the sweet potato and potato fields, and dug the fields again and again after the adults had dug them, no matter how small the sweet potatoes and potatoes were. Every child can gain something as long as they dig carefully.
Luo Qingyan also deliberately planted new sweet potatoes and potatoes in the space, stretched his hand into the soil and secretly buried sweet potatoes or potatoes in the ground, and couldn't bury too big, it was really painstaking. The children are all digging the land in front of them, and no one will pay attention to anyone, for fear that they will be slow to let others dig up the things. In this way, under Luo Qingyan's smuggling, the children found that the adults in the field this year were not as clean as last year, and there were still a lot left, but no one shouted, I was afraid that it would be bad if the production team knew that they would go back, so everyone was silent.
In order to dig more, the children did not even care about going home for lunch, so the parents brought the food to the children at noon, and then carried an empty wicker basket over, and carried the full straw home. Everyone tacitly agreed, and no one spoke.
During the autumn harvest, although Luo Qingyan also went to the field to pick up grain like other children, he came back on time to cook for his grandfather at noon. She didn't really need that little food, and she followed the other children just to pretend, otherwise her food would not have come from.
During this period of time, Luo Qingyan also increased the oil and water in cooking, and tried to make it as hearty as possible without exposing the space. This time is so tired, she doesn't want her grandfather to be so tired every day and can't keep up with nutrition. Boil this soup and that soup every day, secretly put some spiritual spring water, and regulate the body. I used to eat the dried fish every two days, and I specially bought some pork to fry it and marinate it for a few more days. Once, she brought back a rabbit from the mountain and told Luo Zhentang that she wanted to pick some wild vegetables up the mountain, but the rabbit jumped out of the grass and crashed into a tree in a panic and knocked herself out, so she picked it up. Luo Zhentang didn't doubt his granddaughter's words at all, because his granddaughter's luck has always been good.
After harvesting the crops in the field, the villagers went up the mountain again. The wild fruits on the mountain are ripe, such as wild mushrooms, mountain grapes, pecans, hazelnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, etc., as well as mushrooms and fungus. After the collective harvesting, these mountain goods brigades have to sell a part of them to the purchasing station, which is a kind of income for the village. The wild fruits that are not easy to preserve and transport are left for each family to share, and they should be given snacks to the children.
At this time, the children are the happiest, because the children of this era are not like the children in the 21st century who have endless snacks, and the children at this time do not see the shadow of snacks several times throughout the year. And these wild fruits distributed to everyone in the village are generally kept by the adults in the family for their children to satisfy their hunger.
The children also followed the mountain, and there was no chance to go up the mountain. At this time, you can go up the mountain and eat while picking wild fruits, and no one cares how much you eat, anyway, your belly is so big. Since the wild fruit trees are not concentrated, they are scattered among other trees, so the children are also divided into groups, and basically follow their own adults. Some wild fruits are easy to break if they fall on the ground, so they need to go up to the tree to pick them. Some of the hard-shelled ones such as pecans, chestnuts, hazelnuts, and pine nuts are not afraid of falling, so they take bamboo poles and hit them directly under the tree, and then pick them up when they fall to the ground. The children did this work just right, and some of the children picked up the shells and stuffed them into their mouths while picking them up.
After a period of busyness, except for the deep mountains that are too dangerous, ordinary people dare not enter, the villagers picked up the mountain goods in the nearby mountains, and there may be some long hidden ones that can't be found, then there is no way.
After the mountain goods are picked, they have to be processed, and the mushrooms and fungus must be dried quickly to prevent rot. When the pecans are picked, they are wrapped in a layer of green skin, and when the green skin is peeled off, you can see the yellow-brown hard shell we usually see. The pecans have to be peeled off and processed before they can be sold to the purchasing station. At this time, the traditional walnut peeling method is used, which is to transport the harvested walnut green fruit to an indoor or outdoor shade place, avoid sun exposure, stack the walnut green fruit according to the thickness of 40-60 cm, and add a layer of 8-10 cm thick mountain hair grass on the green fruit pile, the purpose is to increase the temperature of the pile, strengthen the natural ripening and aging speed of the green peel, and shorten the separation time between the green peel and the hard shell. Generally, the green peel is piled up for 5-7 days, and when the green peel cracks, becomes soft, deteriorates and rots and falls off naturally, the green peel is manually peeled off with a knife. Pour the peeled walnuts into clean water and knead them quickly, remove impurities, wash them for about 2 minutes, and then quickly filter the water and dry them to sell them to the purchase station.
And the pine nuts also have to be beaten down first, and then peeled to produce hard-shell pine nuts and so on. Anyway, it has to go through or dry, or peel, which is also a project. Winter in the Northeast came relatively early, and the weather began to get cold after all these mountain goods were processed. Taking advantage of the good weather, the land that should be turned over was turned over, the public grain that should be handed over, and the processed mountain goods were pulled down to the purchasing station and sold. Then the grain was distributed to the villagers according to the population, and the grain of the year was picked up again. However, the money will have to wait until the end of the year after the centimeters are calculated, and we have to wait.
At this time, some villagers with hunting experience formed a hunting team, and they also went into the mountains to hunt some game before the snow fell. At this time, when the prey in the mountains is the fattest, some pheasants, hares, roe deer, or wild boars are brought back, and each family can eat a few good meals with a little meat.
Luo Qingyan felt that life would be good if it had been like this, although he was a little poor, but it was better to be quiet and peaceful. But she knew that this life would soon come to an end, that the movement would soon begin, and she hoped that this remote mountain village would not be affected too much.