Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Autumn Harvest (3)
The autumn harvest in Taoyuan Village has basically entered the final stage, a large number of grain has been sent to the public granary, this year's harvest has made the three newly added granaries are also full, and now the grain stored in it can provide the consumption of the entire Taoyuan Village for three years.
Of course, this is also the surplus that Taoyuan Village has accumulated for several years.
With the expansion of Taoyuan Village, the number of villagers has been growing in three dimensions, as the saying goes, "full of warm thoughts", the hard-working villagers are very desperate no matter what they do, coupled with Chen Chen's disguised encouragement to have more children, the number of newborns born in the village in recent years is three times that of before.
Moreover, after the first evolution, the physical fitness of human beings has been greatly improved, so that it is much easier to work and do things, even children can do simple farm work, and the whole family goes into battle during the busy farming season.
A labor force in the prime of life needs three catties of meat, five servings of staple food, and two servings of vegetables to fill his stomach with a meal, which is not counting other snacks.
Even an eight-year-old child has to eat two big steamed buns for every meal.
As a result, the consumption of food completely exceeded Chen Chen's imagination, which made him, who originally relied on the advantage of mutated seeds and didn't care much about planting, encounter the embarrassing situation of having no food in his hands.
Taoyuan Village is a large planter, and the planting mode of two seasons a year does bring advantages in yield and variety, but the consumption of many people is large, and the grain harvested every time is eaten before it is hot in the granary, and every time it is enough to eat.
If there is no large amount of meat to provide the nutrients and calories required by the body, the consumption of single grain will be greater, and it is difficult for the body without sufficient nutritional supply to meet the standard of secondary evolution.
Although Chen Chen is not sure about the direction of the second evolution, there is no doubt that excellent physical fitness will be advantageous at all times.
This can be clearly seen from the comparison between the displaced people and the local villagers of Taoyuan Village, where the autumn harvest ends at the same time when the planting area is three times different.
While the displaced people are recuperating from their tired bodies, the people of Taoyuan Village have begun to build new greenhouses, a new batch of vegetable seedlings have begun to be cultivated, and some of the collected crops also need to be reprocessed to make the food more diverse and easy to store.
The busy pace of the villagers who are 100 times more energetic never stops, and no one feels that they should stop, and only Chen Chen, who emphasizes the combination of work and rest, will consider this problem, and after the proposal to rest for the whole village for seven days was vetoed, it became the autumn harvest, and a seven-day exchange meeting was held in the village.
The exchange meeting is a grand gathering, located on the commercial avenue of Taoyuan Village, starting from the entrance of the village, the exchange as the end point, running through the entire village, the wide road is set up back to back with two rows of stalls, and a row of snack carts is inserted in the middle, the village invites the opera troupe to sing for seven days, the villagers do not need to go to work for seven days, as long as they are happy to eat, drink and have fun!
Of course, if some diligent villagers don't even let go of this opportunity and take the opportunity to start their own businesses to increase their income, Chen Chen is also very supportive of this, and everyone is happy.
The news that Taoyuan Village is going to hold an exchange meeting has spread early in the morning, and many merchants and craftsmen have rented booths for themselves at the exchange early, waiting for the exchange meeting to start making a lot of money!
The limited number of stalls could not meet the needs of all the vendors, so the battle line was stretched to both sides of the road outside the village, these stalls were basically occupied by the vendors themselves, Taoyuan Village was not responsible for this and did not interfere, but only demarcated a cordon, requiring their stalls not to cross the line, not to affect the normal travel of personnel and vehicles.
What was originally just an internal activity for self-entertainment suddenly became a great joy for the people in the nearby township, which made Chen Chen very surprised, but when he thought of the situation in recent years, he knew it in his heart, so he paid a certain attention to this exchange meeting.
There are three stages alone to meet people's thirst for entertainment.
For the first time, all the shops in Taoyuan Village, including the key exchanges, are open to outsiders, and although there is still a limit on the number of them, they can be bought and sold freely!
Some seeds, livestock, textiles, daily necessities including building materials and other things that are rare for outsiders to see in Taoyuan Village were unveiled in front of people at one time, which also attracted many large businesses to come to check, and Jiafu also received many rare stickers.
In short, before the official start of the exchange meeting, Taoyuan Village has been lively, every day there are many outsiders back and forth, many people are here for the first time, whether it is a neat and unified building complex, or a sparkling greenhouse in the sun, people have to marvel, is this really just a village?
The greeting stickers handed over by the house were directly ignored by Chen Chen, he had always disliked such meaningless greetings the most.
And since there was Taoyuan Village, the focus of Chen Chen's life has completely shifted here, and the business in the original mansion has also been handed over to the aunts who should have lived in the back house according to the previous idea.
The handover of power made them suddenly have a sense of dedication that had never appeared before, and they were full of energy, and the industry of Jiafu has now been developed by them very strongly, and their trust and support for Chen Chen have reciprocated with all their respect, so that Chen Chen is like an old man who has returned to his hometown to retire, and has nothing to do to this day.
Chen Chen was rarely interested in this exchange meeting, and specially exchanged some gifts from the system, intending to surprise people.
Everything is ready to go, just wait for tomorrow to come!