For the next period of time, Yuan Si stopped living in his hometown, going to work in the production team at a fixed point every day, and going to the canteen to eat at a fixed point. She finally knew what the green in the bowl of green porridge was.

It's not a wild vegetable, it's all boiled for pigs to eat, and people can't get up to the top if they want to eat it. The green leaves in the bowl are all poplar leaves, and the poplar leaves are picked up by these old ladies in the canteen who went to the woods, and after taking them back, they choose to clean them, and then blanch them with hot water, and soak them in cold water, insist on changing the water every day, and soak them for almost a week, and the bitter taste of poplar leaves can be soaked off. When the canteen cooks porridge, take out a few vegetable leaves from the big pot and put them in, stir and stir to make a pot of vegetable porridge.

Why don't people eat wild vegetables but give them to pigs, and people eat leaves? Because at this time, the status of people is really not as important as pigs, and it is necessary to ensure that pigs are well fed so that they can grow fat, right?

Yuan Si doesn't understand this logic very well, but in this environment, she doesn't have the right to question.

After going home in the evening, I found something interesting to do, which is to learn to pinch braids with Zuo Daya.

Pinching the braid is to select the appropriate thickness of the wheat stalks, cut off the places that are too thin above, cut off the places that are too thick below, and leave a section that is long by the upper arm, like braiding, braiding the three wheat stalks together, and when braiding to the bottom, directly connect with another wheat stalk, and the joints can be braided into the braid, so that the braid can be braided very long back and forth.

is like an old lady, her hands are very sharp, left and right, and she made up a section of the boss in a short time. When it reaches a certain length, it is like wrapping yarn, and the braided hair is wrapped around the leg of a small stool.

Wrapping twenty-four circles is consistent, and this consistent braid can be sold for two cents and four cents when it is taken to the acquisition station, and its main purpose is to make straw hats or something.

The old and young in Lijia Village who pinch braids are basically good, but there are few people who are so quick with hands and feet like the old lady, and so capable. The old lady can basically pinch it every day.

There is also a method of income generation in Lijia Village, which is to plant hemp first, and then go through the hemp, dial the hemp, dry the hemp several steps to produce hemp, the price given by the purchase station is very good, more than two dollars a catty.

It's just that Li Yuansi's family has little land, and it is all used to grow food, so there is no hemp to sell.

Yuan Si is very fond of pinching braids, because she found that she can exercise her mental power by pinching braids, and strive to use her mental power to control the wheat stalks to braid her hair, and now her ability is still very weak, and she can't reach the point of pointing where to hit her, so she can only use her mental power to make Mai Gai bend slightly in the direction it should have, and the next step is to deal with it manually.

That's it, Yuan Si also uses it very energetically, generally using mental power to control the wheat stalk for more than ten minutes, and the mental power will run out, so she replaces it manually, and begins to meditate in her head, so that after the mental power is emptied, she will meditate, and every time the mental power will be slightly improved, and the speed of recovery will also be improved.

So she likes this kind of work like this kind of skill to earn extra money and exercise mental strength, and every day after going home, she and the old lady move a small bench together and start to pinch her braids as soon as she sits at the door of the house.

"Mother, why don't we plant some sweet potatoes like other pairs?" Yuan Si took this opportunity to ask the question in her heart.

Through her on-site investigation in the past few days, the first team and four squads of Fanxing Commune are really not a place with a very good geographical environment.

First of all, there is little land and many people, and I don't know why, the fields here only weigh two crops, one is wheat, winter wheat, harvested in late May and early June every year, and then corn is planted in the next season, and the two crops are planted in turn.

As for the rest, it can only depend on their own needs, although there is little land in Lijia Village, but each family is still allocated a different size of self-reserved land, and what to plant in the self-reserved land is entirely up to the villagers themselves.

For example, if a family wants to marry a daughter-in-law or have a child, then the family will grow cotton in their own plot, and the harvest is just enough for the family, and if there is no major event in the family, they will also plant wheat and corn in the plot.

As for sweet potatoes and peanuts, no one in their team grows them. The three major teams not far from here plant more patterns than here, and every year if someone in the village wants to eat, they carry their own wheat to change.

Yuan Si has understood, the current wheat and corn are not high-yield varieties, and there is not much grain on one acre of land, so the people here will live so hard, and they can't fill their stomachs after working hard every day until the end.

"What kind of sweet potato is that, it's not serious food, who wants to take the good land to grow that thing. Zuo Daya had a natural expression on her face.

"But that yield is high, if our family's own land is planted with sweet potatoes, then our mother and daughter are probably not hungry this year. Besides, sweet potato seedlings can be fried as vegetables, how good it is. Yuan Si felt that it was really not a wise move to look down on this and that when her stomach was not full, the focus now was not to fill her stomach first.

Now every family in Lijia Village uses the land to grow serious food, and there is no place to plant vegetables, so it can only be crowded on the wall to plant some loofahs or something, so it is going to be summer, and there are still wild vegetables and leaves here, and there are no fresh vegetables to eat, which is also strange.

"That's not good, what our ancestors handed down is to plant wheat and corn, and we don't plant anything else. Zuo Daya was not moved at all, "And you stop me, always ask people about what landscapes, you know what to do, I can tell you, you can't give me anywhere." When the old lady heard that her little girl had inquired about whether there were mountains or water around, she thought that this girl had gone out for an ambition, and imagined that the young people in the village went to the mountains to go around, and she didn't look at how old she was.

"I see. Yuan Si listened to her left ear and her right ear, if she didn't find a way to live, she would definitely starve to death here, and the five meals of vegetable porridge a day in the cafeteria were really not a splash of urine.

It's just that this Lijia Village is really not good, surrounded by a flat river, there is no shadow of the mountain at all, judging by the news she inquired, the nearest mountain is about 70 kilometers away from here, and it takes a few days to go back and forth. The nearest water is a big reservoir more than ten miles away from here, I heard that there are water ghosts under the reservoir, a few years ago dragged a child who went there to swim, and then the body was salvaged up, and there was indeed a circle of bruises on the feet and necks, as if someone was dragging it below.

And the first target Yuan Si chose was there, she didn't believe that there were any water ghosts, even if there were water ghosts, she would also go down to catch the water ghosts, wash it, wash it, and stew it in the pot.

Of course, you can't tell the old lady about this plan, I guess it will frighten people if you say it.

"You, like your eldest sister and third sister, when you usually go out to work, don't patronize mowing the grass, it's okay to go to the grove at the head of the village to wander around, you see the eldest grandson of your second uncle's family next door, every time you come back, you can secretly pick up some branches and come back, I have seen it several times. Zuo Daya whispered to educate her little girl.

Another disadvantage of not having a mountain is that you can't burn firewood, there are not too many trees here, it is impossible to pick up branches as firewood, and now the trees are also public, and the branches are also public property, so you can only rely on the corn stalks or wheat stalks distributed by the production team every year as fuel. However, there are more monks and less meat, so each family has to be careful in cooking with firewood.

When the big canteen was first built, every family handed over all the firewood in addition to the food, and even the firewood at home was also handed in, but the firewood was not required to be handed over, after all, the family had to boil water or something, so each family handed over half.

Zuo Daya is a person who is strong in everything, and she is a little unsure when the firewood at home is reduced by half all of a sudden, so she wants to go outside to pick up something that can be burned and come back, which is not teaching her little girl experience.