Chapter 116: Digging Sweet Potatoes
"It's easy, when we go back, we'll dig the cellar and hide all the grain. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" below the villagers.
"Another one is that we have to organize people to go to the entrances of each village to see if there will be a large number of refugees who want to enter the village, and if so, we will notify everyone to resist together." It's not that he is ruthless, after all, when there is a locust plague here, everyone's life is not very good, and he can only protect the interests of his own villagers, and other people from other villages will give their Lizheng or the court a headache.
"It should take a long time to take precautions, after all, although the stored grain is exhausted, there are still sweet potatoes and peanuts in the field that have not been dug up, and they can hold on for a while." When a villager heard that Li Zheng said that he had organized the villagers to pay attention at the entrance of the village, he said what he had in mind.
"That's right, every household, more or less will grow these, although it can't be compared with rice grain, but no matter what, it can still fill the stomach." Another villager continued.
"It's true, I didn't think of this just now, but no matter what, what should be prevented must be prevented." Li Zheng said that if you look at it this way, the appearance of refugees will not be so fast, and in that case, their families can also recuperate for a while.
"When you go back, you should first think about the storage of grain, and you can discuss the follow-up precautions." Li Zheng was thinking that since there would be a long time before there would be refugees, there would be no hurry in organizing manpower to take precautions.
After everything was said, the villagers went home, although it was said that the refugee thing would take a long time to appear, but their own food was to find a way to store it as soon as possible, after all, their grain could only barely last until next year's autumn harvest, this year, they estimated that they would have to drink gruel a lot of times, although it was the autumn harvest at that time, but because of the reason in advance, after the grain was dried, there was not much.
"What did Li Zheng call everyone to talk about? Is it something you said about prevention? Liu Lin saw that the head of the family had returned, so he asked.
"Yes." Liu Tianming told Liu Lin what he was telling everyone just now.
"Then we have to dig a cellar right away, after all, the cellar also needs to be damp, and if there is moisture underneath, it is not suitable for storing grain. It's easy to get wet. When Liu Lin heard that he was so good at running the house, he thought about digging the cellar quickly.
"Well, you have to go to the mountain to cut a few logs first, otherwise, there is nothing to hold onto, and I am afraid it will be easy to collapse." Liu Tianming thought about tomorrow, and he would have to cut down the tree on the mountain and come back, after all, this tree also has to be dried a little bit, or it will be wet, I am afraid that when it is supporting the cellar, it will have to produce branches, which is not good.
"So where should we dig the cellar?" Liu Lin listened to what his head said, and he also knew that digging the cellar was not in a hurry. It's not possible to start doing this yet, but you have to decide where to dig it first.
"You have to think about it, but it must be in the house, if you dig it outside, then when it rains, the water will get inside, and the food will all be moldy." Liu Tianming didn't know which house to dig under for a while.
"Uncle, what do you think of digging in the firewood room, when the firewood is put on it, people don't know that there is a cellar below." Du Yue saw that Liu Tianming was thinking about this, so she proposed.
"Well, that's a good place. When the firewood is released, it is estimated that people will not notice the cellar below. When Liu Tianming heard Du Yue's proposal, he felt that it was the best choice among so many houses in the family.
Since the location of the cellar was decided, but this thing could not be done, the sweet potatoes in the field should have been dug back, and the sweet potato vines were only cut back at that time.
"Then let's go and dig up all the sweet potatoes in the field first, and tomorrow you will go into the mountains to cut down the trees." Liu Lin's location of the cellar has been decided, and she is not in a hurry, anyway, there will be no refugees for a while.
"Well, then let's go out and dig sweet potatoes first." Liu Tianming also thought that there was nothing to do today, so hurry up and take back the sweet potatoes.
"I'll go too." Du Yue also wanted to follow, she hadn't dug sweet potatoes yet, and she also wanted to see how she dug them.
"Well, let's all go together." Liu Tianming said loudly. Since going out to pick up the pair of baskets at the door, Liu Lin also picked a pair of baskets, Yuan Qing Yuanping and Du Yue each carried a basket, and then took the hoe and followed to the sweet potato field.
The sweet potato field where the first few people went was on the edge of the river at the edge of the village, which was a sandy land, which was not suitable for growing rice or other crops, so it was always used to grow sweet potatoes. This piece of land is not small, it has three points.
It's good to grow sweet potatoes on this sandy land, at least it's much easier to dig up, unlike other dirty soils, especially those on the side of the mountains.
"Your mother and I will dig in front, and you will follow behind to shake the sand off these sweet potatoes and put them in baskets or baskets." After Liu Tianming arrived at his sweet potato field, he said to the three Yuanqing who followed behind.
"Okay, no problem." Yuan Qing replied, just put the sweet potatoes in the back basket, it was much simpler.
Liu Tianming and his wife put down the basket, took the hoe in their son's hand, and began to dig up sweet potatoes. It is very easy to dig sweet potatoes in the sand, Liu Tianming thought that he was tired a few days ago, and today he will dig the easy ones first, and after digging the sandy land, he will dig the ones at the foot of the mountain.
Liu Tianming went down with a hoe, pulling a root, and those sweet potatoes came out one after another, Liu Tianming threw the sweet potatoes to the side, and continued to dig up. So Liu Tianming just dug it and threw it to the side, and he didn't care, anyway, Yuan Qing and a few people followed behind to pick it up.
Yuan Qing followed behind Liu Tianming, lifted the whole string of sweet potatoes, and then ripped off the sweet potatoes one by one, shook off the sediment, and put them in the back basket, Du Yue and Yuan Ping followed behind Liu Lin's, seeing that Liu Lin's dug out the sweet potatoes, the two of them ripped off the sweet potatoes and put them in the back basket.
"I'll carry some back first." Yuan Qing looked at the sweet potatoes that were already filled with two back baskets, and planned to carry some first.
"I'll come back with you, too." Du Yue looked at the two back baskets that were full, and thought that they would be carried back, and he could empty the back basket for more sweet potatoes in a while.
"Then you can carry some back first." Liu Lin looked at them and said, there are really enough sweet potatoes in this sandy area, and before they dig a few places, they have already filled two back baskets.
"Well, we'll come back later." Yuan Qing put the basket on his shoulder, saw that Du Yue also carried the basket, and walked home. (To be continued.) )