Chapter Seventy-One: The Whole Village Builds Roads
Early the next morning, the whole village was mobilized, and the laborers all brought their own tools to the assembly place to assemble, Yang Yong got up early, took a hoe after breakfast and went to the assembly, Yang Yun didn't expect that his grandfather actually went together, this road repair is for the benefit of the whole village, and it should be attended by the whole people. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Sister, Xiao Xuan is also going to help." Yang Xuan watched the two big men in the family go to repair the road, and felt that he was the little man in the family and should also go to build the road.
"Yes, but you have to do what you need to do for the day before you can help."
"But it's late evening after Xiao Xuan finished the day."
"You can also help in the evening, you can finish studying, and then go to the place where the road is being built to help you pick up stones, or help you hand water, which is also a favor for everyone."
"Okay, Xiao Xuan will do these things."
"Well, our family's Xiao Xuan is becoming more and more like a little adult." Yang Yun touched the top of Yang Xuan's hair very lovingly, Yang Xuan hadn't started to grow his hair yet, so he left a small handful of hair on the top of the front, with a fat little face, how cute he looked.
"Hurry up and finish eating and go to Grandpa Xu's house to study, if you go early, you can finish your studies earlier, and you can go to the road to help early."
"Uh-huh." Yang Xuan stuffed buns into his mouth and nodded in reply to Yang Yun.
Knowing that Yang Yong was going to build a road, Yang Yun was afraid that he would be hungry, so she got up early in the morning to make meat buns, and ate some meat pads to pad her stomach, so that she would not be so hungry easily. Yang Yun helped her grandmother finish all the housework at home, and after feeding the chickens, she packed up the basket of ginger that she had prepared yesterday, and carried the basket of ginger to the road repair boiling water point, ready to cook some ginger water for everyone to go to the cold.
"Aunt Li, Aunt Wednesday, Chun'er." When Yang Yun went to the boiling water point, she greeted a few villagers she knew. The boiling water is for women or girls. This will be Zhou Limin's sister Chun'er is also there.
"Xiao Yun, you're here." Chun'er saw that Yang Yun also came over to help, so she chatted with Yang Yun, and the aunt she knew nodded to Yang Yun to say hello.
"Yes, Chun'er, you can also help."
"Well, except for Chun'er's eldest brother, everyone in Chun'er's family has come to help."
"Your family is here, but it's okay for many people, building the road is a matter for the benefit of the whole village, and with more help, everyone can repair the road as soon as possible."
"It's not, last year, Chun'er's grandfather just picked up food and fell, and at that time he told Li Zheng that he was going to build the road, but the road repair was delayed again and again, and today I saw that the village was going to repair the road, and Chun'er's grandfather was all in favor, no, the family came to help early in the morning."
"With everyone's help, the village road must be repaired soon, by the way, Aunt Li Xiaoyun brought a blue piece of ginger from home, and boiled some hot water for everyone to go to the cold." Yang Yun chatted with Chun'er for a while, remembered the basket of ginger she brought, and turned around and handed the basket of ginger to Aunt Li.
"You girl still brought this, but it doesn't matter if you have ginger, they men will sweat when they work hard, and the weather will be a little cold, and drinking ginger water can also reduce cold disease." Aunt Li was very touched by Yang Yun's intimacy, and felt that Yang Yun was a child who would think about others.
A few women, plus Yang Yun and a few little girls, scraped the skin of a basket of ginger, and then slapped it into pieces and threw it into a pot of boiling hot water, boiling it into a slightly spicy ginger water. After the ginger water was boiled, Aunt Li and the others scooped out the ginger water with a few washed wooden barrels, and then picked it up and sent it to the place where the road was repaired.
The villagers drank the slightly spicy ginger water and said that they were very energetic, and they drank ginger water to get wet and remove the cold on a cold day. knew that it was Yang Yun who sent the ginger, and praised Yang Yun with his grandfather for being a sensible girl, and his grandfather coped with it modestly, of course, he felt honored that his granddaughter could praise the villagers.
After Yang Yun helped the villagers deliver water, she took a bamboo basket to help pick up stones and weeds on the side, and when the basket was full, the villagers helped pick it up and pour it to the designated place. Yang Yun had no experience in helping on the first day, Aunt Li and they all wrapped their hair in a piece of cloth, Yang Yun didn't prepare these, but when she returned home in the evening, she could only describe herself with a gray face, and she didn't know how much dust she had eaten, and the clothes on her body were dusty when she patted them. Yang Yun said that she was very calm, but fortunately, her grandmother knew that building the road would definitely make her dirty, so she boiled the hot water in the morning, and Yang Yun washed herself from head to toe before finishing the job.
The next day, Yang Yun went to help with all the equipment in her body, and rushed out with a simple mask overnight, this time she didn't have to eat dust, and went to the place where the hot water was boiling and saw a few baskets of ginger next to it, who sent it so generously.
"Aunt Li, who sent these baskets of ginger?"
"It was sent by Lizheng, yesterday the villagers drank ginger water and said that it was very comfortable, so Lizheng paid for people to go to the town to buy a few baskets and send it." Yang Yun was embarrassed in her heart, hoping that Li Zheng would not feel that she had robbed him of his credit.
Yang Yun saw that the day of planting wheat was getting closer and closer, and finally discussed with her grandfather about planting sweet potatoes that night.
"Grandpa, let's divide a few acres of our family's wasteland to grow sweet potatoes."
"You girl, our wasteland has decided to plant spring wheat, why do you still want to plant sweet potatoes, our family doesn't raise pigs, and you can't eat sweet potatoes as the main food, let's plant wheat."
"Grandpa, you just come out to plant sweet potatoes evenly, Xiao Yun is thinking about planting sweet potatoes, when the time comes, you can dry sweet potato powder, this sweet potato powder can make a lot of snacks, our family will sell some snacks to make money, this season is the time when the green and yellow are not connected, and the grain can only be harvested in the autumn festival, our family has more than 20 taels of silver, except for the money to buy seeds, and then there is not much left to help Xiao Xuan buy pen and ink."
"Alas! Grandpa also knows that this family is not easy, but if you grow sweet potatoes, it will be a waste of land if you don't do it well. ”
"Grandpa won't, sweet potatoes don't have so many requirements for the soil quality of wasteland, and besides, our wasteland fertilizer is sufficient, and the yield of sweet potatoes will be very high at that time."
"Grandpa still can't promise you this, our family still needs to grow wheat."
"Grandpa......"
"What are you grandparents and grandchildren discussing, and it's so lively." Before Yang Yun finished discussing with her grandfather, Uncle Li walked from the yard to the house and saw Yang Yun having an awkward relationship with her grandfather.
"It's not a girl, I have to let the family spend a few acres of land to grow sweet potatoes, and the family has six acres of land to plant sweet potatoes for her." Grandpa was also very helpless about Yang Yun's request.
"Why does Xiao Yun want a few acres of land to grow sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes can't be used as staple food, and besides, you don't have pigs at home, it's too wasteful to plant sweet potatoes."
"Uncle Li, Xiao Yun wants to grow sweet potatoes and dry sweet potatoes, and then make some snacks to sell, this will be the season of green and yellow, Xiao Yun wants to help the family make some money."
"It turns out that Xiao Yun wants to make new food, if this is the case, it is better for Uncle Li to plant sweet potatoes for Xiao Yun in the five acres of wasteland in the back mountain."
"Really? Uncle Li really gave five acres of wasteland to Xiao Yun to grow sweet potatoes. ”
"Xiaobao and his father, how can you indulge this girl, and how can you just take a few acres of land and let this girl waste it." Grandpa was taken aback by Uncle Li's sudden idea.
"Uncle Yang, to be honest, if it weren't for Xiao Yun, Li Feng's family would not have the six acres of land at the foot of the right mountain, this will be the idea of manure given by Xiao Yun, you can also see how the soil quality of the twelve acres of wasteland at the foot of the right mountain is. The soil quality of Li Feng's family's five acres of wasteland in Houshan is not as fertile as our newly opened twelve acres of land, Xiao Yun can make food, haven't you already seen this, if she wants to plant sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes do not have very high requirements for soil quality, let her plant five acres of wasteland in Houshan, it doesn't matter if it is bad, the five acres of wasteland can't produce anything in a year. ”
"Xiaobao and his father, how can you do this, this girl likes to toss these things."
"Uncle Yang will let Xiao Yun plant the five acres of wasteland in Li Fenghou Mountain. Xiao Yun will make new food when the time comes, don't forget to give some to Uncle Li to taste. Uncle Li has already learned your craft. The latter sentence was jokingly said to Yang Yun.
"Uncle Li, don't worry, if you make a new food, you will be the first to taste it, and your five acres of wasteland, let's plant sweet potatoes together, and then the two of us will make money together, without the help of you and Aunt Li, how can Xiao Yun succeed."
"Haha, with Xiao Yun's sentence, Uncle Li will help you grow sweet potatoes on five acres of wasteland in the back mountain."
"Xiaobao and his father, look at this......" Grandpa didn't know how to express his gratitude to Uncle Li.
"Uncle Yang's matter is so decided, what do we have to worry about Xiao Yun's craftsmanship."
"Alas! Then listen to you. If you can't do anything by then, see how grandpa cleans you up. Of course, the latter words were said to Yang Yun.
"Grandpa, don't worry, how can Xiao Yun spoil the five acres of wasteland of Uncle Li's family, you just wait to watch Xiao Yun grow sweet potatoes to make food and make money." Yang Yun made a promise to her grandfather.
"Grandpa, if my sister can't do well, Xiao Yong will help you teach her a lesson." Yang Yong teased Yang Yun again, and after saying this, Yang Yong ran away.
"Brother, you're too bad, you stop for your sister and see if your sister doesn't teach you a lesson first." Yang Yun chased Yang Yong all over the yard.
"These two kids." Grandpa and Uncle Li looked at the childish behavior of the Yang Yun brothers and sisters, and shook their heads helplessly. And Yang Xuan watched his brother and sister play the game of chasing people, and also joined the chase, and the three brothers and sisters played together.
Uncle Li came to Yang's house to discuss with his grandfather that spring wheat would be planted after the road was repaired, and a few children were playing in the yard. Grandpa and the two adults were in the house discussing the matter of planting wheat.
The whole village of Zhoujia Village worked together to build the road, and it took only 12 days to repair the road leading from the back mountain to the village house group. There was originally a small road, but according to the original path, the two sides of the road were widened, and the road surface was flattened and compacted, as long as it was repaired to the point where the four-wheeled cart could pass. At this time, Yang Yun's four-wheeled cart played its role to the highest point, and the road had been widened and flattened, and Yang Yun's cart was directly used to pull away a basket of stones and mud mixtures.
If the road leading to the town in Zhoujia Village can also be repaired, then the people of the whole village will go to the town to sell goods in the future, and it will be more time-saving and labor-saving to send grain to the town to pay taxes, and there will be no need to grab the ox cart to pull the goods, and the villagers will have quarrels. (To be continued.) )