Chapter 254: Digging the Wine Cellar
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When the cellar begins to excavate, wooden posts and planks are erected to secure the soil overhead, which prevents the soil above from collapsing and greatly improves safety. Yang Yun also told the villagers that they were not allowed to walk around on the wasteland where the wine cellar was built, and the children were told not to play on it. Every time Yang Yun went to see the villagers digging the wine cellar, she had to first check the pillars and planks that had been erected to make sure that they were strong enough.
If there is an accident, it will even affect the villagers, as long as the soil on the top collapses, the people inside will be buried alive, Yang Yun will never allow this kind of accident to happen.
When the villagers helped dig the cellar, the people of the Yang family and the Li family did not rest. Yang Yun bought another ten acres of wasteland by the river, and now the pond by the river has a total of sixteen acres of wasteland. Grandpa, according to Yang Yun's request, built another house on the side of the pond, about 100 square meters.
This house was not for people, but there was a long row of fire pits in it, which were built to handle the twenty acres of mung beans and soybeans. Isn't there no greens in winter, so let's eat bean sprouts. Every winter, Yang Yun sprouts, but only for a few acquaintances. Yang Yun didn't think about producing bean sprouts in large quantities at the beginning, this year she planted 20 acres of beans at home, and if she didn't send bean sprouts, where would so many beans be sold.
And the villagers have been following the Yang family's wind, this year they saw the Yang family planting so many beans, naturally also planted, Yang Yun thought that if the bean sprouts are easy to sell in winter, they will help the villagers buy all the beans, so that they can make money and solve the inventory problem of the villagers.
The people of the Yang family and the Li family did not participate in the work of digging wine cellars in the village, which Yang Yun asked for from Lizheng. The Yang family has done so many things for the villagers, it is always okay to enjoy a little privilege, plus the Yang family has a pond and a workshop to manage, so Yang Yun did not let his family participate in digging the wine cellar. And Uncle Li's family was naturally requested by Yang Yun in passing, and the Yang family also needed the help of the Li family, and it was said that the two families would manage the pond together.
The cellar had been excavated for a month, and not even a third of the progress had been reached, but by this time it was already the autumn harvest season in August. The autumn harvest is the most important day of the year, and the excavation of the wine cellar has been completely stopped, and the villagers have also devoted themselves to the autumn harvest.
The Yang family planted 20 acres of soybeans and mung beans on the side of Zuoshan, and the mung beans can be harvested in early August, and the soybeans will be harvested later, about the end of August or early September. The families first harvested ten acres of mung beans, and after plowing the ground, they sprinkled fertilizer and waited to plant burdock vegetables.
The villagers are nervously harvesting grain according to the ripening time of the crops. The Yang family had too much grain to harvest, and Yang Yun didn't want to tire her grandfather and them, so she discussed with her family and invited people from other villages to come to the Yang family to help harvest the grain. In some villages, people have very little land in their homes, and they have already finished harvesting grain, so there will be time.
Yang Yun asked the girls in the workshop to go back to their village and ask their villagers if anyone was willing to come to Yang's house to help harvest grain. The villagers who did not have much land heard that they were paid 40 wen a day, and they were all very happy to come to Yang's house to help. Some clever girls in the workshop also took the opportunity to recommend their mothers to Yang Yun to help in the canteen of the workshop.
The original aunts in the cafeteria were very busy just cooking meals from the two workshops. At this time, the autumn harvest, coupled with the fact that the Yang family had to take care of the villagers who came to help with the autumn harvest, naturally could not cope with such a large workload, Yang Yun agreed to those girls without thinking about it. The aunt who came to the canteen to help in the autumn harvest was thirty wenties' wages a day, and she was also in charge of one meal.
The staple of lunch at noon is multigrain steamed buns soaked with white flour, plus a fish soup, and there is plenty of pork. During this time, Yang Yun directly booked with Zhou Butcher and ordered half a pig or a pig every day. Let the aunts cook some delicious meals for everyone in different ways. The Yang family's pond has chickens, ducks, and fish, and sometimes it is replaced with chicken soup or duck soup.
The villagers who came to help with the autumn harvest were also very satisfied with the arrangement of the Yang family, and the meal managed by the Yang family was much better than the vegetables and rice eaten by some villagers. It is estimated that the people of Zhoujia Village can eat meat every day, and the people in other villages may not have meat to eat every day.
Yang Yun thought that everyone was busy with the autumn harvest, and the aunts who used to work in the canteen regularly, in the two months of the autumn harvest, give them some wages, everyone is tired. The school also had an early farm vacation, and Yang Yun also arranged the work of the workshop early, so that the girls could arrange their own time to go home to help with the autumn harvest.
The children are on vacation, Yang Xuan and Kong Tianyou, two little radish heads, followed everyone this year, picking up fallen ears of wheat and rice in the field, and the children's behavior of cherishing food is worthy of praise. Yang Yun was also extravagant, and when there was no one in the field in the evening, she lit a small fire and fried some popcorn for the two little radish heads.
This can make the two children very happy, if other villagers see Yang Yun wasting food like this, they will definitely point fingers. However, when grandpa saw Yang Yun, he took the wheat ears fried popcorn that Yang Xuan and they picked up to eat, but he didn't say anything. The family had a bumper harvest of grain, and grandpa was also generous. After a while, Yang Yong also joined the ranks of fried popcorn, and the four of them played in the field until it was dark before going home for dinner.
Rice, wheat, corn, beans have been harvested back to the cellar, this year the Yang family planted two acres of rice, about 700 catties of grain, Yang Yun on the yield of these two acres of land, is a little disappointed, in front of hybrid rice, the Yang family an acre of paddy field produces more than 350 catties of rice, that is simply a small thing.
Grandpa is very happy, the paddy field in the hands of the Zhou landlord, the yield of one mu is about 300 catties, and the two acres of rice tossed by his granddaughter this year can produce more than 700 catties of rice, which is already a bumper harvest. Yang Yun saw her grandfather smiling and looking at the rice she had picked and recovered, so she didn't say anything.
Increasing the yield of rice is something that Yang Yun has always been thinking about. This year, because the family invited someone, although grandpa and Yang Yong are also quite tired, but they are much better than last year, grandpa and Yang Yong only need to be on the side this year, taking care of the harvested grain.
After harvesting the grain, 20 acres of burdock cabbage were quickly planted. After planting burdock vegetables, the families were finally able to rest for a few days. In October, the bananas could be harvested, and after discussing with Li Zheng and them, Yang Yun decided to sell the plum wine before roasting the bananas to dry. When the plum wine was piled up in the baking house, it would have to roast dried bananas, and once the baking house started a fire, it would definitely affect the quality of the plum wine stacked inside. (To be continued.) )