Chapter 122: Those People, Those Years (3)
Also many years later, Shi Quan recalled the stability of those years, not because of the child's questioning. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info His wife did not die young, so there was no such questioning.
The reason for the memories is that the new year's "Agriculture" booklet was published in the school palace, and the ink on it had a stinky smell, but it was no longer copied by hand but printed with clay.
It's all planting, composting, new farming tools, fish farming, and so on.
The first and most conspicuous one is about the moths that use the picked poplar leaves to lure the cotton insects outside the cotton field to kill the cotton insects when the cotton is harvested in the summer, which was written by a child from the agricultural college; The second article was written by the king, using a mixture of blue alum and lime to cure some diseases such as hemp and cotton.
He recalled that those years were not because of cotton insects, at that time he was still working as a farmer in Xiadong County, and when he planted cotton in Yucheng Xinhua City in those years, Xia County still had no cotton, so naturally he couldn't see cotton insects.
The reason why I recall these things is because I suddenly remembered the first time I saw the paper, when there was no clay printing on it, and everything was still copied by hand. But instead of wooden tablets, he doesn't have to carry more than a pound of wooden tablets around every day.
It was the autumn of the 37th year of the Chinese calendar, and it was the time to prepare for the autumn planting, and a ship came from Yucheng to Xiacheng on the last east wind, bringing a lot of cut and glued to one side of the easy-to-turn paper.
Ishizumi remembers that he happily received three books, as well as a new brush and ink bought from another town.
When he wrote his name on the three papers, he felt more and more comfortable, and copied some important words on the wooden tablets onto the paper.
At that time, it was also the most difficult time, and among the two hundred households in the four miles, they were basically those who had just been annexed, or those who were originally wild people, and only twenty households were new and old Chinese people from the original summer city.
There were not enough cattle, but there were many iron hoes and shovels, and he had been in Xiadong County since the National Assembly in the spring, and although the city was not yet large in size in the autumn, at least it ensured that everyone had a place to stay.
The land was everywhere, thick and covered with thick humus and silt, and the fine riverside land stretched as far as the eye could see, and what was a wasteland in the spring was now reclaimed and straightened.
Either because this scene made him very happy as a student of agriculture, or because he was happy to have paper, so from that day on, he wrote down some of the major events he encountered in his own limited words on the first roll of paper.
So he pulled out a crumpled scroll of paper from a delicate and expensive wooden box, which could not be compared with the current paper, and looked at the ugly words written on it a long time ago, and was stunned.
"On the third day of the eighth month of the thirty-seventh year, I saw paper for the first time and was very happy. I'm going to Xia County tomorrow and talk to the county guard about the reclamation here. The ship has arrived, leaving early tomorrow morning. ā
"On the fifth day of the eighth month, Sister Hongyu got angry. Some of them didn't have the number of reclamations, and it was scary for her to get angry. Fortunately, I have been working with those people since the spring, going to bed first and last one every day. Ji Xia said that it was for Xia Guo, and I think I did it. A total of 4,600 acres have been cultivated in the four miles I manage, which is the most, and Sister Hongyu praised me, and I am very happy. ā
"August 12, fishing, very happy. Because I was in charge of the most reclamation, my name was written on the slate, and I was given a bronze medal, and four sheep were issued, and they wanted to eat and I wanted to raise, so they fished instead of eating sheep. ā
"On August 16, Sister Hongyu came, sacrificed to the land gods and ancestors, and sent down wheat seeds. Winter wheat will be planted tomorrow. ā
"On August 20, someone is sick and dying, and I have to write it down and report it to the county tomorrow."
"On the twenty-seventh of August, the wheat was planted, but the next year's harvest will not be good. With this year's food ration, they are very happy to move out of the mountains, and they don't have to worry about starving to death. So many women are pregnant, and they don't have a marriage match, and they are not used to marriage. When harvesting wheat, many women have big bellies, and this is the case in other places, what should I do? I'll have to talk to the county. ā
"September 20, not happy. There was a rat hole in the warehouse where the grain was stored, it was newly dug, and I didn't have time to block it, and the county people came to check it, and I was fined 20 dollars, and if I didn't block it, I would be fined 100, and I had to check it every day in the future. ā
"On October 18, my sister came here to act, and it was very good-looking. My sister said that the coal was finally smelted into charcoal in Yucheng, which is what Ji Xia has been doing since he established Yucheng, and this is a big deal. The furnace that turned pig iron into mature iron was changed, and my sister said that it was a brick made of good clay from the city of Yuemei, otherwise she would not be able to withstand the heat of coal burning into coal. The wrought iron stove has been rarely used, Ji Xia said that the wrought iron is different from the iron on the ploughshare in our hands, and it can be smashed, but what is the use? ā
"November 18, sick. Tomorrow I have to go to the medical department to get some herbs to eat, and if I have a cough and eat the root of indigo, I will eat it if I have a fever, and I will eat it if I have a sore throat, so can't the people in the medical department get something else? ā
"On November 19, there is maple syrup to eat, and there are boiled peaches in sugar to eat. for I am a farmer, and a ration. I'm glad that everyone in the room came to see me. Ji Xia said that they wanted to make them trust me, and they now treat me as their leader and respect me very much. ā
"On November 29, I survived, but I didn't have any energy at all, and I couldn't work. I was supposed to take them to pour the river water into the pasture so that the cattle and horses could graze next year, but I didn't expect me to tell them and do it themselves. It's not too good, but I'm happy. The people from the Construction Division came here and organized the people of the entire Xiadong County to dig canals for irrigation next year. ā
"On the first day of December, it snowed. Finally some of the new immigrants learned to write, and it was too cold these days, so I taught them to write. Writing is a good thing. ā
"December 23, the New Year is coming soon. A popper with paper rolled in gunpowder arrived. I heard that the sound of burning bamboo is louder than that of poplars burning with insects, and it is called firecrackers in Yucheng. ā
"On December 28, the county guard assessed that I got one this year. There are only three people in the whole Xia County, and I will do better next year. ā
"On the seventh day of the second month of the thirty-eighth year, there will be a party and a contest in a few days, and I can't compare with them, and I can't shoot arrows. Let's take advantage of the spring to reclaim some more land, and plant things like gourds and beans as soon as the Huaizi Festival is over. ā
"On the third day of the third month of March, Pregnancy Festival, I have a crush on a girl, and I want to have a woman."
"On the ninth day of the fifth month, a good harvest. The wheat grows very well, and the peas are also very good, but it is too tiring to cut the wheat, and a person can only cut two acres a day, and four miles is only 800 acres a day. At night, the fire is lit and cut, but it can't rain, everyone is tired and has a backache, and the county has white flour, and there are buns to eat every day when the wheat is cut. It's delicious, it's tiring. ā
"On the eighteenth day of May, the summer grain was paid, and the rest was enough to eat, and the people in it cried with joy, for they had never seen so much grain when they were in the mountains, and counting peas and wheat, there were two hundred and sixty pounds of land per acre. Everyone carried the wheat on their backs to the warehouse, and was very happy to eat the dumplings with leeks and pork in the evening. They really believe that everything is much better than in the mountains now, and they respect me more, some people call me the leader of Xiaoshi, but I am not, the jade plate on my waist is. ā
"May 26, if you want to make wine, the county is not allowed. Someone brewed privately and was fined for meritorious service. Now that winemaking is regulated again, it is forbidden to sell grain and what is made from grain to other cities. Is there going to be a war? ā
"On May 28, everyone didn't want to work, they were too tired from reclamation, and they said that they had enough to eat now. I said no, they weren't happy, but they went to reclaim anyway. The day before yesterday, someone was lazy, and I punished him to eat peas and wheat rice with skin, and he broke his bowl and got into a fight with me, and was taken away by the soldiers stationed there, and whipped him, but he still had to do his work, and I had to help him do what he had to do. ā
"May 29, very good, I did it for the man who was whipped, and everyone came to help after they made their quotas. If you work for another year, you will have enough land, and no more will be busy. ā
"On the seventh day of the sixth month, the Caohe League celebrated the competition, Ji Xia came from Yucheng, and her sister also came, many people. There were also a few classmates from the agricultural class, and they were much better off there, and the people of Weicheng and Windy City had cultivated a lot of land in Yucheng, and I heard that the gunpowder workshop there seemed to have exploded, and seven or eight people died. They started growing cotton over there, what is cotton? ā
"On the eighth day of the sixth month, Ji Xia talked a lot, and the leaders of other cities respected him very much. Keju is very good-looking, Ji Bai is very good at fighting, and he is also very good at playing Keju. The worst thing is the throwing stone, only five or six people look at it, and now there are few people in Xia County who play throwing stones. ā
"On June 13, Ji Xia saw me, praised me, looked at the wheat field, and had dinner with the people here, everyone was very happy, I always said that all this was brought by Ji Xia, and they all believed it."
"On June 15, there is really going to be a war, and two of the strongest ones will come out of every mile, and they will go to Echeng. It seems that I want to go to Beidi to grab people, and there will be more people here next year, so I can be busy when I harvest wheat. Many people want to go, and if they go, they will have meritorious deeds, and they will look for me, but this matter is not in my charge, where can I take care of the affairs of the soldiers. I don't know what the person who snatched it back is? Is it a Chinese? That's not good, these people have worked hard for two years to reclaim the land, probably Ji Xia won't let those who have been captured come to work on the reclaimed land directly, right? I'm going to the county and ask Ji Xia, if that's the case, everyone in the township will be unhappy. ā