Chapter 11: The Autumn Harvest

Liu He also followed a market, and later the dog father took two long-term workers to catch the market, but it was not only the market in Dachen Village, but also other markets, there would be a market every two days, and each time the market would have an income of ten jiao and twenty jiao.

Even Liu He gave a death order to the dog dad, every time he had to take someone to eat a meal in the market, but the dog dan dad didn't want Liu He to ask for a dime, but only five cents of food to eat, what he wanted was simpler There is no meat to burn, or nest head, so that people eat more.

Moreover, after the propaganda of these people who rushed to the market, people's enthusiasm was even greater, and in the more than half a month before the autumn harvest, Liu He harvested a total of more than 20 yuan.

The autumn harvest is about to begin, Liu He personally bought ten catties of pork in the market, as well as more than 20 catties of bones, and spent a total of four yuan, so that people can help him work well, this person does not need to be paid, he really can't bear it,

He had already inquired about it, and these long-term workers did not need wages at all, but at the end of the year, Li Laocai would give them dozens of catties of food each, so that their families would have a place to eat, and they could even pick up a few of Li Laocai's torn clothes to wear.

Liu He doesn't know how to say it, this Li Laocai.

"You all go back, bring your mother-in-law and children, and harvest the autumn with me, I will take care of the food every day, and I will give them two catties of food for each of your mother-in-laws and children for one day."

"The owner can't help this, how can we take advantage of you like this." "Listen to me, or you won't be here next year." The long-term workers returned home with tears in their eyes and called their mothers-in-law and children over.

Autumn harvest is a very slow work, especially sweet potato cutting, in the past, it was rarely cut dry, because there were few people, cut the dried sweet potato and no one picked it up, so it was easy to run into rain and rot in the ground, but this time a group of children and women, as well as the people called by the dog father from the village, they all worked two catties of food a day.

Here I want to talk about dried sweet potatoes, dried sweet potatoes are collected in the ground, cut the sweet potatoes into dried and then dried in the ground, after two days, the dried sweet potatoes will be dry, so that they are resistant to storage. Sweet potatoes are placed directly in the cellar, and there is also corn, which is broken down and piled together, waiting for drying, and then slowly threshing.

The people in the village live very quickly, they don't have much land, only Liu He's work is more, and this work is more than half a month.

"Little brother, your method is good, in the past, a lot of sweet potatoes were rotten in the ground, and some corn also fell on the poles, Li Laocai didn't let people go to his field to pick it up, what a waste, you can throw away more than half of it."

"Hehe, Uncle Li, this is naturally going to pay for someone to work, since they don't want to be paid, then give them food." Liu He naturally won't say that he gave them a lot of food, Shengmi Endou Mi hate, this Liu He still knows, things have to come slowly, besides, there are still some households with a lot of land, and they also have to take care of their ideas, the poorer the place, the bigger the rule.

"I said great-grandson, your things are not authentic, how can you give food to your long-term workers, this is a rule-breaking." No, the autumn harvest has not yet been harvested, and Liu Xiucai came to find Liu He's disciple.

"No, great-grandfather, how can I break the rules, I just let them pick up the grain that fell in the field for themselves." Liu He had no choice but to tell a lie, but this was just a cover-up, just to say something, just such a statement sent Liu Xiucai away, in this village, and even in the surrounding villages, he knew that Li Laocai's reputation was wasted, so naturally this excuse was gone.

The more Liu He thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, what is this, I just did a little good thing, and I was opposed, this is definitely a typical struggle after 20 years, exploitation, it is simply a naked exploitation, and the exploited person still suffers with peace of mind, if you give him some benefits, he is not willing.

Liu He shook his head helplessly, forget it, I'd better go to the ground and have a look.

"Uncle Li, is this land going to be cultivated now, and is this winter wheat ready to be planted?" "Little brother, winter wheat is not grown here."

"Why don't you plant winter wheat, isn't it idle for a season?" Liu He asked curiously, "Little brother, if winter wheat is planted, it will be delayed in the coming year, and nothing will be received." ”

"Ah, that's right, that's it, Uncle Li, you organize me to do an experiment on fifty acres of land, make a forty-centimeter-wide ditch in the field, plant two rows of wheat at the bottom of the ditch, and then you can plant a row of corn on the ditch next year, do you think it's okay?"

"Well, host, that might work, but we don't have wheat seeds." At this time, Liu Xiong listened to the words of the two and interjected to speak.

"Seeds, that's a problem, I don't know where to sell them." "In the market in Dachen Village, they generally don't need money, they need to exchange corn for them, and they need to exchange five catties of corn for one catty of wheat seeds."

"Okay, Uncle Li, you go and organize someone to peel out some corn for me first, according to 30 catties of seeds per acre, 50 acres of land will need 1,500 catties of corn, peel as much as possible, just peel 2,000 catties, be fast."

"Are you sure you want to do this, little brother." "Yes, Uncle Li, this has to be tried after all, you go, Liu Xiong, you go, use those two cows to fight this ditch as soon as possible."

"Don't you fertilize, boss?" "Do we have fat?" "Nope." "That's it, let's do it first, wait for me to see what way there is in the future, and then it's too late to top dress."

Liu He is calculated, as long as each mu of land here can produce more than 50 catties, it is cost-effective, this artificial is cheap, otherwise this land is idle, it is not said that this is also a way, a person from later generations, this land is not planted well, it is better to wear it back.

"Owner," "What's the matter?" Liu Xiong walked over and whispered to Liu He, "Dongjia, are you ready, the bandits in Dongshan are coming down, and I saw bandits exploring the road in the morning." ”

"Why, the bandits are coming down, how are they coming to rob the law." "The owner, the Li Dongjia gave all the corn to the bandits before, and this is still the bandits' face looking at the son of the Li Dongjia, and now I don't know."

"Doesn't the government care?" "The government, how to manage it, the county seat is too far away from here, more than a hundred miles, when the officers and soldiers come, the bandits hide, and the officers and soldiers do not dare to climb the mountain, this officer and soldier can't catch the bandits, and they will scavenge things from our village, so after looking for the officers and soldiers a few times, no one will go to the government anymore, it is better to directly give the bandits some supplies at this time of year, and the villagers' homes they just go to rob some big households, and those very poor villagers they don't like to go."

I really don't like to go, Liu He saw the villagers digging pits to hide food a few days ago, it turned out to be to hide from the bandits, and even some young women in the village sent it far away early.