Chapter 13: Will You Starve to Death?
Fortunately, Zhang Daniu had already thought of this and prepared a few for him.
Of course, the food he received was not the most in Forsythia Village, although he worked ten points a day, but he didn't have much work before he became a repairman, and in two months, the food he received was only about 120 catties.
If 120 catties of grain are ground into rice, it will be lost, so Fang Xiaoyue estimates that with these grains, with his current amount of food, it is estimated that he will starve for a period of time before the autumn harvest.
Pushing her bags of grain with a wheelbarrow, Fang Xiaoyue returned to the grass hut with some frowns.
There is no doubt that there was something wrong in his calculations.
He had only calculated the total grain output of the Eighth Brigade before, and forgot that he needed to pay public grain.
After thinking about it for a while, Fang Xiaoyue didn't think much about this problem, there must be a way before people get to the mountain.
Just when he was about to cook in his own pot for the first time, his two apprentices, Li Honggang and Tian Xinguo, also pushed the wheelbarrow into the courtyard and greeted Fang Xiaoyue: "Hello, master." ”
Then the two men carried the rice bags and walked towards the hut.
"What are you doing here?"
Fang Xiaoyue's actions made Fang Xiaoyue a little surprised, and when he chased in, he found that the two had put the rice bag into the rice cabinet.
"Master, it's too inconvenient for educated youths to cook more, and Xinguo and I will partner with you in the future."
Li Honggang replied with a smile.
Zhiqing Point was originally a warehouse of the brigade, but because it was in disrepair, it was abandoned after the new warehouse was repaired.
After the educated youths went to the countryside, Zhang Daniu could not find extra houses for the educated youths to live in, so he asked people to clean up the abandoned warehouse and use it as a dormitory for the educated youth.
Fang Xiaoyue has been to the dormitory of educated youth, although it is a little damp, but it is not a big problem to live in.
However, because the stove was newly made of mud from a few large stones, those educated youths cooked slowly, which led to the problem Li Honggang said.
Fang Xiaoyue looked at Li Honggang and Tian Xinguo, and measured the amount of food for the two of them in her heart, thinking that these two guys are almost adults, and the amount of food should not be as big as their own, if they are partnered, they don't seem to be at a loss?
"Okay, who's going to cook after that? I don't know how to cook. ”
Fang Xiaoyue revealed her shortcomings.
Indeed, in the old world, he was a young bachelor, and he ate in the cafeteria, occasionally ordering takeout or something, and he would cook there.
As for the barbecue, it was a blessing in the self-service barbecue restaurant, where he learned it.
"I know how to cook, my dad is a chef, I used to learn a little bit from it."
Li Honggang took the lead in taking over the matter.
However, it was impossible to cook at this time, and they had to send the rice to the mill in the next village to grind it into rice.
The first time he grinded rice, Fang Xiaoyue took the two of them there, after all, this matter would be handed over to them in the future, even if Fang Xiaoyue was lazy, it could be regarded as a kind of training.
By the time the three of them returned to the grass hut out of breath, lunch time had already passed.
Fang Xiaoyue asked Li Honggang to cook, and he took Tian Xinguo towards Dalong Mountain.
Just eating rice has no vegetables, not to mention Fang Xiaoyue, a guy who has been cultivated by food, even if it is Li Honggang, Tian Xinguo and the two can't stand it.
It's just that when the two of them were in the Zhiqing Point before, they still had some reserves of dried meat, plum vegetables, etc., which they brought from the city, but now, those things have long been eaten.
Fang Xiaoyue didn't go up to Dalong Mountain, so he took Tian Xinguo to pick a few handfuls of wild vegetables at the foot of the mountain, and luckily found a turtledove nest in a bush of grass, which contained two eggs, which were directly confiscated by the ruthless Fang Xiaoyue.
When the two of them returned, the rice had already been cooked in the wooden barrel, and the aroma of the rice made the saliva of the two of them flow out directly.
To say that Li Honggang still has some cooking skills.
In the absence of vegetable oil, I made a big pot of egg flower and wild vegetable soup with those two eggs and wild vegetables.
Fang Xiaoyue ate three bowls of rice fiercely, but Li Honggang and Tian Xinguo were even more terrifying, each of them ate four bowls! If it weren't for the fact that the barrel was already empty, they would still be able to eat!
As for the egg flower and wild vegetable soup in the pot, it was swept away, and there was not half a drop left.
At this time, Fang Xiaoyue understood that there was no oil and water. The amount of food for people is really scary.
Well, I seem to have lost a bit!
Fang Xiaoyue felt that she was afraid that she would be hungry for a longer time before the autumn harvest.
However, thanks to Li Honggang's blessing, the daily meals were not bad, but Fang Xiaoyue quickly ignored the food that was decreasing day by day.
At the end of the summer harvest, Forsythia Village once again devoted itself to summer planting.
Due to the regional climate, Forsythia Village mainly grows summer corn, summer soybeans and some vegetables.
Dry the field, deep ploughing, exposure to the sun, and then fine ploughing, the soil into ridges, and finally a little corn.
This time, Fang Xiaoyue didn't have much room to play, at most, he would trim the plough of the cultivated land.
This thing has evolved over thousands of years, and the shape is already quite mature, even if he wants to improve it, he can't improve it.
As for mechanized operations, let's just think about it.
With the foundation of Forsythia Village, there is no capital to build tractors at all.
The most important thing is that Fang Xiaoyue has never built a tractor, even if she has the bonus of manufacturing items and ingenuity, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and it is impossible to make it.
As time passed, Fang Xiaoyue's body became a lot stronger under the nourishment of enough food, and her strength increased a lot compared to before.
But this is almost the limit of his fusion with Zhang Fugui's body.
To put it simply, he was able to lift one hundred and eighty catties of grain, which was undoubtedly quite a lot of strength.
You must know that the average adult man is only 40-60 pounds at most.
A few days after the end of summer planting, Zhang Daniu called Fang Xiaoyue to the brigade headquarters.
When she arrived at the team headquarters, Fang Xiaoyue saw a stranger in the team headquarters talking to Zhang Daniu.
Hearing the footsteps, Zhang Daniu and the stranger all turned their heads to look.
"You are Comrade Zhang Fugui, right?"
The stranger was about forty years old, with a square face and thick eyebrows, and he could probably be a company commander in the movie.
However, he was very enthusiastic, and seemed to regard the team headquarters as his home, and when he saw Fang Xiaoyue, he greeted him and stretched out his hand with an enthusiastic face.
Well, this is probably the first time Fang Xiaoyue shook hands with someone since she came to this world.
Soon, under Zhang Daniu's introduction, Fang Xiaoyue knew the identity of the other party.
Wang Feng, chief of the technical section of the county agricultural machinery factory.
Well, the name is a bit domineering.
After Zhang Daniu's introduction, it turned out that this Wang Feng was his brother-in-law.
Fang Xiaoyue suddenly realized, no wonder the captain would have industrial tickets, oil tickets or something at home, it turned out that they were all sent by his brother-in-law.
However, this time Wang Feng didn't come to see his brother-in-law, but to see Fang Xiaoyue.
The reason is relatively simple, Zhang Fugui of Forsythia Village is still a little famous now.
Especially after the last time the leader went back, the name of Zhang Fugui, a capable person, barely spread a little.
And after Wang Feng heard this, he had a thought, so he deliberately came from the county town, and while stopping by to see his brother-in-law, he just wanted to see Fang Xiaoyue.
Zhang Daniu attaches great importance to this.
He felt that if Fang Xiaoyue could take the opportunity to be recruited into the county agricultural machinery factory this time, then even if he was served a golden rice bowl, he would not have to worry about the future of this distant nephew in the future.
Besides, he felt that Fang Xiaoyue was a kid with a great future, and it would be a real waste to stay in Forsythia Village all the time.
As for the human harvester or something, if you stay in the agricultural machinery factory, aren't you a member of the Eighth Brigade?
Zhang Daniu believed that something would happen when the time came, so he called out to himself, did this kid dare to come back to help?
But after all, Wang Feng is only a technical section chief, not a factory director, and he doesn't dare to pat his chest to pack tickets, so he can only say that he will wait until he goes back to ask.
But time passed day by day, the autumn harvest was approaching, the corn and soybeans in the field were almost ripe, and Wang Feng had not heard from him yet.
For example, Zhang Daniu, who was more anxious for Fang Xiaoyue, took the initiative to go to the county seat.
This is probably the first time he has been to the county seat in recent years.
Zhang Daniu, who came back from the county seat, seemed a little unhappy, and pulled Fang Xiaoyue aside, probably meaning that the efficiency of the agricultural machinery factory is not very good now, and a lot of agricultural machinery is piled up and cannot be sold, so there is no plan to recruit workers during this time.
Fang Xiaoyue understands this very well.
The situation in this small plane is the same as it was forty or fifty years ago in his world, and there are too many small factories in various places.
These small factories basically have the disadvantage of low technical strength.
Think about it, take the county's agricultural machinery factory as an example, everyone was very happy when it was established, but after the establishment, the technology is not too hard, and the agricultural machinery produced frequently suffers from returns, and now, the county's supply and marketing cooperatives are unwilling to accept their products.
In such a situation, the agricultural machinery factory only pays the minimum salary from top to bottom, and there is no bonus, subsidy or anything.
As soon as he inquired like this, Zhang Daniu's thoughts about Fang Xiaoyue's entry into the factory became much lighter.
In any case, Fang Xiaoyue couldn't put too much thought into this matter, because the autumn harvest was coming, and he needed to build a new manpower harvester and transform the existing manpower harvester to apply it to the harvesting of corn and soybeans.
Time passed quickly, and Fang Xiaoyue didn't go hungry a few times during this time, after all, such a capable person was placed in the village, and it was impossible for Zhang Daniu to make him hungry.
As soon as the autumn harvest passed, Fang Xiaoyue would be 17 years old.
During this time, Fang Xiaoyue carefully honed his skills by making machines for the brigade.
And those two apprentices, Li Honggang and Tian Xinguo, also learned a lot from him.
"Fugui, will you go to the city today?"
Early in the morning, Zhang Daniu came to call Fang Xiaoyue.
The city he said was naturally not to go to Materia Medica, but to the county seat.
As the days passed, the New Year approached.
Zhang Daniu felt that this year's harvest was not to mention, and the whole brigade had a new atmosphere, so he pondered going to the county seat to go around, buy some New Year's goods and come back, and go to his brother-in-law's house to fight the autumn breeze by the way.