After the Mid-Autumn Festival at home, Xuan's and Zijun went to the county seat again, Siqi was very reluctant to them, and when they left, they were sent outside the village before returning.

There is also an important work in September, that is, to harvest sweet potatoes, this year planted nearly six acres of sweet potatoes, this thing harvests a lot, when the yield is high, one mu can produce more than 3,000 catties.

is still the same sentence, this year's annual situation is not good, and the output will be discounted, looking at this look, it is already good to receive two thousand catties.

Harvesting sweet potatoes and harvesting potatoes is almost the same, or let the Gu family help, the sweet potatoes of a few acres of land have been harvested for two or three days, this work is not as tiring as harvesting corn, it is necessary to be careful, you can't let it go, even if it is small, you have to take it home.

Several children of the Gu family were handed over to the Wang family, and the Zhu family, his daughter-in-law, nephew and daughter-in-law helped to pick up sweet potatoes in the field.

Zhu Shi looked at the sweet potatoes in the ground and smiled, "I have never seen such a thing when it grows so big, it all grows under the ground, and when you dig it up, there are so many connected to it, and it is gratifying to look at." ”

Liu said, "We didn't expect to grow so much underneath, this thing is really good, we have planted so much this year, and we have to plant more seeds next year." ”

Wu was also on the side, working and saying, "In the coming year, your family will also plant some, and your family will have a lot of land, so you will not be hungry in the future." ”

It doesn't cost much seeds to plant sweet potatoes, and the vines that plant two or three points of soil can be cut down and planted five or six acres of land, and it only costs one or two hundred catties of seeds in total, which is not a problem at all.

Zhu smiled and responded, "Then I have to thank my aunt." ”

"It's nothing." Wu said with a smile.

A total of five acres of sweet potatoes, the Lin family harvested more than four acres of land, and there was a little more than one acre left, and the soil was relatively close to the Gu family, so it was harvested last.

Before doing the work, Lin Dezheng had already discussed with Gu Pingzhang, after picking up these sweet potatoes, they were all piled up in the soil, and they were picked up at home when it was almost dark, and when the time came, they could be picked directly to the Gu family and put them, and there was no need to send them to the Lin family, these were for the Gu family.

Gu Pingzhang was embarrassed to accept it, this is too much, more than one acre, it is estimated that it will cost thousands of catties, so many things, they will accept it directly, this is really too undeserved.

Lin Dezheng made up his mind, "Second brother, don't worry, our family has discussed it, even if we have to send it to you after we take it back now, it's better to be so convenient, you just accept it, if you are polite, we will be embarrassed to talk about anything in our family in the future." ”

Gu Pingzhang finally agreed, but he firmly kept this love in his heart, and moved all the sweet potatoes back to his house, the big cellar he dug before was not full, and there was still a lot of space left.

This is all prepared for the future, if you dig it small now, you won't be able to put it down in the future, and their family will also plant this next year, which is really cost-effective.

When he had dinner in the evening, Gu Pingzhang was very emotional, sighed and said, "The Lin family is good to us, you all have to keep this love in mind, and in the future, if there is anything in the Lin family, we have to treat it as our own family, understand?" ”

The children and grandchildren should be down, and Wang said, "Old man, you don't have to be like this, the relationship between our two families is good, it was like this before, the Lin family was having a hard time at that time, can't we help as much as we can?" ”

"I'm not saying that the Lin family has to pay us back, but that the relationship between the two families is good, so don't worry too much, and try to give them as much as possible if we have any good things, that's it, don't you say?"

Gu Pingzhang nodded, the Gu family has always had a good life in Tongxin Village, so it is rare to ask for help, this time the Lin family helped, Gu Pingzhang was very unaccustomed to it, but what the Wang family said made sense, and he understood it in his heart.

The next day, the Lin family sent two sacks of potatoes to the Gu family, and Siqi went with them, and specially instructed them that this thing must be cooked before it can be eaten, otherwise it will be poisonous.

He also said that he would bring some after the corn was dried, and the Gu family had a lot of land, but they also had a lot of family, and if there was a famine next year, they might really be hungry, and it would be almost the same with these things, the Gu family, looking at those things, was moved to tears.

After the sweet potatoes in the field were harvested, the important work was almost done, and now all the sweet potato vines had to be tied, so Siqi asked Lin Changyuan to tie bamboo strips between the trees behind his house, and the two trees could be tied with two or three layers.

After all the sweet potato vines are cut, they are put on top of these bamboo strips, and they are dried like this, and they can be used to feed the pigs in the future, even if they are hay pigs, they will eat it, that is, they will cook it.

This year, the family only started to plant this, so I don't know about it, and I have to think about it to teach them, and everyone will know about it next year, so she doesn't have to worry about it anymore.

Until September, the sun was shining, and there was no rain at all, so it looked like this year was going to be a drought to the end.

There was a lot of work to be done in August, and there was also work in September, but they couldn't do it, but the villagers still turned over the land, and with the help of morning and evening dew, the land could be slightly moistened, and they could plant as much as they could.

It doesn't matter if it can grow or not, you have to try it, or what will you eat next year? That's not going to survive.

But I don't dare to plant too much, and I also need to use seeds for farming, and this kind of seed is also food, and if I throw it into the ground, it will be wasted, and when I am hungry in the next year, I feel pity to think about these things.

God doesn't rain either, the water in the river weir pond is dry, the people have nothing to do, and in October, it's time to go to the mountains to chop firewood and come back, otherwise there will be no way to survive the winter.

At this time, everyone has to go up to the mountain to chop wood, and when they meet, they will chat, and everyone is talking about the coming year, and I don't know how many people will starve to death.

The drought was followed by famine, and everyone knows this, and many people are wondering whether to drag their families to distant places to join their relatives, and they don't know how widespread this drought is.

The peasants are so helpless, if it doesn't rain, you can only stare at him, and it is all up to God to give him a face, praying that the wind and rain will be smooth, so that the crops in the field will grow better, so that there will be enough food and clothing, if it is such a year every year, most of the people under the sky would have starved to death.

There's no way to do it, it's October now, and the crops that should be planted in August and September haven't grown, and they will be confiscated in the first half of next year.

Even if there will be no delay in planting rice next year, the past two years will definitely be difficult, and there will not be much surplus grain in the wind and rain, let alone such a toss.