Chapter 58: Harvesting Sweet Potatoes

"Grandma, now that it's late September, are the sweet potatoes in our dry land going to be harvested?" Huang Yiyun saw that many villagers in Qingshan Village were digging sweet potatoes in the dry land?

Huang Yiyun asked after thinking of the sweet potatoes he had planted on two acres of land.

"Today's sweet potatoes planted by our family are much later than other people's homes, Uncle went to the field yesterday to see, the sweet potatoes in our field are only a little bigger, but most of them are half-sized sweet potatoes, and even some have not grown, Uncle estimates to touch, our family is still slow, let the sweet potatoes grow again, to the end of October, our family will go to harvest sweet potatoes again."

"Then listen to the second child, dig out the sweet potatoes in the two acres of land in mid to late October, the second child, the flat shoulder, the big basket and the dustpan can be woven and done, when the time comes, what about the usefulness of our family to dig sweet potatoes?"

"My son has already made it, but after the dustpan has been improved by my eldest sister, my son seems to be more convenient to use."

Of course, Huang Yiyun asked his uncle to improve the dustpan, but he only asked Huang Conghe to string it up with a bamboo strip on both sides of the dustpan.

It's much more convenient than when you could only carry things home.

Now one person can go home with a flat burden and two dustpans containing things.

As long as there are few things to decorate, even the second sister and the third sister can afford it.

As for the big bamboo basket, it was too big and packed with a lot of things, and the Huang sisters couldn't afford it.

"The farm tools and things are ready, and there are still a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, our family will be ready to dig sweet potatoes." Huang Li thought of Huang Pingcheng and Huang Congjiang, and his expression suddenly dimmed.

"In previous years, even if our family fled the famine, although the family did not eat very well, there were no mooncakes to eat, at least the Mid-Autumn Festival family was together, but this year there is no father and Congjiang?" Huang Liu said with his eyes swaying.

"I don't know what happened to my father and eldest brother, as well as the third sister and the fourth sister." Huang Conghe also said in an urn voice.

The atmosphere of the Huang family suddenly became gloomy, and even the fifth sister, who had always eaten the most fragrantly, slowed down when she pulled her hand to eat.

"Grandma, mother, don't worry, grandpa and daddy Ji people have their own natural appearance, when our family has money, we will go to Zuobei City to look for it, and we will definitely be able to find grandpa and daddy." Huang Yiyun comforted Huang Li and Huang Liu.

It's just that there is no communication tool in ancient times, and in this vast sea of people, it is so difficult to find the two of them.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is missing Huang Pingcheng and Huang Congjiang, and the Huang family is not happy to spend this Mid-Autumn Festival.

By the end of October, the weather was starting to get cooler.

After Huang Li saw that he could almost harvest sweet potatoes, he took his whole family out to dig sweet potatoes in the dry land.

The Huang family had two big hoes before, and when they were about to dig sweet potatoes, they went to the town to buy two more.

Huang Li's, Huang Liu's, Huang Conghe and Huang Yiyun are one by one.

Dig sweet potatoes in rows in dryland channels and dig them out of the ground.

The second sister, the third sister, the fourth brother, and the fifth sister picked out the dug sweet potatoes, and separated the big ones from the small ones.

even used the improved small hoe in his hand to hoe Huang Yiyun in the dry field they turned over, and hoeed to see if there was anything missing.

The sweet potatoes planted on the two acres of land of the Huang family were harvested in seven days by the Huang family.

"It's a pity for those sweet potato vine leaves." Huang Yiyun looked at the load of sweet potato vine leaves and fed the pigs to Liu's house, Huang Yiyun said with some annoyance.

Sweet potato leaves can also be eaten, is it possible that I have eaten a lot of pork, yellow eel, and field chicken recently, and I am a little floating, forgetting that sweet potato leaves are also very delicious.

After the sweet potatoes were harvested, they were renovated and some sweet potatoes were dug up, and then Huang Conghe applied his own fertilizer to increase the fertility of the dry field.

The Huang family began to sort out the sweet potatoes.

For the smaller ones, wash them directly, cut them into thin slices, and after drying them, they can be ground into sweet potato flour.

For larger ones, wash them, cut them into slices, and after drying them, make sweet potato chips and dried sweet potatoes directly.

Pick some of the best ones and save them for later to eat slowly.

"Grandma and aunt of the Huang family, tomorrow my fish pond will be raised, and I want my uncle to help my family raise the pond. I don't know if my uncle will have time tomorrow. After the fifth sister beckoned Zhang Dalang to enter the Huangjiatang house, Zhang Jiadalang first greeted Huang Li and Huang Li with a smile, and then greeted Huang Conghe with a smile.

"Qitang?" Huang Conghe asked with some confusion.

"Oh, that's right, my family has a pond at the back of the village, and I raise some fish, and I release them at the end of the year, and I catch the fish and sell them in the town to make some money." Zhang Dalang then thought that the Huang family had migrated to Qingshan Village from the north, and he was afraid that there was no fish pond in their hometown, and he had not even heard of the pond, so Zhang Dalang explained a few words.

"This ....., uncle doesn't know how to water, can't this help?"

"Uncle, after the pond is raised, the water in the pond will be released, but no one will be drowned, but the mud in the pond is deep, and I am afraid that it will be a little dirty when the pond is raised."

"Cheng, my second child will go tomorrow, when will the pond start tomorrow?" Huang Li directly agreed.

"Thank you, uncle, tomorrow my house is more than half of the pond, and my family will prepare breakfast at that time, after my uncle comes to my house for breakfast, let's go to the pond together."

"You don't need to eat breakfast, Uncle will eat breakfast and go over."

"That's not possible, every year my family starts the pond, and the people who help the pond will prepare breakfast to eat, if the uncle doesn't come at that time, my father and mother still think that I am not reliable, and I don't pass the words in place, so I can have good fruit to eat? What's more, my family's Qitang is not only called uncle, but also several families in Qingshan Village. Huang's grandmother, aunt and younger siblings can all come over to watch the excitement together.

After my house got out of the pond, there were also many villagers who wanted to go down to the pond to touch the fish and touch the mussels or something, and wanted to pick up the leaks, which was fun. After Zhang Dalang saw the curiosity on the faces of several children of the Huang family, Zhang Dalang smiled and said.

"Cheng, we know, Uncle will go then." Huang Conghe looked at Huang Li's family, and after seeing Huang Li's nodding, Huang Conghe agreed.

"Dad, I'll go to Qitang with you tomorrow, I haven't seen how Qitang got up yet?" The sixth sister rolled her eyes and said.

"In that case, let's all go and take a look, anyway, now that our work is almost done, let's go and see Qitang tomorrow." Huang Li immediately said when he saw the first few small faces in the family showing a look of interest.

"We also have to bring a barrel and a dustpan with us, but fortunately we also brought the fishing nets from the head of the family where our family lived last year, and we will bring the fishing nets tomorrow. Eldest sister, do you think we still have anything to bring? The fifth sister also continued.