After the rice was recovered, whether it was kept as rations or sold to the grain station, it was first received at home for storage, and at that time, the rural houses were not large, and those with living rooms were piled up in the living room, and those without living rooms were piled up in the kitchen or room, often occupying the whole house.

Stockpiling rations, mountain farmers generally use tun, the practice is similar to the "drying mat", compared with the "drying mat", narrower and longer, only about two feet wide, the length is not very fixed, according to the need to make a very long one.

There is a thick layer of straw at the bottom, which isolates the ground from moisture, and as the rice is poured in, it spreads out in a circle, and winds up in a circle, and the more rice there is, the higher it rises. Zhutun is most afraid of rat bites, which is the reason why every household in the mountainous countryside has cats.

The rations of the hometown are generally stored in warehouses, made of wood, and the beaten ones are particularly strong, and there is an opening at the bottom, and when the valve is opened, the rice flows out automatically. There are also bamboo tuns, which can be purchased in the bazaar, but there are relatively few of them.

The warehouse is more practical and solid than the tun. Taking out the rice from the tun, it is much more tiring to climb to the top of the tun and pick up the paddy than the automatic flow out of the canopy.

At the beginning of the reform and opening up, the economy was not active enough, and the degree of openness was not enough, and the rice produced by the peasants was designated to be sold to the grain station in the hometown, and it was all hauled by themselves.

There is generally only one grain station in each township, and in my memory, there is only one grain station in the neighboring bathhouse, located in a village called Fuxi. In Huibu Township, where my home is located, there are two, one is located in the place called Cheping, and the other is located in the place called Slag Village.

Fengyuan Village may be the most remote mountain village in Huibu Township, at least more than 30 miles away from the location of the township, and when it comes to the location of the township, it will be more than ten miles before it reaches the grain station of Zha Village, and the Cheping Grain Station is even farther, and it will be more than ten miles ahead.

The farmer's storage place is not enough, according to the early rice and late rice harvest season, divided into summer harvest and autumn harvest two seasons, please load the car, to the designated slag village grain station to sell.

In the beginning, there was only a sack of rice, a sack full of rice, which could be more than 200 catties, and the heaviest time could reach 300 catties. All rely on manpower, bags are piled up at home, all harvested, and bags are loaded, and when they arrive at the grain station, they are carried on the granary one by one.

When the field was just divided into households, each brigade only had one large tractor, and the car should be agreed with the driver in advance, and the families took turns to ship, but the large tractors had a large carrying capacity, and often several families could be combined to fill a car.

The transport vehicle is indeed too nervous, the greeting is late, it may have to wait for more than ten days, and then many villagers have paid for the hand-held tractor themselves, which not only relieves the pressure of rice transportation, but also increases a lot of income.

The walk-behind tractor is much smaller than the large tractor, but the horsepower is strong, quite light and flexible, not only can run with things on the road, but also can go down to the field, instead of the ox pulling the ploughing equipment to work, even now, there are still many field equipment, with the head of the walk-behind tractor, as traction.

The three families in Qingnian Tang often cooperated in a car, and it was not until the rise of the walk-behind tractor that they began to separate. The yield of paddy fields is affected by climate, fertilizer, rice insects, cultivation, etc., and the yield is high or low.

In the only years of the sack, this way is conducive to helping each other, the sack is too heavy too much, relying on one's own family, it is difficult to load on the car, and after arriving at the grain station, it is also difficult to get off the car and unload.

Sometimes several families are together, the number of people is not enough, and relatives and friends have to come to help, carrying sacks is heavy physical work, women and children can not help, unless particularly tall and strong women, it is possible to exert strength.

Next to the high sacks, the adults will buckle with one hand and support the other, and with a strong force on their waists, they will carry the sacks on their shoulders, the sacks are too heavy, and they should use the momentum to trot slightly, and when they reach the car, they throw their shoulders to the car.

After the sack in the lower place, or the sack on the cart is piled up, two people must stand on the side, and one person grabs the end of the sack and carries it to the shoulder of the person carrying it, or in order on the cart, layer upon layer.

After the rise of walk-behind tractors, snakeskin bags also began to appear in large numbers, a snakeskin bag of rice, only more than 100 catties, at this time women and older children, can help, in a few cases, will ask someone to help, generally each family is their own shipment.

Sack or snakeskin bag, it is very particular when loading, after loading the car, there is no rope binding, all rely on the weight of the grain bag itself to fix, and it is loaded high, the road is uneven and bumpy all the way, and it is very likely to fall on the road.

Especially for the hand-held tractor shipment, the body is too narrow, too short and too small, in order to be able to load more, a few thick wooden sticks are often set up around, and they have been piled up, so it is particularly unstable, and the driver does not dare to drive too fast, shaking all the way, bumping for two or three hours, before reaching the grain station.

The cab of the large tractor and the driving position of the hand-held tractor can generally only sit one or two people, and the others are sitting on the high grain pile, which can not only take care of the grain bags and prevent them from falling, but also find problems in time, strengthen them in time, and prevent them from collapsing and scattering.

In fact, there are often food bags falling, the surface of the snakeskin bag is smooth, it is easier to slip down, along the way always have to stop, the fallen grain bag is reloaded into the car, sometimes one or two bags appear loose, as long as it is not too serious, adults will pick it with their hands.

After arriving at the grain station, waiting for the staff to accept, once qualified, it can become a stack of banknotes, which is used to supplement the family, pay the children's school tuition, purchase rice seeds and fertilizers, repair the working equipment, and wait for the next year to put into hard work again.

There is joy in the harvest, but the joy does not come so smoothly, the grain station at that time, the acceptance of rice is very strict, if the acceptance is not qualified, a car of grain will refuse to buy, to the farmers who come from afar, the blow is very big.

The ground is damp, there are too few sunbeds, there are not enough sunny days, and the rice is sometimes not transparent. The windmill fan valley is not thorough enough, and sometimes there are deflated valleys in it. The mat is rolled up to pick up the sand from the ground, which may be mixed into the rice.

These can be detected, and the staff has a long cylindrical chisel in their hands, which is long and pointed, with a groove in the middle, which is a special rice acceptance tool.

After arriving at the grain station, the inspectors inserted the drill into the grain bag violently, and brought out some rice. Take out a few grains of rice and put them in your mouth, and if you bite it, if it is not crispy and soft, it is not sun-dried, and it will be considered unqualified.

The rice of the whole township is concentrated in this period of time to the grain station, the staff is very busy, each inspector is always surrounded by a bunch of anxious grain farmers, the autumn is better, the summer weather is changeable, in the event of a storm, there is no place to hide, the cover is not timely, a car of rice, may have to be wet.

Finally, when I waited for the inspection, and after passing the test, I immediately carried the grain bag into the grain depot, which I had followed, and it was empty and spacious, with three or four long logs nailed together, and a section of horizontal logs nailed to it, which served as a ladder, and led to the high grain pile.

The grain bag must be carried to the top, after carrying it, with a burst of ease, the grain bag is thrown down, open the bag, the golden rice is poured into the grain pile, and it is poured down the slope, such as the "zizi" friction sound of sand sliding, revealing a trace of joy, and the smile is also like rice, piled up on the face of adults, and the joy brought by the harvest at this time is revealed from the bottom of my heart.

Not every rice can be accepted, sometimes a drill is inserted, and a problem is found, which often means that the whole vehicle is unqualified. At this time, grain farmers are not dissatisfied with their faces and panic, and beg the inspectors to inspect a few more times and inspect a few more bags.

The scorched and dark face, like dense wrinkles, accumulate together, and when you encounter a soft-hearted inspector, you may inspect a few more bags, so that you only need to deal with the few bags in question.

When encountering the inspectors with a blunt attitude, the judgment of the vehicle was unqualified, no matter how much pleading and justification, it was so pale and powerless. That's the way it was in those days, there was only one family, and if it wasn't sold here, there was no place to sell it.

Every time they sell grain, they can always encounter things that fail to pass the inspection, and the helpless grain farmers are aggrieved to unload the rice from the car and dry it in the open space of the grain station again, or shake the windmill to blow the rice again.

I have also seen sudden rainstorms, and the farmers hurriedly fetched the tarpaulins to cover them, and at this time they could not inspect them anymore and could not unload their trucks until the rain stopped.

There are often farmers who stay in the open air in the grain station overnight because of heavy rain or unqualified inspections, I really don't know what kind of mood they are in this night, and how they spend it, but fortunately, this has never happened in our family selling rice.

I heard my father say that he once had a period of work experience in the grain station, but because he was too soft-hearted during the inspection, he was found by the leader and was dismissed again. As for how he got there, how long he did it, it involved personal secrets, and maybe there was a sadness, my father never said.

Compared with the distance of the grain station in the village of slag, the Fuxi grain station under the bath in the neighboring township may be nearly half of it, and then I don't know what the reason is, it may be that the village cadres have put forward opinions, or it may be that the superiors have realized that it is not easy, and the rice in our village can be sold at the Fuxi grain station.

The Fengyuan Brigade is probably the most remote mountain village in Huibu, adjacent to the Quhu Brigade under the bath, along the road in front of my house to the east, through a small mountain pass, where it belongs to the Jianjiao Brigade, the nearest Quhu production team, only five or six miles away from my home.

At the foot of the mountain to the north of Quhu Lake is the production team under the East Mountain, where there is the farmland of the aunt's family. Quhu Lake borders Berlin, and the east mountain is bordered by the pass, and it is common to move around often, communicate frequently, have relatives with each other, marry constantly, and intermarry into customs.

The road to Fuxi Grain Station, after passing the Shangli River of the Jianjiao Brigade, enters the main road under the bath, goes straight to the right to the Fuxi Grain Station, and goes straight to the left to the location of the bath commune, the distance is about the same, it is three or four miles.

From my house, compared to going to Huibu, the distance to Yuxia is almost half shortened, and the village is more willing to buy things or someone is sick. Maybe because the bath is more occlusive, the things under the bath are slightly more expensive than those in Huibu.

The road is also straighter, with only the col at the junction, the ownership is unknown, there is no gravel paving, and the roadbed is softer. The slope of the hill is a loess road, the farmland is a dirt road, the sunny day is fine, in the case of a few days of rain, the loess road is slippery and can not walk, the dirt road is almost like a cultivated farmland, there is nowhere to put your feet, ride a bicycle through, often fall into it.

Fuxi grain station is not only close, the inspection is also relatively relaxed, the people who sell grain are not as many as the slag village, but the scale of the grain depot is comparable, since selling grain here, it is rare to see the crowding and liveliness like the slag village, and it is rare to see the helplessness and sorrow that it is difficult to sell grain.