After the Liu sisters and brothers turned over the cornfield, dug out the rhizomes in the cornfield, and burned them, Liu Zhang's family took the six sisters to wash the peanuts and melon seeds, put some salt and boil them, and then, after drying, they could be kept for the New Year to entertain guests.

"Big sister, you're back, you're tired! Mother will cook for you." After Liu Li saw the eldest sister coming back from the field with hoes on her back, she hurriedly got up and said.

In the past month or so, the Liu family has been busy with things in the field, and they are really tired, going out early and returning late every day, and their tired waist can't stand up.

"Mother, I'll go, you and the eldest sisters are tired."

"Well, Xun'er is right, I'll go cook with Xun'er, eldest sister, you can rest for a while, now the ground is also turned, only the corn particles are rubbed, and then ground into cornmeal, in the future, our family will not be so busy, don't tire people out." Liu Zhang got up, walked to the back kitchen with Xun'er, and explained a few words.

"Eldest sister, second sister, third sister, fourth sister, fifth brother, you drink water." After Liu Yile saw his sister and brother come back, he hurriedly ran to the hall, walked on his short legs, brought water, and handed it to Liu Yiyu's sisters and brothers one by one.

"Is Eighth Sister really capable?". Liu Yiyu smiled and touched Liu Yile's head and said.

"So what? Now that the eighth sister is capable, she can do a lot of things, she can feed the chickens, sweep the floor, rub corn pellets and walk the dogs? ”。 After Liu Yile was praised by Liu Yiyu like this, he suddenly straightened up his small chest and replied a little proudly.

As for the dog walking in the mouth of the eighth sister, this dog was still in early July, and Liu Yihao raised three puppies from other families in the town, and by the way, he hugged two piglets of one male and one female.

These three puppies, one yellow, one gray, one white, two males and one female, will be raised for nearly three months, all raised to half a year, three dogs yellow called Qiuye, gray called gray clouds, white white dew, after the three dogs were raised, after seeing Liu Yiyu's family coming back from the field, they wagged their tails vigorously one by one, and kept calling in their mouths, as if welcoming Liu Yiyu and their brothers home.

After raising three dogs, the family is also a lot more lively, six sisters and three small ones, all right, also in front of the three dogs, and the three dogs play together.

"Eldest sister, in a few days, the village will pay taxes, my mother estimated that there are about 500 catties in the corn field planted by our family, and as for sweet potatoes and potatoes, the yield is relatively high, with nearly 11,200 catties.

According to the tax collection, if you pay taxes on one mu of land, if you pay taxes and turn over grain is corn, wheat, and rice, you will have to hand over 200 catties per mu of land, and as for sweet potatoes and potatoes, you will have to pay 400 catties per acre of land.

Eldest sister, our family has four acres of land, otherwise, our family will leave all the corn and pay taxes with potatoes and sweet potatoes, our family has collected so many sweet potatoes and potatoes, four acres of land, our family has to pay 1,600 catties of sweet potatoes and potatoes, and our family still has more than 800 catties of sweet potatoes and potatoes?

There are too many sweet potatoes and potatoes, and my mother is afraid that she will not be able to eat them all and will spoil them, which is a pity." In the past, the Liu family was worried that they would have no food to eat and would be hungry, but now the Liu family has collected too much grain from the field, and they are afraid that it will be spoiled and will not be able to eat it.

God just likes to make this kind of joke with people, when you eat, let you eat until you die, and when you don't have to eat, let you starve to death.

"Well, just do what my mother said, when building the house, it was the eldest sister who was negligent and forgot to let the villagers build a cellar for our family, otherwise, even if there are more sweet potatoes and potatoes, our family will not be broken." Liu Yiyu patted his head and said with some annoyance.

Liu Yiyu thought about the basic principle of cellar storage: because the soil has weak thermal conductivity. The temperature change is much smaller than that of the atmosphere, and it is good for keeping warm in winter when the outside is too cold, while in autumn and early winter, when the outside temperature is too high, the upper cellar can still maintain a low temperature. The moisture changes in the soil are also relatively stable, which helps to prevent the fruit from shrinking. Furthermore. The gas exchange in the soil is poor, and the cellar is generally covered with mulch, so the cellar has the natural atmosphere effect of accumulating carbon dioxide and reducing oxygen, so it can ensure that mistakes will not deteriorate for a long time!

It seems that the matter of digging a cellar at home is also imminent, and the grain will be polluted by microorganisms in the air when it is placed in the warehouse, and the grain is not so easy to store for too long, and secondly, it is easy to attract mice and other pests.

"You child, eldest sister, you have paid a lot for this family, it is not easy to get to the point where you are now, some things are normal in all aspects, are you still young? At least, you're a little bit more complete than your mother." Seeing Liu Yiyu patting his head, and seeing that his forehead was red, Liu Li said with some distress.

"Yes? Eldest sister, my mother is right, our family's belongings are all earned by the eldest sister? The fifth brother admires you very much, if there is no eldest sister, my family is afraid that we are still living in the cave now? , living in a big brick house, the fifth brother can't even think of it? ”。

"That's it, I like my eldest sister the most." At this time, Liu Yile threw himself into Liu Yiyu's arms and said with a smile.

Now that these days are getting more and more hopeful, the Liu family is full of youthful vitality, vigor, and strong warmth, this is the warmth of home, and it is good to have a home.

"Eldest sister, if I don't go to the warehouse and carve out a piece of land, from tomorrow, our family will start digging the cellar, don't you think." Liu Yihao said.

"Go to the warehouse to dig the cellar is not successful, the cunning rabbit has three holes, our house is built by the head of the village, the village people know the pattern of our family, there is a case in the future, the eldest sister is also afraid of ......., some things have to be prevented, if you want to build a cellar, you can't build it in the warehouse, if you want to build it, our family will set aside a place for the firewood house, and build the cellar under the firewood house." Liu Yiyu pondered for a while, generally if the family builds a cellar, it is a place to store grain or some valuable things, plus their own houses are built by the people in the village, where to put what to put what, the people in the village know that something happens to the family after the event, and they have to be prevented, the cellar is built under the firewood house, which is a bit unexpected and unexpected.

Since it was decided that they wanted to build a cellar, Liu Yiyu's family discussed how big and wide the cellar should be.

In the end, the Liu family decided to build a cellar three meters high, about 120 square meters in size.