After pulling the grain back, because they had all seen that the drying was almost done, the two of them put the grain directly in the warehouse. Today, they brought back Li Dazhu's family's grain first, not because of anything else, just because Li Dazhu's family just happened to have a cart that could be pulled away, but Li Tiegen's family couldn't. And just these more than 800 catties of two people, and they didn't pull it back until the afternoon.

Early the next morning, the two drove the ox cart to fetch grain. When I arrived, I heard that I would start paying the land rent today, and when I rented the land before, I said that she didn't care about anything if they were divided between them, but she paid the field tax, so when she heard that the land tax was paid, she asked Li Bokang to ask. Later, Li Bokang came back and told her: "My sister has already inquired, and the current field tax is 20 taxes and 1, that is, 20 catties to pay 1 catty, and it will be paid at the village chief's house, and it will be taken to the county government in two days." After listening to his words, she calculated in her heart that she would pay almost two or three hundred catties this year, but she didn't know how to pay it when she handed it over, whether it was handed over separately according to the field or together.

However, they still loaded a cart of grain before going to the village chief's house, where many people were already paying taxes, and she also inquired that the fields were paid separately, and the fields were handed over to the rice fields and the corn were handed over. In the end, their family handed over a total of 155 catties of rice and 128 catties of corn, a total of 283 catties. After paying the tax, the two began to pull the rest of the grain up the mountain, and it took two trips to finish all of it, and it was already dark when they arrived home on the second trip. Coupled with the family's own planting, they have collected a total of almost 3,000 catties of grain this year, which is enough for them to eat for two years, and they don't need to buy food to eat in the future, so they can save money to buy food for the next year.

After harvesting the grain, Li Bokang went back to the school to study, and she slowly sorted out the food at home. For example, shelling beans and threshing corn, these are all done by hand little by little, and the hulling of beans is fast, but threshing corn is slow. But they're not in a hurry to take their time now.

After the beans were husked, she took the beans to run the mountain again, and came back every day with an empty basket. The main ones are some walnuts, chestnuts and the like, as well as some yam eggs, dates and so on. This year, she also accidentally found two wolfberry trees, and picked a lot of wolfberries back, and she plans to dry them and use them to soak in water and drink, or occasionally put some in the soup. I also picked a lot of oil beads and came back, and the family was almost gone, and occasionally I could catch one or two pheasants and hares, during which she also sent a hare to Mr. Wu, and took a pheasant to stew for Li Bokang and Mr. Wu to eat.

This year, she planted a lot of winter cabbage and radish, which she mainly used to feed the pigs in addition to eating them herself. Several pigs in the family are getting bigger and bigger, almost each of them has more than 100 pounds and almost 200 catties, mainly because she feeds it better, she has always fed cooked pig food and added cornmeal, which is more luxurious. This year's Chinese New Year is almost ready to be pulled down the mountain to sell, but you have to inquire about the market price before deciding whether to sell it or not.

And half of the corn at home has been threshed, during which she also thought of a way to put the corn in a hemp bag and then tie it up and beat it with a wooden stick, and finally most of the corn kernels in it are threshed, and a small part is still on it. Although this method is much faster to use, it is also more laborious, she does it once every two or three days, and once it is about four or five bags. The rest of the time is slowly threshing by herself, but it still hurts her hands, her hands are blistered, and after they are healed, the calluses are thicker. During this period, Li Bokang saw it once and was very worried.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, Li Bokang's school was on vacation, and at twenty years, the two of them used an ox cart to pull a sack of rice to the mill in the town, about a hundred catties, and when they got into the car, they still got it little by little, and brought two empty sacks to fill the chaff. Now that I have pigs and chickens at home, I have to get them back, and I can't waste them. It took a total of 20 wen to mill rice this time, and a total of more than 80 catties of rice were grinded, and it can be eaten for several months.

When Li Bokang was grinding rice, he watched her go to the place where pork was sold and inquired about the current pig price, which was about 123 yuan per catty. Later, he told the owner of the pork seller that he would bring the pig to sell it to him in two days, but he also said that he would look at the pig first and then calculate the price. After the negotiation was done, she went back to the mill, and waited at the mill until the grinding was finished, and then went home, and along the way she told Li Bokang about selling pigs. This time, she plans to sell two pigs, keep one at home and raise it again, and then raise it a little bigger to see if she will sell it or stay at home to eat it herself. But the year before last, there were still some wild boar meat left at home, although they also sent a lot out, but there were still a lot of leftovers at home, Li Bokang didn't often eat at home, and she really couldn't eat much alone, plus occasionally ate a fresh meal.

Except for the wild boars, she asked Li Bokang to carry some to Dr. Shi, and sold some of them, and the rest were all at home. Later, I sent some to eat with my own family, and now it is still dozens of catties, and it is enough to eat for a year without killing pigs. On the day of the twenty-fourth, the two of them wasted the boss's strength to tie up the two pigs and pull them down the mountain in the car, and it was almost noon when they arrived at the pork shop.

The man who saw them coming and bought the pigs said, "Yo, you are here, but I thought you were not going to sell them." "How can it be, how can you regret it if you say it's good to sell, isn't it that we can't figure it out and delay some more time, big brother, you can understand." This was said by Li Bokang, now that he is older, as long as he is with him, he doesn't want her to come forward. The pig buyer listened to it and saw that the two of them didn't talk to the pig in the car, and the two didn't speak, and then the man said, "Your pig is a little smaller, how about twelve cents a catty?" Because when she was at home, she told Li Bokang that she wanted to sell thirteen wen, and Li Bokang didn't agree and said: "Thirteen wen." Later, the man who bought the pig said: "Oh, little brother, I see that you are also from far away, and no one may buy it except me, just 12 Wen." ”

Seeing that the man said this, she gave Li Bokang a look and left, and Li Bokang immediately took action. The man saw their reaction and immediately said, "Okay, okay, thirteen wen is thirteen wen, I bought it." When they heard him say that they stopped, and then they weighed too much, and the two pigs were three hundred and seventy pounds in total, and the total was four thousand eight hundred and ten wen. After the silver and goods were sold, she spoke: "I said this boss, you will never suffer a loss if you buy this pig, maybe you will want to buy our pig in the future." And don't bully us for not knowing the goods, our pigs are better, and we also know the market. After saying that, the two of them drove away.

Next, they went to the place where the carts and horses were parked, put the ox carts and went to the street to buy things, and it was time to prepare for the Chinese New Year.