Autumn and October are here in the blink of an eye, and we don't have time to rest this month, and there are still many things waiting for us to do.

First of all, this year's pine nut harvest in the mountains, we rushed to harvest pine nuts. There is also a big event, which is the firewood for the winter, and finally the rations for cattle and sheep. We decided to merge the three things together and do it together when we went up the mountain.

Most of the people in the village have contracted pine forests on the mountain, but they have no idea of taking back the pine nuts from the mountain this year. They harvest pine nuts every year because pine nuts can be sold for money, looking at this year today, it is estimated that no one will be willing to exchange grain for a little meat pine nuts, their own children want to eat, a small pocket is enough, so they think that this year there is really no need to bother Baal from the mountains down to fight pine nuts. You must know that harvesting pine nuts is purely manual, and people are required to climb trees to pick them.

Jiang Zhi and I wanted to collect more pine nuts to keep, so we went to several familiar villagers' homes to confirm that they didn't plan to collect pine nuts this year, so we said that we would give 100 catties of grain and wanted them to collect all the pine nuts in the mountains for us.

For them, these 100 catties of grain are like picking up for nothing, if we don't want those pine nuts, they will also be eaten by the small animals in the mountains, so everyone is polite and agreed.

Since it is a manual operation, our family is not enough manpower, and we have never picked the pine tower, so we have to learn how to learn.

We wanted to find a few young men in the village who had experience in picking to help us pick together, and we could also learn how to harvest pine nuts.

At first we were worried. In such a hot weather, when the A-virus threatens human safety at all times, no one will be willing to help us. But the reality is that there must be brave men under heavy rewards. We paid 20 catties of rice per day to hire people, and 10 young men came to sign up on the same day, and now the price is very high.

Qin Hanbin and Zhang Fanyu also came, "Brother Jiang, originally you were looking for someone to help, we should have come to help, but I see that your family collects pine nuts." We also want to collect some points back, so ...... So ......" Qin Hanbin scratched his head embarrassedly.

It's really like our family, what are I doing now. A few of them followed suit, and they didn't know what to do, so they wanted to collect some as well.

"It's fine. You're right to collect some points. Save some at home, it will always be useful in the future. Also, since you want to be on par with our family, then let me tell you, we go up the mountain not only to harvest pine nuts, but also to pick up some firewood by the way, this winter is estimated to be colder than last winter, so you should also prepare some. ”

10 young people. In addition to our family, 5 men, 4 women. 5 children formed a pine nut picking team.

The tools for picking pine towers are very simple, a long pole and hand hook, a canvas bag propped up with wire loops, and a safety rope tied around the waist.

We first started picking from our pine forest, and when we arrived at the place, we saw the 10 young people put their hand hooks on the roots of the lowest branches, and then they began to climb the trees neatly, climbed to the branches at the crown of the trees, sat down, tied the safety rope firmly to the trunk, and began to pick, and what they could reach with their hands, they picked it with their hands and put it in a canvas bag hanging around their necks, and if they couldn't reach it with their hands, they bent the branches with their hand hooks, and then picked, some of which were really out of reach. will find a way to get the pine tower to fall to the ground, and the people on the ground can pick it up.

The rest of us are working together below, Jiang Zhi, Li Cheng, and Li Shanqing have great strength, and are responsible for carrying the sack full of Songta home, and letting Jiang Dad and Qu Dad spread it out in front of the door and in the yard to dry.

Chenchen led a few children to pick up pine towers under the trees, this job is also a high-risk job, and the pine towers may fall off at any time, which is not fun if they are smashed by the pine towers of gravity, so they all wear hard hats.

The eldest brother-in-law, the second brother-in-law, the three of us and Weiwei were responsible for collecting thick branches in the pine forest, tying them together, and waiting for Jiang Zhi and them to transport them home with Songzi. There are also weeds growing under the pine trees, and after this summer's crazy growth, it has reached knee height, and we will also cut some grass with a sickle to store food for the cattle and sheep for the winter.

At noon, Jiang Zhi and the others would go up the mountain and take the meals cooked by Jiang's mother and Qu's mother for everyone, take out the moisture barrier mat, and spread it in the pine forest, which was a picnic.

Everyone has a very high evaluation of the food prepared by our family, so many people eat, Jiang Ma is using a big iron pot to stew several large pots of dishes, although it is a big pot dish, but our family dishes are hard, like pork ribs stewed potatoes, are more ribs, less potatoes, at least two meat dishes every day.

Now there is no vegetable market, no one sells fresh meat every day, for such a long time, there have been several times that there are pigs killed in other villages, and when our village gets the news, it will rush to the day when people kill pigs, and carry grain to exchange some back. Now pork is expensive, and no one is willing to change more, that is, to fight tooth sacrifices.

These young lads, from the cold winter to the present, can count the number of times they have eaten meat on one hand. Therefore, I am very satisfied with the lunch provided by our family, and I work extra hard to get started.

After dinner, you can lie down under the tree and take a break before starting work in the afternoon. Everyone said that they didn't expect it to be so cool on the mountain, and there seemed to be a lot fewer mosquitoes than at the bottom of the mountain.

Of course, that's because I took out a few mosquito repellent plants in the space in flower pots and put them near our pine forest, which still has some repellent effect on mosquitoes.

"Brother Jiang, what do you want these pine nuts for now, these can't be eaten." After eating, a young man casually found a pine needle on the ground as a toothpick, and lay on the ground to pick his teeth. It seems that the meat is not less.

"Haha, this pine nut is good, nutritious, children love to eat, we are not thinking, we have a lot of children, and now there is no place to buy snacks for children, collect more pine nuts, and when you can't go out in winter, fry some for the children, and you can also rattle your teeth when you grab it." Jiang Zhi casually found a reason.

Everyone present heard that Jiang Zhi was making an excuse, how much can the child eat, one sack is enough, and we have collected a hundred times more than it these days.

I also said to them: "When you go back, you will also take it back alone, and your brother Jiang will say that the child, in fact, pine nuts can still be squeezed for oil, and after the harvest, we want to fry some oil, and the oil at home will be eaten." "What I'm saying is also an excuse, our family has planted Camellia oleifera trees for several years, and our family can't eat half of the oil produced for a while.

I don't know if you believed it, but after that no one asked us what we were doing with so many pine nuts.

We started to harvest pine nuts in the mountains in October, and until mid-October, the rice planted in the village was ripe, and we haven't finished harvesting it here, but we can't delay people from harvesting rice when we are busy, so the people who came to help later went home to harvest rice, and our own family was busy in the mountains.

The rice in the rice fields of Tashan Village is also ripe, and no matter how reluctant people are to leave their homes while the virus is still rampant, they have to go out of their homes and go to the rice fields to harvest rice.

Because, if you leave home, you may not be able to contract the A-virus, but if you don't harvest rice, you will definitely go hungry.

Everyone went to the paddy field to be equipped with firefighters' equipment, long clothes and trousers, plus rubber shoes, in short, they were fully armed. But in such hot weather, it is very sinful for them to arm themselves to the teeth. Some people are afraid of heat stroke, so they deliberately boil a large pot of mung bean water at night, put it in the well and hang it, and the next day it was cold and cold, packed in a clay pot, and carried to the ground. During the break, drink some cold mung bean water to relieve the heat.

Jiang Zhi and his eldest brother-in-law took a day to help Chen Ming and Zhang Han's family harvest rice. The two of them can't go to the ground now, Chen Ming's family is better, he has an elder brother and sister-in-law above him, even if he doesn't go to the ground, he can be busy in the field, Zhang Han's family can't do it, there are only three people in his family, he can't go to the field, only his parents go to the field to harvest rice, so the two of them went to help for a day.

At first, Li Cheng also wanted to go, but Jiang Zhi slapped him back and said, "We're here to help others, not to harm people." ”

I also conditioned him next to him and said: "Chengzi, killing people is not enough, if we have a holiday with others, we will not help others to the end, we must not send you, you are a weapon of mass destruction, if you go, you will be killed." The poor family worked hard for half a year, and as soon as you went, you returned to the pre-liberation period. ”

"The whole family is qualified to say me, except for you, if I am a weapon of mass destruction, you are super large, you are better than me." Li Cheng jumped straight up by what I said.

"I know, so I'm self-aware, I didn't say I was going to help." I was idly engaged in a verbal fight with Li Cheng.

Li Cheng patronized and quarreled with me, Jiang Zhi and he didn't even notice when they left.

At the end of the day, he obediently went up the mountain with us.

These days, Li Cheng, Li Shanqing, Jiang Zhi, the eldest brother-in-law and I have all learned to climb trees, so they are responsible for going up the trees to pick pine towers, and the second brother-in-law will also go up at first, but the conditions are really not allowed, his stomach has not completely gone down, and he can't climb up the tree, so he can only do logistics work below.

When we harvest pine nuts, we don't take all the pine towers off a pine tree, we leave half of them on each tree, and those are reserved for the small animals that use pine nuts as food. We don't want to cause some animals in the mountains to have no food in the winter because of our own selfish desires.

And even if we only harvest half of each tree, we can't harvest such a large pine forest.

If we want to say why we collect so many pine nuts, in fact, we don't know very well, but in our hearts, we just want to collect more if we can. When I see these pine towers, I think of the red ears in the red pine forest.

When you have time, it's time to go to the red pine forest to see the red ears. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to M. to read. )