Before you know it, the hot summer is coming to an end.

On the trees beside the road, there are occasional screeching sounds.

In a nearby ditch, several foraging turtledoves were alarmed by the walk-behind tractor and quickly flapped their wings and flew away.

Farther away, between the rivers and valleys, the green gauze tents rolled with the wind. Some sporadic plots are planted with soybeans and sesame seeds, and the leaves have begun to turn yellow. In another month, the crops will be ready to be harvested.

Taking advantage of the cool morning, Wang Manyin drove a hand-held tractor and drove slowly on the road leading to the former western county seat.

There are more than 20 snakeskin bags in the rear body, and the seal is facing inward to form a concave fence, and inside are the two sisters of Orchid and Lanxiang, as well as their own three broken babies.

Today is the time for the opening of Yuanxi High School, and Wang Manyin is just about to deliver the goods, so he asked Lanxiang to report on a hand-held tractor. By the way, take the whole family to the county for a walk.

Now the high school implements a two-year system, and Lanxiang is in her second year of high school and will take the college entrance examination next year. Therefore, the school homework is relatively tight, and you need to arrive at school a few days in advance.

When passing by the gate of the original West High School, Wang Manyin deliberately stopped the car and asked Orchid and a few people to get out of the car and go into the school to have a look.

After he went to the county supply and marketing cooperatives to unload the goods, he borrowed a bicycle and returned. After picking up a few people, head straight to the photo studio.

This is discussed before, it is not easy to come to the county seat, just take a few photos, and keep them for later and slowly reminiscing.

Color photos are now popular in southern cities, but they are still black and white. If you want to take color photos, you can only recolor them with oil paint later.

Wang Manyin was really not at ease with the photographer's coloring skills, so he naturally didn't plan to bother more.

The family took two group photos with Lan Xiang, and then each took a single photo.

While taking pictures, Wang Manyin remembered that there was no photo studio in the Shibijie Commune now.

If someone dares to open one, the business should not be wrong.

In fact, there are opportunities everywhere now...... Grab just one, and it will take three or five years at most to become a 10,000 yuan household.

It's a pity that most people are scared of tossing and are more willing to seek stability. They would rather go to the factory to earn their wages or dig in the soil than take the risk.

Even now, many people look down on self-employed people in their hearts, thinking that they are second-rate people who do not do their jobs.

Don't look at Wang Manyin's business is very big, and banknotes are pouring in every day...... At the same time, many people feel that he is speculating, and he may be arrested one day.

As everyone knows, times have changed.

In a few years, these self-employed people will become the envy of everyone. When everyone reacted and swarmed into the sea to do business, the competition became fierce again.

After taking the photo, Wang Manyin took his family to a state-owned restaurant not far away for a big meal.

said that it was a big meal, it was nothing more than a bowl of mutton and white noodles for one person, and then two dishes were fried......

According to Wang Manyin's original idea, after dinner, he planned to take his three children to the Stone Buddha Temple outside the city.

Now I feel too hot at noon, and it takes 60 miles to go back and forth. The two discussed it and simply went to Xinhua Bookstore to buy a few books.

When I came to the county seat, the family consumed more than ten yuan piecemeal, which was equivalent to half a month's salary for ordinary workers.

In the past, the orchid must have been distressed, but now she is used to it.

With the official report of the opening of the Jar Village Primary School, Wang Manyin and Orchid finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It is said that there are three children in the family who make noise every day, which makes their heads hurt. Now send it to school, at least during the day.

A few days after the students started school, the autumn harvest of the second team of Jar Village also officially kicked off.

First, more than 20 acres of rice were harvested in Dongshan Pass...... According to the division a few months ago, more than a dozen mutual aid groups are busy.

During the period of the large collective, everyone paid the public grain, and then the surplus grain, followed by the over-purchased grain, the support grain, and the contribution grain...... It was handed over again and again, and a maximum of 360 catties were distributed to each peasant.

This year is different, and the slogan on the wall of the village is clearly written: "If you give enough to the country, keep enough for the collective, and the rest is your own."

This means that as long as the task is completed, the surplus and surplus food will belong to the family, and there is no surplus grain and overpurchased grain. So everyone is full of energy, and there is no need for Wang Lianshun to urge, many people are busy before dawn.

Wang Manyin's small workshop was also officially suspended, but before that, he had already fried more than 6,000 catties of spiced melon seeds from Mao Dan and Lai Baozi, which was enough to cope with half a month.

After cutting the paddy, the members soon discovered a problem: the production team did not have enough wheat fields!

In the past, collective labor collected grain, and then it was distributed to each family, and a wheat field could be busy. Now the amount of rice in each family is different, and many people are afraid of getting confused, and in the end they will end up at a loss.

And then to harvest sorghum, corn, soybeans, sesame, etc., also need a place to dry.

There are not enough wheat fields, so many people can only temporarily clean up their own fields and find the stones in the team to crush them a few more times. Wang Manyin doesn't have to be so troublesome, because he has to dry sunflower seeds on his own side, he has been cleaning up very clean, and he can use it at any time.

The summer is busy for half a month, and the autumn is busy for forty-five.

The summer harvest is mainly to grab grain, pay attention to guns and knives quickly, and it can be completed in half a month at most.

The autumn harvest is different, the ripening time of various crops is different, and the harvest is intermittent.

A few days after the rice harvest, the members began to harvest the spring crops again.

The spring crops are processed, followed by the autumn crops......

Wang Manyin anticipated this situation in advance and made arrangements in time. Therefore, in the busiest season of the autumn harvest, their own spiced melon seeds are not out of stock.

After the autumn harvest, Wang Manyin plans to reserve all his plots for spring land and plant only one season of sunflowers next year. Anyway, there is food in the space, so there is no need to worry about eating.

Later, under the persuasion of Orchid, he felt that he could not be too maverick, and he also planted a few acres of wheat with the crowd.

However, Wang Manyin felt a little regretful that the rice that had been planted in Jarzi Village for ten years would be completely cut off.

When the group was large, the members only cared about the year-end food distribution, and did not have to worry about watering and irrigation. Now that the fields are divided into mutual-aid groups, and watering requires families to pay for diesel, no one wants to grow rice anymore.

In addition, now Shao'an has become fragrant.

Before planting wheat, many families asked him to buy a few more packets of fertilizer. There were even commune workers who wrote notes...... It's too much trouble to make a little peace.

After so many years of promotion, everyone has realized the importance of chemical fertilizers. The big collectives don't care, now they are willing to invest in fertilizing their own fields.

For a time, the fertilizer of the Shibijie Supply and Marketing Cooperatives became extremely tight. Many farmers can't buy fertilizer, so they simply stay at the door of the supply and marketing cooperatives and are reluctant to leave.

This is not the only troublesome thing, and the same is true for paying public rations.

In previous years, the two production captains of Jar Village arranged manpower to hand over the public grain, and as long as a dozen people could be busy.

Now it is divided into twenty or thirty mutual aid groups, nominally helping each other, but helping to pull them to the grain station, but in fact each family has to pay their own money.

Some people borrowed a rack car, which can pull more than ten bags at a time; Some people simply use a flat pole to pick it up, or push it with a bicycle...... More than a dozen villages and hundreds of mutual aid groups in the whole commune poured into the grain station and directly blocked the grain station compound.

The long queue to pay the public grain even lined up outside the Shibi Festival commune. Many people did not find food that day, and there was no way to go home at night, so they had to ask their families to bring food and blankets to guard.

Some people even pulled a cart of grain, and it took about four or five days to queue up to squeeze into the grain inspectors.

It is good to say that the grain has passed the customs directly, but if it is difficult for the grain inspectors, the two sides will have to argue. If you can't get it back, it's a few days in vain.

Many honest sufferers, under the "guidance" of capable people, began to stuff cigarettes into the pockets of grain inspectors.

The main reason why everyone is so active is that there is a limit on the time for paying grain, and if you exceed the specified time, you will be fined.

Wang Manyin originally planned to complete the task earlier, but he went to the commune with two bags of rice to take a look, and then returned decisively.

I'd rather be fined than stand in line for days on end.

***

After planting the winter wheat and handing over the public grain, the suffering people can finally take a breath.

At this time in previous years, the upper authorities would notify the villagers to go out of the river as early as possible to build farmland infrastructure. So far this year, there has been no meeting in the village.

In fact, in the last year or so, there have been very few meetings.

When he got up in the morning, Wang Manyin just pushed open the door of the kiln and couldn't help but shiver.

On this day, it was getting colder and colder.

The leaves on the trees beside the road have turned yellow and withered, and they are constantly falling with the autumn wind.

In the cave next door, Wang Tao's voice of reading came from: "The crooked moon is a small boat, a small boat...... Pointed ...... at both ends I sat on the bow of the boat and looked down, everywhere...... The field ...... of Dazhai in Daqing"

Wang Manyin was a little helpless when he heard this, and couldn't help but shake his head. The hearts of his two sons have never been used for studying.

A simple text, just a few sentences. This guy has been carrying it since last night and is still stumbling.

However, the second son has one point, that is, he has a good learning attitude, and the homework assigned by the teacher is completed on time.

On the contrary, it is Wang Lei, who makes people urge every time. Or just lie and don't have homework...... It seems that the whole school has students, and the teacher has not assigned it to him.

However, after being beaten up by Orchid a few times, this guy has been more honest lately.

Seeing the owner open the door, the two earth dogs immediately rushed to the front and wagged their tails vigorously.

In just a few months, they have grown to be forty or fifty centimeters tall. According to the physical characteristics of the two guys, Wang Manyin directly named them "White Dot" and "Little Black".

And after training, the two earth dogs can now cooperate well with the rhubarb into the mountain hare pheasant.

During the period after the autumn harvest, Wang Manyin would often take them into the mountains.

The hunting method he uses is simple, and he doesn't use a shotgun at all. Directly select a cliff ditch, and then let the white dot and the little black block at the other end, and take the rhubarb into it to search.

As long as there is a hare hidden in it, if you catch it three or five times, you will always catch one.

Intermittently, they have caught seven or eight hares, most of which have been pickled by Wang Manyin and pickled, planning to keep them for the New Year and eat them again.

After patting the heads of the two earth dogs, Wang Manyin picked up the crank and walked to the walk-behind tractor.

As the weather gets colder, it becomes difficult to start walk-behind tractors.

Wang Manyin tried three times in succession, and finally heard the sudden sound. Then, the water flows out of the well and into the pool.

At this point, the orchid began to cook.

After eating, the children went to school, and the two of them entered a busy state again.

Wang Manyin's five-spice melon seed sales have entered a bottleneck period, and the growth is very slow, almost more than 300 catties per day. It's busy, but it's not too much, as long as it's more fragmented.

If I remember correctly, there are now more than 12 workers in the southern melon seed king workshop, and the daily production of melon seeds has reached thousands of catties, and the products sell well in several cities in the south.

Wang Manyin's scale is completely incomparable with others. However, he is not in a hurry to develop new markets, but chooses to continue to wait and let the wind blow for a while.

It seems that not long after, the king of melon seeds was reported because of the problem of hired workers, which eventually caused a lot of controversy and almost ate jail.

Later, the old man made the final word: "Don't move, let it go first, take a look." ”

It is precisely this sentence that made the king of melon seeds lucky to avoid a wind.

Wang Manyin didn't dare to bet that he had such good luck, so he decided to follow the original rhythm and continue to take his time.

Many times, walking fast may not necessarily lead to the end safely, but walking steadily is certainly possible.

Not long after Wang Manyin lit the coal on fire, Mao Dan and several people came to work one after another. After a few months of running-in, everyone knows what to do, and he doesn't need to explain it anymore.

At half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, I left work on time.

After sending off the workers, the orchid began to cook, while Wang Manyin carried the dried sweet potatoes that had been wiped yesterday to the head of the cave to dry.

The sweet potatoes were just dug out of the ground yesterday, and they were almost more than 3,000 catties. Wang Manyin pays attention to speed and gouges a lot of sweet potatoes. These can't be stored for a long time, so the orchids are rubbed into dried sweet potatoes early, and they are planned to be dried and stored for eating.

There are two cats guarding it, and Wang Manyin is not afraid of birds coming to steal food.

He was busy when he saw his daughter rushing home.

The girl held the homework book in her hand and shouted: "Dad, Dad, you hurry down and see, I ate 100 points in my composition today." ”

"So powerful, what is written?" Wang Manyin was very cooperative.

Children, they still need to be encouraged to learn often.

"The day before yesterday I wrote the title 'The Year I Hope for 1985,' and I did what you said, 'Upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones. Every family has a TV, and they eat white flour steamed buns every meal, and there is fat meat in the pot'. The little girl said excitedly.

She eats a hundred essays for the whole class, and of course she has to show off.

"Hmph, what's the joy of blindness, you didn't listen to our dad in your composition." Seeing his sister showing off, Wang Lei next to him couldn't help but feel sour.

"I'm blind and happy, what kind of ...... are you" Wang Xing didn't show weakness, and immediately fought back, "Dad, look at my brother's essay, he only scored 63 points, and it was written in 1985, he wants to eat all the snacks in our Huangyuan City......"

Without waiting for Wang Manyin to answer, the orchid had already walked out of the cave after hearing the sound, and reprimanded loudly: "Just know how to eat, you won't be like your sister, write something useful." ”

"I wrote what happened to eating, and my sister knew about the complaint......"

"You said me first!!"

"You are not allowed to use my ink in the future!"

Gotcha, it's starting to be noisy again!

Wang Manyin and Orchid glanced at each other, but they didn't hear it, and continued to work on their own business.

As expected, in just ten minutes, the two have reconciled, and they began to chatter together about the plot of the villain book again.

(End of chapter)