Chapter 179, Tobacco

"You think too much, Zheng Guoqing was admitted to a school in Shanghai, and it is normal for the notice to come late. In a few days, people will go to school in Shanghai, and there will be a lot of girls in the university at that time, how can you take a fancy to you rural girls. Li Yuanshan said with a smile.

"Rural Tuniu?" Yang Mingyi said with a smile, "Brother Yuanshan, what you said is absolute, right? My sister-in-law's household registration is also in the village, you dare to say that your sister-in-law is a local girl, beware of being kicked out at night." ”

"Oh, at night, I went to the mountains to see the stars. Li Yuanshan said with a smile.

"Hahahaha......" everyone laughed.

Li Yuanshan said: "National Day, there are other of you, this is going to school, even if you want to find a partner, then you have to keep your eyes open and inquire clearly." Although everyone is a student, some of them are married, and some of their children are a few years old. Then as soon as I entered the university, I found that there were so many beautiful women in this university! The yellow-faced woman in the family couldn't compare with them! And then what kind of ideological realm is different, what has no common language, and changing to a young and beautiful woman is actually excusing yourself. This is true for men, and it is the same for women. Many people abandon the people who are waiting for them in the countryside for the sake of their own past experience of breaking jars and breaking pots, or for selfish interests. If so, you have done nothing as a wicked person. Especially you girls, this society is honestly more tolerant of men, and what you will have to face when the time comes is everyone's pointing and bad words. Moreover, if he can abandon his wife and children who stay in the countryside and marry you, is it impossible for him to abandon you for power, money, or even a younger and more beautiful woman? ”

"Is this really the case?" asked Zheng Guoqing in surprise.

"For example, you're married to a girl from the village and have a child. Your daughter-in-law can't pass the test if she doesn't get good grades, or she can't take the test because she has to take care of the children. Li Yuanshan said, "If you enter the university, you will naturally think about the future, if your daughter-in-law enters the university, is it better to leave the countryside to work and live with you than to live separately? And the female classmates around you are beautifully dressed and fair-skinned, and no matter how you look at it, they are much better looking than the yellow-faced woman in the countryside with her face facing the loess and her back to the sky, and the tan is black! Moreover, the father of the family is still doing so-and-so, and the ministry will be of great help to you in your future career, what will you think at this time? Is it to never give up, endure a lifetime without much achievement, and colleagues still point fingers at you for a country wife, or divorce and climb to a high branch, and have a smooth career in the future?"

After listening to Li Yuanshan's words, Zheng Guoqing was nothing, but the expressions on the faces of several girls changed, this was a major matter related to the body, so they couldn't help but be vigilant.

On the same day, the four students who got their admission letters happily packed up their things and left, and they didn't have to stay here anymore.

The sky was only slightly bright, and the village got up to work, and walked to the field with a tobacco pole on his back, and the sky was just right. Yang Guangxin looked at the smoke in the field and said with a smile: "You know more about the distant mountains, play more when you hit the top, and leave a few less tobacco leaves, and this tobacco will grow stronger and stronger, not only long, but also heavy." ”

"That's it, there are fewer leaves, and the same nutrients are supplied to these leaves, which naturally grow well. Li Yuanshan said, "Originally, the leaves under the bottom are not wanted, they are so short, and they are light and not good in color when they are baked, so you are reluctant." What's the use of that little tobacco leaf, most of it is dead leaves, and the rest can't be sold for much. ”

"You don't have to sell these, you just need to keep them for your own food. Yang Guangxin said, "It's a pity to lose it." ”

"You haven't counted the accounts. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "The first flue-cured tobacco has already come out, so you have to get fifty or sixty kilograms of good ones, how much is left after excluding labor and coal? If you want to smoke, it is enough to pick up some two or three roasts." ”

"If you want me to say, what kind of coal is used for flue-cured tobacco, it costs money and drives horses to carry it. Yang Guangxin said, "Fortunately, Xiongwu Gong, there is coal in the society, and you can't find it if you want to use it." ”

"It's because there is coal in Xiongwu that I thought of using coal. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "Although it costs money and is tiring, it is much easier to use coal-cured tobacco than firewood, the firepower is stable, and no one needs to guard it all the time, even if you can add coal once every four or five hours during the fire, there are not so many green stems of the roasted tobacco leaves." ”

"It's really good to use coal. At this time, Zhai Fanghong and the others also came, and answered, "I think this year's cigarettes are much more expensive than last year." Last year, there were many green stems of smoke, and even a lot of green slices. Green stems can still be sold, but green slices can't be sold. The tobacco leaves are short and the quality is poor, many of them are fourth-grade tobacco and third-grade smoke, and there are few second-grade cigarettes, and even fewer first-class cigarettes. Looking at the situation this year, most of the lowest ones are also second-class cigarettes, and there must be more first-class cigarettes. ”

"Yo! the smoke buds have grown again. Zhai Fanghong walked to the sill, looked at the two-inch-long smoke buds on the top of the cigarettes and said, "It's time to hit the smoke buds again." Roast today, smoke buds tomorrow. Far mountain, you go to the foot of the ridge (below the ridge) to see if the nest of chickens is alive. As he spoke, he pointed to a location more than ten meters away.

"Okay. If there is a chicken fir, then it will be considered a meat dish today. Li Yuanshan walked over with a smile. Chicken fir is a fungus that grows from termite nests, and like other mushrooms, it is very oily to make, but it is also very delicious to eat. There are many hillsides and fields in the vicinity, from the seventh lunar month to September. As for nutrition, it is said to be very good.

Walking over and sweeping his eyes, a few chicken fir flowers came out under the cover of the smoke, Li Yuanshan said: "There really is!"

"Of course there is. Zhai Fanghong said with a smile, "I've been picking up this chicken fir for many years, and every year it's about this time." Li Yuanshan naturally knows that every termite nest chicken fir fungus will grow at about the same time every year, unless there is a drastic change in the climate. When he was here, he would pick up chicken fir every year, and sometimes he would encounter a large piece of one or two square meters, which was quite gratifying to look at.

Li Yuanshan took the basket, picked the chicken fir into the basket, and then said: "There are more than 50 flowers of this size, I'll send them back first." ”

"Yuanshan, why are you back again?" Jiang Mingyue was washing vegetables at the production team site, and asked when she saw Li Yuanshan coming back.

"I picked up the nest of chicken firs, and I have half a back, so I will take them back to cook first. Li Yuanshan said with a smile.

"Okay, I haven't eaten chicken fir this year, so I can try it today. Yang Mingying said with a smile.

"After a while, there will be more, a few rains, and I am afraid that I will not be able to finish eating by then. Li Yuanshan said with a smile as he picked up the chicken fir fir. Now there are no pesticides, termites are more numerous, and by August, I have the heart to look for them, and I can pick up one or two backs a day.

"By the way, I think of something when it comes to chicken firs. Yang Mingying smiled, "Your family also has two nests in Changba." ”

Li Yuanshan said with a smile: "Haha! That must be my family, even if you know, you are embarrassed to pick it up! You can pick up chicken fir at the door of your house, there is nothing better than this." ”

"What is this!" Song Mei said with a smile, "Grandpa used to say that when they first moved here, they had chicken fir in front of the stove and picked them up for several years!"

Li Yuanshan said with a smile: "At that time, your grandfather should have dismantled the stove (stove), maybe there are chicken fir below." ”

"The stove can't be dismantled. Yang Mingying said with a smile, "Besides, isn't it troublesome to dismantle the stove in order to eat some chicken firs? There are so many chicken firs, don't you just go out for a walk, how can you dismantle the stove?" ”

"I won't tell you, and after a while, the people who carry cigarettes will come back. Li Yuanshan picked out the chicken fir and walked to the ground with the chicken fir on his back.

"Remember to clean the mud in your back so that you don't stain the tobacco. Jiang Mingyue said.

"Yes. Li Yuanshan shook his hand.

More than twenty people worked until eleven o'clock, and then came back for dinner. In a big pot of rice, a group of people are squatting or standing outside, talking while eating, the atmosphere is lively, but the dishes are really not very successful.

"This is often heavy work, and this meal is really a bit bad!" Li Yuanshan said.

"That's it!" Yang Mingyi said, "I always can't eat enough, and I don't have the strength to do this work." ”

"Well, it's not that we don't contribute, we really don't have the strength to contribute!" Zhai Fangping also said.

"You guys eat more than us in one meal, and you don't have the strength yet, where are you eating?" Zhai Fanghong said, "Look at the distant mountains, you eat less than us, but your strength is very great." ”

"Second uncle, Brother Yuanshan is sucking...... Good absorption, which is the reason for the constitution. Yang Mingyi said, "Besides, when we grow our bodies, of course we eat more." Don't you often say 'half the eldest son, eat the old man to death'?" There is also a big brother above Zhai Fanghong, who is four or five years older than him, who was taken away when he pulled the provincial soldiers, and there is also a younger brother below who has an acute illness and did not survive. At that time, the provincial soldiers stipulated that the three brothers had to go to one, and the five brothers had to go to two, but sometimes in order to make up enough heads, the three brothers were arrested two, and the five brothers were arrested three very much, which is the reason why there are only a dozen families in the village after so many years.

"Then there has to be a degree! You guys, your stomach is like a bottomless pit! There are not enough things for you to eat. Zhai Fanghong sighed.

After eating, some of them continued to go to the fields to harvest tobacco leaves, while others made tobacco until five o'clock.

Then under the roast, a rod of dried tobacco leaves out of the roasting room, Zhai Fanghe smiled: "It's much better than the previous roast! A little green stem and dead leaves, there are almost no green pieces, pick out the green pieces and dead leaves, just divide the color length, it seems that the scissors that I specially bought this year will not come in handy." "Tobacco leaves can't be the same yellow every sheet, some lesions will turn black, and there are leaf edges, these parts are not only no quality, but also affect the sales sample, this year Zhai Fanghong according to Li Yuanshan's idea, specially went to buy more than a dozen scissors.

"Isn't it better! Sell for more money and invest less in labor. Cutting cigarettes is too time-consuming, and it was fast to tear it directly by hand before, but it looked very ugly, and there was no sale. Yang Guangli said.