Chapter 184, Cents

sent Zheng Guoqing away, and it was time to roast again.

One Monday flue-cured tobacco, two roasts, Yang Mingxue and the four of them also went to school. Then, elementary and junior high schools also opened, and there were fewer people doing this work. However, the work in the field is not only not less, but also has to increase, the tobacco leaves in the field are only half harvested, and the rice is about to be harvested, so we can only work overtime.

"It's nothing to smoke at night, and I don't have to go to bed so early anyway. But this oil lamp is not good, the light is too dim. Li Yuanshan said, "It would be nice if there was electricity, the electric lights were bright, and you could distinguish between good smoke and green stems." ”

"Electric light? Zhai Fanghong said, "In the whole commune, there is only a small generator on the street. "Gong, the small generator Li Yuanshan knew that it was just blocking a small ditch to generate electricity, which could only supply a few electric lights. Even if the price is not expensive, Li Yuanshan will not encourage the production team to buy it, first, this thing is not easy to buy, and second, according to Li Yuanshan's analysis, it should be powered here in a few years, so the small motor will be wasted.

"It's okay to have an oil lamp. Yang Guangxin said, "Cutting holes and black edges is the most time-consuming, cutting it according to the oil lamp at night, and picking green stems and green pieces during the day, it doesn't take much time." ”

I worked until eleven o'clock in the evening, and got up just after six o'clock in the morning. Pushing a cart with a sickle to the edge of the field, looking at a purple patch of rice in the near distance and a reddish ear of rice in the distance, Li Yuanshan asked, "How is this rice growing this year?" He didn't know what the harvest was like in previous years, so he asked. A few decades ago, the yield of rice in these rice fields was about 450 catties per mu and 300 catties of rice, which was already very high yield compared with the fields at that time. The rice in front of me is about the same as it was back then, and the yield per mu should be about the same. And planting rice outside here is naturally not as good as what Li Yuanshan and the two of them planted in the space, the space is black soil, and there is guano on the island, the land is fertile, and the yield of rice per mu is about 800 catties.

"Last year's yield per mu was about 280 catties, and this year's manure is more than last year, and the millet grows better, I estimate that there will be 300 catties. Zhai Fanghong smiled happily, "So that you can have a good year this year." ”

If one acre of land yields more than 20 catties, then this 100 acres of paddy field can produce 2,000 catties more, and it will be more than 30 catties for each person. Even if there is a shortage of oil and water and a large consumption of food now, it is enough to eat for about a month, and there are not many days to eat vegetables.

Although the production team has a large grain output, except for the public grain and other miscellaneous grains, the final distribution is only about 250 catties per capita, and the rest is offset by the miscellaneous grains such as grain and beans, in Li Yuanshan's opinion, life is not very good.

"This paddy field has been planted for so many years, and the fertility of the field has declined, and it is good to have this yield. Li Yuanshan said, "When our chicken and pig farms expand, there will be more manure, and the grain output will have to increase." ”

"Toyama is right. Yang Guangming said, "In the past three years, our village raised more chickens, sheep and pigs, and there was more manure, and the yield per mu at that time was four or five hundred catties. We only open half of the fields, and we still plant in turns, and we have to sell a lot of grain a year. Think about the days back then, not to mention how beautiful they were. ”

"Yes!" Yang Guangli also sighed. At that time, their family was wealthy, and there were many people who read, not to look at their old peasants now, they could be regarded as literate people back then. Now there are not many people in the village, because of the war, many young people in their family have participated, whether voluntarily or forced, so there are so few talents, otherwise it would have become a big family long ago.

Harvest purple glutinous rice first, and then harvest rouge rice, this busy, like a war, from morning to night, basically there is no time to rest. Agriculture is like this, when you are busy, you are so busy that you have smoke in your mouth, and when you are free, such as winter, you don't have to work much for two or three months.

On October 8th, after harvesting the grain, Li Yuanshan sighed: "There is not much of this grain, or I won't plant it in the next year, and I will change to flue-cured tobacco, otherwise I will be very tired when I harvest it." ”

"Baogu still has to be planted, or the chickens will be gone. Yang Guangming said, "What are you afraid of when you are tired, you are afraid that you will have no money and no food, and you will never be hungry and cold, and you don't know how bitter it is! Besides, so many people are not too tired to plant such a little land." ”

"The problem is that I can't be idle all the time, the smoke hasn't finished baking yet, and then I'm going to pull the tea fruit again. Li Yuanshan said, "After this period of time, I'm afraid everyone has lost four or five pounds." ”

"Not really. Yang Guangli said with a smile, "If you eat poorly when you are slack, how can you grow meat, although you have a lot of labor when you are busy with farming, you eat well, and your body is still strong when you are busy." ”

"When you can eat well in the slack, it will be comfortable!" Yang Mingyi imagined.

"You don't have to think about it, you can eat well next year. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "Next year, raise five or six thousand chickens, raise more than 100 pigs, have eggs and pork, more oil and water, and consume less grain. ”

"By the way, speaking of which, the chicken farm consumes a lot of food in winter. Li Yuanshan said to Zhai Fanghong, "I think we have to collect more food to be enough, oh no, most people don't have enough food to eat, and if you want to sell it, you can sell it and sell it to the purchasing station." We also have to keep the chaff of grain and wheat to feed the pigs and chickens, so we can't find food for the chickens!"

"Well, food is definitely not available. Zhai Fanghong smiled, "You only think about it now, good guy, when you hatched the chicks before, you just thought about more, but you didn't expect the chickens to eat too." From spring to autumn, the chickens can rush outside to find food, but in winter, the grass is withered and the insects are gone, so you can't go hungry if you don't have food. But I've got all that in mind, I can buy some grass seeds. There are so many barren mountains that seeds will naturally bear in the fall, so we can sell grass seeds for some money, which is much cheaper than buying bran. ”

"That's a good idea!" Li Yuanshan smiled, "Well, there are also sumac seeds, this thing is better than grass seeds, and there are many grass seeds." "Every now and then he makes something that he needs to use lacquer, and he's harvested it a few times this year, so he thought of it.

"Sumac seeds?" Yang Guangming thought for a while and said, "This is okay! Suac, there are a lot of companies, sumac seeds are very hard, and they are not easy to mold when they are taken back and dried, so when you want to use them, you can just push them with a big grinder." "Sumac seeds are too hard to feed chickens directly like grass seeds, otherwise chickens and pigs will waste if they can't digest them. In winter and spring, smooth and skinless sumac seeds are often found on the stones where birds often stay, which are indigestible and pulled out by birds.

Although the price of these things is very low, you can also earn some pocket money, especially children, children are not allowed to go to work, not only to study, but also to work, unless they are helping their own adults to do the work is not the same. Therefore, these children who do not have to go to work can carry a bamboo pole and sickle on their backs, go to pick some grass seeds or some sumac seeds, and they can also sell them for some money. After getting the news, not only the children of other production teams, but even the children of their own production teams also went out.

When the flue-cured tobacco is sold, the grain is also taken back to dry and thresh, and then handed over to the public grain.

This year, the production team has expanded the area of tobacco planting, and there is not as much grain as in previous years, and in addition, it is necessary to raise chickens and pigs, so this year's production team will no longer sell grain.

Seeing that the crops in the field were finished, wheat and rape were planted on the dry land, and then they began to divide the money and grain.

Li Yuanshan took the account book and looked at it carefully for a while, and said, "This is not good for agriculture! Dozens of people have worked hard for a year, and in the end, one person who has more work will be divided into 90 yuan. ”

"It's good to have 90 yuan, but the other production teams have even less, basically only 20 or 30 yuan, and many people have paid back the money they owe to the production team, and there are only a few yuan left. Yang Guangxin said with a smile, "We planted a lot of tobacco this year, and we built a chicken farm, and we also made a lot of money, so we divided so much, and last year it was less than 40 yuan." ”

"I looked at it, although the money for flue-cured tobacco accounts for most of it, but there is so much land, it will not be able to expand in the future, but the mountain territory is large, and the scale of raising chickens and sheep can be expanded. Li Yuanshan said, "This will be the main direction of the future development of our production team." ”

"Well, raising chickens and sheep is still very expensive, but as for getting sick, we are not afraid. Zhai Fanghong said, "I calculated, the number of chickens in the chicken farm will increase by three times, and the money earned in a year will be almost the same as that of tobacco planting." Moreover, this chicken farm does not use so much labor. ”

"But it's not bad to plant cigarettes. Yang Guangxin said with a smile, "This year is much better than last year, last year's most expensive was only eight pounds, and this year's three pieces have more than ten pounds." "At home, I divide it myself, and it is divided into one, two, three and two levels of green smoke, plus a variegated color, a total of six levels, but the acquisition station has more grades, divided into one to six levels of middle yellow, one to five levels of upper yellow, one to three levels of green and yellow, and one final level, a total of fifteen levels. For example, the fifth grade of Zhonghuang is five corners and five pounds, the fourth level of Zhonghuang is seven dimes a catty, the third level of Zhonghuang is eight corners and eight, and the first level of Zhonghuang is a piece of three, the gap between them is very large, the better the tobacco leaves, the higher the price.

"yes! Good cigarettes this year. Song Shi'an said with a smile, "We have to continue next year, and if we put more dung, it will definitely be better than this year." Last year, most of them were four or five grades, and most of them were three or four this year, and there was a difference of six or seven dimes in one catty. If it is planted well next year, most of it is second and third grade, it will be beautiful!"

"It's hard to go up the ladder a year. Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "Tobacco is very fat, and we have no chemical fertilizer, so we can only use dung, how can we grow such good tobacco, it would be better than this year." ”

"As long as you keep it like this year, you will have money in a few years!" Yang Guangming said with a smile.

"Now, aren't you in a hurry to find a partner for your family Minghong?" Li Yuanshan said with a smile, "If the other production teams knew that our life was so good, then they wouldn't have to come over." If he is also admitted to college next year, it will be even more terrible, find you a daughter-in-law in the city. ”

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