Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 130
Acacia tree is also known as the life-saving tree in the Loess Plateau.

At the beginning of May, clusters of pale yellow millet buds finally hung on the acacia trees around Guanzi Village.

Before the white flowers bloomed, the mothers-in-law and aunts in the village couldn't wait to start taking action.They tied the sickle to the top of the stick, cut off the branches of the acacia tree, and took the baskets of acacia flowers home.

If you can't finish a meal, you can also dry it and store it.

Those broken children in the village seem to have won some good business. Many of them climbed directly on the tree trunks, stuffing a lot of acacia flowers into their mouths, and they will come down when they are full.

For these hungry little guys, acacia flowers are definitely a rare delicacy.

Sweet and fragrant, much more delicious than yuqian.

Even Wang Manyin's family was no exception. When he got up in the morning, he saw the acacia tree beside the dung pile turned white. He tied a sickle and cut off half of the basket, preparing to let the orchids cook as steamed vegetables at night.

Of course, Wang Manyin was just trying to make something fresh, and many people in the village were just serving as food.

In terms of using ingredients, the mothers-in-law and aunts of Guanzi Village have used their intelligence to the extreme.In addition to making steamed vegetables with acacia flower noodles, it can also be made into vegetable dumplings, vegetable boxes, and vegetable cakes.

Even scald it in a boiling water pot, sprinkle some scallions, salt, and a few drops of sesame oil, and it will be a delicious cold dish.

Wang Manyin has seen the sorghum noodle dumpling eaten by Mao Dan, which is black and red after steaming, and then mixed with acacia flowers, the color can hardly be described in words.

But for the villagers, it doesn't matter if they look ugly, as long as they can eat enough.

The blooming of acacia flowers means that many people will save a lot of food in the future, and they can't live without three meals a day.

If it were Wang Manyin, he would definitely vomit.

Generally, the acacia flowers growing on the sunny slopes of the plateau will bloom one week earlier, and then the ones at the bottom of the cliff.On and off, the flowering period can last for more than half a month.

After eating acacia flowers, and persisting for a while, it is almost time to harvest peas and lentils.Harvest the lentils and harvest the winter wheat... When the new crops are eaten, the yearly spring famine will be completely over.

In summer, there are more things to eat in the fields.Amaranth, horse lotus, pig's hair, car wheel, wild leek, wild garlic and so on.

Just dig a basket, and the whole family can have a meal.

After a few more months of dealing with it, it will be time to harvest the autumn crops again.

The suffering people on the Loess Plateau are like the crops they planted themselves, one crop after another, stubbornly going through spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Whether you are hungry or full, you will always reproduce.

The acacia tree at the gate of Wang Manyin's house was as thick as a tile pot. I wonder if it was because it had been watered several times with spring water, but it grew particularly lush this year.

After he cut off a lot of branches with ease, he kept the orchids busy while he rushed to work on the construction site.

As soon as he arrived on the earth dam, he saw Wang Lianshun talking with someone with a full face of excitement.

At this moment, seeing that the laborers of the second team were almost all there, he cleared his throat and said, "Don't work, everyone, I want to tell you some good news. This year's Shige Festival commune has finally come back. Those who are short of food at home, Report to the accountant as soon as possible. If there is no shortage of food, forget it."

"Uncle Lian Shun, you are not talking nonsense, there is no shortage of food in our village."

"That's right, if it wasn't for the bit of slag bought by Man Yin, my house would have been shut down for the last month..."

"When will we get it, let's go early, don't be like last year, we won't be able to get good food if it's too late."

All the commune members on the construction site were excited and chattering.

Wang Mingqiang, who was originally standing in the crowd, opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.He just walked aside silently, drooping his head.

There is something particular about reselling food. With the ingredients of his family, he is not qualified to eat it at all.

"Everyone be quiet and listen to me," Wang Lianshun yelled again when he saw the chaos.

"Last year, two villages suffered bloodshed because of queuing at the grain station compound. This year, the higher-ups specifically explained that everyone should not rush to the grain station. The production team will bring back the grain, and then we will divide it among ourselves. According to Last year's year-end settlement, the second team can receive 28 and a half catties per person. There are dried sweet potatoes, sorghum noodles, and wheat bran, and the prices are different. After work at noon, each family discusses what food they want, and then reimburses it to Fugui. Pay in advance, and then deduct the year-end dividends..."

Wang Lianshun's meeting was simple and neat, and he didn't shout too many slogans, and settled the matter with a few words.

Is it enough, three hundred and sixty.

The so-called resale food is actually to supplement the rations of the commune members according to this standard.

This is one of the reasons why many production teams in the South chose to conceal their grain production.If you report more, you will pay more, and if you report less, you will pay less.

But if you want to do this, you must first hide it from the cadres stationed in the village.

With the conditions of Wang Manyin's family, there is naturally no shortage of dozens of catties of grain.But he didn't intend to be special, so he followed the trend and signed up.

Strictly speaking, Wang Manyin belongs to the category of people who take advantage.He didn't even join the production team last year, and he didn't make any contribution to the surplus grain at all.

Because of the resale of grain, everyone's working atmosphere has become much more enthusiastic, and they have been talking about it all morning.

After lunch, a group of people surrounded Wang Fugui to pay the bill.

Wang Manyin was bored, so he leaned over to look at the statistics sheet.

Not surprisingly, most people choose to buy wheat bran.Because this thing is the cheapest, a penny a catty.

There are also some commune members who buy dried sweet potatoes for eight cents a catty, which is more than two yuan.Sorghum noodles are more expensive, at a dime a catty, and fewer people choose them.

In fact, the price of resale grain is really not expensive, but the people in Guanzi Village are used to saving, and they want to buy cheap ones.

Wang Manyin also chose wheat bran.Even if the couple don't eat it, they can still put it at home to make a show.

Before it was too late, when the list was finished, Wang Lian sent a few people to the grain station on a walking tractor, and Wang Manyin was among them.

As a result, when they rushed to the grain station, they realized that they were a little late.

Members of the villages pulled the carts, almost completely blocking the entire grain station compound.

Helpless, Wang Fugui had to let everyone wait outside, and first registered with the collective resale grain book.

Wang Manyin was chatting with a few people when he suddenly heard someone calling his brother-in-law behind him.

"Shao'an, why are you here? Didn't go to work today?" Seeing the person coming, he asked in surprise.

"I'm on duty, and I heard that the grain station distributes grain for resale in the afternoon, so I thought you might come over." Shao'an replied, and greeted the others in Guanzi Village with a smile.

Looking at his brother-in-law's expression, Wang Manyin knew something was wrong.He explained to Liu Xiangyang, and led him to a distance.

"Brother-in-law, have you told the village about the promotion of the new bacterial fertilizer?" With no outsiders, Shao'an explained his purpose directly.

"I said hello earlier, you can go at any time. But what about your side, can you do it?" Wang Manyin asked again in a low voice.

When my brother-in-law visited the door last time, he made it very clear that the strains produced by the bacterial fertilizer factory of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative have a very low qualification rate, and there is no way to apply them on a large scale.

"It's okay, if I operate it, it shouldn't be a big problem."

"Didn't it mean that a sterile environment is needed, and it is easy to contaminate?" Wang Manyin asked curiously seeing the change in his brother-in-law's tone.

"We have recently improved the process and equipment, and the success rate has increased a lot... You know how much effort we have spent in successfully cultivating stable strains. I asked someone to go to the county town to buy agar, and ordered a sterile box and sulfur. In addition to inoculation The room had to be kept at a constant temperature, and it was stuffy and airtight, and I was spinning around for hours, almost fainting in it..."

Speaking of this matter, Shaoan quietly poured out a few bitter words.

His character is born with a tenacity of not admitting defeat. Since he chooses to do something, he wants to do it well.After failing many times, I have explored some experience.

Because of this, he dared to find his brother-in-law.

"Isn't this a good thing? Why are you still frowning?"

"According to the plan of the supply and marketing cooperative, this thing will be promoted and applied in various villages, and we will also be asked to train a group of technicians... I am afraid that a sterile environment alone will stump many people."

"Besides, bran powder cakes are also used as nutrients when producing bacterial fertilizers in large quantities. At least ten catties per mu of land. Which production team is willing to use this?"

This is one of the reasons why Shaoan is worried.

In a word, the new bacterial fertilizer is indeed a good technology. If the production environment meets the standards, it will definitely be no problem to increase grain production.

The technical level of the key members is not up to the level, and in the end it takes a lot of work and effort, just a mess.

Especially the bran... This is something people eat, and it was included in the resale grain distributed by the grain station just now.

If the production team below hears that they use bran as bacterial fertilizer, they will definitely be scolded as a prodigal son.

"Take your time and try to achieve results in our village. It may be easier to promote." Wang Manyin can only comfort in this way.

He comes from later generations, so he naturally knows that a sterile environment alone cannot be achieved by the current rural production team.

"I am still confident about this. We have done experiments before, and the comparison effect of plants using bacterial fertilizer is quite obvious."

"That's good"

After confirming the time with his brother-in-law, Wang Manyin returned.

There are more than 50 households in the second team, and this time they received more than 8000 catties of resale grain.

It would take at least a day of tossing if it was pulled by a donkey cart in the past.Now that there are walking tractors, it is much more convenient.Liu Xiangyang drove back and forth four times, and by the time it got dark, he had transported all the returned food back to the breeding room compound.

People who got the news surrounded the entire compound without eating.

Seeing this posture, Wang Lianshun didn't plan to keep the food for the night, and directly ordered everyone to line up to get the food.

"Uncle Lian Shun, my family has a lot of laborers and eats a lot. Can we share more? I heard that in some villages, the division is based on labor." Wang Junxiang was already yelling.

Hearing this, the eyes of many labor-intensive people shine.

They feel that it is unfair to distribute according to the head, and let the more children take advantage of it.I work hard every day in the production team, and finally get the same amount, which is really unreasonable.

However, Wang Lianshun did not waver at all, and directly shook his head and refused: "The resale food will be distributed according to the head. If your family gets a catty more, others will get a catty less. We are all in the same production team, so we can't watch them starve, right?"

There is no way, collective affairs are so troublesome.Especially when food is involved, quarrels and fights are common.

However, Wang Lianshun tried his best to keep a bowl of water level, and his prestige did not build up in a day.

At this moment, although some people were not reconciled, they stopped shouting.

(End of this chapter)