Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 147 Summer Harvest Begins

"It's [-]% if there is more, it depends on the sky." Wang Fugui replied uncertainly.

Wang Manyin didn't know how the advanced egg incubators of the later generations were, but the earth kang can have a hatching rate of 80.00%, which is already considered pretty good, so he might consider giving it a try.

After thinking about it, he was concerned about the starting price: "How much are you going to sell for a chicken?"

"If you pay on credit, the hen is [-] cents and the cockerel is [-] cents. It's [-] cents cheaper for cash. But if you give it to our village members, it must be cheaper." Wang Fugui obviously thought about it in detail, and checked the account. The calculation is very clear.

Calculated by incubating 50 eggs at a time, you can earn 30 yuan.Excluding costs and various costs, you can still have [-] yuan, which is not too low.

Just like what Wang Lianshun said, several communes around the Shige Festival in spring were plagued by chicken plague, and more than half of the local chickens in many villages died. This market will be very large.

Not to mention hatching [-] chicks, even [-] chickens can be sold.

Chicken butt bank, not just talk.In Guanzi Village, because the earth keels were planed in the spring, every family has some spare money.

And some families in other villages don't even have salt money.

So it is certain to make money, but other situations must also be considered.

Wang Manyin said worriedly: "Uncle Lian Shun, this must be a good thing, but I don't know if the commune will allow it?"

To be honest, he is very ambivalent about starting a side job now.On the one hand, I hope that there will be more ways to get money in the village, so that the members can have some living money in their pockets.Especially after visiting Liujiawan, this idea is even stronger.

On the other hand, I don't want anything to happen to the villagers.

Now the wind direction in the original Xi County is loose and tight, and the staff of Shigejie Commune have different opinions.Some have stricter requirements, while others turn a blind eye.

"I'm afraid. In the past, no one cares about the little chicks who got credit. Besides, we are a sideline business of the production team, and the money didn't fall into personal pockets..."

Wang Lianshun showed some pride.

He led the members of the second team to successfully build an earth dam and obtained more than ten acres of paddy fields. Now he has more ideas in his mind.Of course, on the other hand, I was also anxious to repay the loan of several thousand yuan.

"Just make up your mind, let's take your time and don't make too much noise." Seeing that the other party had made up his mind, Wang Manyin didn't say anything more.

The predecessor ran around all year round and had too little daily contact with the members of the village. He thought Wang Lianshun was a good old man who behaved well when things happened and didn't like to make troubles.

Now Wang Manyin's views have completely changed: it's not that people don't want to mess around, but they just don't want to mess around.Still very courageous about things that are recognized.

In addition, what Wang Lianshun said is correct, you can't do nothing just because you are afraid.

Now the second team of Guanzi Village is regarded as a typical publicity by the commune, which should be regarded as an extra layer of protection.In addition, the commune also issued a task every year to have native chickens and eggs. If there were no chickens, where would the eggs come from?

Seeing that the matter of the egg was confirmed, Wang Lianshun said again: "Manyin, I will find you a good job. How about following Yanqiang and the others to watch the green vigil for the production team? Five work points a night."

There are too many commune members who are short of food.

Without food, many people moved their minds, and when the crops were about to mature, they quietly went to the fields to steal food at night.

Therefore, every year before the harvest, each village will arrange people to watch the green vigil.

Of course, the general choice is to be able to calm things down, with good composition and performance.

Watching for more than ten days and nights can earn nearly a hundred more work points, which is not a small amount of income for the members of the commune.After all, this job is not tiring, just stay for a while, so many people rushed to do it.

Wang Lianshun assigned the errand to him, apparently as compensation for buying the sheep.

Knowing that the other party had good intentions, Wang Manyin still shook his head: "Uncle Lian Shun, forget it, I usually sleep relatively hard at night, you can find someone else."

Hunger steals the heart, it has been like this since ancient times.

Stealing food from the production team is definitely wrong, but seeing a family of children lying on the kang screaming and screaming hungry, and there is no other way out, what can I do.

To put it bluntly, it is still poor and noisy.

Belonging to the same production team, Wang Manyin really encountered such a situation, should he pay attention or ignore it?

I am not short of that work, so let others worry about it.With this kind of skill, it is more fragrant to hug my daughter-in-law.

After talking about business, the three of them returned to the breeding room compound.

After Wang Manyin found the knife in the walking tractor, he was not in a hurry to go home.

Instead, like everyone else, stand by the pot and wait.When I was planning to divide the meat, I just brought a bowl home, so I didn't have to run back and forth.

All men, women and children in the village are very enthusiastic about eating meat.

Wang Shouchang started to get busy after eating in the morning. At this moment, the yellow mutton was already stewed.The fragrant hot air permeated the courtyard, causing many people's throats to move.

The gazelle weighed about fifty catties. Calculated according to the meat yield of sheep, a catty would yield six taels of meat, which was only thirty catties.

A household can almost divide two or three pieces of meat.

This is already a lot, enough for many people to have a good meal, even richer than the Chinese New Year.

But fearing that the meat would not be enough, Wang Shouchang poured a large basket of old salted vegetables into the cauldron and stirred it back and forth with a large shovel.

The so-called old salted vegetables are dried pickled sauerkraut.

The pickles in Guanzi Village are generally developed in late autumn and can be eaten until Qingming.

After Qingming, the weather gets warmer, and sauerkraut is easy to change its taste.

People will steam the unfinished sauerkraut in a pot, then dry it and store it. This is the old salted cabbage.

This stuff is easy to store and can be eaten all year round.

When you are busy with work, just grab a handful of dried salted vegetables and wash them with boiling water, then cut garlic sprouts or add a small pepper, it is a plate of meals.

When many children are hungry, they often eat salted vegetables as snacks.

When the old salted vegetables are boiled, the hot stewed yellow lamb is officially out of the pot.

Those broken children immediately held up the big bowl, one by one scrambling to get to the pot.It was Wang Manjun who yelled several times before letting them line up.

Wang Manyin borrowed a bowl and also joined the team.

As a hero, he obviously received preferential treatment.Wang Shouchang dropped two spoons, scooping up at least half a catty of meat.

In this regard, no one crooked mouth to say anything.

When I arrived home with a big bowl, the door of the cave was still locked, obviously the orchid hadn't come back yet.

Seeing that it was getting late, Wang Manyin had to cook by himself.

With a bowl of stew as a base, lunch is easy to make.Burn half a pot of corn paste, beat two eggs in it, and make a few black nests.

When he was almost done with the meal, he saw his mother-in-law returning with the earthen pot in her hands.

Seeing her husband, Lan Hua immediately asked excitedly, "Guess how many scorpions I caught this morning?"

"How much?" Wang Manyin asked very cooperatively.

Judging from the expression on the mother-in-law's face, you can tell that the harvest is not small.

"More than 130, all thanks to Rhubarb..."

After listening, Wang Manyin was also a little surprised.

In the past few days, Lanhua took rhubarb to more than a dozen cliff ditches and caught more than 1000 scorpions.Fearing that too many scorpions would get together to fight, she deliberately packed away the empty jars at home.

I earned almost 20 yuan, no wonder I was so excited.

But looking at the sweat on Auntie's forehead, Wang Manyin felt more distressed.I can only explain again, don't go too far, just look around the village.

In fact, it can't be caught for a few days... The summer harvest will start soon, and many women and aunts in the village will go to the fields to help.If Orchid takes rhubarb to catch scorpions again, it will be a little out of date.

After the orchid rested for a while, the two began to eat the stewed meat.

In the afternoon, Wang Manyin had nothing to do, so he also accompanied him to catch scorpions.

When it was getting dark, they both went home.

After dinner, it was already dark outside.

The two of them were not in a hurry to go back to the house to study. They each moved a chair and sat on the side of the court to enjoy the cool and chat.

The breeze caressed gently, bringing coolness to the early summer night.

There are stars above the head, as if you can reach out and pick them up.

The two kittens ran back and forth around their owner, playing with each other.

On the other side of the deep ditch, the chattering voices of broken babies could be heard from time to time.In the Dongla River farther away, frogs croaked and disappeared...

In such an environment, Wang Manyin felt that time slowed down.The hustle and bustle of later generations is getting farther and farther away from me.

They didn't go back to sleep until the whole village was completely silent.

Little is better than newlyweds.

Last night was a special situation, the couple didn't have any love for each other, now they make up again.

After a day of recuperation, Wang Manyin's energy and spirit had completely recovered, so handing in homework was naturally indispensable.

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Before the wheat is ripe, the lentils are beginning to be harvested.

The Loess Plateau has experienced nine droughts in ten years, but summer is an exception, with frequent flash floods and heavy rains.Therefore, people pay attention to risk diversification and plant some crops of all kinds.

There are also sayings such as "seven flowers on one floor, if you don't accept this one, you will accept that one", "eighty kinds of millet, seventy kinds of grains".

The Loess Plateau not only has many varieties of millet, but also dozens of beans.Lentils, peas, black beans, mung beans, soybeans, red beans... can be planted in spring and summer.

The summer harvest has officially started, and Wang Manyin is naturally not idle.

Liu Lanhua was at home, and he also went to work with the production team.

Fried beans with burnt wheat.

Once the beans are ripe, they are not easy to harvest, and the seeds will drop if touched.

Before the lentil pods turned black, Wang Lian and the others began to work in the field.More than a dozen commune members lined up in a long dragon, each wielding a sickle and cutting forward, which was a scene of enthusiasm.

Coupled with everyone talking and laughing, this job seems easy, but the key is tiring.

The lentil seedlings were short due to lack of water and fat, and Wang Manyin was too tall, so it took a lot of effort to bend down.

While stretching, he saw many mothers-in-law quietly pinching open the lentil pods with their hands when they were cutting the bean seedlings, and chewing the beans inside.

Wang Manyin understood their thoughts, eating raw lentils for half a day can save a lot of food at noon.

But this thing has a disadvantage, flatulence after eating too much.

Burp on the top, fart on the bottom.

Not only mothers-in-law and aunts do this, but also many laborers.

Of course, everyone still winked, and they didn't go too far, and no one dared to secretly put it in their pockets.This is also a rule that everyone tacitly agrees to. You can eat something, but taking it home is considered stealing.

As for Wang Lianshun next to him, he didn't seem to see him.

At this stall, basically every family has run out of food... The laborers must not have enough to eat at home.Eating some lentils can also give you a little more strength.

After half an hour of cutting, Wang Manyin felt that her waist did not look like her own, so she hurriedly applied to Wang Lianshun for an au pair to help carry lentil bundles down the mountain.

The lentil field is located on a hill, and walking tractors and rack carts cannot enter the field, so they can only be transported outward by hand.

This job is very suitable for Wang Manyin.He carried two bundles at a time, weighing almost a hundred catties, and seemed to be relaxed.

(End of this chapter)