happy daughter-in-law

Chapter 88 Grain Harvest
At the end of September and the beginning of October, the village ushered in another rush to harvest.

The millet is already ripe, if it is not harvested in time, if the rice grains inside fall to the ground, it will be impossible to pick it up, and besides a group of sparrows are staring at it, no one wants the fruits of a year's hard work to be picked up by some beasts .

So the whole village began to work hard again. After the millet was harvested, there were soybeans, broomcorns, other whole grains, and then rice and sweet potatoes.

By the time these grains are returned to the warehouse, it has already entered mid-October.

Although Shen Yunfang joined the big army on the day when the food was distributed, she usually plucked the land of her own home. In the past two months or so, she has basically been making up for it every day. In the space, she basically harvested it in a week. She took a life essence for two consecutive months, and she didn't feel anything else, except that she felt stronger and more energetic to do farm work.

In this way, she collects the sweet potatoes and soybeans in her own plot and backyard sooner or later, and takes time off to harvest sweet potatoes at the secret base after work (at this time, no one in the village is going up the mountain in the middle of the busy season, and they are all harvesting grain at home), even She didn't let go of the sweet potatoes she planted in grass husks either.

How about saying that sweet potatoes are promising crops? In such a harsh environment, when Shen Yunfang was digging sweet potatoes, she saw a bunch of small sweet potatoes coming out from under the seedlings. Although each one was only as thick as a thumb, there were quite a lot of them. up.

There was no hope for those sweet potatoes, so it was a surprise to receive two baskets of thumb-thick sweet potatoes.

After the harvest was finished, she was exhausted. It is conceivable how tired the farmers who have always been on the front line of labor are.

But what is gratifying is that this year is a bumper harvest year. Like last year, Shen Yunfang received 120 catties of rice, 480 catties of wheat, [-] catties of corn, [-] catties of soybeans, [-] catties of millet, [-] catties of millet, and rice beans. Ten catties, ten catties of mung beans, a total of [-] catties.

The private plots of each family also had a bumper harvest.Shen Yunfang's private plot and the backyard were combined, and there was a total of nearly one and a half mu of land for grain planting. The corn harvested was [-] catties, plus the [-] catties of corn that Shen Yeqing asked for back from Qian Xinxue, plus the distribution from the production team. , she got a total of one thousand one hundred catties of corn.

The sweet potato production team also planted some sweet potatoes, but they didn’t divide them. They were all feed for the animals in the team. Each family grew their own sweet potatoes. Shen Yunfang added all the sweet potatoes together and weighed them, and they harvested a total of more than 300 catties.There are more than 700 catties harvested in the back mountain alone, and more than 100 catties of those planted in grass husks. Because more corn is planted in the private plot and backyard, a total of more than 400 catties has been harvested.

But these old sweet potatoes can't be seen in the light, and she can't explain the source, so she has received space for all the sweet potatoes harvested in the back mountain. On the bright side, it is the sweet potatoes of more than 600 catties, large and small.

But just this made Dashuan's daughter-in-law envious enough.

"Yunfang, don't you think it's strange? You're a blind planter who harvests more than me, a well-served one. Is there any reason?" Dashuan's daughter-in-law waved the small whip in her hand to urge the old cow to move faster. , while talking to Shen Yunfang.

Two people are milling rice on the stone mill of the village production team. This is a purely manual operation. The rice needs to be evenly poured into the milling trough, and the old cow pulls the milling roller to mill the rice round and round.

Generally, 150 catties of rice can be milled in one trough, and it takes about two or three hours to grind a trough of rice.

From the day the production team distributed the rice, the stone mill in the team has never rested. The villagers lined up for three hours, and the four old cows in the team also lined up to grind 24 hours a day.

Shen Yunfang and Dashuan's family were relatively lucky. They were still next to each other during the daytime on the third day. The two of them came to mill rice together, and they could chat without being too boring.

"It's unreasonable. I'm not blind, it's based on science." Shen Yunfang is determined not to let her talent be obliterated, interplanting has a scientific basis.

"What's the scientific basis? After studying for a few days, you can say that you have studied science." Dashuan's daughter-in-law didn't believe it.There is no school in Gaijiatun. When the children in the village reach school age, they go to the next village to go to primary school. They walk for more than an hour every morning and evening. Many people insist that it is good to know a few big characters after primary school. As far as she knows In order to avoid labor, this girl, Yunfang, insisted on going to school when her mother was alive, but after her mother died, she never went to school.

In the past few years, sports were carried out everywhere. The school really doesn’t teach anything. As long as you insist on going to school, you can go on. So Shen Yunfang was already a high school student at a young age.This summer, she asked her uncle to find someone and get her high school diploma back.Anyway, she is also a high school graduate now.

"Hey, sister-in-law, don't you believe it. Although I didn't learn anything at school, I can read. I tell you, don't tell others. Last time I went to help sister Yunfeng of my second uncle's house. Have you gone? I found a few books there, and one of them was about how to farm the land. I learned from that book." Shen Yunfang had already thought about it, and revealed some of her own strength in a timely manner. Raising chickens and pigs by myself is better than the villagers. Others don't know, but Mrs. Wang's family must know. There must be a reason for these.

There are all these books, but how much you can learn depends on your ability, so Shen Yunfang thinks this is the best way to evade.

"Really?" Dashuan's daughter-in-law didn't think that this girl Yunfang was really not a blind planter, so it was said in the book.

"That's right, the book is still in my house. You can read it when you have time. The book says that there is something about the roots of soybeans. Oh, I can't tell. What I understand is that soybeans can be interplanted in cornfields." Fertile land can also increase production, look at the production of my family’s private land this year, what is said in the book is still correct.” After talking too much, Dashuan’s daughter-in-law can’t understand, so there is no need to explain it so clearly.

To be honest, Shen Yunfang didn't know what to say, hehe.

"Well, that's fine. When you have time, you can show the book to your brother Dashuan, and let him learn it, and I will do the same next year." Dashuan's family is knowledgeable, and he must read .

"Okay." Shen Yunfang agreed straight away, "Sister-in-law, it's almost there." She pointed to the roller.

Dashuan's daughter-in-law took a look and said, "It's almost done, and it will be over after two turns."

Each of the two families has milled a trough of rice, which is almost finished.

"Hey, tell me, can Taoshu Village come to ask you for food again this year?" Dashuan's daughter-in-law asked gossipingly.

Ever since people in the village knew that Uncle Shen's family helped Shen Yunfang go to Lihuatun to get back the food that was borrowed last year, and scolded Qian Xinxue away, some people speculated whether Taoshu Village could come this year. Daughter-in-law Shuan was also very trustworthy, so she discussed this matter with the person involved.

"I don't know about that." Shen Yunfang really couldn't figure it out. It stands to reason that last year they could go so easily and had to go to a hundred catties of rice. If they didn't come this year, they would be fools.But Li Hongjun came back in the first month of this year, and probably told his family about it, so it's hard to say whether he can come again.

"Huh? Yunfang, look at the man who passed by just now, does it look like your future uncle?" Dashuan's wife looked at the man who just passed outside the production team, and it seemed to be Yunfang's future uncle. She had seen one before. Back, not sure.

(End of this chapter)