Chapter 62 Reclaiming Wasteland and Farming
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Lu Feng Shi De Bai Gong Zhu
I still sell them by the piece, but the two times before the year were cheaper, six for five cents, and after the year they were one cent each, for a total of 11 yuan.
In order not to cause others to have a rest, I don’t sell on Sundays. During holidays, I don’t dare to go to the vegetable market to sell eggs. It is appropriate to sell 50 eggs a week, no more or less. If I go there to sell them every day, It will definitely attract the attention of others.
But in order not to be noticed, when I was selling persimmons, I picked up some sallow ones on my face. When I was selling eggs, I took off the itch, but my eyebrows were raised and there were two stuffed in my mouth. A piece of cotton, no matter who looked at it, would not recognize that it was the same person.
However, at the beginning of spring, I saw a chicken seller and secretly bought ten chickens, nine pullets and one little rooster.After a while, I saw someone buying ducks and bought 10 ducklings, nine females and one male. Even the big white geese also bought these. Now there are finally living creatures in the space.
In 56, there was another thing, which was to open up wasteland for farming.
Here, except when Uncle Shen is at home, Aunt Zhou takes her eldest brother and the others back to her own home for dinner. At other times, the food from both families is eaten together. As for other oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc., Aunt Zhou eats it every time. I will give my mother five yuan a month for living expenses.
But as we grew older and practiced martial arts, the physical exertion was too great, and there was not enough food to eat. The most important thing was that we could not buy food freely since 53. In the past, the third brother, the fourth brother, and I When we were both young, we didn’t realize it, but suddenly one day, Sister Nan Nan and Aunt Zhou said, “Mom, the third and fourth children always say they don’t have enough to eat.”
"What's going on, Nannan, tell me"
"This is not about practicing martial arts in the morning and going to school in the afternoon. I was afraid that they would be hungry, so I gave each person a wowotou to put in their schoolbags to eat when they are hungry."
"What about you and your elder brother?"
"My eldest brother and I have grown up, so we can still tolerate it. It just started recently." Nannan didn't dare to tell the truth.
After hearing this, how could Aunt Zhou not know? The two of them must have left the food for those two people to eat. Besides, the children are now growing up and have gone everywhere to buy food. Arrived, I remember that my mouth was full of cannons.Only then did my mother find out what was going on and said, "It's my fault that I didn't think of it. When I should have taken them to that yard, I should have tidied up the vegetable patch and planted some food. I will have a rest tomorrow. Let's do this. I'll take them to plow the ground. I'll go to the vegetable market in two days to buy some sweet potato seedlings and plant them. When the sweet potato vines grow, they can be eaten. From tomorrow on, after school in the afternoon, we won't Let Shen Xi and Shen Bei run out to play and dig wild vegetables. It is spring now and it is the time to eat wild vegetables."
"What you're saying is, why didn't I remember it?"
"That's because you were anxious. If you had told me earlier, wouldn't it have been solved earlier?"
"Too"
"As for food, it's easy. Go to the surrounding villages and buy some from farmers' homes."
"Can it be done"
"Why not"
"But we are two women"
"We don't need to go, let Shen Dong go."
"This"
"He is a young man. He took Shen Xi and Shen Bei with him when he went there, and no one told him."
"Okay, let's do it then."
"That piece of land is not big and can be done in one morning. In the afternoon, let Shen Dong take his two younger brothers to visit a few more houses and sell them and put them in the yard. There is no need to carry them back in a hurry. After practicing martial arts every day, , let them stay a few pounds each, and slowly bring them back, so that no one will notice."
"This is a good idea. No one would have thought that a few children would have food." After saying this, Aunt Zhou took out the money and handed it to her mother, and then said: "Our family has a large population, and wheat costs 50 yuan, so you two are just the two of us." , just pay 20 yuan first.”
Mom didn’t argue with Aunt Zhou, she just said, “Okay.”
After hearing this, I rolled my eyes in my heart. If it weren't for me, the food sales would have to be made a year in advance. What I eat the most at home is cornmeal steamed buns. Over the past few years, I have quietly added more to the kitchen. I bought 200 kilograms of cornmeal, 20 kilograms of rice, 30 kilograms of white flour, 100 kilograms of sweet potato noodles, 100 kilograms of sorghum, and 20 kilograms of other kinds of beans.It was also after recently worrying about space that I discovered that there was so much less food. After thinking about it, I couldn’t control the food that eats space, but also had to find a place to grow some. Then I remembered that there was an open space in the martial arts training ground, and I wanted to find some time. , find a reason to talk to mom, no idea, Aunt Zhou said it first, come on, no need to come up with ideas, that’s good, hehe.
Just like that, at dawn the next day, we came to the martial arts training ground with our dinner and lunch. After practicing martial arts and eating some solid food.We opened a vegetable patch to see if our martial arts training area is not too big, so we cleared out an open space.Looking at the time when it was almost noon, he said, "Let's eat first. After dinner, Shen Dong, take Shen Xi and Shen Bei with you, push the cart, and go to several nearby villages to buy some food. It doesn’t matter what kind of food you want. The current food prices are: rice is 1 cents per catty, flour is 6 cents per catty, corn is 1 cents per catty, soybeans are 8 cents per catty, and other miscellaneous grains are around 1 cents. When you go to the village and negotiate with people, it will not be easy for them if the grain price increases by two cents per kilogram. You know, it is 2 yuan, you can buy it as you see,"
In the afternoon, my mother took Sister Nan and I without going home. Instead, we started digging wild vegetables in a nearby place and told us how to process and preserve these wild vegetables.
In one afternoon, the eldest brother took the third and fourth brothers to several nearby villages and bought 150 kilograms of grain, including 50 kilograms of corn for 300 cents a kilogram and 7 kilograms of soybeans for 43.5 kilograms. 26.5 kilograms of sorghum rice costs [-] cents per kilogram, so a total of [-] yuan was spent, leaving [-] yuan.
From then on, my third and fourth brothers and I carried baskets on our backs and dug wild vegetables together every afternoon after school. The eldest brother and Sister Nan collected the leftover wild vegetables from yesterday afternoon at home and began to dry them.
Sweet potatoes have also been planted in the martial arts training ground. There is about 2 acres of land. A small vegetable patch has been cultivated near the entrance, less than three miles of land. Even vegetables are grown in Aunt Zhou's yard.
In this way, plus the money and coupons that I have to pay for my own food each month, plus the food bought secretly, it is enough to eat, but this is only possible when there is no famine year. It is now 56. , but it is getting closer and closer to 58.I don’t know what it is, but now the third brother and the fourth brother are fighting with me every day
In order not to cause others to have a rest, I don’t sell on Sundays. During holidays, I don’t dare to go to the vegetable market to sell eggs. It is appropriate to sell 50 eggs a week, no more or less. If I go there to sell them every day, It will definitely attract the attention of others.
But in order not to be noticed, when I was selling persimmons, I picked up some sallow ones on my face. When I was selling eggs, I took off the itch, but my eyebrows were raised and there were two stuffed in my mouth. A piece of cotton, no matter who looked at it, would not recognize that it was the same person.
However, at the beginning of spring, I saw a chicken seller and secretly bought ten chickens, nine pullets and one little rooster.After a while, I saw someone buying ducks and bought 10 ducklings, nine females and one male. Even the big white geese also bought these. Now there are finally living creatures in the space.
In 56, there was another thing, which was to open up wasteland for farming.
Here, except when Uncle Shen is at home, Aunt Zhou takes her eldest brother and the others back to her own home for dinner. At other times, the food from both families is eaten together. As for other oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc., Aunt Zhou eats it every time. I will give my mother five yuan a month for living expenses.
But as we grew older and practiced martial arts, the physical exertion was too great, and there was not enough food to eat. The most important thing was that we could not buy food freely since 53. In the past, the third brother, the fourth brother, and I When we were both young, we didn’t realize it, but suddenly one day, Sister Nan Nan and Aunt Zhou said, “Mom, the third and fourth children always say they don’t have enough to eat.”
"What's going on, Nannan, tell me"
"This is not about practicing martial arts in the morning and going to school in the afternoon. I was afraid that they would be hungry, so I gave each person a wowotou to put in their schoolbags to eat when they are hungry."
"What about you and your elder brother?"
"My eldest brother and I have grown up, so we can still tolerate it. It just started recently." Nannan didn't dare to tell the truth.
After hearing this, how could Aunt Zhou not know? The two of them must have left the food for those two people to eat. Besides, the children are now growing up and have gone everywhere to buy food. Arrived, I remember that my mouth was full of cannons.Only then did my mother find out what was going on and said, "It's my fault that I didn't think of it. When I should have taken them to that yard, I should have tidied up the vegetable patch and planted some food. I will have a rest tomorrow. Let's do this. I'll take them to plow the ground. I'll go to the vegetable market in two days to buy some sweet potato seedlings and plant them. When the sweet potato vines grow, they can be eaten. From tomorrow on, after school in the afternoon, we won't Let Shen Xi and Shen Bei run out to play and dig wild vegetables. It is spring now and it is the time to eat wild vegetables."
"What you're saying is, why didn't I remember it?"
"That's because you were anxious. If you had told me earlier, wouldn't it have been solved earlier?"
"Too"
"As for food, it's easy. Go to the surrounding villages and buy some from farmers' homes."
"Can it be done"
"Why not"
"But we are two women"
"We don't need to go, let Shen Dong go."
"This"
"He is a young man. He took Shen Xi and Shen Bei with him when he went there, and no one told him."
"Okay, let's do it then."
"That piece of land is not big and can be done in one morning. In the afternoon, let Shen Dong take his two younger brothers to visit a few more houses and sell them and put them in the yard. There is no need to carry them back in a hurry. After practicing martial arts every day, , let them stay a few pounds each, and slowly bring them back, so that no one will notice."
"This is a good idea. No one would have thought that a few children would have food." After saying this, Aunt Zhou took out the money and handed it to her mother, and then said: "Our family has a large population, and wheat costs 50 yuan, so you two are just the two of us." , just pay 20 yuan first.”
Mom didn’t argue with Aunt Zhou, she just said, “Okay.”
After hearing this, I rolled my eyes in my heart. If it weren't for me, the food sales would have to be made a year in advance. What I eat the most at home is cornmeal steamed buns. Over the past few years, I have quietly added more to the kitchen. I bought 200 kilograms of cornmeal, 20 kilograms of rice, 30 kilograms of white flour, 100 kilograms of sweet potato noodles, 100 kilograms of sorghum, and 20 kilograms of other kinds of beans.It was also after recently worrying about space that I discovered that there was so much less food. After thinking about it, I couldn’t control the food that eats space, but also had to find a place to grow some. Then I remembered that there was an open space in the martial arts training ground, and I wanted to find some time. , find a reason to talk to mom, no idea, Aunt Zhou said it first, come on, no need to come up with ideas, that’s good, hehe.
Just like that, at dawn the next day, we came to the martial arts training ground with our dinner and lunch. After practicing martial arts and eating some solid food.We opened a vegetable patch to see if our martial arts training area is not too big, so we cleared out an open space.Looking at the time when it was almost noon, he said, "Let's eat first. After dinner, Shen Dong, take Shen Xi and Shen Bei with you, push the cart, and go to several nearby villages to buy some food. It doesn’t matter what kind of food you want. The current food prices are: rice is 1 cents per catty, flour is 6 cents per catty, corn is 1 cents per catty, soybeans are 8 cents per catty, and other miscellaneous grains are around 1 cents. When you go to the village and negotiate with people, it will not be easy for them if the grain price increases by two cents per kilogram. You know, it is 2 yuan, you can buy it as you see,"
In the afternoon, my mother took Sister Nan and I without going home. Instead, we started digging wild vegetables in a nearby place and told us how to process and preserve these wild vegetables.
In one afternoon, the eldest brother took the third and fourth brothers to several nearby villages and bought 150 kilograms of grain, including 50 kilograms of corn for 300 cents a kilogram and 7 kilograms of soybeans for 43.5 kilograms. 26.5 kilograms of sorghum rice costs [-] cents per kilogram, so a total of [-] yuan was spent, leaving [-] yuan.
From then on, my third and fourth brothers and I carried baskets on our backs and dug wild vegetables together every afternoon after school. The eldest brother and Sister Nan collected the leftover wild vegetables from yesterday afternoon at home and began to dry them.
Sweet potatoes have also been planted in the martial arts training ground. There is about 2 acres of land. A small vegetable patch has been cultivated near the entrance, less than three miles of land. Even vegetables are grown in Aunt Zhou's yard.
In this way, plus the money and coupons that I have to pay for my own food each month, plus the food bought secretly, it is enough to eat, but this is only possible when there is no famine year. It is now 56. , but it is getting closer and closer to 58.I don’t know what it is, but now the third brother and the fourth brother are fighting with me every day
