Back to 1988, in order to lay down liver skills

Chapter 23

After the busy autumn vacation, we have to wait to plant wheat.

As the saying goes in the country, when the cold dew comes to the frost, Zhong Mai should not panic.

But preparatory work must be done in advance, such as preparing fertilizers and plowing the land in advance to let the sun dry.

All the fertilizers are farmyard manure, and chemical fertilizers are not considered by the people of Dayanzhuang.

Plowing usually starts after the autumn harvest, because there are not enough cattle in the village, and part of it has to rely on manpower, either with plowshares, or directly with hoes and rakes.

After drying the ground is harrowing.

Those who have cattle can use cattle, and those who do not have cattle...still employ people.

So there is an idiom called bullishness, and if you have a cow, you are arrogant. For example, Yan Changqing's family this year.

Brothers Yan Erhe and Yan Haihai are leading the cow by themselves, which perfectly embodies what it means to be bullish - this cow is probably still in the rebellious stage, and it kicks from time to time when working, and it cannot be held by one person.

The tool for raking the ground with oxen is a soil rake, not the kind of rake that can be swung, but a wooden ladder in the shape of a wooden ladder full of iron teeth.

When this thing is pulled by a cow, someone has to stand behind it to press it, otherwise it will be difficult to rake the soil. It is possible to press things, but they will fall down at any time, and it is not as good as a person to move them back and forth. Anyway, very few people press things, they are all standing people.

The last thing is to grow wheat.

After the wheat is planted, it is considered to enter the slack period.

Farm slack is not really slack, it's just a comparison.

I still have to stare at the fields, feeling melancholy when the weather is drought, and melancholy when it is flooded...

But these have nothing to do with Yan Changqing!
He looked at the people sweating profusely in the farmland with great interest, watching these scenes that would gradually disappear in the near future.

Then...still with the children, they caught crickets and played birds in the farmland where the corn stalks had not been transported home in time.

These days, the school requirement is seven years old, the strict seven years old, even one month away.

And because of tuition fees, some parents can only let their children go to school later.

Yan Changqing was half a year younger, and he had made up his mind to lie flat and only do what he liked, and he didn't want to be a schoolmaster, so it would be nice to play in the village.

Anyway, there are quite a lot of brats in the village at this time, and the weather has turned cold, so they can no longer play in the water, so these brats can only wander around the village, causing harm everywhere...

Fortunately, Yan Changqing, the tyrant of Xinjin Village in Dayan Village, was born and led a group of brats to act collectively. The people in the village... let alone people, the dogs and chickens in the village all heaved a sigh of relief.

……

Yan Changqing's team grew stronger and stronger, and basically all the brats in the village gathered here, including some girls.

It is impossible for a girl to be rich...that is impossible. These days, there are really few girls in the countryside who are well-off. It is not bad if they can treat both men and women equally. Patriarchy is still the mainstream thinking in rural areas today.

The children were playing in the threshing field, and there were a few eighty-nine-year-olds or even ten-year-olds in the team, and there were a few older girls standing next to them-these were from poor families who didn’t go to school , or those who went to school for a few days, felt that they could not learn well and dropped out of school.

It doesn't matter to Yan Changqing, it's all for fun anyway, and it doesn't delay his own skill proficiency.

After the erhu skills passed 90.00%, the speed became slower and slower.It's probably like a student who, through hard work, has raised his score to the level of [-], and then wants to take the test of [-], but finds that the last [-] is much more difficult than the previous score.

Since the progress is very slow, he will inevitably see that the progress is fast enough.

For example, I just acquired cooking skills not long ago. Once I went to my second uncle's house to help stew pig food, and my proficiency increased a little.

So unconsciously, I was a little slack about the erhu skills of buying cattle for my family.

Fortunately, the second uncle came at this time.

……

Yan Erhe will not slack off.

The main reason is that my pockets are empty again. I run errands to buy things during the busy farming period. Those who use cattle use crops. Especially when I am tired from work, I bought a few times of big fat meat to satisfy my appetite...

Although there are two piglets in the family, if they sell the pigs for money, they will have to celebrate the New Year next year. At this time, the pigs in the countryside usually have to be raised for more than one year, and the one-year pigs are not big enough or fat enough.

So after the busy farming season, Yan Erhe began to stare at Yan Changqing. Seeing this nephew with a promising future, now obsessed with being the king of children, and degraded to this point, he was heartbroken...

Finally, I couldn't help but came to my nephew one day: "Qijin, aren't you going out recently? Your brother is about to be weaned, I want to buy him some milk powder..."

Uncle, are you joking?How is it possible to wean, and eat milk powder after weaning?Is there such a wealthy family in Dayan Village?In a dream?

However, Yan Changqing is very supportive of his second uncle's desire to go out and earn money. At least for this reason, it is very heartwarming, isn't it?

It happened that the weather was neither hot nor cold, and the autumn wind was neither too fast nor too slow. It was really a good day to go out and set up a stall to earn money.

……

It's just that he and his second uncle had just planned a trip, and an event that the whole village was looking forward to interrupted his plan.

The village is going to be electrified.

During the busy period of farming, work was suspended, and now the wires have finally been pulled to Dayanzhuang.

People from the two villages on the edge of the township than Dayan Village, that is, the two villages of Yatouwa, Eetouwan, which are "nothing but bandits", came to watch Dayanzhuang pull the wires enthusiastically.

In fact, it can’t be called construction. One wooden pole is buried in the ground, and there are two simple iron frames on it, and the wires are pulled up. The family installs an electric meter and pulls out a wire. It is very simple.

By the way, asphalt is also applied to the wooden poles, which are dark.

Then, just turn on the power.

The first time the electricity was turned on, almost everyone turned on the lights.

Now all use pull wire light switches. A small black round box is nailed to a higher place on the wall. A small string hangs down inside. Pull once to turn on the light and pull again to turn off the light.

So this kind of switch sometimes breaks very rhythmically - you need to pull the light twice to turn on the light and pull the light to turn off once, which is very fun for children.

Electric lights are still much brighter than kerosene lamps, and this is the first time that every household in the village has lights that can be seen from the outside—it doesn’t count if there is a fire.

All the young and old in the village were very excited, especially compared with the people in Yatowa, Eetouwan, those two villages had to wait a few days before they could get electricity.

Yan Changqing was also full of emotion. It turned out that the electricity was connected in this way back then. As expected, there is a good saying that things that were once taken for granted are only appreciated when they are lost and found again.

It's just that everyone was happy, and a piece of news broke everyone's excitement.

The electricity bill is one yuan and six cents per kilowatt-hour.

It's simply outrageous, how much is a catty of fat meat, even when the price of eggs is good, one dollar can buy nine and a half eggs.

Just hearing about the price, many people who had already turned on the lights started to rush home to turn off the lights.

I could vaguely hear someone yelling, "It's [-] yuan per kWh, you're not living well? Just turn on a light to illuminate it. Why do you turn on so much?"

……

There is also a news that the power-on time is not fixed. According to the season, the power will be turned on after dark. For example, it will be earlier in winter and later in summer.

It is said that it can guarantee about two hours of electricity every day.

Yan Changqing calculated and installed four light bulbs in his house—one in the main room, two bedrooms, and one in the cowshed.

They are all [-] watts, but it is generally impossible to turn them on all the time. If there are three light bulbs kept on every day on average, the electricity will be about three kilowatt-hours a month, which is close to five yuan in electricity bills.

The tuition fee for freshmen in the first grade of elementary school is exactly five yuan.

No wonder everyone ran home to turn off the lights. It is estimated that for a long time, the newly installed light bulbs in each house can only be decorations.

And it seems that these days it is more than just paying his own electricity bill. He vaguely remembers that there is also a shared electricity bill, which is said to be electricity loss and electricity consumption by the meter.

Alas, it’s troublesome if there is no electricity, and it’s troublesome if there is electricity.

In any case, the power is also considered a good thing.

Originally there was no electricity, and Yan Changqing was used to it, but with electricity, if he is not willing to use it, then he must not be happy.

Therefore, the plan of traveling and performing arts must be implemented.

(End of this chapter)