Candide in Chronology is on strike

Chapter 121
After returning home, the first thing they did was to scoop the rice. They didn’t have any tools to scoop the rice, so they had to try it themselves. They put more than two catties of rice into a small cloth bag and rolled it repeatedly with a wooden stick similar to a rolling pin. For this small amount of rice, the three of them felt exhausted.

It should not be light or heavy, and the strength should be moderate. If it is light, the husk cannot be removed, and if it is heavy, it will be directly ground into powder. According to Qin He, except for studying and taking exams, he has never done such a difficult job.

After finally taking off the husks of the rice, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief. The meal for tonight has been settled. At this time, Qin Xi sincerely misses the rice threshing machine of later generations.

This time, the three of them worked hard for more than an hour before they took off the more than two catties of rice husks, and there were still more than 50 catties of rice waiting for them to do it!This is a big project.

The yield rate of rice is about 56%, and 39 catties of rice can produce about [-] catties of rice. On average, it is [-] catties per person, which is really not much.

With just over 180 catties of grain, the net food that can be eaten is only [-] to [-] catties. On average, it is [-] to [-] catties per person, and there is still a long time before the autumn harvest. With this little grain, if you don’t save some food, it is really not enough. Maybe in the end, you have to go to the black market to buy grain to eat.

Qin Xi doesn't pay much attention to clothes and shoes, but she attaches great importance to eating. Since she was a child, her grandma told her that people are iron and rice is steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will feel hungry. Don't care about other things. You must eat well. If you starve your stomach, you will be the one who suffers in the end.

A few days after the end of the summer harvest, the rice seeds sown a month ago have grown vigorously and are ready for transplanting. This is another burst of busyness.

Qin Jiang and Qin He, who had never planted rice seedlings before, were completely novice. After the last experience, they are now veterans. They work faster than the other. The villagers who work with the two of them are very satisfied with their brothers!Young people, even if they are motivated, can get off work early even with them.

If there is no accident, the two of them will be able to get eight work points next year.

Qin Xi is still doing pigweed hunting. This year, the village plans to do a big job. A total of twelve pigs have been raised. Except for the task pigs and the pigs kept by the village for the Chinese New Year, during the autumn harvest, there is a high probability that two pigs will be slaughtered for the villagers to improve their food, and also have some meaty smell.

There are more pigs, and there are seven cows and calves in the village, so the need for pigweed is naturally much more.

In the village, a basket of pigweed can be exchanged for a work point, and some people even do odd jobs to dig pigweed after work. This is also an extra income!Among other things, it is also good to share a few catties of grain after the autumn harvest.

Qin Xi was not very enthusiastic about hunting pigweed. She picked up the job of digging herbs again, carrying a basket on her back and a small self-made digging hoe, and went into the woods, not returning within three or four hours.

On the straw roof of the house, there are a lot of herbs in the sun, but it is a bit laborious to collect them.

There is no way to do this. Some children in the village are very naughty. Now that the village primary school has not started school, they just wander around the village doing nothing all day. They may not know what you are drying, but they are not very good-hearted.

During this period of time, Qin Jiang and Qin He were busy working in the fields, and Qin Xi was afraid that she would not be able to handle the group of children alone. Although she didn't know how many children were playing tricks, it didn't prevent her from thinking about things worse.

These days, the mushrooms in the forest have also started to grow, and she will bring them back when she sees them.

Although Chenhui Village only grows those few kinds of mushrooms, there are many types of each kind of mushrooms, such as mung bean fungus, red bean fungus, green bean fungus, etc., just this kind of mushroom has mutated into six kinds of mushrooms with different colors, sizes and thicknesses according to different growth environments, not to mention others.

Moreover, Qin Xi discovered that some villagers would pick up black pockmark mushrooms and lime fungi, which future generations would never eat. These mushrooms had a slight toxin, but it was not a big problem. Everyone in the village knew that those mushrooms were poisonous, but that insignificant poison was nothing compared to a hungry stomach.

Some of the dried mushrooms dried in the villagers’ homes will be washed with water, and then dried again. After mixing the peppers, they are put together in a jar.

Qin Xi doesn't like this way of eating. She can still eat some fresh mushrooms. She doesn't like to eat dried ones like this one. She prefers dried bamboo shoots, which are chewy and don't have much smell after soaking in water and washing them.

Since most of the adults in the family went to work in the fields to earn work points, most of the people who stayed at home were the elderly and children. Most of the people wandering in the woods were children. Whether it was mushrooms or withered yellow pine needle leaves or pine cones and pine branches, as long as it was edible and burnable, they would pick it up and put it in the basket.

They usually move around in the forest that is very close to the village. Qin Xi walked farther away. She often walked alone in the dense forest.

When passing the tombs in the woods, her eyes couldn't hold anything other than herbs and mushrooms.

After more than two months of messing around like this, the autumn harvest began again, which was tiring as always, but the difference from last time was that two whole pigs were killed in the village. In those few days, the village was as lively as New Year's Eve, and the smell of meat and oil was everywhere.

When everything is over, the time has come to October. In recent days, the three brothers and sisters have no other hobbies, but they like to carry a bucket and dig loach in the fields.

Several small lakes in the village were about to dry up. Everyone was sharpening their knives and getting ready. When the water dried up, they would go down to the lakes to catch fish.

Everyone is waiting too!After the big fish were caught and distributed uniformly, other things in the lake were free to play with them.

Snails, snails, and small shells can smash out the meat and feed it to chickens. If you don’t think it’s fishy, ​​you’re willing to put oil, and it’s also a good choice to stir-fry with chili.

As for those small fish, whether it is used to cook fish soup or dried to make small fish, it is a good choice.

(End of this chapter)