After crossing the road, the big guy teaches online how to be a man

Chapter 11 Preparing for Self-Reliance
For the next period of time, Yuansi lived quietly in her hometown, going to work in the production team and eating in the cafeteria on a regular basis every day.She also finally knew what the green thing in that bowl of green porridge was.

Those are not wild vegetables, they are all cooked and eaten by pigs, and people want to eat them, but they can't be ranked.Those green leaves in the bowl are poplar leaves. These old women in the cafeteria went to the woods to roll the poplar leaves. After taking them back, they cleaned them, then scalded them with hot water, soaked them in cold water, and insisted on changing them every day. Soak in water for about a week, and the bitterness of the poplar leaves can be soaked away.When cooking porridge in the cafeteria, a few lumps of vegetable leaves are taken out of the big pot and put into it. Stir it together to make a pot of porridge.

If you want to talk about why people don't eat wild vegetables, they feed them to pigs, and people eat tree leaves.Because at this time, the status of people is really not as important as that of pigs. It is necessary to ensure that pigs are well fed so that they can grow fat, right?

Yuansi doesn't quite understand this logic, but in this environment, she doesn't have the right to question it.

After returning home at night, I found something interesting to do, that is, learning to pinch braids with Zuo Daya.

Braiding is to choose the right thickness of wheat stalks, cut off the part that is too thin on the top, and cut off the part that is too thick on the bottom, leaving a section that is as long as the upper arm. Like braiding, three straws are braided together. When weaving to the bottom, connect it directly with another straw, and the joints can be braided into the braid, so that the braid can be made very long back and forth.

Just like the old lady, her hands are very dexterous, and she made up the boss section in a short while by turning left and right.After reaching a certain length, it is like winding wool, and the braided braids are detoured around the legs of the small stool.

24 loops are the same. This braid can be sold for [-] cents at the purchasing station. Its main purpose is to make straw hats and so on.

Basically, all the people in Lijia Village, young and old, know how to pinch braids, but there are few people who are as quick and capable as the old lady.The old lady can basically pinch once a day.

Lijia Village also has a way to generate income, which is to make hemp. This is to grow hemp first, and then go through several steps of retting, pulling and drying the hemp to produce hemp. The price offered by the purchasing station is very good, more than two yuan a piece catty.

It's just that Li Yuansi's land is scarce, and all of it is used to grow food, so there is no hemp to sell.

Yuansi really likes to pinch braids, because she found that she can exercise her mental power by pinching braids, and try to use her mental power to control the straw to braid her braids. Now her ability is still very weak, and she can't reach where to strike. At this point, he can only use his mental power to make Mai Gai bend slightly in the direction he should, and the next step still needs to be handled manually.

That's it, Yuansi also uses it very vigorously. Usually, she uses her mental power to control the straw for more than ten minutes, and the mental power will be used up. She replaces it manually, and starts to meditate in her mind. Mental strength will be improved a little bit, and the speed of recovery will also be improved.

So she likes this kind of work that earns extra money and can exercise mental strength. Every day after returning home, she and the old lady move a small bench and sit at the door of the house and start to pinch their braids.

"Mother, why doesn't our team grow some sweet potatoes like the others?" Yuansi took this opportunity to ask her question.

Through her on-site inspection these days, the first team and the fourth team of Fanxing Commune are really not a place with a very good geographical environment.

First of all, there are few people here, and I don’t know why, the fields here only focus on two crops, one is wheat, winter wheat, which is harvested in late May and early June every year, and then corn is planted in the next season, and the two crops are planted in rotation.

As for other things, it depends on one's own needs. Although the Li family village has little land, each household is allocated private plots of different sizes, and what to grow in the private plots is entirely up to the villagers themselves.

For example, if a family is going to marry a wife or have a baby, that family will plant cotton in their own plot, and the harvest is just enough for the family. If there is no major event at home, they will also plant cotton in the plot wheat and corn.

As for sweet potatoes and peanuts, no one in their team grows them.The third brigade not far from here grows more varieties than here. Every year, if someone in the village wants to eat, they carry their own wheat to exchange.

Yuansi has learned that the current wheat and corn are not high-yielding varieties, and there is not much grain produced per mu, so the people here have such a hard life, and they can't fill their stomachs after working hard every day.

"What kind of thing are sweet potatoes? They're not serious food. Who wants to use good land to grow them." Zuo Daya had a natural expression on her face.

"But the yield is high. If sweet potatoes are planted in our private plot, then our mother and I will probably not be hungry this year. Besides, sweet potato seedlings can be fried and eaten as vegetables, how great it is." Yuansi thought It's really not wise to look down on one or the other when you can't even fill your stomach. Isn't the important thing now is to fill your stomach first?

Now every family in Lijia Village uses their land to grow serious food, and there is no place to grow vegetables, so they can only grow some loofahs or something in the corner of the wall, so it is almost summer, and wild vegetables and leaves are still mainly used here. It is strange that there are no fresh vegetables to eat.

"That can't be done. Our ancestors here grow wheat and corn, and we don't grow anything else." Zuo Daya was unmoved at all, "And you, give me a break, always talk to others Ask about mountains and rivers, you know what to do with them, I can tell you, you can’t go anywhere for me.” The old lady heard that her little girl and others asked if there were mountains or water around her, so she thought This girl went out for a while, imagining those young people in the village going to the mountains, regardless of how old she was.

"I see." Yuansi's left ear was throbbing in the right ear. If she didn't find a way to survive, she would definitely starve to death here. The five meals of vegetable porridge in the cafeteria that day really disappeared as soon as she pissed.

It's just that this Lijia Village is really not good. There is a flat river around, and there is no shadow of the mountain at all. Judging from the information she inquired, the nearest mountain is about 70 kilometers away from here, and it takes a few days to go back and forth.The nearest water is a large reservoir more than ten miles away from here. I heard that there are water ghosts under the reservoir. A few years ago, a child who went swimming there was dragged down. Later, the body was salvaged, and there was indeed a circle around the ankle. Qingzi, as if someone was dragging it from below, since then it has been rumored that it is miraculous, and everyone is afraid, which leads to the fact that there are few people there now.

And the first target Yuansi chose was there, she didn't believe there were any water ghosts, even if there were water ghosts, she would go down and catch the water ghosts, wash it, put it in the pot and stew it.

Of course, you can't tell the old lady about this plan, it's probably frightening to say it.

"You, you are just as stubborn as your eldest sister and third sister. When you usually go out to work, don't bother to mow the grass. If you have nothing to do, go to the small woods at the head of the village to wander around. Look at the grandson of your second uncle's house next door. When I come back, I can secretly pick up some branches and come back, I have seen it several times." Zuo Daya taught her little girl in a low voice.

Another disadvantage of not having a mountain is that it is impossible to burn firewood. There are not many trees here, and it is impossible to pick up branches as firewood. Besides, the trees are also public property, and the branches are also public property. We can only rely on the annual production team. The corn stalks or straws that are divided are used as fuel.But there are too many monks and so little meat, so each family has to plan carefully for cooking firewood.

When the big canteen was established, every family handed in everything except food, and even the firewood at home, but they were not required to hand in all the firewood. After all, the family had to boil water, so every family had to pay Handed in half.

Zuo Daya is a person who is strong in everything. She felt a little uneasy when the firewood at home was cut by half, so she thought about going outside to pick up something that could be burned. Isn't this a good way to teach her little girl experience.

(End of this chapter)