Rebirth Farmer Yaomei

Chapter 48 Logging
Guo Xiazhu wants to separate the family, the first thing to do is to build a house.

Mr. Guo agreed to the Luo family, and he could not go back on his word, so he led his children and grandchildren to build a lot of adobe, and planned to go into the mountains to cut down trees.

Ning Wan discussed with her parents, "Our family should also cut down a few trees and add some new furniture." Cutting down trees is not an easy task. In Sanjia Village, almost all the men in the village go into the mountain together to work together. Trees are cut down and transported, so everyone often gathers together and each family gets back all the wood they need at one time.

Ning Liang and Yu Shi are used to living at home, so they both said: "There are few people in the family, so I don't think there is anything missing!"

In fact, there are many things missing at home!

In fact, apart from a few large kang cabinets, the Ning family only had two kang tables and a few small stools. As for the cabinets, tables, chairs, dressing table, washstand, and Duobaoge, there was nothing else.

What Ning Wan wants to add most is a washbasin stand and a dressing table. It is much easier to wash and comb her hair every day; It is very convenient to store things in different categories. It is not like a kang cabinet. After opening, there is a big empty space inside, and things are easily mixed together. As for the tables and chairs, of course they are also very practical...

But parents have never seen these, so they don't think the things in the house are bad, not to mention that there is no one in Sanjia Village who can make such furniture.She thought for a while and said, "Even if we don't add more now, we will move to the town or Hutai County in the future. At that time, we will need a lot of wood for furniture."

"That makes sense," Dad nodded and said, "When the villagers discuss logging, we'll join in."

Sanjia Village is in the mountains, surrounded by trees, but when it comes to building houses and furniture, the best is red pine.This kind of pine tree looks not very strong, and an adult can almost hug it with outstretched arms, but in fact, they are all hundreds of years old trees, and the fine texture can be seen only from the stumps. The rings are almost indistinguishable.

There are several other advantages of red pine. The trunk is straight and there are very few branches. A big red pine is a high-quality beam, and the beam will not be broken even if the adobe house falls down.And sawing is enough to make a whole room of particularly strong furniture, which will not break for hundreds of years, just like the pit cabinets in the big house of the Ning family, which have been used for hundreds of years. Although the paint is slightly peeled off in some places, the cabinets But it didn't deform at all.

As for ash and walnut catalpa, although they can be regarded as good wood outside, people in Sanjia Village generally only use them for fences, small stools and other unfashionable things. This is also the advantage of living in the mountains.

The matter of logging was soon decided, and naturally a few elders in the village were required to be in charge. Each family reported the quantity they wanted, and shared the expenses equally. Use food delivery instead... Because there are few people in the Ning family, they paid more money, but if compared with the price of furniture in Hutai County, it is only a small change. Ning Wan always felt that it was a good deal in her heart .Even the parents who have always lived frugally are not too distressed because the family has earned money.

There are many people and strong strength. A group of men went up the mountain, cut down more than [-] red houses in a few days, dragged them back with ropes, and stacked them in front of each house according to the number required by each house.The wood cannot be made into furniture immediately after being felled, it has to be dried first. If the wet wood is made into furniture, it will be deformed or cracks will appear after it dries slowly.

Ning Wan watched as her father used an ax to cut off the branches at the top of the tree, peel off the thick pine bark, and cut them into pieces of wood about a foot long. By the way, I brought a lot of firewood to the family, and after a while, it was built under the window of the east room to the height of half a person.

The yard was full of pine fragrance, Ning Wan took a deep breath, and felt that it smelled particularly good. Seeing that her father was already sweating profusely, she smiled and said: "Father, let's rest first, this firewood is enough to burn through the winter." Already!"

Ning Liang straightened up, wiped off his sweat, and said with great satisfaction: "I'll cut down for a while, these trees are all big, if I cut down a little every day, I'm afraid it will take a year and a half to cut down all the branches and bark. come down."

Ning Wan looked at these trees and laughed too.Naturally, no tree is exactly the same, there are big and small, good and bad, the red pine given to the Ning family is all big, thick and straight, which is really different from before.In the past, no matter what happened to the Ning family, the things that were distributed would be the worst. How could they take such an advantage?
Dad understood what Yaonu meant, so he also laughed, "These trees are really nice!" He bent down to chop off the branches, and the more they dried, the more vigorous they became.Ning Wan smelled the strong aroma of pine resin, and suddenly remembered something. When she got home, she took out a wooden bowl and a wooden spoon, and put away the fingers on the pine tree.

The pine tree will drip a kind of resin, which is golden yellow, translucent, sticky and fragrant. It is difficult to wash off this thing when it gets on your hands and clothes, but it is a very valuable traditional Chinese medicine, which can expel pus and poison. It promotes muscle growth and relieves pain. Some people say that if you eat it for a long time, you can lighten your body and prolong your life.Now there are many fingers on these pine trees, so naturally they have to be collected and sent to the pharmacy for money.

Ning Liang heard that turpentine can be exchanged for money, so he also paid attention to it. Whenever he found a ball, he called Ning Wan. The father and daughter were busy around the tree for a long time, and Ning Wan didn't get up until someone came to give the fungus.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and even Sanjia Village in the mountains can feel the heat.At this time, there is not much rain, mushrooms and fungus do not grow much, and fewer people go up the mountain to pick them, and naturally fewer mountain products are collected.The previously dried cat's claw vegetables have been sent to Hutai County. The dried vegetables are light in weight, and only ten catties of vegetables can be dried for one catty. The transportation is also easy. Even the sun-dried mushrooms are mostly sold.

But there was no work in the field, and Ning Liang had nothing to do except the second time weeding. After cutting the grass to feed the little donkey, he smiled and said to the little donkey: "The silver you bought back then was not in vain. Yue has earned us a lot of money. If you have nothing to do right now, you should take a good rest."

Both Yu Shi and Ning Wan laughed when they heard this, and Yu Shi said, "Look at your father treating the little donkey better than us."

Dad is very fond of the little donkey. He has to feed it four or five times a day, and he takes an old comb to help him comb his hair.In addition, it's okay to say a few words with the little donkey.

Ning Wan was also a little jealous, "Obviously I picked the little donkey, but now he treats Dad better than me."

Sure enough, the little donkey listened to her father the most. Dad told her to go forward and backward, but Ning Wan's words were far behind. Sometimes she planned to ride a little donkey, but when the little donkey got angry , I really can't go, pushing backwards, very helpless!As for the mother, she dared to ride only when the little donkey was led by the father.

Everyone talked around the little donkey for a long time, and Yu complained, "You only mow the donkey, but you don't care about the pigs and chickens!"

Ning Liang brought over the basket that had just been mowed, "Look, there are still so many gray vegetables and pig hair vegetables, not enough to feed pigs and chickens."

Gray vegetables and pig hair vegetables are actually wild vegetables, which can be eaten by humans, but because the taste is not so good, they are mostly used to feed pigs and chickens. Everyone often calls them pigweed. Of course, donkeys can also be fed. of.

In Sanjia Village, every family has to raise pigs and chickens. Without pigs and chickens, how can life be lived?
It's good to feed pigs and chickens with grain, and pigs and chickens grow fast, but they consume too much grain, so they usually add some pigweed and mix them together for feeding.Therefore, the children in each family have a job, that is to hunt pigweed and feed the pigs and chickens.

Ning Wan is the youngest in the family, so in the past few years the pigweed work in the family has been done by her.Ever since the Ning family started harvesting wild vegetables, she was often so busy that she didn't have time, either Ning Qing or her mother did this chore.

After all, Sanjia Village is in the mountains, with lush vegetation and pigweeds are easy to harvest. Carrying baskets to the fields, these two kinds of vegetables are everywhere, and it is easy to recognize: the leaves of gray vegetables are not green, but a little gray. Especially the back of the leaves is completely gray, which is probably why it is called gray cabbage, and the pig hair looks very much like the long hair on the pig's body. There is a lot of juice in the green leaves that are like needles, which is especially special for pigs. like to eat.In addition, there are grasshoppers with small round leaves, green and red wild goose, etc., which can also be used as pigweed.

Knowing that she had wronged her husband, Yu took the basket with a smile and said, "I'll feed the pigs and chickens."

Ning Wan hurriedly took it over, "I'm fine now, I'll do it." As she said that, she quickly made chicken and pig food.

Raw vegetables can be used directly to feed chickens, but they must be chopped very finely, and then mixed with some sorghum rice bran and mixed together.Ning Wan made chicken food three times, five times and two times, and put it in two chicken food bowls in the middle of the yard, and more than 30 chickens swarmed up to eat.It turned out that in Sanjia Village, the chickens were raised loose in the yard, and they were locked in the chicken coop at night.

Feeding pigs is different. Pig grass can be cut thicker, but it needs to be cooked in a large pot.Every family in Sanjia Village has a chopping board, knife, and iron pan for chopping pigweed. Although it is rougher and simpler than the ones used by humans, the method is actually the same.Boil pigweed, rice bran, or some sorghum rice noodles with water, let it cool slightly, and send it to the trough of the pigsty.

Mrs. Yu followed Ning Wan to the kitchen early, took several handfuls of sorghum rice noodles and put them in the pig food, and said happily: "This year's chickens have raised more, and in a few days there will be hens laying eggs. These three pigs They look good, they are the biggest three in this litter, and they are fatter than the ones left by Lao Yu's family, because our family feeds more food!"

The mother and daughter chatted and laughed and finished the pigs and chickens, and then saw Ning Liang leading the little donkey out for a stroll, they looked at each other and entered the house with a smile.

(End of this chapter)