reborn peasant mother

Chapter 103

From the 80s to the early 90s, primary and secondary school students in rural areas not only had winter and summer vacations, but also had wheat vacations and autumn busy vacations. Generally, the wheat vacations were only seven or eight days, and the autumn busy vacations were more, and they could take more than ten days.

This arrangement, on the one hand, is a bit of a way for students to participate in social life practice, and on the other hand, it is for students to help their parents with farming.

You must know that in rural areas, any older children who have no free time, such as Shanzi and Erya, are all under the command of adults. Even children aged six or seven will help the family to watch the field and dry crops when the farming is busy, or Care for younger children.

During the busy autumn vacation, there are tasks, and this task is work-study program. To put it bluntly, you have to pay peanuts to the school. In some places, the school not only pays peanuts, but also pays dried sweet potatoes.The amount of peanuts to be handed over varies from grade to grade, with less for lower grades and more for senior grades.

This year's autumn harvest, Gangzi has to hand over five catties of peanuts, and Erya and Shanzi have more.Shanzi and Erya followed Feng Yujiang to collect peanuts. After all, Gangzi was too young to do farm work seriously, so Feng Yujiang gave Gangzi a task: besides working hard, he had to go to the five farms by himself. Pound of peanuts.

Columbine peanuts, this is what rural children did at that time.With a basket in one hand and a basket in the other, go to the stubble fields where the peanuts have been harvested to recover.Zhaozi is a small three-toothed rake for digging soil, which is convenient for scratching and pulling the soil apart.There are always some peanuts left in the soil in the stubble field. If you rummage through the soil with a picket, you can find one from time to time. At the end of a day, a hardworking child can almost pick up two catties of peanuts.

Niangsan collected peanuts in the front, and Gangzi followed behind to pick up peanuts. Although Gangzi is small, he doesn't stay idle, and he is quite willing to do it.

Harvesting peanuts is not as tiring as harvesting wheat. The weather has cooled down at this time, and it is not as hot as the mouth of wheat. Peanuts are not as thorny as wheat, but it is not easy to bend over for a long time to gather peanuts.All day long, my whole body was sore and stiff, I couldn't lift my arms, and I couldn't straighten my waist.

Two and a half acres of peanuts, Feng Yujiang and the three mothers didn't worry about it, and quickly took it back home.After the peanuts are received home, the peanuts must be picked from the seedlings and dried in the sun.

In order to save time, Feng Yujiang set up a small iron pot on the ground for lunch. There are a lot of fallen leaves in the peanut field, and there is no need to worry about no grass to burn. The three mothers boiled peanuts, boiled tender sticks, boiled sweet potatoes, and brought some pancakes and pickles. Started a gang on the edge of the field.

Peanuts are delicious when cooked. However, peanuts take a lot of work and the yield is still low, so the price is very expensive. At that time, most peasants were reluctant to eat them by themselves.Feng Yujiang didn't think so. If his children were reluctant to eat the food produced in the field, it would be too worthless.

After the peanuts are finished, the beans are ripe, and the sticks should be broken.

After getting up early and working late at night, I finally got the beans home, split the sticks, peeled off the skins, and spread them out to dry.After breaking off the sticks, the stalks must be chopped off one by one and taken home.

If you want to say what the biggest difficulty is, it is the transportation problem.There are no animals in the family, and there is no flatbed cart. The harvested crops are transported home, so the ants can only rely on the cart to move the house bit by bit.

"Mom, our family has to buy a donkey, otherwise we won't be able to do this job." Erya said so.

"Are you rich? I sold you for a donkey." Gangzi joked aside.

Erya squinted, and touched a piece of dirt casually. Gangzi saw it, ran away all the way, and grinned.

"It's time to buy a livestock messenger." Feng Yujiang said.She also wanted to buy another bicycle. The semi-old bicycle at home was used by Zhong Jipeng to go to work all day long. Feng Yujiang and his children had to rely on their two legs to get in and out, which became more and more inconvenient.

(End of this chapter)