reborn peasant mother

Chapter 112

At that time, in the countryside, sweet potatoes were the staple food for filling the stomach in autumn and winter.Farmers collect fresh sweet potatoes by digging a cellar on the ground and putting sweet potatoes in it densely. On top of the cellar, thick wooden sticks are placed, a layer of straw is covered, and a thick layer of wheat straw is covered on top of the straw. The upper layer is cultivated with soil.This layer of protection, with the help of the ground temperature, can last a winter without freezing or rotting, and it can still be eaten until the harvest is good in spring.

Of course, a door should be left in the sweet potato cellar, which is usually blocked with wheat straw and cultivated with soil.When we eat sweet potatoes at home, we go in and grill them once in a while, because the door is very small, and it is difficult for adults to get in. This is often the exclusive work of Gangzi.

The sweet potato seedlings are piled up in a pile with a radius of several meters, and the sweet potato seedlings are picked up with a pitchfork. Occasionally, hedgehogs hiding in the ground to keep warm are seen. The largest hedgehog Feng Yujiang encountered was taken away by the old sheep herding man. It weighed seven catties and three ounces.

Farmers, especially those living in poverty, if there is no happy event or distinguished guests, they will not see any meat for several months. Feng Yujiang knew that the big hedgehog must have been taken back by the old man who kept the pigs and boiled.

A few eagles hovered in the sky, occasionally calling twice.The fields in late autumn are empty and lonely, looking very cold.

After the autumn harvest, just as they were about to relax, the production team notified Shanghe workers.

The term "Shanghe Gong" is rarely heard now.Until the early 90s, there was still the term "river workers" in some rural areas.

The work on the river is also called "Pa Dahe" by the common people.Beginning in the 60s, the rural areas began to vigorously build water conservancy projects, and at that time it relied on manpower.Whenever there are large or small water conservancy projects, most of the farmers in the neighboring areas have to send out workers.With red flags waving, tens of thousands of migrant workers digging big rivers, shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand, many water conservancy projects after liberation were dug out with shovel after shovel.

By the early 90s, the practice of recruiting farmers to volunteer to build water conservancy projects gradually disappeared, replaced by professional construction teams and various large-scale machinery.

River construction in the 80s was generally no longer large reservoirs and canals, and was relatively simple, that is, dredging ditches and rivers, or laying earth on road construction sites and so on.

The river worker that year was the one that built Xiaobeigou.

In the early spring, Feng Yujiang drew lots and got the No. [-] plot in Xiaobeigou, which was a piece of thatch wasteland. She planted sticks in it, and the harvest was barely adequate.Now the cobs have been harvested and wheat has been planted.When the wheat seedlings in the field had just emerged, the government expropriated the land, and Feng Yujiang got a small amount of compensation for the young crops, and the team also gave her a good land of the same size.

Many people are very envious of this matter.Can you not be red-eyed?The money paid by the public is almost the same as the income of the wheat, but it saves the labor of paying the public grain and harvesting the wheat, and also buys a piece of good land, which is the best land for the production team!

The old Han's family who got the No. [-] plot by lottery at the beginning shed tears several times because of this thatch barrenness, and now they are so happy that they are going crazy.

Feng Yujiang was not happy about these things. What she was happy about was that the road was going to be built to the door of her house.

Many people came to the road construction site.Volunteer farmers are just helping to dig the earth, and their special road construction team is the main force.

The road construction team set up a transfer yard on a piece of open land close to the town. There were a lot of trucks, tractors, piles of stones, sand, etc., and a whole row of temporary board houses were built next to it for the road construction team. people live.

(End of this chapter)