Chapter 436: We Must Part Ways 2
While Feng Qingxue was educating her sister and other children, the man in the main hall talked about recent events.
"I will arrange people tomorrow," Wang Zhengguo drank a glass of wine, "while there is no rain or snow in the next two days, we will first transport the manure to the two thousand acres of land and spread it evenly, and plant sweet potatoes in the spring, which have high yields and are drought-resistant. Then plant some cash crops such as cotton, peanuts, sunflower beans, etc. The warehouse has old seeds, which are well stored and can be used. In this way, every household will be able to share some oil and cotton in the autumn of next year."
It is not enough to have food alone. Food is for food, and people also need clothes.
Whether farmers have cloth coupons and oil depends on whether the production team grows cotton and crops that can be pressed for oil.
"According to what my brother said, we will be busy. The two thousand acres of land accounts for one-third of our production team." Chen Dazhuang said.
Wang Zhengguo smiled, "It's definitely tiring, but when the harvest comes, you'll know it's worth it. The joy of the harvest is better than any hard work. It's better for everyone to work harder now and store more food in the granary for emergency use, rather than wait until the wind and rain are not good and there's nothing to do."
It's really worth it. All the elders and villagers of Wanglou Brigade support any decision made by Wang Zhengguo.
At the command, men, women, old and young all went out.
With such a large piece of land, they can harvest a lot more food. Even if they can't get a share, they feel at ease storing it in the granary.
People who have experienced famine are more obsessed with food than each other.
Breaking the ice in the manure pond, everyone first knocked the accumulated manure in the cowshed into baskets and buckets, and transported it to the two thousand mu of land. They spread it very thinly and sparsely. After using it all up, they only spread a small half of the land. So every household picked out the accumulated plant ash, chicken manure, duck manure, goose manure and things from the reincarnation of grains, etc., and handed them over to the production team to record their work points.
There are regulations on how many points a load of plant ash is worth, and how many points a load of feces and urine is worth.
Feng Qingxue was at home taking care of the children and cooking, and did not go to work. Even though there were only a few days left in the vacation, Lu Jiang followed and worked very hard. Every day he went out clean and came back smelly.
Although he was very careful, some manure water was inevitably splashed on him.
"Ah, ah, ah!" Xi Bao hated the smell, and he would not let Lu Jiang get close to him unless he took a shower.
"Luckily you are wearing dad's tattered clothes. If it gets on your military uniform, the weather is so cold and the clothes can never dry, you will be wearing it and faint when you go back!" Mother and son are of one mind, Feng Qingxue also hates the smell, "Go take a shower, boil hot water in the big pot, call Tianjun and Acheng together, take a shower before going to bed!" "Why are you so particular? You have to be busy for several days, so you don't want to take a shower? It's a waste of firewood." Lu Jiang smelled his arm, "I used to be in the army, crawling around like a mud man. If I took a shower every day, I wouldn't have to fight." "Can fighting be compared with getting dung? It's up to you whether to take a shower or not. If you don't, you will sleep in the cowshed with dad." That won't do! It's not easy to have a wife and children warm bed, who would be willing to give it up? Lu Jiang quickly scooped water to take a shower and ran back quickly. As for Lu Tianjun and Guancheng, they took off their outer clothes and put them in the outer room, washed their feet and faces, and fell asleep after eating and drinking. Teenagers like Lu Tianjun and Guan Cheng were only responsible for scooping water from the manure pit into buckets, or using iron spades to put dry manure into baskets. Transporting manure and spreading fertilizer were the jobs of adults.