RPAGF Chapter 108 Tian Cheng invites you to dinner
Chapter 108 Tian Cheng invites you to dinner
Looking at the piles of corn cobs like small hills in the drying yard.
Thinking about how people in novels all threshed the corn kernels manually, the time travelers felt a little worried, sitting in this granary with drafts on all sides in the middle of winter to thresh corn kernels.
Isn't this going to kill me? I'm afraid that I'll get cold legs at such a young age this winter, and I'm starting to think about how to take leave.
But they thought too much. The agricultural machinery station sent people to bring a corn thresher to thresh the corn kernels for the village.
Not only that, the people at the grain station also specially arranged for a cart to come over. After threshing, the grain would be directly packed and loaded onto the truck and taken to the grain station, without the need for manual delivery to the grain station to pay for the public grain.
If the corn kernels were transported to the commune manually like wheat, even if all the villagers of Shanshui Village were mobilized, it would take more than three days to deliver the corn kernels to the commune.
Their village was really lucky this year. They drew the middle position for the thresher. When the weather cleared up, it was their village's turn to use the thresher.
People from the grain station come to check whether the corn cobs are dry. They can only be threshed if they meet the standards.
However, in order to properly entertain the people from the agricultural machinery station and the grain station, the villagers killed another pig.
This time, there was no meat to share, but the villagers treated everyone to a pig-killing meal. Everyone was given a bowl of meat dishes with two pieces of meat in it, and the rest was sauerkraut, potatoes, etc.
During threshing, Jiang Yanqiu and other little Camis were responsible for loading corn cobs for people to carry to the threshing site or pulling bags for packing.
Those that had been rained on or finally picked up from the snow were all dried.
The quality inspectors at the grain station were able to actually identify them. They simply discarded the corn cobs in the warehouse that contained the two types of corn cobs and kept them for distribution to everyone.
After the corn is harvested, it is the slack season for farmers, and the village does not force everyone to go to the sky.
Everyone has started preparing for the activities, preparing firewood and winter vegetables. Some families have not yet harvested all the grain in their private plots?
Jiang Yanqiu also started harvesting radishes and cabbages. It suddenly snowed before, so she had no time to harvest them. Aunt Chen asked Jiang Yanqiu to cover them with corn to prevent them from freezing.
He planted a lot of radishes and cabbages. He had planted 300 cabbages and 200 radishes and mustard greens.
I also sowed some vegetable seeds in the front and back yards. Now, except for the cabbage that has not yet fully formed its heart, the others have all grown.
She thought that the cabbage nowadays was not as productive as that of later generations, but it turned out that the big ones weighed more than ten kilograms, the small ones weighed five or six kilograms, and the ones without the core also weighed one or two kilograms.
It took her a whole day to collect all the things by herself.
After the harvest, the commune happened to have a market, so Jiang Yanqiu and the others went to join in the fun.
Because of Tian Mi, the educated youth were divided into several small groups. They no longer acted together as before, but walked separately.
They were lucky. It was Jiang Yanqiu's first time to ride a bullock cart when she went to the commune. It cost five cents per person. Although it was a bit cold, she didn't have to walk.
After getting off the bus, Zhao Lanlan went to the purchasing station first and then to the post office. She sold the grain she had received from her private plot and sent the money back home.
Gu Qingqing acted alone, Qin Yiheng and Wang Haiyang went together, and Jiang Yanqiu went with Xu Yan.
The two of them first went to the market to see if there was anything they needed to buy. If there was, they bought it and asked the village ox cart driver to take it back so that they didn't have to carry it around.
This market is even more lively than the last one. In addition to mountain products, there are also furs of small animals, of course, mostly rabbit skins.
Then there are tiger bones, cat bones, and small mountains of persimmons and pears.
The supply and marketing cooperative even took the crude salt to the market to sell, and a small production team would collectively exchange dozens or hundreds of bags.
Now is the season for pickling pickles, and people use more coarse salt.
When Jiang Yanqiu and her friend saw Village Chief Zhao and Accountant Li queuing up to exchange coarse salt, they simply invited them to join them.
Jiang Yanqiu and Xu Yan exchanged for a bag together. A bag of salt weighed fifty kilograms.
The two originally wanted to exchange some persimmons and pears for help in pulling them back.
However, Accountant Li said that many families in the village have extra ones, and the village can just exchange them when the time comes.
Moreover, the temperature is unstable now. It is too early to change it back. It may not be frozen. Otherwise, it will go bad when it warms up again. So the two of them did not buy it.
As for the other large quantities, the two people did not want to buy anything. After separating from Village Chief Zhao and the others, they bought some rabbit skins to make knee pads and insoles and left the market.
After coming out of the market, the two went to the scrap yard to buy some old newspapers and books to pass the time.
Jiang Yanqiu looked carefully and found that the person guarding the gate of the scrap station had been replaced, but the treasure underground was still there.
It seems that something had happened to the old man before, and I don’t know if this one is related to him.
As soon as the two of them came out of the scrap station, they met Zhao Lanlan. The three of them went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some daily necessities and returned to the village early. They were afraid that they would not be able to get a car if they were late.
After the three of them returned, they asked Aunt Chen which family had extra pears and persimmons, and ordered the persimmons and pears first so as not to have to wait until later for them to be delivered to the commune.
After deciding, I went to the village office to bring back the coarse salt.
When I returned to the educated youth site, I happened to meet Tian Cheng who had bought a big goose, two roosters, and ten eggs from the village.
When Tian Cheng saw them, she said, "My sister and Shaoyang are treating everyone to dinner tonight to make up for their engagement party. Don't forget to come!"
Several people agreed verbally, but were curious in their hearts how these two could still hold an engagement banquet.
To be honest, they admired Lin Shaoyang's magnanimity.
Not to mention that my fiancée is blatantly thinking of another man in her heart.
But this man is his good brother, and he keeps praising his good brother and belittling himself.
In fact, neither Tian Mi nor Lin Shaoyang were very willing to hold the engagement party again.
However, Tian Mi took Tian Cheng's words to heart. Now that they couldn't leave their home, Lin Shaoyang was her best choice.
Let’s not talk about anything else for now, just say that now the two sisters are eating together. Without Lin Shaoyang, who will fetch water, who will grind the grain, and who will chop the firewood.
People like Jiang Yanqiu who have to rely on themselves for everything really can't bear this hardship.
Moreover, she can use Lin Shaoyang as a shield, otherwise if the engagement is broken off, her family will not know what kind of person to arrange for her.
Anyway, let's wait until I can return to the city and get a decent job.
The food was ready and most of the educated youth had arrived.
Lin Shaoyang, the person involved, only found out after returning from the commune that his future aunt was going to hold an engagement party for them.
Opposition is totally ineffective!
Moreover, he was unsure whether he would marry Tian Mi in the future, so he had to give face to this possible future sister-in-law.
He helped with the work without saying anything and went to the village to buy a jar of sorghum wine.
Zhao Lanlan and the other person helped Jiang Yanqiu move things into the house.
Zhao Lanlan then said, "Should we go to this dinner? It feels weird to eat there!"
Xu Yan smiled and said, "You think it won't be awkward if you don't go? Since it's awkward anyway, why not go and eat happily? Isn't it nice to have meat? And it's rare for Tian Cheng to be so generous."
Zhao Lanlan finally realized that not going there would mean not blessing them. She didn't know what others would think, and it would only be more awkward to meet them in the future.
So these people put their things away and went to the front yard to help cook.
The others had the same idea as them and went to help without exception.
When Gu Qingqing came, she dazzled most people!