OBS Chapter 1087 It’s better to pick up what’s ready
Chapter 1087 It’s better to pick up what’s ready
For them, being able to eat porridge every day is a rare good day.
These are families with little land. Those with more land can still have enough dry food to eat for one or two months.
The North is the last piece of pure land in this chaotic world, but despite this, it is located at the border and the winters are bitterly cold. In previous years, when winter came, many families had difficulty making it through this hurdle, and many people died of freezing or starvation. Almost every household had to hang white flags.
According to government data, in recent years, the number of people who died in winter is 70% less than in previous years.
She felt that she had done her best to be able to do this and save so many people.
Besides children, there are also old people picking wheat ears in the fields. They will also pick up the wheat grains scattered on the ground, muttering that a handful of food can feed a life.
She was deeply touched. Anyone who has experienced hunger will be extra cherishing of food and will not be willing to waste even a grain.
Their life was so good now that a set of clothes cost dozens of taels of silver, and there was more food in the granary than the family could eat in ten lifetimes, but every time they ate, there would be nothing left in the bowls and plates.
Even if there are any leftovers, they will be saved for the next meal.
Her mother would also take her sister-in-law, niece and aunt to the fields to pick up wheat ears, and would also go to her farms to pick them up.
But the wheat ears from her farm were picked up by the farmers on the farm. This time of year was the happiest time for the children.
Sometimes a family could collect half a sack a day, enough to eat for one or two months.
They picked up everything cleanly, leaving nothing behind.
Li then gave up. It was fine if someone picked them up, but he was afraid that they would be wasted on the fields. That would be a waste.
Several prefectures began to collect grain. She traveled around for half a month and then returned to Yunzhou to take charge. News from several prefectures was sent here.
Every day when she opens her eyes, she has a lot of things to deal with, and she also has to find time to meet people.
There are both big and small people.
At the end of the day, sometimes I don’t even have time to go to the toilet, so I can only drink less tea.
When the grain from the two farms given by the Wang family was harvested and the harvest from the fields came out, she took her people to the farm.
In the two villages, the land with the highest yield is similar to that in Nanhe, with a yield of more than five stones. The land with the worst yield is also 37 or 8 stones. The highest yield is still in the middle, with more than four stones per mu.
The tenants left by the Wang family on the farm were very pleasantly surprised by this year's harvest. "This year's harvest is better than in previous years. There is so much extra food that we may not be able to eat it all in one year."
"In previous years, we paid 60%, but this year we only have to pay 40%, and the harvest has increased. It's not just that much, our family can eat enough dry food for a month during the Chinese New Year this year."
Everyone was talking one after another, and it was unclear whether they were talking to Zhou Guo.
The village head said, "Boss, these people know what is good for them."
Zhou Guo didn't say anything. He looked at the calculated data in his hand. The two plots of land added up to nearly 400 hectares. There were not many cultivated lands of that size in Yunzhou.
Excluding the various beans, peanuts and rapeseed planted above, only 10% is used. The remaining 10% is planted with rice and corn, and the rest is wheat.
A total of more than 100,000 shi of grain can be harvested.
All this grain was sent south for planting.
We've had news from Qian Duo before that if nothing unexpected happens, the harvest should be good this year.
She plans to transport part of this grain to the south. Together with the grain transported from the Nanhe River, she will have a large area of land in the south to grow new grain next year.
Therefore, these grains were dried and temporarily stored in the warehouse. After the autumn harvest, Mo Dahui would take these grains south and would not wait for Lai Zi Tou and the others.
She said to the head of the village, "This batch of grain is to be kept for next year's planting. It must be air-dried before being put into the warehouse. It must also be done after it is put into the warehouse. If the grain is exposed to moisture, it will be ruined. It must be air-dried several times over."
The head of the village should be.
She turned and walked towards the warehouse, "Let's go check out the granary."
The Wang family liked to build houses wherever they went. They made them big and beautiful. Their granary was also well built, made of bluestone, with dozens of large vats filled with water outside.
The granary is also large.
She didn't need to change anything. Except for the tenants' houses on the farm which were short and small, the Wang family's own houses were the best built.
What a bargain!
The farm taken over from someone else is different, everything is ready, and you don’t have to spend any extra money, you can just sit and wait and earn a lot of money!
No wonder so many people like to rob. Lai Zi Tou and his gang chose to become bandits in the beginning, so the things they robbed are different.
I don’t know if the Wang family has shed any blood, or if it is just a drop in the bucket, I don’t care at all.
How could the Wang family not bleed?
Such a large piece of land is hard to find even in the north, not to mention that after so many years of planting and nurturing the crops, how can you not feel resentment when someone picks the fruits?
Zhou Guo was happy when he harvested the crops.
The escort agency was busy day and night. After checking the collected grain, it was taken into the cave and recorded.
By the time the wheat harvest in the north was almost complete, half of the grain that was returned was stored in the warehouse.
Zhou Guo breathed a sigh of relief. In previous years, he had used the wrong method and had to wait until the very end to store the harvested grain, which was exhausting. Now, he could store the grain as he harvested it, which saved time and effort.
The wheat has not yet been fully stored in the warehouse, but the rice in various farms has begun to be harvested.
The rice grew better than the wheat, so Zhou Guo took the opportunity to return to Cangshan Village.
After so many years of cultivation, the more than two acres of land in Cangshan Village yielded twelve stone this year, a real harvest!
The villagers' eyes sparkled with envy. If their fields could produce such a yield, what would they be afraid of?
Throughout the year, there is no need to buy extra food, as the output from the few acres of land at home is enough.
They are all the same seeds, but I don’t know why the results are different from those on the Zhou family’s two acres of land.
Li himself also lamented, "It's not just you who are different. Apart from these two acres of land, my own land can't achieve this harvest. The highest yield of other rice is only more than five stones, which is far from comparable."
Every year, these two acres of land are planted with carefully selected grains. The seeds are good and sufficient fertilizers are applied, so the harvest is naturally good.
Zhou Guo looked at the booklet in his hand and smiled, "This year's harvest is better than last year. Although the increase in the past few years has been slower than in previous years, it is still increasing."
Zhou Gu said: "I have been to so many villages, but I have never seen a family with such a high harvest. Even those with more than four stones of rice are rare, let alone such a high harvest. If I tell others about it, no one will believe it."
No one believed it, it was like heaven and earth.
The old man asked Zhou Guo, "Didn't you say you wanted to change the recipe for fattening? When will you start?"
The whole family is watching her. If she starts to gain weight, it means she will come back to live with us, right?
Zhou Guo said, "Let's wait for some time. The autumn harvest in the north is almost done. I still have to go to Nanhe. I'll talk about it when I come back."
In fact, if she hadn't had to wait for news from the front, she would have wanted to go south.
Zhou Su said happily: "Well, we are going to study abroad too. When you come back, we will come back too."