Chapter 104 features Hei Xiazi.

And so, Sun Yunpeng and his men went into the woods every day.

These people didn't know how to hunt before; they just learned from Sheng Xiping for a few days.

They were just taking advantage of having guns and the abundance of prey this season. If they were lucky, they could catch a roe deer or a wild boar; if they weren't, they could catch a pheasant or a rabbit.

If you're unlucky on a particular day, you won't see a single hair of your prey.

These people are really persistent; they're probably addicted to it, spending all their time in the woods.

Lao Hu talked to them about this, but they ignored him and continued to do as they pleased.

The agricultural team was too busy in the fall, and Lao Hu didn't have the energy to pay much attention to it. He had mentioned it twice, but they ignored him, so he gave up.

The family team of Qianchuan Forest Farm has a total of seven or eight hundred mu of land. Apart from a small portion planted with corn, soybeans, and sweet potatoes, most of it is planted with cabbage, radishes, and potatoes.

Soybeans cannot be harvested after they have dried completely, otherwise the pods will burst open and the beans will fall to the ground.

Basically, as soon as the leaves fall, they have to be collected and harvested quickly.

To harvest soybeans, you cut the soybean stalks with a sickle, then use elm or willow branches to make bundles to tie the stalks together, and carry them all to the lighted ball field at the end of the forest farm to dry.

Once they're dried, I'll find time to grind them.

The soybeans are harvested, now it's time to harvest the corn.

Corn is easier to break off; you can either directly break off the ears or cut the corn stalks with a sickle first and then break them off.

The corn cobs that have been broken off still need to have their husks removed and be stored in the corn storage shed of the family team, waiting to dry completely before threshing.

After harvesting soybeans and corn, it's time for cabbage, radishes, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.

Cabbage and radishes are simple to grow; they are pulled from the ground, loaded onto trucks, and transported to the forest farm, where families come and buy them directly.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes were easy to dig out with pickaxes, put them in sacks, and transport them back to the forest farm.

In those days, without plastic greenhouses, winter vegetables consisted of the same three things: radishes, cabbage, and potatoes. So every household had to prepare a lot of vegetables for winter storage.

In addition, the forest farm canteen also needs to stock up on a lot of winter vegetables, so there are no leftover vegetables for the family teams. They are all distributed as soon as they are brought back.

Seven or eight hundred acres sounds like a lot.

In reality, there are about 300 households in the forest farm, and each family has someone working in the agricultural team, so the average income per household is not much.

At this time, the school also gave students a break for the busy farming season.

From the third grade of elementary school onwards, and from junior high to high school, everyone had to go to the family-run farm for the autumn harvest.

Even the school teachers were not left behind; they all went to work in the fields.

With family members, educated youth, and students on leave from the busy farming season, everyone pitched in to work. How could things not get done quickly?

In just over a week, everything that needed to be tidied up was finished.

The beans need to be dried completely before they can be harvested. Soybeans are usually kept, except for those reserved for seed, and the rest are distributed to the family team.

The family team has a tofu workshop, which will make tofu and sell it to each family. The tofu residue will be kept to feed pigs.

The same goes for corn; once it's completely dried and threshed, it can be sold to various households.

Many families in the forest farm have a lot of children, and the food rations are not enough, so they have to buy coarse grains to mix in.

The family-run team was planting this little bit of grain, and before anything could happen, the deal was already decided.

Radishes, cabbages, potatoes, and sweet potatoes were all sold to individual households. Only after deducting the corresponding costs from the collected money could the agricultural team's wages be settled.

Because the funds were borrowed in advance, some people did little work and had to ask for the money back.

Autumn is also the season when the forest is most abundant with produce.

Nuts such as pine nuts, scallion nuts, hazelnuts, and pecans; berries such as schisandra berries, wild grapes, and jujubes; and various delicious mushrooms such as hazel mushrooms and frozen mushrooms.

You could say it has everything, from trees to the ground.

As long as you are diligent and not lazy, you can bring back a basket full of good things in a short time after going into the mountains.

At this point, without anyone saying a word, people automatically and spontaneously walked into the forest.

Wandering through the mountains and forests, they search for all sorts of edible and usable things, enriching their daily lives and even earning some money.

The school also joined in the fun at this time, asking each student to hand over twenty catties of scallions.

The family team raised some pigs, and autumn was the season to fatten them up, but there wasn't enough grain, so they could only harvest wild berries to feed the pigs.

In order to raise class funds, the school made the students contribute stalks of grass, which were then sold to the family teams.

This solved the problem of food for the pigs raised by the family members, and the school no longer needed to charge the students any fees.

After all, winter is just around the corner, and each classroom will need to install stoves and seal windows, all of which will cost money.

These days, most people are unwilling to collect money from students' families to pay class fees, but they have no problem paying for things like scallions.

Anyway, the forest farm is located in a mountain valley, and there are many oak trees on the hillsides on both sides of the valley. You don't have to go too far to find berries.

That's what they say, but if each student has to pay 20 jin (10 kg), how many students would a family have? That adds up to quite a lot.

The few scallion berries nearby aren't enough, so many people have to walk further afield to find more.

However, at this time, the animals in the mountains are also eating voraciously to store fat in preparation for winter.

Wild boars will gorge on nuts such as scallions, walnuts, and pine nuts in the fall.

At this time, the black bear would also look for places with jujubes and wild grapes, and pick the jujubes off bunches and eat them.

Humans and animals share common goals, so the chances of them meeting and clashing are naturally higher.

A few days later, word spread that so-and-so's child had encountered a large, solitary wild boar while picking wild berries in the mountains and had been gored by it.

Fortunately, there were people around at the time, and everyone worked together to drive the wild boar away, and the person was rescued and taken to the hospital.

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