Chapter 164: Crowded Planting Area

Lin Qi did not participate in the food distribution, and asked Xu Hexiao to tell her that she did not want the food this year. When the people present heard that Lin Qi would not participate in the food distribution this year, they were so moved that their eyes were red.

With Lin Qiquan's work points ranking first in the brigade, she should have been allocated a lot of food, but she just said she didn't want it. Now it's a disaster year, and who knows what the situation will be like next year!

Everyone's admiration for Lin Qi deepened.

Xu Hexiao scanned the expressions on everyone's faces and continued, "Lin Qi said that she planted sweet potatoes on her two acres of land. From today on, every member of the team can dig some sweet potatoes. Men, women, young and old, each person can only dig two sweet potatoes."

What?

You can go to Lin Qi to dig sweet potatoes!

"Captain and accountant, please help me distribute the food first. I will come to get it later. I trust you." Jian Tongyi was the first to react, shouting while running towards Lin Qi's house.

"Captain and accountant, me too, please help us divide it." Zhao Yi chased after Jian Tongyi.

"And me." Mo Mingyang also ran away.

Next, several male educated youth at the educated youth point ran away, leaving only four female educated youth at the scene.

"I want to go too. The sweet potatoes grown by Lin Qi are so delicious." Zhu Qing was somewhat tempted.

"You go first, dig the sweet potatoes, and then come over to help me." Feng Qian said to Zhu Qing.

Zhu Qing's eyes lit up, "Let's do it."

Ma Guizhi looked at Gan Tian and said, "I'll go first and come over to replace you later?"

"Okay!" Gan Tian agreed without any hesitation.

Most of the people at the educated youth site ran away. The team members left one person from each household, and the rest ran away too.

A group of people rushed to Lin Qi's two acres of land. When they passed by Lin Qi's house from a distance, they saw Lin Qi standing at the gate and waved to her.

Lin Qi nodded to everyone, turned around and went home.

After a while, she went to the planting area through the back door of the house.

In order to supply goods to Brother Tan for five consecutive days, she has to prepare in advance.

When other people rushed into the two acres of land, Lao Fu and Lao Bi simply stopped. They each carried a basket with three sweet potatoes in each basket, each weighing more than ten pounds.

"This is the amount for three of us." Old Fu explained to the people who came in.

The team members nodded at the two of them and said, "We are also helping our family members. Two per person, we won't take more."

“Is every sweet potato this big?”

"A sweet potato this big is enough for a family of seven or eight to eat for a whole day."

"If you save a little, it will last for two days."

"What I'm worried about is that there are hundreds of people in our team, just this piece of land. Is it enough for everyone to share?"

In recent years, many people have married into their team, and many babies have been born.

"Stop talking and dig."

“.......”

Everyone was worried that there weren't enough sweet potatoes underground, so they all worked hard digging.

Strangely enough, the land has been dry and cracked everywhere after several months of drought, but the soil in Lin Qi's two acres of land is very soft, so it takes little effort to dig up the sweet potatoes.

With everyone exclaiming, the sweet potatoes were dug out of the soil one by one.

"I don't understand how these sweet potatoes grow. Each one weighs about 10 kilograms and is very well-proportioned."

"Could it be that Lin Qi was worried that people would find fault with them, so she made them look the same?"

"What are you thinking about? Sweet potatoes grow underground. How can Lin Qi see what they look like?"

"Even if she can't see it, she knows it in her heart."

"Why is our grain production higher than others this year? She must have done something."

"Shh, don't talk, just keep it in mind."

Lin Qi went to the planting area and harvested a wave of rice first, then began to count the animals in the planting area: there were 86 ducks, 178 pigs, 123 deer, 345 goats, and the largest number of hares and pheasants, with each species numbering more than 1,000 or 2,000. The number of bamboo rats was not far behind, with more than 2,000. The number of bees was also countless, and eleven beehives had been divided. The water level of the pond dropped, but there were still a lot of fish in it, about tens of thousands of kilograms.

The current planting areas are so crowded, which is the result of Lin Qi not controlling their reproduction after discovering the abnormal weather.

When drought strikes, not only food is in short supply, but also meat!

Now it seems that she was right not to control herself.

Mrs. Yu is pregnant, so Lin Qi plans to temporarily send her six chickens and six fish, as well as some eggs and dried fruits, as well as a basket of oranges produced this season.

In addition to 50 kilograms of smoked pork, the things sent home also included a bag of oranges, a bag of dried fruits, a bag of chestnuts, a bag of dried black fungus and a bag of dried mushrooms.

"It seems like there are too many things." Lin Qi murmured, "But it's okay. We are transporting rice today, and the truck is not as full as yesterday. Just put these on the truck bed."

Xu Hexiao brought back his food, but Lin Qi was no longer at home.

The person who dug the sweet potatoes carried the basket on his back and wanted to thank Lin Qi, but he happened to see Xu Hexiao closing the door.

"Qiqi went to the mountains. Everyone dug sweet potatoes and went home on their own." Xu Hexiao said.

"Then when Lin Qi comes back, please say thank you to Lin Qi on our behalf." said the team members.

Xu Hexiao nodded, "No problem."

Xu Hexiao closed Lin Qi's courtyard door and went into the mountain.

On that day, all the members of the Anliang Brigade dug up sweet potatoes, two for each person, and even the babies in confinement were not left out. Only two mu of land produced nearly two thousand sweet potatoes, and each weighed about ten kilograms and was uniform in size.

This is incredible!

In the evening, every household of the Anliang Brigade members ate sweet potato rice, and it was a rare opportunity to have a full meal.

Tonight, Lin Qi prepared 20,000 kilograms of rice for Brother Tan.

Brother Tan was not very satisfied, "What's in those cloth pockets of yours?"

"Some smoked meat and dried goods, to be given away as gifts and mailed back home." Lin Qi said, "Pheasants and fish are also to be given away as gifts."

"Why didn't I see you see me off!" Brother Tan was dissatisfied.

"Yes, these two bags of dried goods are yours." Lin Qi pointed to a bag of dried fruit and a bag of dried black fungus that were placed separately. "As for the meat, you can take it yourself tomorrow. Tomorrow's goods are chicken and pork."

"That's more like it." Brother Tan said proudly.

Tonight, Lin Qi drove the car to the town again, and then got off the car in the town.

"Can you take so much?" asked Brother Tan.

"I can take it." Lin Qi took a straw rope, tied all the bags together, put them on her back, and held the fish and chicken in her hands.

She walked briskly, and the hundreds of pounds of stuff seemed to weigh nothing on her.

When Yu Mingbo opened the door, he thought Lin Qi was carrying a small mountain behind her.

"Please take these two things in first. There are too many things behind me and I can't get in." Lin Qi handed the fish and chicken in her hand to Yu Mingbo, and then tried to untie the straw rope on her body.

Yu Borui and Aunt Yu came over to help take the bag off her back, and Sister Yu helped them hold the door. After they moved all the things in, they closed the door and locked it from the inside.

"So many things!" Yu Mingbo was surprised.

Lin Qi divided the things into two piles. "Please mail these back to my house. This pile is what I prepared for you. You can eat these for now. I'll come back in three or four days."

The Yu family was very grateful to Lin Qi. They held her and talked to her for a long time before letting her leave.

As soon as Lin Qi left, Yu Mingbo instructed his wife, "These fish are already dead, you pickle them with salt. The chickens are still alive, go borrow a cage tomorrow and lock them up separately so that they have more room to move around. As for the others, we will divide them up tomorrow and give some to close relatives and neighbors on both sides."

"There are 300 kilograms of smoked meat. Have they all been given away?" Yu Borui asked.

"Give 50 kilograms to your father-in-law and mother-in-law, 50 kilograms to your grandmother, and our relatives on the Yu side will also take 50 kilograms. We will keep 50 kilograms for ourselves, and sell the remaining 100 kilograms to neighbors and colleagues with whom we have a good relationship. We will say that our relatives in the countryside slaughtered a pig and sent it to us, and ask them if they want it. There are four people in our family, and each person is responsible for 20 kilograms. There is no more. Don't promise more than this amount, otherwise we will be the ones starving." Yu Mingbo said seriously.

The other three nodded.

On the third night, Lin Qi put 1,200 chickens and four pigs in cages. Each chicken weighed more than ten kilograms, and each pig weighed four or five hundred kilograms.

"Today's total weight is much heavier than yesterday." said Brother Tan.

"Does it exceed the vehicle's load capacity?" Lin Qi was a little worried.

"It was almost over the limit. But it's okay. We'll load it the same way tomorrow." Brother Tan said with a smile. The more cargo he had, the more secure his job would be. "By the way, there were robbers on the road yesterday. You and He Xiao should be careful when you go out at night."

Lin Qi was not worried about herself and Xu Hexiao, but worried about Brother Tan, "Are you okay by yourself?"

"The town has sent a police officer with a gun to go with you." said Brother Tan.

Lin Qi nodded, "That's good."

On the third night, Lin Qi caught all the big fish in the pond and left only some small fish.

"This must be about 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms." Xu Hexiao said.

"The water level keeps dropping. If we don't pull them out, they will die in a few days. It's too crowded." Lin Qi said.

"The river is now dry, and everyone can catch a lot of fish during the day. They dry the fish and store them all. Even Teacher Yi and his friends saved half a bag." Xu Hexiao said.

Lin Qi raised an eyebrow, "Did the team members allow them to go down to the river to catch fish?"

"Thanks to you, not only can they go, but there are also several aunties who teach them how to catch fish and how to find clams and river mussels." Xu Hexiao said.

Lin Qi did not deny her own contribution. "It is also because the captain and the deputy captain managed the team members well. Otherwise, even if I were there, the team would not be so harmonious."

Xu Hexiao agreed, "Indeed."

Brother Tan was so shocked to see so many fish that he was speechless. He gave Lin Qi a thumbs up.

"These are the only fish we have. When the water level dropped, I caught them all. They will be gone by the New Year," said Lin Qi.

"If you don't have it, then don't. As long as you have something else, it'll be fine. Tell me what it is tomorrow so that I can be prepared and not be scared by you again."

"What do you want?"

"The higher-ups want food more."

"Then let's ship a batch of corn, soybeans and sweet potatoes tomorrow."

"No more rice?"

"There are still some left, clear the others first."

"OK."