During the autumn harvest, in addition to delivering meals to Hu Xiaoyi, Li Aihua went up the mountain with Hu Lin to pick up mountain products during the day.
After dinner, before it got dark, Li Aihua slowly harvested the corn, sorghum, potatoes, etc. in her private plot.
After all the grain from the public fields was harvested and the first group of people started going up the mountain to pick up mountain products, Li Aihua stopped going up the mountain.
Hu Lin went up the mountain alone to pick some fruits and Matsutake mushrooms, which are mountain products with high nutritional value.
One reason is because of the shadow of last year, and the other is because the focus has shifted to one’s own private land.
If we delay any longer, the grain in the private plot will rot in the ground.
After all the grain in the village was stored, Hu Xiaoyi came back to help Li Aihua collect the grain in her private plot.
Hu Xiaoyi also expanded the cellar in the yard a lot.
Otherwise, the cellar dug last year would not be able to store the grain in the private plots this year.
Hu Lin inevitably followed suit and peeled corn for a few days.
After the grain was dried, it needed to be husked and ground into flour. Hu Xiaoyi carried the grain to Hu's house.
Li Aihua stayed at home and planted vegetables for the winter in her private plot.
Hu Lin didn't know how Hu Xiaoyi figured it out, but he just followed and watched.
These are the results of Li Aihua's hard work for more than half a year. She cannot let the Hu family take advantage of them.
The Hu family has also been working on the food from their own private plots these days.
But because the whole family is working, Cao Zhaodi can no longer work as fast as before.
The crops were grown by the Hu family members who came home to help after work.
But in this way, the annual harvest is only one-third more than theirs.
The couple from the second house uttered a few sarcastic words in a sour tone, but in the end they did not dare to think of taking the food.
The main reason was because Hu Lin was standing next to him.
Cao Zhaodi and the second wife had both suffered losses at her hands, and now no one dared to provoke them easily.
After finishing this busy work, Hu Xiaoyi finally had a good rest for a few days.
Come to think of it, working all year round this year doesn’t seem as tiring as last year.
As Hu Xiaoyi was thinking about it, something that happened a long time ago suddenly flashed through his mind.
The preferential treatment that the village chief mentioned at the beginning!
But many things happened later, so this incident seems not so memorable.
Only now, after receiving preferential treatment, do I remember that such a thing happened.
After that, he either went up the mountain to chop firewood or built tables at home.
This was the task Hu Lin gave him, to keep him from being idle.
When he went up the mountain to chop firewood, he would occasionally see Hu Lin exercising on the mountain.
Looking at Hu Lin dragging a bundle of branches behind him, running from one end to the other.
But he never picked up game.
He also discovered some clues in his mind.
But those delicious wild game meals never made him hungry, but instead they were full of oil and fat.
Therefore, there are some things he does not want to think about, nor does he dare to think about.
Li Aihua is fine this year and is not injured anywhere. The matter of pickling the game will be led by Li Aihua, with Hu Xiaoyi cooperating.
The period from autumn harvest to year-end settlement is the busiest time for village cadres.
They didn't feel relieved until the end of the year when the accounts were settled.
This year, like last year, is an average year.
There was no drought or insect pests, so the harvest was pretty good.
However, Hu Xiaoyi's grain tax this year totaled 480 kilograms.
This was the most grain Hu Xiaoyi had ever received in an ordinary year since work points were recorded.
The same as the settlement in previous years when the harvest years came.
The same goes for the Hu family. Although they lack Cao Zhaodi this year, their overall grain income still increased by several hundred kilograms.
Everyone in the Hu family knew that this was the village chief's family fulfilling their five-year promise.
After checking, they didn't say anything and quietly pressed their fingerprints.
The other village cadres saw this and did not doubt it either. These data were calculated by them together, so there was nothing to doubt.
But only the village chief and his family know how this works in detail.
This year, when the family's private plot had a good harvest, Hu Lin decided to exchange half of the grain for money.
As for the rest, Hu Xiaoyi will make the decision.
The price of grain this year is the same as last year, at thirty-one yuan and twenty cents.
It cost ten cents to rent tools from the village, plus the two dollars left over from last year, so the family now has thirty-three dollars and ten cents.
After getting the money, Hu Xiaoyi picked a day and went to the county town to buy daily necessities for the winter.
It cost more than ten yuan to go to the county town, leaving sixteen yuan left.
It's like spending money like flowing water and making money like grabbing sand.
Good flowers are hard to earn!
Hu Xiaoyi also renovated the poultry shed, where chickens and ducks sleep at night. During the autumn harvest last year, he laid thick straw on the floor of the raised wooden house and thickened the roof of the shed.
Prepare the chickens and ducks for the winter.
Three of the ten chickens and ducks died, and the remaining seven are all treasures. We can't let them freeze to death.
Not long after the year-end settlement, the villagers sold the pigs they had raised for a year, leaving only an old sow and her piglets.
At the end of December, it was time to settle dividends, and this time Hu Lin asked Hu Xiaoyi to bring a basin over.
The harvest from the sideline business was poor this year, and each household only earned eight yuan.
When it was their turn to collect the meat, Hu Lin asked for the pig's blood that he didn't get last year.
When the people in the queue saw that they wanted pig offal again this year, they all wondered what kind of special fetish this family had.
After the dividends from side jobs were distributed, 99.9% of the people in the village became idle, and only Zhao Ming had to work until New Year's Eve.
Knowing that the village chief's family was idle, a few days later, Li Aihua asked Hu Xiaoyi to go to the village chief's house to invite them to visit.
Li Aihua and Hu Lin killed a chicken and a duck at home.
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