She sighed at Zhang Xiulan beside her, "Look at how hard your brother-in-law works. How many times has he run around in the past? There's no sign of his wife. Is she leaving all the work to your brother-in-law?"
Zhang Xiulan glanced over there without stopping her hands. The two children followed behind her. Although each child only needed to break a line, Chunshu was only 8 years old, slow with his hands and playful, so she had to connect the children from time to time.
Her husband is not far away from them, so they can't rely on him at all. They are just lucky that she doesn't need to help.
"They come from the city, they want the best food and the easiest work. We can't compare."
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Regarding the issue of food rations
Whether reading the descriptions of period literature today or reading about childhood experiences, the author has always had a question: why cornmeal is mentioned when describing hard times.
In the area where the author lives, the main food crops are wheat and corn. Winter wheat is harvested around June, and after the wheat is harvested, corn is planted and harvested around October. Winter wheat is planted after the corn is harvested.
It was not until the time of writing this book that the author asked some elders about this question: why do we have to eat cornmeal and white flour is scarce when the same land is used to grow two crops?
The answer is that the crop yields at that time were completely different from those now. Although wheat was intensively planted in the early days of liberation, there were few high-quality varieties at the time, and the wheat yield per mu could only reach 200 to 300 kilograms, while the corn yield per mu was much higher, 700 to 800 kilograms, or even more than 1,000 kilograms. Of course, the current corn yield is even higher.
So we can have enough food and clothing now, and can eat white flour or rice whenever we want, and we must thank agricultural scientists.
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