Chapter 83 Sharing the Rice
The next day, Aunt Zhang's punishment for Tian Xiaohua came down. Because the two of them harvested and tried to plant the land without authorization, they were sentenced to one day at the plateau farm. Aunt Zhang was sentenced to three days in total because she verbally insulted the army's wife and brought the army commander with her.
Neither Cheng Jinghao nor Lin Momo had expected this. They all thought that this matter would at most result in a loss of money, after all, Zhang Hui had just arrived at the military region.
Fortunately, Zhang Hui and the others have been in the army, and Tian Xiaohua has not given birth yet, otherwise I don’t know what to do with the child.
However, no matter how it was handled, the rice in the fields had to be harvested, and the next day Cheng Jinghao called Zhao Zhigang to go and harvest it.
I don't know where Shengli's Xu Gang got a thresher from, but now he's doing the harvesting, drying, and threshing all at the same time.
[Tip: If the rice planting trial is successful, 1,000 points will be awarded, and the cumulative points will be 18,900 points. 】
The rice harvest was finished in mid-July. Because the snow season began in southern Tibet in October, it was too late to grow late rice, so Lin Momo had to give up planting late rice.
On the day when the rice from the paddy fields was threshed, Lin Momo kept only 50 kilograms at home, gave some to Li He and others who helped with the work, and sent the rest to the military district canteen.
Soldiers and their families did not need tickets to eat rice in the military district cafeteria that day, but everyone had a quota.
Today Zhou Weihong bought rice from the cafeteria and invited Commander Chen to her home for dinner.
"This rice is good and fragrant." Political Commissar Cao said after taking a bite.
"Indeed, each grain is plump. I've never eaten rice of such high quality." Zhou Weihong nodded.
"I heard that the food sent to the cafeteria alone weighs eight or nine kilograms?" Commander Chen looked at Zhou Weihong.
"Well, we've got 50 kilograms for each of the three families working there, and we've got 50 kilograms here, so won't you get 50 kilograms too?"
“Such a high yield? Even the land dedicated to growing rice wouldn’t have such a high yield, right?” Political Commissar Cao raised his head from the rice.
"I heard that they selected seeds one by one and didn't want the bad ones." Zhou Weihong saw Lin Momo selecting and soaking seeds.
"Momo is meticulous in her work." Commander Chen said with a smile, looking proud of it.
(I'd like to explain here, in case some readers think that the yield can be higher than that in Northeast China? The rice grown by the heroine here is grown using modern planting methods. At that time, Yuan's hybrid rice was not widely circulated, and the grain yield in Northeast China was not high. I would like to reiterate that the author does not know how to farm. If readers who know how to farm think that I am wrong, please forgive me! The methods I wrote are all checked online.)
Lin Momo's family also eats rice from the cafeteria. Cheng Jinghao made a few dishes to go with the rice today, and Lin Momo ate them with relish.
“The rice I grow myself is so delicious.” Eating the fried pork with peppers, I feel like I can eat several more bowls of rice.
"Are these rice seeds the ones that the old man got?" Cheng Jinghao asked.
"Well, where are the rice seeds in the space?" She looked at him in confusion.
"You use the same kind of rice seeds. Why are the grains you grow bigger and more fragrant than those grown in the countryside?" He looked at the rice in the bowl.
"The grain in the countryside is handed over first, and the rest is distributed to individuals according to the centimeters. No one would do their work so carefully unless it is their own."
When Cheng Jinghao heard her words, he lowered his head to eat and stopped talking.
"Also, my planting method is different from what is written in books of later generations." In later generations, there were chemical fertilizers. Now she uses cow dung to cultivate the land, but people in the village don't use cow dung to cultivate the land.
"I should prepare some seeds early tomorrow so that I can plant late rice." Lin Momo said after thinking for a while. Today was really a waste of a season.
"It just so happens that you are pregnant too, so you can worry about it."
While people were having a great time eating here, there was a lot of noise in the cafeteria over there.
"This is too stingy. Military dependents are given two taels of rice, and soldiers are given three taels." The speaker was Cui Taohua, the new wife of Battalion Commander Qiu.
"If you don't want it, you don't have to. No one is forcing you to have it." The soldier's wife standing behind Cui Taohua couldn't bear it.
"That's right, Lin Zhi worked so hard to grow rice, and he gave us his share of the rice, but not his due. If you want to look down on us, don't come."
"Don't be silly." Sixth Aunt came over to help with dinner today. She had a lot of dealings with Lin Momo and couldn't stand someone wasting the fruits of her labor like this.
"Who the hell are you? Why don't you give me money?" Cui Taohua refused to do anything when she heard that she was not given money.
"Why are you swearing?" When the military wives behind her heard her words, they looked disgusted and swearing, and began to blame her one after another.
"What? You need help?" Cui Taohua felt a little scared when she saw a group of people surrounding her and pointing at her.
He threw the box on the ground and sat there doing nothing.
"Someone come, someone is going to kill someone." This was also her first time to follow the army. When she was in the village, there was an officer in her family, so she could walk around the village with her head held high.
The military dependents around her looked at her and looked at each other in bewilderment. How could this be such a shrew?
When Sixth Aunt saw this, she knew that she couldn't just let it go like this, so she asked whose military family this was and asked two soldiers to go, one to ask Zhou Weihong, the director of women's affairs, and the other to ask Cui Taohua's husband.
Commander Chen and Political Commissar Cao came with Zhou Weihong. When they arrived, Cui Taohua was still rolling on the ground.
Commander Chen and Political Commissar Cao looked at each other. What was going on between the two of them and the new officer?
After seeing off He Shuangjiang's family, Feng Qiang, who came to report private matters, also killed another spy, Zhang Zhengxin. Zhang Hui's mother and daughter-in-law were sent to the plateau to work again. What's going on?
At this time, Captain Qiu also came over and saw Cui Taohua sitting on the ground. "I asked you to come over for dinner, why haven't you come back for so long?"
"She won't let me eat." Cui Taohua pointed at Aunt Liu and said.
"The army commander, political commissar, and Director Zhou are not like this." Aunt Liu waved repeatedly.
"Teacher Xu, you tell me." Zhou Weihong looked at a military wife, a teacher at a primary school in a military area.
This teacher was the military wife who just stood behind Cui Taohua.
"Commander Chen, Political Commissar Cao, Director Zhou, this is it. This Dongzhi dislikes the rice planted by Lin Dongzhi because she divides too much. It's nothing originally. If you want to dislike it, you can just not give it up. But she even scolded Aunt Liu. After scolding Aunt Liu, she started to throw a tantrum."
Aunt Six had dealt with all the military dependents in the military district and was grateful to Lin Momo. After all, it was Lin Momo who helped build the greenhouse at home. Now everyone can eat fresh vegetables from the greenhouse.
"What? Lin Xiaozhi is pregnant and is trying to grow rice for you. Doesn't she owe you anything? She deserves to be fed to you?" Commander Chen looked at Captain Qiu.
"Commander, no, I don't mean that." Captain Qiu waved his hand and looked at Cui Taohua, "I want you to have a meal. I'll give you as much as you want. Two taels of rice, can you finish it?"
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