Chapter 190 Digging Sweet Potatoes
Digging out manure is not a pleasant job, especially in this weather. After the sedimentation and the temperature rises, the smell...
It can be said that this job is tiring and smelly. If you do it for a long time, you will be smelled by it.
Zhou Ziwen discovered that the production team particularly liked to use this kind of dirty and smelly work as punishment.
There is Tang Guoqiang in front, Liu Guodong behind, and now there is Fang Jianhua.
Moreover, Fang Jianhua's job is more tiring and more boring.
"Haha, this guy didn't cry, did he?" Zhou Ziwen asked with a smile.
Zhou Ziwen didn't have a good impression of Fang Jianhua. He tried to help out with good intentions in the morning, but ended up being verbally abused.
It's because he is generous, otherwise he would have to be made to look bad.
But now I think it's understandable. If he had helped to look at it at that time, wouldn't the truth have been exposed?
It was hard to believe that guy's reaction was so intense.
"Serves him right." Wu Dagang said angrily, "Because of that kid, several laborers in the village have been delayed. The autumn harvest is so busy, and not only did he not work hard, but he also held us back."
"From now on, as long as that kid is in our village, he will be a dung collector."
Wu Dagang became furious and decided to teach this educated youth who was hindering others a profound lesson.
"Awesome!" Zhou Ziwen gave a thumbs up.
After chatting with Wu Dagang for a few words and getting the information he wanted, Zhou Ziwen parted ways with him.
It's working time now, everyone is very busy and there is no time to waste.
Back in the sorghum field, Zhou Ziwen took a sickle and began to harvest the sorghum.
Autumn harvest is a big job, not just harvesting sorghum. They were just assigned here.
In other places, some villagers were harvesting soybeans, some were harvesting sweet potatoes, and some were harvesting wheat.
During this season, crops in the village mature at roughly the same time.
This is also the reason why the autumn harvest is so busy.
When it was almost time to get off work in the afternoon, Zhou Ziwen brought the mushroom group members to the mushroom house to carry out daily mushroom cultivation.
After work, the Chen sisters were busy cooking, while Zhou Ziwen ground the tea seeds into powder using the stone mill at home, steamed them in a pot, and then squeezed out the oil.
There are more tea-oil fruits this time, more than 500 kilograms, and it is estimated that 25 kilograms of oil can be squeezed out.
Of course, the oil had not been fried yet, so Zhou Ziwen decided to let the big stone press it down overnight and take it out tomorrow.
In order to prevent rats from stealing oil, Zhou Ziwen placed Tayun in the yard and let it watch over it.
After a few days of training, Tayun gradually became more powerful and could understand many commands.
Let it guard the yard. Although it was reluctant at first, it had no choice but to stay because Zhou Ziwen closed the door.
Anyway, it’s not cold at night, so it’s okay to sleep outside.
Zhou Ziwen felt guilty and when he locked it outside, he made a nest for it with straw as a reward for keeping watch.
Stepping on the cloud: "..."
Thank you for listening to me.
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"Woof woof!"
The next morning when Zhou Ziwen got up from bed, he was warmly welcomed by Tayun.
The little guy wagged his tail at him and called out to him, looking both fierce and cute.
"I hope you will always be this cute, little guy." Zhou Ziwen rubbed its head with a smile.
When I arrived at the oil press, the basin on the ground was already half full.
When Zhou Ziwen started pressing oil yesterday, he collected two basins of oil. Including this small half basin, it was at least more than 25 kilograms.
"It seems that we don't have to buy oil in the future. By the time this oil is used up, the oil tea fruits will be ripe next year." Zhou Ziwen picked up the basin with a smile and walked towards the Chen sisters' home.
"Ziwen, we have nothing left to store this oil."
Seeing Zhou Ziwen bringing over another basin of oil, Chen Shiying said helplessly.
"It's okay. Seal it with a bag first. After the autumn harvest is completed in a few days, I will go to the county town and buy a larger plastic bucket." Zhou Ziwen said.
"Then I'll find a bag for you." Chen Shiying is the housekeeper of the family. She collects everything that is useful.
Well, for things like finding plastic bags, only Chen Shiying knows the most.
Time was tight in the morning, so with the help of Zhou Ziwen, they prepared the meal. After finishing their meal and cleaning up the battlefield, the sound of the gong in the village urged them to get going.
Zhou Ziwen and the Chen sisters came out of their home with kettles and started their work for the day.
The sorghum had been harvested yesterday, and today they were assigned to the sweet potato field.
This job is relatively easy compared to harvesting sorghum. The key is that everyone is very enthusiastic.
You don’t have to bend over all the time when digging sweet potatoes, so the workload is reduced by half.
Similar to the previous distribution model, men are responsible for digging sweet potatoes and women are responsible for picking sweet potatoes.
After the sweet potatoes are full, the remaining men will carry them back.
Everyone was very happy to be assigned to dig sweet potatoes.
Because sweet potatoes can be eaten directly, people will taste the flavor of sweet potatoes when digging them.
Everyone didn't mind the dirt and just wiped off the dirt from the freshly dug sweet potatoes, then peeled off the skin with a small knife and ate them directly.
They are not afraid of being discovered. Even if they are seen by others, they will just smile knowingly.
The cook who does not steal the grains will not harvest them. When he comes to the sweet potato field, he is like a mouse entering the rice warehouse.
The villagers turned a blind eye to their behavior. It was okay to eat a little as long as they didn't smuggle it in.
During the autumn harvest, there are usually special scorers in the village who check whether everyone has hidden anything while counting the points.
However, Zhou Ziwen and his team are an independent group, so they don't need a scorer to keep score, and naturally no one comes to check on them.
But everyone is very self-aware.
Just eat a little while working, it would be too much to take it back home.
After digging up all the sweet potatoes, some will slip through the net in the soil, so after digging up a piece of land once, they have to dig it up again.
Even after digging a second time, there will still be some missed sweet potatoes. Some of these sweet potatoes will be dug out by the children in the village, and some will be buried in the soil and become food for rats and the like.
Sweet potatoes are good things. They can be made into dried sweet potatoes, used to make porridge, or made into sweet potato flour.
It can be eaten steamed or baked.
This thing is one of the most important sources of food in the village.
When they got off work at noon and went home to eat, Zhou Ziwen and the Chen sisters ate two fewer steamed buns than usual.
This shows that everyone ate a lot of sweet potato when they were in the sweet potato fields.
After dinner, they hurried to clean up the dishes, and then went to work in the sweet potato field when the gong sounded.
Compared with the previous two days, they are particularly motivated today. After all, they can eat sweet potatoes whenever they are hungry and eat as much as they want.
On this day, everyone working in the sweet potato fields had a smile on their face, whether going to work or leaving work.
(End of this chapter)
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