Just two days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Zhengguo rang the gong early in the morning to notify the villagers to prepare for the autumn harvest.
There are a total of twelve production teams in Wanglou Brigade. The land is allocated to each production team, and each production team is only responsible for the farm work of its own production team.
Therefore, Wang Zhengguo first assigned the tasks of harvesting and cultivating the crops on those lands and the livestock in the cowshed to various production teams. The team leaders of each production team were fully responsible for it and he himself was in charge of the affairs of the entire production brigade.
The Lu family belongs to Production Team 7, and the team leader is Feng Qingxue’s eldest cousin Wang Dachun.
Wang Dachun has been following his father in managing the affairs of the production team since he was a child. He has been well-experienced over the years and skillfully arranged for Lu's father and several elderly people of similar age to drive the cattle to the mill. Then he arranged for people to repair the production team's cellar, and then arranged for the rest of the people to cut sweet potato vines in the fields and transport them to the cowshed to spread them out for drying.
Dried sweet potato vines can be used as winter feed for livestock.
Mountain sweet potatoes mature early and grow well. Summer sweet potatoes are planted every year and harvested for seeds before the Descent of Frost.
Growing crops is more important than food, as it affects next year's crops.
Many production brigades were plagued by starving people. Wasn't it because the previous year's drought or floods resulted in a complete failure of crops, which resulted in them not being able to plant crops for the next season, leading to the famine that has lasted for almost three years?
What is being harvested now are spring sweet potatoes to free up land for growing wheat.
The autumn harvest had just begun and it was not particularly busy. The students did not have a holiday, but men, women, and children who were not in school all joined in the work.
Feng Qingxue is no exception.
Because of Lu Jiang's numerous instructions before leaving, and Lu's father's secret entrustment, Wang Zhengguo had already reminded Wang Dachun, so he arranged an easy job for Feng Qingxue to record work points and count the grain harvest. An illiterate person could not be responsible for this job, which gave Wang Dachun a ready-made excuse.
In the entire Wanglou Brigade, except for the Lu family, Wang Zhengguo was the only one among all the descendants of tenant farmers who could read and write, and even his descendants were not illiterate. However, the Lu family did not belong to Production Team 7, except for Lu's father's family.
Wang Dachun arranged it for his cousin instead of his two younger brothers and sister, and others were quite convinced.
Of course, the main reason was that Feng Qingxue was studying medicine, which made them in awe. At the same time, Wang Dachun said that because Feng Qingxue did not do heavy work, he only got six work points a day.
What are work points? The lifeblood of farmers.
At the end of the year, the distribution of food and money depended on the number of work points. Who wouldn't treasure work points? Both men and women wanted to work early and come back late to earn twelve work points a day, but unfortunately the highest work points they could get were ten a day, which was called full work points.
Feng Qingxue carried a backpack and went to the fields with her three children who had not gone to school. On the way, they passed by a field where grain was dried. Father Lu and several others were driving mules or oxen, horses, and donkeys, pulling a stone roller with a wooden frame, turning the field around and around. The field gradually became flat. Father Lu held a dung basket in his hand and reached out to catch the dung pulled out by the mule!
Others, like Mr. Lu, drove the animals while paying attention to whether they defecated or not.
Feng Qingxue didn't dare to look for long. When she arrived at the field, most people were there, including Wang Zhengguo's whole family. Even Wang Jiao, who was usually the laziest, came to work, wearing a big bamboo hat and rolling up her trouser legs.
"The autumn heat is very strong. I can't get tanned because of my delicate skin." Wang Jiao said, squinting at Feng Qingxue.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Qingxue smiled. In fact, most people were wearing conical hats, some new and some old.