Chapter 436: Farewell 2

While Feng Qingxue was educating her sister and other children, the man in the main room talked about recent events.

"I'll arrange some work tomorrow," Wang Zhengguo said after drinking a glass of wine. "Since there is no rain or snow in the next two days, we'll first transport manure to the two thousand acres of land and spread it evenly. In the spring, we'll plant sweet potatoes, which have a high yield and are drought-resistant. We'll also plant some cash crops such as cotton, peanuts, sunflower beans, etc. The old seeds are left in the warehouse and can be used if they are well stored. In this way, every household will be able to get some oil and cotton next autumn."

Food alone is not enough. Food is for eating, and people also need clothes.

Whether farmers have cloth coupons and oil depends entirely on whether the production team grows cotton and crops that can be used to produce oil.

"According to what big brother said, we will be busy. The two thousand acres of land accounts for one-third of our production team." Chen Dazhuang said.

Wang Zhengguo smiled, "Of course it is tiring, but when the harvest comes, you will know that the hard work is worth it. The joy of the harvest is better than any hard work. It is better for everyone to work harder now and collect more food to store in the granary for emergency use, rather than wait until the wind is not good and the rain is not good to have nothing to do."

It is indeed worth it. All the elders and villagers in Wanglou Brigade strongly support any decision made by Wang Zhengguo.

At the command, men, women, young and old all went out.

With such a large piece of land, they can harvest a lot more grain. Even if they cannot get a share of it, they will feel at ease knowing that it is stored in the granary.

People who have experienced famine are more obsessed with food than each other.

After breaking the ice in the manure pit, everyone first pushed the manure accumulated in the cowshed into baskets and buckets, and transported it to the two thousand acres of land, spreading it very thinly and sparsely. After all of it was used up, only a small half of the land was covered. So every household picked out the wood ash, chicken manure, duck manure, goose manure and the remains of grains that had accumulated in their home, and handed them over to the production team to record their work points.

There are regulations on how much points a load of wood ash contains and how much points a load of feces and urine contains.

Feng Qingxue stayed at home taking care of the children and cooking, and did not go out to work. Even though there were only a few days left in the vacation, Lu Jiang still followed and worked very hard. He went out clean and came back smelling bad every day.

Although he was very careful, some feces splashed on him.

"Ahhh!" Xi Bao disliked the smell and wouldn't let Lu Jiang get close to him unless Lu Jiang took a shower.

"Luckily you're wearing dad's tattered clothes. If they got on your military uniform, the weather is so cold and your clothes won't dry, you'll be wearing them and stink when you go back!" Mother and son were of one mind, and Feng Qingxue also found the stink unbearable. "Hurry up and take a shower. Boil hot water in the big pot. Call Tianjun and Acheng to come with you. Take a shower before going to bed!"

"It's not that particular. You're going to be busy for several days, so why not wash? It's a waste of firewood." Lu Jiang sniffed his arm. "I was in the army before, and I was like a clay man. If I took a shower every day, I wouldn't have to fight in the war."

"How can fighting be compared to getting dung? It's up to you whether you wash it or not. If you don't, you will sleep in the cowshed with your father."

That won’t do! After all, you have a wife and children, who is willing to give them up?

Lu Jiang quickly went to scoop water for a bath and ran back quickly. As for Lu Tianjun and Guan Cheng, they took off their outer clothes and put them in the outer room, washed their feet and faces, and fell into a deep sleep after eating and drinking.

Teenagers like Lu Tianjun and Guan Cheng were only responsible for scooping water from the manure pit into buckets, or shoveling dry manure into baskets. Transporting manure and spreading fertilizer were the jobs of adults.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

(End of this chapter)