Time flies and it's already September. The autumn harvest in Hongshan Brigade usually starts around mid-September, so the people in the brigade usually start preparing for the harvest at the end of August or the beginning of September.
Actually, these preparations can be difficult in some ways, but quite simple in others.
It's simply a matter of arranging your food, clothing, shelter, and daily necessities in advance. Once everything is prepared, everyone can fully immerse themselves in the autumn harvest.
For team members who are used to doing these things every year, they feel that it is not difficult at all, and they can even take this time to rest and recuperate, and take the opportunity to nourish their families.
However, for people like Zhu Qinghao, Si Tian, and the Zhu family who haven't experienced these things before, they might get flustered and miss a lot of things.
When the autumn harvest actually begins, you'll find that you're not prepared for this or that, which will only add a lot of trouble for no reason.
Tian Haiying was very thoughtful. Fearing that the two of them might not understand many things and would suffer losses later, she started to consciously tell them what kind of preparations they needed to make well in advance.
For novices like Zhu Qinghao and Si Tian, who had absolutely no experience in this area, they listened very attentively to Tian Haiying's instruction, afraid of missing anything.
After figuring things out, the two realized they were rather slow, so they made preparations in advance.
For example, when it came to firewood, the two of them went to experience it for two days before the main group of the team went into the mountains to collect firewood.
However, they soon discovered that their efficiency was indeed much lower than others, so the two of them decisively abandoned their plan to do everything themselves and handed everything over to Qianpiao.
This approach is not particularly unusual.
There were several households in the team with plenty of labor, and every year before the autumn harvest, they would cut firewood and sell it. The buyers could be people from the team or people from outside.
Besides the two of them, many other families in the team also buy firewood to prepare for the autumn harvest, because they have other things to do.
For example, some families with a large number of members may not have enough food, so they spontaneously set aside their own plots of land and planted a variety of things.
These fields are mostly planted with grain, and the team's autumn harvest is about to begin, which means that these grains also need to be harvested.
The team has always turned a blind eye to such things. People who have experienced poverty wouldn't turn down food.
So many families are quite busy during this period and basically can't find the time to go up the mountain to chop firewood, so they have to exchange it with others.
Therefore, a wonderful balance emerged between the firewood buyers and sellers, with both sides able to earn more income, and their cooperation became more and more tacit year by year.
These things were also told to her by Tian Haiying; otherwise, Zhu Qinghao would never have imagined that she could find someone to exchange firewood during the autumn harvest season.
They were willing to experience it for two days because they felt that the autumn harvest only lasts about a month, and the amount of firewood needed wouldn't be too much, so they might be able to cut it themselves.
Unexpectedly, after actually taking on this job, I realized how naive my ideas were.
The two of them, being novices, spent ages banging away at the edge of the woods, exhausting themselves, getting cracks all over their hands, and their arms aching from the banging, but they still didn't produce as much firewood as the others who chopped it in half an hour.
It would have been fine if they had given up earlier, but the two stubborn guys insisted on persisting for another day, and in the end they had to accept reality and hand the job over to the "professionals".
With firewood no longer a concern, the two turned their attention to other things, most importantly, food.
Oh, I also need to prepare some equipment, such as gloves, hats, towels, and suitable long-sleeved clothes and pants.
But this isn't a problem, because many of the products are from Si Tian Space, and their quality is much better than what's sold outside.
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