After planting cabbage and radishes in the private plot, the autumn harvest begins.
At night, Xu Ning took some rice, flour, pork, eggs, and brown sugar steamed cakes in a backpack and brought them to the cowshed.
When Xu's father opened the door and saw her bringing so much, he said, "Why are you bringing so much? Wait until you finish eating. It would be bad if someone saw it."
"It's okay. Leave it in Grandpa Qi's room. The autumn harvest is coming soon. Don't eat coarse grains at night.
Ask my mom and Aunt Lu to put more oil in cooking. I bought a lot this time.
Boil a few eggs every day, and I'll make some meat sauce and send it over tomorrow."
The food in her space, plus the rations given to several people every year, was more than enough to last until they returned to the city.
Autumn harvest is the most tiring time of the year. If you don’t eat something good to replenish your body, your body will really collapse from exhaustion.
Even if the family conditions in the village were poor, they would prepare some nutritious food for the strong laborers in the family before the autumn harvest.
The people in the cowshed have to do the most tiring and heaviest work during this period.
This is Xu Ning's second autumn harvest here. At this moment,
Looking at the endless corn, soybeans, sorghum, wheat and rice, she truly felt the joy of harvest, and she also contributed her sweat here.
Following the village chief's shout, "Start working," everyone smiled and walked towards the fields with sickles in hand.
Xu Ning was assigned to break corn. Although she was fully armed, she still felt itchy all over after a day.
I wanted to go back early to take a shower, but the village chief called for a meeting, saying that running back and forth every day was a waste of time, and that starting tomorrow we would have to eat lunch in the fields.
Then you have to prepare lunch in the morning and bring it to the field. Actually, this is a good way to avoid running back and forth, and you can take a rest in the field after lunch.
Xu Ning gets up in the morning and starts making pancakes. He then stir-fries some shredded potatoes with some meat sauce, packs them in a basket, and takes them to work.
She only brought some bread and pickled vegetables to her parents and Uncle Lu and Aunt Lu for lunch, and she didn't dare to bring anything else.
Xu Ning gave them a few pounds of biscuits last night and asked them to put them in their pockets to eat when they were hungry.
The autumn harvest came to an end when everyone delivered cartloads of dried grain to the village warehouse. The next step was to pay the public tax and distribute the grain.
Xu An was also ready to go to school. Xu Ning took him to register. Xu's mother made him a new school bag and a new set of clothes.
Aunt Lu made him two pairs of shoes, and Xu Ning bought him a pencil case, a pencil book,
The primary school was right next to the village committee. Early in the morning, Dalin and Jianmin came from the village to pick him up.
The two of them were also in the fourth grade, so the three of them would be classmates from now on. Xu Ning watched the three of them walk hand in hand to school.
She said to Xu Mo beside her, "Xiao Mo, when you grow up a little bit, I will send you to school."
"Sister, I won't go to school. Let my second brother go to school. I will help you with the housework at home."
Xu Ning touched his head and said, "Xiao Mo, you can work while you go to school. Look at your second brother who goes to school during the day.
After school, I can go to cut grass for pigs to earn work points, and after graduation, I can go to the city to work as a worker and earn a salary."
Xiao Mo said, "Sister, I will go to school and earn money for you in the future."
"Okay, I'll wait for Xiao Mo to make money for me."
Now the chestnuts and pine nuts on the mountain are ripe, and Xu Ning plans to go up the mountain to pick them today.
When Xu Mo heard that they were going to the mountains to pick up mountain products, he happily put on his small backpack.
Xu Ning saw Xu Mo picking chestnuts and pine nuts from his backpack, and when he saw that there was no one around, he put the chestnuts and pine nuts into the space.
When I got home and took it out, Xu Mo was young and couldn't see the extra one.
There are few people on the mountain today. The autumn harvest has just ended. The villagers have to harvest the crops grown in their own private plots. Basically, they will go into the mountain after dividing the crops.
Unlike the educated youth, the villagers each had two mu of private land, which was not strictly managed, and many villagers planted some food on the land.
All the people from the educated youth point have gone to the city today. When Xu Ning went down the mountain to deliver mountain products, she called her mother and Aunt Lu to go pick up some when she passed by the cowshed. There are mushrooms everywhere on the mountain now, and a lot can be picked up in one day.
Xu Ning picked up the things and put them into the space, while her mother and Aunt Lu also carried them to the cowshed one by one.
When Xu An got home from school in the afternoon, he was shocked to see a large pile of chestnuts, pine nuts, and hazelnuts at home. He took his backpack and ran up the mountain.
When she ran up the mountain, she saw her sister and Xiao Mo picking up the items on one side, and her mother and Aunt Lu picking up the items in another direction.
He put down the backpack, and before he could even say hello, he picked it up.
A little later, Dad Xu and Uncle Lu also came up with backpacks on their backs. None of them spoke. They each found a place and quickly filled their backpacks.
After several people had been collecting food in the mountains for three days, the village notified them that they would distribute food the next day.
Xu Ning knew that it would take a day to distribute the food, and she would basically wait in vain in the morning. She planned to go again in the afternoon and pick up more food while there were fewer people on the mountain.
When they passed by the cowshed, they called her mother and Aunt Lu to come along. Today was the day for food distribution, and there were even fewer people on the mountain. Anyway, people in the cowshed would wait until everyone else had finished their food distribution before going to get their food. They went up the mountain to pick up food for another day.
Xu An also ran to the mountains after school every day. The house was almost full. This year, she used the space cheat and picked up more than she and Xu An did in half a month last year.
After distributing the food, when Wei Lanlan and Yang Xiaomei came to play with Xu Ning, Xu Ning was about to take Xu Mo up the mountain. Wei Lanlan asked, "It's autumn harvest time, what are you going to do?"
Xu Ning thought that this girl must be stupid. The pine nuts, hazelnuts, and chestnuts that he ate at her place last year, could they have run down the mountain by themselves? Then he thought that these two people might not have thought of this.
He said to the two of them, "Let's go to the mountain. The chestnuts and pine nuts are ripe now. Let's pick some for the winter. Do you want to go?"
Xu Mo also said, "Sister Wei, Sister Yang, there are a lot of mountain products on the mountain. Come with us to pick them up."
After hearing this, the two of them excitedly asked Xu Ning to wait for a while, and they went back to get the backpack and went up the mountain together.
I continued to collect them for a few days. There was really no room for them at home, and there were a lot of them in the space.
Xu Ning planned to bring some into the city to deliver to Zhao Jianshe and Su Hongying.
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