"Okay, thank you, auntie," Tong Yiya replied
"Okay, I'll go look after my family's food first. We'll come back when your uncle comes back." Aunt Guihua said and walked to the opposite side.
Tong Yiya brought her own food along and waited. From time to time, villagers she knew would pass by and they all chatted with each other.
After about twenty minutes, Uncle Deng came back pulling a cart. He first went to Aunt Guihua's place to move his own grain, and then the two of them pushed the cart to her side.
Tong Yiya and Aunt Guihua worked together to move the five bags of grain onto the cart and put them away. Uncle Deng turned the front of the cart and pulled it forward. She and Aunt Guihua helped push the cart from the back, and they had to keep an eye on the bags of grain on the cart from time to time to prevent them from falling off.
After walking for about ten minutes, they arrived at Aunt Guihua's house. After Uncle Deng Wu moved all his food in, Aunt Guihua said to her husband, "Boss, please help Tong Zhiqing take the food back and move it into the house and put it away."
"Okay, then you clean up at home and I'll be back to help you in a while," said Uncle Deng Wu
"Okay, go ahead, Tong Zhiqing. You can deliver the food back first, and then come to my house to play when you are done." Aunt Guihua answered her husband first, then turned to Tong Yiya and said.
"Okay, Auntie, I'll go back first," she replied.
After saying that, he and Uncle Deng sent their own food back, as it didn't want to waste Uncle Deng's time.
Soon they arrived at Tong Yiya's courtyard. Uncle Deng helped move the grain into the yard and placed it in front of and behind Tong Yiya's house. Then he said something and went back.
After Tong Yiya and the others left, she moved half of the food into the kitchen and stored the other half in her own space, because she had no place to store things and there was no cellar in the yard. Even if she wanted to dig one, she had to wait until she had some free time.
After putting the food away, she cleaned the house and then took half a pound of brown sugar as a thank-you gift to Aunt Guihua and went out.
When they arrived at Aunt Guihua's house not far away, they saw the two of them had just finished their work and were resting in the yard. Tong Yiya shouted, "Aunt Guihua, I'm here to give you a thank-you gift."
"Oh, Tong Zhiqing, you're here. Please come in and sit down. There's no rush for the gift. Have you cleaned your house yet?" When Aunt Guihua heard that it was Tong Yiya who came, she hurriedly stood up and greeted her.
"I just came to give you a gift after I finished my work." Tong Yiya walked in, handed half a pound of brown sugar to Aunt Guihua, and sat down on the small stool beside her.
Aunt Guihua took the brown sugar and put it inside the house. When she came out, she brought her a bowl of brown sugar water. Tong Yiya took a sip and it was very sweet. She guessed that a lot of sugar must have been added.
She finished the sugar water in the bowl, put the bowl down and asked Aunt Guihua: "Aunt, I wonder what kind of food our village will grow next?"
"We grow wheat and some cabbage and radishes. We can take them to the commune to exchange for some money in the winter. But most of the time, we have to stay indoors in the north in the winter. It's too cold outside. If we work in the fields, we will get winter injuries," said Aunt Guihua.
"Really? Then what do we need to prepare for winter? I usually prepare some when I go to the commune when I have time," Tong Yiya asked again.
"We all have heated kangs here, so we just need to prepare more firewood in winter. As for food, you can carry the food you want to eat to the team early to have it ground with a stone mill. Otherwise, the stone mills in the team will be frozen in winter and can't grind the food. You should prepare it early so that you don't have to worry about having nothing to eat in winter," Aunt Guihua said to her one by one.
"Okay, I'll prepare it early. Auntie, please go to my place before it snows and get some herbs for treating colds. They can be used as an emergency measure if you get sick in the winter," said Tong Yiya.
"Okay, after the team finishes planting wheat, I'll go get some and keep them at home," Aunt Osmanthus agreed with a smile.
The two chatted in the yard for a while. Seeing that it was getting late, Tong Yiya stood up and said, "It's getting late. I'll go back first. If you have time, come and chat with me."
"Okay, I won't keep you here anymore. Go back and close the door of your house." Aunt Guihua also stood up and walked the person to the gate of the yard.
Tong Yiya agreed and turned to walk out of the yard. After she walked a distance away, Aunt Guihua closed the gate and went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
After Tong Yiya returned home, she made herself a simple dish and had her dinner.
After finishing dinner and cleaning up the kitchen, she went back to her room, closed the door, and slipped into her own space. She was going to take a good bath today.
For more than half a month, she was exhausted every day when she came home. After dinner every day, she simply took a shower with the heated water in the yard. The autumn harvest was finally over, so she had to take a good bath.
In the evening, she took a good bath in the space and scrubbed herself, feeling a lot cleaner. She then went to the study to read some medical books before leaving the space to rest.
The next day she went to the brigade headquarters to report her division of labor. Now that the autumn harvest was over, the farm work in the fields was not so intense, so there was no need to make the summer-relief herbal tea in the morning.
She thought that she had to take a break in the winter, and her work points were only so many that year. She would have to earn more when she could earn twice as much. That would be stupid.
When she came to the division of labor, the team leader didn't say anything when he saw her, but just allocated a piece of land to her, just like before, next to Aunt Guihua's house.
Planting wheat is much simpler than planting other crops. The first thing to be planted is the sweet potato field. Someone in front uses a bulldozer to flatten the soil in the field, digs furrows and sows wheat seeds. Then, a thin layer of soil is covered on the wheat seeds with a hoe. That's it.
When Tong Yiya and Aunt Guihua arrived at the field, they began to work together. First, the three of them broke up the clods of earth in the field and flattened the soil. Then Uncle Wu dug trenches in the front, Aunt Guihua scattered seeds, and Tong Yiya covered the seeds in the back.
The three of them worked together much faster, and when the people around them saw this, they all followed their family's lead and also felt that they worked a lot faster.
After five days of wheat planting, 80% of the dry land in the entire brigade was planted with wheat, and the rest of the land was planted with cabbage and radish seedlings that had been grown long ago, and rapeseed was planted in the paddy fields.
After planting wheat, the team began to dig the ditches in the fields, clear out the silt settled in them, and pour it into the fields to fertilize the soil.
Tong Yiya felt that she was unable to carry the silt, so she stopped going to work and went back to her daily routine of going up the mountain to dig herbs and collect firewood.
It is late autumn now, and many fruits in the mountains have ripened. Tong Yiya has been climbing higher up the mountain to dig for herbs recently, so she can see ripe fruits from time to time. She collects them all into her space and takes them back home.
After returning home and processing all the medicinal herbs, she began to process the fruits. She made each fruit into various dried fruits, canned fruits, and jams.
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