After three days of such busy work, Jiang Yi and Song Laidi had built a tall stack of firewood outside their current courtyard, which became a very eye-catching sight in the village.
With Jiang Yi as a role model, the people of Lijia Village followed suit.
If a family's woodpile isn't large enough, they feel ashamed in front of the villagers.
However, Jiang Yi did not settle down after gathering enough firewood for the winter; instead, she continued to go into the mountains every day.
Every now and then they would catch a pheasant or a rabbit, occasionally pick some grass to take home, or catch some scorpions.
Pheasants and rabbits can be used to improve one's life, while herbs and scorpions are sold to earn some spare money.
When selling these items, Jiang Yi would occasionally mix in the old coins that Da Ya and Er Ya had acquired.
In this way, Jiang Yi had more cash at her disposal.
Days passed by, and the weather grew colder and colder.
Fortunately, the corn survived until it matured.
The plump, large ears of corn brought a smile to everyone's face.
When it comes to work, Jiang Yi is still very capable.
First, she tended to the village's collective crops, and then after work in the evening, she tended to her own private plots. Most people would be exhausted after a day's work, but Jiang Yi was completely unfazed, easily harvesting the corn from her own plot.
Peel back the corn leaves, tie the bright yellow corn cobs together, and hang them on the wall to dry.
When the villagers saw the large ears of corn produced in Jiang Yi and Song Laidi's private plot, they were all filled with envy, because they couldn't compare to these ears at all.
However, thanks to Jiang Yi's promotion of artificial pollination, the villagers' corn harvest can be considered bountiful. The ears may be a little small, but they are all very plump, unlike in previous years when most of them were shriveled.
"Da Ni, you are a great hero to our village!"
Li Zhengdao was deeply moved by the bumper corn harvest.
Although cornmeal can't compare to wheat flour, when people are hungry, they'll gnaw on tree bark and eat wild grass. With cornmeal, that's what the New Year is all about!
In fact, Li Zhengdao wasn't the only one grateful to Jiang Yi.
In the entire Li Family Village, apart from Lin Guilan and Li Dazhu, who hated Jiang Yi to the core, there was no one who was not grateful to her.
If it weren't for Jiang Yi's method, this year's wheat would have been submerged in water, not to mention the corn.
Especially during the wheat harvest, if it weren't for Jiang Yi, a woman who was as strong as two men, stimulating the men in the village to work like workaholics, their village's wheat would have been soaked in water.
Not long after the corn harvest, one morning when I woke up, the outside was already covered in a blanket of white.
It's snowing!
This snow came a full month earlier than usual.
Moreover, this was not a light snowfall, but a heavy snowfall.
It snowed for two days and two nights, and the snow was knee-deep; that's no exaggeration.
This time, Jiang Yi saved the villagers once again.
Because as soon as she noticed the snow, she called on the villagers to clear the snow from their yards and roofs.
The roof of Li Dazhu and Lin Guilan's family, who did not take Jiang Yi's words seriously, collapsed on the second night after the snowfall.
If it weren't for the villagers arriving quickly and providing timely rescue, this family would probably have frozen to death that night.
However, although the family was rescued, they were made to apologize in front of the whole village after the snow stopped.
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