Two months later, the work of preventing wind, sand and grass in the villages of Yushugou Commune had begun to show results.
In most villages, people did as Qin Feng and Qin Muzhou said. They first planted bitter beans in the Huangshan sandy land, and then planted red willow, sand date trees, and sedge grass according to the conditions of the sandy soil. According to the desertification of the Huangshan sandy land in each village, potatoes and sweet potatoes were planted among the grass and plants where they could be grown. This is because red willow, sedge grass or bitter beans were planted around the potato fields and sweet potatoes, which can retain moisture and also provide a base of green manure.
The potatoes and sweet potatoes planted have bitter beans as green manure, so they grow very well. The main reason is that baby Ke'er needs to promote the growth of these sweet potatoes and grass every once in a while.
There were also some villages that had poor harvests, such as Shangbei Shawozi Village. They did not follow Qin Feng and Qin Muzhou's advice to first fix the sand and grow grass and plant bitter beans, and they thought they were planting potatoes and sweet potatoes in the sandy land. As a result, the potatoes and sweet potatoes they planted were covered by wind and sand, and the survival rate was extremely low. They wasted time and missed the time to plant other grasses or plants, and there were no seeds or seedlings.
Because the red willow, Achnatherum splendens, bitter bean seeds, sweet potatoes, and potatoes were all provided by Deputy Secretary Liu of Yushugou Commune through contacts with other places and Qin Feng's family. Now they are all gone, and they regret it deeply. Seeing the sweet potatoes and potatoes in other villages growing well, they are even more annoyed. But what makes them regret even more is that one day, Deputy Secretary Liu brought a piece of news.
Deputy Secretary Liu sent people to every village to inform them that the county pharmacies should purchase large quantities of bitter bean seeds to support other areas that needed bitter bean seeds.
Notify all villages to quickly pick all the bitter bean pods and dry them. Then hammer the pods open with wooden sticks, and the bitter beans inside will come out. Clean the bitter beans, sieve them through a sieve to remove grass debris, put them into sacks and wait for the county pharmacy to purchase them.
By this time, villages that hadn't planted bitter beans were filled with regret. Villagers were deeply disappointed with the village head and committee, feeling they were too self-righteous to heed the advice of the commune's sand fixation and grass cultivation promotion meeting. Instead, they simply followed their own old practices. The result: potatoes and sweet potatoes failed to thrive, the sand wasn't properly controlled, and most importantly, they didn't grow bitter beans, making no money. Seeing other villages carrying sacks of bitter beans out of the village and having them sold to pharmacies in the county, earning them money, they were envious.
The villages in Yushugou Commune learned about the practices of these villages and could not understand why they were so arrogant and still followed their old experience in the face of new problems. This is the consequence. You can eat the sour and spicy fruits yourself. Only by dealing with them in this way can the entire Huangshan Sand Mountain in Yushugou Commune be managed well.
Ke'er wanted to teach these people a lesson, to show them that improving the soil on barren and sandy hills wouldn't happen overnight, nor that they could expect to reap rewards simply by being complacent, overestimating their own capabilities, or relying on their own old experiences. But every day, Ke'er would transform into one of her seventy-two forms and visit those villages to listen to which families were truly starving. At night, potatoes and sweet potatoes would appear on their earthen kangs. Ke'er didn't want to see children go hungry, nor did she want to see parents starving themselves so their children could have enough.
Only in this way can the work of Deputy Secretary Liu of Yushugou Commune on preventing wind and sand, cultivating grass, and improving barren hills be carried out in the spring of next year, and everyone can benefit from it.
The work of preventing wind and sand, cultivating grass, controlling wind and sand, and improving soil in each village of the commune has entered the normal planning stage. Ke'er is no longer busy going out every day to give some growth force to those weaker plants.
Whenever Ke'er has free time, she likes to sit under the big elm tree at the entrance of the village, mainly to collect information from all directions. This is the news station of the village, and if she doesn't come here for a day, she may miss out on explosive news.
After breakfast, Ke'er tied her hair into two small braids, just the right length to rest on her shoulders, and secured them with red rubber bands. The red rubber bands were made by her mother. Ke'er originally had a lot of yellow and black rubber bands, but her mother saw that they didn't look good when she tied them up, so she took out her embroidery thread and twisted them into red and green pairs, some in a variety of colors, which was particularly beautiful.
Usually Ke'er puts colorful rubber bands on her hair, and the little girls in the village all say, "It looks so beautiful. Where did you buy it? It's so pretty." Ke'er smiled and said, "I didn't buy it. My mother tied it for me with colorful silk threads." Then, Ke'er gave a pair of colorful rubber bands to the little girls in the village.
These colorful rubber bands later appeared on the second brother Qin Muxiao's delivery list, and all the money earned was given to Li Shuwan.
The aunties under the big elm tree saw Ke'er wearing colorful rubber bands and praised her, "Your mother is really petite." Some were jealous and said, "You are a little girl who has been spoiled all day long. Why do you wear so much and eat so well? You should save all that for your grandson."
Ke'er fiddled with her small whip casually and said, "That's right, your mother is really kind-hearted, otherwise you would have starved to death and shouldn't be sitting here." The gossipy woman saw the whip in Ke'er's hand, stared at her but said nothing, and everyone around her burst into laughter. Ke'er swaggered home like a victorious rooster.
When Ke'er returned home, she saw that the sun was shining brightly, so she moved the rocking chair out to the yard, covered her stomach with a small blanket, and lay down on it. She lay there for a while, and fell asleep while rocking.
After falling asleep, he felt like he had arrived. What kind of place was this? It couldn't be the Flower Country. Ke'er thought, "Hey, where have I traveled to again? Why am I alone here? No father, mother, or brother?"
But she didn't care, she just followed her feeling and came to a courtyard with a high wall. "Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh" Ke'er passed through the wall. After passing through the wall, Ke'er looked back and said, "Oh my god, this wall is really thick."
Ke'er saw a tall soldier with a beard and blue eyes. He should be a soldier because he was wearing a military uniform, which was different from his uncle's. He was holding a gun in his hand. Ke'er was wondering what was going on.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of whips cracking and chains rubbing on the ground, as well as muffled groans, as if someone was being beaten.
Ke'er quickly rushed towards the place where the sound came from, passed through the wall, and bumped into the tall thug, passing through his body and taking a look.
I looked up and saw that it was my uncle who was being beaten.
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