Those who were transferred down to the countryside also received work points for their daily labor. Of course, the work was heavy physical labor with few work points. However, as a group of people without a say, they could only accept it and could not refuse.
During this period, because many commune cadres came to supervise the autumn harvest, Xu Nanxing had never gone to the back mountain to visit his grandfather.
Fortunately, she had delivered food once before the autumn harvest, so she could survive this period.
No matter how much food my grandfather and his family can borrow from the village, it doesn’t matter much.
Only after the autumn harvest was finally over did the villagers have time to start harvesting vegetables from their own private plots.
Many of the vegetables planted in the Ye family's private plots are from seeds provided by Xu Nanxing. These seeds are all high-quality seeds that have been improved in modern times. Therefore, the vegetables in the Ye family's private plots are now growing very lush, completely crushing the vegetables in the private plots of all other families around them.
Many people in the village had come to the Ye family's private plot to watch before. Now that it has fully matured, all the vegetables growing outside have become very large. When the large white radishes and yellow-heart potatoes planted in the field are dug out, they are very different from the local old varieties.
Even the villagers watching the scene had their eyes widened. These radishes and potatoes were so big!
If this is planted on a full acre, how much can be harvested?
Many people wonder what kind of seed this is and how it can grow so big.
Xu Nanxing also realized that the vegetables grown from his seeds made such a loud noise that they attracted so many villagers to come and watch.
To avoid causing unnecessary trouble, she made up a story.
Xu Nanxing said directly that she brought seeds from Beijing. She was surprised that they could grow so big here.
He also said that it was Xiaotian and Xiaoyu who were very hardworking. Not only did they water the fields regularly, they also often came to pull out the wild vegetables in the fields. Their contributions were great!
Xiaotian and Xiaoyu were very proud when they heard this. They thought that when they came to water the vegetables, they kept saying that they hoped they would grow up quickly, so the radishes and cabbages understood what they said, which is why they grew so big.
Anyway, after hearing all this talk, the villagers didn't suspect anything else. After all, it was obvious that Xu Nanxing had never worked in the fields before. They thought it was really possible that the land in their village was good, which allowed the seeds brought from Beijing to grow so well.
But none of this matters. Farmers want the good seeds more!
Especially the ones that grow well!
Many villagers envied the lush vegetables growing in the Ye family's private plots. Some people who were familiar with the Ye family came to Ye Beichen to ask for some vegetable seeds, and wanted to plant these vegetables next year as well.
It is actually very normal for villagers to give each other fruits and vegetables they grow themselves.
But Ye Beichen did not agree directly. After all, these rapeseeds were given by Xu Nanxing. Even if he wanted to give them to someone else, he had to get Xu Nanxing's consent.
In fact, he also guessed that this was the excellent quality brought by Xu Nanxing from the future, and it was a good seed that could not appear in this era, so he had to ask the other party first!
After harvesting all the vegetables from the Ye family's private plot and dividing them equally, Xu Nanxing knew that someone wanted the rapeseed seeds, so she agreed directly. After all, she didn't care much about these things.
Once all the vegetables in the private plots were harvested, the whole village became idle.
Due to weather conditions in the Northeast, only one crop can be grown each year.
The rest of the time is the slack farming season.
This is what it means to be busy for half a year and rest for half a year.
This is also the biggest reason why Xu Nanxing wants to come to the Northeast.
Nowadays, people in the south only grow two or three crops a year, and they have only a few days of rest throughout the year.
Don’t think you can take annual leave during the Chinese New Year.
The slogan of this era is: "Don't stop the war on the 30th, but continue on the 1st."
So there is no annual leave in this era. No matter whether it is an office, factory, supply and marketing cooperative, department store, or restaurant, everyone has to work during the New Year!
What’s more, farmers who work in the soil for food have little time to rest!
This situation continued until 1980, when the Spring Festival holiday system was finally restored.
In Shanghe Village, although it has entered the slack season and farming is no longer allowed in the northeast, the village has begun to advocate "no idleness during the slack season", requiring villagers to participate in dam and dike construction, or join the straw weaving team organized by the village committee.
Building dams and dikes was a task assigned by the town, and each village had to send people to participate. Of course, they were provided with meals every day and given full work points, so many strong laborers in the village were happy to participate.
The remaining elderly, weak and young people can participate in the straw weaving tasks organized by the village.
There are many straw-woven items, including straw ropes, straw baskets, straw frames, straw hats, and straw cushions. The supply and marketing cooperatives purchase a large number of them every year.
This is also one of the few jobs where farmers can get direct cash!
The autumn harvest was over, but Zhang Luyao had not returned yet. After three days of rest, Xu Nanxing asked the employees to return to the non-staple food factory to start work.
Now that the weather is getting cooler, in addition to daily soy products, Xu Nanxing has also launched other agricultural and sideline product projects in the factory.
For example, the indispensable Northeastern soybean paste, as well as soy sauce, light soy sauce, and soybean paste.
Before, the temperature was a bit high, so it was not suitable for brewing these. Now that the temperature has dropped, it is a good time to make these sauces.
By the time these sauces are brewed, it will be the Chinese New Year period, wouldn’t it be a good time to sell them?
Since Zhang Luyao is not here, Xu Nanxing is the biggest boss in the factory now. She has also recruited a few hardworking aunts as temporary workers to do this job specifically.
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