In the golden autumn of October, looking around, the fields are all yellow.
All over the country, the most important day of the year, the autumn harvest, has arrived.
Harvesting, drying grain, and storing it in warehouses are extremely busy.
A group of children are picking rice ears in the rice fields with baskets.
After the rice is harvested, there will be some rice ears and grains scattered in the rice fields, and the children will pick them up. Although there are not many, if accumulated, it is enough for the family to have food for a few days.
"There's a loach hole!" Xia Zhu found a hole and quickly squatted down to dig.
After the autumn harvest, rice seedlings will no longer be planted in the rice fields, so the water is drained early. The half-dry mud reveals the entrance of the loach's hole. If you dig down, you can dig out the loach.
Of course, maybe it’s not loach, it’s…
"Hey, it's a toad!"
Xia Zhu took out a yellowish toad from the hole and shook it towards his companions.
The children burst into laughter, and their laughter was blown away by the autumn wind.
After the grain was harvested, it was already late autumn and all places began to pay public grain.
In previous years, the Red Sun Production Team did not have a tractor. Apart from using ox carts and donkey carts, the rest had to be carried to the commune grain station by the members.
With a tractor, half of the manpower can be saved.
Wang Jiaxing drove a tractor and took away the grain in batches.
Outside the grain station, Xu Guoqiang was queuing and chatting with other team leaders.
People in the countryside all have loud voices, and many of them like to brag, so the scene is very noisy.
"Jianmin, it's our turn, let's go!" Finally it was our turn. Xu Guoqiang shouted and walked in pushing a cart of food.
The grain was poured next to the scale, and Xu Guoqiang stayed behind to watch it. Xu Jianmin pushed the cart out and called on the young and middle-aged men in the team to help carry the grain onto the cart.
After delivering the grain, Xu Guoqiang walked out with his head held high and happily returned to the village with his people.
In those days, paying public grain was a very honorable thing. Some production teams would rather let their members go hungry than not pay the public grain.
Of course, if we couldn’t pay it in, we would be criticized by the leaders, and everyone in the production team would be unable to hold their heads up.
In addition, production teams that fail to pay public grain will be treated very poorly, and will not be eligible for any benefits from the commune. The marriage of young men and women in the team will also be affected.
After paying the public grain tax, the production team would distribute the grain among itself.
The Red Sun Production Team still had a good harvest this year. Calculating the work points based on the harvest, each work point was worth about three cents.
Food distribution was based on the standard of "seven parts work and three parts labor".
In other words, 70% is divided into population points and 30% is divided into work points.
There are also levels of population rations, which are divided into four levels according to strong laborers, women, the elderly, and children. Strong laborers get the most and the best, followed by women, the elderly, and children.
Therefore, the more sons a family has, the more food it will get. This is one of the important reasons why everyone wants to have sons.
Whether working or fighting, I have the confidence.
In addition, there is a minimum standard for individual work points. If the minimum standard is not met, additional money must be paid to the team.
Every production team had a few households that lagged behind, either because they had few male members or because they were lazy. Not only did they not get any food or money, they even had to pay for food and money to the team.
For example, the families of Wang Cuihua and Liu Qingju are typical examples.
They distribute grain every year and owe debts every year, but both families are shameless and don't care about other people's opinions at all.
"Captain, next year, next year we will work hard and strive to pay back the money and food we owe to the team." Wang Cuihua said with a shameless face and an extremely flattering smile.
Liu Qingju squeezed in and followed suit, "Yes, yes, I'll definitely go again next year."
"Give them the rations." Xu Guoqiang waved his hand in disgust. "This is the last time. If you can't pay it back next year, you can do whatever you want."
The brigade could not just watch the two families starve to death, so they had to give them some rations. However, after they finished eating the rations, the brigade would not care whether they were dead or alive.
The amazing thing is that these two families did this every year and yet they never starved to death.
The two idiots kept expressing their gratitude and walked away carrying the food while cursing at each other.
As for the men, they don’t dare to come at all because they think it’s embarrassing.
Xu Guoqiang shook his head. Fortunately, there were not many such people in the brigade, otherwise, the entire brigade would be dragged down to death!
After distributing the food and money, you might think that the year is over, but it's much more than that.
In the south, there is still a lot of work to do after the autumn harvest. The teams in the mountains have to pick tea seeds, which can be used to extract oil. The extracted oil can be distributed to each household, which can save a lot of money.
In addition, vegetables must continue to be planted in the fields and rice paddies. Cold-resistant vegetables such as white radish, carrots, cabbage, spinach, rapeseed, ginger, and garlic must be planted so that they can be eaten in the spring of next year.
Both rapeseed and tea seeds can be used to produce oil. If you use them sparingly, the whole family's oil will depend on them.
In addition to growing vegetables, there are also some miscellaneous chores to do. All of them add up and the work continues until late winter.
The weather was getting colder day by day. When Li Xiyue woke up, opened the door and looked out, she saw snow all around.
It snowed, the work was done, and the team was finally able to have a holiday.
This year, all the people at the educated youth site took leave to go home for the New Year, so the site is empty.
Li Xiyue had nowhere to visit, so she gave Xu Baiwei some questions to do. Soon it was New Year's Eve, and the most anticipated thing was slaughtering the New Year pig.
Last year, Li Xiyue returned to the capital early and missed the New Year pig slaughtering. This year, Chu Xun was on a mission and did not return. It is estimated that he will not return to the capital to celebrate the New Year until the last two days of the year, so she made it this year.
"Sister, we are slaughtering the New Year pig today. Let's go and watch." Xu Guoqing was dressed like a snowman and ran over in the thick snow, one foot deep and one foot shallow, looking extremely excited.
Li Xiyue nodded, went back to the house, put on his hat, gloves and scarf, fully armed, and took Xiaobai with him to the threshing ground.
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