14: Workmanship
The drizzle in early March, and the Xiaolizhuang under the three mountains was covered by a layer of misty rain, and the sky was gray.
The members of the brigade worked in the drizzle with their farm tools. The team leader led their members to pull the ox to plow in the dry fields of Xiaolizhuang to prepare for the following spring sowing.
The entire Xiaolizhuang field is full of a busy working atmosphere. It is not the time for busy farming, and women have not yet started work.
Qinhe was assigned to dig river mud. Xiaolizhuang has many dry fields, and the only fields near the river were all the worst sand. In order to improve the soil quality, every winter or early spring, during the slack season, the production team will organize some people to dig river mud by the river and pour it into the sand field for fertilizer.
Qin He has been digging here for a week, but fortunately this one is in good health.
The river is shallow in winter and easy to dig, but the New Year season has just passed, and the weather is around zero degrees, and the legs are almost numb when they are hitting the river barefoot.
Although Qin He was an educated youth, after nine years of work, everyone had long forgotten his identity as an educated youth. Moreover, he now married Secretary Li's daughter, and he is a true farmer.
Qin He was not pretentious either, and followed several other young people to work hard. Because Qin He was the son-in-law of Secretary Li's family, everyone had a good relationship with him, chatting and doing work.
The dividing line between Xiaolizhuang and Dalizhuang is this river, not a big river, it is only five or six meters wide, and it is a very small river.
Don’t think there are many fish and shrimps in this river. In fact, this river has a dry season every year. Any fish and shrimps are caught completely. Every year, it is the time for heavy water to come, and a new wave of fish and shrimps will come.
There is a small hill opposite the river, and there are dozens of acres of sandy fields below the mountain. It belongs to Dalizhuang. However, those sandy fields have been plowed long ago and are only waiting for spring to sow. The Dalizhuang has a large population, and the fields are mainly on the upper plains. This sandy fields are not valued at all.
Such a small river has to provide irrigation and domestic water for several villages on both sides of the river. In low-lying areas, each village will paste stone slabs for everyone to wash clothes, pick up water and feed livestock.
Of course, the water used for drinking and cooking is still well water, and most of this rivers still provide irrigation water.
The terrain of Xiaolizhuang is a little lower than that of Dalizhuang. Every year during the dry season, the villagers of Dalizhuang block water upstream, resulting in no water downstream. This is also the point of contradiction between the two villages.
I was busy until noon when the village rang the gong. It was the sound of the gongs being started. Qin He washed the mud on his feet in shallow water, and felt so cold that his feet were unconscious.
Some communes with better conditions have high-pitched radio speakers, while Xiao Lizhuang relies on ringing gongs!
I originally wanted to come and experience it, but the freezing was so uncomfortable that it was really hard to be a farmer.
Qin He soon gathered with the members to start having lunch. The meal was not a big pot meal, but was delivered by his own family. Only when it was time to eat could you see the living conditions of each family in the village.
Xiaolizhuang allocates material grain once a quarter, and settles labor points at the end of the year, implementing a seven-work and three-way system for people. That is to say, how much grain is harvested in the village every year, 70% of which is distributed according to the cap, and infants and elderly people allocate the same amount of grain, while the remaining 30% is divided according to labor points, which are distributed to members who want to work.
These systems are actually not fair at all, and Qin He doesn't want to talk about them. Anyway, his lunch today is white rice with fried eggs and cabbage. This condition is the best among the members. Most people have porridge and sweet potato cakes. Only those with slightly better conditions can they have mixed grains and rice.
"Brother-in-law, Sister Shuying is so virtuous! I cook rice for you every day!"
The brother-in-law of Qin He is Li Chengshun, the second son of Li Shuying's third uncle, who just turned 18 this year and has a good relationship with Qin He. Both of them are digging river mud.
In fact, Xiao Lizhuang is all related to the relationship. Secretary Li's three brothers and cousins account for one-fifth of the population of Xiao Lizhuang. A few generations later, they were all from the same ancestor. The ancestor was a family with the ancestors of Da Lizhuang opposite hundreds of years ago, so Da Lizhuang and Xiao Lizhuang were found.
Seeing that there were only two sweet potatoes in Shunzi's bowl, Qin He felt that this kid was also very pitiful. He had a thin figure and his whole face was a little stuck. He chopped one-third of the rice from his bowl, picked up another handful of fried eggs for him, and said.
"Shunzi, in the evening, you call your dad to my house to discuss something, and in the evening, I will ask your sister to cook two eggs for you!"
"Brother-in-law, are you serious?"
"I'll cheat you on making a ball, hurry up and finish your breakfast!"
"Okay!"
More than twenty days have passed since Qin He synthesized chicken feed. Of course, the chickens in these twenty days have not yet laid eggs so quickly. However, the chickens in more than twenty days have almost reached seven or eight taels, and this growth rate is far beyond the normal growth rate of chickens.
Normally, chickens are in a farm, and they are less than half a catty for a month. The chickens in rural areas grow even slower. After raising them for more than 20 days, Qinhe found that the feed they made can basically grow by 70 or 80 taels of meat by eating one pound of feed. The feed effect is excellent.
The main thing is that Qin He does not dare to synthesize chicken feed in large quantities for the time being, and they are all secretly synthesized.
Secretary Li’s family has a few hens. His mother-in-law gave birth to his daughter, so he sent two to Qin He. Qin He came naturally and replaced the experimental subject with an old hen that had already laid eggs.
After having their own super chicken feed, the rural old hen, who originally laid an egg in two or three days, basically lay eggs every morning, and each egg is more than twice the weight of the egg laid by rural native chickens.
Even Shuying didn't tell the story of Qin He's synthesis of super feed at the moment, and only said that he made the feed accidentally. Shuying was also surprised that her hens were so good at laying eggs. Rural women had little knowledge and thought it was the credit for her good feeding.
This experimental data shocked Qin He. After more than a week of continuous experiments, Qin He finally confirmed that this super chicken feed was really successful, and it was super successful.
Qin He also planned to show off with his father-in-law and began to ask his father-in-law to set up a village collective chicken raising unit.
So tonight he asked his father-in-law and Shuying's third uncle to discuss. They were all his family members. Let's discuss how to make the villagers rich. Her third uncle and Secretary Li's family have the best relationship, so let's discuss it.
Let’s solve the problem of eating in the village for the time being. Qin He is also thinking about the geographical conditions of Xiaolizhuang these days. This geographical location surrounded by mountains on three sides is basically impossible to develop business. It is impossible to develop agriculture, have poor land, and can’t plant better economic crops. Raising chickens and pigs is the most suitable way out.
Qin He has also tried whether he could synthesize super fertilizers and fertilizers. The system prompts it is indeed possible, but in the end, I can forget about it. Not to mention the complex ingredients of the main super fertilizers, one of which is the raw materials that are fermented shit and urine. I am immersed in the world of dad every day. Qin He thought about it and decided to cancel this plan.
Moreover, the large-scale production of fertilizers and the like will easily reveal the filling. At that time, more than 100 kilograms of vegetables and radishes will suddenly grow on the barren land of Xiaolizhuang. It is difficult to explain at that time. It is better to just synthesize feed and develop characteristic breeding.
Qin He has thought of many ways to cover up the secret of super feed these days, and finally he finally thought of a cover method.
After working for a day and remembering ten work points, Qin He returned home with his tired body. In just a few days, Qin He couldn't stand the intensity of this work. Obviously, this body has been through the past nine years. No wonder he wanted to escape from Xiao Lizhuang so much.
Shuying had already made a hot bath for Qin He. Qin He took a hot bath and felt comfortable all over and shouted to Shuying outside the door.
"Wife, come and fuck me for the back!"
The couple has lived for almost a month, and it is the sweetest time. In addition to the days of each month, the couple must have more than two per night. Qin He finally got his wish and realized some of his skills in his previous life.
Chapter completed!