Reborn as an educated youth, my love brain awakens

So much so that in the next few days, the topic everyone talked about was Li Miaofang.

The rush to harvest lasted for a month. A month later, when the last grain of food was stored in the granary, no one who participated in the labor on the team could escape this feast. The scorching sun of the autumn heat attacked everyone indiscriminately.

Everyone was so tired that they lost weight, their clothes became one size bigger, and they were all tanned like charcoal.

However, everyone was in high spirits. This year's harvest was much better than last year's. The yield increased by 3,000 kilograms compared to last year, and they would get a lot of it after paying it to the government.

Ji Qinglan, who insisted on going to work every day, also lost weight, but she never treated herself badly in terms of diet. Every time she went to work, she wrapped herself tightly with a headscarf and did not roll up her sleeves. After the autumn harvest, apart from losing a little weight, there was not much change.

Every weekend, Li Miaofang would bring the children to help, Luo Hongyu helped with cooking, and Li Miaofang helped with working in the fields. Once, even Director Luo came over, rolled up his trousers and went to the fields to harvest rice himself.

Li Changlin and Secretary Zhang were so frightened that they were speechless.

Don’t tell anyone that the Public Security Bureau Chief is harvesting rice in their fields!

If other teams knew about this, they would be envious to death! Li Changlin knew that he could save his reputation this time, but he didn't dare to.

They didn't dare to say anything. The only people in the Honghe Brigade who knew Director Luo were the few people who had dinner with him that night, and Luo Xiufang and Han Yuanjun were not the kind of people who talked a lot.

Everyone just thought that Director Luo was a friend invited by Li Miaofang, and some of the brave ones even went over to talk to Director Luo.

Director Luo is quite kind and has no official authority. He responds when others pull him to talk. He stands in the middle of the crowd covered in mud, looking very much like Nong Erge.

After the autumn harvest, the grain is stored in the warehouse and then the vegetable planting begins. Before winter comes, one more wave of vegetables is harvested so that they can survive the winter.

When the weather turns cold and the land freezes, it is really impossible to grow anything.

At home, Ji Qinglan also collected vegetables from the vegetable garden and moved most of them into the space. She picked two baskets of long, crisp and tender cowpeas, blanched them in boiling water, strung them one by one with thin bamboo strips, and hung them in a cool place to dry.

Cut the kohlrabi into shreds and dry it, then add salt and mix it evenly, and put it into an earthenware jar to make pickles. She made a lot, so she made two large jars, and she would send some to Li Miaofang when the time comes. There is basically no vegetable to eat here in the winter, either potatoes or cabbage, either cabbage or potatoes.

In addition to these, she also collected mushrooms, black fungus, white fungus, peppercorns and other mountain products from the mountains, all of which were dried and stored, plus the ferns dried in the spring, and would be sent back to Uncle Peng in due time.

This place is backed by mountains, so as long as you are diligent, you can always find something to eat. Although the food is not good, you will never go hungry.

After hanging the cowpeas, she prepared a clean large wooden basin and filled it with water. She took out a packet of white powder from the house and poured it into the water, stirring it with a wooden stick until the powder dissolved and the water became clear.

Afterwards, she went to the corner and picked a winter melon to wash.

The winter melons are growing well this year, one by one in front of and behind the house. They are round and plump, each half a meter long, and perfect for making soup.

Ji Qinglan picked a few and hid them in the space, preparing to eat them in the winter so that he could eat them whenever he wanted.

Today Ji Qinglan wanted to try making winter melon candy, using the method taught by Niu Guixiang. The packet of powder was edible lime, which was also given by her.

Because the family was about to have a second child, Niu Guixiang became more motivated. After the autumn harvest, she thought about making winter melon candy at home, planning to let her son take it to the black market to exchange for money.

As for the hard-to-buy white sugar, she was not worried at all because Ji Qinglan had it!

Niu Guixiang is good at making sugar, malt sugar, peanut candy, winter melon candy, etc., all of which are recipes left by her grandmother. She once supported her entire family with this skill.

But later, food became scarce and the family couldn’t even get enough to eat, so we became even more reluctant to make candy.

Now, for the sake of her grandson, Niu Guixiang picked up her craft again. The reason she chose winter melon candy is because winter melon is low in cost and the raw materials are readily available.

When Ji Qinglan went over, he happened to see Niu Guixiang cutting winter melon. After asking, he found out that this was what she was doing.

So she helped out and learned from him.

After washing the green melon, use a knife to peel and cut the skin, remove the pulp in the middle, and then cut the flesh into long strips as thick as chopsticks and as long as your index finger.

Making winter melon candy is not easy. The cut winter melon strips are soaked in lime water and refrigerated for 6-8 hours. Then they are washed several times, boiled in a pot, and then taken out to drain the water.

Then put it in a storage jar, and place it in a layer of winter melon cubes and a layer of sugar. After marinating for 2 to 3 days, you can eat it. It has the fragrance of winter melon and the pure sweetness of sugar, which means it is ready.

If it doesn't work and the taste becomes sour and smelly, it is definitely not work and the sugar is also wasted.

Ji Qinglan did it very carefully, she learned this by paying two kilograms of sugar.

Niu Guixiang does this to increase her income, but she does this purely for food.

While she was secretly making winter melon candy at home, the rabbit farm on the mountain became busy. Several people were busying around. Li Changlin and Secretary Zhang were among them, with happy looks on their faces.

The rabbits have been raised in the rabbit farm built near the cowshed. The supply and marketing cooperative has been contacted, and a batch will be shipped out today.

Originally there were only 136 rabbits in the six rabbit houses. Later, the villagers caught another 100 rabbits, and now there are 257 rabbits.

Under Han Yuanjun's careful care, the rabbits grew fat and strong, and were lively and energetic, running around the house.

Li Changlin and Secretary Zhang were both grinning from ear to ear as they watched. These rabbits not only eat a lot, but are also full of treasures.

It's going to turn into money soon.

Secretary Zhang is a shrewd man. In order to maximize profits, he negotiated with the leaders of the supply and marketing cooperative several times and finally set the price of rabbits.

Freshly slaughtered rabbit meat is cleaned and delivered on the same day, 30 cents a pound without meat coupons; the nitrated rabbit skin is 80 cents a piece for pure white color and 50 cents a piece for mixed colors.

The price was neither high nor low, and Li Changlin was still very happy. The villagers were also very happy, and everyone had a gleam in their eyes.

In the early morning of the next day, when the moon was still in the clouds, Li Changlin led a few people up the mountain. Each of them held a knife in one hand and a torch in the other, and walked along the mountain path. They were going to kill rabbits, but they walked like robbers entering the village.

Han Yuanjun had been waiting for this for a long time. He kept sixty rabbits as breeding rabbits and sold the rest.

Soon, the rabbit farm became busy, with lights flashing and a bustling atmosphere.

At daybreak, Zhang Jianguo, Secretary Zhang, and Li Changlin set off on a oxcart. The baskets of goods on the oxcart were all rabbits that they had cleaned overnight.

Ever since this incident, the villagers have been playing tricks on them, and the thresholds of Li Changlin and Secretary Zhang's houses have been trampled down.

Rabbit breeding has begun to show results, and many people want to join in. But why should Han Yuanjun, an outsider educated youth, be given such an important task? What if he has rebellious intentions and doesn't really want to raise the rabbits?

We need our own people to fill important positions.

My dear Uncle Li, do you think this is the truth?

In response, Han Yuanjun sneered and took the initiative to step aside, allowing the person arranged by Li Changda to take over.

For these people, raising a rabbit is not that difficult. They raise pigs, chickens, ducks...

In short, the rabbit is under control.

As a result, something big went wrong when he took over.