Doomsday Grain

There is still one month before the autumn harvest, and the fish in the ground can be fished up in half a month. Otherwise, when the reservoir is closed, the fish in the ground will die without water.

Some people can't help but start harvesting early.In addition to being anxious to eat fish, the more fearful thing is that someone will hide pesticides and secretly use them.There are already several houses that have no fish to eat. Instead of not having any fish left, it is better to catch the smaller ones. At worst, you will eat two bites of meat.

Except for those families that raise a lot of fish, those who only raise one or two hundred crucian carp are reluctant to sell any of them. They take them home and save a few for the next few days to satisfy their cravings. The rest are marinated and dried in the sun. Dried fish.As long as it is stored properly, it will be fine for a few years.

After a while, it will be time for busy farming. These fish can provide more calories, and people will have more energy to work by then.

Then those who did not raise fish will naturally regret it at this time.Even if there is a risk of being poisoned to death, the loss can be up to ten catties or twenty catties of grain, and the family's rations for two or three days can be harvested in the hundreds of four or five taels of crucian carp.

In this way, seeing the fish farmers harvesting in full swing, everyone else came to Lin Qian's house to order fish fry.

Lin Qian worked diligently to feed the fish at home every day, and he would rely on them to thrive in the coming year.

Those who raise a lot of crucian carp keep [-] of them for their own food, so they can eat one carp every two days, which is enough for many days. Even if the chickens at home cannot be kept alive in winter, they are not afraid of running out of oil and water.

As for the rest, all of them wrote "selling fish" at the door, and after discussing the price with each other, they only sold five catties of grain for one catty of fish, and the sales volume was also very good.Some people who bought fish went out to visit relatives with the fish. The news of the fish in this village spread far and wide. Every day, many people from other villages came to buy fish. The business should not be too hot.

The time before the harvest is when the famine is at its worst.The weather here is good, although the weather is not smooth, but there is still a harvest anyway.

But in most parts of the country, the grain that can be harvested is still poor.

Especially in places where there are not many rivers, the government prohibits the pumping of groundwater to irrigate the land for fear of ground subsidence due to excessive use of groundwater. Except for a few desperate ones, most people can only watch large tracts of crops wither in the field.

To the north of the Yangtze River is a large area of ​​drought, but to the south of the Yangtze River, not only has to bear large-scale precipitation throughout the year, resulting in droughts and floods, but also has a cold winter of more than minus 20 degrees.

It can be said that both sides are having a hard time. Compared with the large-scale production reduction in the north, for the south, except for some areas that still have rice harvests, the overall production has ceased. This is the second time that production has ceased.

Most of the Northwest was a place of bitter cold in the past, and it will be even more difficult to survive after the end of the world.While the government is working hard to support them, it has begun to propose that people in the northwest region be relocated to places with relatively better conditions in the north.However, except for a few people who are willing to leave, most people are reluctant to part with this place where their ancestors lived for generations.

Therefore, the only grain harvested in the north bears more hope.

In mid-September, it is reasonable to say that the harvest time in the village is around October. Regardless of half a month, this time can make the crops grow bigger.

Except for Lin Qian's family, all the villages planted more worry-free corn.At this time, no one will harvest the crops in the field, but it doesn't mean that others don't have such crooked thoughts.

First of all, when a family went to the field, they found that their corn cobs, which could cover an acre of land, had been taken away, and more and more families discovered that their corn cobs had been stolen.Originally, because there was no rain this year, let alone fertilization, the corn cobs in the field were pitifully small.There are still many corn stalks on the edge of the field that withered because they could not stand the drought when they had just grown to waist height.Nowadays, the remaining corn is even more valuable. Who doesn't feel sorry for so much being stolen?

The few families whose corn had been stolen couldn't care less about waiting. The whole family mobilized and started harvesting corn.

Those who were not stolen were even more afraid that their own family would be unlucky, so they all followed suit.Most of the corn stalks in the field are still green, and the busy figures of people have already shuttled between the fields.

Lin Qian's family was the most relaxed.Because only a small half of the corn is planted, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, I hired someone to help harvest it early, and the rest is corn, soybeans, peanuts, etc., not much, two people work slowly, four or five days The effort was recovered.

The harvest in the field is not only food, but more importantly, firewood.

Both corn stalks and corn cobs are good materials for fire. Even if the production is reduced, the problem of burning these corn stalks during the winter will be solved.If you save some, it will be enough for next year.

After the end of the world, the village has entered a cheerful atmosphere which is rare.

Lin Qian and the two drove the off-road vehicle home exhausted, and opened the trunk. The corn harvested today was packed in sacks and the trunk was full.

He Yangxuan put the corn into the space, went to the back yard and put it in the granary, making sure that no one in the neighbors was paying attention, and threw all the corn cobs into the granary to dry.

Grandpa was still wearing an apron. He watched the two enter the house and poured two glasses of water: "Let's take a break first, the meal is ready, you take a break and come over to eat. I'm a little late today, come back early tomorrow There is no rush to live in the left and right fields, you two take your time."

The grandfather was forbidden by the two to work in the fields. He usually cooks meals for the two grandsons in different ways at home, so that they can go out every day with a full meal, and eat ready-made hot meals after returning home after a tiring day.

This is happiness for all three.The grandfather cooks delicious meals for the two grandsons every day, and the two grandchildren feel hurt, so don't be too happy.

"It'll be easier after the work is done. I hope that winter will come soon, and winter will be easier. This year, I've been very busy." Lin Qian laughed as he collapsed on the sofa.

He Yangxuan lay down and pillowed on Lin Qian's lap: "You're happy to be tired no matter how tired you are."

"I feel like I'm going to work again." Lin Qian reached out and stroked He Yangxuan's hair, "It's just that no one pays me anymore."

"I'm not satisfied being the boss, I'm getting greedy." He Yangxuan squinted his eyes, feeling Lin Qian's fingers caressing his scalp.

"No, you can only make progress if you are greedy." Lin Qian yawned and patted the top of Lin Qian's head.

The two got up and went to the kitchen to eat.

Because the workload of the two has increased recently, grandpa also added more salt when cooking.There is an old saying that eating heavy food will give you more strength to work. In fact, from a scientific point of view, it is to replenish the lost excessive salt and avoid loss of strength.

In the past two days, the food has also been better than the previous two days. Coupled with the increased workload, the two have always had a good appetite in the past two days.

One person ate three bowls of rice, but it was Grandpa who told them to stop and told them that they were not full enough, so he put down the bowls and chopsticks.There is a saying that a half-aged child eats a poor old man. The two grandchildren are sixty years old, and their food intake is no worse than that of a half-grown child in his teens.

"By the way, you take time to go to the brigade at noon tomorrow. The loudspeaker blared today to indicate that something will happen at noon tomorrow. In the village, except for the five rows on the side, all the houses in the middle will go there." Grandpa said.

"Don't our family belong to the side?" Lin Qian said without raising his head.

"Isn't the old house in the middle? That's our house too. It seems that there is something important. I'm too old to turn my head around. You two should go and have a look." Suddenly just let people who live in the center pass by, Maybe it's about relocation. Grandpa's brain is slow now, and the decision-making power for such major matters is still left to the children.

This is what makes Grandpa different from others.Most elderly people like to control the rights of the whole family in their own hands. On the one hand, they reflect their own existence and feel that they are needed. On the other hand, they also feel that their experience is better than that of children and they can make more correct decisions choices and decisions.

But I forgot that the times are always changing, the experience of the elderly may not be useful, and the head that is gradually losing vitality may not really be able to choose the best path.

Grandpa sees it very clearly, so when it comes to major issues, unless he thinks the two of them can't solve it, he will never get involved.

"Strange, is this going to merge the village?" Lin Qian asked strangely.

"It's unlikely." He Yangxuan shook his head, "Even if we want to separate people from the two villages, at most we have to divide things. Even if we divide them inside and outside, the new villagers live outside. The inside of the village is safer than the side of the village. The treatment should only be given to the old villagers, and the head of the village should not be asked to go there."

What He Yangxuan said made sense, but Lin Qian couldn't figure it out: "This is weird..."

"If we can figure out this kind of thing, we will be the leader, and we will know everything when we go tomorrow. You two should go to bed early, and do less work tomorrow, and it will be over anyway." Grandpa drove the two of them upstairs .

"After the dry land is done, there are still rice fields. Why do we have to work for ten days?" Lin Qian laughed.

The two went upstairs, changed into their pajamas and lay on the bed after washing. He Yangxuan found an old TV series and put it on the projector. After watching an episode, the two became unbearably sleepy, so they turned off the machine and fell asleep.

There are families in the village who finished their work early, and now they have begun to dig pools around the ground.Especially in the paddy fields, every family wants to dig deeper for fish farming in the coming year. If there is more water in the coming year, the fish will be able to feed better.

There were only two people working in Lin Qian's family, so it must be later than other families.At this time, everyone has work to do, and they can't hire people even if they spend money, so they can only come by themselves.

The next day, the two moved faster in the morning, cob the last bit of corn, and then began to cut down the corn stalks and bundle them into bundles.There is no way for off-road vehicles to transport these back, so I borrowed the tractor from Uncle Liu's house next door to transport them back.When I sent it back, I filled a box full of diesel oil. For Uncle Liu's family, they were very cheap.

At noon, the corn stalks were cut in half, and the two finished their lunch in the car, rested for ten minutes, and then drove to the brigade to check the situation.

There are only about [-] people left in the village, so there are only about [-] people who come to the brigade, and it is not crowded to stand on the brigade square.