Hard times have room

Chapter 608 Defend the Vegetable Field
When it comes to food, it is a top priority. The whole Shanghe Village is full of tension. From time to time, I have to go to my vegetable field to take a look, even at night, for fear that the food in the field will be poisoned by thieves.

Now the things planted in the ground are not only food crops, but also the rations and even the lives of these people in the second half of the year.

That's right, some people in the village have completely run out of food, and now they eat wild vegetables dug outside every day, and they rely on the food in the ground to save their lives.

Even the richest family in the village can only consume two or three hundred catties of food at most. A large family consumes at least one or two catties of grain every day. The food in the ground does not dare to slack off easily.

Apart from the things grown in the ground, there is really no other source of food, and the things in the black market cannot be eaten at all.

At this time, everyone is poor and has no food. It is impossible to count on relatives and friends to borrow food. Maybe they are even poorer than you, and they are counting on you to help!

There is always a time to eat the food at home. If the food in the ground is gone, and there is no food supplement, then in the second half of the year, you can only eat the soil, not to mention the next year. When people starve to death, it is no longer what the elders said to teach the younger generation, it will be the real event that happened in front of us.

Some people, for the sake of their own food, didn't dare to slack off for a moment, they just rolled up their bedding and went to the ground to deal with them all night, and then go back to make up for sleep during the day.

With this method, it would be better if there were more people in the family. If you could take turns and stay up all night for three or five days, it would not be too tiring, but if there were few people, it would be a bit difficult to handle.

This is the situation in Wang Jiandang's family. There are three members of the family, and no one else can do it except him. It is unrealistic to have him endure for so long by himself.

So he went to the other three that had the same kind of land as his family. After some discussion, it was agreed that one family would be responsible for one day, day and night, and there must be no shortage of people in the land.

Some people in the village who were very close to the land were also forced to form an alliance to guard their land together.

On the first day of forming the alliance, Wang Cheng's family was on duty. This was decided by lottery. Wang Jiandang was on the second day, and the other two families were in charge on the third and fourth days.

Although someone was guarding the ground next to her, the family couldn't relax. After discussion, the family of three decided that Pauline would be on duty at the house for a long time. Once she found a problem, she immediately asked the neighbors for help.

This is because he has few family members. In the eyes of some people, he is really a soft persimmon that can be squeezed. If a family of three goes out and is caught by someone, when they go back, that might really happen. The scene where the family has been cared for is more than worth the loss.

Therefore, there must be someone on duty at home, and Paulin is the most suitable candidate. She can do housework, cook, feed bamboo rats, and study at home. This cannot be delayed.

The sweet potato leaves in the vegetable field, whether they should be picked or not, this is also handed over to Pauline. She is good at this. She used to do all the work.

After more than a month of tense nerves, in mid-June, the crop vines in the ground began to dry up gradually, and the leaves gradually turned yellow.

At this time, experienced farmers will know that the crops in the ground will be harvested soon.

In fact, at this time, the time has come to dig it, but, in the end, I am not reconciled, I want to wait and wait, and bury it in the ground, but it can last for a long time.

These are all self-deceiving thoughts. It hasn't rained or watered the ground for so long, and only weeding regularly is useless. Now maybe if you dig two or three feet into the ground, the mud will be dry, that's all. In this case, how could the crops grow.

It dragged on for another seven or eight days, and some people in the village couldn't bear it anymore, so they went straight to dig their own farmland. With the first one, the emergence of the second and third became a matter of course.

In the end, it became a harvest scene for the whole village, but the process was a bit difficult.

After all, it hasn’t rained for half a year, so you can imagine how the soil in this field will dry up. The hoe is about to break, and the ground still can’t be dug. Even if it is dug in, the soil must be kept away That is also difficult. The soil is very hard. If you really need to use brute force, the hoe can be broken.

Because they are afraid of digging the fruit underneath, most people use a grappling hook when digging, which consists of three or four thorns, connected together, and a wooden stick. Some of the crops below are not damaged, because there is a distance between the thorns, so digging with this kind of farm implement rarely damages the fruits below.

When Wang Jiandang bought farm implements, he directly bought a complete set and hired someone to fight them. Although it cost a lot, these things have come in handy now.

His family has hoes and grappling hooks, and all three of his family can play.

It's just a bit slow, and one day has passed, and only one cent of the sweet potato field and one peanut field have been dug out.

It's not that they don't want to hurry, but this kind of thing can't be rushed. No matter what, the ground has to be turned over completely. Every piece of soil has to be smashed to find every fruit hidden in it. The reason for hasty digging is this time.

Like the people in the village, they all choose to dig the grain from the outside field and go to the house first. As for the vegetable field surrounding the yard, there is no rush. , can't run.

For the two points of land dug, the harvest is okay, to be precise, within expectations.

For the sweet potato field, put two baskets of sweet potatoes back.

Sweet potatoes are a bit small, most of them are only as big as Pauline's fist. Obviously, they haven't fully grown yet, but the vines connected to the sweet potatoes are already withered, and there are no vines to supply nutrients. This is the case for the sweet potatoes. Buried again, it's still that big.

On such a hot day, the sweet potato has been buried in the ground, and there is a risk of being eaten by insects in the ground. The vine is withered, and the sweet potato is still attached to the vine. If it is buried in the ground, it will slowly follow the vine. broken together.

Just this time, the sweet potatoes that their family dug back had some bugs. The bugs were called grubs. They were small, white, and soft bugs. There were quite a lot of them. distressed.

The sweet potato that has been drilled by this kind of worm will give off a bitter taste. Of course, as long as the part that has been drilled by the worm is cut off, it can still be eaten, and there is no need to throw it away.

(End of this chapter)