Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 106 106 The trouble of too much food

The basic field was harvested in two days, and the autumn harvest task had a perfect start.

It is estimated that the additional hundreds of acres of fields that have been applied for will take a long time to harvest, and it will take some time to process the ears of grain into millet.

It can be predicted that it will take at least half a month for the autumn harvest to be completely completed.

However, Mu Yu gradually became more relaxed.

She only planted the two acres of basic land, and after harvesting, there is no other field to harvest. It is just that she has a lot of things to deal with because of the reputation of the village head.

Except for some chores and plans, she mainly helped Ji Xiucai deal with some accounting issues.

I don’t know if I don’t see it, but I’m startled when I saw it. The various records made by Ji Xiucai are complicated, well-organized, and understandable, but it’s not convenient. If you want to find a piece of data, you have to turn through a thick stack of papers one by one. It's hard to find it.

She searched for a long time, and the efficiency was extremely poor, but when she told Ji Xiucai about it, Ji Xiucai immediately found the data she wanted.

She was very surprised, and asked Ji Xiucai how he did it, and Ji Xiucai said that he had kept all these in his mind, and he could remember every piece of information clearly, and of course he could find it anytime.

She was shocked by Ji Xiucai's powerful memory, and at the same time began to think about finding an easier and more convenient way to record data.

Such a powerful memory is not something ordinary people can have. No one is qualified for this job except Ji Xiucai, and there will only be more data to be recorded in the future. Sooner or later, Ji Xiucai will not be able to remember the day.

Two days later, Mu Yu summed up a new recording method based on his previous experience combined with the real situation.

She taught this method to Ji Xiucai, and Ji Xiucai was immediately astonished. He was very surprised and appreciated her ability, and asked her if she had learned from a certain master before.

She thought to herself, there is no such thing as a master, it's just nine years of compulsory education.

But she couldn't say that, so she kept it vague and continued to teach Ji Xiucai.

In her opinion, this method couldn't be simpler, but for an ancient like Ji Xiucai, it is still somewhat difficult, and it will take some time to learn and master.

Ji Xiucai knows a lot, but there are some knowledge that he has never been exposed to. It is always difficult for him to learn, mainly relying on his super strong memory to get it done.

However, although Ji Xiucai's eight-year-old daughter, Ji Hua, also has no foundation, she learns very quickly. At first, she just played on the sidelines. After discovering that she has this potential, Mu Yu asked her to learn together. Time learns faster than scholars.

Within two days, Mu Yu had finished explaining the method to the two, and the father and daughter could remind each other of things that were unclear, which was very harmonious.

This success made Mu Yu very proud, and even began to think about finding a suitable opportunity to open a school in the village in the future to popularize basic education.

The idea must be a good idea, but there are a lot of problems. She thought about it for a while before she could figure out how to solve these problems, and then a new trouble came to her.

I didn't expect that there would be troubles if there was too much food.

They didn't have enough sacks to hold grain.

Mu Yu listened to the person talking speechlessly,

"One mu of land can produce more than 200 catties of grain. In the past two days, we have harvested more than 100 mu of land, which is more than 2 catties of grain.

Ordinary sacks can only hold fifty catties of grain, so we need more than 400 sacks..."

Hearing this, Mu Yu covered his head with a headache.

Yes, where can I find so many sacks?

At the beginning of their escape from famine, they didn't have much food at all. One or two sacks per person would be good, but the whole fleeing team couldn't afford fifty sacks.

Later, I got a cart of grain from the Xu family's caravan, which was only more than 1000 catties, about [-] sacks.

Instead, I came to Taoyuan Village. It is estimated that each household in Taoyuan Village can have several sacks. If a family can find five, that village would have [-] sacks.

Every household may also have some rice jars and grain jars, which can also hold a lot of grain.

It's just that the harvest of the 100 mu of land can be settled, but they have not only planted this 300 mu of land, but more than [-] mu of land, and went to [-] mu...

This is not easy to deal with.

Mu Yu just realized that it turns out that not having food is troublesome, and having food is also troublesome.

The remaining hundreds of acres of land will soon be harvested, and when the time comes, there will be no place to put it. This is not acceptable.

Mu Yu thought for a while, and asked the person who came,
"Have all the sacks in the village been used? There are also those rice jars, which can be used first."

"It is already in use, but it can still be used for a few days, but it must not be enough in the end."

Of course Mu Yu knew this, and began to frown and think again.

But for a while, I didn't think of any good solution. Anyway, I can handle it for the time being, so let this person go back first.

She actually had some thoughts, but it could only be alleviated, not completely solved.

It was agreed at the beginning that [-]% of the harvest of each mu of land would be distributed to the villagers who cultivated it, so that the villagers could find a way to solve the problem of storing this part of the grain.

This will reduce the pressure by [-]%.

Don't underestimate the wisdom of the villagers. As long as you get your own food, you can create a lot of places if you don't have a place to install it.

But there are problems.

More than [-]% of the people in the village have applied for a lot of additional fields, ranging from three to four acres to more than ten acres, in addition to the two acres of basic fields.

Assuming that a person has an average of ten acres of land and a family has two members, then the family will be allocated 24 catties of grain, which is calculated to hold [-] sacks.

This is not a small burden for the villagers, and it is not something they can pretend to do.

Mu Yu continued to think for a long time until Yang Erlang walked in.

She was about to blame Yang Erlang for not coming to her for a long time, and what she was doing at this time, but suddenly she had a flash of inspiration and thought of a good way to solve the trouble.

You can weave grain baskets!

Yang Erlang can weave straw mats, and he should also weave grain baskets.

Mu Yu looked at Yang Erlang eagerly, almost his eyes flashed,
"Can you weave grain baskets?"

Yang Erlang was confused for a moment, but the tacit understanding between the two made him quickly understand what Mu Yu meant, nodded and said,

"I will make it up."

In Mu Yu's extremely surprised expression, he slightly turned away from looking at her,
"There are not a few villagers who know how to weave baskets, and I will organize some villagers who have no harvesting tasks to weave grain baskets together.

Just now we have enough branches and millet stalks to do this.

Rest assured, we can weave enough grain baskets before we need them. "

Then Yang Erlang looked at Ji Xiucai at the side, and said,

"I just need Ji Xiucai's help in arranging manpower and rewards."

Ji Xiucai, whose workload has been greatly reduced after using the new recording method, was in a good mood, and nodded, "Of course."

Mu Yu was also in a good mood, and the troubles that had troubled her for more than half a day were solved in this way.

(End of this chapter)