Start as a farmer from an ordinary world

Chapter 184
Some time ago, Wang Manyin heard Lan Hua say that some people bought handkerchiefs from supply and marketing cooperatives to make clothes because they couldn't get cloth tickets.

But this kind is generally worn by the broken children at home.Two handkerchiefs can be used to make a vest, and four handkerchiefs can be cut together to make a half-sleeve.

But it was the first time he had heard of making quilt covers.

We have to admit that in the face of limited resources, the wisdom of working people is infinite.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all beyond your imagination, and there is nothing impossible to do.

For example, they feel that the vinegar sold at the consignment point is too expensive, so they ferment sorghum to make vinegar themselves.In addition, there are also made with various fruits.

Such as persimmon vinegar, jujube vinegar, apricot vinegar and so on.

As for soy sauce, those who are reluctant to buy it use peas to make old sauce...

"Uncle Shouchang, you can't sew with a handkerchief, and it's easy to lose cotton. Can the girl be willing?"

Using a handkerchief as a quilt, Wang Manyin felt unreliable.

"Otherwise, what can we do?" Wang Shouchang also worried.

After thinking for a while, Wang Manyin said again: "See if this works. My family shouldn't need to distribute tickets this year. Wait a few years to see how much the team distributes, and then I can give you one... You can then go to other people in the village. Look for it, if it’s not enough, I’ll help you buy some handkerchiefs.”

The number of tickets issued in the village is not fixed every year. Last year, five feet were issued, barely enough for an adult to make a pair of trousers.If you want to make cotton clothes, you need to collect all the cloth tickets of the family.

If Wang Shouchang asked for a few zhang tickets, Wang Manyin would definitely refuse directly.If it is three or five feet, he is still willing to reach out.

Wang Manyin and Lanhua just made new cotton clothes last year, and this summer they made another set of unlined clothes, so they probably won't make clothes again years ago.

If there is a real need, it is a big deal to go to the black market.

Now it is easier for workers to get married. After applying for a marriage certificate, a certain number of cloth tickets are usually issued.

On the other hand, when the rural people get married on the Shige Festival, it seems that there is no other distribution ticket... At least Wang Manyin and Lanhua didn't see it when they received the certificate.

Because of this, many families will borrow cloth tickets in the village before marrying their wives.

Having said that, in this era, many rural people do not have the habit of getting a certificate when they get married.Some even lived their whole lives, and neither party had a marriage certificate until they died.

It can be said that it is relatively rare for him and Lanhua to take the initiative to apply for a certificate.

"Thank you..."

Wang Shouchang was naturally very satisfied with the promise, and hurriedly took out another cigarette.

Don't look at handkerchiefs and tickets, but it is not easy for ordinary people to buy twenty or thirty at a time.Without that relationship, the supply and marketing cooperative would definitely not want to sell it.

"Uncle Shouchang, I haven't smoked yet," Wang Manyin waved his hand, pointing to the cigarette in his ear.

After sending Wang Shouchang away, Wang Manyin quickly cleaned the pots and bowls.

Then, he spread the sheets made of snakeskin bags on the sunny side of the field, and poured the wild chrysanthemums just harvested yesterday.

In early October, wild chrysanthemums bloom on the Loess Plateau.

Between the ravines and the cliffs, there are clusters of golden and dazzling clusters, and you can smell the tangy fragrance at a distance of more than ten meters.

They are also the last beautiful colors of autumn on the Loess Plateau. After the wild chrysanthemums have bloomed, few other flowers bloom.

Now the supply and marketing agency collects flower bones, and the price is cheap. After drying, it costs three cents a catty.

A large basket full can only dry three or four catties, and is worth more than ten cents.

Even so, the broken children in the village still rushed into the mountains to pick them happily.Some even didn't even go home at noon, and brought cold water and nests for a makeshift meal.

The habit of suffering in the Loess Plateau has long been engraved in their bones.

Therefore, as long as the things sent by the broken children are not too bad, Wang Manyin will simply buy them.

Just like the dried wild chrysanthemum in front of him, with some dried leaves inside, he needed to clean it up with a dustpan.

As for the dustpan, Wang Manyin uses it very smoothly now.

While he was busy, he saw Wang Qiusheng carrying a shovel and a basket of thorns passing by on the dirt road beside the field.

"Brother Qiusheng, what are you doing... Didn't go to work today?"

Wang Qiusheng can be regarded as a model worker in the team. Except for weather reasons, he goes out to work almost every day to earn work points.Even so, his family owes more and more every year.

It was rare to see the other party not resting today, Wang Manyin was very curious.

Wang Qiusheng stopped and replied: "The family has been out of oil for almost half a month. I don't know when the team will be divided...I want to go to the mountains to hunt papaya. I will squeeze some oil then."

"Now? It's a bit late. Even if there are fruits, the woolly fox will probably pick them all up."

"Some ditches in the mountains bloom late, if you look for it, there must be..."

The papaya that Wang Qiusheng mentioned is not the kind commonly seen by people in later generations, but the common name of the Shige Festival, and its scientific name is xanthus sorbifolium.

This plant is resistant to cold and drought, and can even grow in the edge of the desert. It is one of the common wild tree species on the Loess Plateau.The seeds it produces contain a lot of oil, and they are oily when you pinch them with your hands.

Wang Manyin heard from an old man in the village that one catty of papaya seeds can produce six taels of oil.In later generations, it was even called "Northern Camellia Oil", and the price was very expensive.

Maybe many people have no concept of this oil yield rate. You must know that a catty of soybeans is less than two taels of oil, and peanuts can squeeze four taels of oil.

The flowers of Xingguan fruit are very beautiful, and the tree is full of snow-white and pink. It is also a famous landscape tree in later generations.

It's a pity that although this kind of plant blooms a lot, it rarely bears fruit, so it is called "a thousand flowers and one fruit".A big tree bears dozens of fruits.

The shape of the newly grown fruit is very similar to that of a green walnut, and the kernel tastes similar to a walnut before it is ripe.

In fact, there used to be a lot of xanthus sorbifolium trees near Guanzi Village, but they were cut down during the steelmaking process, and now they can only go into the mountains.

Xingguan fruit usually matures in batches after the [-]th of August. If you miss the time, you will be eaten by animals in the mountains.

However, the production team was busy with the autumn harvest at that time, and they would not approve the members to ask for leave to go to the mountains to harvest fruit.

That's why Wang Qiusheng has been procrastinating until now, to see if he can pick up some seeds under the tree to extract oil.

"Man Yin, do you have anything to do today? If not, let's go into the mountains together and be a companion. Even if you can't get papaya seeds, you can earn some money by digging some licorice and polygala." Wang Qiusheng invited again.

"Okay, wait for me to clean up," Wang Manyin also asked for leave today.

It’s been a while since I’ve been in the mountains, and I’m still idle at home, so why not take rhubarb for a walk and consider it a trip.

If you have the chance, get some sorbetia seeds and plant them in the space.In another two or three years, there will be another source of oil.

Of course, it is best to transplant several saplings.

He neatly packed the wild chrysanthemums back into the house, and then set off with tools.

Both of them are people who are used to walking on mountain roads. They crossed ditches and circled the plateau without stopping. In less than two hours, they ran for more than ten miles.

let them down.

The two searched for two cliff ditches one after another, but saw several xanthus sorbifolium trees.But the fruits on it have long been picked by the animals...mainly the fur raccoon, which likes to eat seeds very much.

Unwilling to give up, Wang Qiusheng still searched in the gaps under the tree, and finally managed to pick up a small handful, which is estimated to be able to extract half of the oil.

But Wang Manyin looked at Rhubarb beside him and suddenly had an idea.

This guy is very sneaky when he smells scorpions. I don't know if he can find the place where the raccoons store their food.

The woolly civet belongs to the ground squirrel, and its living habits are similar to other similar species.In addition to hiding food in the caves where they live in autumn, they also set up several spare granaries in other places.

Thinking of this, he immediately asked Wang Qiusheng to get papaya seeds, put them in front of Rhubarb's nose, and let him sniff them constantly.The sorbetia sorbifolium seed kernel has a special fragrance, which is relatively strong for a native dog.

"Man Yin, can it work? These are seeds, not looking for someone." Wang Qiusheng asked with some doubts.

"It's all smells, there's no difference. Give it a try, just in case it works." Wang Manyin replied, but Wang Manyin was actually very confident.

Those police dogs of later generations can easily smell the smell of [-] meters underground.

Homemade rhubarb is not bad either, so it shouldn't be a problem.

It really made Wang Manyin guess right.

Within 10 minutes, Rhubarb roared at a cliff.

"There is a gap here, and there may be papaya seeds hidden in it."

The gap was too narrow, Wang Manyin reached out and tried several times, but couldn't penetrate into it.

"I'll dig!" Wang Qiusheng immediately took out his machete and continued to dig into the surrounding soil.

After digging more than ten centimeters deep, the gap space suddenly expanded.A pile of black seed kernels was exposed inside, weighing more than three catties.

"Good guy, Man Yin, you really have a good dog. Man Yin, put it away quickly." Wang Qiusheng's eyes were both excited and envious.

Wang Manyin didn't reach out, and said directly: "Brother Qiusheng, put it away first, let's follow the rules of hunting in the mountains, and divide it when we get home, half of each person,"

There are few large prey on the Loess Plateau, so there are not many opportunities for hunting.

However, there is still a customary rule in the village. If you go into the mountains together to chase rabbits and catch pheasants, you must share equally.Of course, if someone contributes a lot, they can share an extra share.

Although this time he went to the mountain to pick sorbifolia seeds, Wang Manyin still planned to follow the rules.

"This... well,"

Wang Qiusheng wanted to refuse, but finally nodded.

After packing up the seed kernels and putting them in a cloth bag, the two continued to search for rhubarb.

This cliff ditch is 400 meters long from the beginning to the end, and there are four or five sorbifolia trees growing in it.According to common sense, at least hundreds of catties of seed kernels can be found.

It's just that there are too many needle-needle shrubs in the cliff ditch, which greatly affects walking.

Suddenly, Wang Qiusheng stopped.

He excitedly pointed to a clump of wild chrysanthemums in the cliff ditch and said: "Manyin, look, there are a lot of bumblebees! This place is so wonderful, besides wild chrysanthemums, there are also large twigs and echinacea. There are many bumblebees on the leaves Shit, the honeycomb should be not far away. We can look for it... If we find it, we can at least get a few catties of honey."

According to Wang Qiusheng, as long as there is a large piece of Scolia excrement, it means that the hive is not far away.Because the scumblebees have a habit, before they fly out of the nest to collect honey, they have to excrete the waste in their bodies.

Wang Manyin is naturally very familiar with those yellow-brown spots on the leaves of wild chrysanthemums, and they can be seen in space.

After listening to the other party's words, he recalled that it seemed to be the case.

Near the space soil honeycomb, the soil bee excrement is very dense.

In order to get more oil, Wang Manyin sprinkled rapeseed on many places in the space.It was golden in spring, and then sesame seeds were planted.

It is because of the abundance of nectar-source plants that the scumblebees bred a new queen bee, which split into two groups in space.One of the group is still sticking to the pit, and the other group has fallen on the willow tree.

No matter how many months, four or five pieces of honeycomb have been made.

If you count the group in the pit, it is estimated that at least ten catties of honey can be harvested from the two places.If you get it from a supply and marketing cooperative, you can sell it for a lot of money.

But for Wang Manyin, he no longer expects to sell honey for money.Most of them keep it for their own food, or give gifts to others.

"Brother Qiusheng, this cliff ditch is several hundred meters away, so it's hard to find." Looking around, Wang Manyin felt a little worried again.

The soil nest is different from the granary of the fur civet, and is generally located on the high cliffs.In addition, the soil bees kept flying in the cliff ditch, and Rhubarb couldn't determine the exact location of the soil beehive at all.

The last time he was able to find it, it was pure luck.

"It's okay, I have a way,"

While talking, Wang Qiusheng took off the handkerchief wrapped around his head.

Then, he said, "Man Yin, look around and see if you can find some bird feathers."

"What kind of bird feathers do you want?" Wang Manyin asked curiously.

There are many in the space, and the key cannot be taken out.

"Anything goes, the brighter the color the better."

"Okay, I'll look for it."

Wang Manyin nodded, and immediately turned around with Rhubarb.

The lush vegetation in this cliff ditch naturally attracts many birds for food.As soon as he walked back for more than a hundred meters, he found a few brightly colored pheasant feathers.

When he returned, Wang Qiusheng took two thin threads from the handkerchief.After taking over the feather, he tore off a piece the size of a fingernail from the top, and tied it to the end of the thin thread.

"Brother Qiusheng, why are you looking for a honeycomb?" Wang Manyin looked confused, and didn't understand what the other party wanted to do at all.

"It's easy to handle. Let's catch a few bumblebees and tie them around our waists, and let them fly later."

While talking, Wang Qiusheng quickly moved to a wild chrysanthemum.He stared at a bumblebee, and directly reached out to pinch the bumblebee's wing.

This action is quite bold, as long as you make a slight mistake, you will stung your finger.

However, the poisonous needles of the wasp are not very poisonous, and even if they are stung, it is actually nothing.

The two cooperated with each other and successfully tied the thin thread around the bumblebee's waist.Afraid of pulling the bumblebee's abdomen off, Wang Manyin acted cautiously throughout his movements.

Qiu Sheng found another branch and temporarily wrapped the thin thread connecting the bumblebee on it.

Next, move on to capturing the second bumblebee.

Wang Manyin finally noticed that the bumble bees caught by the opponent were all homing bees with pollen balls on their legs.

After tying up five bumblebees in a row, Wang Qiusheng completely let go of the string.

I saw a few guys flying up after being freed, making a mess in the air.

For a moment, they flew in the same direction.

"Brother Qiusheng, do you know how to do this?" Wang Manyin fully understood that these marks were used to track the bumble bee.If there is no logo, it is easy to lose track.

Now there are conspicuous feathers to guide, even if they are more than ten meters away, Wang Manyin can see clearly.

In addition, it can also slow down the flight speed of the Scolia.

"I also learned from others." Wang Qiusheng replied.

The two walked cautiously in the cliff ditch, and just a few tens of meters ahead, they saw a few bumblebees flying towards the top of the cliff.

They also noticed that there were more scumblebees around.Obviously, the beehive should be on the edge of the cliff.

"Look, there are more bee dung here, let's go up and have a look," Wang Qiusheng said again after looking around for four weeks.

This cliff is about 20 meters high, and the lower side is relatively steep, and there is no place to borrow strength.The two looked it over and found that there was a Daotu cliff not far away with a gentle slope, and climbing to the ridge should not be a problem.

(End of this chapter)