Chapter 259 Autumn Harvest Begins 3

The sweet potato slices are dried during the day and collected in the evening.

If the dew falls on the sweet potato slices at night, they will easily become moldy, so they cannot be exposed to rain.

A group of children, big and small, who have finished school or not gone to school, picked up the sweet potato slices on the ground with bamboo baskets or wicker baskets, filled the baskets and poured them into the big bamboo baskets, and continued to pick up sweet potato slices.

Jiang He and Zhang Erya, a group of orphans, followed them and worked hard. Feng Qingxue recorded their work points according to Wang Zhengguo's opinion.

The next morning, when the sun came out, the collected sweet potato slices were spread on the ground to continue drying, and then collected in the evening.

This was repeated tirelessly every day until the sweet potato slices were dried.

The dried spring sweet potato slices were stored in the warehouse while the summer sweet potatoes and corn were harvested.

Those who are responsible for digging summer sweet potatoes are all experienced farmers. They have rich experience and the sweet potatoes they dig out are less damaged. Through their careful screening, they remove the damaged, diseased, disabled and water-stained sweet potatoes, and transport the intact and plump sweet potatoes into the cellar according to the previous storage method. During the process, they are all handled and transported with care, so as to leave the best seeds for next year.

If the seeds are well planted, the seedlings will be good, the seedlings will be strong, and the harvest will naturally rise.

For corn, male laborers cut down the corn stalks one by one and put them neatly on the ground, one row after another. In each row, women and children squatted and used awls to pick the husks on the corn cobs, peeled the skins, broke off the corn cobs and threw them on the open ground.

Piles of corn cobs are golden, plump and beautiful.

The joy of the harvest is all over everyone's face.

The land in Wanglou Brigade is fertile, the corn cobs grow long and big, and the yield is unquestionable.

Some corns grow under the shade of trees and do not receive enough sunlight. The stalks are thin and the cobs are small. The husks are green and the kernels inside are very tender and soft. Juice splashes when you poke them.

At this time, someone has to supervise to prevent everyone from eating raw tender corns when they are extremely hungry.

Wang Zhengguo is more tactful and said loudly: "Pick out the tender corns and put them in a pile. When you get off work, each person takes two back to cook and eat! It does not count towards the work points. So, don't eat them secretly in the field. If I catch you, you will all be embarrassed!"

Upon hearing this, everyone cheered and worked harder.

Feng Qingxue had not had her period for more than two months. Although she did not have time to see a doctor to check her pulse, she was completely sure of her pregnancy. In addition to recording work points, she also had to work, but she was very careful not to do those jobs that required bending over and pressing her lower abdomen.

It is not possible to say that she did not work, because many women with big bellies were sweating profusely in the fields.

Some women even worked even when they were eight or nine months pregnant.

In this case, how could Feng Qingxue use her pregnancy as an excuse to not work?

After cutting corn stalks, the male laborers carried bamboo baskets or dung shovels full of corn cobs on their backs to mule carts and transported them to the field to spread them out for drying. At this time, the sweet potatoes that could not be used for planting were cut into slices and spread on the field to dry, so as not to occupy the field.

Corn stalks were transported to the field and piled up. After wheat was planted, they were transported to the cowshed and piled up.

Corn stalks, like sweet potato vines, are feed for livestock.

At noon, in order not to delay work, everyone ate the dry food they brought under the shade of trees at the field. Some people brought their own boiled water, and some drank the raw water flowing in the river directly.