Liu Limin smiled and said: "I have to thresh corn cobs this afternoon. Can you still bear it?"
Xu Qing nodded and said: "It's okay, I believe I can do it!"
After lunch, everyone sat down and began to thresh the corn. In the local dialect, this is called mobaogu.
Even Mr. Zheng joined the Mobaogu team. Everyone showed off their skills. Some people just wiped it with their hands. Liu Limin and Liu Lihui were smarter. They put a set of Jiefang rubber shoes on the feet of the bench and it became
I built a very simple corn thresher. You only need to hold the corn cob with both hands and rub it on the pattern of the sole. This is much less labor-intensive than wiping it with your hands. The most important thing is that it is not easy to hurt your hands.
Xu Qing still remembered what Liu Limin said, one pound is one penny.
At first, she applied it with her hands, but after a while, she found that she couldn't take it anymore and her palms became red and swollen.
There was nothing she could do, her hands were too tender. Unlike farmers like Liu Limin, whose hands were very thick and covered with calluses, she was naturally not afraid.
Seeing that after only two or three kilograms of corn had been applied, Xu Qing felt like crying.
Liu Lixin smiled and said: "Sister Qing, do you want to try my threshing machine? It will save you effort. I will find you a pair of rubber shoes!"
Xu Qing saw that Liu Lixin's device was indeed very efficient. She only applied two or three kilograms, and Liu Lixin's feet were probably weighing five or six kilograms, so she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll trouble you then!"
Liu Lixin smiled and went back to the house to find an old rubber shoe and put it on the foot of a bench.
Xu Qing tried it and found that it was really good and saves a lot of effort.
She wiped Bao Gu happily. The life here was indeed very attractive to her. Although she was a little tired, she was happy in her heart.
Liu Limin was responsible for using a screwdriver to make a groove for the corn cobs, so that everyone could wipe the corn cobs more easily. He was very fast, and even though several people wiped the corn cobs, he could still keep up.
There is strength in numbers. This is indeed true. Although a lot of corn was recovered today, so many people worked together to wipe it. By the time it got dark, they had all been finished. It was estimated that there were hundreds of kilograms of corn kernels.
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Xu Qing wiped thirty kilograms of corn. Liu Limin kept his word and gave her thirty cents.
Although the thirty cents was not worth mentioning to Xu Qing, she was still very happy.
Xu Qingjiao smiled and said: "Senior brother, thank you! These thirty cents can buy a lot of things. By the way, are we going to eat these corns ourselves?"
When Liu Limin heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "I can't eat so much. Most of it is used to feed the pigs. When the corn kernels are dried, they can be packed. Take it to the rice threshing house and beat it into corn flour to feed the pigs.
, you will understand if you come with me to feed the pigs tonight!"
Xu Qing said in surprise: "Ah, it turns out that corn flour is fed to pigs. I thought it was eaten by people. Many people in the city like to eat corn flour!"
Liu Limin laughed and said: "Of course it's good for people to eat cornmeal, but they still need to feed pigs more. Think about it, pigs can't eat grass every day. It doesn't have much nutrition. So every meal has to be added
A scoop of corn meal is used to feed the pigs. Even so, the pigs grow very slowly. It takes at least half a year to reach 200 kilograms, and some take a year!"
In Liu Limin's memory, starting in the 1990s, rural areas began to slowly add some additives. For example, amino acids and the like were added to corn flour to feed pigs. In this way, the pigs grew faster, but the pork also slowly
It's not as fragrant anymore.
Later, pig feed produced by the feed factory was purchased directly, and few people rode bicycles to haul corn to the commune's rice threshing room to thresh corn flour.
Liu Limin's family raises three pigs. Although they are not many, they still eat a lot of food. They have to cut pig grass every day and feed them with pig water in the morning and evening.
After dinner today, Liu Limin took Xu Qing to feed the pigs.
The water for washing pots every day is put into the sour bucket. Add a ladle of corn flour and cooked cowhide to the water. Once mixed, it becomes the pig's dinner.
Xu Qing watched Liu Limin feeding the pigs skillfully and said curiously: "It turns out that the pigs grew up eating these. They are so pitiful. They are so poorly fed that they are eaten by others in the end!"
Liu Limin smiled and said: "Junior sister, I didn't expect you to be very caring!"
Xu Qing snorted: "That's right, I'm not like some people!"
After feeding the pigs, Liu Limin and everyone sat in the yard setting up a dragon gate array to enjoy the cool air.
What Wang is most concerned about now is her second sister Liu Lihui. Her college entrance examination is over and she did not go to university. Now it is time to go on a blind date and get married. Now many people are attracted to Liu Lihui. There have been several
One person mentioned this matter to Mrs. Wang.
But Liu Lihui didn't look like she wanted to get married, so Wang smiled and said: "Lihui, you have graduated from high school now, what are your plans?"
Liu Lihui was also smart and understood the meaning of her mother's words, but she didn't want to get married yet. This family was so nice. If she got married, she didn't know whether she would be so happy.
Liu Lihui said quickly: "Mom, I plan to learn to grow medicinal herbs from my elder brother. I can make a lot of money from this!"
Mrs. Wang smiled and said: "Lihui, you are quite old now. Recently, many families have mentioned to my mother that they want to get married with our family. Do you want to choose one and go on a blind date? Look everywhere!"
After hearing this, Liu Lihui shook her head like a rattle: "Mom, I won't listen, I won't listen, I don't want to go on a blind date!"
Wang said: "But you also know that many girls like you in our rural areas have become mothers. You can't always be at home. If you become an old girl, people will laugh at us!"
Liu Limin couldn't help but remember that in his previous life, his second sister did get married early, and then lived an average life, a little better than himself.
Maybe the second sister didn't want to get married so early. The commune was going to set up a food factory. Mr. Zheng's son Zheng Qiang had promised to become a shareholder. Then it would be good for the second sister to work in the factory.
Liu Limin smiled and said: "Mom, you don't have to marry off your second sister so early. In fact, it is not good for girls to marry too early. It is better to follow the national policy and marry later and have children later!"
Now the country has proposed late marriage, late childbearing and the one-child policy, so what Liu Limin said is indeed correct.
Even Mr. Zheng also echoed: "Xiao Liu is right, big sister, Li Hui is still young, and getting married now is not in line with national policy!"
The country has implemented family planning policies since 1978, and delaying marriage and childbearing is one of them.
Liu Limin remembered that in his previous life, he only had one daughter because of this policy.
Nowadays, propaganda slogans that can be seen everywhere say that it is better to have only one child, and the state will provide for the elderly. However, later on, it was difficult to implement the state's provision of elderly care. The rural elderly have a pension of more than 90 yuan, and there are dozens more.
The only-child allowance of RMB 1,000 is less than RMB 200 in total. It is indeed too difficult to support the elderly.
And because they only have one child, the generation born in the 1980s was under too much pressure because there were four elderly people and one, or even two or three children, because later the country promoted the idea of having two children and three children.
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It would be fine if there was a mine at home, but if you are an ordinary person without money, you really can't care about your parents.