After dinner, Xu Shiyan went to find Zhao Jianshe, Yang Chunming, Huang Shengli and others, and discussed asking the brothers to help him plant ginseng.
Zhao Jianshe and others estimated that Xu Shiyan would come back soon. They had finished their work long ago and were waiting for Xu Shiyan to come back.
"Third brother, if you don't come back, the rest of us will think about helping you get a stick." Zhao Jianshe said this.
"We are all free tomorrow, so we can go up the mountain together.
Your thirty feet of ginseng soil, a stick and a hammer to scatter the seeds, can be done in less than a day." Huang Shengli also said.
"Okay, thank you brothers, I have no idea what to do, I'm too busy."
Xu Shiyan smiled and thanked several brothers, so he said that sometimes friends get along better than real brothers.
After agreeing on planting ginseng, Xu Shiyan hurried back to his parents' place and took the child home.
The two younger ones have become accustomed to living with their grandparents these days. Zhou Guilan was also worried that Xu Shiyan could not take care of four children by himself, so he only asked Xu Shiyan to take the two older ones home.
As for Yang Haoyu and Xu Shiyan, when they went to find Zhao Jianshe and the others, Yang Junxian came over and picked up the child.
The ginseng seeds and seeds were distributed by the team a few days ago.
Xu Chenghou and Zhou Guilan coaxed their children while they picked ginseng seeds, tied them with rice bags, and packed them in cardboard boxes.
In the past, the first three groups in the team would plant the ginseng seeds into the ground, and the rest would be used as seeds for harvesting.
This year, the contract was distributed to each household, and each household was allocated three years of ginseng soil at once, so the ginseng plants could not be planted as in previous years.
"Invincibility starts with sacrificing the ancestor"
As long as the reed heads and whiskers are intact, regardless of size, they must be left and planted in the ground.
As for how big the goods will be in three years, I don't care. Let's develop slowly and it will be fine in the future.
The grandpa and I took a lot of things home. Fortunately, the kang had some fire during the day, so we just need to make another one quickly.
Xu Shiyan opened the brown paper bag and selected the books inside.
I put what I use for myself in the back study, and let Xu Haiyuan keep what I use for my children.
Xu Haiyuan got a lot of new books and was very happy.
He can't read much now, so he can't read it all, but he can look through the pictures inside.
The brother and sister were holding the little book, one of them was fascinated by it.
Xu Shiyan took advantage of the child's time to read and quickly burned the kang and the stove to warm the room before getting on the kang and making quilt.
After coaxing the two children to wash their feet and change their clothes, the three of them read two stories from a book under the covers. Only then did Xu Haiyuan and Xu Jinping go to bed contentedly.
Su Anying was not at home, and Xu Shiyan had to be busy going up the mountain in the morning, so he must have had this early meal at his parents' place.
One morning, I woke up my son and daughter, washed their faces and put on their clothes.
A grown man like Xu Shiyan was clumsy and couldn't braid his daughter's hair, so Xu Jinping had no choice but to wear her hair down and go to her grandma's house to find her two aunts.
The family had just had breakfast, and before the table could be cleared, Huang Shengli, Zhao Jianshe and others came over with their belongings, followed by Zhou Changhe and Zhou Qingguo.
Xu Shiyan quickly went back to set up his car. When they were ready to set off, Yang Junxian rode over with his son.
Yang Junxian took Yang Haoyu out of the car, told his son to go to school with Xu Haiyuan and the others, and then smiled at Xu Shiyan.
"Last night Xiaoyu came home and said that the third brother is going to plant sticks in the mountain today. It just so happens that our family's work is finished, so I can help you plant ginseng."
Yang Junxian is now the deputy secretary of the first team. Despite the fact that the production team is too busy, there are actually many things to do.
But no matter how busy the team is, he still has to come to the Xu family to help.
The two families are related by marriage. Xu Shiyan and his wife have helped the Yang family so much. If the Xu family has work, they must come. This is a relationship of favor.
Xu Shiyan took a look and saw that Yang Jun was dressed like a working man. He also had a square plate, a shovel and so on on the bicycle rack.
Knowing that Yang Junxian had already prepared for this, he did not refuse.
In this way, Xu Shiyan drove the carriage, pulling Zhou Changhe, Xu Chenghou, ginseng seeds, ginseng seeds, and household items for work.
The other people all rode their bicycles ahead of them and headed directly to the Nantianmen Ginseng Field.
Nantianmen is a place name because the two walls of the mountain are towering, and about fifty meters in the middle is a platform that drops suddenly.
From a distance, it looks like a huge heavenly door is opening on the horizon.
On the west side of Tianmen, there is a huge stone shaped like a human figure, as if the gatekeeper remains motionless. On the east side, the rolling hills look like a ferocious tiger, entrenched on the top of the mountain.
Therefore, the locals named this place Nantianmen.
The headquarters of the Third Brigade is located in a forest south of Nantianmen, not too close to Donggang.
Xu Shiyan drove away from home at half past six, and it was almost eight o'clock when he arrived.
Zhou Qingguo and others were riding fast and had arrived a long time ago. They had already used tools to level the surface of the pond, and they were just waiting for Xu Shiyan and others to start planting ginseng as soon as they arrived.
There are a total of thirty feet of ginseng soil, and nine people are working on it. Isn’t that quick?
Zhou Changhe was responsible for planting the seeds in the pool, Xu Chenghou handed over the seeds, and Xu Shiyan was responsible for sowing the seeds.
The rest of the people stood together, digging the soil with shovels and starting to plant ginseng.
The family of Xu Shiyan and Xu Chenghou, a family of seven, has a total of thirty-seven feet and a half of soil.
In order to distinguish the half-foot from others, we could only pick a ditch in the middle, which was useless, leaving only thirty-seven feet.
Ten feet of ginseng seeds were scattered among them, and the remaining twenty-seven feet were planted with ginseng.
The main reason is that there are not enough ginseng seeds, so we can only sow more ginseng seeds. After a few years of development, we can plant more ginseng.
Zhao Jianshe and others are strong young men who work quickly. For them, 27 feet of soil is simply a piece of cake.
Everyone started working together, and at one o'clock in the afternoon, the work was finished. So they packed up everything that needed to be done in the ginseng field, took their belongings with them, and drove the carriage back.
It was less than three o'clock when they got home. Zhou Guilan, Su Anfang and Su Anhua, who had taken leave, had already started working in the kitchen.
No matter whose house someone comes to work for, they must provide delicious hospitality.
Zhou Guilan sent Su Anfang to Songjianghe early in the morning to buy meat and cooked food.
"Young, you're back so soon? Wash your hands quickly and go sit in the house. The food will be ready soon."
When Zhou Guilan saw everyone coming back, she hurriedly greeted everyone into the room to sit down and rest.
After boiling the water here, we took out the teapot, poured some tea leaves, and took it to the east room. We also found a cigarette and gave it to everyone to smoke as they pleased.
Anyone who can come to help with the work is not an outsider, and they are all polite. They can smoke when they need to, and drink tea when they need to.
Everyone sat in the room chatting for a while, and soon the food and wine were all placed. They were all hungry, so no one was polite and hurriedly sat down to eat.
"Come here, pour it all, whether you can drink it or not, it doesn't matter how much it means, it doesn't matter if you drink less, it will relieve your fatigue."
Xu Shiyan took the wine bottle and poured wine for everyone.
"Changhe, let's drink this, it's hot. At our age, we shouldn't compare ourselves with the younger ones.
They dare to drink something cold, let’s drink something warm.”
Xu Chenghou took the scalded wine flask and poured it for Zhou Zhanghe.
Older people are still the old-fashioned way. When drinking white wine, you must boil it, no matter it’s hot or cold.
But the young man didn't care about that, he just wanted to pick up the bottle and drink it directly.