At Li Shanhu's house in Laoshu Village, several people in the family look much better than they did a few months ago.
Slowly some rosiness can be seen on the sallow face.
Because the eldest son Li Zhiyong is in the Eighth Route Army and has become a squad leader. The family can earn almost thirty kilograms of sweet potato flour every month by buying sweet potato flour for neighbors, which can be enough to exchange for fifteen kilograms of white flour.
With food in hand, the family can have enough to eat, and they can also have a meal of pork, cabbage and vermicelli stew every ten days and a half.
In previous years, before the autumn harvest, it was the most difficult period of the year. Almost every day, I could eat half grains and half vegetables to fill my stomach, and I could hardly eat any refined grains.
This year is just the opposite. Not only do you not have to worry about going hungry, but you can also eat a meal of whole grains every day.
As the head of the family, Li Shanhu knew that these changes were brought to him by the Eighth Route Army.
Therefore, when Li Zhiyong went home to visit relatives twice, he would tell him that he would work hard in the Eighth Route Army and repay this kindness.
"Uncle Li, are you at home?"
At this moment, the voice of the village guerrilla leader rang out from the gate of the courtyard.
"Here... I'm at home!" Li Shanhu quickly opened the courtyard door and welcomed the guerrilla leader in!
"Uncle Li, isn't it almost the autumn harvest? I'm here to ask if anyone in your family needs help. Zhiyong is in the army and will definitely not have time to come back!"
Li Shanhu was a contented man and quickly refused: "I can't trouble you Eighth Route Army anymore. If it weren't for you Eighth Route Army, we would definitely cook wild vegetables and cereals every day to satisfy our hunger. How could we live such a good life now and have a good meal every day?"
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"I specially set aside dozens of kilograms of fine crops to eat during the autumn harvest. My family has a total of seventeen acres of land and four laborers. As long as we have a full stomach, we can harvest all the food in the field in ten days at most!"
"Okay!" the guerrilla leader continued.
"One more thing: The superiors have just issued an order. After the autumn harvest, the Japanese will definitely raid the base areas to grab food. We, the Eighth Route Army, are not opponents yet, so our guerrillas will definitely take everyone into the mountains and hide in advance to protect everyone.
The devil’s poisonous hand!”
"But there is too much food and it's heavy. It's too troublesome to move it all together. So our superiors asked us to mobilize everyone to dig cellars at home. We can dig more, either in the yard or in the house, and collect the food."
Hide all the food to prevent it from being snatched away by the little devils!"
Li Shanhu's eyes lit up and he replied: "Digging a cellar is a good idea!"
"Hide the food scattered in the ground. Even if the devils come, they won't be able to find it. The food is still ours!"
"To put it another way, even if the Japanese find one of the cellars, the remaining food will still be fine."
"We'll start digging soon. I want to dig out four cellars!"
The guerrilla leader continued to remind: "The location of the cellar must be chosen well, especially the entrance and exit. It must be hidden... It does not need to be too big, but it must be deep enough to hide food. If it is not possible, just buy a few large tanks and bring them back.
Just put the grain in a jar or bury it directly in the ground!"
"In addition, there is a mountain behind our village. You can also choose a location in the back mountain that only you know, dig a cellar, and hide part of the food directly in the mountain. That will be safer!"
The next day, all the courtyard doors in the entire village were closed tightly, and every household hid in their homes and dug cellars.
The soil is piled in the yard to be transported out of the village after dark.
A few days later, people entered the back mountain one after another, searching all over the mountains and plains for slopes suitable for digging cellars.
In order to preserve the fruits of their half-year's labor and to keep their families from going hungry for the next year, every citizen in the base area worked very hard.
Dig a cellar whenever you have time.
Twenty days later, Li Shanhu successfully dug two cellars in the yard, one in the house and one in the back hill. Together, they can store at least two thousand kilograms of grain!
"My dear, let's have a good meal tonight and start harvesting wheat tomorrow. The wheat in the first three acres of land in the east of the village has turned yellow. Try to collect it all in two days and then dry it in the cellar!" Li Shanhu said with a smile on his lips.
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The autumn harvest is a day that every ordinary person looks forward to, and it is rare for my wife to have a smile on her face.
"Okay, I'll listen to you and start harvesting wheat tomorrow!"
A large area of golden wheat ears indicates that Lingqiu will definitely have a good harvest this year. With a wave of the sickle, a large handful of wheat is cut down.
After piling them into a bundle, Li Shanhu immediately tied them together with the prepared straw ropes and started carrying two bundles home.
When it gets dark, the wheat has piled up into a hill in the yard!
After a simple dinner, the whole family started threshing the grains by hand.
Under the moonlight, we were busy until early in the morning, and all the wheat was threshed!
"How much does the head of the family weigh in total?" Seeing Li Shanhu start weighing, his wife asked eagerly.
"The wet weight is 520 kilograms. This is the harvest from two acres of land. The average wet weight of wheat harvested per acre is 260 kilograms. After drying, it will be at least 180 kilograms!"
The wife was so frightened that she fell to the ground and it took her a long time to react.
"Did you calculate correctly? It's really one hundred and eighty pounds?"
"I remember that when farming was the best, we only harvested 150 kilograms per acre!"
Li Shanhu thought for a moment and replied: "It must be the effect of those fertilizers!"
"Do you still remember that the Eighth Route Army asked us to make soil and fertilizer ourselves before spring plowing? All seventeen acres of our land were planted!"
The wife looked suddenly enlightened and exclaimed: "I didn't expect those soil fertilizers to be really useful. I seem to have heard that wheat straw can also be used for retting. The boss said that this year's wheat straw cannot be burned. After the farming season is over, we will start crushing it and use it all for retting.
Next year we will use twice as much soil and fertilizer, and the food yield will definitely be higher!"
"Master, please stop for a moment and let me do the math!"
"One hundred and eighty jins of wheat are given to 30 jins of public grain, and the rest is all our own. One hundred jins can be used to grind more than 70 jins of flour, and one hundred and fifty jins of wheat can be used to grind almost 120 jins of flour, which is enough for one person.
The person has been eating it for more than three months!”
"Our family has seventeen acres of land. If we add it all up, we can produce two thousand kilograms of white flour."
Li Shanhu shook his head and replied: "At least 2,100 kilograms. Don't forget, the boss is in the Eighth Route Army. Our family can still save two hundred kilograms of public grain!"
"Hiss, hiss..."
The wife looked shocked and shouted: "There are only four people in our family who need to eat 2,100 kilograms of white flour. Even if we eat white flour every day, we can last for a year!"
"Master, pinch me to see if I'm dreaming!"
Li Shanhu was also shocked at first, with a smile on his face.
But as the head of the family, he is obviously calmer than his wife.
He shook his head and replied: "The four of us can't eat that much."
"It's too luxurious to eat white flour every day. We usually eat some whole grains and sweet potato flour mixed with it. At most, 1,200 kilograms of white flour will be enough for us to last for a year!"
"Part of the remaining grain will be saved, and part will be exchanged for some money to repair the house at home, then make clothes for everyone, and buy some pork for everyone to make up for it. Have a good year this year!"
"Don't forget, in addition to these seventeen acres of wheat fields, we also planted four acres of sweet potatoes in the back mountains."
"The yield of sweet potatoes is high, so the harvest will definitely be good. I keep some for my own use, and I estimate that the rest can be sold to the Eighth Route Army for 4,000 kilograms, or 400 kilograms for wheat!"
The smile on my wife’s face grew wider: “I almost forgot about those acres of sloping land!”
"We can also buy a few chickens by then, and we can eat eggs after they are laid!"
When Li Shanhu and his family began to look forward to the future in the face of a great harvest, the Japanese and puppet troops in Lingqiu City were also paying attention to this autumn harvest.
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