After entering December, the temperature suddenly jumped off a cliff, forcing everyone at home to take out all their cloaks, and all men, women, and children were wrapped up tightly.
There is a piece of tiger skin at home. Xiao Xiaocheng has always wanted to buy this tiger skin. It would be so awesome if he could make a tiger skin hat and wear it on his head!
Every time this kid comes up with the idea of this tiger skin, he is always opposed by his family, especially the beating from his own mother. This tiger skin was bought by Liang Chuan with his life. It is also a symbol of identity and courage, which can make people Is this naughty kid so wasteful?
Xiao Xiaocheng suffered a meal of stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots from his own mother, and in the end he had no choice but to seek help from his aunt Zheng Ruoying, who loved him the most. Zheng Ruoying was in a really good mood recently, and she couldn't help but be so careful that her mouth felt as if it had been smeared with honey. He went to the Zheng's tailor shop in Fengshan to make a tiger skin hat with velvet.
Of course, only the tiger skin pattern is similar.
It's not that Xiaocheng likes to play, it's just too cold on the mountain. The boy would run up the mountain with a bow and arrow every day before dawn, and learn archery from his master Liang Shiguang. Liang Shiguang didn't teach him anything practical, and just repeated a few things every day. Draw a bow, shoot an arrow, that's it.
The north wind was so cold that the little guy's ears felt like they were going to fall off every day. He could tolerate other parts of his body, but his earlobes were really uncomfortable. The pain was so painful that it stretched all the way to his brain nerves, making it difficult for him to concentrate. concentrated.
Xiao Xiaocheng originally thought that Liang Shiguang's magical skills were innate. After careful questioning, Liang Shiguang told him a very helpless answer. He brought nothing from his mother's womb. Back then, because he didn't have enough to eat, he had to go out to forage for food every day. He only had a bow and arrows around him. His greedy mouth allowed him to develop good archery skills!
Later, when he entered the military camp, he became even more crazy. He practiced archery every day until his hand lost strength. It took more than ten years of hard work to develop this archery skill that he could do at will.
Of course, there is a prerequisite for practicing archery, which is good eyesight. This is really a blessing from God. Liang Xiaocheng inherited his father's excellent genes, and his eyes can see like day even in the dark. Liang Shiguang just wanted to satisfy Liang Chuan at the beginning. request, but he found that this kid was crazy. He practiced archery even harder than he did back then, and his foundation was quite good. Whether it was strength, concentration, or even the most important eyesight, he was the best he had ever seen. !
The little guy's first demonstration of archery was shooting a bird.
Liang Shiguang knows best what level of bird shooting he is! There are three realms in archery. The first level is shooting geese. The wild geese are fat and clumsy. They are always full of food when they return south. Excellent hunters can shoot them down, but ordinary people cannot.
The second level is shooting sparrows. Sparrows are small and flexible. They shuttle in the forest and flee quickly when there is any disturbance. To shoot them, precision and strength are indispensable.
Xiao Xiaocheng is only five years old! At this level, Liang Shiguang was so shocked when he saw him using the bamboo bow to knock down the sparrows in the forest, and then setting up a fire to roast them until they were sizzling with oil. The first bite was to honor his master, and his jaw almost dropped. On the ground!
Five years old, he might not be able to draw a bow at this age!
This is more than a hundred times stronger than when he was young. This good young man was born for archery. The two met like a long drought. Liang Shiguang couldn't speak, but his eyes were full of love for Liang Xiaocheng, and he couldn't help but feel like a child. Liang Xiaocheng’s sigh!
As for the third level, it is the shooting of the eagle. The golden eagle soars in the nine heavens, its wings are as hard as iron stone, and its movements are as fast as lightning. To shoot this kind of divine object cannot be accomplished without a magic arrow. To achieve this achievement, in archery It can be said that this is one of a kind!
Liang Shiguang had never shot an eagle, and he had never seen an eagle, but he had seen a lot of eagles. .
As for the legendary archers, such as Li Guang shooting the tiger, they are already legendary immortal figures.
Archery training in winter is most beneficial. When it's cold, your hands tremble and your body trembles, and the accuracy of your arrows is greatly affected. Xiao Xiaocheng can wear very little, but his ears really can't withstand the caress of the north wind, so he gave birth to a baby early. frostbite.
Xiaocheng has a tiger skin hat, and Zhixing will follow suit. There is also Shiliu. Although she is a little girl, she is as tiger-like as a boy. Although she is sensible and well-behaved, a girl from northern Shaanxi can be the head of the family. The little girl has been born early. Out of this temperament.
As soon as the north wind arrives, the sugar cane in the field reaches its peak sugar content. Break one off and take a sip, it will be sweet to the heart.
It’s finally time for the family to get busy, harvesting sugar cane!
Liang Chuan couldn't remember what it was like to harvest sugar cane after being outside for so long, but he vaguely remembered that he was tired and rested at home for a long time after the first crop of sweet juice was made into brown sugar. Now he is slightly scared when he thinks about it.
Not only Liang Chuan, but also several women in the family feel like they are facing a formidable enemy every year at this time. Liang Chuan did not notice anything was wrong at home at first, until his wife told him that Fan Dianyuan and his entourage came to report that the sugar cane in the fields was When the harvest was almost ready, he realized that it was the time of year to make a fortune again.
Yi Niang called Li Chuyi. Li Chuyi is now the happiest person in this old house. He lives a comfortable life and his daughter is filial to him. There is no more fighting and killing in the world, and he has become kind-hearted.
"Brother Li may bother you to go to the mountain to call for help again!"
Li Chu nodded and knew what he was going to do.
Liang Chuan didn't know and asked blankly: "Who are you calling?"
Li Chuyi didn't even reply to Liang Chuan's words, so he took a hatchet, some clothes, and some charcoal to take to the mountain to give to Song Hua's old mother, so he entered the mountain lightly dressed.
Going into the mountains at this time is not a fun thing. The wild animals in the mountains are the most hungry during this season and are at their most ferocious!
Yi Niang sighed and said, "Look at how many sugar cane fields we have on the north coast now!"
Liang Chuan was stunned. He had never thought about this problem before.
Now Liang Chuan wants to talk about the importance of things. Even if sugar cane is a hammer, how can it be ranked high? He has one thing after another, so he has no time to deal with bullshit sugar cane.
"There are almost 8,000 acres of sugar cane... If people in the south coast also switch to sugar cane next year, it may exceed 10,000 acres."
Since Fengshan has had waterwheels made by Liangchuan, they have copied them one after another. They can deliver water not only to the dry land at the foot of the mountain, but also to the middle of the hillside!
The waterwheel brought about huge changes in agriculture. If it had been a few years earlier, there would have been no dry land on the north coast, and all of it would have been converted into paddy fields.
But since Liangchuan introduced sugar cane, the Liang family harvested it no matter how much sugar cane they had! The price of sugarcane is much higher than that of millet. In comparison, who would grow millet anymore? If you lose, you will die!
More than eight thousand acres!
This number is a bit astonishing, and Liang Chuan can't believe that there is so much land on the north coast.
Liang Chuan looked around and saw that all the people on the entire North Bank were either growing sugar cane or sweet potatoes, and not a single family was growing food, not even wheat.
The sugar cane fields are so high that it is very easy for people to get lost while walking in the fields. If there were no ridges and ditches to guide the way, you might not be able to get out of there for a whole day!
"Is there no one cutting sugar cane?" Liang Chuan looked at the field, there were almost no people there!
He should have thought of this problem earlier!
Yi Niang sighed and said: "From this time every year to March of the next year, it is the season for the sugar cane to mature. Now we Fengshan people call this the sugarcane season!"
"When you went overseas, we didn't grow much sugar cane, so we could bear the hard work. The key was that it was not easy to make money at that time. When we saw how expensive the sugar was, we felt it was worth it no matter how tired we were. Now our mentality is different!"
"What a different approach!"
Liang Chuan didn't want to hear any bad comments about the local people. He didn't want to believe that these people had fallen so fast. In just a few years, every villager seemed to have changed. They seemed to be indolent and indolent. The atmosphere exists!
Yi Niang glanced at Liang Chuan and whispered: "It seems you should have guessed that just like sweet potatoes, the common people have grown sugar cane, but they are not willing to cut it!"
Cutting sugar cane is an extremely arduous job. Although the knife is sharpened and a sugar cane is broken with one cut, there are almost more than three thousand sugar cane in one acre of land. Not to mention cutting, it means wielding a hatchet for three thousand. Five hundred times, the arm will feel like it is filled with lead, and it will be too heavy to lift!
After cutting, they have to be tied into bundles. Ten canes are tied into a bundle, which weighs almost dozens of kilograms. The sugar cane is carried from the field to the door of Wangxiang's house in Liangchuan. The nearest one is several miles away, and the far one is dozens of miles away. There’s no end to it!
Those who have oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages are fine, but those who don’t have a bunch of them can make people spurt blood! This is not a small matter of a bundle of sugar cane, this is a hard work covering thousands of acres and hundreds of thousands of sugar cane!
Starting from December, all work in the bamboo weaving workshops has stopped. The women in the workshops do nothing else but one thing, which is to help press sugar cane.
The process of boiling sugar is one of Fengshan's top secrets and has not yet been disclosed to the villagers. All the villagers can help with is some simple manual work. We borrowed the collective farming cattle from the academy’s field. There were more than a dozen sugar reels and sugar presses in the sugar mill, and they never stopped turning from the moment they started!
Li Chu went up the mountain to attract cane cutters.
In the first two years after sugar cane was planted, people in Fengshan were full of enthusiasm for cutting sugar cane. Later, they found it difficult to endure such hard work, so they spent money to hire many people from other places to cut sugar cane. In addition to the labor, they were able to earn a lot of money. , this business is such a good deal, the people of Fengshan simply look for someone to hire at the intersection of Fengshan Market every year. As long as the two parties can get along, the job will be taken over by outsiders!
There are many farmers from northern Shaanxi on the mountain. This time of year is the most leisure time. Li Chuyi’s arrival makes them most happy because they can make money!
Liang Chuan never thought that this damn thing could develop into an industry. Isn't it the same as going to the border to pick cotton or go to Shanxi to dig coal? Don’t think that these two kinds of work are dirty and worthless. Anyway, these workers are now mechanized and their annual salary is high!
