Seeds that are twice the size of sesame seeds occupy more than half an acre of land. When will she plant them?
"I want to ask for help! Mom, can the old ladies who are pinching dog buds with us do this job?"
The old man was about to give a stern look when he said with an innocent face: "Grandpa, didn't we agree to let me take care of things myself?"
The words he scolded his granddaughter were swallowed back before he could even leave his mouth.
"They are capable of what they do. How much do you want to pay them per day?"
Grandma You is very worried. She doesn’t know how much the cherry radishes on half an acre of land can be sold for! Now you have to spend money to hire labor.
"Twenty yuan a day, can you include a lunch with meat?" You Yu still had about 700 yuan left, and he was worried.
"The wages are quite right! Let your father cut a few more kilograms of meat, and I'll call them one by one. Isn't being idle at home also considered idle? Twenty-one days is a lot!"
The old lady didn't brag. She invited her old friends who pinched Goudi Ya for her one morning.
"Xiaoyu, if you have any work at home, come to us. We can do very good work that doesn't require physical effort!"
"Hahaha, as long as you have enough meat, I will do it for free!"
People's ears don't work as they get older, and their voices become louder and louder. Grandma You's old house suddenly became lively.
Grandpa You only took fifty yuan from his granddaughter and went to the city to cut meat and buy vegetables. He said that with this money, he could arrange food for her.
At around nine o'clock in the morning, the sun came out, and a group of old ladies shared the seeds and went to the ground laughing.
Squatting in the ridge that still smelled of feces, You Yu felt that her sense of smell had become numb as time passed.
The shallow ditches about five centimeters wide were dug by Grandpa You in advance.
Just bury the seeds gently along the shallow ditch.
"Mistresses, the distance between seeds should be at least a palm's width apart. Don't plant them too densely."
"A hand's breadth? I'm afraid it won't be enough!" Which family doesn't have radishes for half of their home in winter, and how can they not know how to grow radishes?
"My radish is very small, not the round radish in winter. You heard me right!"
"Little carrot? How small can it be?" Everyone became interested and asked questions.
"It's almost like a table tennis ball, a little bit bigger." You Yu said while gesturing the size, which aroused even greater enthusiasm from the old ladies.
"This is such a big idea, but it's not enough to fill the space between your teeth!" Tao Shen is just trying to get one mouthful? Will there be a settlement?
"It's said to be eaten raw or cold. I also heard from my classmates that whether it can be grown is another matter."
It's not that she's being modest. She didn't dare to be too optimistic during her first planting.
Grandma You took the lead and started planting neatly, nagging as she worked:
"If I hadn't seen her spend more than 100 yuan to buy seeds, I wouldn't have bothered to pay her any attention. I don't know if I can sell them even with the seed money and labor costs!"
You Yu was dumbfounded: Old lady, sixty yuan was obviously turned into more than one hundred yuan for you, but inflation is not such an inflation method!
"Are your radishes inlaid with gold? It costs more than 100 yuan to seed less than an acre of land? You two are really good at it!"
Everyone is doubtful. Who doesn’t grow vegetables? Who doesn’t want to buy seeds?
But it costs money to ask them to help. If you talk too much, won't you lose your job?
With a few shrewd moves, the topic was taken away.
Who is planning to have a baby this year or who has bought a house in the county? There really is no secret at all in Shiliba Village.
After working hard for half an hour, I planted a piece of land as big as a dustpan.
You Yu held her waist and looked at the sky: The seeds she bought have to be planted on her knees!
The old ladies invited were quite capable, and even though they kept gossiping, their subordinates were also unambiguous.
I planted most of them in the morning.
Grandma Zhuzhu also said plausibly: "We don't want to make a lot of money, we just want to work together to create a dragon gate array!"
You Yu: If we hadn’t pinched Goudi Ya together, I would have believed what you said! You won’t let anyone wipe out the wolfberry buds that weigh a penny.
Grandpa You spent fifty yuan to put together a table of dishes: cold pork liver, roasted duck with konjac, fried shredded pork with fungus, scrambled eggs with leeks, cabbage and vermicelli soup.
He didn't have the ability to cook big dishes, and he didn't delay Grandma You in her work.
The person who was called to be the cook at noon today was his eldest daughter, You Fengxian.
The aunt, who was chubby and had short ear-length hair and looked very similar to Grandma You, came to the field to call them home for dinner after she finished cooking.
"Auntie, thank you for your hard work! Didn't my father delay your family's business?" You Yu has a sense of ownership and throws good words at You Fengxian as if he doesn't want money.
"Why are you delaying? The business of roasted red potatoes is very bad now. They only sell two hundred catties a day. Your uncle can handle it all by himself." He looked very happy to be able to help her.
Looking at people, You Yu can immediately connect with the memory. When she recounts the history of her family's sufferings, she always takes her aunt with her.
The aunt is four years older than her father. She was born in 1955. Within a few years of good times, a younger brother was added to the family.
I also caught up with Xiliangguan, where my great-grandmother and great-grandfather disappeared in those three years.
"I can't eat enough! I'm hungry!" The two-year-old brother's appetite is like a bottomless pit and he cries all day long.
The aunt would secretly give half of the 2 taels of rice she received from the commune cafeteria to her brother every meal.
I was so hungry that my feet were swollen and I couldn't put on my shoes, so my grandma discovered it.
When I grew up, I had to help my grandma pull a bunch of pigweed before going to school every day, and I barely managed to finish elementary school.
The aunt is diligent and capable, and married her 24-year-old uncle Fang Hongbing at the age of twenty.
The Fang family is in Jiang County, and there are three brothers in the family.
The eldest uncle is the youngest son of the family, and his two brothers both work in a state-owned vegetable oil factory. When he graduated from junior high school, he caught up with the trend of educated youth going to the countryside and went to work as an educated youth in a very remote rural area in northern Sichuan.
It was not until 1975 that the family spent money to drag him down and transferred him back from the countryside where red potatoes were the staple food.
After the reform and opening up, the couple started selling roasted red potatoes in the county town.
A special large iron barrel oven is made by smearing mud inside the barrel and welding steel bars to the bottom third of the furnace.
The aunt is responsible for washing and steaming the red potatoes at home, and the eldest uncle is responsible for roasting and selling them.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the couple supported their son and daughter by selling roasted red potatoes for a few cents to a dime a pound.
In recent years, urbanites have had more snack styles, and the roasted red potato business has also plummeted.
After marrying her eldest daughter Fang Haiqin, she bought a house for her younger son Fang Xudong and started a family.
The couple is about to become grandparents, and they are still working hard to earn money for milk powder for their unborn grandson.
The host's food was good, and the old ladies ate happily.
With full enthusiasm, I finished planting the radishes in only three hours in the afternoon.
