Snow in mid-October is not uncommon in pastoral areas, but it is not common in Yunshan County, which is close to agricultural areas.
The sudden flying snow caught everyone off guard, and also made many people frightened.
Fortunately, the county issued an order to start harvesting in advance, and at least the wheat, oats, millet and beans were recovered.
What is currently covered in the ground by heavy snow is either potatoes, beets, or corns. As long as the snow does not continue continuously, the impact will not be big.
If crops such as wheat or oats are covered in the ground now, the consequences will be really unimaginable, not to mention how much damage will be caused when the heavy snow overwhelms these crops.
The snow water alone will soak the food after it melts. If it is not disposed of in time, the food will either become moldy and rotten, or it will sprout and become inedible.
Fortunately, the snow did not last long. After the sun came out, the snow that was less than two inches thick melted to a large extent that day.
Although the impact of this snow is not particularly great, it has sounded the alarm to the local people. It is almost telling everyone that it is only a few days before the full freeze.
Therefore, after the snow melted, all the members of the various production teams in the county did not care about the mud on the ground. They all poured into the fields and worked day and night to harvest the remaining crops.
I have worked hard for a year, not just to pack more food so that the villagers can have a full meal.
It would be really annoying if it was covered in snow.
At this time, no one scolded the county leaders for their nonsense. Everyone knew that if the county had not allowed everyone to harvest crops more than ten days in advance, 80% of this year's mission grain would have been owed to the country.
In comparison, the situation in Babaoliang United Village is a little better.
Before the snowfall, there were 29,000 acres of cultivated land in the village. Except for less than 4,000 acres of corn that had not been harvested, basically all the remaining grains were returned to the warehouse.
More than 2,000 young and middle-aged men joined the battle, and the remaining corn was harvested within three days. Not even a corn pole was left.
At this point, all the crops in Babaoliang Lianhe Village have been harvested, except for the corn stalks that filled the courtyard that were brought back to the brigade headquarters.
The business in the fields is basically over, but the autumn harvest is not over yet.
On the one hand, they need to distribute food to the public, and they also need to sell love food to the country. More importantly, they need to distribute food and vegetables to more than 3,700 people in the entire Lianhe Village.
Originally, according to the agreed practice in the village, during the autumn harvest, grain was collected and distributed to the commune members at the same time.
Of course, this does not mean that all of them will be eliminated, but that they will be divided into groups according to the number of people.
In this way, everyone can eat new food as soon as possible, so that they will not go hungry while working.
Secondly, it can reduce the pressure of storing grain in the brigade headquarters. After all, if so much grain is stored in the brigade headquarters without any separation, the pressure will be really high!
But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. The idea was good, but God didn't like it.
During the following period, all the educated youth members of the commune were busy racing against God, and there was no time to distribute the grain. So, except for the 200 kilograms of summer oats each received at the beginning, none of the remaining grain was distributed.
This resulted in the entire united village brigade headquarters being full of grain. Almost all warehouses and empty houses contained either oats, wheat, or millet.
Because there is too much grain and not enough storage space, the recovered potatoes can only be piled in large fermentation tanks that are temporarily unused in the feed factory.
The main reason is that potatoes are afraid of the wind. They will turn green when the wind blows, and they taste numb and unpalatable.
The beetroots were not afraid of wind, rain or freezing, so they were all piled on the playground of the elementary school.
As for the corn sticks, they were all piled in the open air in the yard of the brigade headquarters because they had to wait for threshing.
In addition to food, the village has also planted more than a thousand acres of vegetables this year, mainly including Chinese cabbage, gray cabbage, large cabbage, carrots, white radish, mustard knots and gourd melon (pumpkin).
Since these vegetables have been collected for a few days, there has been no time to distribute them to the members.
So as soon as the work in the field was over, Wang Ping organized people to distribute the dishes to everyone because they couldn't be stored.
Subsequently, the village committee decided after discussion to start dividing dishes on the Double Ninth Festival.
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October 21st, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is the Double Ninth Festival!
Zhou Yang got up early in the morning. As soon as he heated up breakfast, Li Youwei also got dressed and came out.
She said while washing up: "Yesterday, the village announced that food will be distributed to various production teams today. Do you want to go and get it? If you don't have time, ask the elder brother to deliver it to us..."
"Don't bother brother, let me go over there. Brother has been crazy busy these days!" Zhou Yang said while lighting the fire.
"Okay, then I won't say hello to eldest brother!"
"good!"
In fact, even if Li Youwei didn't say anything, Zhou Yang planned to go to the brigade headquarters today, because besides dividing the dishes, he had more important things to do.
During this period, while the villagers were busy finishing the autumn harvest, Zhou Yang's eyes were always fixed on the capital.
He knew that in just these few days, something that would affect the future and destiny of millions of educated youth across the country was about to happen.
Yes, this is the resumption of the college entrance examination!
It has been two months since the science education symposium in early August, and during this period the discussion above on resuming the college entrance examination has continued.
After that symposium, the higher authorities instructed the State Education Commission twice to convene a national conference on enrollment in higher education institutions.
However, resuming the college entrance examination is far more difficult than originally expected. Especially when it comes to specific issues and implementation methods for resuming the college entrance examination, many leading cadres attending the meeting held on to their previous thinking inertia and could not agree on the same opinions.
The most important thing is that at present, all departments are doing too much and making many mistakes. One mistake may lead to being punished.
Therefore, many people are afraid of making mistakes and taking responsibility, so they hold the idea of not seeking merit but seeking no faults, and never dare to take a valuable step forward.
In this way, more than half a month has passed, and the meeting still has not made any progress.
In this way, it was not until the beginning of October that the higher-ups formally discussed and approved the admissions working document.
On October 12, the State Council approved two documents, the Ministry of Education’s “Opinions on the Enrollment of Colleges and Universities in 1977” and “Opinions on the Recruitment of Postgraduate Students in Colleges and Universities”, announcing the immediate resumption of the college entrance examination that year.
But this is just a decision from above to resume the college entrance examination. However, this news has not been conveyed to the lower levels.
Of course, the above may also be considering the critical stage of autumn harvest in the northern region, and I am worried that once this matter is announced, it will affect the autumn harvest.
Zhou Yang clearly remembered that the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination was officially announced on October 21.
At that time, major newspapers and news broadcasts across the country forwarded the news at the same time, spreading the news throughout the country like thunder on the ground.
Because of this, Zhou Yang had to come to the brigade headquarters today no matter what.
First of all, apart from the research institute, only the brigade headquarters has radios and televisions in the village. In addition, the village is sharing food today. As expected, all the educated youth members will come over.
At that time, as long as the radio is turned on, everyone can hear the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination, saving him the need to inform those people one by one.
So after eating breakfast and sending Wen Hui and Bao'er to school, Zhou Yang took Chen Beixuan straight to the brigade headquarters!
PS: The first chapter has been delivered!
