Chapter 258 Autumn Harvest Begins 2

Feng Qingxue also wore a broad-brimmed bamboo hat, a gray long-sleeved shirt and black pants.

The bamboo hat made of oil paper sandwiched between bamboo strips can protect against the sun and rain.

Wang Dachun shouted and everyone started working.

First, the sweet potato vines were cut, the vines were transported away, the ground was dried, and then the sweet potatoes were dug.

Wang Dachun immediately arranged strong laborers to drive cattle to plow the empty land after the sweet potatoes were dug, and women followed to sow wheat seeds.

There was a lot of work, but everything was done in an orderly manner, presenting a scene of bustling activity.

Feng Qingxue held the production team's personnel list in his hand and called the roll first, but he did not record the work points for everyone early in the morning. Instead, based on a day's inspection, only those who did the most and the best farm work on that day were given ten work points, regardless of gender. For example, Miao Fengqin and Wang Dachun's brothers and sisters-in-law did not work less, while those who liked to be lazy and worked less, such as Wang Jiao, were only given six work points.

In this regard, Wang Zhengguo managed extremely strictly.

Therefore, he needed to inspect the situation of all production teams, and he would go to the fields to work in the intervals between inspections, so as to prevent the team leader and accountant from being partial to each other and giving high work points to relatives and friends, and low work points to illiterate people.

Most of the people were illiterate, and because the production team leader was in charge of everything, they could only swallow their anger.

Wang Zhengguo's approach was supported by many people.

Bending over to cut sweet potato vines is not an easy job. After bending over for a long time, everyone will have backaches. They have to stand up and pat their waists to continue working. If they don't take advantage of the good weather to harvest the crops quickly, do they have to wait until the weather is bad to go to the fields?

Digging sweet potatoes is also a technical job. Those with good skills can dig the sweet potatoes out of the soil intact without damaging the sweet potatoes. Some people don't know how to control the weight of their hands. When they rake down, the sweet potatoes are dug out and their skin and flesh are also injured.

Once the sweet potatoes are injured, they will inevitably get soil on them, which naturally looks unclean.

The dug sweet potatoes were transported to the field with bamboo baskets and dung dustpans. Since spring sweet potatoes are used for slicing and food, all of them, regardless of size, were sliced ​​with a sweet potato planer and evenly spread on the open space where the sweet potatoes had been transported and wheat had been planted, and dried in the wind.

The soil is neither dry nor wet now, which is conducive to digging sweet potatoes and planting wheat, although the soil moisture is slightly lower than the standard for planting wheat.

The entire production brigade has a total of more than 6,000 acres of land, and a production team has about 500 acres. The work is tight and there can be no delay. Who knows whether the next weather will be stormy or sunny? If it rains heavily, it will be impossible to dig sweet potatoes and plant wheat for a long time. If it doesn't rain, it will not be conducive to digging sweet potatoes, let alone planting wheat.

Therefore, even if the humidity is not enough, wheat should be planted quickly.

The land where wheat has been planted is a natural place for drying sweet potato slices. Some sweet potato slices are dried on the spot. If there is not enough space, they are transported to the ground where they have been milled and spread out.

The dark brown soil and the white sweet potato slices form a clear contrast.

The sweet potato planer used to make sweet potato slices is a rectangular wooden board about 80-90 cm long, 20-30 cm wide, and 3-4 cm thick. There is a cut in the middle of the board, and a piece of very sharp iron is fixed under the cut.

Most women and older men are doing the work of making sweet potato slices.

They sit in front of piles of sweet potatoes, with the sweet potato planer placed between their legs in front of them, in a slope, high at the top and low at the bottom. They hold a sweet potato in their hands and slide down the sweet potato planer, which is cut into slices by the iron sheet and falls directly from the cut in the middle of the board.

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I am not feeling well due to a cold, so I will update two chapters first, and the remaining two chapters will be updated in the afternoon or evening.