Chapter 187 Planning for the second half of the year

Chapter 187 Planning for the second half of the year

Corn is not much tastier than potatoes, so the old village chief is not getting any advantage by exchanging corn for potatoes.

But most people in the village eat black flour, and corn is a coarse grain for them, which is the most worthwhile food to exchange - the rice was exchanged for black flour and coarse salt long ago and stored.

Moreover, corn flour is dry, so those who are willing to exchange it are not at a disadvantage, and they can even make some money.

The people who grow potatoes also understand this principle.

The old village chief motioned for everyone to be quiet, "I will keep enough potatoes for planting, and I will exchange the rest, but there are many people and land in the village, and my family alone is not enough.

Don't panic, there are other families in the village who have planted potatoes. I will count the number when I return to the village and exchange them together."

Before, the people in the village exchanged potatoes for Fan Jin's family as seeds, and planting a few acres was enough. The rest should be planted with corn, red beans, black beans, soybeans, peas, broad beans and other legumes.

It is different now. The paddy fields have no harvest this year, and no one knows what will happen in the next few years. Everyone just wants to plant as much as they can, and the most important thing is to ensure the family's food supply.

Shanshui Village does not have many good fields, but there is a lot of land. If all this land is used to plant potatoes, his family's potatoes will not be enough for seeds.

In addition to Fan Jin's family, there are six other families in the village who planted potatoes in the first batch.

These six families together barely have the same harvest as Fan Jin's family, but if each family is willing to exchange potatoes, each of the other families in the village can plant about ten acres of land.

Ten acres of land is not much for the land of the people in the village, but the potato yield is large. With the harvest of these ten acres of land, even the population of more than 20 people will not starve to death for the time being.

Father Xu, Uncle Wang, and Uncle Fan Qi who were present were all among the first batch of people who planted potatoes, and they were the ones who could make the final decision in the family.

They agreed on the spot to keep enough seeds for their family and exchange the rest!

In addition to Fan Jin, the largest surplus is Aunt Zhang and Aunt Li's family.

Aunt Li's husband's family and the old village chief are brothers. They will ask the old village chief for his opinion on all matters of the family. The old village chief can make the decision, so everyone is not worried.

Now only Aunt Zhang is left. We have to ask her opinion.

The crowd followed the old village chief and walked towards Aunt Zhang's house.

Aunt Zhang's new house moved to a new location and was built on the open space on the roadside leading to Fan Jinshuiqing's house.

Before they got close, they heard a noisy sound.

"You are my dear sister-in-law. My eldest brother is gone. How do you treat his only brother like this?"

"Your family grows potatoes and the harvest is good. You can't eat them all at home, so you give us some to eat. You calculate too clearly. Aren't you afraid that my eldest brother will look for you in your dreams at night!"

"You can't stop considering yourself a member of the Zhang family after my eldest brother dies! Are you still thinking about remarrying?"

There are only so many people in the village. Everyone sees them almost every day on weekdays. They immediately recognize that it is the voice of Baldy Zhang!

"You! Why didn't you tell me when your elder brother was selling his land?"

"Why didn't you tell me when I was dragging my children to borrow food everywhere because they were hungry?"

"Before, Mu Niu and Xiao Cao were sick with a high fever, and asked you to lend them some cornmeal to make porridge, but you refused. Why didn't you tell me?"

"Now my family has finally made a better living, and you come. Why, you come to ask for my food just because your land was damaged? But you don't even think about the fact that I don't even have a land!"

The villagers who followed the old village chief heard this. How could they not understand?

This bald man used to borrow money, but now he is asking for it directly.

But it is also possible that he was more restrained when he borrowed from other families in the past, but now that his sister-in-law's family is doing better, he comes directly to ask for it.

"Second uncle, you never thought of us when you had food in the past, but now that you don't have food, you think of my house first and ask for it. Don't you feel ashamed?!"

"Why did you scold your own uncle? Hey, you insulted your elders and made a scene. Who dares to marry you?"

"My uncle, how is this insulting your elders? Don't talk nonsense." Aunt Zhang was obviously anxious, and her voice was trembling.

Baldy Zhang immediately became angry, "I don't care! You must give me this potato today, otherwise I will go around the village and shout, let everyone know that you don't care about my eldest brother, and don't care about your husband's younger brother! Your nephew insulted your own uncle!"

"You don't need to tell us, we all know it."

The old voice came in a deep voice, and Baldy Zhang, who was facing away, froze all over.

He turned around slowly and saw the old village chief not far away and the huge crowd behind him.

"Zhang Baldy! We are all exchanging, or exchanging with corn flour, but you are so good, just asking for it directly!"

"How can you be so shameless! Bullying an orphan and a widow? Where was your uncle when we were living in hard times?"

"You keep calling me elder brother. If you want to be good to your elder brother, why didn't you stop him from gambling and selling his land?"

"Today, don't say that your nephew insults your uncle, even if you beat you up, I will pretend that I didn't see it!"

The last sentence reminded everyone, and they responded one after another: "Yes, I didn't see it either."

"I have poor eyesight for a long time, and I can't see anything clearly."

"I can have poor eyesight today!"

Golden Bull, Silver Bull, and Bronze Bull felt their blood boiling, clenched their fists and approached the short Baldy Zhang.

Aunt Zhang was afraid of ruining her son's reputation before. When the family was poor in the past, she was worried about the marriage of several children all day long. Now that she saw that she had a new house and food, it was not an unattainable dream to talk about marriage, so she naturally didn't dare to let her brother-in-law interfere.

Now that she heard the villagers say this, why should she worry?

At that moment, he wished he could do it himself and beat up his shameless brother-in-law.

Baldy Zhang was used to being shameless, so he didn't feel embarrassed at the moment. He smiled and said, "It's my fault, I shouldn't have done that!

I will go home and reflect on it behind closed doors. Don't bother me!"

After that, he ran away.

The people who stayed behind had to admit that they had never seen such a shameless person!

Ding Heli was also amazed.

This baldy Zhang is really flexible.

Aunt Zhang breathed a sigh of relief. After what happened today, she was not afraid of being controlled by her brother-in-law in the future. She turned to look at the old village chief and his group and asked curiously, "Old village chief, what are you doing here?"

It can't be that you just happened to come to her house to visit, right?

The old village chief told her about the potato exchange.

After listening, Aunt Zhang said cheerfully, "Well, what's the big deal for me? It's not worth your trip. Just come over if you are willing to exchange it!"

In the past, her family was reluctant to eat corn flour!

We planted a lot of potatoes this year, and we couldn't eat the rest after we had enough for planting. We could eat corn instead, and corn flour is dry and easy to store.

The most important thing is that we can plant more in the second half of the year and harvest more!

A group of people began to discuss how many acres of land they need to plant and how many potato seeds they need to plant.

By the way, I asked about the things to pay attention to when planting potatoes.

Sun Jinhua, who had returned home and entered the kitchen, packed a few black flour buns, wrapped them in cloth and handed them to Fan Qian: "Go to the wild boar den, there will be enough to eat."

Fan Qian took it silently, put it in his arms, and walked out of the village.