Xiaze Village is a small village in the mountainous area. There are 200 households in the village and a population of more than 700 people.

There are not many arable fields in the village. Even if some terraced fields were opened during the passion years, the total amount is only more than 200 acres of paddy fields, which is equivalent to one acre per family on average.

But the account cannot be calculated like this.

People are giving birth at this time, and families with five or six children are common.

But in some families, there is only one lonely old man, or the old couple set up a separate household and live separately from their children.

Therefore, it is obviously unfair for each household to be divided equally among the fields. It must be decided based on the number of people that each family can receive how many fields.

The Chen family suffered a big loss because Chen's father and mother had died long ago, and Chen Qi had passed the technical secondary school entrance examination and moved his household registration. Therefore, the Chen family could only be counted as a family of three, and they were finally allocated 7 points of land.

These seven fields are still terraced fields and are far away from the village. Naturally, the yield cannot be compared with the fertile fields by the stream.

The four sisters were walking on the road, and the silly elder sister looked unwilling:

"The village was so bullying when it divided the fields. The terraced fields given to our family were only 7 points. Later I went to the village and quarreled several times, so the village allotted an extra piece of mountain land to our family."

People in the mountains can not only divide the fields, but also divide the mountains. Anyway, there are huge mountains one after another, enough for the whole village to divide.

The silly eldest sister got an extra piece of mountain land than other families, and she was happy at first. Finally, after being reminded by the third grandma next door, she realized that she had suffered another hidden loss.

It turns out that there are also particularities in dividing mountainous areas.

The mountains in Xiaze Village are divided into three types, one is the moso bamboo forest, the other is the bayberry forest, and the third is the peach forest.

From a modern perspective, I believe that the vast majority of people will choose bayberry or peach grove, which are both delicious and easy to sell. If that doesn’t work, you can still have a farmhouse and make a fortune.

However, in 1981, the relevant people divided up the moso bamboo forest in advance, but no one cared about the bayberry forest and the water-tight peach forest.

Why?

It's very simple. People in the mountains generally rely on moso bamboo for food. Mao bamboo shoots, winter bamboo shoots, whip bamboo shoots, etc. can all be sold to supply and marketing cooperatives to make money.

Even if the fresh bamboo shoots cannot be sold, the supply and marketing cooperative will still collect the dried bamboo shoots. Some villagers who are more courageous will choose to sell them in Keqiao Town, making real money.

Not only bamboo shoots are profitable, but also chairs, stools, bamboo baskets, bamboo poles, brooms, etc. made of bamboo can be sold for money.

Therefore, to the people in the mountains, bamboo is a treasure that can be converted into cash. Everyone treats it like a treasure.

Xiaze Village is also famous for its bayberries and peaches

In a few decades, Xiaze bayberry and Mohu peach will become famous, and every year when the production season comes, suppliers will be waiting for them early.

But in 1981, these bayberries and peaches couldn't be sold at all, and the supply and marketing cooperatives were unwilling to accept them.

The reason is that Xiaze Village is too remote and there is no car connection. If you want to sell these fruits, after picking them, farmers have to carry a load to Keqiao Town.

It takes 5 hours to walk empty-handed, not to mention carrying hundreds of kilograms of stuff?

If they can make money, farmers will not be afraid of hard work.

The terrible thing is that bayberries and peaches are very delicate fruits and are not allowed to be touched at all. If you travel over mountains and ridges and carry poles and shoulders for several hours to transport them out of the mountains, most of the fruits will probably be rotten and cannot be sold.

For example, Mohu peaches are very sweet and the skin can be easily torn off. If you poke a hole in the peach with a toothpick and squeeze it with your hands, the juice will spurt out.

Such peaches are definitely "top quality", but such peaches are not suitable for long-distance transportation at all and cannot be sent beyond the mountains.

This is also the reason why Xingtang Supply and Marketing Cooperative is unwilling to purchase bayberries and peaches.

When these were shipped to the city, most of them were rotten. The people in the city were not stupid, so who would buy them? Then the supply and marketing cooperative would lose money to grandma’s family.

(Some readers will say that the more you eat crooked melons and rotten peaches, the more delicious they become. Ahem, don’t make excuses.)

Therefore, it is too hard for a child without a father or a mother. How simple the farmers are, how simple their thoughts are, how friendly they are, these are all written in novels.

Real farmers naturally have their "cunning",

Especially in this era when supplies are extremely scarce and everyone is generally poor, everyone is rushing to scoop into their own bowls, and will they actively give it to others?

Are there any fat people in the village? The most likely group is this group of people.

The Chen family is headed by the eldest sister, and the only close relatives are the second uncle and the second aunt. Unfortunately, the second aunt is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the second uncle is an ear-raker, so naturally no one can help the four Chen brothers and sisters fight for it.

Chen Qi was walking and listening to the eldest sister's nagging, feeling quite strange.

"Sister, even if we can't sell these peaches and bayberries, we can still eat them ourselves. Such delicious fruits are not available to city people even if they want to."

The silly elder sister burst into laughter:

"Of course peaches and bayberries are delicious, but if you eat them every day, I'm afraid you'll vomit. For example, if you eat too many bayberries, your teeth will become sore, and you can't even bite tofu the next day. Who dares to eat more?

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Besides, the peaches are really sweet and juicy, but if you eat too many peaches, you will suffer from acid reflux and diarrhea. Last time, the third grandmother next door was so hungry that she ate four peaches in one breath and almost died of diarrhea.

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Chen Qi thought of watching TV in his previous life. During the Chinese New Year one year, the TV station interviewed fishermen in Changdao, Shandong. The fishermen talked about how miserable they were before liberation and how happy they are now.

There is one episode that he remembers particularly clearly.

On the TV screen, an old man told reporters: "We fishermen were miserable before liberation. During the Chinese New Year, the landlords ate meat, and we poor people could only eat sea cucumbers and abalone."

Eating sea cucumber and abalone is actually a miserable life??

Chen Qi couldn’t figure it out at that time.

Now I understand that the mountains full of bayberries and peaches are rare fruits to city dwellers, but to farmers in the mountains, they are worthless.

Since it is "tasteless", let's give it to the helpless four siblings of the Chen family. Even if we give them an extra piece of fruit grove, the villagers won't have any objections. It just saves the silly elder sister from going to the village committee to quarrel every day.

But Chen Qi still doesn’t understand something:

"Sister, since we can't transport these peaches and bayberries, why are we planting these fruit trees in the village?"

"Where is this grown in the village? It was all grown by the landlords before liberation. The landlords were not short of money. I heard that the peaches were picked back then, all wrapped in cotton, and transported to Butou Village as quickly as possible.

, transport it by water to the city and sell it for a lot of money."

Well, it turns out that landowners can solve the transportation link, so they can transport peaches and bayberries and sell them for money. Now farmers don't have this condition, so they can only watch the fruits rot in the fields, too lazy to take care of them.

Of course, part of the reason is that farmers dare not go to the city to sell fruit for fear of being cut off by capitalism.
Chapter completed!