Chapter 132 Walking up Along the River

Everyone was talking and squirming forward little by little with the convoy.

Han Li also looked at the grain station in front of him. The entire grain station was surrounded by high brick and mud walls.

(The south should be called grain management office, the north should be called grain station, and the city should be called grain supply station.)

There are many slogans written on the wall, such as: The grain station is a friend of farmers and serves everyone with heart.

Grain production is stable and the country is prosperous.

Food is the product of farmers’ sweat and they share the country’s prosperity.

Food security and national prosperity.

Food is the foundation of the country, so protect every grain.

At this time, Han Li heard a villager in the team behind him speak very loudly. He was talking about the situation of the grain station to the educated youth in his village in a showy tone.

"Let me tell you, this grain station was built in 1957 by the state to facilitate the people's tax collection. The tall walls outside are nothing. There are several tall earthen dome warehouses inside, and there is a There are rows of brick and tile houses. This round barn has a great origin. It was invented in Mingshui, Heilongjiang Province. It saves raw materials, has good airtightness, is convenient for pest control, has good ventilation performance, and is not susceptible to moisture. The advantage is that it was quickly adopted across the country after it was invented. Since the commune has a grain station, we no longer have to deliver grain to the county town, which saves a lot of effort. "

At this time, the convoy from Shanghe Village had arrived at the entrance of the grain station, and the topic of conversation among the surrounding villagers became the workers here again.

In this era, those who can work at the grain station are in positions that are envied by everyone, with good remuneration and high social status, even if they are given to a small leader.

Especially the grain inspector when delivering public grain. Whether the grain can be put into the warehouse and what grade it should be put into the warehouse depends on his experience. If it is not qualified, he will tell you to take it back to dry again. Or show off again...

However, things are going relatively smoothly here in Shanghe Village. Village Chief Zhao has a good relationship with the director of their grain station. The relationship between the two people when they talk to the side will naturally make the people below look at each other and do things.

But when Han Li saw the legendary food inspector's actions, he almost suffered internal injuries. He was not far away from the food inspector now, and he couldn't laugh loudly, which made it a bit hard for him to endure. , Yun Yingying asked after seeing his shaking shoulders.

"Han Li, what's wrong with you?"

"Look."

Han Li pointed at the grain inspector gently with his hand, and saw him stabbing into the sack with a triangular iron drill, taking out some grain, pinching a few grains with his hand, looking at them, and then put them in his mouth. After taking a bite, he spits the grain to the ground and tells the grain grade and dryness and humidity.

Han Li even pointed out the target to Yun Yingying, but she still didn't see anything funny about it.

"I didn't see anything."

Han Li whispered: "Do you know why the food inspector covers his cheeks from time to time?"

"have no idea."

"You know how hard the dried grain is. Nowadays, the grain inspector has to work at least ten hours a day. During these hours, he has to keep biting the dried grain. For such a long time, let alone Even if a squirrel comes, I probably won’t be able to bear it. He will cover his cheeks from time to time, which means that his teeth are a little bit unable to bear it, but he has to bite, otherwise he will receive some Substandard grain is a big problem. If the grain in the entire granary becomes hot and moldy, he simply cannot bear the entire responsibility."

While they were talking, it was Shanghe Village’s turn to weigh.

After being weighed, the grains need to be put into their respective granaries. This process requires the villagers to carry it in themselves, and the grain station will not care about this.

Due to the characteristics of the earthen round silo, the door below the granary is locked, and all grain needs to be entered through the window above.

The wooden boards of the grain station are used to build a long pedal, which is connected from the ground to the window of the granary.

A wooden trough similar to a funnel is placed at the window, and everyone pours grain into the trough by stepping on the wooden board.

Since this board is only about 20 working points wide, I really can’t do this job if I have poor balance skills.

Of course, women can't do it either. They help untie the bag from below and lend a hand when the man puts the bag on his shoulder.

Shanghe Village has connections with Village Chief Zhao, and they sent all the grain into the granary before morning.

If you want to go back at this time, just follow everyone back. If you want to go shopping in the commune, just talk to the captain.

Han Li and the others had just been to the county town a few days ago, and now they were covered in stinky sweat, so they went back with the large army.

It was more relaxed when we went back, and everyone was talking and laughing along the way.

Hao Hongmin and the others were discussing how to go up the mountain to collect firewood and wild fruits together after returning. It would be best to pick more hazelnuts. These things can be used as food. Naturally, the Yun family sisters also wanted to go with them. Yun Yingying came over. When he asked Han Li to come with him, he was rejected.

"I won't go to the mountains with you today. After I go back, I plan to walk upstream along the small river next to the village. I heard from the villagers that there is a large pool upstream, and big fish weighing more than ten kilograms are common there. ”

"Then how can you catch fish if you don't have a fishing rod or net?"

"I just went to explore the way this time. If it is true, I will take you fishing with me next time."

"Then you come back early and be careful on the road."

"Well, I guess I'll get home later if I have something to gain, so don't wait for me and don't say anything."

"This... won't be dangerous, right?"

"How can my skills be dangerous?"

The group chatted and quickly finished the ten-mile journey. Han Li went home, put the crossbow in the backpack and set off.

After Han Li walked for a while, Hao Hongmin and her group went up the mountain with the backpack and rope.

However, this time, their team added two more people when they just went out, Jiang Xiaoli and the old educated youth Li Hongxia.

Li Hongxia planned to visit her boyfriend after the food distribution, so she wanted to bring more mountain products, nuts and other things.

When Li Hongxia talked about her boyfriend, her eyebrows were flying, and the whole person seemed to be much more energetic.

Her boyfriend was also an educated youth, but he was the kind who had a salary, and he was a tall, rich and handsome man among the educated youth.

And they were educated youth who went to the countryside to work in the production team, and they were the poor and short educated youth.

There were not only collective canteens, supply and marketing cooperatives, clinics, post offices, power supply stations, etc. over there.

Even when working in the fields, there are all kinds of large agricultural machinery. There is also a home visit leave every two years, which is long enough for him to spend the Lantern Festival at home. And so on.

However, she said that the work on her boyfriend's side is quite heavy, and she will not stop to rest even if the autumn harvest is over.

The superiors will organize everyone to go up the mountain to cut trees or clean the river, and this situation will continue until the end of the year.

Li Hongxia showed off the situation on her boyfriend's side, and the others felt uncomfortable facing the third, sixth, and ninth levels.

However, they still have an excuse to comfort themselves at this time, that is, they can hibernate for a long time, and when they can go home to visit their relatives next year, according to the situation of working in the fields here, they can rest at home for a longer time.

In theory, Jiang Xiaoli can also go home, but she chose to go later. She still wanted to wait for the news of the quota for the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University.

At this time, she was reluctant to go home unless she got the confirmed news.

At this time, it was not just them who went up the mountain. The sisters-in-law, aunts and half-grown children in the village were all going out.

The adults' task was to find food rations, and the children's task was to collect firewood.

Han Li kept walking up along the river. It was more like going out for autumn than hunting.

Everywhere was a scene of autumn wind sweeping fallen leaves. Not only were there golden fallen leaves everywhere, but even the grass by the river began to turn yellow.

Han Li seemed to be walking casually, but he was not idle at all.

Last time, he didn't have time to fry the pine nuts, so this time pine nuts were also one of his main targets.

But the pine tree was too high, far beyond his ability of ten meters. Climbing a tree? How could a tree of twenty or thirty meters be so easy to climb? If you are not careful, you will be finished. Moreover, climbing a tree is particularly wasteful of clothes. This is why the locals rarely thought of pine nuts in recent years. Even in the future, collecting pine nuts is not an easy job, otherwise no one would take a hot air balloon to pick pine nuts on the tree.

So Han Li set his sights on squirrels. Squirrels are good at storage. A three or four-year-old squirrel can easily store hundreds of kilograms of nuts.

Along the way, Han Li dug several tree holes where squirrels stored nuts, and obtained more than ten kilograms of pine nuts, hazelnuts, pecans, and chestnuts.

Han Li was walking when he suddenly found a group of ducks in the river in front of him.

Their heads and upper bodies are black, but their wings and lower bodies are white, which looks very beautiful.

This is the famous merganser. Although they are called mergansers, mergansers are authentic migratory birds like wild geese.

They go to the south to spend the winter every year, and will only fly back to breed in April or May of the following year.

Mergansers are a species that survived after the Tertiary Ice Age, and have a history of more than 10 million years.

It is said that in 1989, the number of their tribe was only 28 in the country.

Han Li looked at the distance between these beautiful mergansers and himself, and thought about the meat in his decomposition space and decided to let them go.

After letting this group of mergansers go, Han Li continued to walk upstream along the river, and collected two large birch mushrooms on the way.

It was not until the sky gradually darkened that Han Li walked to a pond. He didn't know if this was the place the villagers said.

However, this did not affect Han Li's search for big fish. He sat on a protruding stone beside the pond and took out the fishing rod he had prepared long ago.

Although this thing was relatively simple and made by him, the barbs on the hook could ensure that the other party would not want to escape once they bit the hook.

PS: The next chapter will be a little later.

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