In Li Shanhu's house in Laoshu Village, compared with a few months ago, the faces of several people in the family are obviously much better.

Some rosiness can be seen slowly on the sallow face.

Because the eldest son Li Zhiyong was in the Eighth Route Army, and he also became a squad leader. The whole family can earn almost 30 catties of sweet potato flour every month by buying sweet potato flour for neighbors, which is enough to exchange for 15 catties of white flour.

With food in hand, the family can have enough to eat, and every ten days and half a month, they can also eat a meal of pork and cabbage stewed vermicelli.

In previous years, before the autumn harvest, it was the most difficult of the year, and almost every day I was half a grain and half wild vegetables to fill my stomach, and I could hardly eat fine grains.

This year, on the contrary, not only did I not have to worry about going hungry, but I was able to eat a fine meal every day.

As the head of the family, Li Shanhu knew that these changes were brought about by the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, when Li Zhiyong went home twice to visit relatives, he would explain it again, work hard in the Eighth Route Army, and repay this kindness.

"Uncle Li, are you at home?"

At this moment, the voice of the village guerrilla leader sounded at the gate of the courtyard.

"In ...... I am home! Li Shanhu hurriedly opened the courtyard door and welcomed the guerrilla captain in!

"Uncle Li, isn't this about an autumn harvest? I'm here to ask if your family needs help, Zhiyong is in the army, and he definitely won't have time to come back! ”

Li Shanhu was a contented person, and quickly refused: "I can't trouble you Eighth Route Army anymore." If it weren't for your Eighth Route Army, we would definitely be boiling wild vegetables and grains every day to satisfy our hunger, where would we be able to live such a good life now, and we can still eat a good meal every day! ”

"I specially set aside dozens of catties to eat during the autumn harvest, my family has a total of seventeen acres of land, there are four laborers, as long as I have a full stomach, I can collect all the grain in the field in ten days at most!"

"That's fine!" The guerrilla leader continued.

"There is one more thing: the superiors have just given an order, after the autumn harvest, the devils will definitely sweep the base areas and grab grain, and we are not opponents of the Eighth Route Army, so when the time comes, our guerrillas will definitely take everyone into the mountains to hide in advance to protect everyone from the poisonous hands of the devils!"

"But there is too much food, and it is heavy, and it is too troublesome to transfer it together. Therefore, the superiors asked us to mobilize the big guys to dig cellars in their own homes, and we can dig a few more, both in the yard and in the house, and hide all the grain we have collected, so as not to be snatched away by the little devils! ”

Li Shanhu's eyes lit up and replied: "Dig the cellar, a good way!" ”

"Scatter the grain and hide it in the ground, even if the devil comes, you can't find it, the food is still our own!"

"Take 10,000 steps back, even if the devil finds one of the cellars, the rest of the grain will be fine."

"We'll start digging in a minute, I'm going to dig four cellars out!"

The guerrilla leader continued: "The location of the cellar must be chosen well, especially the entrances and exits, and they must be hidden...... It doesn't need to be too big, but it must be deep enough to hide the grain. It's really not okay to buy a few large vats and come back, put the grain in the jar, and bury it directly in the ground! ”

"In addition, there is a big mountain behind our village, you can also choose a location in the back mountain that only you know and dig a cellar out, and hide some of the grain directly in the mountain, then it will be safer!"

The next day, the whole village was closed, and every family was hiding in their homes digging cellars.

The dirt was piled up in the yard and transported out of the village after dark.

A few days later, people entered the back mountain one after another, looking for slopes suitable for digging cellars.

In order to keep the fruits of his labor for half a year, and to keep his family from going hungry for the next year, every ordinary person in the base area is working very hard.

Dig the cellar whenever you have time.

Twenty days later, Li Shanhu successfully dug two cellars in the yard, one in the house, and one in the back mountain, all of which add up to at least 2,000 catties of grain!

"the kid, we have a good meal tonight, and we will start harvesting wheat tomorrow, the wheat in the three acres of land in the east of the village is already yellow, and we will try to take it back in two days, and then dry it in the cellar!" Li Shanhu said with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

The autumn harvest is a day that everyone is looking forward to, and it is rare for his wife to show a smile on her face.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, and the wheat harvest will start tomorrow!"

A large field of golden ears of wheat indicates that Lingqiu will definitely have a good harvest this year, and with a swing of a sickle, a large handful of wheat has been cut.

After piling up into a bundle, Li Shanhu immediately tied them together with the prepared straw rope, and began to carry the bundle home in a group of two.

When it gets dark, the wheat is already piled up in the yard into a hill!

After a brief dinner, the family started threshing by hand.

Under the moonlight, it was busy until the early hours of the morning, and all the wheat was threshed!

"How much does it weigh?" Seeing Li Shanhu start to weigh, his wife asked eagerly.

"The wet weight is five hundred and twenty catties, which is the harvest of two acres of land, and the average wet weight of wheat per mu is two hundred and sixty catties, and there are at least one hundred and eighty catties after drying!"

The wife was so frightened that she sat on the ground, and it took a long time to react.

"You're not miscalculated? Is there really a hundred and eighty pounds? ”

"I remember that when farming was the best harvest, it was only 150 catties per acre!"

Li Shanhu thought for a moment and replied: "It must be the effect of those fertilizers!" ”

"Do you still remember that before spring ploughing, the Eighth Route Army asked us to make soil and fertilizer by ourselves, and all of our seventeen acres of land were released!"

The wife suddenly realized and exclaimed, "I didn't expect those soil fertilizers to be really useful." I seem to have heard that wheat straw can also be used as fertilizer. In charge, this year's wheat grass can not be burned, we will start to crush it after the farm is busy, all used for fertilizer, next year we will use more than double the soil fertilizer, the grain yield will definitely be higher! ”

"Stop first, let me do the math!"

"One hundred and eighty pounds of wheat and thirty pounds of grain, and the rest is all our own. One hundred catties can grind more than 70 catties of flour, and one hundred and fifty catties of wheat can grind 120 catties of flour, which is enough for one person to eat for more than three months! ”

"Our family has seventeen acres of land, and all of them add up to two thousand catties of white flour?"

Li Shanhu shook his head and replied: "At least two thousand and one hundred catties, don't forget, the boss is the Eighth Route Army, and our family can still waive two hundred catties of public food!" ”

"Hiss ......"

The wife exclaimed in shock: "Two thousand and one hundred catties of white noodles, there are only four people in our family to eat, even if we eat white noodles at once, we can eat for a year!" ”

"Boss, you pinch me to see if I'm dreaming!"

Li Shanhu was also shocked at first, with a smile on his face.

But as the head of the family, he is obviously calmer than his wife.

Shaking his head, he replied, "The four of us can't eat that much." ”

"Eating white noodles at once, that's too luxurious, usually mixed with some coarse grains, sweet potato flour, at most 1,200 catties of white noodles is enough for us to eat for a year!"

"Save part of the rest of the food, exchange some money, repair the house at home, and then make a dress for everyone, and buy some pork to make up for everyone by the way, and have a good year this year!"

"Don't forget, in addition to these seventeen acres of wheat fields, we also planted four acres of sweet potatoes in the back mountain."

"The sweet potato yield is high, and the harvest is definitely good. Leave some for your own use, I estimate that the rest can be sold for 4,000 catties of the Eighth Route Army, and if it is exchanged for wheat, it will be 400 catties! ”

The smile on his wife's face became even stronger: "I almost forgot about those acres of slopes!" ”

"When the time comes, we can buy a few chickens and come back, and we can eat eggs after the eggs are laid!"

When Li Shanhu's family began to look forward to the future in the face of a bumper harvest, the Japanese puppet army in Lingqiu City was also paying attention to this autumn harvest.

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