Early the next morning, Li Laogen opened his sleepy eyes and put on a dress and got off the kang. Then he walked to the wooden bed next to him, pinched his son's chubby face, the little guy slept soundly, was harassed by Li Laogen and twisted a few times, took his fingers out of his mouth, turned over and fell asleep.

Li Laogen smiled, then got dressed and walked out of the house. At this time, the sky was already bright, and in the quiet village, smoke rose from every house, and from time to time there was a noisy sound of chickens and dogs barking.

The woman carried the water into the courtyard from outside, smiled shyly at Li Laogen, and then came to the side of the water tank. Li Laogen walked over, picked up the wooden bucket full of water, poured the water into the water tank, and then picked up the wooden bucket and walked out of the yard, while the woman came to the stove, lifted the lid and brought the steaming breakfast in the pot to the table in the house.

After the two finished breakfast, Li Laogen picked up the hoe and walked out of the yard to start his new day. The woman finished her housework, carried the child on her back, and then walked out of the yard with her head on her head and a huge wooden basin.

Everywhere in North Korea, women can be seen carrying water or other items in rubble urns on their heads. Although they carry heavy loads on their heads, they all have wind under their feet, and the most amazing thing is that no matter what they are on, they rarely use their hands to hold it, but few of them fall off. Because they have developed excellent balance skills since childhood.

When the women came to the entrance of the village, there were already a few Korean women waiting for them with wooden basins on their heads. Every few days they get together and take the family's local products, usually eggs, kimchi, or something. Go to the nearby market and exchange it for some daily necessities for your family.

There was a bazaar near each detachment headquarters in the eastern Liaodong region, which was established by the company to facilitate the surrounding peasant households to trade with each other. In fact, it is a flat land, a simple place enclosed by a wooden fence.

In each bazaar there is a company supply and marketing cooperative, which sells all kinds of groceries from the Far East. Although the shop is not big, it has a lot of things. From needles, threads, scissors, kitchen knives, to iron pots, water tanks, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. It can be said that it has everything.

Farmers in eastern Liaodong rarely use their own grain, eggs, and various local products to trade in a bartering way. The purpose of the company to open this kind of daily grocery supply and marketing cooperatives in various places is not for the purpose of profit. The main purpose is to meet the needs of rural households.

Of course, farmers can also trade their local products with other farmers. Stalls were set up in the bazaar, where farmers put their local produce on the ground, and farmers could trade freely, usually in barter, and there were rarely legal tender work sub-votes in the Far East.

Farmers do not have to pay taxes to set up stalls here, but in order to ensure that the interests of farmers are not violated, no one can buy and sell here, and they must abide by the rules and regulations here. There are special chengguan personnel to maintain order here.

These Korean women were also snatched from North Korea by the natives of the Northeast and married into Liaodong immigrants in this village. Several women chatted happily as they walked out of the village. These uprooted women, in each other's familiar native accents, talk about the men and children in the family, or talk about the crops in each family's fields. As well as trivial things such as chickens and ducks in the yard.

Anyone can tell that they are content with their current lives. Everyone deliberately ignored the hardships they had experienced and tried to look forward to a better life in the future. They hope to have more children with their men, and then look forward to the children growing up slowly, and when they are old, they can also enjoy the days of the next children and grandchildren.

With a large number of Ming refugees being transported to various parts of Liaodong, there is a problem of more men and fewer women. Always bothering the company. After solving the problem of food and clothing, the peasant households who enjoy the policy of guaranteeing production to households have begun to look forward to marrying a woman, giving birth to a large number of children, and enjoying a few acres of land. A cow, a beautiful life for a wife and children to warm the kang.

Immigrants from all over the Ming Dynasty generally have the problem of more men and fewer women. forced the company to find a way from Korea and Japan, and also found a large number of single Mongolian women to marry many Liaodong farmers. Even the young indigenous women of Nanyang have brought in a lot. In the end, the single problem of a group of migrant farmers in eastern Liaodong was finally solved.

However, there are still quite a few migrant farmers who are facing the dilemma of not being able to marry their daughters-in-law. The Far East is making preparations to immigrate women from the Ming Dynasty, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia, and even later in several regions such as Ceylon, India, and the Middle East. Within a few years, we will strive to completely solve the problem of the imbalance between men and women in the Far East.

Autumn is the harvest season for farmers, and all parts of Liaodong are beginning to be busy nervously. At this time, all the farmers mobilize as a family. After a year of hard work, all the farmers are looking forward to the arrival of the autumn harvest, and the grain from the field is their lifeblood.

Before dawn, Li Laogen and his family got up, they had a simple breakfast, and then drove the ox cart out of the village and walked towards their cornfield. At this time, smoke was rising from every household in the village, and many farmers were already busy working in the fields.

Every season, the corn in all parts of Liaodong has entered the maturity period, and there are patches of corn fields everywhere, and you can't see the edge at a glance. The thick corn stalks were thinned, the fat corn leaves drooped down, and the lush dark green became scorched and yellow.

The two of them came to their cornfield and worked hard. Although there is not much corn in a few acres of land, the two of them are busy, and they still seem thin. But this season, the excitement of the harvest is always more than the hard work. After harvesting a few acres of corn, the next thing is to harvest potatoes, anyway, these days can be busy.

They brought dry rations, and at noon they had to deal with them in the fields, and they had to work until dark before they could go home. Their children were tied behind the woman's back, and they kept shaking and swaying as the woman worked.

By evening, when the ox cart was full of ripe corn cobs, the two men drove the ox cart home. Dinner is just around the corner, because there's still a lot of work to do.

The corn cobs are unloaded from the bullock cart, cleaned up, and dried in front of the house. Corn is the best decoration of the farmhouse this season. They occupy almost all the places like yards, eaves, etc. The golden and yellow colors make people clearly feel the joy of harvest.

Although corn does not look expensive, it has always been regarded as a treasure by farmers.

At present, corn is the main food crop in eastern Liaodong, and almost everyone regards corn as the staple food of the main meal. If you walk all over Liaodong, you will find that the most common things on the dining table of peasant households are cornmeal cakes and corn porridge.

In addition, young corn at the milk maturity stage can be boiled, roasted and fried. Sweet corn stalks can be nibbled as sugar cane. Corn leaves and husks are used to feed cattle, which is the corn cob left after the corn kernels are cleaned, and it is also the fuel for the fire in winter. It is no exaggeration to say that corn is a treasure all over it. (To be continued......)

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