Every autumn harvest season, Far Eastern Group attaches great importance to it. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry basically went to the countryside to the front line of the field to inspect the autumn harvest situation in various places and teach farmers various precautions for autumn harvest. They will also randomly check the yield per mu of some peasant households, and make a rough estimate and analysis of this year's autumn harvest in eastern Liaodong in combination with the numbers of various aspects.

Grassroots cadres at all levels in the vast rural areas are even busier. They stayed at the detachment headquarters of each brigade every day, and even went down to the headquarters of each squadron to provide help to all the farmers who were carrying out the autumn harvest.

After a few days of hard work, the autumn harvest of Li Laogen's family is finally over. The corn had been dried, and the potatoes had gone down to the backyard cellar. But the work of the two is far from over.

Then they had to pay the rent to the Far East and the loan for the year. The proprietors are benevolent and righteous, they all come to collect grain, and they don't even need the farmers to take out the sacks of grain, which not only saves the farmers the pain of running around, but also saves the money of the sacks. But Li Laogen and his family still have to spend a lot of time threshing corn by hand in the past few days.

In order to survive the long winter of several months in eastern Liaodong, the two of them had to make adequate preparations, first of all, using corn stalks to make green storage feed for poultry and livestock. Corn straw silage is a kind of feed that is convenient for large storage and long-term preservation by sealing the green and juicy corn straw in the facility under the conditions of appropriate water content and sugar content, and using lactic acid to inhibit the reproduction and fermentation of bacteria, which has the characteristics of less forage nutrient loss, good palatability and high digestibility.

Peasant households in the Far East keep livestock, such as cattle, sheep, and pigs, as well as poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese, and the inability to solve the problem of feed for poultry and livestock in the long winter of several months in eastern Liaoning will bring a heavy burden to the peasant households in the vast rural areas of eastern Liaoning.

To this end, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the company vigorously promotes the method of making green storage feed in rural areas all over Liaodong. The method of making zuò silage is simple. Low cost. Moreover, the rural areas in eastern Liaoning are generally planted with corn, and corn straw itself is the best raw material for making green storage feed for cattle, sheep and pigs. The company will also provide farmers with some high-quality forage grasses such as alfalfa grass, which are also the best raw materials for making green storage feed for poultry such as chickens, ducks, geese and so on.

In this way, the majority of farmers can make simple silage trenches without paying any cost. Moreover, the technology of silage is relatively simple, which can be summarized as "chopping, compacting, and sealing".

Ordinary farmers only need to be taught by experts and technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Far East. You will be able to basically grasp the method of making zuò. Moreover, the number of poultry and livestock in the homes of the majority of farmers is relatively small, and the area of simple silage cellars for households is not large. But the process of making zuò green storage fodder is a very hard work, and the two of them have to get up early and work hard for a few days.

There is also the need to collect enough firewood for the whole winter before winter, fortunately, at this time, the vegetation in all parts of Liaodong is extremely rich, and a large number of dead dry firewood can be picked up in the woods casually, which is also an extremely hard work. Every time before winter, the yards of peasant houses in eastern Liaoning are stacked very high. And from the height of the firewood stacks of each family, you can judge whether the family is hardworking and willing to work.

Fortunately, Li Laogen and the North Korean girls at home are very capable, Li Laogen picks firewood outside every day, and in the courtyard in front of the house in winter, there are almost two stacks of firewood more than two people high. In addition, Li Laogen had to clean up the two grass houses before the winter, and the winter in Liaodong is not for fun, facing the severe cold of minus twenty or thirty degrees, even if there is a trace of wind leakage. Then this winter will be an old sin.

As early as more than a month ago, he used some surplus food from his family. In the grocery supply and marketing cooperatives in the bazaar, a few thick blankets and two new beds were replaced, and a few cotton curtains to block the doors and windows. Then fill the roof of the grass house with some hay, and then fill the yellow mud of the living weeds, and refill the earthen walls around the house, and make the two grass houses tight before winter.

The North Korean girls went to the wild to collect some wild fruits, and exchanged some small fish and shrimp, ginger, garlic and other seasonings in the market. There are also dried red peppers, cabbage, radishes and other autumn vegetables that are dried at home, and then a large amount of Korean kimchi is made using the method of the hometown.

She also uses fresh vegetables such as Chinese cabbage, radish, cowpeas, gourd strips, kidney beans, and cucumbers to dry a large amount of sun-dried vegetables before winter. Dried vegetables are scalded and soaked in boiling water before eating, and then cooked, fried and stewed. Although the vitamins in dried vegetables are not as good as fresh vegetables. However, minerals and trace elements are not lost by drying, and sun-dried vegetables have a taste that cannot be replaced by fresh vegetables.

The woman also learned the Han method of making zuò sauerkraut and pickles from a Liaodong girl next door, and exchanged the eggs saved at home for some jars and jars and large vats in the supply and marketing cooperatives of the market, and pickled a lot of sauerkraut and pickles. Of course, she also used the soybeans she exchanged for to make a few jars of sauce.

In addition, for the vast number of farmers in eastern Liaoning, the storage of autumn vegetables is also a big event, before winter, every household will store a large number of Chinese cabbage, potatoes and radishes in the vegetable cellar, which is also the only fresh vegetables that can be eaten in winter in alpine areas such as Liaodong.

There are also poultry and livestock in the yard that also need to overwinter, at least build a shelter to provide them with shelter from the wind and snow. Anyway, for the next month or so, the two of them kept busy without touching the ground.

When the first winter snow fell, the temperature in eastern Liaoning began to drop extremely. But Li Laogen's home is still as warm as spring. The stack of firewood is so high that their family's kang burns hot to the touch every day, enough for his family to burn until the spring of the next year.

The granary in the front yard is full of yellow corn cobs, and the walls of the house are covered with garlic braids, as well as bunches of dried red peppers and sun-dried vegetables. Next to the stove in the outhouse is a row of jars filled with pickles, pickles, and soy sauce, as well as two large jars of sauerkraut.

During the winter farming period, Li Laogen and his Korean ladies can also participate in various study classes organized by the squadron and brigade, as well as various colorful activities organized by the company's propaganda and education department. This winter, his North Korean girls will attend Chinese classes, and she will not stumble over simple Chinese at him every day in the coming year.

Every night falls, the two put the child to sleep, and then they begin to snap unscrupulously on the boiling hot kang...... They hope to have another child next year, and to have ten or eight more in the future.

They live such a dull life every day, repeating themselves over and over again, and they never tire of it. Maybe they don't know what love is, but they can walk hand in hand for a lifetime in this era, until they die.

In today's Liaodong, there are thousands of families like them, who get up early and work hard day and night. However, the hearts of all the peasant households in Liaodong who have been given land are full of hope...... (To be continued......)

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