Feng Qingxue didn’t waste her chance to go out. After posting her items, she went to see Wu Zheng.
Wu Zheng confirmed that she was over two months pregnant but not yet three. Her pulse was steady, and she had ample qi and blood. She was in good condition. Wu Zheng also patiently answered all the questions she had from reading medical books under the lamp lately, including those about childbirth.
Before Feng Qingxue took her leave, Wu Zheng found a few old gynecology books left by famous doctors and gave them to her.
Among them, there was content about childbirth.
Feng Qingxue was overjoyed as if she had found a treasure.
The current level of medicine meant that she had to learn the ancient techniques of childbirth, how to deal with various issues before and after childbirth because methods like C-sections from the future could not possibly be available in the rural areas of this era.
As she left, Guan Cheng and Lu Tianjun, who were chatting on the carriage, said: "Aunty, it’s getting late, let’s go home."
Lu’s father was worried about Feng Qingxue going out alone, so he asked his grandsons to accompany her.
However, while Feng Qingxue was posting the items, they waited outside by the carriage and didn’t follow her in. This gave her the chance to take some grain from her basket. If they had been following her around, she would only have been able to send a thank you letter to Hu Ping and not any items.
Having company when going out had its advantages, but there were also downsides.
It’s inconvenient for her to take things out of her space to bring back home.
Feng Qingxue sighed in her heart. Luckily, when she had earlier explained to her family whom she was sending things to, she had doubled the number of items that Hu Ping had given her and added some of the special products from the northeast that she had in her space. Coupled with the fact that she could not eat well in front of others recently due to the busy harvest season, there was no need to take anything out from her space for a while.
It’s no wonder that the harvest season is busy. Everyone is busy with no spare time.
There were no agricultural machinery, not even a tractor. Everything relied on human labor and some animals. Thus, a lot of unthrashed corn ears piled up in the barn, but everyone still had a smile on their face.
A high yield of corn translates to a good harvest, which means they wouldn’t starve. No matter how busy they were, they were happy.
Wanglou Brigade also had paddy fields for rice cultivation. Their production team had a total of sixty acres of land. While the elderly, weak, women, and children continued to husk corn, the majority of people started to cut rice, bundle it, transport it to the field for drying. When it was almost dry, animals pulled the stone roller to separate the rice and straw. The straw was removed, and the rice continued to dry.
Luckily, before all the grains were stored, they only experienced a moderately heavy rain.
As soon as it started to turn cloudy, everyone, men, women, young and old, quickly packed up the grains that were drying in the field. Only a small amount of the last bit of grain to be collected got wet from the rain, but it didn’t affect much, so everyone considered it fortunate.
The staple food of Wanglou Brigade is coarse grain, sweet potatoes, corn; fine grains were used to pay public grain.
What can’t fill one’s stomach? One kilogram of fine grain can be exchanged for three or four kilograms of coarse grain. No one is so precious as to eat fine grain every meal.
They couldn’t pay all the public grain with fine grain; it needed to be a 7:3 ratio of coarse and fine grains.
So, while the elderly, weak, women, and children were still husking corn, Wang Zhengguo organized the strong men of each production team. They filled bags and baskets with the husked corn, prepared dried sweet potato, fresh sweet potato, and dried rice, in accordance to the quantity of public grain to be paid per area, and then transported them to the grain management office with mule carts, ox carts, donkey carts, push carts, flatbeds, bicycles, etc.
Feng Qingxue’s bicycle had also been borrowed to transport grain.
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