Reborn before the famine, kicking away the scumbag's family and living a carefree life.

87. Harvest

"Later I discovered that you don't necessarily have to go to school to learn knowledge. As long as you are willing to work hard, there are schools everywhere in life."

"So after the divorce, I figured many things out, and when I looked away from that home, I saw a much wider world."

Jin Gui: "That's so true. As long as you're willing to work hard, life is a school. Aru, you're so wise. I think Qi Zhengyang is a fool. He's blind to the truth, mistaking a treasure for a fish eye and a fish eye for a treasure."

"Although he had attended school for a few days and knew a few words, he couldn't tell the difference between good and bad, fragrant and foul."

Twenty-three days after the Lunar New Year, the sweet potatoes and potatoes that the people of the third production team of Daben Township had carefully nurtured for two months were ready for harvest.

That day, Zhang Jingui, along with several county leaders and all the village cadres from Daben Township, went to the fields.

Cut off the sweet potato vines, peel back the top layer of soil, and you'll find a dense cluster of sweet potatoes.

Dig it open again, and there's another nest.

Potatoes are the same. Under a potato tree, a bunch of big, round potatoes look like big golden beans to people who have been starving for a long time.

Everyone was incredibly excited to see the plump, large, and disease-free sweet potatoes and potatoes being dug out of the soil in clusters.

Members from other production teams in Daben Township also came to watch, and some even couldn't help but help dig up the grain.

Seeing that more and more villagers were coming to watch the excitement, Jin Gui immediately instructed Township Head Wang to convene an emergency meeting, asking him to organize all the production teams in Daben Township to meet and prepare to start planting the next day.

The scene of harvesting grain in the fields was exciting. Every time the soil under a vine was dug up, everyone couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. Never before had they experienced a year of hunger and seen so much gratifying grain.

From seven in the morning until six in the evening, they worked tirelessly and excitedly, shoveling and digging until all the grain was harvested, at which point they breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the mountains of grain, everyone rejoiced in their hearts, knowing they would never go hungry again.

They weighed the grain on the spot.

A total of more than 2,000 tons of sweet potatoes and more than 2,000 tons of potatoes were harvested.

Just as Su Jinru said, the average yield of the 1,000 mu of land is more than 8,000 jin per mu.

Both grains matured four months earlier, and their yields were more than double that of the previous ones.

Moreover, both sweet potatoes and potatoes are uniform in size, large in size, without scars or pests, and smooth all over, which is quite pleasing.

Considering that the villagers, who had been starving for a long time, were extremely weak and unable to work, they were given a reason to take action.

That very evening, all production teams in Daben Township resumed using their collective canteens.

Each person received three ounces of sweet potato.

That night, all the villagers in Daben Township were too excited to sleep; the hunger that had plagued them for a year was about to be over.

The members of the third production team thought they could finally have enough to eat, but the team leader told them that each person would have two meals a day, with two ounces of grain per meal.

The team leader said that there were still people starving in other places, and many people were starving to death every day. The reason why their production team was able to grow grain was because the county government mobilized all the resources in the county to let them eat first and grow grain first. Therefore, this grain should be used to help other production teams and members of other townships.

In those two months, many more people starved to death in other townships and production teams. Their third production team carried the entrustment and hopes of the entire county.

They lived up to expectations, producing early-maturing, high-yield grains, which opened up a new situation for solving the disaster in the county.

The third production team must continue its efforts for another two months to achieve high grain yields. Only when everyone in the county can eat and no one starves to death can they realize their dream of having enough to eat.

Although I was unwilling, four ounces of grain a day was enough to barely fill my stomach, and at least I didn't have to worry about starving to death.

Thinking that many people in other villages were still in a state of extreme hunger, they were grateful that their production team had produced a deputy county head, Zhang Jingui, who was among the first to escape the brink of starvation.

Nanyang County has a total of 18 townships. The grain harvested by the third production team of Daben Township was distributed to the other production teams in Daben Township, as well as to the four nearby townships.

Another portion is supplied to government agencies and institutions.

This means that in Nanyang County, there are still thirteen townships where people are struggling with hunger.

It is estimated that if the grain harvested in the next two-month planting season in these five townships that already have food and seeds is successful, it will be able to cover the most basic food and seeds for the entire Nanyang County.

To ensure high grain yields, the county government organized staff from the county agricultural technology station to learn techniques from the third production team of Daben Township, and then went down to various townships and production teams to provide guidance. Each production team strictly followed the standards for planting.

The staff at the agricultural technology station were quite surprised to see that the technician for the production team in Daben Township was Su Jinru.

The peasant woman who had humbly sought their advice before has now transformed into their teacher.

However, Su Jinru was humble, easy-going, and approachable, and she shared her planting techniques with them without reservation.

At the same time, a technical training course was held, with each township and each production team sending two people to learn.

County Chief Zhang specially approved Su Jinru as a formal employee of the county agricultural technology station, which means that she will receive a salary from now on. However, her work location is in Daben Township, where she is a technical instructor, and she eats in the township government's collective canteen.

At this point, someone started making sarcastic remarks.

"Why should someone who has never been to school be a technician? Why shouldn't she have to do farm work? Why should she be a permanent employee?"

This is Du Mei's voice.

Originally, Du Mei had already gotten her wish and was with Qi Zhengyang. She thought that Qi Zhengyang's ex-wife had nothing to do with her anymore and could not affect her life.

But she was wrong. Ever since she got together with Qi Zhengyang, he often compared her to Su Jinru, saying things like, "How could you do this? If it were Su Jinru, she would do this or that."

When they were starving during the famine, Qi Zhengyang said that if Su Jinru were there, she would go find food. Later, his brother-in-law and sister-in-law starved to death. Qi Zhengyang wanted to take the children to live with them, but she disagreed. Qi Zhengyang said that if it were Su Jinru, she would definitely take good care of the children.

Because of this, Du Mei and Qi Zhengyang argued many times. On one occasion, Du Mei even threatened Qi Zhengyang that if he mentioned Su Jinru to her again, she would be rude to him and would use a broom to beat his older brother's children out of the house and never let them in again.