save the bachelors

Turn the new year and come to [-].

A drought came quietly in late spring and early summer.

It is not surprising that there is a drought in Bailuyuan.

Because this kind of thing happens almost every year in the original land, whether it is light or heavy, the price of water land is several times more expensive than that of dry land.

However, in previous years, the drought occurred every five, six, seven and three months. When the autumn rains continued in August, the drought would end.

But this year's drought started in April.

Because the drought came early, the wheat did not have time to fill the grain, so the yield was greatly reduced.

In previous years, more than 100 catties of wheat could be harvested from one mu of land, but this year it is less than half of that in previous years.

Originally, the villagers thought that after the rain, they could plant a second crop, such as millet, corn, sorghum, etc., but after waiting for two months, every day was sunny and thin, and the rattles were red. sun.

The only water on the ground was evaporated, the ground cracked, the river dried up, and the ground was as hard as a stone, no matter how fast a shovel could dig it.

Even the ponds that have never been dry in previous years are now completely dry.

By August [-]th, it was time to sow winter wheat, but God hadn't rained a single drop of water.

The folks really panicked now.If there is no time to plant winter wheat, there will be no hope for next year.

At this time, a large number of beggars and refugees have appeared in various counties and villages.

They are all harvested in summer and autumn, and there is no food at home, so they have to come out to beg.

The victims of the disaster are in groups, supporting the old and the young, leaving their homes and leaving their hometowns, stretching like a hungry dragon.

Wherever they went, leaves, bark, grass roots, and even Guanyin soil were eaten.

Countless people died of starvation, which can be seen everywhere on the roadside.

At the beginning, there were still people buried.Later, too many people died, and the remaining people had no strength, so no one even buried them.

Those corpses were all cheap wolves that came down from the mountain.

Because they ate a lot of meat, they multiplied quickly, and in winter, they were already in groups.

In broad daylight, they dare to run in groups on the plains, and they are not afraid of people when they see them.On the contrary, the lonely villagers often become food in their mouths.

At this time, people remembered Xiang Nan's prophecy two years ago.

"Two years of severe drought, half a year of locust plagues, and half a year of plague. Ten rooms and nine empties, mourning everywhere."

Almost all of them are now fulfilled.

"God, what a god~" Many people looked up to the sky and cried bitterly.He regretted not listening to Xiang Nan's words, so now his wife and children are separated and his family is ruined.

It's just that it's hard to buy regret medicine with money, and it's too late now.

……

Because of the drought, the summer grain harvest was poor, the autumn grain harvest was cut off, and the winter wheat was also gone.

Although it was the twelfth lunar month, a big snowfall finally fell, but it did not alleviate the drought, but froze the trees to death.

The common people can't see any life.

It's as if God didn't leave a way for the poor to live, blocking all ways of life.

The severe cold brought by the heavy snow is even more catastrophic for the villagers who are already short of food and clothing.

With the arrival of severe cold, more people died.

Dead bodies were carried out every day in the county town. In July and August, there were only a dozen dead bodies every day.In the twelfth lunar month, hundreds of people are carried out in one day.

Under such circumstances, food has become the most expensive luxury, and its price has skyrocketed.

In previous years, one ocean could buy two buckets of rice.Now ten yuan can't buy a bucket of rice.

In comparison, the prices of valuable fields, livestock, smoke soil, cotton cloth, wood, etc. have all plummeted.

Even the bride price for women has dropped by more than half.There are even those who don’t need money, give it away for free, and just ask for a stutter.

Xiang Nan stored several thousand shi of grain, which filled the main halls of the old ancestral temple.

"Hei Wa, if all these grains are sold, we can buy all of Bailuyuan." Lu San looked at the full grain and said to Xiang Nan with a smile.

Now the best fields in the original land can't be used for a few oceans, which makes him more and more admire his son's strength.

At the beginning, I didn't even buy an acre of land, but now I can buy the whole farmland.

"Da, these grains cannot be sold." Xiang Nan waved his hand and said, "Tell Uncle Jiaxuan to bring someone to fetch the grain."

Lu San was taken aback, then nodded.

……

Bai Jiaxuan arrived soon with his people.

Led by Lu San, they walked through the maze-like woods and entered the Ancestral Temple, and then they saw a lot of food, so much that it was about to overflow.

"Food~" Bai Xiaowu exclaimed, and immediately rushed forward.

He has not eaten refined grains for two months.

"Uncle Jiaxuan, according to the population of the village, three taels a day for those under 15 years old, and half a catty a day for those over 15 years old, you and Xiaowu will get it," Xiang Nan said.

"Hei Wa, I thank you on behalf of the villagers." After hearing this, Bai Jiaxuan couldn't help but kowtow to Xiang Nan.

In this year of catastrophe, food is more important than gold.This amount of food is enough to live a whole village, and it is enough for him to kowtow to Xiang Nan.

"Uncle Jiaxuan, please don't do this. I am also from the village. What is a mere grain?" Xiang Nan hurriedly supported him.

When Bai Jiaxuan heard this, he was even more moved.

Afterwards, the villagers began to distribute food.

Half a catty for an adult and three taels for a child. Although not much, it is already enough to survive.

"Fairy, living god~" The villagers were all moved.

Without Xiang Nan's relief, they would have gone out to beg in groups.

Therefore, they gathered outside the temple and knelt down in the direction of the ancestor temple.

"Uncle Jiaxuan, why is there no Xiaowen on the list?" Xiang Nan looked at the list of personnel summarized by Bai Jiaxuan and asked suspiciously.

"If you don't feed him, you'll starve to death." Bai Jiaxuan gritted his teeth.

"No, he is your son after all. Besides, if you don't give him food, he will be more likely to go astray." Xiang Nan persuaded.

Bai Jiaxuan still refused to nod.

Bai Xiaowen still doesn't know how to repent, not only didn't go to fetch his wife back, but also stayed with that little widow.

The two of them now live together openly and aboveboard, even tossing about in the house during the day, almost disgracing their Bai family's face.

He wished that his son would die sooner, and he would treat it as a stinky land.

Seeing this, Xiang Nan stopped trying to persuade him.

Bai Xiaowen is just a beast now, it's useless to save him, it will make him kill more people, so it's better not to save him.

"By the way, write down the names of the gentlemen of Bailu Academy." Xiang Nan said again.

When the Zhensong army surrounded Xi'an last year, Mr. Zhu invited a group of gentlemen to return to Bailuyuan to compile the county annals.Now that the entire Sanqin land is facing drought, they are naturally not immune.

In the play, it also happened that Mr. Zhu borrowed food from Bai Jiaxuan, but was rejected by Bai Jiaxuan.Because Bai Jiaxuan is the patriarch of Bailu Village, but Bailu Academy is outside Bailu Village.

As the patriarch, he can only take care of his own clansmen first, and he can only feel sorry for the old gentlemen of Bailu Academy.

But Xiang Nan knew that it was a great and meaningful thing for those gentlemen to compile the county annals, so he paid for the food.