Hard times have room

Chapter 90 Drought
More than half a month has passed, and the sun is still so big every day, and the sky is still so sunny.

It was not that there were no dark clouds in the middle, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. Only a few drops of water were sprinkled, and the ground was not completely wet. When the wind blew, the dark clouds were removed again, not to mention how irritating it was.

Fortunately, there is a Daqing River in Shanghe Village. Although the water level has dropped a lot, there is still water. Now some of the rice seedlings are heading. This water is absolutely indispensable.

Every day before dawn, the team leader would gather men, women and children from the village to go to the Daqing River to fetch water and irrigate the fields.

The paddy fields are irrigated every day to ensure that there is no shortage of water, and the sweet potato and corn fields are irrigated every two or three days, and they grow lush.

From 03:30 noon to 04:30 or [-]:[-] in the afternoon, the sun is the most vicious, villagers do not go to work, rest at home and recover.

Now the people in the village have more precise control over the grains. If you can mix wild vegetables with wild vegetables, the porridge will be thin as long as it can be thin. Anyone with a discerning eye will know that it is a disaster. It has not rained for so long, and the sun is shining every day. , I don't know how much this grain will be reduced.

Some elderly people in the family have already instructed their family members to go out and pick wild vegetables when they are not working. After they come back, they will be blanched and dried, and then put away in sacks. They are very busy.

The catastrophe more than ten years ago is still vivid in my mind, some lost their relatives, and those who are still alive now have experienced the feeling of being hungry and unable to stand it, so hungry that their stomach cramps, it's too uncomfortable. .

Watching his relatives lose weight and win, and finally turn into a skin and bones, until there is no breath, the living people numbly carry them to the back mountain, dig a hole, wrap them in a roll of grass mats and simply bury them. .

At that time, Shanghe Village was fine. At least some food was collected, and it was next to Daqingling. There was a mouthful of wild vegetables to eat. Not many people went there. They were all old people who couldn’t support it. live children.

But they were all living people living together in a village, and they were all gone as they watched helplessly. No one had any feelings or thoughts in their hearts.

Now, as soon as the ghost weather shows signs of this, the whole village is mobilized. Those who have the means go out to buy food and stock up on food, and those who don't have the means to stare at the grain in their vegetable garden and the wild vegetables in the back mountain.

They are not stupid, but very keen. They were originally people who depended on the sky for food and farming, but now they are unreliable, and they have to fight their lives to save some things.

Otherwise, there is really something wrong, and the money for the dead writing is useless, and it is not appropriate to eat or drink. In these days, nothing is important.

Bao Lin was also very busy during this time. As soon as she got home, she would go to the woods, bamboo forests or the mountains to find wild vegetables. She brought back everything she could eat, boiled it, dried it, and put it in a sackcloth bag and put it in the back room. Go inside the food box.

This box is two meters long, 1.5 meters wide, and 1.5 meters high. It is made of the few trees that were left when the house was built. It took two trees and cost three cents for handwork. made.

Now all the food that can be eaten at home is put in the grain box in the back room and locked with iron locks.

Some time ago, Su Hongying spent a huge sum of money to buy four iron locks. Now every room is locked, including the most important box for food.

The main reason is that the current weather looks really bad, she has few family members, those who go to work and those who go to school go to school. There is often no one at home, and she lives in a remote place, which leads to some people in the village and outside the village. Home is the best target to start with, so we have to guard against it!

Now that they are all locked, it is more reassuring. As long as there is no one at home, it is necessary to lock the house.

That night, Pauline was awakened by the rustling movement, thinking that something was wrong, there was a thief, but she saw her father mysteriously carrying a basket and went out at night.

Came back early the next morning, carrying a basket on his back and a sack in his hand.

Pauline flipped through it, and in the back basket were peas, broad beans and soybeans, which were freshly harvested and easy-to-keep legumes.

"Dad, where did you come from?" Pauline said, pointing to the thing he carried back.

"Where's your mother?" Wang Jiandang didn't answer, but instead asked Su Hongying.

"I'm still sleeping, I didn't see her get up." Although she was a little puzzled, Pauline replied obediently.

"Then go and wake your mother up, so that I don't have to tell her again later." Wang Jiandang said while sorting out the things in the basket without raising his head.

"Okay, wait a minute." In response, Pauline quickly went to her mother's room.

"What's the matter? Did your dad come back?" Su Hongying didn't sleep soundly either.

Wang Jiandang took all the money from her for buying things. She knew this, and after Wang Jiandang left, she was worried too!Can't sleep well.

"Well, my dad came back with food." Sure enough, both of the couple knew about buying food, but she was the only one who was hiding it.

The rustling sound finally stopped after a while, and then Su Hongying walked out of the room neatly dressed.

Su Hongying finally breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Wang Jiandang had brought back the items without incident. She walked quickly to the entrance of the main room, and carefully checked the items in the basket by the dim light coming from the door.

"Why are you only ordering so much? Is the black market food gone? Or is it too expensive?"

Before she went, she gave Wang Jiandang ten yuan, which was one-tenth of the family's total savings, and he could bring as much food as he could bring back.

But looking at it now, the food in the back basket is only about [-] kilograms. Although it looks like a lot, the family of three will only survive for two or three months. This amount of food obviously can't make her feel at ease.

She has suffered and suffered. In the catastrophe more than ten years ago, she watched her family separated one by one, but it was because she didn't eat and was hungry!
Now she will never allow this kind of thing to happen to her again. If it wasn't because the men had made an appointment this time, it was inconvenient for her to follow as a woman, then she would have to go with her wherever she was, that is, she would carry two extra backs. Thirty catties of grain would be good to come back, maybe, if it really got to the point, that little grain would be the life-saving food for their family.

"Well, the black market grain has risen to three times that of the previous black market grain. The coarse grain is already [-] jin, and the refined grain is said to have risen to one piece. It's really scary, and this is still in short supply. The black market in Hongxing Town, the grain There are not many people, but there are a lot of people who go there. We went early for this food, and several men squeezed in desperately to grab it."

"I guess, if it doesn't rain again, the price of food will rise again. At that time, five times, six times, ten times may appear. At that time, the food will not be affordable for us." Wang Jiandang looked at it. With this food, he said sadly.

"There are only [-] catties of grain at home now, which is still not enough. I don't know when it will rain this day. If it doesn't rain again, it is still a question of how much this grain can be harvested."

(End of this chapter)