Group pet small peasant girls: Escape the famine with the space of merit

Chapter 51 Planting medicinal herbs in the whole village
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Nuan Nuan, who did good deeds without leaving a name, followed several aunts up the mountain at this time. After walking around the mountain, there were half a basket of milk mushrooms and half a basket of big, red peaches in the back basket.

"It's the first time I've seen a wild fruit grow so big. What kind of wild fruit is it?" The old lady took a bite of the peach and said, "It's so sweet! The wild fruits picked on the mountain used to be bitter and astringent."

Holding the back basket, Luo laughed: "What kind of luck is Nuannuan? Every time I go up the mountain, I can pick these milk mushrooms. These are enough for our family to eat twice."

Everyone has long been accustomed to the good luck of Nuannuan, and just smiled after hearing it.

Luo Shi and Su Shi had just finished their lunch, when the half-covered courtyard door was pushed open forcefully, and the dusty Da Lang strode in.

"Erlang?" Luo Shi and the others were taken aback for a moment, and then said happily, "You're back!"

Before Erlang had time to speak, he saw Qin Yang and two yamen servants from Lianzhou follow him into the yard.

"I heard that there was a plague in Ping'an County?" Qin Yang asked anxiously.

Dalang Saburo exchanged glances, and quickly stood in front of Nuannuan.

"I wonder if Mr. Qin has heard about the refugees looting our village?" Da Lang asked with a smile.

Qin Yang thought about the plague in his heart, and his expression was a little dignified: "I've heard about this too."

"The refugees ransacked our village that night and injured people. We big guys had no choice but to use the 'plague' to frighten the refugees away. Please don't blame us, the magistrate and Mr. Qin." Da Lang bowed deeply to Qin Yang.

It means that the rumor of the plague was spread by the whole Xinqing'ao Village.

The law does not blame the public, and Dalang said this because he hoped that the magistrate would not pursue this matter for Nuan Nuan's love for digging wells for the people.

Qin Yang and the two yamen servants looked at each other.

Do you think those refugees were all scared and fled to Lianzhou?

Of course, no plague is a great thing!
Erlang raised his hand and wiped his face.

It scared him to death!

I thought there was really a plague in the village.

Luo shi added bowls and chopsticks to Qin Yang and the others, and the three sisters-in-law and Su shi squeezed into the table with the children.

After dinner, Qin Yang and others sat in the living room and talked.

After knowing what happened to Xinqing'ao Village, Qin Yang and the two yamen servants broke into a cold sweat for the people of Xinqing'ao Village.

"The whole village is so united, you will definitely be able to overcome this difficulty!"

If it weren't for the fact that the government office was running out of resources, he wanted to intercede for the folks in Xinqing'ao Village, so he asked the magistrate to help them with some food.

The Wen family is also confident: "Our life will definitely get better and better."

"Mr. Qin, is Lianzhou City still giving porridge to the refugees?" Nuan Nuan asked.

"It's Shi." Qin Yang said: "We have just settled down in the West Lin Kingdom for two years, and the people have not had time to recuperate and encounter a famine year. You are sympathetic to the people, and you can't bear the people to starve to death, and you are even more worried about the plague."

Wen Nuan became curious: "Mr. Qin, are there no people in Lianzhou City who starve to death?"

"How can people not starve to death in such a famine year?" Qin Yang didn't notice that Wen Nuan's expression changed slightly after hearing this, and continued with a sigh: "Before the porridge was served, every day outside Lianzhou City Some refugees died of starvation or disease, now a bowl of porridge every day, at least those refugees will not starve to death, but if they get sick, adults can do nothing."

"How do you deal with those dead bodies?" Wen Nuan said in a slightly anxious tone.

"Most of them were burned." Qin Yang said: "Some family members refused to burn them. My lord listened to the doctor's advice and sprinkled lime on the corpses and dug a deep pit to bury them."

Hearing that the magistrate attached great importance to the handling of the corpse, Nuan felt a little relieved.

It's just that officials in other places can achieve the level of the prefect of Lianzhou?
Qin Yang and the two yamen servants had to bring the news back to the magistrate, so they didn't have time to stay in Xinqing'ao Village, but a few of them followed Wen Xingye around the village in the afternoon, seeing the gratifying vegetable fields, and The pigs that were about to be slaughtered left in a hurry.

Although the people of Qin Yang left, Wen Nuan always felt restless.

They have settled down now, but once a plague breaks out and the drought is severe, the people in several prefectural cities will bear the brunt, and the villagers in Xinqing'ao Village cannot avoid it.

Nuan Nuan thought about it, and told the old village head about her idea of ​​bringing the villagers to plant medicinal materials. Of course, the old village head couldn't wait for it.

"Such a great thing, you don't need to ask the folks, you will definitely be willing!" The old village head was a little excited: "Food and medicinal materials are the most valuable these days. Nuan Nuan, you are willing to bring the folks to make money together. I'm so happy that I can't sleep, but to grow medicinal materials, you must have medicinal saplings or seeds, right?"

"I will take care of the medicinal seedlings and seeds." Wen Nuan said, "Grandpa the village chief, how many lands in our village are left without crops?"

The land allocated to their village by the Anping county magistrate is limited, and now that so many crops have been cultivated, there may not be much left.

"Most of the open land has been planted, but each family should be able to open another one or two acres of land."

"Okay, then I will trouble the village head and grandpa to tell the villagers that if you are willing to grow medicinal materials, you can open up your own land first, and plant as much as you want."

The villagers knew that Nuan Nuan would take the big guy to plant medicinal materials, and indeed, as the old village head said, they were so excited that they couldn't sleep that night.

Early the next morning, the old village head asked each family to send a representative to the open space in front of the village for a small meeting.

"Quiet!" Liao Yong yelled for his father, and the old village head continued until the villagers calmed down: "I still want to be ugly. The warm medicinal seedlings are not cheap, and some are 3 yuan per tree." For 5 Wen, she can give the medicinal seedlings to the folks on credit, but the folks must not renege on their debts in the future!"

"Village chief, Nuan Nuan is taking us to make money. How can we forget our roots, folks, right?" Deng Shi shouted to the others.

"That's right, we will never renege on our debts!"

The old village chief also believed that his villagers would not be that kind of ungrateful, but he had to say these words.

Time was running out, and most of the medicinal materials used to treat the plague had to be planted for two or three years before they could be harvested. Nuan Nuan directly transplanted the medicinal seedlings that were about to be harvested in batches from the medicinal field in the space.

The price of this kind of medicinal saplings that can be harvested in a short time is not expensive at all.

Wen Nuan used the excuse of pulling medicinal seedlings to go out and go around, each time pulling back a large cart of medicinal seedlings, and distributing the medicinal seedlings to the villagers several times.

While helping his sister carry the medicinal seedlings, Erlang murmured, "I told you that I would go with you, but you won't let me do it, so you don't feel tired?"

"Second brother, didn't I want you to help our parents open up more land?" Nuan Nuan said with a smile: "Open up more, we can grow some medicinal materials, and earn some money in the future."

"Is money all you can earn?" Erlang retorted, "Didn't you always say that your body is the most important thing?"

Wen Nuan knew that her brother was worried about herself: "You need to exercise properly to be healthy. You can't let me lie at home all day, can you?"

Erlang couldn't say no to his sister, so he kept his mouth shut.

(End of this chapter)