Escape from the desert

Lin Bei handed the big bowl he was holding to Zhang Yanzi and said, "This is my mother who asked us to bring it over, and said that Uncle Lin and Aunt Lin could also taste the fried taste."

Zhang Yanzi wanted to say something, but Puppy rushed over, looking at the bowl of cold tofu, all the harazis flowed onto his collar.

"This little Jiang is becoming more and more like a family member. Although she doesn't know what she wants to do, she has finally stood up."

After Lin Bei and Lin Feng left, Zhang Yanzi spoke to Lin Yousheng.

Lin Yousheng said while eating: "That's right, she used to think about other people's children all day long, and she just hoped that the two scholars would honor her after they passed the entrance examination. If you want me to tell you, what kind of good can they give her, just the faces of those two families? It's good to break up!"

Zhang Yanzi nodded and said worriedly: "That's true, but we are all peasants with their backs to the sky and the earth, who would do these kinds of jobs, we can't help her, I'm worried that if she It's not good to learn a few children..."

"Think about what to do. Let's talk about it at that time. Hurry up and eat a few more bites. It tastes strangely good."

The next day, Jiang Yan took the family up the mountain again. Today's main purpose is to find the fairy tofu leaves and wild peppers. With a shopping mall, Jiang Yan is more confident to find wild peppers.

She calculated that a small half box of green leaves can make a large pot of cold tofu, and a pot can produce about [-] or [-] catties. If it is divided into small bowls for sale, it can hold about [-] bowls. Can be cut into forty pieces.

These two baskets full of green leaves can produce about four or five pots, and they can earn a few hundred dollars. After deducting some costs, let’s see how much money can be made. This is just the money for cold tofu. has not been calculated.

But the premise is that things can be sold. If they can all be sold, they will be able to make a lot of money. Although it is still too little compared to the shopping mall, it is already a huge income for the people of this village. A huge sum of money.

After a busy day, the family came home, and after a simple dinner, they all started to get busy before it was dark.

Today's harvest is very good, I found some wild mushrooms and wild vegetables that are in good condition.

When cooking in the evening, Wang Jinhua only used those mushrooms and wild vegetables that were not in good quality. She kept all the ones that were intact and beautiful, so she pointed out that her mother-in-law could sell them when she went to town tomorrow!
The wild vegetables were all washed, Wang Jinhua and Liu Xiaomeng divided the wild vegetables by hand, tied them with slender weeds and placed them neatly.

Lin Dong and Lin Xi repeatedly rubbed the green leaves in the bag, because they had done it once yesterday, and they have become much more skilled today.

This time, Jiang Yan deliberately prepared the lime water for the plants and trees early. When the two of them made a pot, she began to add lime water in small amounts and kept stirring until it was almost lumpy.

It wasn't until it was dark that Lin Yousheng came in with a round three-layer steamer. Jiang Yan was full of surprises, looked inside and out carefully, and determined that it was what he wanted.

"Uncle Cripple saw that you were in a hurry, so I asked my two sons to help with it. I thought it would be tomorrow, but I didn't expect it to be done today."

"The steamer and a few bamboo plates have a total of 42 wen, and I have given the 20 wen you gave to the lame uncle."

Lin Yousheng put down the steamer, and did not enter the house, but stood outside the house. He knew that several children must be making cold tofu. This was the family's business, and he was afraid that he would accidentally see it.

Jiang Yan's face was full of joy: "Thank you, Yousheng. These are the mushrooms you picked in the deep mountains today. You can take some and eat them back. By the way, tell the cripple uncle. I will give him the rest of the money tomorrow."

"That's not good, you can keep it and eat it! Also, the deep mountains are dangerous. Although there are many wild vegetables, you should not go there in the future."

Jiang Yan nodded again and again, she still wanted to go to the deep mountains, but she had to buy something for self-defense. She forced the mushroom into Lin Yousheng's hands, but Lin Yousheng couldn't refuse, so he had to take it away.

That night, Jiang Yan and the Lin family were busy late, and the old house and the village chief were also lit with torches and stayed up all night.

Yesterday afternoon, Jiang Yan said in the fields that the business had spread throughout the village, and everyone was waiting to see her joke, but the old house of the Lin family was full of anger, who would have thought that this old widow would still cook food!The daughter-in-law who has been in the Lin family for more than ten years has not seen anything to do!It turned out to be a good thing...

They don't know if Jiang Yan's business can be done or not, but it's wrong not to bring it to them if there is food!

On the other hand, the old village chief had a lifeless expression on his face. Today, he and the village chiefs of several other nearby villages were going to the county government office to deal with the drought. Unexpectedly, he heard the news that the other villages were about to cut off water.

As soon as he returned to the village, he immediately went to see the five wells in the village. The bottomless wells in the past have gradually exposed the sand and stones at the bottom!No water, the people of this village!No one can live!

It was a new day, Jiang Yan was in a daze but was woken up by several children outside.

She got up and went out to see that it was Wang Jinhua and Liu Xiaomeng who were in tears, looking like they were about to cry.

"What's the matter? Are you two fighting?"

When the two saw that it was Jiang Yan, they immediately stopped and walked over.

"Mother, I woke you up, it's the daughters-in-law who are wrong."

The voices of the two were slightly crying, rather hoarse.

"What happened? What about the boss? Why are you two at home?"

Wang Jinhua said: "Mother, two of the five wells in our village were found to be dry today! The remaining three wells have also bottomed out..."

Liu Xiaomeng: "Brother, they all went to the village to gather. Now where are the villagers?"

Jiang Yan's brows are wrinkled, it's hard to do it now, she can still think of a way without food, but where will she get it without water?

Even if the mall can buy it, how can she take it out?
I thought it was not urgent to go to the deep mountains to find water sources, but it seemed imminent.

"What if there is no water? What did the village chief say?"

"The village chief said that Jiangjiazhai is closer to us. If the five wells are dry, we can only go there to fetch water to eat. Jiangjiazhai has more water than us, and it is the only one in several villages. It hasn't bottomed out yet."

Jiang Yan frowned, thinking that her original reputation in Jiangjiazhai was not good, "What if Jiangjiazhai is unwilling?"

Wang Jinhua's tears grew bigger and bigger when she heard the words: "If they don't want to lend us water, we can only go to a few villages farther away to ask, if we don't want to, we can only... run away... …”

The two were obviously afraid of fleeing the famine, and their expressions were full of sadness. Jiang Yan had no choice, unless she could find a water source as soon as possible.

Even if several other villages are willing to borrow water, but the distance is long, the nearest Jiangjiazhai has to walk for an hour, and it takes only two hours to go back and forth, and a load of water is not enough, let alone go to other places farther. the village.

Besides, this is not a long-term solution. Even if you can borrow water from other villages for a short time, what about a long time?Since the well in Linjia Village will dry up, it is estimated that it will happen sooner or later in other villages.