The salted fish couple is fleeing famine

Chapter 7

The weather continued to be dry, the mountains and rivers of Chengxi became thinner, the water level in the wells dropped, and the village chief and elders moaned all day long.

The downstream village is composed of three surnames, the most populous is Tian, ​​the village head is also surnamed Tian, ​​the next is Qian, and the least populated is the Yuan family.

In the old Yuantou's house, there are only him, a sister who has been married for many years, and two cousins. The cousins ​​only have three children in each family, and there is also a married daughter. The population is very small.

Cuihua strictly forbids the culprits to be wrapped up in disorder, and the clothes are not washed when they are dirty. If they are naughty, they will be made into mud dolls without bathing.

During this period of time, the boys were obsessed with catching bamboo mice in the bamboo forest, and also learned to roast the mouse meat to eat. They didn't go fooling around in the river much anymore.

After all, no matter how fun the game is, it can't compare to the smell of meat. They also call friends and work together with a group of wild boys.Every day when she goes out, Cuihua repeatedly emphasizes that when grilling in the wild, one should pay attention to sparks when leaving.

At the age of the wind in the ear, the stick does not know the pain until it hits the flesh!
On this day, Cuihua had just pulled out the grass in the vegetable garden, when she saw thick smoke billowing in the direction of Xiaoqingshan, and the fire was soaring into the sky.

Throwing down the hoe, he hurried to Xiaoqingshan. People in the village saw a lot of them, and they all rushed over. They were afraid of what to do. The forest that had been working for a year would catch fire, and now there is still a serious shortage of water. How can this be? is that good?

Cuihua became more and more frightened and calmed down. When she ran to the entrance of the village, she saw a group of children running out screaming, and her two culprits ran ahead.

"Mother, mother, we all ran out, it was Tian Ergou who kicked our fire!" Datou complained while running.

A group of children chattered and said: So today more than a dozen monkey cubs caught five bamboo mice and were roasting them happily. Er Gouzi, the grandson of the village head's cousin, who is 5 years older than them, came here after smelling the scent. Ask the little ones to make offerings.

After monopolizing the whole mouse, they were still not satisfied, and when they left, they kicked their fire, and the children didn't care, but unexpectedly, the sparks sparked the dry leaves, and the fire spread too fast, and it was out of control.

The villagers who followed him beat their chests and stomped their feet. It's over!No one can resist this burning method!Individuals take their own babies home first.

The two ends were beaten until the butt blossomed, this time the mother really worked hard!

"Did I tell you every day, pay attention to sparks! Ah? Did it go in the left ear and out the right ear!"

"Look, you guys have been so happy these days, you beat me up every day, don't you think I beat me lightly!"

"Ah, stop beating, mother, it really hurts! My butt is swollen!"

"Mother, we know we were wrong, and we dare not do it again, woo, it hurts!"

The fire burned for two days and one night, and the Daqingshan and Xiaoqingshan groups were destroyed!Cuihua's natal family was spared only by a stone mountain.

After being beaten, the two cubs drooped their heads. This time the trouble was a bit big.Mother hasn't given a good face to her for a few days, and has been walking around her yard with her tail between her legs for a few days.

The village chief convened a village meeting in three days and dealt with the matter as follows: Wang Ergouzi was the main culprit. He was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall and not be given food for three days after spanking the buttocks of the top ten board members. eat!
What can be done?The biggest doll is ten years old!The village chief is a few years old at once. In this year of severe drought, there must be severe cold. Everyone will waste their energy on firewood in winter.

The villagers were organized to clean up two forests, and more than 100 wild boar carcasses were cleared out. The wild boars with burnt fur were carried back to the village. The family shared half a piece of wild boar.

Cuihua was worried about half a piece of wild boar, because it was too hot to keep it.Finally, it was decided to separate the fat meat from the lean meat. The lean meat was marinated with salt, seasoned briefly and then dried over charcoal fire to make jerky. The whole family gnawed meat and bones all day long.

After paying the autumn tax, as expected, the family has less than [-] catties of millet left, and the family's salt depends on Ma's chickens to lay eggs.Old Yuantou was a carpenter. The second child studied for half a year and was too stupid. In the end, he asked to forge iron. This job required more strength and was easier to learn than a carpenter.

So old Yuantou continued to make furniture for the villagers, while Yuan Laoer went back to the town to forge iron.

There is still a season of wheat to be planted in the southwest, but this year's rice fields are so dry and cracked that they can't grow anything. There is no sweet potato and potato in the Great Xia Dynasty, and there is no coarse grain.

Father Hu came to Yuan's house this day, carrying a bag of wild animals, pheasants and rabbits. He said that because of the fire in two green mountains, the animals all frantically fled to the Da'e Mountain where their family lived. a lot of.

It doesn't rain, so this year's food price is [-]% higher than in previous years. I also came to tell my daughter and family to make plans early.There was no time to eat, and Father Hu was about to go home after putting down his things. Cuihua smuggled a bamboo basket of longan persimmons from the cabinet to bring back to Father.

"Father, these are the wild persimmons I picked on the mountain. I don't know why, but they don't even have seeds. You brought them back to my mother and my nephews and nieces. It's a bad idea."

"You don't have much millet in your house? Can you eat it?"

While talking, he stuffed Cuihua with a small silver ingot, which looked like five taels.

"Don't push me, I'll spend the money I earned on my own for whoever I want! This rise in food prices is no way, you can buy more food and save it, don't starve my two big grandchildren Already!"

The old man is very worried about this year's winter. As a girl, the man is not here, and the baby is still so young, life is very worrying!

It seems that we still have to find a way to add more food to the family. The food in the space can only be mixed in a small amount at ordinary times, and there must be food that can pass through the road.

In ancient times, it was not very convenient for women to go out to make money, and if they suddenly found some way to make money, it would easily attract attention. Cuihua and Heiwa have not been found out for decades because of the idea of ​​making a fortune in silence. !

When the couple met again in the space, Hei Wa also agreed with her point of view, we are not short of food, gold and silver, what we need is how to adapt to the current national conditions.

Looking at the white velvet cotton, winter clothes are also worrying. The village chief has been nagging all day long that this winter will be very cold, so we need to prepare winter clothes in advance. These can only be imagined by Cuihua, and the wound is completely healed Hei Wa had to set off with the team again.

(End of this chapter)