The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 63 The sun is scorching, and the people on the border are in chaos!

The matter with Ding Yumei was a big headache for Song Yingkui.If her parents don't agree, you can't rush to her house to rob her, right?what to do?I can only take one step at a time. If there is no other way in the end, let the Ding family make troubles. At worst, it will be a one-night stand.

Maybe it was because Ding Yumei had seduced her anger and had no place to vent it.Song Yingkui, who was working in the workshop, felt that the weather was getting hotter and hotter the more he worked.

The hot weather is getting stronger every day until the head of June.Only then did Song Yingkui realize something was wrong. Is there a drought today?

"The summer grain is over, and I don't know if I can count on Qiutian." Song Tianshun couldn't help but sigh when he went to the field on the top of the mountain to see the crops, and looked at the scorched wheat field on the top of the mountain.

This year, the production of wheat grown in the mountains has almost ceased, and the production of soybeans has also dropped sharply, which has affected the Song family's business.Fortunately, besides the yuba business, there are other businesses that can be filled. This is the benefit of diversification.

"Grandpa, tell Er Dae to stop selling bean curd sticks! It's not easy to do business related to food this year. Another thing, our family has to stockpile some food to prepare for the famine. We won't do any business like vermicelli this year." Seeing that the harvest of Mai Yi had failed, Song Yingkui immediately overreacted.As a traveler, I am deeply afraid of the ancient famine.When there was a drought, his first reaction was the horrible events written in the history books, such as cannibalism.

"Preventing famine should really be a consideration. I've been trying to find ways to get some food these days. We have to prepare a cellar of food, maybe it will be used." Song Tianshun is also instinctively vigilant about famine.He is a person who has suffered from hunger. Now that the family has the conditions to store food, it is natural to make preparations early.

Cellaring grain is the way for wealthy households in the northwest frontier to deal with famine.Dig a hidden cellar, bury the grain, lime and straw bales in the cellar and seal it well. The sealed grain can be stored for several years.The cellar cannot be sealed unless it is a last resort, which is a means of life-saving at critical times.

"Grandpa, where do you plan to choose the cellar where the grain is stored? I think it will be directly on the mountain, so that when we dig the cellar, others will not be able to see it. As for the grain storage, just the two of us will do it. I will find a way to buy the grain and bring it to the house, and then hide it in the cellar on the mountain. I will not talk about the rest of the family for the time being, so that there will be too many people talking about it and delay the matter."

Since it is a life-saving arrangement, the fewer people who know about it, the better.Only the Song family often come up to this mountain, and it is a hidden place.There is no need for the rest of the family to know about this for the time being.

"Bring your father along to this matter, otherwise our grandpa and grandson will be a bit single to do this. We need to do this kind of thing quickly, and it will be easy to show our feet after a long time." Song Tianshun agreed with his grandson's suggestion of reducing the number of people who knew the truth, but he felt that it was self-defeating for only two people to do this, and it would be safer for three people.

Grandfather and father dug cellars under the pretext of working in the fields on the mountain. Song Yingkui went to the street a few times, dumped seven or eight stones of grain from several fighting shops, and pulled them to the house in batches on a rack cart. They went up the mountain in the dark, and the three secretly buried the grain.

The rest of the family felt that something was wrong, but couldn't figure out what they were talking about.Since the three shopkeepers in the family didn't say anything, they were embarrassed to ask.

Entering July, it still hasn't rained!This year's famine has become a certainty.On the streets of Wuying Town, the price of grain has skyrocketed. The price of grain, which was originally one or two taels of silver, has risen to almost three taels.The shopkeepers of Dou Xing rumored that the price of grain would continue to rise. This year, Wuying Town was not the only one affected by the drought, and the grain harvest within a radius of hundreds of miles might be wiped out.

"Brother Song, something serious has happened. The Banfans on the Linhe side have rebelled, and they are attacking Hezhou City these days. When I come out, there will be chaos in Huichuan. You have to be prepared. Maybe the Banfans will rush over from Didao to Wuying to make trouble." When Wang Jinxiong took his tenants to Song Yingkui's shop to buy goods, he told a shocking news as soon as they met.

"Banfanzi rebelled? Why did such a big thing happen suddenly?" Song Yingkui knew that troubles would easily occur in droughts.But the drought has only just begun. Didn't the border residents on the other side of the Linhe move a little too quickly?

Banfanzi is the name of the people in the northwest frontier for the Tubo tribe living in Hezhou and Lintan.They are a small branch of Tubo. Because they have more contact with Han people, most of them can speak some Chinese, so they are called Banfanzi.The people in the border areas called the tribes that really belonged to Tubo as Fanzi.

"Semi-fans like to rebel, why is this sudden or not?" Wang Jinxiong, who is well-informed, didn't care about Song Yingkui's question. As a native of the northwest, he was not used to rebelling against Fans, but at least he was not surprised.

"The foreigners are all rebelling, brother, who do you buy from me and sell to? Are you afraid that they will cut off the trade route?" Since there are people rebelling, Wang Jinxiong and the others are still trying to get the wheels from themselves. Are they not afraid that the border people's rebellion will affect the trade route?
"It is precisely because the half-fans rebelled that there is no need to worry about no buyers for the wheel. I will not go east this time. The wheels you made can still be sold out in Wazhou City." The greater the risk, the greater the profit. The barbarians rebelled.Wheels can also be regarded as an important strategic material. Can Wang Jinxiong and the others miss this opportunity to make a fortune?

Pack the goods for Wang Jinxiong and the others, and send them away.Song Yingkui felt a little flustered in his heart. The border residents rebelled and the drought caused the situation to get out of control.Not sure, it will soon affect your own safety.

There is a huge difference between the rebellion of the aboriginal people and the rebellion of ordinary small bandits nearby.They are not polite to the Han people at all, and they can do things like burning, killing and looting.In normal years, bandits would not rob such low-value items as food.But once the abbots come over, it is easy to grab food, maybe they will massacre the village!
Not long after Wang Jinxiong left, news of Linhe Fanzi's rebellion spread in Wuying Town. This news made everyone panic, and every household began to discuss how to prevent the Fanzi from rebelling.

"Grandpa, we have to find a way to hide more food at home. If the situation gets out of control, we have to have a way to save our lives." Song Yingkui rushed home, the first thought was to hide some food, just in case!

"Hey! If the Tibetans enter the village, it's a small matter to grab food. Those beasts will kill without blinking an eye. This matter will be very difficult!" Song Tianshun didn't only think about food like his grandson, he was also worried about losing his life.

(End of this chapter)