Little Fubao from the farmhouse takes space to flee famine

Chapter 70
The hot wind blows, the ears of rice are curved, and the grains are full.

"Father, look at them."

With a sharp sickle in his hand, Father Wang bent over to cut the rice, and from time to time looked at the few refugees guarding under the shade of the tree.

A woman held a child in her arms, and several of them were in ragged clothes, licking their chapped lips from time to time.

Whenever someone finished harvesting the rice, they would go forward to pick up some fallen ears of rice, even picking up the ones that were spilled on the ground one by one.

The villagers of Qinghe Village knew that they had fled from the north, so they didn't care about the few grains of millet they threw.

Qinghe Village has had a bumper harvest of rice and corn this year, with output ten times greater than before.

Not only in Qinghe Village, but in Mengtang as a whole, the rice has grown very well this year, and everyone patrols their fields every night.

When the rice is ripe, everyone will work hard to harvest it.

Under the shade of a tree, a man hesitated for a long time and walked barefoot into the ground.

"What's the matter with you?" Wang Yongye looked at the man who came forward and became vigilant.

"Well, can I work for you? I have the strength. Brother, can you give me some food after your work?"

The man's tone was very humble, and he rubbed the corners of his clothes restlessly with his hands.

All the way to flee famine, only this place has he seen a bumper harvest of grain.

Other villagers locked their doors behind closed doors when they saw these fleeing hungry people.

"Where do you come from?"

Father Wang raised the millet with both hands and hit it on the washboard. The full rice was swirling in the rice barrel.

"I am from the northern Han Dynasty in Qingyuan. My hometown is suffering from drought. The seeds that were planted at the beginning of the year did not work. I had to move my family to the south to make a living."

Liu Chunlan looked at the person in front of her. He was skinny and weak in speech.

He lifted up the corner of his clothes and wiped his sweat and said, "Isn't there a severe drought in your land? Don't your officials care about you?"

The man picked up the cut rice and threshed it.

"I can't control it over there. Many people have run away. My old lady died of starvation. The ones under the tree over there are my wife and children. There is no harvest. If I don't run away, I will starve to death."

Father Wang straightened up, seeing that the man was working very hard, he asked, "Why did you escape here, Qingyuan is far away from us, even if you go, it will take you a month, why can't you find a place to stay. "

The man shook his head. It wasn't that he didn't want to find a place to stay. He had been to Dazhou Capital with his wife and children.

A lot of hungry people flooded into richer places, and as long as they stuttered, they sold themselves to others.

It's no longer their turn, and the officials in the state capital don't accept them. They just let them return to their place of origin. There is no way to guide them. They want to arrest them for fleeing. Unfortunately, the prisons can't hold so many people, and they still have to be managed. Prison food.

They had to be driven out to restrict refugees from entering the city.

"Then how terrible is your situation? So many people have run away from home."

The man answered the questions one by one, pouring out the pain and suffering along the way. It was so painful that he couldn't help but burst into tears.

Several women felt empathy and wiped their tears with the corners of their clothes.

Fortunately, their family was surrounded by blessings, and they worked diligently to grow some food. Otherwise, what happened to this man would be their situation.

Now the fields full of golden rice are the seeds given by Fubao, so that everyone can grow such good food.

"Then what are your plans next?"

The man wiped his sweat, he wanted to go to Luochuan, that was the Great Plains, there was always a place to take them in.

"You are going to Luochuan!"

Luochuan is a land of wealth and fertile land, and the annual grain output is half of that of Daqi. It is also a city of commerce.

"Yes, Luo Chuanda, you can do long-term labor for others. I can do a lot of work, including raising horses, driving, and growing crops."

"Long-term worker? You, you are young, the big families over there are all buying slaves, and the mouth is the biggest slave market there, comparable to being used by animals."

Father Wang shook his head and lamented that this man had too good thoughts. He had seen Qikou when they were in Luochuan.

The people tied inside are still human, like animals for people to choose, and he still remembers the faces of those sellers.

The man paused, he was born and grew up in Hanbei, he had never seen the south, he only heard people say that Luochuan is the most affluent place in the south.

"Drink water, go and call your wife and children, give the child some water, don't carry it around and pick it up, be careful of fever."

"Okay, okay, thank you brothers."

"Mo Niang, come and drink water." The man called to the woman not far away.

The woman raised her head, strands of her hair were wet on her face, and ran over with her child in her arms.

Liu Chunlan took out a bowl and poured a bowl of clean boiled water from the jug.

The woman gratefully took the water and gave it to the baby in her arms to drink first.

Fang Cuiying looked at the baby in the woman's arms and asked how old it was.

The woman pursed her lips dryly and said, "I'm three years old, I'm getting younger."

Several women couldn't help but open their mouths in disbelief.

Three years old?It looks smaller than Fu Bao.

"Thank you for your kind sisters, let me work for you."

Liu Chunlan couldn't see it and wanted to stop it.

Fang Cuiying stopped her, and said in a low voice: "You just let them do it. Let us give you more food later. Don't let them think that we are soft-hearted. We will be miserable later. What if they rely on us?"

Liu Chunlan felt that there was some truth to it. These people from other places don't know the details of their behavior. If they are soft-hearted, it would be bad to be deceived.

The sun was setting in the west, and the sunset was gorgeous in the sky. Everyone transported the threshed rice home to dry in the sun one after another.

"Grandpa, let's do the work."

The boys ran to the edge of the field, and Master Meng finally let them go.

"Mom, I'll carry it."

Wen Ming swiftly passed the straps through his arms and stood up with his strength.

"Slow down." Liu Chunlan was very pleased and gave her son a hand.

"I'll get the kettle." Wenbo carried the kettle and the unused sickle.

Li Aling led Xiao Fubao slowly across several field ridges.

An Ran looked at the sunset. There were small wild flowers blooming on the roadside, and the scenery was pleasant.

In the fragrance of rice flowers, it is said that the year is good, and listen to the sound of the frog.

"Be careful, there is a big toad ahead."

Li Aling reminded that a toad with a big belly jumped out of the rice field, just across the road they were going to walk.

An Ran is not afraid at all, this thing can be used as medicine.

Since I read a few books, I go out to see what kind of grass and insects are treasures.

"Go home!"

The boys were playing around, catching bugs and picking wild flowers.

"Dahei likes to eat this grass." Li Aliu picked up the sickle and cut a bunch of it.

"Fubao, look at the cow bug."

An Ran saw a black worm waving its legs towards her.

"Don't pinch my sister."

Wen Zhuo simply tied the mouth clamp of the Niuniu insect with a thin straw rope and handed it over with his long beard.

An Ran held the beetle's whiskers with one hand. She had never seen this kind of insect before. The whiskers were very long, and each section looked like sugarcane.

"Let me count. Dad said that one is one year old. This ox-bug is nine years old."

"That old cow worm must have longer whiskers than mine."

An Ran was taken aback by the cow bug that suddenly took off. This thing could fly, so she was so scared that she threw it away immediately.

The cowworm fell to the ground, and Xiao Heizi jumped up and played with it with his claws.

An Ran immediately heard Xiao Heizi moaning and yelling, the dog's paw was caught.

Several children laughed at Xiao Heizi, and kindly helped to get the cow bug down.

(End of this chapter)