Mountain wild man Ziwang and his wife

Chapter 195

Soon, everyone in the village knew that Yin Gui gave someone an IOU of 2000 taels of silver in order to get food.

In other words, if the money is not paid in the coming year, the land in their entire village will become someone else's.

When Da Jiang and others brought back the grain, those who couldn't afford the mortgage didn't dare to move forward.

The food was brought back after dark.

When the food came back, Dajiang and others also brought bad news, and someone outside started to rob it.

Dajiang and the others were somewhat bloodstained, and the villagers asked what was the matter, and Dajiang said that on the way back, he encountered a dozen people trying to grab food, but luckily they brought knives and beat them away.

The blood on the body belonged to other people, they were not injured.

Even so, the atmosphere in the village became even more dignified.

Yin Gui stood up and said: "Let's distribute the grain first. If you want to pick up the grain, hurry up. It's only for one night tonight. If you can't borrow all the grain, I have to find a way to get it out. The IOU for 2000 taels of silver is just a loan." Our old Yin’s family can’t make it even if they’re sold out.”

When everyone heard the news, they stepped forward, and the Yin family brothers came out to maintain order. This time, it was different from years ago, when several families came to borrow food. This time, almost every household came to borrow food.

Youyu, Youjin Youyin and other children were in charge of writing the IOUs, two literate village elders in the village were in charge of verifying the contents of the IOUs, and the three Mulinsen brothers were in charge of marking the borrowers' notes.

For convenience, IOUs are divided into ten taels of silver and 20 taels of silver. The collateral for ten taels of silver is one mu of dry land, and the collateral for 20 taels of silver is one mu of paddy fields. It can be said that Lao Yin This time, the family was very magnanimous, and didn't care about the good or the bad, anyway, it would be cut to death with one shot.

Don't be unfair to those who borrow food, and whoever makes trouble will not lend it to others.

A family can borrow up to [-] catties, and if there is too much, the people behind will have no food.

"Our village is fortunate to have my father running around for you. You go out and look at other villages. The village chief has no time to take care of them. There are too many bark eaters." Seeing that someone borrowed food without thanking him, Yin Tao shouted road.

As soon as her words fell, someone immediately echoed her.

Those who didn't thank them immediately blushed, and hurriedly carried the food bags home, not daring to delay.

It was also at the beginning that some families did not sell grain, and these two thousand catties of grain were barely enough to borrow.

After all the mortgaged people have borrowed, it will be the turn of the real proletariat.

They humbled themselves and begged Yin Gui to lend them food. They had no land as collateral and were willing to sign a contract of sale on the spot.

Before signing the deed of sale, Yin Gui said to them: "Our family can't afford servants, if you don't pay the money in the future, I will sell you to pay off the debt.

If you want, sign the deed of sale.

If you don't want to, then forget it, and don't say that I don't care about the fellowship when I want to sell people.

I also asked several village elders to help me to be witnesses. "

The village elders agreed one after another, those people had no choice but to run out of food at home, and if there was no more food, they would starve to death.

Although there are still some wild vegetables picked at home... but they really don't know when this disaster will end, and they dare not gamble.

The price of food is one tael today and two taels tomorrow, who knows what it will be like in the future. (The two taels a catty mentioned before, and the three taels a catty are refined grains, and Yin Gui’s calculation of coarse grains is based on one tael of silver per catty.)
"Let's borrow it!" Everyone said one after another.

Seeing this, Yin Gui asked You Jin and others to help write the deed of prostitution. Although the children's handwriting is not good-looking now, but their literacy has improved anyway, it is not a problem to write a deed of prostitution.

If there are any words that cannot be written, just ask Yin Tao on the spot.

"You also heard from Mr. Ouyang today, now you are outside, one catty of grain is exchanged for one person, and I can't watch you die, five catties of coarse grain per person..."

After the last bit of food was exchanged, several village elders sighed and said to Yin Gui: "Thanks to you, Agui."

Yin Guidao: "I can't just watch the big guy die, can I?"

The village elders expressed their opinions one after another: "Don't worry, Agui, if this hurdle is passed in the future, whoever dares to deny your kindness today, we old fellows will not let him go first."

"Thank you uncles." Yin Gui bowed to them.

"Now the food issue is only temporarily resolved, and several uncles also heard from Dajiang and the others that they encountered people who robbed food on the way back.

If it weren't for the brothers carrying knives and being big enough to fight, the food might not be safe today!
Now that the mountains are covered by heavy snow, the government's relief will definitely not come for a while, and the chaos must continue on this side.

Maybe someone will come to the village to rob it at any time, so I have to tell everyone that people have to stay vigil every night, and if anyone encounters a thief, make the noise louder.

I wondered if the gate of our village should be closed tomorrow and no one is allowed to come in. "

"Can't people with relatives come in?" asked a village elder.

Yin Gui thought for a while and said: "Whoever wants to leave relatives at this moment is nothing more than to borrow food.

How about this, if there are relatives who are leaving, go to the house and ask if they are willing to welcome them, and if they are not willing to welcome them, they can say a few words at the entrance of the village through the door.

If they are willing, let them pick them up and go home by themselves. "

Several village elders nodded when they heard the words: "It should be like this."

Yin Gui said again: "At first we should have organized some young and strong people to go to watch the night, but it's so cold that people are afraid of being hurt by the cold, so forget it, but you have to say hello to everyone, don't take off your clothes when you go to bed at night, if you hear If there is any movement at the entrance of the village, they have to get up immediately, and copy the guy's work to do it.

If any family dares to hide and do nothing, they will be driven out of the village.

At this time, if you are not in harmony, it is easiest for people to take the blame..." Some people always think that as long as the matter is not related to them, they should hide, so that they will not suffer, but they don't know that as long as thieves break into the village, they will rob others today. Home, tomorrow may go to rob your home.

"It's settled like this." After several village elders agreed, Yin Gui asked Brother Dahe to send him home with a torch.

The few old ones in the cold weather may die if they fall.

"Father, in fact, we can ask the villagers to spread a layer of soil in the house to grow vegetables." After seeing off the village elders, Yin Tao gave Yin Gui some advice.

"Is that okay?" Yin Gui asked.

Yin Tao nodded: "You can try it, there is a greenhouse in the Zhuangzi of the Duke's Mansion, which is dedicated to growing vegetables for the masters in winter.

It's just that there are definitely not many vegetables produced in the greenhouse, but no matter how little they are, they are still imported. "

The blizzard hit, and all the vegetables that could resist freezing in the field were frozen to death. Yin Tao only thought of this method in the past two days.

Before the end of the world, many urbanites like to grow vegetables in flower pots at home.

No matter how low the indoor temperature is, it is better than outside, at least it will not be wrapped in thick snow and freeze.

"That's a good idea. Tomorrow, I'll let your elder brothers do this in our house first, and then I'll talk to some village elders. Every family has vegetable seeds." Yin Gui made a decision immediately.

(End of this chapter)