The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

The weather was very good, but the weather was very good.

It was early autumn again. Although the rice in the field had not yet turned yellow, the rice ears had begun to droop after filling, suggesting that this year would be another bumper year.

The knives made for the Jiang brothers had been taken back, and the two ring-headed swords also cost a lot of money. The reason why they spent so much money was that the material used for the blade was very good, and secondly, it was very difficult to make the sword, and they gave a lot of tips to the sword-fighting man. According to the rules, ordinary people could not use these weapons, and at most they could use a Pudao.

Gu Liang asked the sword-fighting man to make some improvements, making the blade of the ring-headed sword shorter, so that it could be hidden at ordinary times, otherwise it would be easy to scare others with two strong men holding knives.

The Jiang brothers had used swords when they were soldiers, so it was appropriate for them to use this ring-handled sword. Gu Liang also specially asked them to demonstrate, flipping the wrist to lift the sword, rubbing the sword, turning over to chop the sword, backhand lifting the sword to block... ... They performed in a very good manner, which made the Gu family members who were watching cheer and marvel, and also felt that the Jiang brothers had some kung fu.

For this reason, Gu Liang also specially asked the Jiang brothers to teach him sword skills, just to avoid the abnormality of the crossbow in the future, so that he would have a few moves to defend himself.

Gu Liang originally just wanted to learn a few sword skills that could scare people, but the Jiang brothers took it seriously. Since the two brothers came to the Gu family, they have nothing to do. They have nothing to do all day, so they want to find something to do. However, the Gu family's winemaking business is done by their own people, and they can't help. The Gu family doesn't have many fields, and the Gu family can handle it. The two brothers are very idle.

After finally hearing that Gu Liang wanted to learn knife skills from them, the two of them were like chicken blood, and they pulled Gu Liang to practice every day before dawn.

The basic knife movements include chopping, cutting, wiping, and lifting. On the first day, Gu Liang practiced each movement a hundred times. When he finished practicing that day, when he had breakfast, Gu Liang's arms could no longer bear it, and he couldn't even hold the chopsticks steadily. But this is far from enough. The Jiang brothers said that Gu Liang's hand strength was too weak and he was weak in holding the knife, so he had to practice more.

As the saying goes, "The sword moves lightly and the knife moves darkly." Dark means vicious and fierce, which means that the knife must be fierce and fierce, and the big chopping and slashing must be like cutting melons and vegetables. Therefore, the knife user must hold the knife tightly and have a strong arm to use the knife well.

In order to practice arm strength, Gu Liang had to lift a wooden barrel with both hands for half a day every night to strengthen his arm strength. After practicing all night, he couldn't even lift his arms. What's more terrible is that after a night's rest, Gu Liang had to get up early to continue practicing the basic way of using a knife.

Gu Liang felt bitter. Was it because the crossbow didn't do enough damage? Or was it because the crossbow wasn't as exciting as a real sword or gun? He had to suffer this instead of using a good crossbow.

After practicing for more than half a month, Gu Liang's sword-wielding posture was already quite standard, especially the few sword flowers were very beautiful, which was quite good for bluffing. So Gu Liang began to be lazy and relaxed the intensity of training. However, unlike Gu Liang, Gu Liang's sisters were very interested in swordsmanship, and often pestered the Jiang brothers to teach them swordsmanship.

But the Jiang brothers didn't dare to do it. The girls in the Gu family were all around ten years old, which was the age for embroidery. How could the young hands holding the embroidery needle hold the heavy knife? By then, they would have calluses on their hands, and how could they embroider the flowers? Besides, if they taught, wouldn't it offend the host family?

But Gu Liang told the Jiang brothers to relax their minds. As long as their sisters were willing to learn, they would teach them seriously. Learning martial arts is not something that only men can do, and embroidery is not something that only girls can do. There is no difference between men and women in the world except for having children. It’s just whether you are willing or not. Daughters are not born specifically for embroidery. They can also do what men do, such as making money, learning skills, and studying. They are not bad, but they choose this path less.

After Gu Liang agreed, the Jiang brothers did not say much and began to teach the girls of the Gu family knife skills. They also understood that it was Gu Liang who took them in, and Gu Liang basically had the final say in this family.

The girls of the Gu family grew up in the countryside. They were not as delicate as those in the city. They climbed trees to catch birds and went to the river to catch shrimps every day. They were wild and fierce. When they learned to use a knife, they looked wild and fierce. Within a few days, they could play with wooden swords made of a few bamboos. When the girls went out to play, they also carried bamboo swords with them. Within a few days, they became the king of the children in the village, playing with swords with a group of children.

As for Gu Liang, he felt that the housekeeper's kiln factory was now too busy to take care of itself.

, should not have the energy to deal with him. And he himself has the help of the Jiang brothers, so he dares to leave Lanxi Village.

When Gu Liang leaves the village now, he not only takes the Jiang brothers with him, but also takes a few villagers from Lanxi Village with him. On the surface, he is grateful for the help of the villagers when he was kidnapped last time, but in fact, it is because there are many people with him, so it is difficult for others to attack him.

Gu Liang went out for nothing else but to purchase supplies. At present, their family's economic level is already considered a small landlord, but their family is different from other landlords in that the Gu family did not use the money to buy land and shops, so they have a lot of silver on hand.

With so much cash, of course, it can't be left there in vain, otherwise when the famine comes and prices soar, this silver is just a prettier stone.

The first time he went out to buy things, Gu Liang pulled three baskets of salt back from Lianhua Town. Salt is a hard currency no matter where you go, and it can be used directly as money. Because salt is necessary for the human body, and the government has always controlled the production and sale of salt as a source of fiscal revenue, so as long as there is unrest, the price of salt will soar, which is why Gu Liang wants to buy salt first.

These three baskets of salt seem to be a lot, but in fact they are only more than 300 kilograms. According to the current 16 people in the Gu family, it is only enough for their family to have a little more than a year, which is far from enough. However, these three baskets of salt were reserved by Gu Liang in advance, otherwise it would be difficult to sell more than 300 kilograms of salt at one time in a small town like Lianhua Town.

When these more than 300 kilograms of salt were transported to the Gu family, Mrs. Gu and the others were stunned. They really couldn't figure out why Gu Liang bought so much salt at one time, and this thing couldn't be eaten as a meal.

However, since the salt was bought back, even if Mrs. Gu complained, she still asked her two sons to help move the salt to the attic to avoid moisture. At the same time, Mrs. Gu was thinking about how to deal with these, take them as gifts? Or wait until the twelfth lunar month to pickle more bacon, fish and chicken.

But before Mrs. Gu could figure out how to deal with this pile of salt, Gu Liang bought the same amount of salt from outside without saying a word.

Mrs. Gu looked at so much salt, and then looked at her attic which was full of food, and kept persuading Gu Liang not to buy more, because her attic could not store any more, and the salt could not be placed on the ground.

But within two days, Gu Liang brought back another truckload of salt from Tiefu Temple Town.

Originally, Mrs. Gu thought that Gu Liang had invented another way to make money, so she needed to prepare a lot of salt in advance. But seeing that Gu Liang was hoarding it, she was also panicked, and didn't understand why he did this. Was he crazy?

When Mrs. Gu couldn't hold it anymore and asked other people in the Gu family to ask Gu Liang, Gu Liang knew that his plan was successful.