The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

The sun is warm and the moon is cold, which makes people live longer.

In this bitter drought this year, every day is spent in anxiety.

Although there has been no rain for nearly three months, the amount of water in the river has not changed much, and the daily water use has not been affected much. It's just that the water in the fields is often in short supply. If the upper fields don't release water for several days in a row, the paddy fields will be cracked by the sun.

In this case, the construction of the weir in Lanxi Village is in full swing. It is related to the food problem of the whole village. They don't care who benefits more or less from the construction of the weir, just do it. Farmers don't have much else, but they have a lot of strength.

On the day when the decision to build the weir was made, hundreds of adult men took long sticks and hemp ropes and went to the river in groups to pick up stones.

The stones in the river were all washed down from the mountains, and the edges were very smooth, so several men had to carry them together to ensure safety.

However, the amount of stones needed to build three weirs at the same time was still too much, and the stones in the river were not enough. Although there were a lot of pebbles in the river, they were everywhere. However, these palm-sized pebbles were too smooth and too small to be the foundation of the weir.

The remaining stones needed had to be sent to the foot of the mountain to find suitable ones, and they were broken and carried to the river by people. So, in the following days, the clanging sound of chiseling stones could be heard everywhere in Lanxi Village. When the children first heard it, they thought it was the malt sugar sellers coming to the village.

The mountain bought by the Gu family was the place with huge rocks closest to the river, which should have been the best quarry, after all, there was such a big stone cave! However, the Gu family wanted to use the cave to make wine, so they naturally couldn't let others mine it.

However, there were several flat boulders under the cave, outside the wall and bordering the mountain, which were also within the land that the Gu family bought from the mountain. Gu Liang asked the villagers to mine these boulders. After mining, the boulders just formed a 90-degree angle with the ground, which looked like a section of stone wall.

The mining of these boulders made the terrain around the cave even more rugged, making it impossible for people to climb up.

In order to avoid being gossiped about, the brothers Gu Changping and Gu Changan were also sent by Old Man Gu to repair the dikes and dams for the village. Although his family could survive without farming, they had to show their attitude. The old emperor still pretended to dig a few hoes for the plowing ceremony every year, and their family had to join in and couldn't watch others work hard.

Originally, the Jiang brothers also enthusiastically expressed their willingness to repair the dikes and dams on behalf of the two masters, but they were rejected by Old Man Gu. After all, they were not surnamed Gu. If they were to be sent alone, the villagers would be stubborn and would definitely think that the Gu family looked down on them and were unwilling to work for them.

The two Jiang brothers, who had nothing to do, were sent by Gu Liang to do another thing.

It turned out that Gu Liang felt that the ten bows in his family were not enough and wanted more bows. He discussed with the hunter's family and asked the Jiang brothers to learn for a while, learn the craft of making bows, and then come back to make them by themselves. The reason why they did not buy directly was that the hunter was not a professional bow maker and did not have so much time and energy. Second, Gu Liang thought that it would be more cost-effective to save a little money, and making it by himself was much more cost-effective than buying. Anyway, he rarely went out now, and the Jiang brothers did not have much to do.

Gu Liang, who had nothing to do, started his old business when he first came to Lanxi Village - digging wild vegetables.

Maybe because of the lack of rain this year, the end of spring should have been the day with the most wild vegetables and the most plump, but the wild vegetables became smaller, thinner and older than the previous two years.

Gu Liang certainly didn't like this kind of wild vegetables, so he abandoned these thin and old amaranth, bitter herbs, motherwort and other things. He took the family's "women's army" into the mountain valley to pick bamboo shoots.

It must be said that the Gu family is now considered to be more female than male. Counting the two daughters of Li Donghua, the second aunt Li's sister, there are a total of five girls in their family, and only Gu Liang is a son. Every time Gu Liang took them out together, he was jokingly called the general leading the women's army to fight.

The season of bamboo shoots has passed. The bamboo shoots that grow now are called water bamboo shoots, which are only the size of a thumb. Although one bamboo shoot can be compared to a small bundle of water bamboo shoots, there are many water bamboo shoots. In the water bamboo forest, the densely packed ones on the ground are all water bamboo shoots. You can pull a bunch of bamboo shoots by standing still.

The thin bamboo shoots taste sweet and crisp, and compared with the bamboo shoots, they are much less astringent. It is a very good wild vegetable. In places with mountains, mountain people are more

I like bamboo shoots, which can be dried to make dried bamboo shoots. This kind of water bamboo shoots is too thin and it is too troublesome to peel them. I only try them occasionally, so I don’t come to pick them specially.

So it’s a bargain for Gu Liang. These water bamboo shoots can be taken back to dry, or soaked in a jar and can be stored for a year. Or make kimchi, which tastes different.

There is still a long way to go. Things that may be despised today may be sought after tomorrow. There are still several years of famine. The wild vegetables that are despised by the mountain people today may be the food to fill their stomachs tomorrow.

Of course, Gu Liang and his team did not only pick water bamboo shoots. When they encountered wild vegetables such as thorn dragon buds, golden vines, rhubarb, and wisteria flowers that were about to bloom, they would also pick them and take them home.

While collecting these wild vegetables, Gu Liang unexpectedly found a large goat milk tree with small golden fruits hanging on it and silver-gray spots.

The goat milk fruit is a representative wild fruit. Its astringency before maturity and sourness after maturity can leave a deep impression on those who have eaten it. As soon as he saw it, Gu Liang's saliva began to secrete. Unable to resist the urge to eat it, Gu Liang called his sisters to share it. As you can imagine, even if the fruit on this tree is ripe, the taste is still strong.

"Wow, so sour. I won't eat it!" After tasting it, several sisters said this. After the Gu family became rich, they couldn't do without snacks. They didn't like to eat wild fruits like this that didn't taste very good.

After eating a few, Gu Liang couldn't stand it and gave up eating. He made a pocket with bamboo leaves and picked some to take back. Compared with these children, the elderly people like Old Lady Gu prefer sour ones rather than sweet ones.

After a busy morning, the few people had picked enough water bamboo shoots, so they pulled the cows and mules that had been grazing in the mountains, let them carry some, and they took some back themselves.

On the way home, Gu Liang and his group made such a big show that attracted the attention of many women in the village.

"Gu Liang, why do you pick so many bamboo shoots?"

"It's the Third Grandma. Of course, I pick so many for eating. You can eat them by drying or soaking them."

"You don't need so many! Look at your show. I'm afraid you will have to eat them from now until the New Year."

"Make more. Who knows if you continue to work today, there will be nothing to eat."

"That's right. Go home quickly. It's too heavy."

After smiling and seeing Gu Liang off, the Third Grandma turned and went into the house and said to her daughter-in-law: Daughter-in-law, let's go pick bamboo shoots this afternoon! Oh, no, let's go now, bring some fried rice, eat when you're hungry."

"Mom, old people can't eat too much bamboo shoots. Besides, you don't like them, why are you in such a hurry to pick them?"

While looking for the sacks for bamboo shoots, the third grandmother answered her daughter-in-law, "The kid from the Gu family went to pick bamboo shoots this morning."

"What, did Gu Liang go? Then let's go quickly, the villagers must have seen it, and if we go too late, we won't get any!"