The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

The more you go, the more you will be in trouble.

Instead of thinking of ways to plot against your own family, it is better to cut off all ties with them. You are already married, and your family has been sabotaging you again and again without considering you, so you might as well never miss them again.

The final result was that Li said on the spot that she was already a member of the Gu family, not a member of the Li family. If the Li family had something to do, they should go to the Li family, not to the Gu family, and she would never step into the Li family again.

When these words came out, everyone was a little shocked. After all, the only support a woman has in her husband's family is her family. Whether it is separation, childbirth, divorce, or burial, she must have her family to avoid being bullied. How many women in this world dare to cut off all ties with their family?

After hearing what Li said, Mrs. Gu was no longer friendly and immediately took out her big broom to sweep the guests.

In this way, Mrs. Zhao was "swept" out of Lanxi Village by Mrs. Gu, and those who watched the excitement in the village also dispersed, and the village returned to peace.

It's not because the villagers don't gossip, but compared with the autumn harvest, this little gossip is nothing. The autumn harvest is in these few days, and the harvest of a year's hard work is also in these days.

Sorghum, soybeans, cotton, millet, and buckwheat are almost all harvested in this season, and the most worthy of them is rice. This rice is the absolute staple food, and its harvest determines whether there will be food to eat in the next year, or whether you will go hungry.

Even if the weather is good this year and the rice ears are heavy in the fields, it does not mean that you can sit back and relax. Only when they are received in the barn can they be considered yours. If the millet is too green, you have to wait. If it is too ripe, the millet will fall off easily when harvested. The days that are really suitable for harvesting are only ten days and a half months. If it rains, you have to wait for the weather to clear before harvesting. The wet rice must be dried, otherwise it will easily mold if piled together. All these must be done within these ten days and a half months, otherwise the millet you have worked hard to grow this year will eventually mold and rot, which is equivalent to working in vain.

Gu Liang originally thought of hiring a few people to help his family harvest, after all, this work is really tiring and time is really tight. If he hired someone, he could be lazy. At that time, he could say that his family had enough manpower to go to the mountains to collect herbs by himself. After all, the money he earned from collecting herbs for a day is more than that of hiring workers.

But this is just an idea. When he really did it, he found that he couldn't hire anyone even if he spent money. In this era where farming is the main thing, every household has some fields to a greater or lesser extent. His own fields are still waiting for the autumn harvest. How can anyone come out to help others work!

In the end, Gu Liang didn't hire anyone, so he had to do it himself. Although he was young and didn't have to do physical work like carrying rice, he still had to do the work of harvesting rice. Although it was okay at the beginning, the sickle was sharp and it was not difficult to harvest, but after a long time, he found that his waist was not good at all. Even though adults often say that "children have no waist", Gu Liang also felt what it felt like to be unable to straighten his waist.

The worst thing was itching, which was extremely itchy. Under the sun, Gu Liang was soaked all over, and the rice straw was also dried by the sun. It was itchy when it touched his arms and face when he was harvesting. In particular, there were all kinds of insects in the rice fields, visible and invisible, everywhere, leaving big bags on you one after another.

Harvesting rice during the day, you can't stop at night. It's inconvenient to harvest rice at night, but there are other jobs to do. There were no threshers in this era, and all threshing work had to be done by manpower. Families with better conditions would spread the straw on the ground, and then use cattle to pull rolling stones to roll the grain down again and again.

But Gu Liang's family didn't have cattle, so they could only use manpower. The man was too weak to pull the stone mill, so he could only hold a handful of straw and beat it down. The Gu family had a threshing barrel that had been used for who knows how many years. It was probably as old as the old man Gu. The barrel was trapezoidal, small at the bottom and large at the top. The barrel wall was very thick and made of fir. The method of use was to hold a bunch of rice in both hands, and then beat it against the barrel wall. Under the action of force, the grains splashed and then fell to the bottom.

This method is not only inefficient, time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also has an impact on health. Not only the grains are beaten out, but also the dust flying into the air. Standing next to it for less than a quarter of an hour, the inside of the nostrils was black.

The work of cutting rice lasted for ten days, and it was only after ten days that it was a little easier. However, there are still many subsequent miscellaneous tasks to do. The rice has to be dried, there are other crops to be harvested in the field, and space has to be made to plant autumn garlic and vegetables for winter.

This work was mostly done by Old Lady Gu and the men in the family. The rice ears left in the fields were picked up by the little girls, including Da Ni, Er Ni, and Chun Ni.

The maid picked up the freshly soaked persimmons, and Li went to the town to sell them. They each performed their duties.

After finishing their work in the field, Gu Liang and Gu Boxi did not take a few days off, and went into the Dahei Mountain the next day.

In autumn, there are not only crops in the field, but also various medicinal materials in the mountains.

Lily, Polygonatum, Dipsacus, Cornus officinalis, Polygonum multiflorum, Adenophora, Bupleurum, and Lily are all suitable for harvesting in autumn. After a year of growth and accumulation, they have not been consumed in winter. It is the best time of the year for Chinese medicine.

And the Schisandra chinensis in the mountains is harvested. Only the Schisandra chinensis in autumn and winter can be regarded as top-grade. Schisandra chinensis is now ripe and red, hanging on the branches like a bunch of red grapes. The reason why Schisandra chinensis is called Schisandra chinensis is that it tastes sweet, sour, spicy, bitter, and salty, so it is called Schisandra chinensis. Schisandra chinensis can be eaten directly, but the taste is not very good. Gu Liang has also tasted it. It tastes sour and bitter at first, then a spicy aroma comes out. After biting the seeds inside, a feeling similar to pepper rushes straight to the forehead, and the overall taste is sweet and salty, which is very complex and entangled on your tongue.

Although Schisandra chinensis is not very delicious as a wild fruit, it is indeed a very useful medicinal material, which was first recorded in "Shennong's Herbal Classic". And it has many effects. It mainly treats chronic cough and asthma, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, spermatorrhea, spermatorrhea, chronic diarrhea, thirst due to loss of body fluid, thirst, palpitations, insomnia, and dreaminess. With so many effects, there is naturally a great demand, and there is no need to worry about low prices.

There are many medicinal materials in the mountains, and they also harvest a lot. Usually, in less than half a day, their respective backpacks are full.

Gu Boxi followed Gu Liang for several months. With his generous teaching, he remembered all the common medicinal materials in the mountains, including their general medicinal effects and processing methods. Although Gu Liang didn't know much about medicinal materials, it was far from enough to cure diseases and save lives with just these pharmacology. After all, curing diseases and saving lives requires a variety of medicinal materials to form a prescription, which involves various properties of medicinal materials.

"Medicines have yin and yang, some are single, some are needed, some are messengers, some are afraid, some are hated, some are opposite, and some are killing" and other seven emotions, as well as "monarch, minister, assistant, and messenger" and so on. There are so many sayings about prescriptions alone, not to mention the complicated things such as medical diagnosis.

So now sometimes when the third uncle Gu Boxi asks Gu Liang some questions, Gu Liang is already a little stretched and can't answer. After all, with his half-knowledge level, and not specializing in Chinese medicine, it is really a bit beyond his ability to answer all the questions.