Grandma Rong sorted out the medicinal materials in the basket and left with the wild ginger happily.
Yan Yu followed her eyes and found that she had dug several holes on the edge of the vegetable garden and buried wild ginger in them.
Natural preservation method, great!
The brother and sister took the picked tender grass and fed it to the sheep. The three sheep came over slowly, lowering their heads to chew.
Two hens came over clucking, dangling one foot in the air, and then gently put it down after a while. Their small bean-like eyes were looking at people or sheep. They tentatively scratched at the tender grass twice, and saw that there was no danger.
Pecked a few more times.
One of the rams bleated and suddenly rushed towards them.
The two hens were clucking and squawking wildly, running around and bumping around, leaving behind a hasty paw print and a few chicken feathers that fell out of their whirring.
The ram ignored it and continued to eat grass.
The two hens who had no memory came clucking over again in an instant, and Yan Yu couldn't stand it any longer.
Two little hands waved them away.
"Go over there. Why are you running around here all the time? Go to the vegetable garden and peck for bugs!"
The two hens were driven around by her, going everywhere except the vegetable garden...
Yan Xiangheng held his forehead, if you chase the chickens like this, will they still be able to lay eggs? Just let them fly.
"Xiaoer, didn't you just say that something happened." Yan Xiangheng greeted her.
Yan Yu stopped competing with the chicken and ran over.
Without even taking a breath, he quickly said: "Brother, let's stock up on some food now. There are so many disaster victims in Guanzhou, and they all need to eat. There is only one crop here a year. After the food tax and the food at home, there is no food left."
How much is it? If they don't sell grain, or sell very little, how much will the price of grain drop? Let's not wait and buy it now."
Yan Xiangheng thought seriously.
Whether you buy food early or late, you still have to bear the increase or decrease in price.
Guanzhou has received so many disaster victims, and there are so many mouths waiting for food.
Will there not be enough food?
Loss or profit is not that important compared to being hungry.
If they buy it now, they will feel more at ease.
"I will discuss this matter with the village elders," Yan Xiangheng said.
"Moreover, brother, we will have eight bags of patent medicine tomorrow. Why don't we send them to Huju City first, collect some money, and come back and share it with each family."
Yan Xiangheng said: "Then I will go to Huju City tomorrow."
"Dad bought a fishing net before and wanted to catch more fish from the river. Now he is not at home. Big brother, please ask each family in the village who knows how to use that net. Can we take some time to go to the river to lower the net every day?
good?"
"Yeah, okay." Yan Xiangheng nodded, finished the food left for him in two mouthfuls, and ran out.
Recently, Village Chief Luo likes to sit on the big rock and weave baskets and mats with the old guys.
After lunch, they all walked out of the house and gathered together.
Yan Xiangheng arrived early and had been leaning against the big rock for a while.
Seeing him here, Village Chief Luo took two quick steps and asked, "Brother Heng'er, is there something wrong?"
"Grandpa, village chief, there is something wrong." Yan Xiangheng organized a conversation and talked about several things.
Before Village Chief Luo could say anything, Old Songtou, who was listening clearly, started shouting.
"Then you have to buy food early and stock it up. When the money is gone, you can make more money. Without food, it will be fatal!"
Village Chief Luo also nodded: "This is an important matter. I need to find out how to get to the surrounding towns later. Let's organize people to buy them separately."
These are mature and prudent words.
Thoughtful.
There are so many families in the village, but each family only buys a few kilograms, and there are many people of all ages who can join together. In Huju's current situation, Yongning and the others can't get in, so they can only buy it from the grain shops in various towns.
The grain stores in the town may not be able to handle such a large amount of business, and they might have to raise the price. It would be better to buy them separately, which would not be so eye-catching.
As for what Yan Xiangheng said about setting off the net and delivering medicine to Huju.
The few old people did not expect to get back some medicine money, but they were just thinking about Xiucai Gong. As soon as they heard about the eight bags of medicine, they immediately mobilized people and said that they would deliver it early tomorrow.
After dinner, torches were lit on the big rocks.
Village Chief Luo talked about buying grain and asked each family to report the number of grain they wanted to buy to Yan Xiangheng. He also asked everyone to be more careful in serving the mules and donkeys in the village recently.
By the way, I highlighted a few examples of people who have performed well in their hard work recently, as well as a few families whose houses were about to be capped off, and praised them emphatically.
Finally, I mentioned the matter of fishing nets.
He made it very clear that it was the Yan family's net and could not be used in vain. Some of the fish caught should be given to others. He also said in a more serious tone, "If you really know how to do this, please don't embarrass yourself if you don't..."
…
We all had been tired for a day and should have rested. But what the village chief said about buying grain disturbed our minds and made us sleepy. While almost everyone in the village was there, they were busy talking about it.
The main thing is to ask other people how much they are prepared to buy, and then weigh it for your own.
Several original mountain people gathered around Uncle An.
"Uncle An, how much grain should we buy?"
Although everyone is now from the same village, and they all agree that Chief Luo is still the head of this large village, years of habits cannot be changed, especially those who come from mountain villages, and they trust those who have watched them grow up.
Uncle An.
Uncle An is a man who has his own plans. Except for killing bandits, they are very active, and they follow the trend in other matters. They don't stand out and don't cause trouble. When they arrived in Guanzhou, they honestly let Yan Xiucai arrange them.
On the day they settled down again, this group of people who were born and raised in the mountains were so excited that they wished they could shout a lot.
But at that time, they were still outside the city, so they could only hold back their excitement.
When I got here, I measured out the land, cleared it up and planted vegetables, and I was very busy all the time.
The mountain people poured their joy into the land that belonged to them.
They are a bit slow in building houses, but they are not bad at opening land, and they are even better at going into the mountains to find medicine.
When it comes to the work points recorded in Cui Langzhong's office, they are all ranked first.
Uncle An was a little hesitant.
People who live in the mountains have few opportunities to touch money.
The money they had been allocated before was put in their pockets, and they were really reluctant to spend any of it.
It's the money that Yan Yu said was dead.
They had some leftover, and with the rations handed out by the eldest master Kang Gai, they could survive for a few months.
Besides, they have mountains at their backs, which is the environment they are most familiar with.
One after another, people trapped hares and pheasants, as well as hedgehogs and squirrels. Mountain people would eat them all without being picky.
Besides, at this time of year, there are a lot of edible wild vegetables in the mountains, and they have collected them carefully according to the habits they have developed over the years.
After doing the math, it seems that there is no need to buy food.
but……
They are different now.
Instead of living in the mountains, I had land and built an adobe house under the mountains.
Do you still want to live the same life as before?
Do we also need to learn from others to make some changes?
Uncle An's face showed a bit of confusion.
The few people surrounding him couldn't understand the change in his expression.
"Buy!" He finally made up his mind.
"We will buy as much as other people buy. We always have more money than those people. We will buy as much as they buy."
The "those families" he spoke of were the victims who had been harmed by bandits in the past. After dividing the money several times, "those families" got the least.
If they are willing to spend it to buy food.
Then you should buy this grain!
After all, they yearn for the life at the foot of the mountain, but they don't know how to live a good life, so they can only learn from others secretly.
After Uncle An said something, a few people went to wander around Yan Xiangheng.
Look at everyone and remember how many they have.
Yan Xiangheng was extremely busy here.
Just one person registered to buy grain, and there were about a hundred households in the village, which made him feel like he was busy with three hundred households.
I had just memorized the first one, and then I came back to change it.
I also changed it after seeing it later.
I was remembering that I regretted it and begged him to wait and go back to discuss it with my family...
Mrs. Qi found Li Xuemei.
Ask her: "Sister, how much food do you plan to buy for your family? Have you forgotten it?"
Li Xuemei nodded and said: "The children can do the math themselves, I'll show it to you."
She pulled out a piece of paper, with large characters written on both sides. Even the blank spaces were filled with many small characters, and something was written with charcoal in the smaller gaps.
Li Xuemei read it to her. It contained the amount of food his family planned to save to survive this winter.
There are plenty of refined rice, fine flour, coarse grains, and various grains and beans.
Madam Qi was confused when she heard this.
There were so many samples that she couldn't remember them all.
"Sister, do you have the total number? Please tell me the total number." She took Li Xuemei's hand and whispered: "Mom has already said it, we don't have to worry about it, we can just buy it five times as much as yours."
She whispered a little embarrassedly: "I don't know if this is enough."
Li Xuemei was silent.
Tell her the total.
Mrs. Qi left happily.
After talking to the Qi family's wife for a while, I decided to be the last one to go and report secretly.
Although everyone in the village knows that the three men in her family can eat, they don't know how much they can eat, so it's better to hide it. As my mother said, hide their big stomachs and our family's money so that no one knows.
So real.
That night, Yan Xiangheng didn't sleep well.
Firstly, he wanted to see his father tomorrow, and secondly, he was worried about the price of food purchased by the village.
It was still dark the next day, so Mrs. Qi thought that while there was no one around, she reported her own number.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I got closer, I saw several people squatting in the dark in front of Yan's yard.
Good guy!
This means that she is very courageous. If she were to be a timid one, she would be scared to death.
"What are you doing squatting here?" Mrs. Qi slowly found her voice.
"The Qi family? Why are you here? Where is your Qi family?"
The person asking the question was Hu Da.
"I burned charcoal late yesterday, so I fell asleep in the woods and haven't come back yet," Mrs. Qi said.
Hu Da nodded, a little envious that Qi Da and the others could get together with Yan Laoer to make charcoal.
The more I stay in Guanzhou, the more I know how good this charcoal is.
When winter comes, if they are willing to work hard, the charcoal can still burn, but they will not be able to. In winter, I am afraid that the cat will get up like Master Lu said, and they will not be able to do any work.
"The numbers my family reported yesterday were a little short after I went back and thought about them. I thought about changing them."
The reason why the Hu family changed it many times was that Hu Da and Hu Er took back the slingshot of their previous children. When they went into the mountains to dig for medicine, few wild animals they saw could escape their sight alive.
With the income from meat, the consumption of food will naturally be reduced.
In addition to the various wild vegetables mixed in, his family was not prepared to buy more at first, and calculated that they would have enough rations.
But they couldn't stop the exchange of information in the village. They asked who was planning to buy how much and who was adding more, and they added more accordingly.
Later, someone talked about the victims, and they also thought that there might not be enough food. The family discussed it for most of the night and decided to buy more and stock up.
If other families in the village had to calculate and spend their money, the Hu family did not. Every time they killed the bandits, their brothers were not left behind, and the amount of money they received was really quite a lot.
If you have money, you will have confidence.
His brother Hu Er was right. Whatever he was afraid of, it was all free money. A full stomach was the right thing to do. It was the first time to spend the winter in Guanzhou. Who knows what the situation would be like. Even if there was more food, it would not be impossible the next year.
eat.
In this way, Hu Da visited several families with whom he had good friendships.
There are some families from the original village and a few families from the original mountain people. They all have an iron-clad friendship with each other by killing bandits together.
Several families wanted to count up, but they couldn't wait, so they ran over and waited outside the yard.
I felt tired from standing, so I naturally squatted down.
No one spoke anymore.
Mrs. Qi went home and came again.
Wait until the early morning light begins.
From a distance, they saw a figure walking quickly.
When I got closer, I saw that it was Mrs. Rong who was working in the Yan family.
Madam Rong looked at them with doubts on her face.
Mrs. Qi said: "Let's talk to Brother Heng'er about the amount of grain we buy. Don't worry, we'll keep it quiet and won't disturb them."
Madam Rong nodded and walked in.
Start cooking on the fire...
Yan Yu felt like there were flies buzzing around her ears.
She waved twice randomly, turned over, and hit the cat on the side with her face.
The cat was too lazy to move. He opened his eyes slightly and closed them again.
What does it feel like to suck a cat with your eyes open?
Happy! Happy!
Yan Yu opened her eyes and finally heard clearly what the buzzing sound was that was disturbing her dreams.
It's all human voices.
Listened to a few words.
She put the quilt over her head.
here we go again!
Or buy food!
This matter cannot be overcome.
Let's not talk about other things. The paper that the eldest brother wrote is quite useless.
Yan Yu felt distressed watching from the side.
She suddenly stood up, her face full of solemnity.
This can't happen anymore.
Those papers are so expensive!
After she quickly washed up, she couldn't wait for Sister Daya to comb her braids, so she braided them up and ran to where the sound came from.
"Brother, let me remember it." Yan Yu said.
He rescued Yan Xiangheng from the crowd, turned over his hand, and showed off his charcoal pencil.
You really came prepared.
"Come one by one and line up."
The Yan family's waiter looked serious and looked very much like that.
Ignore what she said about her messy hair.
Compared with Yan Jiaheng's kind and polite brother, Yan Yu participated in settling accounts and distributing money several times, which invisibly gave everyone a feeling of trustworthiness.
Hu Da Dao: "Queue up, everyone queue up."
He naturally stood first.
He smiled and said: "Second servant, I changed it from the previous one at Uncle Hu's house. I will remember an extra three hundred kilograms."
This chapter has been completed!