Return to the journey(102)

Thanks to several days of good weather, the wheat is completely ripe.

The fourth master, carrying a sickle, went to collect wheat for the villagers with Bage and others. Fang Yun sat in one house and then another, firstly to understand the situation of each family, and secondly to say hello to whoever was in need.

Any wheat sold can be sold to her.

But how much extra food can anyone have? In Qin Province, the various taxes are now not high compared to other places, but they are really not low either.

Fang Yun ran around and was soaked with sweat. She was not particular now, and she completely followed the local customs. She wore straw sandals on her feet, and when they got dirty, she would wash them in the river at the door. When she came back, she shook her wet hands,

While tapping his toes on the ground, I guess something got stuck in his straw sandals.

I made mung bean soup and put it in the kettle, "You pour it yourself."

Fang Yun drank a gulp, "We still have to think of ways to get food. Even if all the excess food is sold to us, it will be difficult to maintain several factories..."

Tongtong stopped writing, "When we get the machine back later, we need to communicate with Zhang Qiao about this matter. They should allocate what should be allocated. We alone can't afford it! You can't work too hard on this matter, you have to keep improving.

The more they ask for it, the more ruthless they are, the more reassured they will be. Otherwise, we should guess that we have other plans. As for food, we will save as much as we can collect to prevent accidents. But the main source of food is not

It cannot be transferred from above."

Fang Yun swallowed another mouthful of mung bean soup and thought about it. Food requires money. The establishment of various factories cannot be accomplished without a large sum of money.

She breathed a sigh of relief and went over to take a look. Lin Yutong listed various medicinal materials. What was this for?

"I have listed all the things I have seen recently that can be used as medicinal materials. I have to go back to the mountain and explore the mountain to see if there is anything special on the mountain. If there is, I must protect it and think about it.

Methods can be used to help them reproduce. When establishing a plant, you have to avoid them.

This is what she worries about emotionally, "Is there anything else?"

"The other thing is..." Tongtong put down the pen, "Is there land on the mountain that can be reclaimed, and can the land be used to grow things. Apart from other things, can potatoes and sweet potatoes... be grown? Even vegetables... should be tried.

This will prevent someone from having food stuck in their throat in the future. As long as we have something to eat... that's all."

Fang Yun was stunned, stood up and left, "You reminded me, I should visit all the surrounding villages and towns."

This person says that wind is like rain.

"Don't run away alone!" Lin Yutong stood up and took two steps after him, "In this case, I think that silly boy is quite lively. Why don't you bring him to your side, get paid like the transportation team, and just stay with you?

Turn around. If you want to leave after this is over, take Shuanzi and Hanwa with you!"

Shuanzi is particularly trustworthy, and Hanwa is a local.

Fang Yun waved his hand, "I know! I know!" Why do you worry so much?

She can run out, but Tongtong can't! If she can't, she can't. Someone has to take care of the family.

After Chang Ping finished writing a page, when he heard the laughter of children outside, he couldn't sit still and kept sticking his head to look outside.

"Then let's go out too!"

Okay! I immediately jumped up and went down to the kang.

When we went out, there were almost no adults on the road, and almost no older children were seen. There were only three or five five- or six-year-old children playing in the alley with a group of two- and three-year-old children. The adults were all in the fields, busy harvesting wheat.

I couldn't take care of the children for the time being. The older ones took the younger ones, and there were dozens of such children gathered in one village.

Lin Yutong led Chang Ping out and said he wanted to watch Chang Ping play with the children for a while. As a result, Yang Zi hurried back from the other end of the alley, holding a big watermelon in his hand.

"Brother-in-law!" Changping immediately gave Tongtong's hand and ran towards Yang Zi.

Yang Zi shouted, "Don't run, my uncle is here."

Tongtong laughed, "Where did you get the watermelon?!"

"In a wasteland!"

On the wasteland? Oh! Got it! I just don’t know when a watermelon seed fell on the wasteland, and then a watermelon grew out. “Is it ripe?”

"They're all cracked, they're ripe!" Yang Zi ran back holding them, "Sister, look, are they cracked?"

It's really red flesh, and it does crack naturally.

"Let's cut it, put the table at the door, count the number of people... don't pull anyone down." With Yang Zi watching, she took the basket and went to pick up small stones from the river bed.

Why did you pick this up?

Pave a gravel road between your home and the door, and enclose a fence on the roadside. Plant some vegetables this season and you can still have a crop in the autumn.

Yang Zi cut a melon and distributed it to a group of monkey children. With so many children, each one really only has a small tooth. And the seeds of this melon are very big, so the flesh must be less! Yang Zi took the scraps himself, just enough for one bite.

, and gave Lin Yutong a piece of it, "Sister, you have a try."

I don't want to eat anymore. You can just eat that stutter.

Yang Zi didn't eat it after all. Seeing that Chang Ping had finished his own, Yang Zi fed this piece to Chang Ping. Chang Ping frowned, "There are seeds!"

Yang Zi carried Chang Ping down to the river bed, washed Chang Ping's hands and face by the river, and whispered: "You can't say this, do you understand?"

I'm partial to you. I only gave you the center portion of the melon. There were no seeds. Why did you complain?

Chang Ping whispered: "I still want to eat..."

Yang Zi shushed and said in a low voice: "That piece has not been discovered by anyone. I will pick it off for you when it is ripe! Don't worry, I will take the basket with me next time and take it home secretly."

Uh-huh-huh!

Tongtong wanted to laugh when she heard this, but her nose was sore. She was speechless at that time, and she was still thinking that when the fourth master came back and he was at home looking after the children, she would have to go and find out who had a melon field.

But the fourth master came back. Xiaodao was carrying a basket and Huaizi was holding a watermelon in his hand.

Where did you get it? The child just said he wanted to eat it, and you got it back.

Fourth Master handed the basket in his hand to Tongtong, "Look what this is?"

What?

The basket was quite light, and it was covered with a layer of wild vegetables. She pulled the wild vegetables apart, and oh! A basket of apricots.

"You must be greedy too." The fourth master turned to look at Tongtong. Seeing that Tongtong's eyebrows were curled up from eating, he grabbed one and gave it to Tongtong, "Try it, they are all washed."

Tongtong took it and stuffed it into his mouth. The taste, um...

"Is it tasty?"

tasty!

"Is it sweet?"

sweet!

The fourth master went in and washed his hands while saying, "I saw two apricot trees at the foot of the mountain, with some fruits hanging here and there. Most of them were burned by birds, so I picked out these."

"Yeah!" Tongtong hung the basket under the eaves, "Let the water vapor dry, and then eat slowly later."

Don’t be reluctant, go back and ask where you can buy it.

OK!

Tongtong was busy, and the Fourth Master looked up at the hanging basket of fruits, and then at the other people in the yard. Then he took down the basket while Tongtong went to the kitchen. He now suspected that this fruit... was not as good as his own

I thought it was so sweet.

Tongtong was very considerate, and with so many people and children looking at her eagerly, no matter how much she liked to eat, she would not eat alone. Not only did she eat alone today, she also hung up her food stingily.

As he picked them, he asked Huaizi, "Have you tasted these apricots?"

ah?

Huaizi took a look and said, "I don't like to eat something like this. I thought you knew it was sweet."

The fourth master looked at Bago again, and Bago was stunned for a moment: "I thought... you want to use almonds." Xiao Lin said it was delicious, so he thought the couple were going to have a second child, and Xiao Lin was shocked.

Yang Zi reached out and picked out a soft one, bit it, and winced with sore eyes. This thing...the taste is killing me.

It's so sour, how can it be sweet?

Tongtong poked his head out from the kitchen and smiled at Fourth Master, "It's just sweet. Hang it up for me, and I'll pickle it later and make snacks for winter." Fourth Master also looked at Tongtong and smiled, look at these two people.

I saw you smiling, they were not embarrassed, but the people following you blushed.

Bago pointed to the next door, "...I'll go back to eat."

Huaizi had nowhere to hide and continued to collect stones to pave the way.

Yang Zi was not yet old enough to understand, so he took Chang Ping and went to the river to ice the watermelon.

Fourth Master smiled in the direction of the kitchen. It's not that she didn't want to be cowardly, she had no conditions to be cowardly. In this situation, she had to be the backbone and couldn't be cowardly.

No, the squeamish Tongtong couldn't shout inside: "Call Bage to come over for dinner. Sister Fang went to wander around. It will be troublesome for him to cook alone if he can come back in the evening."

Cooking on a hot day requires sweat.

A large basin of cold noodles was served, but Sister Fang and Shuanzi Hanwa came back. Tongtong went to bring out another basketful of steamed buns, "Hurry up and eat."

These three people had obviously washed themselves outside, but after washing them again, what was the black dust on their bodies?

Sister Fang sat on a small bench and fanned herself, "You don't know... In the middle of summer, Rich Man Liu's wheat pile in West Town caught fire for some reason... Oh my God, all the wheat for the whole season was burned.

...We helped put out the fire, but the fire couldn't be put out! It's no secret, we made a circle of fire insulation tape, and we can just burn that area..."
To be continued...