In previous years, they would have been able to buy food if they had money, but not this year. There has been no rain since the beginning of spring planting.
They are all farmers. They know that there is going to be a severe drought, so no one sells food at all. Even if they want to buy it, they can no longer buy it.
Su Daqiang was thinking about what Su Yuanyuan said about Tian Xiaohua being the Sangmen Star. Now that he thought about it, it was really like that.
She is the one who wants to go to Jiangbei, and she is the one who wants to come back.
Over and over again, the family lost all their money and changed from a big house to this small house. Moreover, these three years were just a waste of time.
So the two of them are no longer as close as before. Su Daqiang sees that Tian Xiaohua is not good at anything.
It rained a little during the dog days. Although it was not a waste of money, it was simply impossible to distribute such a large amount of money.
I eat in the canteen, and from the beginning I was able to eat enough, but now I have two meals of gruel a day.
I go to work hungry every day, and those who work in the village just hang out all day long. People who work like this are not satisfied and stop working.
Su Daqiang came back from the canteen. He knew that everyone in the village had food, but they didn't. Now he realized that Su Yuanyuan had tricked him.
He has heard from people in the village that the yield of this girl's two acres of land has been extremely good in the past two years, and can be said to be the best in the village.
Although she may have really been famine at the beginning, she may not have paid back, but what about the harvest in the past two years? How much can a little girl eat?
But she only left two bags of corn kernels and nothing else, not even the corn stalks.
At that time, I just wanted her to replace me, so I didn't think much about it. I gave her a few hundred yuan. It was a big loss.
Someone must have given her an idea, otherwise how could she have such an idea based on her appearance?
It must be Hu Chunhua. She is the only one who is close to this little girl. Maybe her food is at her house.
Su Daqiang was thinking about this thing along the way. Tonight was just vegetable porridge. The wild vegetables were old and bitter. Apart from the wild vegetables, there wasn't much food. Just like that, he still wasn't full.
Before I even got home, I was hungry again.
Although this year's autumn harvest is nearly half less than in previous years, it is not like this.
He was passing by a field on his way home. Every year when it was his own land, wheat was grown there, but now it was all good and bare.
In fact, this is more in line with Yang Hongwen's wishes. There has been only one rain this year, and the autumn harvest yield has been greatly different. Other villages have planted a lot of wheat.
Yang Hongwen only cultivates more than ten acres of land, but everyone refuses to do it if they don't want to. He feels that if it continues like this next year, it will be in vain to save seeds and suffer in vain.
Su Daqiang returned home, but his mother and daughter have not come back yet. They have planted sweet potatoes in more than an acre of land in the yard, and they plan to harvest them in the next two days, which will also be eaten. They also grow food on their private plots.
It was planted right at the door, but because we had to work every day, we didn’t do much to clean it up. In the end, it was completely deserted.
It would be good to be able to harvest the seeds. He thought of Su Yuanyuan again. He had never thought Tian Xiaohua was so lazy and sloppy before. In the past, that girl did all the work at home. Now Tian Xiaohua only works and eats in the canteen.
You can see it.
The grass in the yard is taller than the crops. The more I think about it, the more unhappy I become.
Now in October, sweet potatoes should also be dug. If you don’t have enough to eat, you can fill it up.
Waiting left and waiting, but still not coming back. Su Daqiang had no choice but to burn the kang himself. Otherwise, sleeping on the kang in the cold all night would make his waist uncomfortable the next day.
In the evening, Hu Chunhua and his wife went to Yang Hongwen's house. Yang Minggang is now the squad leader.
"Brother, are you really going to stop growing wheat?"
Yang Minggang felt uncomfortable. Every year, he would plant wheat after spring sowing after harvesting. At that time, everyone was competing with each other and had planted more than ten acres of land. It is still possible to plant at this time, so why not plant it now?
"Ming Gang, look at the weather, even if you plant, you may not be able to come out. Look at the wheat in the more than ten acres of land. Don't even be able to harvest the wheat seeds by then."
"Isn't it going to snow this year?" Yang Minggang frowned.
"Who knows this? But even if it snows in winter, what's the use if the wheat seedlings can't come out now?
Since you don’t want to do it, then don’t plant it and let them know the cost of doing so.”
"Then we'll start grinding corn tomorrow and organize the public grain distribution."
"Well, we've sorted it all out, but there's no rush to hand it over. Let's see what other villages do. Our village is not the only one affected by the disaster, everyone is like this. It's not easy for us to stand out, so we can just follow the trend."
"How could this person do this? I harvested more than 200 kilograms of corn in my yard."
"Keep it, don't let others know."
How could Yang Minggang not know this truth?
Hu Chunhua and Xu Chunjiao were talking about Su Yuanyuan.
"I don't know what happened to any of the girls." Hu Chunhua was really worried about Su Yuanyuan.
"No problem, that girl is more capable than us."
"What's the use of having the ability? Daqiang wrote a letter saying that his family's one hundred acres of land can't even harvest seeds."
"Don't they still get paid?"
"When I read the letter to Daqiang's family, it didn't mention salary.
But I heard before that if you fail to complete the task, you will be deducted money."
"I wonder if any girl has received her salary?"
"I'm really worried about her. She must have sold all the food. What will she eat there?"
Xu Chunjiao sighed after hearing this, "We are too far away, even if we want to help her, we can't."
"Yes, she gave us food before she left. This girl is really thoughtful.
As for Su Daqiang and his wife, I get angry every time I see them. Just look at that Tian Xiaohua, not to mention working as a foreigner. The wasteland that that girl worked so hard to cultivate is now deserted again."
"Why bother with them? I see that Su Daqiang is also annoyed with Tian Xiaohua. I never thought that Yuanyuan was born in Laba or because Tian Xiaohua is greedy, she is not afraid of killing two people?"
"I'm not a very clear person. Last time I went to the market, I was asked where the fried mahua was. I just knew I could eat it myself."
The two men also finished talking. So they stopped, and Hu Chunhua and his wife went home.
"Our family's food must not be leaked out. I don't think we will have enough to eat next year. It will be good if we don't starve to death."
If the public grain is paid according to the quantity, there will not be much food left. What will hundreds of people in the village eat?" Yang Hongwen was really worried.
"I know, the entrance to our cellar is hidden. If you want to eat it by yourself in the future, I will cook it in the middle of the night." Xu Chunjiao also saw it. This is really weird.
