When the county magistrate goes to the countryside, according to the village chief, he must show his good side. If you ask if there are any difficulties, it must be that there are no difficulties at all.
So one day in advance, he sent a message to Qili Village. It would be fine if the county magistrate did not come. If he came, the roads in the village must be cleaned. Every household must clean their homes and put away the best things.
Take it out.
White rice is too fake, and the village head doesn't dare to ask for it, so he asks every family to make it according to the New Year's meal.
Because the county magistrate has not been to Qili Village for many years, and many villagers have no experience in entertaining high-ranking officials, the village chief can only follow the instructions of the village chief and pass them down.
There were many things going on, and everyone discussed them in a meeting under the banyan tree at the entrance of the village. When Manbao and the others returned from the county seat, the meeting had just begun, so Manbao listened to the whole process.
She was a little angry, thinking that it would be fine if she didn't cry about being poor, but she actually planned to show off her wealth.
So she followed Lao Zhoutou to find the village chief, trying to persuade him to disobey the village chief's instructions and show off his wealth instead of crying about his poverty.
But before she could finish speaking, Old Zhou took her back. As he walked away, he turned back and said to the village chief: "This child has her own ideas. Don't listen to her."
The village chief waved his hand and said, "Uncle Jin, please take her back. I know what to do."
It is impossible to cry for poverty. After such an obvious thing, the chief will settle the accounts afterwards. Should he still be regarded as the village chief?
But it's impossible to show off their wealth, because they can't show off their wealth even if they want to.
The whole village was mobilized, and the energetic children were able to clean up the whole village in just a short time.
In fact, there was nothing to clean up, so I just picked up the rubble on the road and filled it into some mud pits. What kind of garbage can be found in the countryside?
However, there are many places in the house that need cleaning. The Zhou family cleaned the house both inside and outside, even more carefully than they did during the Chinese New Year.
Man Bao ran to find Bai Shanbao. The two of them chatted together for a while, and then took Da Tou to play with the children of the three families whose house collapsed. Zhou Dayuan had just been married for half a year, and his wife was not pregnant yet, so there were no children at home.
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However, Zhou Dayuan was not very old, so Man Bao directly dragged Zhou Lang to find him.
Everyone gathered together and muttered.
The next day, after County Magistrate Fu came to Qili Village from Dali Village, the first thing he wanted to see were the three families whose houses had collapsed.
As soon as I walked into the low courtyard wall of Zhou Dayuan's house, I saw a lot of dustpans on the ground, in which the ugly-colored rice and wheat were drying.
The village chief was stunned and subconsciously stared at the village chief. He saw the village chief also staring and turning to look at Zhou Dayuan's parents.
The head of the house also looked at Zhou Dayuan's parents. The couple obviously did not expect such a situation at home. Their faces turned pale and they quickly looked for their son in the crowd.
Magistrate Fu didn't notice any strange movement on their part. He squatted down and looked at the blackened rice, touched it and asked, "Are these soaked in water?"
Zhou Dayuan took out a bag of wheat from the house and looked at the people in the yard with a surprised look on his face, as if he didn't expect there to be so many people at home.
Man Bao squeezed his way from the back of the crowd to the front, hid behind Zhou Dalang and gave him a thumbs up to express his appreciation.
Zhou Dayuan didn't dare to wink at her and put the bag down without moving.
When Magistrate Fu saw Dayuan's parents hesitating and speechless, he frowned, looked at Zhou Dayuan, and asked again: "Have these grains been soaked in water?"
Zhou Dayuan nodded repeatedly and said: "Originally, every household's food, except for some left over for eating, would be placed on wooden racks to avoid moisture. But my house collapsed, and the beams fell down, and the wooden racks
The food piled on top was also smashed to the ground. It was raining heavily outside, and when the house collapsed, water came in, so all the food was soaked."
Then they were very unlucky. It rained continuously after that day, and they all had to live in relatives' homes. They couldn't even take care of people, let alone take care of the food.
When the rain finally subsided and they found a place to dry the grain, they moved out and saw that a lot of wheat had sprouted, and a lot of rice was surprised.
As for the rest, even if they are dried out, there will still be a lot of sprouts without sunlight.
Da Yuan Dad finally cruelly exchanged the sprouting wheat and rice with the villagers at the ratio of three catties for one catty.
There was no way, not only had the wheat and rice sprouted, but they were also wet, but even so, not much had been exchanged.
Similar to his family, there are many families whose food is affected by moisture.
Moreover, this food is fine for one or two meals. If you buy too much and take it back, the sprouts will be too high and you won’t be able to eat them even if you want to. That would be a waste.
Old Zhou has changed a lot. It can be said that the Zhou family has changed the most in the whole village, changing a total of three hundred kilograms.
There is more wheat and less rice.
Zhou had a large family and a large place, so Lao Zhou first burned charcoal directly in the kitchen, and asked his second brother to make a long and wide bamboo bed and set it up on top, while the charcoal was placed underneath for baking.
Pour the rice on top, carefully dry it over charcoal fire overnight, and then turn it carefully, and the rice will slowly dry.
Although they had sprouts, Lao Zhoutou didn't dislike them at all. He dried them and shelled them. During this period, the rice was used for cooking porridge and cooking at home.
Although Manbao felt it was not delicious and lacked a lot of flavor, everyone in the Zhou family still ate it with gusto.
The wheat is also baked on it. If it is too late to be baked, it is ground into powder.
Because the wheat is wet, the flour ground out with the husk is not very good-looking. It is black and yellow, and still has the husk. However, the family does not care, and directly puts the ground flour on the bamboo bed to bake, and bake it carefully.
After drying, put it away and later you can make it into dough soup filled with bran, or directly make pancakes or steamed buns.
Although it may not taste very good, at least it can be preserved.
Da Yuan was curious and came to visit their bamboo bed, and spent money to order one with Zhou Lang.
But it didn't save much loss for their family, because they had a small family, and they had to use fire to bake them, so someone had to keep an eye on them at all times.
They have to be busy with the work in the field, have to keep an eye on the fire at home, and may have to stay up late at night. Dayuan's family is a family of four, and they simply can't stand it.
In Lao Zhou's family, there are six sons, four daughters-in-law and one eldest daughter, plus the old couple, each of them guards the house twelve hours a day, and there is an extra person, which does not affect the work in the fields at all.
Therefore, except for Lao Zhou's family, most of the food from other families ended up being so dark and smelling of mold because they failed to dry and dry it in time.
Magistrate Fu stretched out his hand and rubbed it. When he opened his hand, he saw that it was dark. When he got closer and smelled it, a musty smell hit his face.
Magistrate Fu pondered and said nothing.
The chief clerk who followed him quickly said: "Sir, let's go to the next house and have a look."
Magistrate Fu glanced at him and asked Zhou Dayuan, "How many acres of wheat and rice have your family planted this year? How many acres have been flooded? But have you planted beans?"
Zhou Dayuan answered one by one.
Magistrate Fu nodded and asked the master to take note of his situation. He then took people to another two families to have a look. Those two families were also drying grain in the yard. It could be said that now the whole village was drying food in the yard.
Moldy and black food.
Everyone's reasons are very good, "The sun has been better these two days. If we don't dry it out quickly, I'm afraid it will rain again."