Lottery System: Ancient Escape

Chapter 4 Handing over Grain
This is a little different from previous years. In previous years, there were two fights at the beginning. Nowadays, everyone's life is not easy, and the standard can only be lowered again and again.

Moreover, it is not easy for the village to save food by themselves when fleeing from famine, so this is the only way to do it.

There were more than 180 people fleeing famine in the whole village. Of course, there were more than these people in the whole village, and several families went to relatives' homes for help.

A few families could not bear the hardships during the four or five days of fleeing the desert, so they returned to the village halfway.

In this way, there are 21 remaining families, big and small, old and young.

During the deliberations, although there were disputes, the collection of grain was revised in the end.
Probably 1-3 adult labor families hand in half a bucket.

For adult labor families with 4-6 people, one bucket will be handed over.

Adult labor force families with 7-10 persons hand in one bucket and a half.

Adult labor force families with more than 10 persons shall pay 2 dou.

Oh, there are no labor families with more than ten members in the village.The most numerous are Zhao Feiyu's family, the village head's family and the patriarch's family. These families only have about 6 or 7 adult laborers.

Therefore, the established rule of more than 10 people is just there, and everyone knows it well.

Before the night came, finally, the grain handed in by each household was collected, and various situations occurred in the middle.

Some people don't want to pay more food, so they use wild vegetables to make up the amount. The old patriarch responded to this by increasing the exchange rate by two levels compared with previous years, and accepting it as usual, as long as you are willing to pay.

One bucket of grain is worth one catty, and you can use ten catties of wild vegetables to equal one catty of grain.

However, no one is willing to change it now. After all, wild vegetables have to be found.

Where do you have time to find wild vegetables when fleeing from famine? Ten catties of wild vegetables can fill your stomach for several days, and one catty of grain is not enough for two days.

In the end, according to statistics, more than 200 catties of grain were harvested.Pack them in four large sacks and hand them over to the most authoritative patriarch in the village, the village chief and his family for safekeeping.

It's not just that everyone trusts them, but more importantly, their two families have a lot of labor, and they also have large carts that can pull food, unlike other families, who either use manpower to resist, or carry, and better wheelbarrows to pull.

Here, the so-called food mainly refers to brown rice, which is not the current white rice, but yellow and black millet. (Milliet is also rice in ancient times, let’s call it yellow rice for the time being.)
There are also Shu, which are actually beans, mainly soybeans, which are grown more. This kind of thing is resistant to drought and cultivated land, and it can be eaten in a variety of ways. The most important thing is to grind it into powder, which is especially easy to preserve.

There is also wheat, but this is precious, even if there is a breed, it is usually sold out, and a little is left for young children to eat.

The two hundred catties of grain harvested from the village are varied.

More rice bran plus aged broken yellow rice.

Aged bean noodles, some even have noodle worms, um~ you can still eat them if you pick them up, these are the best.

And the beans with moldy flowers, and the black wild rice stems.

Another family turned in a mess of wild vegetables, which were mixed with a lot of weeds.Well, people said they were wild vegetables, and they ate them in public. Wow, they taste so good!Am I right? My whole family eats them. These are wild vegetables!

Take such a rascal, what do you think you can do!
All right!Take it, collect the records, which people turned in which things, and when it needs to be distributed uniformly, you can distribute wild vegetables to other families separately!

The old patriarch spoke, and everyone no longer dared to have other thoughts. The family that turned in the weeds as wild vegetables finally, under pressure, slowly made up for the one catty of grain they owed.

There are three families in the village who have long been out of food. They are all families without labor.

In Zhao Li's family, a widow with a blind mother-in-law, a 9-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter.

At Zhao Laogen's house, the lame old man brought his 7-year-old grandson Zhao Goudan.

There is also an old couple Zhao Jintou with her old wife and a 6-year-old boy Zhao Shitou adopted from the same village.

These three families are very poor, and they don't have much food at all. After these few days of consumption and saving, they have a thin meal a day. In this way, they tighten their belts to live, and the food is almost bottomed out.

In order to exchange for food, Widow Zhao and her 9-year-old son are the mainstays of the family. Whenever they have time, they look for wild vegetables. The 9-year-old son Zhao Shuanzhu is very sensible. He will dig holes to catch voles, climb mountains to dig wild vegetables, and climb trees to chop firewood.

Zhao Goudan, the grandson of Zhao Laogen's family, and Zhao Shitou, the grandson of Zhao Jintou, followed Zhao Shuanzhu's buttocks all day long.

(Author: This is the first time I write a book, please take care of the newcomers, I will be more motivated by the votes given!)

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