Traveling through books: Traveling through time with a golden finger to become a soft rice man

Li Zheng left without giving anyone a chance to ask questions.

Noisy voices came from the crowd: "What's going on?"

"What else can happen? I've been farming all my life and I still don't understand this?!"

An older villager in the crowd added: "Maybe a drought is coming. We need to grow more food this year to save it."

"We haven't saved food every year, so why do we have to mention it separately this year?"

Many young people who have never experienced a severe drought don't understand why. Because of the rules passed down from their ancestors, they try their best to save some food every year to prepare for emergencies, so they don't understand what Li Zheng said today.

The young people in the village have only experienced a small drought and do not understand the situation, but some elderly people know that the last severe drought was more than 60 years ago. At that time, it was getting hotter year by year, and finally it dried up. For three years, there was no harvest and many people starved to death!

However, spreading these indiscriminately may lead to arrest by the government, so no one in the village dared to say so.

Yang Yuanzu remembered that a severe drought was mentioned in the book, but he did not know the specific time. The drought was briefly mentioned in the book. He only mentioned that after the severe drought, the national power of the Ning Dynasty weakened, foreign countries took the opportunity to invade, and the protagonist went into battle to kill the enemy. After performing extraordinary feats, he finally returned to Beijing to use his military exploits to vindicate an unjust case.

Although Li Zheng is an insignificant character in the book, he can still be quick to detect the coming of a severe drought. Perhaps the drought is just a guess in Li Zheng's mind, but for the sake of the entire village, he still decisively stood up to remind everyone.

Although Li Zheng left, there were still a few old people on the stage, and the villagers were surrounding them and asking questions.

Those young people were afraid that they would miss important information, so they also joined in.

Lin Ting'an also wanted to join in, but there were people on and off the stage. Yang Yuanzu protected Lin Ting'an and stood outside the crowd for a while, waiting for the people inside to disperse.

Perhaps the scene was too chaotic, but at this moment a man with a loud voice shouted: "Save water! Store grain! Store as much as you can!"

Someone responded: "If the drought doesn't come, won't the food be ruined?"

Some people are at a loss: "Now I sell the extra grain at home to earn some money to support my family. What should I do? I don't have enough money to keep the grain, and I won't have enough money to sell it!"

"Me too, my family still relies on the money from selling grain to support their children's education!"

"Then add more food, save some and sell some!"

Having said that, they don't have much food left after paying the food tax, and they don't know how much they have to save.

"We have a drum truck for irrigation, should everything be fine?"

"A small drought is no problem, but I'm afraid there will be no river water in a severe drought..."

Yang Yuanzu said to Lin Ting'an: "Let's go, it's useless to stay any longer. People just shouted out to save water and food."

The mood of the workers in the textile factory is much more stable. Compared with others, they get an extra wage in the factory. An extra wage also means more security. Therefore, whether their family's food is sold or not does not have much impact, only their money income this year. It’s just the portion of food missing.

Workers in charcoal factories, like textile factories, do not make money from food alone.

Most people in Fengping Village have side jobs, and those who rely solely on growing food are in the minority.

Lin Ting'an looked horrified: "I'm a little scared. I heard from my father that during droughts, people would exchange their children for food when they were hungry."

They are all their own living children. How can they bear it? Maybe people are irrational when they are hungry.

Lin Ting'an then thought that there were not only those who ate children, but also those who ate Guanyin soil and strangled themselves to death. Yang Yuanzu hugged Lin Ting'an and comforted him: "We will be fine if we unite as a family and make preparations early."

Lin Ting'an felt much more at ease when she thought that she had Yang Yuanzu and a family, and was no longer alone.

After Yang Yuanzu returned home, he paid a high price to hire workers to dig his well deeper, and also thickened and raised the wall around his home.

Other villagers were curious when passing by. They knew that the well was deeper, but what does building the wall have to do with drought?

After questioning, I found out that they were afraid that victims from other places would come in and rob them.

Yang Yuanzu only thought that the refugees would rob, but other villagers thought more. They were living in this era and knew that human life was worthless in troubled times and disaster years. Robbery was nothing, there were more terrible things.

However, their Fengping Village is doing better than several nearby villages. It is too popular and has too big goals.

After Yang Yuanzu's operation of building walls, other villagers not only built walls at their own homes, but also built walls in the village.

The village is too big, and every household has to provide help. Since this is organized voluntarily by the village and does not count as a corvee, the Yang family also needs to provide help, otherwise it will not be justified in terms of human relations.

The Yang family sent the No. 1 Protector to fight, and Yang Yuanzu took on the responsibility of the No. 1 Protector and served as Lin Ting'an's accompanying bodyguard.

Yang Yuanzu couldn't do the work of building a fence, and he was also afraid of being exposed to the sun. After all, the summer sun was too fierce.

Since building the wall is hard work, Nursing Home No. 1 received a bonus more than others this month.

People who practice martial arts are not afraid of getting tired or getting tanned. The nurse is very happy to make an extra amount of money this month.

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In the teahouse, Lin Ting'an was chatting with Boss Shang, a businessman from afar, introducing the fabrics from the textile factory, while Xiao Fan helped.

Yang Yuanzu was sitting not far away, drinking tea and eating snacks.

The fabric samples they brought today are in floral and plaid styles.

The price of fabrics from textile factories is similar to the market price, but the styles are much richer and more beautiful than the solid-color fabrics on the market, and their colors are also brighter.

The floral style is the most popular among women and men, while the plaid style is deeply loved by men.

Lin Ting'an is wearing a fresh light green floral skirt today, and Yang Yuanzu is naturally wearing the same style.

In ancient times, people wore skirts.

The couple's costumes were very eye-catching. After arriving at the teahouse, Boss Shang glanced at Yang Yuanzu several times.

Lin Ting'an noticed this detail after introducing the fabrics, and then introduced to Boss Shang the characteristics of their clothing in Shunxing County-couple clothing and family clothing.

It is very common for a family to use the same material to make clothes. Unexpectedly, Lin Ting'an came up with a name for this clothes.

Boss Shang thought it was novel and also sensed a business opportunity, so he immediately placed an order.

Small floral styles, large flower styles, plaid styles...

Light pink, light green, dark green, bright yellow, bright yellow, bright red, lake blue, violet...

Boss Shang made some calculations and found that his capital budget had exceeded his budget, so he immediately started bargaining with Lin Ting'an.

"Boss Lin, do you think I can give you a discount on the 50,000 taels of goods I ordered?"

Hearing fifty thousand taels, someone whose monthly income was only nine taels was sad.