Siheyuan: There are seven fairies in my house, I am so busy

"Liangzi, are you serious?

Very good!

You don’t know, but when I heard the news of food ration reduction just now, I felt a little scared at the meeting. Although there is still some food at home, it is far from enough.

I was almost scared to death!"

Wang Shujuan patted her chest and tried hard to calm her fear. She was not lying.

Although she didn't feel comfortable complaining and crying like Jia Zhang and the others at the meeting because there was some food at home, the fear in her heart was just as great.

“Okay, that’s great!

To be honest, not only your mother, but even I, the old lady, am scared. It is really too scary to have no food to eat during the famine!

I really don’t want to recall or even think about the tragic scenes during natural disasters and famines.

Now it’s good, Liangzi, you have done a great thing!

We won't ask about the specific process. As long as the food safety and your own safety are guaranteed, we won't care about anything else.

Now Liangzi has grown up and has become capable. Our family has been relying on Liangzi for support this year.

Our family's lives are getting better and better, and now you are the real pillar of our family.

He is truly my precious grandson!"

Even when Zhang Jialiang was a second-rate person in the past, Zhang Jialiang's grandmother treated him as her precious grandson. Not to mention that after more than a year, the old lady of the Zhang family now regards Zhang Jialiang as the real pillar of the Zhang family.

"But even though Liangzi has food, we can't be too obvious, so we have to do what others do.

If we need to go out and dig wild vegetables, we should dig wild vegetables; if we need to dig grass roots, we should dig grass roots. If people don't go out at night, our family should not wander around.

We can’t let others see the true situation of our family, otherwise people in the compound will become jealous and do anything.”

Zhang Jialiang's grandmother knew the people in this compound very well, so she quickly reminded Wang Shujuan and Zhang Jialiang.

"Mom, you're right. I get it. Tomorrow I'll have Lao Wu go outside the city to dig wild vegetables. When we have a break, the whole family will go outside the city to find food. I'll normally keep the family members under control."

Wang Shujuan knew that the old lady was right, so she quickly said that she would do as the old lady said.

Wang Shujuan is usually in charge of more family affairs. Although she has a soft personality and is not very helpful when dealing with outsiders, she is still very good at educating children and managing the family. Except for Zhang Jialiang, the other daughters in the family all listen to her very much.

All the families in the courtyard are discussing how to deal with the current serious situation, and now everyone is trying to find a solution.

Zhang Jialiang would not participate in digging wild vegetables. To be honest, this grandson of Zhang Jialiang is quite lazy and never does housework at home.

He never did it when he was a jerk before, and it's the same now that he has changed his personality. He has never done it since he came to this world, so the women in his family will not let him go to dig wild vegetables, and they have never thought about it at all.

Besides, he has a job now, so if he has the time, he might as well go to the countryside to buy some supplies.

Even though the amount of materials purchased during this period is not much, it is better to have something than nothing.

People in rural areas still need some industrial tickets to buy industrial products to live. Although everyone is very concerned about food now, many families still raise some livestock, such as chickens and ducks, so as long as they go to the countryside, they can always collect some supplies.

Today Zhang Jialiang decided to visit Liangjiagou in Mentougou. He had been to Liangjiagou Village once. After Xu Damao's introduction, he had become acquainted with the village cadres of Liangjiagou.

After riding my bike out of the city, I saw people all over the mountains and plains looking for all kinds of food.

However, because there were too many people, everyone's harvest was very small. The baskets people carried were empty, with only a few small wild vegetables and a few edible grass roots.

The bark of the elm tree is edible. After processing, it can be precipitated into starch. Although it tastes bad, it can indeed fill the stomach. Therefore, a large amount of elm bark outside the city was peeled off.

That is to say, it is autumn now and most leaves are inedible. If it were spring, the edible leaves such as poplar leaves and willow leaves would probably have been pulled out clean.

Due to hunger, people moved very slowly, most of them had a sallow complexion, and they walked unsteadily.

Zhang Jialiang quickly walked through the crowd and headed straight for his destination. Liangjiagou is a village in Mentougou area, which is a mountainous area.

Since most of the arable land here is dry land, getting water is very difficult, and life here is even more difficult during this severe drought period.

Fortunately, there is still some food in the mountains here to make up for it, and occasionally there are sporadic prey, and these prey are Zhang Jialiang’s target, so he came to Liangjiagou.

However, now all the men, women, young and old in the entire village of Yangjiagou are actively fighting drought, and there are not many people in the village.

Zhang Jialiang could only wait until the lunch break to go around the village to see if there were any suitable supplies to purchase.

Men, women, young and old in the village are carrying water to fight the drought. It is said that the nearest water source is about 10 miles away from the village, where there is a reservoir.

The area of ​​the reservoir is not large, but due to the suitable terrain and the water source coming from deep springs in the mountains, there is water here all year round, and the water supply is not cut off even in this dry season.

Now this reservoir has become a life-saving straw for all villages within a radius of ten miles.

Everyone in Liangjiagou village took various water-carrying tools to the reservoir to transport water to save some crops. They saved as many crops as possible, as these crops were the life-saving food for the village.

Even for a heavy laborer, carrying a load of water 20 miles back and forth is an extremely difficult task.

Each trip consumes a lot of physical strength, but everyone is gritting their teeth and persevering in order to stay alive. Who made us encounter this damn natural disaster?

Zhang Jialiang had nothing to do in the village now, so he planned to go to the reservoir where he got water.

After asking for directions, he left the village. In fact, he didn't need to ask for directions because every once in a while he would see one or several people returning to the village with water in various water transport tools and then heading straight for the fields.

In addition to adults, even children were no exception. Now Zhang Jialiang saw with his own eyes a boy of about twelve or thirteen walking with difficulty with two large cans filled with water.

Two large cans were tied to a wooden stick with a rope. The child was carrying the load of water like an adult, sweating profusely. He was panting and staggering as he walked, and he was a little unsteady.

The tools people used to transport water were all kinds of strange. Some used a large porcelain jar, while others used tin cans that they got from somewhere.