Waste Wood Farming Notes

Since their family kept picking wild vegetables, other families were worried that their family would finish picking wild vegetables, so they mobilized other people to pick wild vegetables in the field together.

The time soon came to the end of March. During this month, other people in the family could almost see the tricks between Fu Geer and He Anle, but Li Liushi pretended not to see it, and they also pretended not to know. up.

After inquiring for a long time, Zhao Xiaomei came back with a lot of earthen prescriptions, and asked Fu Geer from time to time, and when she found it was useless, she gave up.

Even the doctors in the town couldn't cure the disease. After taking the earth prescription for so long, it didn't seem to be effective. I just urged my other children to have more children. When the time comes, I will adopt two and give them to Fu Geer and the others.

Anyway, with her here, it's impossible for Fu Ge'er to die.

The family is still preparing to dry all kinds of dry goods. In the past few days, Li Liu’s mood has been very irritable. It has not rained for nearly a month, and the weather is gradually getting hotter. Li Liushi knows the news and still holds a glimmer of hope in his heart. Yes, I hope what Fu Geer said is wrong.

But judging from the current situation, I am afraid that there will be a drought. Now it is a rainy season. If it does not rain for a month, if it does not rain for another half a month, the rice in the fields may have to be carried back from the river. OK.

The recent weather does not look like it will rain at all. Their vegetable garden and other fields are all planted with sweet potatoes, and the growth is gratifying. They will have a big harvest of sweet potatoes this year.

Li Liushi's irascibility was manifested, and he often lost his mind.

Li Tianfu felt relieved, they had already prepared everything they could, and the family members could vaguely guess some of their actions, but the specifics were kept secret.

Li Liushi is the head of the family, so there is no need to explain anything at all, and they don't bother to think so much, as long as they can eat and drink enough.

After waiting for another half a month, the water in the field has dried up. Under the sun, the field is short of water, and the water level in the river has also dropped a little. Recently, Li Tianfu went to the river from time to time When I go, I often go back with one fish, not like before, I go back with a lot of fish.

"Grandma, the water level in the river has dropped." Li Tianfu kept the fish in wooden barrels and casually told the news to his family.

The things prepared in his space are basically full.

As for water, most of it comes from wells or mountain springs, and a small part of boiled water comes from it.

He also wanted to prepare some more boiled water, and then just take it out and drink it directly. If it was boiled, part of the water would be wasted.

Now that there are many people in the family, he can't avoid other people's boiling water. He secretly stored the boiling water. All kinds of things in the space are almost ready, and there is no money left on his body.

"I'll go to the patriarch's house." Li Liushi put down the beans in his hand, stood up and sighed.

I have to discuss this matter with the patriarch. The reasons are ready-made, and we should take precautions before they happen. Old guys like them, who have experienced the previous disaster year, should be able to pay attention to it. It is better to prepare more food .

As for those who didn't believe it, Mrs. Li and Liu had no choice but to prepare more food.

The three brothers of the Bai family also saw that the situation was not good. Under their family's reminder, they did not hesitate to start preparing to store the family's food, and exchanged most of the money in their hands for food, condiments, and other things.

"I'll go with you, baby." Li Tianfu said.

Followed his grandma to the village chief's house. Their family can be said to be the richest family in the village. Their family has a son who is studying in the town and has been admitted as a scholar. This is one of the reasons why he became the village chief. One, there is a talented son, he has confidence in what he says, and no one dares to offend him.

Li Tianfu sat on a chair, obediently waiting for his milk to come out. His milk and the patriarch went to the study to talk. Their family entertained guests with tea.

In a place like theirs, when guests come to the door, the poorer ones just get boiled water. The guests are closer and have some money at home, and they serve sugar water. As for tea, it is expensive and not delicious. Will not buy.

Li Tianfu has "reformed evil and returned to righteousness", and looks fair and tender again. When he sits obediently, he is especially liked by the elderly. After he sat for a long time, the grandmother brought out a lot of delicious food for him to eat. Talking is actually asking about his situation.

After drinking a cup of tea, Li Tianfu also saw the intention of the other party, probably thinking of being a matchmaker... At his age, there are only a few people who have not been engaged.

This man is old, and he just likes to be a matchmaker for young girls and boys.

Li Tianfu was about to be overwhelmed, but Li Liushi finally came out, his eyes lit up, he quickly stood up, and said to the old lady embarrassedly, "My milk is coming out, I won't bother you today, goodbye old lady!"

Seeing Fu Geer's eagerness to run out, Li Liushi's dull mood also improved a lot.

"Girl, what did the patriarch say?" Li Tianfu asked, holding his grandma's arm.

"The patriarch said that after a while, if it doesn't rain, people in the village will be called to store food." Li Liu said.

Li Tianfu frowned, "If we store grain at that time, the price of grain has already started to rise. Now is the best time to store grain, and the price has not risen yet."

Once the price of this food starts to rise, it will not stop, it will only become more and more expensive, and the amount of food that can be bought will only become less and less. I hope that seeing the price of food rising, no one will sell it in a daze Food is fine.

The people in their village usually keep a year's worth of grain, eat sparingly, and then use money to buy more grain for preparation. Coupled with the actions of the court, five years should be able to survive.

In the memory of the original owner, the imperial court would indeed distribute food, but only in the first two years and the last year. The food distributed was very little, but it could still allow people to survive.

"Then what should we do? The current situation is not good!" Li Tianfu said worriedly.

Mrs. Li Liu patted Fu Ge'er's arm and said, "Don't worry about it for the time being. I have already persuaded the village chief to ask someone to dig two more wells in the village."

"Dig a well?"

Mrs. Li and Liu nodded, just to dig two more wells. Of course, the money was paid by the clan, and they would be dug in the village, mainly for the convenience of everyone carrying water to the fields.

There are quite a lot of wells in the village. As long as the family has some money, they will basically build a well in the yard for convenience. The water is convenient and there is no need to carry water from the river.

Before they pick the foundation, they will check it in advance.If you plan to dig a well, of course you should choose a place where the well can be drilled. The place where the well is drilled is also particular. They don't understand it, but they have invited someone who understands it to see it.

"Water shortage won't be so fast at that time." Li Liushi said, although he didn't ask the village head to store food, but it would be good to have two wells. In fact, their village also has a well, which is in the middle of the village. , but one is clearly not enough.

Li Tianfu nodded, "Water is also very important, but it's not easy to store it."

After sending his grandma home, Li Tianfu didn't go in, "Grandma, I'll go to Bai's house."

"Go." Li Liushi said indifferently, knowing that he was going to persuade the three brothers of the Bai family.

Li Tianfu knocked on the door and asked, "Bai Er, are you there?"

"Second brother is inside, Brother Fu, come in quickly." It was Bai Yi who opened the door, and said with a smirk.

He walked in and found that the two brothers were cleaning the wild vegetables, and there were quite a lot of them piled up beside them.

"Brother Fu, why are you here? What's the matter?" Bai Er moved a chair for him to sit on, his hands kept moving.

Li Tianfu rolled up his sleeves and said while helping, "The village is going to hire someone to dig a well, just want to ask, do you want to dig one for your family?"

Bai's second hand paused, "How much money?"

Li Tianfu: "Three taels of silver."

Bai Er was quite moved, because they didn't have enough water at home, it would be the best if they could build a well in the yard.But with so much three taels of silver, he felt that it was a bit expensive.

Most of the money in his hand has been exchanged for food. It is said that this year's harvest may not be very good. He has been in the town for so long, of course he has his own source of information. It is said that the north side is no longer good...

Otherwise, they would not have rashly exchanged most of the silver for food, and the reason for following the Li family only accounted for half of it. He felt that the Li family might know something.

"Let me think about it, when will the well diggers come?" Bai Er bit his lower lip and said, digging a well pays a lot of money!With so much silver, they would have been able to eat for a long time in exchange for food, and he couldn't bear it.

This work was entrusted to his grandma, because his grandma knew many well diggers. His grandma was young and widowed, and there were many gossips in front of widows. At that time, the children in the family had not yet grown up. Those with bad intentions throw dirty water, plus don't want to hear their gossip about her Kefu.

Cruel-hearted, she dug a not-deep well in her yard, and she asked someone to talk about it, so that the money was reduced to two taels.

Realizing the benefits of having a well in the yard and their new home, Fu Geer persuaded her for a while, and she agreed.

If his grandma was in modern times, she would definitely be sent by an action. Li Tianfu thought for a while and replied, "Two or three days."

"Brother Fu, when someone comes, can you come and tell us?" Bai Er asked, they don't know anyone here, and they live a little far from the village, they are busy preparing All kinds of food, I'm afraid I will miss it by then.

Li Tianfu nodded, "I suggest you give a call, and I will come to find you when the time comes."

"Okay, thank you Foo."

Li Tianfu helped them wash the small pile of wild vegetables, and stood up. By the way, I would like to point out that the steps of making pickles and dried vegetables in their family are wrong. Their method of drying wild vegetables and sauerkraut is borrowed from their family. way, hanging on the rope.

He hasn't done it, but his family has done a lot, so he can give them some pointers.

The Bai family's place isn't too big, but it's so clean that it can't be seen at all. There are only three children in the house.

"You guys have time to discuss it carefully. I'll go back first." Li Tianfu said, turning a corner in the direction of going home, and came to He's place.

"Auntie, isn't Brother He at home?" Li Tianfu was standing at the door, saw his aunt drying things in the yard, heard the sound, He Xiaozhi raised his head and said kindly, "Anle has gone to the mountain, you come in Wait for a while, he will be back later."

Seeing that the person was not there, Li Tianfu shook his head, but found that the other person hadn't looked over, and said loudly, "Auntie, I'll go back first, and I'll come look for him at noon."

It will take at least one or two hours for Big Brother He to go to the mountain. If he doesn't go back for such a long time, his grandma will be worried.

After speaking, he quickly walked towards the house.

When they got back to the door, they found a child from the village guarding their door, walked over strangely, and asked, "What are you doing here?"

It looked familiar, it was a child from the village, but he couldn't remember which family it was from or what its name was.

"Brother Fu, someone asked me to give this to you." Seeing Li Tianfu, the child quickly stood up and handed him the letter in his hand.

Li Tianfu didn't pick it up, "Who gave this to me?"

Who would write to him for no reason?

He didn't know many people in the town, and it was impossible for him to write letters to him. If it was his sisters, it was even more impossible for a child to deliver letters.

"This is a secret, I can't tell you." The child said nervously.

Send a letter to Brother Fu, and you can get two candies. I don't understand why I can't tell other people, who asked him to send the letter?

To deal with them, Li Tianfu has experience, "Who said you can't tell me?"

The child shook his head violently, holding the candy tightly in his hand, "Sister Da Niu said that I can't tell other people, otherwise I will take my candy back, and I won't tell you."

Li Tianfu: "..." Silly boy, you have already told me.

"Yeah, don't tell me if you don't tell me, these two candies are for you." Li Tianfu gave him two candies and watched him bouncing home.

Only then did he slowly open the letter, and it was written in traditional characters. Li Tianfu even guessed what the letter was written in, and sneered, this girl Li is really unwilling to give up!

She also wanted to ask him to meet and let him secretly go to the back mountain alone.

You're all married, why don't you give up?

I heard that the family in the town is pretty good, right?

How did Li Tianfu know that Li Da Niu regretted marrying in the town, because the bride price was high and the dowry she brought was small, and she was from the countryside, so everyone in the Huang family looked down on her. She does all the work.

However, she still doesn't have the confidence to refute this. The family has been pampered for so many years, why did she do too much work?The bitterness in it can only be crushed and swallowed in the stomach.

Even her natal family also hated her. If they hadn't been greedy for so many betrothal gifts, would she be looked down upon?

She felt from the bottom of her heart that as long as she had money, the Huang family would not look down on him. The old man of the Li family loved Li Tianfu so much. Li Tianfu must know how their family made money.

This time when she went back to her natal home, she deliberately brought back two tall and burly guys, nominally to help carry things back, but actually to ask Li Tianfu out and beat him up.

After Li Tianfu read the letter, there were a lot of disgusting words written on it. Li Da Niu was illiterate, so she must have asked other people to help write this letter, so it was useless to keep it, so she just threw it in the stove and burned it.

After eating taro rice at home at noon, Li Tianfu threw away the bowl and walked towards He Anle's house. He heard Dahei's voice, it seemed that they had returned.

Just as He Anle put down his prey, he saw Fu Geer running back, "What's wrong?"

Looking at the prey he put aside, Li Tianfu fell into thinking, can an ordinary hunter catch so many prey at one time?

Recalling the prey his brother-in-law earned, Li Tianfu rubbed his chin and thought, indeed he is the best man, his brother-in-law's level is half of his man's level!

Although he didn't know why He Anle's level was so much higher than his, but Li Tianfu felt that this was not a problem. He must be a good man, and there were mountains on all sides, and the Orion in the village was only He Anle's family.

Because ferocious prey come out of the deep mountains from time to time, people who have a little savings are unwilling to do this kind of work of tying their heads to their waistbands. Maybe they will die on the mountains because of bad luck. Unfortunately.

He Anle is completely different from them, but he can kill even wild boars.

"It's nothing, why don't you take care of the prey first? Are you going to send it to the town? I'll help." Li Tianfu came to his senses and said.

He Anle refused, "No need, I'll take care of these things quickly, so as not to get your hands dirty."

Li Tianfu...Of course Li Tianfu obediently listened to the other party. It is really disgusting to deal with these things. He just helped pass various things on the side and quickly dealt with these things.

The live prey is tied up and put aside. The live prey are to be sent to the town, and the live prey are valuable. For the dead, He Anle usually makes bacon, and then waits for the amount to accumulate to a certain level. He took them together to the town and sold them to passing merchants. Because of the large quantity, the price would rise a lot.

"What's the matter with Fu Geer?" He Anle pulled out a towel from one side, wiped the water droplets on his hands, and asked with concern, Fu Geer looked like he was all right, and the other party was not in a hurry With that said, it doesn't seem to be anything to worry about.

"Do you know that Miss Li went back to her natal family today?" Li Tianfu mentioned this matter.

He Anle paused, his eyes turned cold, and he said unintentionally, "I know, what's wrong?"

Li Tianfu didn't notice his strangeness, and said unhappily, "Li Da Niu wanted to play tricks on me, so she asked me to go to the back mountain alone to meet."

He didn't expect Li Da Niu to be so persistent, wouldn't it be great to marry into the town?Do you have to come to provoke him?

He can't beat the person brought by the other party, but with He Anle, Brother He can definitely beat him.

"Brother He, come with me when the time comes. Beat them so hard that their parents can't recognize them at once, let's see if they dare next time?!" Li Tianfu said flatteringly.

"You stay at home, I will go with Dahei, and I promise to solve this matter once and for all."

Li Tianfu blinked his eyes and felt that he was a bit out of harmony now. If he had to describe it, it would be that he looks very dangerous now?

He smiled and threw out the thoughts in his mind. He was naturally relieved of Big Brother He, "Then I won't go, be careful."

"It doesn't matter if Dahei is here." He Anle said, with his face turned away from Fu Ge'er, the corners of his mouth curled up in a small arc.

"Brother He, are you planning to go to town later? Buy some brown sugar for me and come back." After talking about important matters, Li Tianfu was not in a hurry to leave.

He Anle slowly dealt with the things in his hands. When he went out, he knocked on Fu Ge'er's head, "The sun is hot now, you will get sunburned if you go out together, go back quickly."

Knowing his little plan, Li Tianfu watched him leave helplessly, knowing that there was no room for negotiation, he reluctantly went home, because he wanted to go to the town.

That evening, it was Big Brother He who went to the appointment instead of him. When she saw Li Daniu in the village the next day, Li Daniu saw him shrink back, as if seeing a cat's mouse, and ran away in embarrassment.

Li Tianfu:? ? ?

Li Da Niu ran away when she saw him, Li Tianfu was happy, and Brother He came out, sure enough, there was nothing he couldn't handle.

He was not angry when everyone stopped him and asked him what kind of girl he liked.

He was not angry, but He Anle was very angry, forcing him to cry and beg for mercy at night before letting him go.

……

Early April.

It hasn't rained for two months.

The rice in the field is also not growing well due to lack of water, and the seedlings are only two-thirds of their previous growth height. Even if they diligently carry water to irrigate them, it still doesn't work.

The village had hired someone to dig two wells before, and the water in the river had dropped by one-fifth. Most of it was used for carrying water to the fields. A harbinger of rain.

Li Tianfu doesn't want to go out recently. Looking at the rice in the field that will fail to harvest, he is in a bad mood. There are also a lot of mung beans prepared at home. Recently, Li Tianfu and Li Liushi have been getting angry. The family prepares mung bean soup every day , even so, they were still on fire.

For this, they really can't do anything.

Just as Li Tianfu put down the bowl of mung bean soup, there was the sound of a gong beating outside. It was a big event in the village on weekdays. When everyone was called to discuss, the gongs and drums were placed under the big tree in the middle of the village. It looks like this Come on, the village chief has something to discuss with them.

"Grandma, I'll go with you." Li Tianfu raised his spirits and said.

Li Liushi and Fu Geer exchanged a look, and the two went out together.

At this kind of gathering, every household must have at least one person, and it doesn't matter if they all go.

After waiting for everyone to gather, the village head stood on a higher place and said loudly, "It has not rained for two months now, and it seems that it will not rain in a short time. I called everyone here today to ask if you have any ideas. Don't have any ideas?"