末世 二三 事

The talisman drawing method of the basic formation method is very simple in Jing Lin's view. It is not difficult for him to capture the aura while forming the talisman, but it is different in the eyes of Yan Fei brothers and sisters.Yan Lu scrapped more than a dozen pieces of talisman paper to complete a finished talisman, but there was very little spiritual energy locked in the trajectory, and it could not support the completion of the formation.As for Yan Fei, it is much better. Although a lot of talisman paper was wasted, the final finished talisman has a streamer in the trajectory of the talisman, which can support the formation, but it can't last long.

From this point of view, Yan Lu, like Zhao Zhiwen, has no talent in this area. As for Yan Fei, if he continues to study, he can at most finish the introductory chapter.

But this is just their talents in talisman writing. "Xiao Haotian Heart Method" can also be practiced. As for the progress of the practice, of course it also depends on the talent.

After explaining the first level of the first movement of the mental method in detail, Jing Lin guided several people to run the mental method.

When Jinglin was operating the first floor, it didn't take long to feel the "Qi" around him.As for these three people, from afternoon to night that day, none of them made any progress.Then Jing Lin told them not to give up, just keep doing what he said.

So after that, after practicing martial arts every day, the three of them used it to meditate at other times.Among the three, Yan Fei was the first to feel angry, but it took him nearly six days, Yan Lu was a little slower than him, and took a little more than ten days, and Zhao Zhiwen finally felt angry after half a month. Feeling angry, he is considered the least talented of the three.But he wasn't depressed either, he was already very satisfied to be in touch with such a miraculous thing now.

Yan Fei is the same as Jing Lin, when the qi circulates in the body, it will return to the center of the eyebrows, and Yan Lu said that she felt that all the qi had been hidden in her muscles and bones, and she felt that she felt that she had only two or three days of running the mental method. Her strength was on the rise again, and it seemed like the third stage of physical training was included in the article, but Yan Lu herself was different from ordinary people, and there was fundamentally no comparison between the two.

What surprised Jinglin was Zhao Zhiwen. Like Yan Lu, he couldn't store the qi that entered his body, and like Yan Lu, he was hidden in the musculoskeletal. The future training route seems to be to strengthen the physical body.

But no matter what, the four of them have a direction to strengthen themselves in the future.

Because most of the vegetables in the vegetable garden were unpalatable, people in the village pulled out the original vegetables and replanted new ones. At this time, the replanted cabbages in Jinglin’s front yard had matured again. up.This wave of Jinglin didn't eat all of it, but removed the formation and let it continue to grow freely.Because the cabbage grown in the formation is always kept at its freshest and tender, it is delicious, but if it is consumed like this, the seeds he bought will soon be gone, so Jing Lin wants it to grow seeds.

The lettuce in the backyard grew very big, and Jing Lin clasped his hands together to just surround it. The leaves with more than ten layers looked very fluffy. Before this, Jing Lin had to pull out many small seedlings to make room.The lettuce and green onions are nearing maturity and have stopped growing.Raw lettuce is very astringent, and the taste of cooked food is not as good as before. This also let Jing Lin know that not all vegetables that rely on pure spiritual energy are as delicious as cabbage.But the taste of green onions is even better. Boil the noodles with Chinese cabbage, add some crushed chili seed powder and chopped chives, and the noodles that were originally ordinary tasted extraordinary.

Zhao Zhiwen's family also cleaned up the vegetable garden, pulled out the unpalatable cucumbers, loofah, eggplants, and water spinach, and took them back to fertilize, and imitated Jinglinquan's planting of Chinese cabbage and shallots.Because his pigs could eat the lettuce grown by Jing Lin, Zhou Yu also planted a piece of lettuce to feed the pigs.

The mutated winter melons and pumpkins stopped the garden much earlier than in previous years, and there were no new flower buds. Zhou Yu asked Yan Lu to help pick all the ripe fruits back.Jing Lin collected all the wax gourds, pumpkins, loofahs and vines, scraped off the leaves, rubbed off the small burrs on them with a knife, and washed them with water. It became a strong rope that ordinary people would cut with all their strength. A hundred times the hemp rope bought in the mall.

"This is good." Zhao Zhiwen looked at the vines cleaned up by Jing Lin, and waved the tail in the air a few times. Hearing the sound of the whip breaking through the air, it must be extremely painful to hit someone, " Lulu, please help me chop a piece off, I'll use it as a whip."

So Yan Lu cut off a section for him, then raised her big ax to look, and there was a gap.

When Zhao Zhiwen saw it, he said, "Why don't you cut a section too?"

Yan Lu shook her head, "No need, my ax is already handy." She believed that even if the ax was broken, not many people could bear it, and if it fell down suddenly, it would definitely say goodbye to the world.

When the villagers were cleaning the vegetable garden, Yan Ruifeng came forward and told Liao Shufen to take back the one-acre vegetable field planted by her family, and then asked Zhao Chenghuai to help him plant the vegetables as well.

The vegetable gardens of the two families were not set up by Jinglin, because he still doesn't know the growth rate of the newly planted vegetables in the village. Even if the difference in the degree of variation can be used as an excuse, it is impossible for the relationship to be so coincidental. The two families alone are different.His vegetable field is surrounded by walls, so I don't worry about it.

After the beginning of autumn, the corn planted by the villagers can basically be taken home.That afternoon, many people in the village were busy working in the fields. A group of more than a dozen people, large and small, suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village. They were all yellow and emaciated, and their clothes were ragged, and some of them were wrapped with blood-soaked cloth strips.When this group of people saw the familiar house in the village, many people were so excited that they couldn't help crying.

"Dad! Mom! I'm back!"

"grandparents!"

These people shouted as they walked.Hearing the noise, Jing Lin got out of the cornfield to take a look, and found that many of them were familiar faces, and they were all migrant workers in the village.

Jing Lin was not the only one who was alarmed. Everyone who was busy in the fields noticed it. At that time, many people hugged and cried with their relatives who had returned home safely.

"Mom!" Wang Wenjie, who was helping his grandmother break corn in the field, dropped the basket on his back and rushed towards the crowd.

"Wenjie!" A young woman hugged her son tightly, tears streaming down her face.Hearing the cry of her son in her arms, she had never felt so at ease. When fleeing on the road, she was afraid that she and her husband would not be able to return home and never see her son again.

Wang Junda hugged his old mother, and the upright man couldn't help but burst into tears. Looking at his wife who was holding his son, his heart was full of gratitude for what was lost and found.

Wang Wenjie cried a lot. No matter how sensible he was, he was only a 12-year-old boy, and he was also very afraid that he would not see his parents. The suppressed emotions that lasted for almost a month broke out completely, and he was about to cry enough.

Chen Xuefang's family was also weeping with joy. While holding a little grandson in her arms, she felt very distressed when she saw that the two grandsons who came back every year with chubby faces had lost their cheeks.After asking the elder son's family, he went to see the younger son, and saw that the younger son was holding a girl's hand.

"This is?" She and her wife looked at each other. They both knew that their youngest son was talking about his girlfriend. They had called and told the family about it in the first half of the year. She wasn't sure if it was the one that the youngest son said.

Ma Chunjian smiled and introduced: "This is my girlfriend Sun Lili. I told you about it on the phone before."

Sun Lili was depressed and looked haggard. Even so, she could see her good looks. Ever since she entered the village, her tense nerves were relaxed. She felt that she could hardly stand, but she still worked hard. A smile came out, "Hello, Auntie and Uncle."

"Hey, good." Chen Xuefang responded happily, and affectionately pulled Sun Lili's hand, the arm in her hand was not much flesh, and the journey also suffered a lot.

"We're all back, let's go home, just go home." Chen Xuefang said, and couldn't help wiping away tears again.

As a result, within two steps, Sun Lili fell to the side, and Ma Chunjian quickly hugged his girlfriend.

"She's dizzy, pick it up and go to Shaogan's house to have a look, it's a crime!"

After all the turmoil, the family who just came back were raised again before they had time to relax.

Some people were happy and some were sad. An old lady in the village watched the people who came back several times, but she didn't see her son. She grabbed a young man who hadn't had time to leave: "Zhang Kai, where is my son Gao Zhuo?"

Zhang Kai's expression froze when he was asked, looked at the black and white hair of the other party, and said, "I'm not very clear, Aunt Zeng, you can ask other people." package, dragged his family and hurried away.

Aunt Zeng was left standing there with a pale complexion, bewildered.

"Alas..." Zhao Chenghuai shook his head regretfully, seeing Zhang Kai's expression, he knew something had happened to Gao Zhuo.With so many people coming back from the village, I didn't feel like continuing to work today, so I put down the basket at home and went to Zhao Shaogan's house.

When they arrived, the courtyard of Zhao Shaogan's house was already full of people. Those who came back from the outside with injuries were sitting inside, and those who were not injured were also pulled over by their family members to feel their pulse and ask how to mend their bodies.

As for Sun Lili who fainted before, one was that she was tired from traveling for so long, and the other was that she was pregnant.

Now there are too many people who are unmarried and pregnant, and there are too many people who are married with their children. Zhao Anguo's complexion is normal, he took Sun Lili's pulse, and said to Chen Xuefang: "I have been pregnant for more than a month, and the fetal image is a bit unstable. It is not a big problem to pay attention now. Pregnancy The first three months were not easy, and they had to walk back all the way, she is a strong girl, and the child in her belly is also a blessing."

Hearing that he was going to be a father, Ma Chunjian didn't react at that time, it was Chen Xuefang who pushed him to wake up, and then asked Zhao Anguo nervously: "Uncle, please take your troubles, how should I take care of their mother and child?" Tell me carefully."

Outside, Ma Chunkang was telling Ma Renshan and others about their journey.

At that time, after they and Wang Jiaqiang and his party were chased by giant ants, many people got separated.He took his wife, children and younger brother to hide in a roadside car for a while, and he didn't know how to find someone on the road, which was no different from the barren mountains and wild mountains, and he didn't dare to shout loudly for fear of disturbing something. , you can only continue on your way home.

Fortunately, when they left, they prepared a lot of maps, and each of them carried a few copies, so they didn't have to worry about finding the way.Ma Chunkang marked the way along the way, hoping that his partners could catch up with them when they saw it.The food that they had snatched from Luhog at that time separated before they had time, and all the food was taken away by Wang Jiaqiang and his gang.On the road, even if you have money, you can't buy food. The cities you pass by are overrun by mutated plants, and there are almost no intact shops. It is very difficult to find something to eat.And everyone dare not touch those mutated plants at will, and dare not drink water indiscriminately. On the road, they saw several cases of people who died of poisoning after eating wild fruits on the roadside because of hunger. People who are really thirsty and drink the water in the fountains in the city, and are instantly sucked dry by the parasites in it.

There are many people like them on the way home on foot, and almost as long as they encounter a crowded place, there will be bloodshed.The exhaustion of the journey, the panic of walking in the grass, hunger, lack of water, everyone's emotions are tense, a little tongue is like a spark that can detonate an oil barrel, and even a full stomach can be kill a person.There are also some people who are insane, hacking and killing people on the way in order to vent their manic and desperate emotions.At that time, they hid aside and watched someone go crazy and kill many people, and then they were killed by other people.

Numb, cold-blooded, crazy.

Before returning to the village, they felt that they would become like this sooner or later.They didn't feel alive again until they saw their loved ones again.

Ma Renshan's eyes turned red when he heard this, and he patted his eldest nephew on the shoulder and comforted him, "You're back, you're back."

Aunt Zeng, who had been listening silently, asked, "Where is Gao Zhuo?"

"Gao Zhuo is here." A middle-aged man walked in with cloth strips hanging from his arms, holding a mineral water bottle in his arms.

The middle-aged man was Liu Yinghua's husband, Ma Dazhuang, who held the mineral water bottle in front of Aunt Zeng, with a sad expression on his face: "When we were separated, Gao Zhuo was walking with our father and son. Encountered a flock of mutated sheep. Gao Zhuo was too panicked, he alarmed the flock, the flock was taller than us, and one of them kicked him when he jumped up... Sorry Mrs. Zeng, I didn’t give Gao Zhuo to you Bring it back safely."

Gao Zhuo's internal organs were directly kicked by that kick, and he couldn't do it at that time. Ma Dazhuang also injured his arm in order to save him.However, Gao Zhuo was still not rescued, Gao Zhuo was about the same age as his son, seeing the younger generation die in front of him, he was powerless, and he felt very sad.Unable to bear the death of Gao Zhuoke in a foreign land, Ma Dazhuang and his son Ma Mingliang collected the gasoline in the car on the road, found an open place to burn it, and brought the ashes back.

Unexpectedly, the ashes of her son were contained in the bottle in front of her. Even though she already had a bad feeling, when she suddenly heard the news of Gao Zhuo's death, Aunt Zeng almost fell to the ground because she couldn't bear it. He held on but no longer had the strength to stand up.She hugged the bottle and cried bitterly. Her husband died early. Since then, she and her son have been living together. Even though his son has been working outside all year round, no matter where he is, his son is her whole world.Now that her son is gone, she feels that her world has also collapsed.

"What a goddamn world!" Looking at such a scene, many tough guys' eyes turned red.

Aunt Zeng cried for a long time before walking out as if absent-minded, ignoring anyone who called her.She lost her husband in her early years and her son in her later years. This blow was almost fatal.The people in the village felt sorry for her, a widowed old man, and they were afraid that she would be overwhelmed, so they pointed out two juniors to accompany her back.

Jing Lin and the others didn't stay long at Zhao's house before leaving.On the way, Zhao Chenghuai said: "The people in the village are almost back now."

There are still people working in other places in the village. Some families only come back once every two or three years. There is another family whose whole family has been away for more than ten years. The house is about to collapse, and if I come back one day, there will be no place to live.

Usually, when someone dies in any family in the village, the Taoist priest will be invited to come back to do the ashram.Gao Zhuo's death this time was tinged with despair and sadness, and the Taoist leader could not be invited.As the captain of the team, Ma Renshan approached Aunt Zeng the next day to ask her opinion on where to bury Gao Zhuo.

In just one night, Aunt Zeng's hair turned gray a lot, as if she had aged more than ten years.Her eyes were dull, her heart was ashen, and she seemed to have no motivation to live.Ma Renshan couldn't bear to see her like this, so he saw the pear tree with fruit hanging in the yard of her house, and said: "This pear tree was moved back from the mountain by Xiaozhuo, or moved back together with Chunzheng. How about just Bury Xiao Zhuo under this tree, so that I can be with you."

Aunt Zeng remembered when her son dug up this young pear tree when she was a child, with mud on her face, she happily told her that she would plant this pear tree in her yard, and when it bears fruit in the future, the best Pick it off and give it to her to eat.

Aunt Zeng was crying again, but her eyes regained some brilliance. She nodded and agreed to bury Xiaozhuo under the tree.

When Ma Renshan left, he finally took some time off, and asked some old people who had been in frequent contact with Aunt Zeng to spend more time with her.

What happened to Gao Zhuo was hopeless for Aunt Zeng, but for many people in the village, the momentary sadness passed, and it was just a small episode for them.People in the village came back more this time, and there were more people talking, and it was much more lively than usual.

Jinglin and the others broke corn, transported corn, dried corn and peeled corn every day.

Zhao Zhiwen's family has a corn thresher, but now it can't be used, so he can only peel the corn manually.Every day after breakfast, Jing Lin took Lele to Zhao Zhiwen's house to report, each with a small bench and a basket of corn cobs in front of him.The Yan family also came to help every day after eating. Anyway, there is nothing to do when they are idle. There are many people and they can chat to pass the time.

Liu Yinghua's two mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law's family no longer have a sad face after their husband and son came back. Before, the door was closed every day, but now as long as there are people in the family, the door is always open.Because her home is adjacent to Zhao Zhiwen's, there is a thick gap between the two houses, so every day when they sit in front of the door peeling corn, Liu Yinghua also sits in front of the door peeling corn.

The place where Ma Xiaoyuan was bitten by poisonous ants before has healed. The child has suffered a lot and now he is much more honest than before. He knows that it is not safe anywhere and dare not run around. The place where he plays every day is either in front of his house or in his own house. back.Lele is not much younger than him, so he pesters Lele every day.

Duck has grown up a lot recently, and it is molting, and its body is gray. At first, Lele was worried that it was sick, but Jing Lin told it that it was normal, because he hadn't changed his teeth yet, so he pointed out that the front teeth were missing. Ma Xiaoyuan said, "Just like your elder brother Xiaoyuan, after losing this tooth, it will grow stronger."

Lele felt relieved.

What Ma Xiaoyuan cares about most now is his broken teeth. When Jing Lin pointed it out inadvertently, he immediately became emotional. He didn't dare to do anything to Jing Lin and Lele, so he tried his best to grab Yaya's teeth hair.

Yaya just yelled at him twice when he got a handful of feathers pulled, don't be cheap!Seeing that you and my master are both small peas, I don't have the same knowledge as you.

Ma Xiaoyuan couldn't understand goose language, he was addicted to the feeling of plucking the feathers, he wanted to pluck a handful, so he plucked another while the duck was not paying attention.

Now Yaya is very angry, saying that it is time for the bear child to experience Master Yaya's fighting power, chasing Ma Xiaoyuan and pecking hard, and pinching at the thigh, Ma Xiaoyuan yelled in pain, crying and begging for mercy, It wasn't until the adults came to drive the ducks away that they were saved.

Yaya, who had won the first battle, returned to Lele majestically, picked up the Mao Mao that Ma Xiaoyuan had snatched off, and handed it to Lele, asking the owner to put it away for him.

Before peeling the corn, everyone had already divided the corn into parts, one pile was good, and another pile was bad.The good corn kernels peeled off in this way can be directly ground into powder to eat after drying in the sun, and you can also take a little extra effort to pick out the good ones from the bad ones, and grind the bad ones to feed pigs and chickens.

There are large stone mills and small stone mills in the processing station of the team. Before the processing station was built, the villagers used these two to grind new rice and grind corn. There is also a large stone pestle for pounding rice. kept in the processing station.

Now everything is done without machinery, and many people's lifestyles have returned to the past.Picking a cool day, Zhao Chenghuai took Jing Lin and Zhao Zhiwen to carry a bag of rice and half a bag of corn kernels to the processing station.Yan Fei knew that they were going to grind new rice, so he brought his own horse to help, and also learned by the way.I ate half of the bag of rice I bought when I went back to the village, and I will need to use a stone mill to grind rice in the future.

There are livestock instead of manpower. Although it is slower than before, it can be much easier.A few days before they came here, someone in the village cleaned up the long-unused stone mills and stones and began to use them.So the tools were ready-made, and several people worked together to cover the horse with a black cloth. The horse was impatient and kept walking on the spot, and Yan Fei went up to pet it for a while, and then calmed down.Zhao Chenghuai drove the horse to push the mill, and Zhao Zhiwen swept the rice beside him, and then swept the brown rice that had taken off its shell and poured it into the stone shovel. The strong Yan Lu pounded the rice with a wooden mallet—she was strong, and she did the hard work. It fits best.

As for Jing Lin and Yan Fei, they were responsible for digging out the pounded rice by Yan Lu, pouring it into the windmill and shaking the leaf fan to separate the rice and rice bran. The rice bran was blown out, and the new rice fell out from another opening and fell directly into Yan Fei. Put it in the export rice bag, so that the new rice will be very clean after repeated several times.

After all the new rice is milled, the chaff and rice bran are swept up and packed to take home.

The process of grinding corn flour is much simpler, and it just takes a little more time to grind the corn finely.

He hadn't finished eating the twenty catties of rice that Zhao Chenghuai gave Jing Lin when Jing Lin came back, because he kept it well and took it out to dry in the sun during the period, so there was no rice phenomenon.However, Zhao Chenghuai still gave him twenty catties and told him to take it back and put it away.

As for the freshly ground corn flour, Zhao Chenghuai gave half of it to Yan Fei and asked him to take it back.

Yan Fei declined and said, "I have them at home." At that time, his family harvested early corn grown by some people in a nearby village. They had both corn kernels and corn flour at home. After all, this stuff is more satisfying.

Zhao Chenghuai didn't allow him to refuse, and said: "You have to try it to be worthy of your busy work for so long today."

"Then I won't be polite." Yan Fei accepted it.

"Okay, you go back and put the horse away first." Zhao Chenghuai said, "Come over with Lulu later, and your Aunt Yu will bake corn cakes for you to eat."

"Then let's thank Uncle Zhao and Aunt Yu first."

After lunch, Zhao Chenghuai wanted to go to the fields to have a look, so Jing Lin and Zhao Zhiwen accompanied him.

Zhao Chenghuai walked through several fields, looked at his own and others, his brows became more and more wrinkled.Ma Renshan and his brothers were also in the field. When they saw Zhao Chenghuai, they came over and asked him, "How is your family?"

Zhao Chenghuai shook his head: "It's not good, it's light in the hand, and more than half of a bunch of rice ears are covered with chaff." The chaff is an empty chaff, an empty husk without fruit, and the normally mature rice grains are like drums when pinched. Drums and hollow grains are flat and hollow.Empty chaff will affect the yield of rice, the more empty chaff, the lower the yield.

Ma Renshan sighed: "I have seen the rice of almost all the families in the village. They all look like this. It will be time to harvest rice in more than ten days. I don't know how much rice can be harvested per mu."

Jinglin and the others grow mid-season rice here, and the harvest time is usually early autumn, from the end of August to mid-September every year.Seeing that everyone was still rejoicing that the rice was not affected, so they were waiting here.

Moreover, in previous years, harvesters would come into the village when it was time to harvest, and all the villagers had to do was to pull the rice back to dry in a cart.But this year, harvesting rice depends on manpower, and threshing depends on manpower. After doing these two things, when all the rice fields are harvested, it is estimated that a person can lose about ten catties.

Everyone went back with a lot of thoughts. Zhao Zhiwen moved out the Dou Fang, which had not been used for many years, and swept the dust. It was used for threshing during harvesting. Pure physical work was more tiring than harvesting millet.Then Zhao Chenghuai discussed with his family members that it would be unrealistic to rely on a few of them to take back so many acres of rice in the family, so someone had to be hired to help.If you hire someone, you will definitely have to pay wages, but now that the money is useless, you have to get something to pay for it.What to pay for and how much to pay for is a problem.

Zhou Yu said: "The only sickle at home is an old one." It was the one she had dug out from the corner to cut hogweed before and sharpened it. It would definitely not work for cutting millet.

"Tomorrow, Zhiwen and I will go outside to ask about the current food price situation." Jing Lin said, since they came back from Huangtai Town last time, they haven't been out for a long time, and all the news they heard came from just coming back from outside. According to the people in the village, this is not very good.

"Yes, by the way, go to Blacksmith Liu's house in Chahe Village. He should sell sickles there." Blacksmith Liu is also the blacksmith who hammered Yan Lu's axe. His house sells many things, such as hoes, kitchen knives, pots, and more. There are sickles and so on.

"Ok."

Of course, he didn't forget to inform Yan Fei and his brothers and sisters about this.Tomorrow I'm going to buy a sickle, so I have to exchange things for it. I have to bring food with me when I go, and it's not safe for the two of us to be on the road. Besides, Yan Fei's family should also lack these tools. In the future, these things should be more and more The more scarce it is, so Jinglin and the others plan to buy more this time.

The next day, Zhao Chenghuai came out with 20 catties of wheat, and divided them into two for Zhao Zhiwen and Jing Lin. Jing Lin even pulled half of the cabbage from the back of the basket on his back.Yan Fei and Yan Lu each carried more than [-] catties.

Chahe Village is opposite Xiejia Village. The houses in the village are built along a river, and the terrain is not too high. Anyway, during the heavy rain every year, people who live by the river are worried that the river will overflow. The fields planted with farmers in low-lying areas will be more or less submerged.

You don't need to go through Xiejia Village to go to Chahe Village. You can enter the area of ​​Chahe Village by walking on the bridge on the left side of their village entrance and passing through a field.Liu Tiejiang's house is at the front of the third team in Chahe Village, and there is a signboard at the door, which says "Liu's Iron Shop".

Liu Tiejiang's family has a dog. This dog has no change in appearance, it seems that there is no mutation, but when it sees Jing Lin and the others, it is extremely vicious, and keeps barking at them viciously, even though its neck is covered with chains. It kept rushing forward without fear of pain, Jing Lin and the others felt pain for it.

Hearing the movement, Liu Tiejiang came out of the house. He recognized Zhao Zhiwen and Yan Fei, two brothers and sisters. Seeing that they knew each other, he turned his head and scolded. The dog immediately calmed down and lay down on the spot. He made two deep voices, as if warning Jing Lin to be more honest, it was always staring at them.

After entering the iron shop, Yan Lu spoke first: "This dog wasn't so fierce last time we came here."

"I saw blood." Blacksmith Liu said, "A few thieves broke into the village in the middle of the night more than ten days ago. My dog ​​broke the chain. If I hadn't come out in time, one of them would have been bitten to death." .”

So everyone understands that this blood refers to human blood.

Just like many people in the city like to raise banned large dogs in the community, in the eyes of outsiders, the dog that is extremely vicious is still the obedient puppy in the past. I am more happy to keep it, although it eats a bit too much.

"Has anyone started stealing now?" Zhao Zhiwen asked. The law and order around his village has always been good, and there has been no incident of any property being stolen for many years.

Blacksmith Liu shook his head: "If you have nothing to eat or use, you have to steal it. What do you buy? Seeing that you carry food on your back, you know that money is no longer useful."

"We buy sickles because we don't know how you sell them here," Yan Fei said.

Tiejiang Liu didn't answer him first, but raised his chin to Jing Lin, "Put down the vegetables in your basket and let me have a look."

The cabbage that grew in the spirit gathering array was still fresh after being pulled out for a long time, and before Jing Lin came out, he specially sprinkled water on the leaves, and they were not completely dry yet, so they looked very juicy.

Tiejiang Liu probably flipped through it and asked Jing Lin, "Can I eat it?"

"Yes." Jing Lin directly broke off a leaf stalk, broke it into two small pieces, ate one piece and handed it to Tiejiang Liu, "You can taste it."

Blacksmith Liu put the leaf stem in his mouth and chewed it, then nodded: "It tastes good, how did you sell it?"

Jing Lin told the truth: "This is the first time I sell this thing, and the price will be set according to the grain market."

Liu Tiejiang took several people to a corner of the room, pointed to a row of long-handled sickles on the shelf, and said, "They are all acquaintances nearby, and I never deceive people when I do business. This kind of sickle costs 15 yuan a piece. According to the old saying, the wheat you brought would have to cost fifteen catties. But now the food outside is very expensive, and someone exchanged wheat from me for something back yesterday, and a sickle only used two catties of wheat. But my family is not short of wheat to eat, if you leave all the vegetables in the basket, how about I give you ten sickles?"

The vegetables in Jing Lin's back basket weigh at least ten catties, and it is definitely a good deal for Jing Lin and the others to exchange a catty for a sickle.However, vegetables are more expensive than wheat with a full stomach. It seems that most of the mutated vegetables have also had a great impact on people because of their unpalatable taste.

It was also Jing Lin who neglected this point. The three of them were the only ones in their team who could eat fresh vegetables. Everyone else was either pickles, kimchi, or dried vegetables. Many people hadn’t eaten a bite of fresh vegetables for many days. up.

The situation in Liu Tiejiang's village is like this. The vegetables in the vegetable garden have become unpalatable, and all the delicious ones have gone out of the garden.It’s okay if you can’t eat meat every day, and you can’t even eat vegetables. Liu Tiejiang and his family have been constipated for several days in a row, and they must eat fresh vegetables to improve.

So in the end, Jing Lin exchanged the cabbage for ten sickles, and fifty catties of wheat for ten more sickles, two kitchen knives, and a chopping knife.Yan Fei had two kitchen knives, one machete, and a dozen or so sickles.

After leaving Tiejiang Liu's house, several of them went back with a basket of knives on their backs.When leaving, Blacksmith Liu also asked Jing Lin if there were any cabbages in his family, and how they grew them. There were also cabbages grown in their village, but the taste was not good.Naturally, it was impossible for Jing Lin to tell him the truth. He only said that there was no one there to control it to grow like this, and there were not many left in the family, so he kept it for himself to eat.

So Liu Tiejiang had no choice but to give up, which was a pity.This small cabbage is not harsh when eaten raw, and the taste is really good.

Back in the village, I happened to meet other people, saw Jing Lin and the others went to change the sickle and came back, and then I remembered that I should also prepare these things at home.Then he asked how the sickle was sold, and Jing Lin told him that he had exchanged two catties of wheat for a sickle, and the man's face suddenly turned a little dark.He was one of the group of people who just came back from outside. He had been hungry before, so he valued food very much.

However, this is not because he is reluctant to change it. Jing Lin reminded him that there are not many sickles at Blacksmith Liu.

So that person didn't dare to hesitate any longer, if he couldn't change it later, he didn't know where he could buy it, and when the time came, he didn't have a tool to collect grain at home, so he could pull it out by hand.Blacksmith Liu knew him anyway, and it would definitely not be cheaper to buy from someone else.

So I hurried to inform a few acquaintances, weighed the food and left the village with a weapon.

This trip didn't take much time, it was still early when Jing Lin and the others got home.Zhao Chenghuai said that he was going to chop bamboo and weave some baskets to collect grain, so he just tried the hatchet he had just exchanged for.

Old farmers in the village like Zhao Chenghuai's age basically know how to weave things with bamboo strips, bamboo fans for fanning the wind in summer, dustpans for holding vegetables and filtering water, dustpans for sweeping garbage, baskets for carrying things, and carrying baskets that can be carried on poles. Bamboo strips can be used to complete the baskets and so on.

The bamboo grove in the village is at the place closest to the mountain, and each family has a small piece of bamboo that belongs to them. Zhao Chenghuai picked and chopped more than a dozen more suitable bamboos to go back, not only to weave for himself, but also to prepare for Yan Fei's family.When Yan Ruifeng knew that Zhao Chenghuai was going to weave baskets, he told him, and prepared a few pairs for his family. After all, their family had never grown food, and they didn't have many farm tools.And Zhao Chenghuai gave him baskets, and he would bring his son and daughter over to help during the autumn harvest. As for Zhou Feifei, Yan Ruifeng was always cared for by his wife, and it was enough for him and his son and daughter to do the heavy and dirty work at home.

One person dragged a bamboo on each side and dragged it back. After picking all the branches in the yard, Zhao Chenghuai got busy.

Weaving baskets is a technical job, and a pair of baskets is well woven and can be used for many years.Zhao Chenghuai was busy for many days, and some people in the village had already started harvesting the millet, so they had to weave all the baskets.

Soon, the Zhao family also joined the ranks of the autumn harvest.

Jing Lin, Yan Fei and Zhao Zhiwen were the ones who harvested the millet. Yan Lu and Zhao Chenghuai, who were getting stronger and stronger, were responsible for throwing the harvested millet on the wall of the bucket to thresh the millet. Yan Ruifeng bagged the grain and moved it to the On the wooden cart, the horses were drawn back and dumped in the yard. Zhou Feifei was in charge of spreading the grains and drying them, and Zhou Yu was in the kitchen busy with the lunch of the three families.

Because of her strength, Yan Lu only needs to fall on a handful of millet