Farmer one or two things

When he came back in the evening, Chen Guizhi took Song Tiancai and talked about how the third son of Liu Kunwu's family looked and how fun he was. He looked like he wanted to take the child home and raise him.He said these words over and over again, making Song Tiancai's ears callous. Finally, Song Tiancai carried Song Xiaobao, who had just woken up from sleep, into Chen Guizhi's arms and said, "Mom, I still think our little treasure is the best." .”

As soon as the grandson came out, Chen Guizhi's attention was immediately diverted.Holding Song Xiaobao in his arms and asking what he had for lunch, Song Tiancai immediately became overwhelmed by dark clouds.Nervously looking at Song Xiaobao, squinting his eyes, he almost wrote, don't betray your father.

Song Xiaobao is not one to hold grudges, he picked on his father to give him chicken legs, chicken wings and watermelon, Chen Guizhi nodded in satisfaction.Without nagging Song Tiancai, Song Tiancai secretly gave Song Xiaobao a thumbs up. His son is so good at keeping secrets, and he can bring his son to start a small kitchen together in the future.

Song Taozi gave birth to a son, and Song Dashan's family was not idle.The baby had to be washed three days after it was born, and Wan had to take care of the baby, take care of the daughter, and look after the pregnant daughter-in-law. He was really exhausted, so he asked Chen Guizhi to help.Now, the Song family's meals fell into Song Tiancai's hands.Zhao Yanxiu originally planned to show his skills, but the master spoon came, but unfortunately, even the good guy Song Dashan could only nod his dishes, and gave a good evaluation.Song Xiaobao looked at the dark mass of unfamiliar toys, and naively pulled Song Tiancai and asked what new toys it was.

Since then, Zhao Yanxiu never brought up the topic of cooking again.It was Song Tiancai who was in charge, and he was in charge.Song Tiancai is willing to eat and drink. Although it is not raining outside, the crops are almost gone, and every household is desperate for food.But the Song family didn't have to worry about food and drink, and Song Tiancai wouldn't skimp on food, not that much.

Coupled with Chen Guizhi's dedication to eating up the family's chickens and ducks, Song Tiancai cooks food for everyone in the Song family in different ways every day, such as lotus leaf mushroom chicken, white chopped chicken, braised duck, and roast duck, almost all of them are cooked over and over again.After eating Song Xiaobao, his chin became round again. Even Zhao Yanxiu felt that he had a tendency to gain weight, so he dragged Song Xiaobao to squat for an extra hour every day.

From the dining table, Chen Guizhi found that her son was indeed better at cooking than she was, and that he was able to make tricks to eat. After making the same material in her hands, she had to chase after Song Xiaobao to feed it.But after Song Tiancai made it, Song Xiaobao never had to be chased by anyone, and the little mouth ate it so fast, she was worried that Song Xiaobao would be full.

This discovery made Chen Guizhi a little discouraged. For this reason, she began to ask Song Tiancai how to cook even when she was cooking.

And Liu Kunwu came to ask Song Tiancai to name his youngest son. Song Tiancai said that he had to think carefully about such a tall job, and he had to choose a name with a good meaning.As soon as Liu Kunwu left, Song Tiancai immediately entrusted this matter to Zhao Yanxiu, who specialized in art, so it is better to leave such literary and artistic matters to his sweetheart who is both civil and military.

Finally, Zhao Yanxiu gave several names for Song Tiancai to choose.Song Tiancai chose Liu Mingjie, who is wise and outstanding, and others can understand the meaning of this name as soon as they hear it.Liu Kunwu came to thank him, and sent over Song Tiancai's proceeds from the ice cellar.

It doesn't rain this year, the temperature has been high, and the price of ice cubes has been higher than in previous years.Liu Kunwu's small ice cellar ran out of ice just after July, and when he came to see his wife and children at Yue's house, Liu Kunwu sent money to Song Tiancai by the way.

Song Tiancai accounted for 350%, and Liu Kunwu sent 300 taels of silver.Excluding the 50 taels that he took out, Song Tiancai earned 50 taels this year.Don't look at the [-] taels, but you can get back your capital in the first year, and you will make a net profit in the future. It is a very high rate of return transaction.

If they can get 300 taels every year in the future, there will be more than 3000 taels in ten years. If they stay in Songjia Village all the time, this money will be enough for them to live comfortably.Song Tiancai praised his investment vision, and at the same time felt that Liu Kunwu was a kind person. He told him about the ice cellar, and took the opportunity to ask him to buy more food in the town for preparation.If the child's mother-in-law does not live in Yue's house, she has to take her to her side.Otherwise, this situation is probably not peaceful.

Liu Kunwu also took the opportunity to tell Song Tiancai the news about the town, and the big families in the town started to prepare food.I heard that the magistrate of the county has already planned to report the disaster situation to the magistrate and apply to the court for tax exemption.The imperial court has regulations that if farmers are seriously affected by the disaster, the county magistrate can be asked to open a warehouse in advance to provide food relief, and the town can also let the town buy it at a fair price in a limited amount.Now it depends on how much food reserves there are in Yongle County. It would be fine if the county magistrate had less greed, but the situation would be really bad if there was too much greed.

Song Tiancai was a little worried when he heard the news. Looking at the two cows at home, he planned to find a carpenter to make two better carriages.Collect the money and valuables at home, and bring some food. Once it is confirmed that there is a drought, I will take the Song family to live in Quanzhou.He also accumulated a batch of glutinous rice in Quanzhou. Even when he arrived in Quanzhou, the price of food was expensive, and he didn't worry about the food and drink of the Song family.

If you go to Quanzhou, you don't have to worry about the law and order there. Unless you rebel, otherwise, it is heavily guarded and the court pays attention to it. It is far safer than a remote town like Yongle Town.Originally, he didn't plan to go to Quanzhou so early, but if there is a natural disaster, the Song family has a lot of troubles here, no matter how shrewd he is, no matter how good Zhao Yan's martial arts skills are, he can still defeat a vicious scheme by others.

After sending Liu Kunwu away, Song Tiancai told Zhao Yanxiu what he thought.Zhao Yanxiu also agreed, and the two began to slowly prepare for going to Quanzhou.The Song family, old and young, didn't go just as they said.You have to plan well to ensure the safety and health of your family.

The days passed day by day when God continued to rain, and the people in the village no longer had expectations for God's rain.Almost every household has replanted drought-tolerant crops. Unfortunately, the best time for planting has passed, and most of these crops will not survive.

Seeing that the disaster year is just around the corner, many families have begun to sell their livestock.When more people sell this, the price drops a lot, and the smaller livestock are better.Like pigs, sheep, etc., you can't even buy half the usual price.Song Tiancai looked at Gouzi's family with a sad face because of this, went to his house quietly, and exchanged grain and silver for their livestock in half.For four sheep, one piglet and five geese, Song Tiancai gave five hundred catties of grain and three taels of silver.

This is obviously to help Song Sanlei and his wife's family, and now the food in the town has been sold like crazy.Even if their livestock were sold at the original price, they would not be able to buy back so much grain.In peaceful days, one catty of meat can be exchanged for two or three catties of grain, but in disaster years, two or three catties of these live livestock may not be able to exchange for one catty of grain.The meat is edible, but how to store it in such a hot day after killing one, and buying salt is a lot of money.People can't get enough to eat, and the livestock they raise have nothing to feed them. Only by selling the livestock before they are starved and thin can they get back some money.

Song Sanlei and his wife originally refused to take advantage of this, but their family only has two acres of land, and there is nothing left except for paying taxes every year.In the past, they could get some other food subsidies in the mountains and waters, but when the weather is not good, the edible food on the mountains is almost taken away, and the water is almost dry, so there is no way to raise fish Shrimp, either dried out, or were taken home to eat.

Fortunately, with the rice noodles that Song Tiancai gave them earlier, they only kept five catties to cook a meal for the dog every day, and replaced the rest with coarse grains, so they had some food in reserve.But seeing that there will be no harvest in the second half of the year, the two of them have a grandson and don't know where to find food. Song Tiancai sent the food, even though they knew in their hearts that they were taking advantage of it, but they looked thin and black, so they followed suit at such a young age. They went to the fields to irrigate the fields, and the grandson who did the housework was accepted by the two old people.

However, he thanked Song Tiancai again and again. Song Tiancai waved his hand and stopped the two old men from bowing to him.At such an old age, Song Tiancai was really afraid that his life would be shortened if he performed such a ceremony with him.The fact that he gave these two old people food was because he thought of Song Xiaobao when he looked at the dog, and he felt compassion.

But he can save a family, but he can't save the whole village, so he can only help out by buying livestock in private.However, even so, people in the village who saw it also sent their ideas to Song Tiancai's house, and came to ask if they wanted livestock, food or money.

Song Dashan and his wife were not confused at this time, so they returned them.Otherwise, it will be difficult after this start. The Song family has enough food, but supporting the whole village is a drop in the bucket.They were considered good people. If the really poor people in the village went to the Song family to borrow grain, the elders of the Song family would give a few catties of coarse grain.Song Tiancai has repeatedly taken care of him, not to let the people in the village know that his family has food, otherwise, it is impossible to keep people with bad intentions from coming to the Song family to make trouble.

During this period, Song Tiancai went to Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman's house.The water in the lotus root fields had dried up, so Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman dug up lotus roots and sold a lot of them.But the price was unsatisfactory. After Song Tiancai went, he really asked them not to sell it, and directly made lotus root into lotus root powder, which can fill their stomachs when they really don't eat it in the future.

After telling Lin Xiaoman the general method of making lotus root flour, Song Tiancai asked Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman if there was any food left at home.If it's not enough, we can move here at Song's house. Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman, two big men, have a lot of food, and the food is eaten quickly, so I'm afraid they won't be much.

Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman shook their heads. As early as two or three months ago, Lin Xiaoman started drying wild vegetables and digging wild fruits. He also dug some kudzu roots from the mountains, beat them into powder, and prepared to sell them for money.Later, seeing that the weather was not right, I kept it.Although there is not much rice and noodles at home now, there are still some coarse grains. The two of them can live through the second half of the year by saving some food.

Originally, they planned to send some food to the Song family in the dark these few days, but Song Tiancai came to ask them.They knew that the Song family was old and young, and it was not easy to save some food, so they refused to ask Song Tiancai for food.

While leaving, Song Tiancai found two strangers wandering around the house where Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman lived.His heart shuddered.The countryside is actually better, anyway, every household has some food reserves, Song Tiancai heard that those small households in the town are almost out of control.Those who brought their families with them came to join their relatives, and there were several families in Songjia Village who went to their relatives.But the calamity year is just around the corner, and even my own family can't get enough to eat, so I don't even have food to give to relatives.

Not all of these people are sincere, and there are a few rascals mixed with the idlers in the village.After finding out what was going on in the village, I went to sneak around from time to time.Specially picking out those who are weak and have no help, aroused complaints from the people in the village, and He Lizheng mentioned several times to drive these people away, but nothing happened.

Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman lived on the outskirts of Chenjia Village, and they lived in such a large area.Even if the two of them are men, Chen Dashi has some hands and feet.But two fists can't beat four hands, these people seem to have directed their ideas to Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman.

Thinking of this, Song Tiancai and Zhao Yanxiu looked at each other, then turned and went back.Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman were still puzzled, but when they heard Song Tiancai's worry, they also frowned.These days, they also left early and returned late to water the field, but they didn't pay attention to the movement around them.

It's not a problem if someone is really eyeing them. Song Tiancai said to Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman: "Brother Dashi, Brother Xiaoman, it's really not safe for you two to live in this place. You don't like this, you and us Let’s live together. Originally, our Song family had only a small number of people, but at this time, if someone in the village wants to do something bad, you have to weigh it.”

Even though they said that, Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman understood that, not to mention that Song Dashan and Song Dahai's family were brothers at any rate and could help each other, even if Zhao Yanxiu's strength was worth ten or twenty people, they were not opponents.To ask them to go there is to protect them. After all, they are helpless in Chenjia Village, not the shining fat sheep in some people's eyes.

Going to the Song family at this time, Song Tiancai gave him their highest trust.Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman looked at each other, uncertain.In the end, the two of them naturally couldn't resist the tricks of the eloquent Song Tiancai, so they packed up the food at home and followed them to Song's house.

It took three times for the food to be delivered in the dark. Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman had lived in the Song family before, so they were no strangers to the Song family.Song Dashan and Chen Guizhi welcomed them wholeheartedly, and after spending more than a year with them, they really regarded Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman as their nephews.

After dinner together in the evening, there is still a meat dish on the Song family's dinner table, and the food is also a mixture of fine grains and coarse grains.Only then did Chen Dashi and Lin Xiaoman believe that the Song family still had food, and settled down with peace of mind.However, every day, Lin Xiaoman's family and the Song family's housework was taken care of. Apart from going back to clean up the crops, Chen Dashi took Lin Xiaoman into the deep mountains to find edible mountain products and wild fruits.

It's just that it doesn't rain, and gradually the people in the village become irritable. They can quarrel over trivial matters, and if they are irritable, they will beat them with their hands.As soon as such things happened, Lizheng stepped forward to warn him, but everyone in the village looked more and more sad as they saw the food supply getting less and less every day.

When there was no rain for three consecutive months, more than half of the crops that were about to be harvested in autumn did not grow, and some people's food was almost bottomed out.Songjia Village gradually became filled with a sad atmosphere. Some people went to the fields to look at the crops every day, hoping to grow more food.