Lucky husband

Granny Li understood Li Chengshi's meaning, put down the peanut in her hand, got up, pulled her son and daughter-in-law up and walked into the room: "Tell me, what did Brother Jin dream about."

Li Chengshi lowered his voice and said, "Mother, Brother Jin dreamed that there will be a drought this year."

Then, he told all the things in Brother Jin's dream. The more Mrs. Li listened, her expression became more serious. She had never experienced a drought, but she had heard people from her parents' generation say that the drought was terrible.

Granny Li had no doubts about Li Mingjin's dream. After understanding what would happen in the dream, her life experience made her worries different from those of Jiang Zhiyun and Li Chengshi.

If there is a drought, not only will there be no water in the place where they live, but also there will be no water in the mountains and forests. The food such as grass and fruits in the mountains will decrease, and the number of small animals such as pheasants and wild rabbits that eat wild fruits will decrease. By then, the beasts will disappear. Those who eat will go down the mountain, and the people in the village will be very dangerous.

Li Chengshi has never expressed his worries, because he is considering from the perspective of a county government officer, once a drought occurs, what impact will it have on the county and the village, and these things may not necessarily affect his family. If something happened, he just reminded his family.

Mrs. Li didn't have so many worries, she expressed her worries: "Third brother, this matter has too much impact, if it is really like Brother Jin's dream, then we have to find a way to do it in advance Prepare."

"Our family has enough food to feed our family for a year and a half. However, if there is a drought, this year's food production will definitely decrease. In the past two or three years, the price of food will be relatively high, and it is not easy to buy. Store more food."

"We still have to find a way to store water, maybe we can consider buying some big jars, but as Brother Jin said in his dream, the water in the shallow river will only decrease and not completely dry up, so the problem of water storage is not so urgent."

"I have to think of a way, how to remind the villagers to be vigilant in advance, otherwise the whole village will have nothing to eat, and our family is full of food every day, so it's not good to be conspicuous."

Mrs. Li talked a lot, and finally suddenly thought of her son's identity, and asked him: "My third son, you were favored and promoted by the new magistrate right after he took office. You said that if you told the new magistrate, you would If there is a drought, will he believe it?"

"Probably not." Li Chengshi shook his head, "It really hasn't rained in a month, I can try to mention it."

"It is said that your lord is a child from a family in the capital. I heard that many children from a family in the capital are mostly rich and poor, but I don't think our lord is that kind. He has been doing practical things since he arrived in Changping County. I I feel that if there is a sign of drought, he should take it seriously."

This is Li Chengshi's feeling after being in contact with Zhao Chengze for a period of time. He feels that Zhao Chengze has done better than the previous adult.

The previous adults sent their county government officials to various villages and towns to check the planting and harvest conditions of the farmland during spring plowing and autumn harvest. Now this Lord Zhao not only asks them to check, but also asks them to report the specific values ​​after reading it. Even when he was free in the afternoon, he rode a horse with his master to the nearby village to check on the spot. When he met a villager busy in the field, he would stop and ask.

Li Chengshi went out with Zhao Chengze one afternoon. From the questions Mr. Zhao asked, it can be seen that he is not just putting on airs, but he really knows something about farming, and he is asking targeted questions.

On the way back that day, Mr. Zhao also asked Li Chengshi a lot of questions, talking about the difference between the crops in the capital and the crops in the original Han province.

Li Chengshi had a good sense of Mr. Zhao. He felt that if Mr. Zhao worked so hard, maybe after ten days and a half months without rain, he would find the problem and take the initiative to let everyone go out to find out the reason.

Mrs. Li didn't say anything after hearing Li Chengshi's words. As an old woman in the country, she only needs to take care of her own one-third of an acre of land.

Let the third son and daughter-in-law leave, and Mrs. Li had to think about what to do: "Okay, you two go out first, I will discuss it with your father later, and we will talk about it later."

Mrs. Li also paid great attention to avoiding other people in her family. After discovering Li Mingjin's difference, she offered to keep it a secret, so that more people could not know that Li Mingjin had special dreams.

After breakfast, old man Li was carrying a hoe and was about to go to the field with Li Chengzhi. Mrs. Li called to him: "Old man, you go out later, try these shoes first, and I will continue to make them for you if they fit you. If it doesn’t fit, I can change it.”

Old lady Li is holding a pair of half-made cloth shoes, she is not old enough to see them, she made old man Li and her shoes by herself.

Old man Li was in a hurry to go out, he glanced at old lady Li: "Come back tonight and try again."

"I'm going to keep doing it during the day. If you don't try it, if you don't do it right, you can't change it." Mrs. Li forcefully pulled Old Man Li back to the yard, "Boss, you go to the field first, wait a while I'll give your father the shoes and he'll go after he's done."

Li Chengzhi had no objection, he nodded and went out while resisting the hoe, leaving the old man Li looking at the old lady angrily: "Old lady, don't you try on shoes at night, why did you let me try them so early in the morning?" shoe."

"Old man, go into the room and talk." Mrs. Li didn't care what her old man said, she dragged him and walked into the house.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" Seeing Mrs. Li's posture, the old man knew that she definitely didn't ask him to stay and try on the shoes.

After entering the room and closing the door, Mrs. Li told what Li Chengshi and his wife had come to talk about in the morning.

"What, a severe drought?" Old man Li found it hard to accept what Mrs. Li said. Spring plowing had just planted grain in the field, so why is there a drought?

However, after several incidents of verification, it has been proved that Li Mingjin's dreams are real, as long as he dreams, things will happen, so old man Li can't doubt the authenticity of Li Mingjin's dream, and there is no need for Li Mingjin to say Such a big thing to deceive them.

"Old man, what do you think we should do? Do we need to buy more food?" Mrs. Li was most worried about not having enough food at home.

In the event of a disaster, no matter how much food you stock up on, even though Brother Jin said that it will rain in August, will the drought continue after the rain, or will it return to normal after the rain? He has no dream, only more She can feel more at ease after buying food and keeping it at home.

"I want to buy food. The family's money is in your hands now. You can arrange it." Old man Li's skin was slightly loose, and his face was heavy. As the main labor force in farming, he was the most important person in the whole Li family's land. The heart is broken, and he is feeling uncomfortable.

"Old man, let's start buying food one after another now. Rice noodles, corn, and sweet potatoes are all fine, as long as they can fill our stomachs. In addition to buying food, do you think we can change the food grown in our fields?" Seeing that the old man did not object immediately, Mrs. Li went on to say, "In the event of drought, the rice will definitely not be able to grow. When the drought starts to worsen, we will release the water in the paddy field and plant sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes will grow faster and produce more. High, we can still harvest a crop in summer, and if the drought doesn’t end so soon, we can stockpile more food and don’t worry about starvation.”

Pulling out the seedlings that have just been planted is tantamount to cutting a knife on the old man Li, but he knows that if a drought occurs, the rice seedlings they planted before will never survive, so it is better to give the rice seedlings to Pull out and plant sweet potatoes.

Old man Li didn't want to discuss the matter of pulling out the seedlings for the time being. He thought for a while and said, "It's too early to say these things. The drought hasn't started yet. It rained just the day before yesterday. Let's wait until it doesn't rain for more than ten or twenty days."

Old Madam Li knew what her old man was thinking, so she curled her lips and stopped talking about it: "The boss and his family don't tell them yet, and we'll talk about it when it doesn't rain for a long time. The same goes for the village."

"Hmm." Old Man Li had no objection.

Mrs. Li licked her lips and said solemnly: "If there is a severe drought, maybe the beasts on the mountain will run down the mountain without food. Shall we go to the blacksmith's shop to order two bone cutters and two knives?" Take a meat cleaver, say that our family is in the rice noodle business, and we often chop bones and chop meat, which costs a knife."

Buying food is to feed the stomach, and buying knives is for self-protection. The sharpest things in the house are a kitchen knife, two hatchets, and two sickles. Totally not enough.

It is not easy for ordinary people to buy weapons such as daggers and swords. More common iron tools such as bone choppers have less restrictions and should be able to buy them.

"Well, I really want to buy it." Old man Li also thought of it. When there is no disaster or harm, he would hear people talking about beasts going down the mountain to hurt people from time to time. When there is a drought, they are more likely to go down the mountain.

Speaking of weapons, Mrs. Li thought of her own fence: "Fortunately, the fence of our house was built strong at the beginning. When the drought occurs, we must remember to remind Village Chief Bai to try our best to persuade the villagers to rebuild the weak fence. "

Li's yard was built with stone materials, so as long as the gate is closed, it is considered safe, and there is no need to repair the fence ahead of time with much fanfare, so as not to be too conspicuous.

Mrs. Li talked about a lot of things. In fact, she still wanted to spend money to dig a well in her yard, but she thought that once the well was drilled, it would be easy to attract suspicion. There is water in my well, and the villagers come to borrow water. It doesn’t matter whether they give it or not. It’s better not to dig the well, and wait until it rains as Brother Jin said before thinking about digging the well. I guess the village will think about it by then. The number of people digging wells also increased, and they became inconspicuous.

After finishing what she could think of, Mrs. Li opened the door, called Li Chengshi and Jiang Zhiyun over, and explained what she wanted them to do.

The most important thing Li Chengshi needs to do now is to buy knives. Mrs. Li gave him the money and asked him to go out to the blacksmith shop in the morning and order two bone-chopping knives and two meat-chopping knives.

The rest of the matter is not so urgent, it needs to be planned slowly, and try not to let others see the abnormality.

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