Lucky husband

There is a circle in Shanghe Village, and each family carries out the food and transports it to the open space, and piles it all together to form a small hill, weighing about two thousand catties.

Two thousand catties, almost eight hundred catties of sweet potatoes, and one thousand and two hundred catties of taro cost more than 20 taels of silver, which is not a small amount, but the food is enough for several of their families to survive until this year's Chinese New Year.

Seeing so much grain, the joyful expression of the group of taro diggers from the county froze a little, not only because they didn't have enough money to buy so much grain, but also because they couldn't transport so much grain home at once.

They got together to discuss and finally made a decision: "Major Bai, we can't spend so much money to buy food for the time being, and it's not convenient for us to transport the food away. Can we buy it today?" Go for a part, and come back and buy the rest when we have collected the money.”

"Yes, but there is one condition. You can't tell about the fact that you bought the grain in our village." Village head Bai worried that if the news of these people buying grain in Shanghe Village got out, many people would go to Shanghe Village Come to buy food, then it will become very troublesome.

"Don't worry, we still have to wait to buy the rest of the grain. It is impossible to leak the news." The person who bought the grain promised.

These grains are their future rations. Are they crazy or stupid to tell about the grain here.

With their promise, Village Chief Bai asked them to transport two hundred catties of sweet potatoes and two hundred catties of taro, all of which were packed in their own bags.

Recently, there have been a lot of taro diggers in the county town. From time to time, people can be seen digging up a bag or two of taro by the river and water. They pretend that these are the taro they dug outside today.

After this group of people left Shanghe Village, they found a remote corner to sort out the contents of the bags. One person only carried a few dozen catties, and then soiled the legs of trousers and clothes, and went into the city in several batches.

When the people are scattered, they won't attract too much attention. At most, when they see them, they will envy their luck and find food outside the city.

This group of people have been neighbors for many years, and they all know a little about the situation in their families. They all know that in the past one or two months, they have spent a lot of money on their hands to buy food. When they came back, they had no money left in their family. At this time, many shops chose to close their doors and not do business. It was very difficult for ordinary people in the county to earn money, and it was impossible for them not to keep any money at home.

So, after they all returned to the county seat, a few people met and decided to go to the black market to sell part of the food—one hundred catties of sweet potatoes and one hundred catties of taro.

At this time, the food in the county is clearly controlled by the government, the price has not risen too much, and every family can go to the government to receive half a catty of rations every day, which seems to be pretty good.

But in fact, half a catty of grain is too little. Some families with more than ten people will lose half a catty of grain per person.

Therefore, in places where the government "doesn't control", there is a black market for grain. The price of grain in it is much higher than that on the surface. Fine grains such as white rice and white flour are not necessarily available for seventy or eighty yuan a catty, while sweet potatoes This kind of coarse grain, more than ten or twenty cash is normal.

After discussing it, they quietly carried two hundred catties of grain, which were sold out in a short while, and they were chased to ask if there was more.

After selling part of the food, plus the money left in the family, two days later, this group of people came to Shanghe Village again and took another [-] catties of food with them.

The [-] catties of grain were divided into five times and the last time they came to ask if anyone else was willing to sell the grain, Village Chief Bai said very firmly that there was no.

Shanghe Village returned to tranquility again, and it was at this time that Li Mingjin dreamed again.

This time, the scene he dreamed of was more horrifying than the original wildfire, and he woke up in the middle of the night with a crying voice, sitting up and shouting: "Mom..."

Li Mingjin felt that the darkness in the room was scary, so he quickly got up from the bed and stumbled towards Jiang Zhiyun's room.

Jiang Zhiyun slept very lightly at night, and she had to get up two or three times in the middle of the night to change Li Mingkang's diaper and breastfeed, so she heard any movement from Li Mingjin's side, and got up to light the oil lamp.

"Brother Jin, what's wrong with you?" Jiang Zhiyun put on her shoes and opened the door.

Li Mingjin had already arrived at the door, and the warm light in the room calmed his fear. He hugged Jiang Zhiyun's waist and buried his face in it: "Mother, I dreamed that the wolf came to the village."

In Li Mingjin's dream, wolves would come down from the back mountain tomorrow night, and a group of hungry wolves howled in the moonlight, targeting Shanghe Village, a village with a lot of people and livestock.

All the dogs in the village kept barking, waking up the Li family members. Li Mingkang probably felt the tense atmosphere, and kept crying after waking up. No matter how Jiang Zhiyun coaxed him, it was useless.

There was a child crying at home, and Li Mingyue couldn't hold back her sobbing and crying. She didn't quite understand what happened, but she was very scared.

Li Mingjin is older, he knows how scary wolves are, so he is actually the one among the children who is really afraid.

But the adults in the family are all busy, trying to figure out what to do to deal with the sudden appearance of wolves, so Li Mingjin has no choice but to endure the fear and take care of Li Mingyue, his younger sister.

The wolves outside howled for a while, not knowing which family in the village they were after, and not long after, strange sounds came from afar.

I don't know how long it took before the outside finally returned to calm. The Li family members didn't dare to go back to their rooms to sleep. They all sat in the main room with oil lamps on and spent their lives till dawn.

Li Mingjin didn't know when his dream ended, anyway, he saw a dark room when he opened his eyes.

Li Mingjin's voice was buzzing because of her crying voice, but Jiang Zhiyun didn't hear clearly: "What? Brother Jin, what did you dream about?"

"I dreamed that the wolf on the mountain came to the village." After Li Mingjin finished speaking, he burst into tears.

"Hiss..." Jiang Zhiyun gasped, wolf?The wolf has gone down the mountain?

"I'm so scared, mother, my younger brother and seventh younger sister are crying, you have to coax younger brother, I will take care of seventh younger sister by myself, woo woo..." The fear and grievance in the dream came to my heart, Li Mingjin couldn't stop crying .

"Brother Jin, it's okay, it's okay, mother is here, the wolf hasn't come yet, don't cry, don't cry." Jiang Zhiyun looked at her son crying sadly, feeling distressed and worried.

The wolf came down the mountain, which is not an ordinary thing.

As the summer gets hotter and hotter, the forests and shrubs growing on the back mountain are drying up. The last time old man Li met Zheng Orion, the only hunter in the village, he said a few words, and now there are fewer and fewer wild animals on the mountain. .

This is not good news. Orion said that there are fewer and fewer small prey on the mountain, which means that the big meat-eating beasts on the mountain have no food at this time.

Under Jiang Zhiyun's comfort, Li Mingjin gradually fell asleep when she was tired.

Hearing that there were wolves from Li Mingjin, even though it wasn't tonight, the news still made Jiang Zhiyun's mood very difficult to calm down. She sat on the bed, looked at the night sky outside the house through the window, and couldn't fall asleep.

Li Chengshi was not at home on weekdays, she was the only woman with two children, brother Jin was a brother, and Kang'er was so young, what would she do if the wolf came.

It won't be a good thing that although the Li family is separated, there are father-in-law and mother-in-law in charge of the family, and the elder brother and elder sister-in-law are also there. Otherwise, she will definitely not be able to fall asleep immediately if she hears any movement at night.

I thought a lot on the bed, the light of the oil lamp was getting darker and darker, but the sky outside the window was gradually brightening.

Jiang Zhiyun still couldn't sleep, and she felt that she was getting more and more awake, so she simply turned on the oil lamp and started to put on the soles of her shoes.

Embroidery takes a lot of eyes, and Jiang Zhiyun usually does it during the day when the weather is good. She is very familiar with the work of shoe soles. Except for threading needles, she can do it with her eyes closed at other times.

While doing things, Jiang Zhiyun's flustered heart gradually calmed down, and she told herself that the home would be safe if the wolf came.

The courtyard wall of the Li family is very strong in the whole Shanghe Village. The newly built house is a back-shaped structure. The main house, the left wing and the right wing are all houses, and only one side needs to be repaired.

At the beginning, Mrs. Li didn't want a wooden fence or a random earth wall. She insisted on building a strong and high enough courtyard wall with big stones, blue bricks and glutinous rice clay according to the standard of building a house. Five or six years have passed. The courtyard wall didn't seem to be damaged at all. If Li's family was not safe, there would not be two safe families in Shanghe Village.

When it was dawn, there was movement from the big room, and Jiang Zhiyun got up to go out to have a look. It was her sister-in-law Bai Xiuhe who came out of the room to go into the kitchen to make breakfast.

It was strange for Bai Xiuhe to see Jiang Zhiyun getting up so early, because she had to wake up in the middle of the night to nurse the baby. Since the birth, Jiang Zhiyun had been getting up later in the morning than before, and it was the same when Qian Xinghua and Bai Xiuhe gave birth.

It is also because Mrs. Li is kind to her daughter-in-law. Sometimes she swears badly. In fact, she is a mother-in-law who is very good to her daughter-in-law in Shanghe Village. She rarely sets rules for them in these aspects, otherwise Whose daughter-in-law wakes up later than her mother-in-law will definitely be pointed at her nose and scolded for being unfilial.

Facing her sister-in-law's strange gaze, Jiang Zhiyun smiled and explained in a low voice: "For some reason, I couldn't fall asleep at dawn today, so I just got up after changing Kang'er's diaper, sister-in-law, let me make breakfast with you .”

"Okay, it's just that the stove is very hot." Bai Xiuhe didn't think much, and went into the stove to start working after washing her face and hands.

In the hot summer, Bai Xiuhe usually doesn't cook porridge, but cooks it with white flour and boils some sweet potatoes or taro. If two hens in the family have laid eggs, she will cook the eggs together.

The breakfast was simple and quick to make. The two of them were talking and finished their work in a while. They took out the white batter and let it cool. The taro continued to cook in the pot until the firewood was burned before taking it out.

Bai Xiuhe pulled Jiang Zhiyun out of the kitchen: "Working in the kitchen in this weather is a toss, third brother and sister, hurry up and wash your face with me to cool off."

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