Civilian Edition Traveling Farming Diary

The snow has been falling endlessly, and it hasn't stopped in the past few days.

Today, I went to the small cellar to check the inventory. There are still some vegetables, meat, and some rice noodles. As long as I don’t waste it, Chen Xiang and I can eat for more than two months. Meals, and we need two meals a day during this period, so save and eat, not a single bite is wasted.

Now it is the twelfth lunar month, which is about January and February in the Gregorian calendar. After two months, it will be March and April in the Gregorian calendar. In a completely natural growing environment, there are no vegetables and food in spring. Chen Xiang said that people will go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables in spring , I will also eat some game to satisfy my hunger.

I really miss the old world. There are all kinds of vegetables in the supermarket throughout the year, and there are fruits. I haven’t eaten a bite of fruit here!So some of the lives we take for granted are actually happiness and are worth cherishing.

Only when I got here did I know what it means to really rely on the weather. Even if the weather was bad before, farmers complained about the drought and waterlogging this year, and the harvest was not good, but they will not be hungry, and they are all white rice and flour, with modern planting Technology, as well as strong national guarantees, will always be much easier.

But it's different here, really different.People will not make the land fertile. They use farmyard manure. There are no pesticides to control diseases and insect pests, and there are no high-yield crop varieties. It doesn't matter, but if you buckle it down layer by layer, at most you're holding a bowl and queuing up to get some relief food, which is the legendary porridge.

These are all mentioned by Chen Xiang and me when chatting, so people here always have a sense of crisis, and the food at home will not flow out. Chen Xiang said that the weather has been good for several years, so there will be a When the harvest is not good, half a liter of rice can be bought with a mere penny, and half a liter can’t be bought with ten pennies. What’s more, ordinary people can’t buy rice even if they have money. It is used by officials and rich households, and ordinary people can only eat wild vegetables and gnaw bark. It is not uncommon for people to starve to death these days.

Only then did I realize how important my two acres of land are, and that is what I rely on for my survival. No wonder the common people value land very much. Chen Xiang said that even big merchants and officials would acquire some land. That is The essence of human beings.

Well, I planned to have someone plant the land for me in the coming year, but now I have decided to plant it myself, and I will get a set of farm tools for me after the New Year.

In the afternoon, Liu Dong told me through the wall that two more people had died in the village. We sighed and didn’t say much. I couldn’t accept it at first, but now I’m as calm as they are. The refugee village is very big and there are many people. , old, weak, sick, and disabled, in this world where people would freeze and starve to death, it is not surprising that a few people die.

In a backward world, people have to work harder to survive, and so do I.