Defeat natural disasters with farming

After finishing the business, the atmosphere in the room immediately became relaxed. Shen Fu took a sip of tea from his teacup, and then said with a smile, "It's a blessing to meet old acquaintances in such a world."

Father Ye responded, "That's not true."

Then he looked around and asked, "Why didn't you see Brother Yu?"

Hearing this, Shen Fu replied with some concern: "It's too cold, he has a little cough, and now he is resting indoors."

Father Ye asked again: "Have you asked the doctor to look at it?"

"I've seen it. Both Dr. Chen and Dr. Wu from Huichun Hall have come for treatment. They said it was a cold, so it doesn't matter."

As soon as Shen Fu finished speaking, Father Ye answered impatiently, "Are Doctor Chen and Doctor Wu here?"

"That's right, the two of them were lucky. They were treating the magistrate's son at the county magistrate's mansion, so they were the only ones in the entire Huichun hall not to be crushed under the rubble." Shen Fu raised his hand and asked the young man to take him away. The two doctors please come here.

Seeing this, Ye Yu asked, "Where are County Magistrate Zheng and the others?"

Hearing this question, Shen Fu sighed deeply, and replied: "Earlier, I dragged my family and went to the south. I said that I really couldn't survive here. There are many mountains and forests in the south. At least I can eat. And there’s no drought, no cooling.”

He took a sip of tea and continued: "Actually, I want to go too. You see, the temperature today is probably lower than before. If this is the case, it is very likely that it will be lower every year in the next few years. People Just stand outside and you will be completely frozen, if you go to the south, no matter how bad the situation is there, it’s not like here, people won’t freeze to death.”

"Besides, you have also seen that our newly built houses are all made of stone, and they are very simple. Whether they can survive this winter is not a question."

Father Ye is obviously powerless about this, let alone let them live in Yejia Village, he is now the village chief, responsible for the whole village, if he lets people who don't know his background into the village casually, who knows if someone will have evil intentions.

Just when they were speechless, Dr. Chen and Dr. Wu opened the door and came in, bringing in a piece of cold air.

Seeing Ye Yu obediently sitting on the wooden chair, the two couldn't help but smile.

"Okay, as long as the person is healthy." Dr. Chen stroked his beard and said in relief, "Have you not been sick recently?"

Ye Yu thought for a while and replied: "A few months ago, I had a cold and had a fever, but it's gone now."

Dr. Wu told him, "It's cold outside recently, you are weak and not as good as others, you'd better wear thick clothes."

"Don't worry, I remember." Ye Yu nodded.

Immediately afterwards, the two doctors checked Ye Yu's pulse, and there was nothing serious about it. Although Ye Yu is not strong now, he can be called healthy.

They stayed here for about an hour, and when the sun rose to the center of space, Father Ye got up and said goodbye.

Seeing this, Shen Fu tried to persuade him to stay, "Why don't you stay for lunch?"

Father Ye waved his hand and said, "You don't have much food, so we won't eat it. We have to hurry back before it's too cold."

"Then I won't come here in vain. When the transaction is completed tomorrow, you must stay for dinner." Shen Fu sent them to the door.

"Definitely." Father Ye cupped his fists and saluted, "Let's send it here."

The group of them walked back along the way they came here. This time, it may be because of Lu Shun that they returned to the village in less than two hours.

Ye Mingde, who was standing on patrol on the tower, saw them at a glance. He quickly opened the door. After the group entered the village, Ye's father told them to go back first, and come to the meeting after dinner.

Ye Yu went home with his father and had a simple lunch, and then went door-to-door to inform the villagers to hold a meeting in the ancestral hall.

With such a ratio of fifty catties of grain for one catty of salt, no one in the village had any objections, and they couldn't wait to start talking about the quantity they needed.

This one costs two catties of salt, and that one costs five catties of salt. The entire ancestral hall looks like a chicken pen, and the noise is so loud that it makes people headache.

Seeing this, Father Ye quickly raised his voice to calm them down, and then stipulated that each household can only exchange a catty of salt at most, so that all families in need can exchange as much as possible.

In the ancestral hall, Ye Tongsheng led Ye Yu and the others to record the quantities needed by the villagers.

Ye Tongsheng sat behind the desk with a pen, and Ye Yu and Wang Shu helped to record. Opposite them was a neat long line of villagers holding bags after bags of grain.

Those grains include sorghum noodles, corn noodles, potatoes and sweet potatoes, anyway, they can be used as staple food to fight hunger.

In the end, at least every family in the village can be guaranteed to exchange for half a catty of salt, which can last for at least a month if they save some food. In addition, what is left in their family should be able to survive this winter.

The sky was getting dark, but Ye Yu was still sitting at the table and calculating how much food he needed in total. In the end, even he was surprised. The whole village needed to change [-] catties of salt, which means they had to bring [-] catties of salt. A hundred catties of grain passed by.

How to escort so much food is also a big problem. What if they are robbed on the way?Therefore, almost all young and middle-aged people in the village were mobilized, even Master Wu, Master Yue and Chu Xufeng's bodyguards joined in, and it was very spectacular when they set off early the next morning.

One bag can hold [-] catties of grain, and [-] catties required five bags to fill up three sledges. The bags were tightly tied to the sledges with hemp ropes to ensure that they would not fall down no matter how bumpy the road was. .

Ye Yu and Chu Xufeng didn't follow this time. After all, Father Ye didn't know if there would be any accidents on the road, so they just added to the chaos, so they might as well stay at home honestly.

Ye Yu sat on the kang bed and ate pine nuts while chatting with Chu Xufeng. The topic between them was about rice.

"Nowadays there are no grain merchants, and there is no way to buy white rice."

Chu Xufeng said thoughtfully: "Since rice can be grown in Zhuo County, it proves that rice can actually adapt to colder weather. It is not impossible to grow rice in Donghai County. Besides, in the past two years, there were perennial high temperatures. Depending on the situation, maybe after this winter it will take over the high temperature again.”

Ye Yu felt a little regretful upon hearing this, "I should have tried planting rice last year."

In the past two years, they were afraid that the high temperature was only a flash in the pan, and that the weather would cool down as soon as they planted rice. There is no guarantee that the family will not go hungry.

Moreover, they don't have many rice seeds in their hands. If they really want to grow rice, they have to find ways to buy rice seeds.

Chu Xufeng comforted: "It's not too late to start now. When the weather gets hotter, you can find a smaller field to try planting first. If you can really get something, you can plant more in the coming year."

Ye Yu nodded, "It should be so."

Halfway through their chat, they suddenly heard a knock on the door. Before Ye Yu jumped off the kang, Ye Jing had already run to open the door.

Soon his voice came over, "Second Sister Wu, why are you here?"

Second Sister Wu?Ye Yu thought for a while before realizing who it was. It should be Wu Pandi, the second-ranked member of the Wu family next door. This title is not often heard, so he didn't realize it for a while.

Because of the mediocre sound insulation in the room, Ye Yu could hear the conversation between the two.

Pandi's voice was very soft, "I forgot to wear the coir raincoat when I came out of the greenhouse before. I happened to meet Brother Ye, and he lent me his coir raincoat. I'm here to return the coir raincoat."

Ye Yu was stunned for a moment after hearing that, his big brother who didn't understand the style at all actually borrowed other people's coir raincoats sometimes.

Ye Jing didn't think too much about it, he readily took the coir raincoat from Pandi, "My brother went out to change the salt, I'll tell him when he comes back."

Pandi lowered her hands and replied, "Okay."

After she left, Mrs. Ye came out from the kitchen, "Just now, Pandi from the Wu family came to give Hai Geer's coir raincoat?"

Her tone was full of surprise.

"Yes, uncle." Ye Jing put the coir raincoat on the kang.

This is really a strange thing, Mrs. Ye thought to herself, someone who used to know how to borrow a coir raincoat when a little girl falls to the ground.

Could it be that he has a crush on Pandi?

The more Mrs. Ye thought about it, the more she felt that this was probably the case. She picked two vegetable leaves from the earthen pot on the kang and brought them into the kitchen, and then shared the matter with her mother-in-law and sister-in-law.

After hearing the ins and outs, Mrs. Ye slapped her thigh and said excitedly: "This is a good thing, Pandi is gentle and docile."

The children of the Wu family next door can almost be said to have been watched and grown up by them, and they know what their temperament is. I said at the beginning that if it weren't for the fact that they had a grandma who couldn't be clear, the matchmaker who proposed marriage to the four sisters might have taken them. The threshold of the house was trampled.

Now Mrs. Wu and Wu Dalang are gone. Wu Shitou is still young, and his mother and a few sisters began to correct his temper.

Auntie Ye smiled and said, "I'll wait for Brother Hai to come back later, and ask his father to ask about it. If there is nothing unexpected, you may be able to embrace your great-grandson soon."

Mrs. Ye became happy again when she heard this, "It seems that our family will soon have four generations living under one roof."

I don't know if it's because of happiness, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law cooked a table of sumptuous meals at noon, and the children ate happily.

The team that went out to change the salt in the afternoon came back, and the grain loaded on the four sledges turned into large grains of coarse salt, and the salt was divided according to the records for an hour or two.

After Father Ye and the others returned home, everyone was exhausted, had a hasty dinner, and after washing, they lay down on the kang to go to bed.

While he was still asleep, Mother Ye whispered a few words, "Brother Hai, Peach Blossom, and Lotus from the second brother's family are all at the age of getting married. In a few years, Brother He, Brother Jing They also want to say goodbye, the family is seeing more and more people, shouldn't it be time for us to separate?"

Even if the daughter-in-law who comes in has a good temper, there will always be conflicts, not to mention that the family may not be able to live in it.

Father Ye's eyes were already squinted, but he opened them as soon as he heard her words, "It's not good for a while, and the outside world doesn't know what's going on now. It's safer to have more people in the family. Let's talk about it when it stabilizes in the future."

In fact, Mother Ye didn't have a particularly big idea of ​​wanting to separate the family, so she temporarily let it go after being rejected by Father Ye.

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Within a few days, Boss Ye found out his thoughts from Ye Hai, and the family guessed it right, he liked Pandi very much.

For this reason, Mrs. Ye took a chicken to the only matchmaker in the village and asked her to propose marriage to the Wu family.

The matchmaker is eloquent and slick, and Wang knows that Ye Hai is a perfect marriage partner. She strives for herself and knows the family situation. Pandi really burned incense to find such a good marriage.

Therefore, she quickly agreed to this marriage. Under the rush of the matchmaker, both the man and the woman calculated their birthdays, and after confirming that the horoscopes match, they can get engaged.

The first thing in the engagement between the two parties is the man's dowry. Ye Hai is the grandson of Ye's parents. His marriage is naturally very important. The family members discussed for a long time before deciding on the dowry.

Needless to say, chicken, duck, fish and so on, Mrs. Ye specially took out a piece of silk cloth from the bottom of the press box for the eldest son's marriage.

She touched the fine silk cloth and said to Tao Hua: "Your father took me to buy this cloth when we were shopping in the market a few years ago. I bought three pieces in total, and I will leave them all to you. This light yellow piece with small flowers is suitable for Pandi." , the peach red one is your dowry, and the indigo blue one is left for Brother He's future wife."

There is no market now, and I don't know if we can still get such beautiful silk cloth in the future.

When it comes to the dowry, Taohua blushes slightly, very shy.

In addition to these few items, there was also a silver hairpin and a silver bracelet in the betrothal gift, which were brought out by Mrs. Ye herself.

She said: "Don't say I'm partial, I still have the exact same thing, and when you get married in the future, you will have the same bride price and dowry."

Boss Ye disagreed and said, "Where do we use your dowry and dowry? This should be prepared by us as parents."

At this time, Mrs. Ye interrupted him with a wave of her hand, "Okay, don't gossip, they are all my grandchildren, it's normal for me to be a grandma to produce things."

When the matchmaker delivered the betrothal gift to Wu's family, the more Wang looked at it, the more frightened she became. The betrothal gift was really generous, even if only one-third of it was considered a betrothal gift, it was enough.

In contrast, the dowry she prepared for Pan Di was a bit out of hand.

Therefore, during this period of time, she began to get angry in a hurry, and her mouth had blisters the size of soybeans, until Zhaodi carried her daughter back to her natal home.

After Zhaodi found out about this, she immediately said: "The betrothal gifts from Ye's family, except for chicken, duck and fish, are all for Pandi to bring over. I remember there was a pine tree at home, which was directly cut down to make a kang cabinet. This is another One set of dowry, the rest is enough for me to lead Qiudi and Laidi to sew some small objects. Our family is not that rich, and the Ye family knows it if we want to come, we just need to show them our The family attaches great importance to this marriage."

In fact, there is a custom here. When a girl is born in the family, the father needs to plant a pine tree in the yard with his own hands. When the girl grows up, the furniture made of that tree will be the girl's dowry.

However, Wu Dalang has no idea of ​​planting a tree at all. There is only one pine tree in their yard. When Zhaodi got married, he didn't touch that tree, but Pandi used it.

Zhaodi went on to say: "My husband also has a few trees in his house, which can be cut down for furniture when Qiudi and Laidi get married in the future."

Upon hearing this, Wang quickly stopped her, "This son-in-law must not be angry, you must not do this."

"It's okay, I'm the eldest sister, not to mention a tree is not worth much money."

Wang didn't speak anymore.

Zhao Di was right, the Ye family was very satisfied with the dowry sent by the Wu family the day before the wedding, especially the two kang cabinets, which were specially made by the Wu family for the Qin family father and son, they were strong and bright, He was carried to his own room by Ye Hai himself.

This day, other people from the village came to the door one after another. Every villager who came to the door brought something. This one brought a small bag of pine nuts, and the other brought a piece of pork. Judging by the situation, the Ye family might not need to prepare for the wedding banquet tomorrow. food.