Dongfang Huajin smiled slightly, gave his eldest brother an approving look, and then looked at him and sneered at the woman: "Want to take advantage? Your plan is very wrong, my family is not as good as it was three years ago, and it is not something that can be bullied by others! Of the seven members of your family, three are young and strong, and the youngest child is eight years old. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info have hands and feet, why can't they support themselves? Our Cuizhu Bay is blessed, there are wild vegetables and wild fruits, mushrooms, and pheasants and hares in the mountains, as long as you are diligent, not afraid of hardship and tiredness, you will definitely not die of hunger! ”

The patriarch nodded again and again, glanced at the people who said the strange things of the Ye Mao family just now, and his tone was very harsh: "That's right, although our Cuizhuwan is not the land of rich fish and rice like Jiangnan, but with the mountains at its back, as long as you are diligent, you will not starve to death!" Even if you don't know how to hunt and don't dare to go into the mountains, but in the nearby mountains and forests, there are a lot of wild vegetables in spring, a lot of wild fruits in summer, and even more in autumn. Even in winter, you can also set up a cover to hunt some pheasants and hares! ”

The village chief also looked angry: "That's the reason, besides, every household in our Cuizhuwan has one or two vegetable plots." There is even more wasteland, open one acre of wasteland a year, plant a little crop, and you can also survive the winter! On weekdays, you can also chop firewood and pick it up to sell in the county seat, and you can sell a dozen copper plates for a load of 100 catties of good dry firewood. In the year when there are no natural disasters, a pound of bud grain noodles only needs five copper plates. As long as you don't feel tired or tired, people in a place like ours want to starve their families to death, it's really difficult! ”

The patriarch scolded sharply: "Now that spring has begun, there are wild vegetables in the mountains, and the drought is not particularly serious now, and the world is not chaotic." Those who did not have enough food quickly found two or three families and went into the mountains together. Wild vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, bamboo shoots, wild fruits, whatever you see, as long as you can eat it, you can get it home! ”

"What herbs are you picking? With that effort, it is better to pick more wild vegetables and use them to save your life when you don't have to eat them in the future! Someone objected.

Dongfang Huajin frowned: "After a great drought, there will generally be floods, and after floods, they are often accompanied by plagues. Therefore, it is still necessary to prepare more herbs. Take 10,000 steps back and say that even if there is no flood, in a year of great drought, when there is a lack of food and drink, the body's resistance will be much worse. Headaches, brain fevers, wind chills, etc., are also more than usual. ”

Seeing that everyone was still not very enthusiastic, she sighed and said, "In this way, my family will buy a large number of herbs that have been washed and dried and dried." Ten catties of sun-dried herbs without sediment can be exchanged for at least one catty of sorghum or one catty of bud flour, which is determined according to the value of the herbs. However, only the root of the blue, bupleurum, honeysuckle, thistle, etc., which herbs are collected, what kind of herbs are they, you can find time to confirm with my eldest brother. If there are rare medicinal materials such as notoginseng, how much rice and grain can be exchanged for will be discussed when the time comes! ”

As soon as these words came out, the audience became a sensation.

"Okay, you can exchange it for rice, okay, tomorrow I'll go up the mountain to dig herbs!"

"Well, thistle and honeysuckle, I still know it."

"That's good, thank you so much! Prepare a little more food, and your heart can be a little more steady. ”

Everyone talked about it and couldn't help but be happy.

After all, only about half of the people who have bought enough food for more than half a year are here. However, looking at the weather, it is really worrying.

Dongfang Huajin glanced at everyone again: "The best dry firewood, five hundred catties can be exchanged for one catty of grain, but I have said it first, and you can't cut it at will." Especially trees that are less than ten years old, they must not be cut down, otherwise, my family will not harvest the firewood. Also, trees that are within three miles of the village cannot be cut down! ”

The old patriarch nodded, very serious: "That's right, what the painting brocade said is very right, indiscriminate cutting and felling will destroy the water and soil, and will be retributed!" I will send people to patrol the mountains regularly, and if I find someone cutting down indiscriminately, I will never forgive me easily! If it is serious, it will be expelled from the clan and expelled from Cuizhu Bay! ”

He also said approvingly to the Oriental Painting Brocade: "Good boy, you are a kind-hearted person, thank you on behalf of the villagers!" ”

Five catties of firewood, twenty catties of herbs, and one catty of food, this kid is really a kind person. You must know that a pound of sorghum on the market today is sold for one or two pounds of silver. Moreover, there is still no price in the market, and you can't buy it at all. It is said that in the county seat, someone bid ten taels of silver for a pound of sorghum.

Five hundred catties of firewood sounds like a lot, but Cuizhuwan is backed by a mountain, and it is not easy to get firewood? There are so many subordinates in the Huajin family, and they send ten people out to chop wood a day, and they can have as many as they want. She did this because she couldn't bear to watch the villagers starving, so she proposed to exchange firewood for food.

Naturally, other people can think of this. Therefore, even the most difficult people did not say anything, but their faces were full of joy. It's all forced to this part, if you don't work, you will starve to death, and the lazy worm will be forced to be diligent.

The brother and sister walked home side by side.

Ye Mao asked puzzledly: "Third sister, why do we collect so many herbs?" ”

Dongfang Huajin sighed: "Big brother, I have no choice, first, I am changing my way to help those who are short of food." You can't just give it for nothing, or borrow it for nothing, because that will cause trouble. Second, I am worried that one day, there will be a plague, and the people in the village will lack medicinal materials. At that time, did you think our family could watch it? However, there are hundreds of people, and no matter how many herbs we have, it is not enough. When the time comes, it will be given to the people in the village, what will happen to the people of our family? Third, I am also worried about my father and marshal, and when they are in chaos, the soldiers at the border will need more herbs! ”

"It's still the third sister who thinks thoughtfully." Ye Mao's heart was a little guilty.

Dongfang Huajin didn't have the heart to comfort him, so he changed the topic and asked Shen Qing'an, the captain of the guard team who was following him: "By the way, how are the villages nearby, how is the situation of the village protection team?" ”

Shen Qing'an, thirty years old, is from the next village, a veteran, and once a subordinate of Dongfang Qi'an. Retired from the army due to injury, his right leg is a little lame, but his martial arts are good. The most important thing is that he is loyal enough to Dongfang Qi'an, and Dongfang Qi'an has saved his life.

A month ago, his mother was seriously ill in bed, and the doctor in the county town said that there was no help. Dongfang Huajin went on a trip to the deep mountains, brought back a hundred-year-old ginseng, gave him one-fifth, and a few pills boiled with space spiritual spring water. Now, his mother can get out of bed and move, and the doctor says that there is no problem in living for more than ten years.

For this reason, Shen Qingan is very grateful to the Oriental Painting Brocade family, and he is sincere. Moreover, he was originally a very good person, an upright and righteous person. In the past few days, Dongfang Painting Brocade has begun to pay attention to him, promoted to the captain of the guard, and entrusted him with many important things.

In these villages of ten miles and eight townships, there are many veterans, most of whom know Shen Qingan. It was only fitting to send someone to contact those people to discuss the establishment of a village protection team.

Sure enough, Shen Qing'an's face was good: "Girl, please rest assured, so far, there have been thirty-five villages, and all of them have set up village protection teams. Moreover, they all look the same, and the number of them is more than thirty. There are only five villages without a village protection team, and they are all far away from Cuizhu Bay! In those five villages, there was no one with whom I had a good relationship, and I went to it several times in succession, and no one paid attention to it. ”

Dongfang Huajin nodded: "In that case, you don't want to go to those villages." Time is pressing, we can't afford to delay, Shenjiazhuang, Guojiazhuang, Zhaozhuang, Fangjiacun, Lishuwan, these villages, you walk a little diligently, help them get on the right track in the shortest possible time. If you have any difficulties, tell me and try to help as much as you can! Also tell those people that herbs, firewood, wild vegetables, wild fruits, etc., should also be prepared as much as possible, just in case! ”

Shenjiazhuang, Guojiazhuang, Zhaozhuang, Fangjiacun, Lishuwan, these villages are the closest villages to Cuizhuwan, so they naturally need to be taken care of. These villages are equivalent to the first line of defense of Cuizhu Bay, which is very important.

Shen Qingan respectfully responded: "Yes, girl, your subordinates must do their best!" ”

Dongfang Huajin told again: "Go back, you go and give my mother five hundred taels of silver, and use it to make more big knives and daggers." See which village is in short supply of weapons, and give them a hand, but remember that the weapons should be given to people of good character. Shenjiazhuang, Guojiazhuang, Zhaozhuang, Fangjiacun, Lishuwan, these villages, weapons must be sufficient, at least the people of the village protection team must have a big knife! Shenjiazhuang, you can focus on it, if you want, take your family over tomorrow to live, the geographical location of Cuizhu Bay is much stronger, and it will be safer. ”

Shen Qingan nodded vigorously: "Thank you, girl, I will take my father and mother over tomorrow!" ”

He had this idea for a long time, but he was embarrassed to take the initiative to speak.

A month has passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, the patriarch and the village chief came together and knocked on the door of the Oriental Painting Brocade family. The two of them sighed with worries on their faces.

Dongfang Huajin's heart suddenly chuckled.

It seems that the situation is very bad!

Sure enough, the village chief said anxiously: "The military situation at the border is urgent, and the county has entered the bandits, maybe the day after tomorrow, they will hit Cuizhuwan!" ”

-End of Chapter-