It's also strange to say that since Song Chen and Su Miao went out of Lily of the Valley City after the sunny day, the rain has not fallen since. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info they stayed in Lily of the Valley for seven or eight days, and it was always sunny during the period.

The two Ping'an brothers returned to Cui's house and passed on Song Chen and Su Miao's words, and they set a quantity and reported it, but as for the price, they didn't ask.

Originally, with the identity of their Cui family, if they wanted to buy grain, because of the large batch, they could go directly to the grain shop to talk and let them send things directly into the house. But I don't know if their Cui family has never had anything to do with the grain merchants in the city, or if they are like this to all people, Cui Ji went to find their shopkeeper, and they said that the current situation is special, and it is okay not to queue up, they can deal with it in special circumstances, but they need to add some special treatment costs, and they don't need to add extra, just settle according to the grain price of 26 Wen. Don't give any face.

And the reason given by the shopkeeper is reasonable - they are also trying to convince the public, everyone is queuing, they are all old customers, if it starts, everyone asks to buy a large quantity, then the food will not be enough. You can only use the price to stop other people......

Originally, the grain of 13 wen had risen to 20 wen, which had already risen by more than 50 percent, and if it was sold for 26 wen, it would have doubled. That's really intimidating for ordinary people. Everyone is a businessman, and if it is a little better, they can understand it, but mentioning so much at once makes them extremely suspicious of the other party's sincerity. They have some money, but that money is not blown by the wind to their house, how can they accept such a difficult situation?

Under such circumstances, Song Chen's friendship with them came at the right time.

The Cui family originally wanted to set up a banquet to thank Song Chen and Su Miao, but they were politely refused, this matter was just a gesture for them, and it was a matter of being so polite. And they didn't have time, because they had been out for so many days, and it was almost the middle of September, and they saw that the rice was about to be harvested, and they had to go back to Zhuangzi.

After the rain stopped, the water slowly continued to subside, and on the day Song Chen and Su Miao went back, they came out of Lily of the Valley City, two-thirds of the distance was restored, and they could ride forward, and after reaching the place where there was water, Kuai Yong and they were already holding the raft and waiting.

Along the way, they saw that many of the rice seedlings that had been completely submerged in the water before were showing their heads, but the rice seedlings had been soaked in the water for too long, and all of them were staggered to the ground, and the grains were either empty in a pinch, or they had already grown white buds. When the water receded, many people returned to inspect their fields with hope, only to return with a depressed face.

Song Chen and the others saw disappointed people along the way, and after returning to Zhuangzi, this atmosphere slowly turned around. Unlike the people I saw outside, the people in Zhuangzi seemed happy, although there were a lot of losses in Zhuangzi, but there were still more than 300 acres of land! And the water has slowly receded, with this food as a guarantee, they will definitely be able to survive this disaster year, as long as people are okay, there is hope, and then they can make a comeback!

Baiyun Villa has this mentality from top to bottom, and it is also very energetic to do things, and seeing that the grain can be harvested, one or two are ready, rolling up their sleeves and preparing to go to the field to do a great job.

Although there are no short-term workers for the time being, most of the fields are less than before, and there are nearly forty people in Zhuangzi, because they are afraid that the weather will be bad again, so they move as fast as possible, if it is not for Song Chen and Su Miao disagree, they all want to minimize the time to rest, and the most important thing is to harvest the rice first.

However, Song Chen and Su Miao did not agree, and asked Liufu to pay attention to the time of going to the ground, and let them come back when it was time, it was time to eat, and it was time to rest. Although the work in the field is important, it is no more important than people, so don't tire people out.

Because the terraces are not as convenient as the flat land, the high and low are staggered, and it is quite time-consuming, and after the rice is received in the Zhuangzi, it is also necessary to allocate a part of the people to dry and take care of it, after the second day, Wei Shu'an and their eight teenagers and girls, as well as Zou Sheng, who later defected to the Zhuangzi, brought the children who were not strong laborers, and were arranged to stay in the Zhuangzi to be responsible for drying. The others spent six or seven days in the field before they completely harvested the more than 300 acres of paddy fields. At this time, the rice of the first two days has been dried and put into storage.

Everyone was very tired, but very happy, while helping to dry the millet, they had already begun to actively discuss taking advantage of the good weather to divert some water from the reservoir on the mountain to the fields, and after soaking the ground softly, they could turn the ground, and the roots of the rice could be dried and the ashes could be burned as fertilizer, and then the crops would be planted after the ground was turned over.

But no one has any experience in this matter, and all along, after the rice is harvested, the land is empty waiting for the spring to be replanted, and at most half an acre is turned over to grow some vegetables for home consumption. They just instinctively felt that the land was empty and wasted, and now that the rice fields were harvested, everyone else was idle except for the vegetable garden, which needed a very small number of manpower, and this flood made them all feel very in danger and always wanted to make the best use of the land. But if all of them are planted with greens, it will be too much, and every family around here has its own vegetable garden, and no one will buy vegetables to eat. If it is to be sent to Lily of the Valley City, it is too far, and now the food is the most important, and the dish is estimated to not be sold at a good price. But if you only plant a part, what should you plant? Everyone had suggestions, and Liufu couldn't decide on this matter, and finally went to Song Chen and Su Miao.

Liufu didn't know much about farming, so he listed the crops that everyone proposed that could be planted on paper, and Song Chen and Su Miao made the final decision. This is related to the field, Song Chen obviously thinks that Su Miao is much more experienced than him, so after taking the paper over and looking at it, Song Chen silently handed it to Su Miao.

There were ten kinds of crops such as garlic, green onions, spinach, coriander, radish, lettuce, and cowpeas listed on the paper, and Su Miao looked at it: "You can all plant them!" Isn't this garlic ready to be dried and stored, and garlic sprouts can be used as kimchi? The same is true for turnips, which are also released in winter, and some of them can be made into dried turnips...... Ah Chen, don't you like to eat dried radish fried eggs? It can also be made into radish pickles, sour radish, spicy radish and the like. Cowpeas can be dried and preserved, and can be eaten as stewed vegetables! There are many of them! In addition, lettuce can also be used as pickles, and it can also be used in a variety of points. For the rest, you should ask Aunt Shi when you arrive, in addition to eating fresh, is there any other way to preserve, if there are more, if not, plant less. ”

"How much land do you think is good to plant?" Luofoo didn't know if he understood Su Miao's meaning, what she said was planted, did she mean that these varieties could be planted? Or is it all planted?

"If the manpower allows, all the land can be planted!" Su Miao thought for a while and said, "Dried vegetables and kimchi are easy to preserve, and they can be taken to the city and sold in grain stores." Anyway, the cost is not large, and it is not impossible to give some of it to those who come to buy food. Anyway, it's always going to be needed in the end. ”

"There are enough people! Enough! "In that case, I'll go into the city tomorrow and buy vegetables?" ”

"Let Kuai Yong bring two more people with you! Just pull things back. The water has receded, and there is only a short distance of waterway left, and the carriage can also pass directly, and at the same time, Song Chen also thought of another thing, "After you arrive in the city, you go to Cui's house and send them a message, saying that the grain in the Zhuangzi has been collected, and they can send a car to pull it in three days!" ”

Three days later, all the harvest of the season was dried and put into storage. This season due to too much rain, although the terraces were not flooded, but the heavy rain for several days still had an impact on the yield, the yield per mu in the previous season was nearly three stones, this season was converted into only more than two and a half stones, and the total new harvest of rice was less than 1,000 stones.

The Cui family still has some grain in stock, so they didn't ask for much, only a hundred stones.

Cui Ping and Cui An personally led the convoy to transport grain. The accounts were the responsibility of Shen Zhongneng, the father-in-law of Lukfook, and the settlement price was calculated according to the price before the flood. Cui Ping and the others knew that Song Chen and Su Miao didn't care about this money, so they didn't say much about it, and only joked with Song Chen and Su Miao after seeing it: "Now we have taken a big advantage!" ”

After the Cui family's grain convoy left, Liufu followed Xiaobai again: "Song Gongzi, Miss Su, didn't the dozen or so long-term workers in Zhuangzi have relatives who kept the rest of the rations here before entering the city?" Now that the waters had receded, they had returned, and they had come and taken away all that had been stored for the past two days...... But this ration didn't last long...... The price of food in the city has risen so much at the moment, and you can only buy a small amount of money at a time...... The long-term workers can have enough to eat here, and they can't bear to watch their relatives go hungry, so they want to ask if they can exchange their wages for food, and they can take them back to help make up for their families? ”

"No problem!" Song Chen replied briskly, "You ask them, do you want new grain or old grain?" If you want two years of old grain, the price can be reduced by 20 percent......

This is already a deliberate attempt to take care of these long-term workers. Later, if the grain shops in the city started selling grain, the price would be calculated directly according to the pre-flood price, and there would be no distinction between new and old grain. But naturally the first thing they will sell is old grain.

The old grain is also very well preserved, and in this extraordinary period, they naturally choose to exchange for a larger amount of old grain. Zhuangzili also sent ox carts to the long-term workers to send grain back one by one, and those relatives were surprised and grateful, with the help of these grains, they could hold on for a while, and maybe they could wait for the government's relief food.