It is said that the villagers of Lijia Village followed Li Dalang to learn to farm, watched Li Erlang draw water from the mountain and stored water, and also dug pits on the side of the ground to store water. For a time, there was a water storage fever in Lijia Village.

"Second brother, the village is bringing people to pick up the water tank, so don't use it with us. I went to the field yesterday to see, our own water trough can still be used, although the water is smaller, but two or three nights can fill a cellar, just use it! ”

"Well, I think so too, Xiao Wu, you don't know, and I don't know what's going on in this village, every family digs pits to store water, and there are people queuing up to receive water from dawn, and there are people all over the place when it's dark. But we don't need to go to see the ground, so many people are guarding, even wolves don't dare to go down the mountain. "Erlang has been disturbed by the villagers who came out to inquire on the edge of the field these days, and he complained to Situ Yan when he got something to talk about.

"What's wrong with this, this family has a water cellar, and even if there is a big drought this year, at least half of the harvest can be saved. It also saves life from going on. Situ Yan thinks this is a good thing, but she is worried that these people only know how to store water and do not know how to purify, and I am afraid that mosquitoes will be indispensable this summer.

"Yes, too. By the way, Xiao Wu, my eldest brother and I turned over the soil these days, and found that there were more ground crickets in the field, according to what you said, we turned the ground deep again, and poured a lot of water, I don't know if this can work? ”

"Okay, I added medicine to that water, and the insects won't survive." Li Erlang's words made Situ Yan chuckle in her heart, she remembered that after the drought in her previous life, her grandmother often said "After the drought, there is a locust plague", and her whole person jumped up in shock, such a big thing, why did she forget it. Maybe it's because life is too comfortable, or maybe it's too simple to live on farming.

But she couldn't tell anyone else about it, so she only found four brothers and told her about her worries.

"Xiao Wu, are the locusts you are talking about the kind that can fly and eat crops?" Li Dalang had some impressions of this bug.

"Yes, has the eldest brother seen it?"

"I remember five years ago, after the great drought, there was a disturbance, the sky was full of people, and when the insects flew by, all the crops in the field were eaten by poles. I couldn't even find the leaves in the mountains, and my grandmother almost sold the junior that year. ”

"Yes, I remember that since then, my milk has been thinking about selling me." When San Lang mentioned this, he would tremble with anger, and he was even more grateful to his eldest brother, if it weren't for the eldest brother's insistence, and even for him to hunt in the mountains day and night, he wouldn't have seen his little sister and couldn't live such a good life.

"Then big brother, do you know how the people in the village exterminated insects at that time?" For the things that have happened and become the past, Situ Yan is just sad for the brothers in her heart, but she will not insist on recalling or retaliating against anyone, because she is not a party to those things and has no right to comment, she is more concerned about how ancient people were dewormed.

"Can the bugs be destroyed? I was hiding in the house, I didn't even dare to go out, and the people in the village were hiding in the house, and I didn't hear of anyone going out to catch bugs. The worm was like it was raining. Li Dalang wondered in his heart, how could the little sister think of catching insects.

These words made Situ Yan understand that there was no way to deal with locusts in this era, and she was completely resigned to fate. It's not her personality. I know what to do next.

"Big brother, you and the second brother and the third brother have worked hard these days, I want to leave the fourth brother to help me do some work, can't I go to Guantian to help for a while?"

"Okay, why don't you let Saburo go with you, we're busy here." Although Li Dalang didn't understand, he could also see that the little sister had something to do, thinking that he couldn't let the little sister be tired, so he asked San Lang to go to work with him.

"No, the fourth brother can do it alone." Situ Yan has to be busy, not too many people, and there are many people in the official field at this time.

The days of spring ploughing are always busy, and the villagers get up before dawn and go home after dark. Situ Yan only gave Shiro one task, "collecting firewood", to pick up more than in winter, and even piled up the firewood room before continuing. Shiro was also curious about why the little sister suddenly asked for so much firewood, and Situ Yan only explained that it would be of great use, and didn't say much else.

After ploughing the ground and fertilizing, the villagers began to look forward to the rain, but God showed a big smile when he saw the sky, and there was no intention of thunder and rain, so the villagers had to use the stored water to water the ground and plant, which was the right time to sow seeds.

After the spring ploughing, the villagers who served went to the county again. The fourth aunt borrowed 2 taels of silver from Aunt A Niu, and brought all the 4 taels of silver that he had saved from selling food in the winter to Li Si, and asked him to pay taxes for six months first, so that after the autumn harvest was over, Li Si would no longer have to serve. Originally, the fourth aunt wanted to borrow money from Situ Yan, but after hearing the dog, Situ Yan sent San Lang and Shiro to the county school to study at once, and the four aunts did not dare to come to the door. There is a reading baby at home, but the whole family tightens their belts, how embarrassed is she to ask for the door again, so she went to ask Aunt Niu.

Although Aunt Niu was reluctant to give up, she and the four aunts sold the food together, and both families knew how much they earned, if they didn't borrow it, it would seem to be raw, so they had to borrow it hard.

"In charge, you say, if this Li Sijia can't be on it, then what's the matter?"

"You have to be afraid, you didn't borrow it in the first place, this borrowing was borrowed, what is the use of you still muttering about this here?" Li Aniu was a little opposed at the beginning, and now he saw that his daughter-in-law was anxious, and his words were a little rushed.

"Isn't it bottomless in my heart, I returned the girl's 2 taels, I finally saved 2 taels in my hand, and lent them all to their family, can I not worry?" was trained by the head of the house, and Aunt Niu felt even more uncomfortable.

"Who made you poor and generous, look at Xiao Wu's girl, I went to help collect the grain in the autumn, if it was all sold, there would be dozens of taels, but the Li Si family couldn't afford to pay the endowment at that time, and I didn't see anyone come forward to help. When it's time to pick the door, you have to pick some of it, don't pretend that the unjust old man loves to give his debts. ”

"You know now that I'm talking about it, why didn't you say it when I discussed it with you?" Aunt Niu felt sorry for the silver, and she was told by the head again, and she was also holding her breath in her heart.

"I nodded at that moment, but I didn't think that you would lend out all the money in the family at once." The two quarreled and quarreled for a long time and didn't understand, anyway, the money had already been borrowed, and now it's too late to regret it, and there are still a lot of things to be busy at home, so the two of them held their breath for each other and went to the ground.

Neither of them found their boss Tu Yan, so naturally she didn't know about these things. After Liangzi left, Situ Yan would go to see Liangzi's son Maotou every once in a while, because the child's hair was sparse, so Liangzi's father gave him such a name. When Liangzi's father was on the border in his early years, he broke his waist and collapsed on the kang, so he had to be exempted from servitude, and stayed at home all day, Situ Yan went so many times, but he didn't meet it once, at first he thought that this Liangzi's father was long gone, but he still asked Li Dalang to know that he was paralyzed on the kang.

Seeing that the weather is getting warmer and warmer, the water pit on the villagers' fields is also empty after planting, and the water source in the mountain is still water after the snow on the mountain melts, so the villagers are not in a hurry, and when they want to store water after watering the ground, the water source is dry again. I had to drive an ox cart to fetch water from the river.

It is also the eyes of God, the first spring rain after the spring has been looking forward to nearly three months and finally falls, the spring rain moistens all things, the earth is dressed in green new clothes overnight, and the men gather in the fields to celebrate with their hands happily. The women turned out all the things they had to wash for the winter, and washed them in the rain.

Situ Yan turned out all the things in the house that could store water, and put them in the yard, and opened all the water cellars in the field to store rainwater. After a busy night, the rain stopped at dawn before I went to the kang to rest.

With this rain, there will be no more water shortages for at least a month or two.

The family was busy with spring ploughing, and compared with the people in the village who did not rent official cattle, Situ Yan's family ended spring ploughing more than half a month earlier. There are two more days before the valley rain of the 24th solar term, and I finally have time to rest for a day. Saburo and Shiro's spring ploughing break is scheduled for March 15. In addition to farming during the day, the four brothers insisted on practicing archery and boxing in the morning, and did not forget to study at night.

Jiro went out early in the morning with a basket on his back, pulling Saburo and Shiro, who were still reading. It was rare that the three of them wanted to go out to play for a while, Situ Yan was naturally happy, and ran out of the door with a warning.

She herself took the snow wolf into the mountain again, and yesterday she found a cliff with three purple mushrooms (a type of Ganoderma lucidum) growing on it, but it was not early at that time, so she did not pick it, and now she brought a rope and carried a dagger, and began to climb the cliff with her bare hands.

Rock climbing can only be regarded as a piece of cake for Situ Yan in the previous life, but in this life, although she also exercises in this body, after all, she is too young, her hands and feet are too short, and the cliff of fifteen or six meters high looks like it is thirty or fifty meters high, and there is no rope for rock climbing professionals to hang quickly, so she only climbs and rests with her bare hands, and it took nearly an hour to climb to the edge of Zizhi, and she looked around first, and there will inevitably be no poisonous insects, snakes and ants on the side of this precious medicine, so as not to be careless, and it is not worth it to die if you are not careful. After making sure that there was no danger around, he pulled out the dagger on his waist, took off Zizhi, and put it directly into the ring. She didn't want to lose any of the things she had so hard to go.

It's easy to go up the cliff and difficult to get off the cliff, so I have my hands and feet on the wheels, and I have to rest three times before I climb down. Looking at the sky, it was already a while since noon. Although I was in a hurry to go home, I couldn't use my hands and feet at all, so I had to sit on the ground and rest, and I was delayed for more than a quarter of an hour.