The rain didn't stop until a little while, so Situ Yan plugged back the water baffle of the paddy field, plugged the soil, checked the water level, and fed the fish. Saburo and Shiro filled back the ridges that had been opened.

Situ Yan saw that she didn't need her help in the backyard, so she went to Guantian with a torch, Li Dalang and Li Erlang were also busy in the field with torches at this time, Situ Yan went to the shack first to take a look, and the bed and floor were all dry, so she was relieved. wanted to help plug the ridge, Li Dalang said nothing, and Situ Yan didn't insist, so he took the pot where the ginger soup was boiled back, made a pot of gnocchi soup, set it aside for San Lang and Shilang, put it on the stove to warm, and rushed back to Guantian to give Li Dalang and the two a pot.

The two of them ate hotly, and they didn't feel tired, so they went to the field again. was busy until dawn, the two of them went home, Situ Yan boiled water for the four of them to wash, and had breakfast, which allowed the four of them to go to the west to make up for sleep. After a busy day and a night, if you don't have a good rest, even if you can hold on to your spirit, your body can't hold on. She herself went back to sleep in the east room, and although she didn't work in the fields, she didn't close her eyes all night.

The five members of Situ Yan's family slept soundly, but Lijia Village exploded, and the villagers all gathered at the village house, shouting non-stop, "Uncle Zheng of his village, our family has a hundred acres of land, but we haven't even kept fifty acres, when the autumn harvest comes, how can we pay taxes?" Think about it, my family doesn't even have a job. It was Li Wu who spoke, he was busy for a day and a night, but he still had fifty acres of land that he hadn't kept, and he didn't even have the strength to cry now.

Li Daniu, Li Erzhu and Li Sanzhu squatted on the side, their family was worse than Li Wu's family, and they didn't even keep 30 acres of land. Li Aniu's is not much better, and it does not exceed 50 acres when it is full, and the other few have only kept 80 acres at most. This loss is dozens of acres, and in the past, a few acres less could be offset with silver, but these dozens of acres were sold to their family, and they couldn't afford it.

"Don't worry, big guys, I'll go to the county seat today, I have to let the county order know about this matter, so that I can report it to the court, if I can reduce the tax, I can still live this life, if not, everyone should prepare money early!" There is no way for Muramasa, this natural disaster is not **, there is no compensation, it can only depend on the meaning of the court.

"This year, this tael of silver is worth a stone of grain, where did we get twenty or thirty taels of silver, if we have that spare money, do we still need to live hungry?"

"That's right, Uncle Zheng of his village, you can't ignore it, if you don't reduce the endowment, it will force us to die!"

When it comes to life and death, the villagers are more noisy, who is not old or young, and who is willing to watch their relatives die.

"Let's go back, I'll go to the county seat, whether it can be done or not depends on the will of the imperial court, the big guy hurry up and go to the field to see, the seedlings that can be saved will be saved, and those that can't be saved, let's see what else can be planted, I can't let myself starve to death, let's go back!" persuaded the villagers to leave, and the village did not dare to delay, so he drove directly to the county seat.

The disaster was reported, but the court did not issue an order for a long time, and the villagers had no idea, so they had to plant the land in front of them first.

Situ Yan and Li Dalang lived as usual for a few days, although there were some losses in the land, but the loss of less than one acre of land was much better than that of other villagers.

Busy until April 25 Market Day, another 50 incense pieces, 300 peace and 300 mugwort fruits were sold. These days, Situ Yan and the bookstore guys are also familiar with each other, and from time to time they will ask for some used paper and pencils. This time the village was affected by the disaster, Situ Yan also made a special inquiry when he was in the county, not only Lijia Village, but also the entire Xinchang County was seriously affected, and the perennial drought made the people have more ways to deal with the drought, but they were a little overwhelmed by the flood, which caused a lot of losses.

In such a disaster, when the autumn harvest comes, the price of grain will definitely rise, and Situ Yan wants to make plans early while the price of grain is not long. Taking advantage of the fact that the four brothers of the Li family were busy working in the fields, they found a time to enter the county seat by the car that the village was sending the little sheep to the county school. First found a tooth shop to spend 150 Wen, rented a small courtyard, and then ordered 10 stone corn, 10 stone black noodles, and 10 stone bud grain noodles with the grain store, and asked the guy to help deliver the goods to the rented courtyard, so that no one put the grain into the ring and put it away. I also bought five pieces of muslin and ten pieces of cheesecloth, and 500 catties of inferior cotton.

Everything was ready, and the county school was about to end, so I returned the rented courtyard and returned to Lijia Village in the evening with the ox cart of the village Zheng.

With these grains, Situ Yan felt at ease, even if there was a famine and a war, she could live a good life. The four Li Dalang have always been kept in the dark, in fact, the four brothers of the Li family didn't realize that the danger was getting closer and closer, after all, they had seen less, encountered fewer things they had heard of, and they didn't have the experience of Situ Yan's two lives combined. They only know that they are busy with the harvest in the fields, and they don't care about the rest. Situ Yan didn't explain at this time, sometimes only if she has experienced it herself, can she deeply understand it.

In addition to going into the mountains on weekdays, Situ Yan will hide in the east room in the afternoon to make mosquito coils, this thing is not necessarily easy to sell, but it is also good to make more for her own use, she doesn't want to be a red bean girl all summer.

This mosquito incense can't be made into a plate of incense like in the previous life, so Situ Yan made it all into incense sticks, and it is also very convenient to light it and insert it into the incense burner.

After these days, one day is the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Situ Yan went to Li Quan's daughter-in-law and aunt, Liangzi's third aunt, Li Gen's daughter-in-law, and Li Shan's daughter-in-law and aunt to the house, and taught them to make salted meat dumplings, "Xiao Wu, you have done your aunt a great favor, and the family has lost dozens of acres of harvest at once, and I am worried about this autumn harvest and I don't know what to do?" ”

"Auntie, my little salary can't be worth the tax money, and I can only add some food to my aunt's family for the winter, and I can't help anything else."

"Ouch, that's good, your Uncle Gen only earns ten dollars a day, and he hasn't earned much in this moment?" A few people chatted while wrapping up, but they were not tired.

A total of 320 are packaged, 80 per person, and a salary of 2 wen is included, and a family can earn 160 wen a day. This is a good thing, not to mention these four families, if other people in the village know about it, they will definitely run to Situ Yan's house with their heads broken.

"Little Wu, why didn't I see Li Wu's daughter-in-law this time?"

Li's fifth daughter-in-law is Li Mu's mother, and Li Dalang and the others don't like Li Mu, so Situ Yan doesn't want to help this family.

"There aren't many things, and you don't need too many people, or the wages of the aunts will be even less."

"That's right." In fact, a few people can also know more or less that since the last time Li Mu married and the Li Wu family had a banquet, the people in the village were a little alienated from the family, so in the countryside, the reputation is still very important.

After wrapping the zongzi, Situ Yan paid each aunt a salary, and took a zongzi for him to taste at home, and then put the zongzi into the ring for preservation.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month of May, he brought 300 salted meat dumplings, 50 incense pieces, 500 safe ropes, 500 mugwort fruits, and two bundles of firewood into the county.

There are a lot of things to sell today, so Situ Yan didn't go to the bookstore, but followed the four brothers to sell goods together, and now most people in Xinchang County know that the things of "Li Fuji" are novel and delicious.

"Little baby, how do you sell these rice dumplings?"

"Auntie, this is a salted meat dumpling, meat and salted eggs wrapped in millet and glutinous rice, 20 wen apiece, delicious and full."

"Ouch, why is this old expensive? Is it cheaper? ”

"My aunt is the first guest today, I will charge a fee, count you 15 Wen apiece, and you will come again if you eat well." When the man saw that it was five cents cheaper, he bought one.

With the first one, this one is also more bought. Situ Yan was selling vigorously, when she saw a person dressed as a housekeeper squeeze in, "Little baby, how many meat dumplings do you have?" ”

Situ Yan nodded, "Uncle, do I have more than 100 of them?" ”

"I want a hundred, fill this basket for me." As he spoke, he took down a wicker basket from behind him.

"Uncle, you buy so much, it's hot this day, and if you can't finish eating it at one time, it's going to be bad overnight."

"After eating, our lord wants to take the gift, which is not necessarily enough." Situ Yan realized that Xu was the housekeeper who came to buy it just now, and the old man was eating well and wanted to borrow this thing as a gift. This is a big family, Situ Yan was busy packing a hundred for people, and gave one more to this housekeeper.

"You baby is weird, okay, I'm going to come often in the future."

"Uncle, I still have mugwort here, you can also take back two for the master to taste, if you eat well, maybe you will come again in a while?"

"Okay!" After sending this person away, there were less than 50 meat dumplings left in Situ Yan, and when this person came back to buy mugwort, the meat dumplings had already been sold out.

"Uncle, I'm right, you really have to run again."

"You baby, the old man said that you are a favorite food of people in the south, and the old lady of my family happens to be from the south, and it is not enough to taste one, so I shouted to buy some more."

"Uncle, how much do you think I'm going to put on you this time?"

"This time it's for the family, or if you don't have those, give me 30, and it's about the same."

"Okay, big brother, put 30 on the uncle."

After sending off the guests, Li Shilang came to Situ Yan's side, "Xiao Wu, you are here, and things will sell very quickly." ”

"It's a coincidence that I'm in a hurry, it's my brothers who have sold their fame, and I'm just following suit." Before the two could say a few words, another guest came to the door.

I brought a lot of things with me today, so I sold them all out after noon. After collecting the stall, several people were eating meat dumplings while driving the car, and their hearts were full of sweetness.

After returning home and unloading the things, the four brothers took the farm tools and went to the field again, Situ Yan first kept the accounts and stringed money as usual, and then took a nap after being busy, and then went to the backyard.

The meat dumplings eaten in the morning and at noon made Situ Yan a little sour, and when she made a meal of japonica rice in the evening, fried two dishes, and of course put a basket of rice dumplings and Li Dalang to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival together.

After San Lang and Shiro sent the zongzi to Aunt Fu'er, Aunt Niu and Aunt Si's house to come back, the family went to the kang together and sat around to eat. This Dragon Boat Festival is over.