A quarter of an hour later, the meeting finally ended hastily, and if it weren't for the words that Thirteen said, I'm afraid these people would not have broken up until noon. Hu Xiaomei's sisters and brothers followed Wei Sanniang home.

Many people hurried home to start preparing.

And Tang Daming arranged a group of people to go to the field to drain the water, and now the water in the field is drained, but if it rains at night, it will still have to be arranged to inspect, if it is found that the rain is too heavy, it is necessary to dig out the gap in the field, so that the water in the field can be discharged, if the water cannot be drained by itself, then you must find a way to change the place to re-drain.

They all say that the good is not good, and the bad is not good.

Sure enough, it rained again at night, at first it was still a light rain, and then the rain became heavier and heavier, and in the middle of the night, Hu Xiaomei only heard the sound of the rain on the roof, and the whistling wind blew so that she could hear it clearly in the house.

She quietly got up and looked out of the window, the rain was pouring down as if someone was standing on the roof with a basin, where it was raining, it was clearly splashing water!

Fox Xiaomei shuddered, and felt a little uneasy in her heart, if it goes on like this, there will definitely be water in the field tomorrow, and if it is like this in the next few days, the water will have to flood into the house again. She thought of the few remaining jackets, it seemed that she would have to make the jackets first tomorrow, as long as she handed over the goods, she would be at ease, and it seemed impossible to wait until the sky cleared completely.

On the second day, as expected by Hu Xiaomei, the fields were full of water, and the people arranged by Tang Daming took turns to drain the water in the fields. Fortunately, there was no water in the house, but the house was very damp, and there was some water on the threshold, which was not in the way.

Fox Otomo and Thirteen went out. The fox fence didn't go to the school these days, and at this time he also ran out, and only the three of them were busy making jackets at home, but fortunately, there were only a few left, and it took three days to finally finish all the jackets.

These days have been raining heavily at night, and the days are cloudy.

On the fourth day, Fox Dayou borrowed an ox cart, and in order to deliver the jackets safely to the sewing workshop, the family followed them to the market, fearing that the jackets would fall to the ground on the way. Except for the fox who drove the car. The other five people stood around the ox cart, protecting the jackets on the cart. It was also considered lucky, the jacket was safely delivered to the sewing workshop, two days late. Shopkeeper Wu did not blame. Paid in full.

The six did not dare to stay longer. I hurriedly bought some daily necessities, and as soon as the family got home, it began to rain again.

Just arrived home. Xiang came over.

She pulled Wei Sanniang and looked at Hu Xiaomei for help: "I knew that I should have followed you." It's also that I don't have knowledge, and I'm afraid that those sweet potatoes will rot, so I want to eat them all like everyone else...... Now that the weather is not clear, this year's harvest will definitely be gone, Changsheng is not here now, and the food for the second half of the year has not been found...... I was afraid that I would waste those sweet potatoes if I didn't understand, so I wanted to come over and beg for fences to teach me how to make dried sweet potatoes. ”

It turned out that after today's meeting in the village, Xiang's realized how bad the situation was in the second half of the year, and at this time he remembered that there was not much food at home, and the crops in the field were probably not much harvest, so he wanted to make the remaining sweet potatoes into dried sweet potatoes like Hu Xiaomei's family, which could be eaten and stored. She only regrets in her heart now that she didn't cook with Fox Dayou when she made dried sweet potatoes, but cooked and ate them vigorously.

What's the matter with telling others about this kind of smooth thing, Hu Xiaomei generously told Xiangshi about the method of dried sweet potatoes, and specially instructed her: "Now it's raining every day, there is no sun, you must dry the sweet potatoes for more time, otherwise they will be moldy after a long time of storage!" ”

Xiang wrote it down very gratefully, thanked Wei Sanniang and Hu Xiaomei and others again and again, and then hurried home. To the surprise of Hu Xiaomei, Wei Sanniang and others, as soon as Xiang left, Wang came again, but it was the same thing that he asked, and then Ruan's also came, and it didn't take much effort, and almost all the people who had sweet potatoes left in the village came to learn from Wei Sanniang.

Everyone is not stupid, at this time, you must start stocking up on dry food first, in case there is a famine in the second half of the year.

When the people in the village began to learn how to make dried sweet potatoes from Hu Xiaomei, Hu Xiaomei asked Hu Dayou to go to the market to buy some sweet potatoes and come back, and she also made several different flavors.

Some are directly dried into dried sweet potatoes, some are cut into slices, dried and then poured into the pot and fried, and some are specially added with a little condiment and sprinkled with a little chili powder to make a look similar to potato chips.

However, because the sweet potato chips are stored for a short time with condiments, Hu Xiaomei only made a little, and the other two are easier to store, according to the taste of several people in the family.

Some people saw that Fox Dayou was buying sweet potatoes in the bazaar, and they also began to buy sweet potatoes, and after buying them home, they told their relatives that they had passed on ten, ten and hundred, and for a time the sweet potatoes in the bazaar turned out to be a handsome item.

After making a good job of dried sweet potatoes, Hu Xiaomei went to the market to buy a few soybeans and took them home for Wei Sanniang to fry and make dried beans. Fortunately, there are still a few bags of wheat at home, and half a bag of flour.

In order to save food, these days the family eats porridge, and it has not been a dry meal for a long time, and if there is no food, you have to spend money to buy it, and the price of things on the market will definitely have to rise, and it is possible that the price will be doubled as much as it is now. In order to save money, in addition to occasionally going to the market to buy some meat, Hu Xiaomei and the others went to the mountains to pick wild vegetables and cook some potatoes from time to time.

Potatoes are a good thing, put it for a long time, not easy to spoil, boil two and eat it to see the stomach full, but you can't eat this thing at once, one is to eat too much and get tired, and the other is to leave some for the second half of the year.

Therefore, in addition to the porridge, fry a green vegetable or wild vegetable at each meal, occasionally boil some potatoes, if not, pancakes, and then go to the wild fruit trees on the mountain to find out if there are any wild fruits, and eat a wild fruit after a meal, you can also do something for a while.

As the days went by, the fox fence was unwilling, complaining that the fox Xiaomei ate wild fruits every day: "My mouth is tasteless, and now I feel tired of seeing wild fruits." I didn't eat enough, but I ate two more fruits, and I was hungry early. ”

"Then what can I do?" Fox Xiaomei said impatiently, thinking that she, a person in the modern twenty-first century, would still suffer from food control, and drink porridge and eat wild vegetables, she didn't say anything, and he shouted.

"If you have the ability to find something to eat, go for it. Eating fruit when you're hungry is very nutritious. Besides, now everyone has gone to the mountains to pick wild fruits, how many ...... are there" Seeing the fox fence with a face, the fox Xiaomei said again: "Don't complain about this and that, tell you, this wild fruit will be gone after eating, and you won't want to eat it tomorrow." ”

Now everyone is trying to save and save the grain for the second half of the year, so no matter what wild fruits and vegetables he has, as long as they can be eaten, all of them are rushing to pick them. The wild fruits they eat now are still picked two days ago, and I'm afraid that there are only bare fruit trees left on the mountain at this time!

Since the last sunny day, it has rained for half a month in succession, and the crops in the fields have fallen and died, and the fields have been full as many times as the rain has been drained. The vegetables in the vegetable field are completely dead this time, and the field is soaked in water and the row can't be discharged, but the vegetable field is not out of the way to eat, at this time, the goods in the market have begun to rise in price, and the grain is even counted, if you don't get some food out, then you can only wait to drink the northwest wind. However, the vegetable patch is far from the river bank, the ditch is also narrow, and the water is overgrown on both sides, and the water is drained into it and does not flow for half a day. Considering that the vegetable fields in the farmland had to be considered, the people who patrolled the drainage ran on both sides, making them all tired.

The water in the river was so turbid that it rolled down from the river to the river's banks, and the roads on both sides were flooded. The creek was even worse, the water had already overflowed and flooded several nearby roads, some of which were low, and the water had already flowed down the terrain into the fields.

It's like a balloon full of gas, with holes poked in all directions, no matter how you make up for it, you have to be deflated, and the current farmland is in this state, everyone is draining, God is raining rain, and it is all in vain to drain it.

The crops in the fields far from the river and with inconvenient ditches have long since drowned.

Not to mention Hujia Village, even the entire Weijia Town is in a gloomy atmosphere.

Hu Xiaomei followed Wei Sanniang to the market a few times, the whole street was dripping with water, the sound of water slapping on the ground in straw sandals, stacked a paper boat and put it in the middle of the street, and the paper boat could float along the street to the opposite side.

According to the news brought back by Tang Daming, only the Yangcheng area was affected by floods this year, but the Yangtze River area was safe and sound, and there was no rain after only a few heavy rains. The crops that have been destroyed are already innumerable, and the court is also anxious, so the governor of the river is sent to Shunhe to inspect it.

Shunhe is ten miles away from Wei County, only bypassing Wei County, but not surrounding, Shunhe is Wei County, a Grand Canal in Yangcheng, usually all kinds of cargo ships, ships are docked at the Grand Canal Wharf.

The embankment of the river is strong and high, because the area around the city has been safe and sound for more than ten years, and has never suffered from drought or flood, and this year is the first time in more than ten years. Therefore, the maintenance officials of the Shunhe River were very lazy, and this time the flood caused more than two months of rainfall, so that the water in the Shunhe River was almost full, and it also scared the governor of the river enough.

If the embankment bursts along the river, several county towns such as Yangcheng and Weixian will not be able to escape, and it is very likely that more than a dozen other nearby counties will be affected. At that time, countless families in the southwest area will be destroyed, there will be no food, no shelter, and the disaster will be wreaking havoc, which is predictable!

In order to appease the people, the emperor of the Celestial Empire issued a holy decree to send ministers down to deal with the flood incident, even if the people really had no harvest at that time, they would not let everyone go hungry.

This holy decree really worked, and many local people were appeased, and the panic was temporarily calmed down for a while. (To be continued......)