Early the next morning, Wen Wan was boxing in the courtyard. (The three children of the Literature Network also want to exercise together.) Ming Jin, who was lying on the bed, was directly picked up by Ming Yuan. Ming Jin screamed, and then got up bitterly. Xia Yao, who was waiting, was accustomed to this meeting.

The two got out of bed, and the water was ready. Wen Wan focuses on self-cultivation, so she uses warm water to brush her teeth in the morning and cold water to wash her face.

When Ming Rui and Ming Jin came out, Ling Yu was already in the courtyard. Ming Rui glanced at Ming Jin, this one who was dragging his feet, look, he was late again.

There is a tall tree planted in this small courtyard house◎ When I arrived in the middle of the night, I thought about finding a bed to sleep in a hurry when I entered the house, and where to pay attention to what was in the yard. Ming Jin saw it and felt that this tree was very unfamiliar, and it was different from ♀ the trees at home. How I haven't seen it. ”

Wen Wan smiled and pointed to the tree and said, "This is the elm money tree." The elm money will be ripe in April, and you can eat it raw or cooked if you want to eat it when you want to. ”

Ming Jin was rare: "Can you still eat it raw?" What to eat? ”

Xia Yao pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Eat the leaves." "The leaves of elm money are edible.

Ming Jin's eyes widened, and he said incredulously: "Yezi? Are the leaves still edible? Aren't we white rabbits? "It is said that the white rabbit eats grass and leaves.

Gentle and sweaty, she has worked hard to popularize knowledge to several children. Unexpectedly, he still raised a son who didn't know anything.

Ming Rui played Ming Jin: "Stupid, some leaves can also be eaten." Ming Jin screamed in pain, looking sadly at Wen Wan who was standing on the side with a smile.

The weather was very good on this day∏ cloudy, although there was no sun, but it was not gloomy ♀, and the good weather was naturally gentle and gentle, so I naturally had to take the three children out for a walk. (The three children looked at the rows of low and ugly houses in front of them, surrounded by fences.) The three children thought it was amazing.

Ming Jin asked the first question: "Mother." Why Forty-Six: Do they live in such ugly houses when they suffer? "Low, low, low, gray fluttering. Ugly to death.

Wen Wan didn't answer Ming Jin's words, but asked Ling Yu first: "Ling Yu, do you think their house is also ugly?" ”

Everything in front of him was beyond Ling Yu's imagination. Not to mention that it can't be compared with their East Palace and the County Lord's Mansion. Even the houses where his family lived were better ♂ than these, and he nodded at the moment: "Auntie, the place where these people live is very simple. ”

Wen Wan smiled and said to the three people: "I'll tell you a story, this is not actually a story, it is a true story recorded in the history books." One year, there was a drought in a place, and the people had nothing to eat, and the flowers and trees on the mountain were all eaten up. Want to know what Kannon soil is? ”

Ming Jin squatted down and looked at the soil on the ground: "Mother, isn't Guanyin soil soil?" Can you eat dirt too? "That's a rarity.

Wen Wan said with a flat face: "We are stepping on the soil, but not Guanyin soil, and if we eat this soil, we will die." Although Guanyin soil will not die on the spot if it is eaten, it cannot go to the toilet after eating Guanyin soil, and everyone who eats it will suffocate to death. ”

Ming Jin's face turned red ♂, and Ming Rui also looked at Wen Wan with a shocked expression. And this kind of thing, how they haven't heard of it.

Wen Wan shook her head and said, "The minister reported to the emperor and asked the emperor to allocate funds for disaster relief and help the people. When the emperor heard the minister's report, he was very surprised and asked the minister why the common people had no food to eat, and instead of eating meat porridge, they wanted to eat Guanyin soil. ”

After Wen Wan finished speaking, she looked at the three children.

Ling Yu's face changed and changed ♀, and there was such a ridiculous emperor in the world. Ming Rui was gentle, with curiosity in his eyes, why hadn't he heard such a story. Ming Jin asked strangely: "Mother, the common people haven't eaten anything, where does the meat come from?" ”

Wen Wan was very relieved to hear it, and the efforts of the past two years have not been all in vain. At least Ming Jin also knew that meat was more expensive than rice. If there is no food to eat, it is even more impossible to have meat to eat: "Well, Ming Jin is right. If there is no rice to eat, there will naturally be no meat to eat. You think these houses are shabby and ugly, don't you? ”

All three nodded.

Smile gently: "But do you know? Every peasant family in the farm has three meals and can see meat once a month, which is already considered a rich family among the farmers. You say that ugly houses are very good houses in the eyes of ordinary people. "The gentle ten-mile tunzi is a well-known wealthy village. It is also a place where girls from all over the country want to marry in. Although the Great Qi Dynasty is now prosperous, there has been no starvation to death. But the common people are actually just solving the problem of food and clothing. Other higher levels still have certain difficulties.

Ling Yu raised her head and asked gently, "Auntie, do you mean that these houses are already very good in the eyes of the people?" ”

Wen Wan nodded: "Mother, you will be so ignorant when you grow up." You must know that a family like this can make a living by earning ten taels of silver a year. If you don't know anything, then my mother will tell you. Ming Jin, just the longevity lock you wear around your neck is enough for a family to eat and wear for a lifetime. ”

Ming Jin touched the longevity lock on his neck, grabbed it in his hand, and looked at the longevity lock. He didn't know that his lock was so valuable!

Wen Wan led the three children to walk in the field, and the peasants were already working. When the people saw Wen Wan, they came up from the field to salute. Wen Wan waved her hand: "Busy with you." Don't delay your work for this palace. ”

Wen Wan pointed to the farmland that had not yet been cultivated: "Mingjin, I know how the rice that you don't eat every day comes from, as if you want to die." ”

Ming Jin shook his head. The other two listened attentively to the gentle words.

Wen Wan took a small bag handed over by Xia Yao, and the bag contained rice seeds. Wen Wan pointed to the rice seeds and said, "The first thing to choose is the rice seed ♀. Germinate the rice seeds first, and then start raising seedlings after germination......" Wen Wan just said a few words. I asked the experienced old farmer to explain the process of rice planting to the three children in detail. Wen Wan had taught him to explain in detail the hardships of rice planting.

After a long time, Ming Jin was stunned and said, "Mother, so many processes?" ”

Wen Wan shook her head: "This is the time to say that the year is good." In the event of a drought or flood, not a single grain can be harvested. A year's hard work is gone. Your emperor's uncle is the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the people of the Great Qi Dynasty live and work in peace and contentment under his governance. There were no deaths of starvation. But in the past, many people had no food to eat and starved to death when they encountered natural disasters. At that time, many people had no choice but to sell their sons and daughters. ”

Ming Jin opened his mouth: "Impossible, right?" Are you willing to sell even your own children? "This parent is too ruthless.

The old man standing on the side listened to Ming Jin's words, and his face was sad: "Second son, if you sell it, you can still find a job for the child." If you don't sell it, you won't have anything to eat at home, so you have to wait for death. ”

Ming Jin was still in shock, and Ming Rui was more keen: "What do you mean?" Looking at this expression, I also knew that the old man in front of him must have done such a thing.

The old man's background was clear to Wen Wan, and he was also found because he was favored by Wen Wan. Wen Wan nodded at the old man. The old man then said to the three children: "Thirty years ago, there was a drought here, and the family had no food to survive the winter, and they were all about to starve to death. There is no way, so I can only sell the two eldest children in the family, so ♀ that the children can live, and the family will suffer if they get money. ”

Ming Jin faced a person who sold his sons and daughters, and was directly shocked at the moment: "You, too, are you too ruthless?" ”

The old man said helplessly: "If you are not ruthless, the whole family will starve to death." At least now the whole family has survived, and the days are getting more and more prosperous. ”

Ling Yu asked more realistically: "What about the children you sold?" Have you found it now? ”

The old man thought about his daughter, who was gone, and there were old tears in his eyes at the moment: "The son has been found, and the daughter was beaten to death by the main family." "Actually, the old man is also fateful. How many people's children have been sold, and they will not come again. Even if you find it, you don't have the money to redeem it ♀, it's because of gentleness, every family here is rich, and this old man has the money to redeem his son. It's a pity that his eldest daughter was sold less than two years ago and was beaten to death by the main family.

The topic was heavy, and the scene fell silent.

Lunch was served at a farmer's house. The food is all farmhouse dishes, pickled cabbage, spicy tofu, scrambled eggs with leeks, and rice is made of brown rice. The ingredients of the dish are fine, but the craftsmanship is really not good. The brown rice is very hard, not to mention Jin, but Ling Yu and Ming Rui both frowned when they ate it. Among the three children, Ming Rui and Ling Yu barely ate half a bowl of rice, while Ming Jin was the most direct, only ate a mouthful of rice and put it down, and was reluctant to eat it again.

Wen Wan didn't say anything about them, just ate quietly.

The three children were silent, quietly waiting for Wen Wan. Eating is not silent, and the elders did not get off the table, and the children could not leave the table Some basic etiquette, ♀ the three children have always followed. So this time no one said anything.

Wen Wan is actually very sad in her heart, the rice is hard and chewed carefully, how to eat coarse grains is also good for the body☆ What makes people unbearable is the dish, not to mention the pickled cabbage, the sauerkraut is also that taste. But tofu and leeks are really unpalatable, and the oil of this era is a very precious thing, because there is no vegetable oil here. In order to save oil, ordinary people generally don't put oil in cooking, and Wen Wan reminded her to do it according to what they did in the past. So this dish is only about the same as boiled water. The taste, as you can imagine, was very unpalatable. Accustomed to eating delicacies, these are equivalent to pig food. But in order to set a good example for the child, Wen Wan pretended to be a very delicious nirvana, and swallowed blood and tears in her stomach. It's so hard to be a mother.

Seeing that Wen Wan chewed slowly, with a calm face, Ming Rui silently picked up the bowl, continued to eat ♂, and learned that Ming Rui continued to eat. Ming Jin didn't want to eat it. (To be continued RQ.)