In the next few days, the people of Qinjia Village were down-to-earth and satisfied. Two meals a day, dry in the morning and evening, although you can't eat open, but you can eat at least six or seven minutes full. What is not satisfied with when I almost starved to death before?

The population of the whole village has also been counted, and now there are 22 elderly people in Qinjia Village, 43 young women, and 13 children, including 8 boys. By the way, with the addition of the three members of the Yang family, 23 old people, and 3 young and strong people, there are a total of 82 people.

But brown rice is only four stones, less than five hundred catties, not to know, a frightening, so that each person is less than six catties of grain, the old cow died because of too much blood loss, beef plus water, each person is divided into three catties, even so, no matter how to save it can only support one and a half months, that is, to January. But the north only starts spring in March, and this year is so cold, no one can say when the weather will warm up, and people will starve to death in the middle of the month?

Now Qin Forget lives in Qin Dashu's house. Qin Dashu's family of five, and none of the three strong laborers came back. The remaining Qin Dashu's blind mother and the mother-in-law who broke her leg last year also starved to death, leaving a three-room house. Qin Forget lay on the cold kang, tossing and turning, and couldn't sleep. Food, lots of food, that's a problem he needs to solve.

The room next to Yang Dayang came from the snoring sound of Yang Da Yang Er shaking the sky, these two people are Han people who fled from the Khitan Kingdom in Liaodong, last year's Khitan and Bohai Kingdom war beat Liaodong to a pulp, and the soldiers and bandits harmed the locals worse than death. As soon as their brothers gritted their teeth, they simply carried their mothers on their backs and ran to the southwest, all the way to Chicheng County. The old lady was unfortunately sick and couldn't run, so she happened to meet Qin Wang.

Now that Qinjia Village has food and drink, Qin Wangren is also generous, and they saved their mother's life, so the two brothers followed Qin Wang's family village to the next household with all their hearts.

"These two bastards." Qin Forget angrily kicked the wall a few times, "You two roll over to Lao Tzu!" "I don't know if it's worry, or the unbalanced mentality that people sleep sweetly but can't sleep, Qin Wang's anger is very big.

"Eldest son, second son, why did you annoy the great benefactor? If you have the slightest disrespect for your great benefactor, the old lady will not be able to kill you. "People are old and young, Aunt Yang was startled when she heard Qin Wang's anger, and hurriedly scolded her two sons.

"Mother, it's okay, we didn't do anything. Boss, wait a minute, we'll be there right away. There was a rush of voices from next door, and Brother Yang replied with trepidation in his tone.

"Auntie, don't worry. I went to their brother to discuss something, and I was so upset that I was a little angry, and I disturbed your old man's house. Qin Forget also knew that he had lost his temper, and he might have scared the old man, so he hurriedly said comfortingly.

"Can the two of them have a way, and the benefactor will arrange for them to do any dirty work." Aunt Yang's heart was a little wider, and she said politely.

"Boss, what's wrong?" Yang Da Yang Er came to Qin Wang's room with sleepy eyes and a hazy yawn.

"Sit down, we don't have enough food." Qin Forget said in a heavy tone.

"Yes, I found this problem as soon as I entered the village, five hundred catties is a lot, but these eighty or ninety people are definitely not enough." As soon as Yang Ergang sat down, he also frowned and said.

Qin Forget raised his eyebrows and looked at Yang Er in slight surprise, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes. He didn't expect this Yang Er to observe so carefully, even more carefully than him, as soon as he entered the village, he knew how many people there were in the village, and what the situation was now. Is such an eyesight, such a person really an ordinary farmer?

"Is there anything wrong with what I'm saying?" Yang Er was uncomfortable with Qin Forget, and asked cautiously.

"Oh, nothing." Qin Forget retracted his thoughts, "The difficulty is here, I just want to ask you two if there is any way for you to come." ”

"That's not simple, we must go up to the mountains to hunt and go down to the river to fish." Yang Daman said nonchalantly.

"Shut up, now that the snow is covering the mountains and the rivers are thick with ice, where am I going to hunt and fish?" Qin Wangbai glanced at Yang Da and scolded angrily. It's just that Yang Da is also thick-skinned, and he is not embarrassed at all when he smiles.

"Hehe, the owner is an expert in hunting, and the owner said that he can't hunt, so he must not be able to. As for this fishing, not only can it be caught, but it is also better to catch. Yang Er said with a smile, he was not surprised by his eldest brother's temperament.

"Oh? Can ice be so thick? Qin Wang's interest came immediately, this is great news, if you can fish, Qin Wang is confident to lead everyone through this difficult winter.

"Of course, in our hometown, the favorite thing is fishing in the winter. Boss, you are sleeping peacefully now, and our brother will get you some big fish to try tomorrow. Yang said proudly.

On the Chaobai River, the black holes are ringing, the cold wind is still blowing, and the people on the river feel extremely cold. All of a sudden, the leather jacket can be frozen into a hard iron coat and attached to the body, and the cold person will tremble.

Qin Forget didn't feel at ease and waited for the Yang brothers to come and try it for him, he really couldn't sit still and wanted to see if the two brothers' methods were feasible or not.

The two brothers' method is actually very simple, it turns out that in their hometown, the river will also form thick ice in winter, which causes the fish to breathe poorly under the water. At this time, as long as you dig a few large holes in the ice at night and light torches, the fish will be attracted by the fire and air, and they will swim towards this side, and some fish will even jump out of the ice holes. At this time, as long as you use a fishing net to catch fish in the ice hole, it is a large and small fish full of nets.

Qin forgot that such a method was unheard of, and he felt unreliable how he thought about it, so he followed to take a look.

"Boss, hurry up and dig the ice like our brothers, and everyone will freeze after a while." Seeing that Qin Forget was still standing stupidly on the ice, Yang Er hurriedly told Qin Forget.

Qin forgot to hear this, and also picked up the axe to quickly chisel the ice in the place where Yang Er and them had circled with white ash. For a while, the broken ice flew wildly, the ice surface trembled, and a crack appeared from time to time to scare Qin Wang.

The three of them worked together, and it took more than an hour to dig three round holes with a diameter of about one foot, and Yang Da put the three torches that he had lit a long time ago into the crushed ice next to them.

Although they listened to the methods of the two brothers, they also followed suit. But he didn't see the result with his own eyes, Qin Forget was still a little skeptical that this method would be successful. However, he was soon surprised to see that the water surface of the round hole was quickly churning. In the next moment, many big fish jumped out of the ice hole, and as soon as they hit the ground, they were frozen into ice cubes, and smashed on the ground with a muffled sound. There are also many small fish, which freeze hard before they hit the ground, and they make a crisp sound when they fall to the ground, which sounds like the clear sound of wind chimes.

"Hurry up and pick up all the fish, if they freeze on the ice, you'll be in trouble." Seeing Qin Wang's surprised look, Yang Da hurriedly prompted.

"Oooh。。。。。。" Qin Wu finally reacted, and hurriedly began to pick up the fish.

Qin forgot to pick up fish everywhere, the ice was too slippery, and from time to time he fell on his stomach, but as if he didn't feel pain, he quickly got up and pounced on another big fish.

Brother Yang was not idle, he took turns to catch fish from the ice cave with a big net, poured a bag full of fish on the hay laid in advance, and caught dozens of catties of fish in a short time.

This night, Qin Forget was happy like a child, he happily picked up fish of all sizes, hugged Yang Er happily, and beat Yang Da hard. The huge harvest made him full of energy, and he pulled Yang Da Yang Er to open six more holes, and he didn't return to the village until the torches ran out. In just one night, nearly 200 catties of fish were harvested.

Two hundred catties, if you save a little, it is enough for the people of the entire Qinjia Village to eat for four or five days, not to mention that fish and meat are also meat, which can save more food than food to fight hunger.

The next day, when Qin Forget brought someone to pull the fish, everyone was stunned. What a magnificent sight it was, on the wide Chaobai River, the crystal ice seemed to stretch out to the sky, like a huge mirror, shining brightly. There are nine more ice holes on the ice surface, with the holes as the center, and fish of different postures and sizes are frozen into ice cubes and scattered around the holes to form a circle with a radius of one zhang.

Nine holes, nine circles, exactly arranged in three beautiful plum blossoms, the flowers reflect the colorful sunlight. At this time, no one felt the cold of the midwinter morning, and they all opened their mouths in surprise, their eyes widened, and they seemed to have forgotten to breathe, like frozen fish on the surface of the river. I saw that there were mountains of fish stacked on the ice, exuding a fishy smell, but everyone didn't seem to smell it. Even if you smell it, it's just the smell of fish.

"Don't be stunned, everyone, work!" Qin Forget was the first to react and shouted.

The people woke up from a dream, and according to the three teams divided, a group of women happily threw themselves into the river。。。。。。

According to statistics, last night alone, more than 200 catties of fish were caught, and seven or eight large fish of more than 10 catties were caught. Now Qin Wang has ordered to directly reduce the daily consumption of 15 catties of rice to 5 catties, and all the rest will be replaced by fish.

Although he still has some food in his hand now, he has to take precautions, and if there is another accident, I am afraid that he will not have these good lucks again. Strategic materials such as grain can be saved, and the more the better. And Qin Forget has already saved a stone of reserve grain, and no one is allowed to move it unless it is a last resort.

For a few days in a row, with the whole village going into battle, Qinjia Village has a harvest of less than 300 catties and more than 500 catties. Aside from the consumption of the past few days, there are nearly 2,000 catties left, piled up like a hill. The grain problem has finally been completely solved, and at least until the spring wheat comes down next year, Qinjia Village will no longer have the risk of running out of grain. Smiles began to appear on everyone's faces, and the pain and suffering of the past seemed to slowly dissipate, and everything began to get better.