It's April, and as the history in Zhiwen's memory says, there hasn't been a drop of rain since the beginning of the first month, and the drought is coming.

Families who have land, both adults and children, go out every day to find water, hoping to save some wheat seedlings so that they can harvest a little.

Dazhu Erzhu and Dani Erni's house in the neighborhood have land to plant, and the four children are also looking for water outside all day long.

As a landless household, the Zhiwen family does not have to suffer this kind of sin.

It turned out that the well at the foot of the mountain had dried up, and there was only one old well left in the village with some water, and there were long queues from morning to night, and there were verbal quarrels and even physical confrontations from time to time.

Zhiwen only had to carry the bucket to line up, and almost carried the empty bucket home, and then put the water in the fish pond into the water tank while no one was paying attention.

Although the current drought has not affected Zhiwen's family as much as other families in the village, Zhiwen still feels that he can't stay here.

Once there is no harvest in the second half of the year, everyone has to leave their hometowns to escape the famine, and it is not good to leave too late.

So when Zhiwen Niang was in a good mood, she took Nan Nan as a companion and said carefully:

"Mother, you see that the drought is getting worse and worse, and the water in the well is getting less and less. Dad isn't here, so we can't grab a little water. ”

Zhiwen Niang frowned when she heard this, "If it doesn't rain a little more, I'm afraid it will be a bad harvest this year, although our family doesn't farm, but the price of this grain is going to rise." ”

"Yes, yes, why don't we leave the village first and go to the county seat to find my father." Zhiwen hurriedly answered.

In fact, Zhiwen feels that the county town is not safe, and it may be okay to hide in it this year, but next year, when hunger is everywhere, the whole of Shaanxi will not be safe.

But he was also worried about where to go, and in a few years, the whole world was either rampant with thieves or arrogant with the Qing army, and there was no peaceful place.

Really rely on this system, and the family is looking for a wild man in the deep mountains and old forests?

Sizzle... That kind of day, it's okay to live for ten days and a half months, and it goes down all year round, and if others don't say it, Zhiwen himself will definitely not be able to stand it.

Forget it, let's take one step at a time, at least go to the county seat first.

"Your father has to buy some food and come back in two days, otherwise we will have to break off, wait for him to come back and discuss." Zhiwen Niang still can't make up her mind.

At night, Zhiwen lay on the kang, turned on the system, and took stock of his things.

There is still a lot of food, and the pancakes eaten at noon and Nannan in the past two days, as well as the sorghum noodles mixed in the grain tank at home, have not used much.

Chai He? It's too much, and it's not worth much, no matter what.

One gold coin was used, and there were nine left, and they couldn't be used at the moment, Zhiwen had already tried, whether it was opening a new field or improving the grade of the field, it was far from it.

Why don't you take it out and see what it looks like? I haven't seen a gold coin yet.

As soon as he had an idea, he jumped out of the option and withdrew the gold coins: "gold" and "silver", clicked on "gold", and it was the number option, Zhiwen chose one, and a beautiful gold coin appeared in his hand, leaving eight gold coins.

It's a pity that there is no pattern at all, bare, shiny, and the weight is quite heavy.

It's not fun, and I don't dare to take out this gold coin to spend it, so I put it back in the warehouse, and there are nine more gold coins.

Take it again, this time I chose "silver", and the options that jumped out were "one hundred taels of silver" and "one hundred taels of broken silver", Zhiwen chose broken silver, the identity of his own family, more copper coins, less silver, and dozens of taels or one hundred taels of silver ingots came out, the same provoked right and wrong, and the broken silver was low-key.

There was a "bang", and a pile of broken silver appeared on the kang head, and Zhiwen grabbed a handful with his hand, all kinds of shapes and weights, yes, and took it back into the warehouse.

The food of this system, after being sold and exchanged for silver, is very valuable, much more valuable than the grain outside, Zhiwen calculated, the food produced by the space is very rare?

However, he said that Zheng San was working for people in the county seat, and seeing that the drought was getting worse day by day, and the price of grain was rising, he couldn't sit still.

Estimating that the food at home was almost finished, he took a day off with his boss, and used the accumulated wages to buy some miscellaneous noodles and rushed home.

When I arrived at the entrance of the village, it was almost dark, and I looked at my own cave not far away, and was about to rush home in one go, when someone shouted next to me.

"Third brother, are you back?"

Zheng San turned around, only to see Zheng Si not far away carrying a bucket in one hand and a shovel in the other, looking at him with blank eyes.

"Well, fourth, you're here... Looking for water? Zheng San secretly called unlucky, and hurriedly put down the bag on his body, hoping that it would be dark, and Zheng Si couldn't see what it was.

"There's no way, third brother, the mother-in-law and doll line up to go to the well to fetch water, let's look for water outside, and water the ground somewhat, otherwise we will drink the northwest wind at the end of the year." Zheng Si replied.

Zheng San didn't know how to reply for a while, and was about to say goodbye head-on, when Zheng Si spoke again:

"Go back quickly, third brother, sister-in-law, they must be looking forward to you."

Zheng San secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the fourth child was actually quite understanding today, "Then I'm leaving, it's not early, let's go back first, look for water and pay attention to yourself, the sun is big these two days." ”

"Hey, I'm looking forward to a few rains in two days." Zheng Si laughed, his eyes greedily staring at the bag of grain on Zheng San's shoulder.

Zheng San was warmly welcomed when he went home this time, and even Zhiwen breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that the food was out of food, he added sorghum noodles to the grain tank several times, and the stuffing was almost exposed, and now he was finally able to catch up.

After a simple dinner, Zhiwen Niang told Zhiwen's proposal two days ago to leave the village and go to the county seat first.

"Well, Zhiwen is indeed reasonable." Zheng San groaned, "It's just that when you get to the county seat, this foothold is a problem." ”

"Then Dad, where do you live in the county seat?" Zhiwen asked.

"I don't have to worry about the old man, I am all working with a few old fellows in the abandoned land temple," Zheng San replied, "but with your mother and three sons, I am afraid it will not work in the temple again." ”

Everyone is silent, this dragger is really inconvenient to be with a group of rough old men.

Of course, if it is really on the way to escape, then who can take care of this, but it is not there yet.

Zhiwen is naturally more reluctant to stay with other people, and he doesn't have to worry about food at home.

There are a lot of people, Zhiwen himself is not good at doing things in the grain, not to mention, people eat chaff and grass, and eat grain at home, it is easy to provoke people's eyes and cause big disasters, or they have to have their own own courtyard.

"Then let's find a yard in the county seat?" Zhiwen proposed.

"Hospitalized?" Zheng San glared at Zhiwen, "What about the money?" With my salary, it's good that our family can have food this year. ”

"Dad, I can also find a job when I enter the county seat." Zhiwen Niang said.

"How can this job be so easy to find," Zheng San sighed, "The drought is so heavy, we all want to leave, those rich and noble families won't leave?" Whose house do you go to to help cook? ”

"Do the rich people in this county go too much?" Zhiwen interjected.

"It's not much yet, but a few households have gone, and the others are still waiting and seeing, if it doesn't rain yet, there should be a lot of walking." Zheng San replied.

Zhiwen's eyes lit up, he came from the afterlife, and subconsciously felt that this was a good opportunity to buy a house at a low price, and he had money, but he vetoed it after thinking about it.

The county is not safe, and I still want to run out, so why buy a house there again, just rent.

But how can you explain the origin of this money to your parents? Zhiwen was a little difficult.

Forget it, sooner or later it will have to be exposed, so it's better to take advantage of this time to make up an excuse to take out the money.

"Dad, mother, I have money, I have a lot of money." Thinking of this, Zhiwen raised his head and said.

"How much money?" Zheng San and his wife smiled, "Where did you get so much money?" "Obviously not convinced.

Zhiwen didn't say much, Deng Dengden ran into his room, and not long after, he got a handful of broken silver from the warehouse and ran out again.

"This..."Zheng San and his wife were really stunned, where had they ever seen so much silver, "Where did it come from?" ”

"I know, I know," she said suddenly, "my brother and I found it when we were playing hide and seek in the cave." ”

Zhiwen patted his head, two days ago, when he took the girl around, he had just exchanged the broken silver, and he was in a novelty, and he got the silver from the warehouse to his hand when he had nothing to do, and put it back into the warehouse from his hand, and it was fun to go in and out.

I didn't expect to be seen by Nan Nan saw the broken silver in his hand, in order to dispel this curious baby, I had to find an excuse casually, saying that I found it in a small cave when I was playing hide and seek with her just now, and told Nan Nan not to talk too much, looking for an opportunity to surprise her father, I guess now she thinks it's time to surprise.

But it's okay, what comes out of the mouth of the girl should be more credible.

Zheng San and his wife's faces were heavy, not because they didn't believe Zhiwen and Nannan, but because they wanted to go wrong.

"Where did you find it?" Zheng San asked in a deep voice.

"I can't remember exactly, what I found when I was playing with the girls was not in the village, nor was it near our cave." Zhiwen can only be sloppy.

"Dad, it can't be hidden by bandits, right?" Zhiwen Niang was a little flustered.

"Probably not, it's all broken silver, I'm afraid it's hidden by thieves." Zheng San is also not sure.

"Don't worry, Daddy, our family is so poor, we wouldn't have thought that we took it," Zhiwen hurriedly relieved the two adults, "Besides, it's been so long." ”

"Anything else?" Zheng San asked.

"There are so many more, I hide them well, you can't find them." Zhiwen then flickered.

Zheng San and his wife glanced at each other, and then Zheng San took the silver from Zhiwen's hand, "I'll take these to rent a house, and you can take the rest, stinky boy, there is a lot of hiding things, I and your mother didn't find out, don't use it indiscriminately, do you hear?" ”

That time, Zhiwen and Zheng San went to beg for restraint together, and Zheng San felt that his son had grown up all of a sudden, and he didn't treat him as a child much after that.

Zhiwen smiled, turned around and went back to the hut to hide the silver again, this level was finally passed.

"I'll go into the county tomorrow to find a house to rent, you pack up, twenty days later, well, don't come to the county seat for more than a month at most, this bit of food should be almost enough to eat at that time." Zheng San began to explain things to Zhiwen Niang.