077 Flood (6)
After about a month, the rice bowl and noodle jar of the Hua family gradually bottomed out, and some of the other families in the village had no food, so they really started to dig the bark of grass roots and returned home, sprinkled salt with white water and boiled to eat.
Seeing this, the Hua family realized that Hua Chanyi's reminder in the past was not to treat the family as animals, but to really anticipate this day a long time ago, although their Hua family still has a little food, but obviously it can't last long.
Li Guifen, who promised to send food to the family, did not come back for a long time, so Hua Liu had to take his family to dig grass roots and bark, and for this reason, Hua Xiaolan and Hua Xiaocao were counted: "At the beginning, Cicada Yi said that he wanted to find grass root bark, but you have to say that Cicada Yi is not good, and now you have to grab these with others!"
Hua Xiaolan and Hua Xiaocao were unconvinced, but they were speechless.
Hua Chanyi just listened quietly on the side, she knew that Hua Liu's was just training these two people. But whenever there is anything to eat at home, these two are still indispensable, and their own oil bottle, no matter how good they are, they still don't have their own food.
Shen Langzhong's father and son also came out to dig grass roots and bark, but the father and son just listened to Hua Chanyi's words and came to pretend, Hua Chanyi couldn't help but be a little funny when she saw the father and son's serious acting.
After that, the rice in the pot of the Hua family began to be counted by grains, and a lot of bark was added to the porridge.
Fortunately, on this day, Hua Akashi came back and brought back a small bag of rice from Beijing, "These rice were given by Lu Langzhong." ”
Hua Liu took the rice, first smiled, and then frowned slightly: "Why is this big man in the capital so small, just such a small bag of rice?"
Hualiu is always the kind of person who will not have a short hand with others, and will only suspect that others will give less goods.
When Hua Mingshi heard this, he frowned slightly and said: "Now that rice in Beijing is hard to find, it's good that Lu Langzhong can give me these, how can other shopkeepers send rice to guys?"
Hua Liu sighed heavily and didn't answer, Hua Mingshi didn't take a leave this time, just to send the bag of rice back. I sat at home and left.
In the evening, the Hua family rarely cooked porridge without putting bark, but the rice porridge still did not have the share of the cicada clothes, and the Hua Liu family gave her a bowl of bark.
Hua Cicada Yi took the boiled bark, swallowed it in three or two mouthfuls, and said, "I'll go out and see if I can dig some food." With that, he quickly left the house.
Hua Xiaolan said: "Grandma, you say, why does my sister go out every time she eats?"
Hua Xiaocao sneered: "Needless to say, it must be to see us eating white rice, she is so hungry that she can't see it when she goes out?"
The Hua family felt that what Hua Xiaocao said was reasonable, so no one cared.
After Hua Chanyi left, she went directly to Shen's house, Dong Ziniang boiled the white and tender fish soup tonight, steamed white flour steamed buns, as soon as Hua Cicada Yi entered the courtyard gate, the aroma came to her face, and the almost smoked Hua Cicada Yi was a heel.
After Hua Chanyi came to Shen's house, she asked, "How is the grain selling?"
Dongzi said with a smile: "After a month, the excess was sold, a total of nearly forty taels!" Shen Dongzi didn't expect it to be so much.
Hua Chanyi didn't expect to be sold so high, and the food he bought from the beginning was at most a few taels of silver, which is enough to imagine how sky-high the price of those rice and noodles is like takeaway.
Disaster is a disaster for a foolish man, but a good opportunity for a wise man to get rich. Hua Chanyi thinks that she is not a smart person, but the memory of her previous life is indeed a unique advantage for her.
After the Shen family had eaten and drunk enough, Hua Chanyi took some grass root bark dug up by the Shen family's father and son for drama and returned home, the Hua family didn't expect that she could really dig a lot, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and more or less dispelled the Hua family's doubts.
Now that the Hua family is more and more fond of the cicada clothes, even the flower copper pillar can't help but say: "If you boil porridge next time, you can also give the cicada clothes a bowl." ”
"Thank you, Dad. Hua Cicada's eyes were red, and she seemed to be moved. Hua Xiaolan and Hua Xiaocao glanced at each other, and a trace of resentment flashed in their eyes, what kind of thing is this?
Hua Xiaocao looked at Hua Cicada clothes angrily, although the family hasn't given this cheap seed much food these days, but she and Xiaolan have obviously lost a whole circle, and this cheap seed is not only not thin, but has gained a lot of weight.
Although they don't want to admit it, the cicada clothes seem to be getting more and more beautiful!
This bastard is definitely a freak!
The days go by day by day, because of this natural disaster, the villagers of Huajia Village do not have to work, they dig the grass roots frantically every day, and the trees in the forest are almost all dragged off.
Wang Wencai and Hua Xiaolan also gradually lost a lot of weight, and they didn't have the energy to learn medical skills that they were not interested in.
Wang Wencai saw that Hua Xiaolan had no intention of marrying him, so he directly explained to Shen Langzhong that he left the hospital and didn't want to study, but Shen Langzhong knew that he was not interested in studying medicine at all, so he let him leave.
Hua Xiaolan still persevered for Shen Dongzi's sake, but obviously she didn't have much heart to continue studying medicine.
In the blink of an eye, it was late autumn, the climate gradually cooled down, the bark in the mountains was almost stripped away, and every household had accumulated a lot of grass root bark waiting for the winter, and the rice and noodles in Beijing were sold at sky-high prices, which was not at all eaten by ordinary people.
The village chief went to Beijing to inquire for a long time, and it is said that there was a war ahead, and the grain and grass from the treasury were first used for the front line.
In winter, after only four or five months of hard work, the villagers of Huajia Village were so thin that they almost took off their likeness, and even Hua Peipei and Hua Xiaolan, the famous little beauties in the village, were skinny and skinny, like monkeys, Wang Wencai even faintly looked down on Hua Xiaolan.
Only Hua Chanyi and the Shen family still look like normal people. The Shen family is just that, after all, the Shen family knows a lot of people, and it is not surprising that even if they can still eat, Hua Cicada Yi can't eat food at all in the Hua family, and the people in Huajia Village are more or less suspicious.
But Hua Chanyi had the foresight to let the Shen family hide the grain well, and they couldn't find out at all, and the meal that Hua Chanyi went to Shen's house to eat even changed, just to hide people's eyes.
Some families even began to sell their daughters in order to earn some food money, but whoever gave a little rice could marry their daughters.
Approaching a few years ago, Li Guifen finally came back, and what was shocking was that she was pregnant and came back with two bags of rice and noodles. The Hua family, who had been sad for several months, finally showed some smiles when they saw the long-lost grain.
Hua Liu, who had always looked down on Li Guifen, pulled her very kindly and said: "The second daughter-in-law is back, if you don't come back, our family won't be able to survive!"