2. Grow food in space
After eating, Su Rui asked the store and the specific location of the grain store. After thanking him, he took his younger siblings and rushed to the grain store.
"If you want to buy in line, don't crowd," the guy shouted.
After queuing for a quarter of an hour, I arrived at the Su family sisters and brothers.
"Little second brother, how do you sell rice and white noodles?"
"Twenty-five wen a pound of rice, twenty-eight wen a pound of white flour" The guy looked at Su Rui differently, you must know that now there is a drought and a lack of food, and many people are reluctant to buy rice and white flour in order to buy more food.
"Sister, don't buy rice and white noodles are too expensive." The eldest brother anxiously pulled Su Rui.
"Xiaoliu is too young, the rice soup is nutritious, you have to eat something good. It's okay, don't worry about it, the eldest sister has a way to support you. Su Rui touched Su Chenrui's bun distressedly.
"Please help me load five catties of noodles, five catties of rice, and ten catties of cornmeal."
"Okay, one pound of rice is twenty-five Wen, five catties are one hundred and twenty-five Wen, white flour is twenty-eight Wen a catty, five catties are one hundred and forty Wen, cornmeal is one catty and fifteen Wen is a catty, ten catties are one hundred and fifty Wen, and Chenghui is four hundred and fifteen Wen" The shopkeeper quickly calculated the account and asked the man to weigh and load the grain.
Su Rui gave the silver, took the loaded grain, and asked the store.
"Shopkeeper, do you know where to sell seeds?"
"We still have some leftover seeds from last year." The shopkeeper asked the guy to take out a large package from the cabinet and opened the package with several small cloth bags inside.
"Give me some of everything." Su Rui looked at the seeds and decided to have some.
Xiao Er quickly wrapped the seeds and handed them to Su Rui to "Chenghui Eighty Wen"
Several grain bags were put into the back basket by the second, third, and fourth children one by one.
The second Su Ying was carrying ten catties of grain on her back, and her waist was bent.
"Second sister, you come and hold Xiaoliu."
Su Rui lifted the basket on the second child's back, Xiaoliu stuffed it into her arms, put the seeds into the basket, and walked to the grocery store.
On the way back after buying salt, sugar and vegetable seeds, I saw skinny people looking at the Song family brothers and sisters with salivating eyes.
Su Wan was so frightened that she directly grabbed the eldest sister's hand and whispered, "Eldest sister, they are so scary." ”
"When I go back, the eldest sister will go to the village chief and uncle to see if she can ask someone to build the courtyard wall higher, the wall in the house is too low, and the adults can climb in casually." Walking quickly past the victims, Su Wan said softly.
Before dark, the Su family sisters and brothers finally arrived home, and the food was put into the house.
"Food can't just be left on the surface, in case someone finds out, we won't have anything to eat. The eldest sister found a hidden place in the mountains and decided to put it in the mountains and go to retrieve the day's amount every day. Su Rui looked at the food, always felt uneasy, thinking about the performance of the old Su family in the village, often came to the door to search for things, and even took away the cotton clothes of the dead mother.
"Eldest sister, I'll go with you." The eldest brother also remembered what the old house had done, and said that he was going to go out with the food on his back.
Su Rui grabbed the eldest brother and said, "No, what if there are too many people and are discovered, the eldest sister will go by herself, it is safer, and the eldest sister will pick it up every morning in the future." "Joke, what is the secret place in the mountain, of course, it is put into the space Futian treasure land. There is no safer place in the world.
"Eldest brother, listen to eldest sister." Su Ying agrees that the eldest sister goes up the mountain alone, and the secret that she knows alone is a secret. It's not a secret that two people know.
Su Wan took out a bowl of cornmeal. The rest was put into a big back basket, and when I carried it, I walked up the mountain, but fortunately, the Su family was at the foot of the mountain, and few people paid attention to it.
When she couldn't see the house, Su Rui put the money left over from buying food and the food along with the basket into the space.
As soon as I walked to the gate of the courtyard, I heard a sharp female voice, "Ying girl, where is your eldest sister?" Someone saw you go to the county today, what did you buy, why didn't you send it to the old mansion to honor your grandmother? ”
Su Rui walked into the courtyard quickly and saw a woman with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, pointing to the head of her second sister Su Ying.
"The eldest aunt is here. You know what we're doing? Are you keeping an eye on us at all times? Do we have any money at home, don't you know? ”
"Rui girl, okay? Didn't you say a lot of blood! Hey, I really killed my parents, but I was blessed with a great life. Aunt Li covered her mouth and chuckled.
"Auntie, there is no food at home, and she is about to starve to death, I just want to try my luck in the county, to see if I can meet the rich wife to give some food, if I don't want it, I am ready to go to the old house to borrow some food, how much food do you think you can lend us?" Su Rui didn't care about the cynicism of Su Li and the eldest uncle.
"You don't honor your grandmother, and you still want to borrow food, why is your face so big?" The eldest uncle of the Su family, Wang, glared at Su Rui angrily.
"We also want to honor our grandmother, but unfortunately my father and mother died early, and my younger siblings are still young. Auntie, take pity on our brothers and sisters! Otherwise, we will starve to death before the autumn harvest! Su Rui began to cry as she spoke.
"Look at what the girl said, we still have to leave beforehand." The eldest aunt Wang wanted to say something, but the little aunt Li hurriedly grabbed it, turned around and left.
"Third brother and sister, why don't you pull me and don't let me scold that cheap hoof" Wang was unhappy.
"Sister-in-law, didn't you notice that Rui girl fell her head once and became smarter? How dare you talk to us like this before! Li felt that the sister-in-law had no brains, and that Su Rui opened her mouth and closed her mouth that she was going to starve to death, and the people in their Su family's old house ignored them when they continued to quarrel. After all, the second brother and the second brother and sister died, and the old mansion didn't say that they would bring back a few children.
"Hmph, a few broom stars, killed their parents, what's not smart!" Wang shook off the Li family who was holding her hand, and walked towards the old mansion angrily.
Li pursed his lips and hurriedly followed.
In the courtyard, Su Rui went into the house and picked up cornmeal, ready to make boiled corn paste. Su Ying moved a small wooden stool and took the initiative to sit in front of the stove, skillfully lighting the fire with a flint.
Everyone drank a bowl of steaming corn paste for dinner, and even Xiaoliu drank half a bowl, and he also had the strength to kick his legs when he was full of food and drink.
When night falls, in ancient times when there was no entertainment and pastime, there was only sleep!
In the past, when Su's father was still alive, he took Su Chenrui to sleep, and Su Rui took his sisters to sleep with Xiaoliu. Now that Su's father has passed away, his sisters and brothers sleep together on the largest kang, one is that Su Chenrui is afraid, and the other is because the extra bedding at home was taken by the people in the Su family's old house when Su's father died!
I was tired after a day of running, and I fell asleep not long after lying down.
Seeing the younger siblings who were completely asleep, Su Rui silently said "I want to go in" in her heart
Picking up the corn seeds, when she was about to plant, she found that she didn't have a tool, and Su Rui muttered, "It would be nice if you could sow seeds instantly" The words just fell, and the seeds were sown in an instant.
Su Rui was stunned, it turned out that instant sowing was a password, so what about instant watering and instant harvesting? If you can, it will be much more convenient in the future!
"Instant watering," Su Rui shouted loudly, only to see a column of water emerge from the spring and sprinkle onto the land.
At the moment when the spring water hits the ground, the corn undergoes an astonishing change, from germinating to growing straight ankles, knees, and the height of an adult man, to setting ears, ripening the corn, and turning the corn stalk from green to yellow.
It took less than a minute before and after.
One by one, the "instant harvest" corn detached from the corn stalk and floated to the cabin!
At the same time as the corn is harvested, the corn stalks disappear into the soil!
Su Rui was very excited, and planted rice and wheat.
Su Rui walked into the wooden house and saw a neat stack of corn cobs in the corner of the room, as well as two large piles of husked wheat and rice, each about a thousand catties! Finally, I feel at ease, and I am not afraid of starving my younger siblings to death in a disaster year.
Out of the space, Su Rui saw her sweet brother and sister sleeping, and bent her eyes.
Early the next morning, Su Rui took advantage of the fact that her younger siblings were not awake, carried two buckets of spring water, and took a cloth bag with half a bag of corn cobs and wheat.
"Eldest sister, where did this corn cob come from? We didn't buy it yesterday! Su Ying got up and saw that the eldest sister was really plucking corn kernels.
"The eldest sister cleaned up the cellar and found a secret room, it is estimated that the old hunter hid it, and there is still a lot of food in the cellar, enough for our sister and brother to eat until next autumn. Don't tell Wan'er that she's still young, so as not to say it casually. "Su Rui really found out that there was a secret room before, but there was nothing in it! I thought of an excuse for the old hunter to hide food, and put a few hundred catties of food, so that my younger brothers and sisters could eat it with confidence in the future.
"That's great, we can have enough to eat in the future." Su Ying didn't think that the eldest sister would lie to her at all.
"Don't wait for later, the eldest sister will let you have a full meal today, you help the eldest sister to pull off the corn kernels, grind them into flour, and make corn nests to eat today." Su Rui looked at the little girl's happy smile and unconsciously laughed along.
After a while, Su Chenrui and Su Qiao got up and saw that the corn cob and wheat asked the same question, and were explained by Su Rui in the same way.
"Eldest brother, second sister, third sister, this grain is the stock found by the eldest sister, and it must not be found with people outside, and it cannot be said. Otherwise, we won't be able to keep the food, you know? Su Rui first vaccinated everyone.
"Eldest sister, don't worry, we won't talk nonsense, Xiao Wu is still young, and we won't tell her, so as not to be coaxed by someone with a heart to say something that shouldn't be said." Su Chenrui answered.
"Eldest sister, I'll watch Wan'er and don't let her run around"
The task of dialing the corn kernels was handed over to Su Qiao, Su Rui took Su Chenrui to grind the flour, and Su Ying used a mesh sieve to sieve the coarse ones and keep them for cooking porridge, and the flour could be steamed or made into potstickers!
Preparing enough to eat, Su Rui is going to cook.
"Eldest brother, second sister, third sister, take a break, sister is doing it after eating"
"Eldest sister, we're not tired, you need to cook for a while. My second sister and I grind out more noodles, and you can work a little harder. Yes. "Su Chenrui is sensible and distressing.
"Third sister, you come to help the eldest sister light the fire." Su Rui felt sorry for the sensibility of her younger siblings and decided that she must let them live a good life. Let's give them a full meal today.
"Eldest sister, it's delicious." Xiao Wu Su Wan narrowed her eyes with satisfaction.