Chapter 439: Surviving the Difficulties
Recently, more and more people come to Tongxin Village to beg for food, knowing that they have food here, they were all relatives of some people in the village before, how can they count the names and surnames, but now many of them are people they don't know.
I went directly into the village to ask for something to eat, at first I looked at the poor people and gave a little food, and then I just closed the door and ignored it, otherwise there would be a lot of trouble, and there were a lot of refugees outside, if I knew that they had something to eat here, what would it be?
There is still half a month to get food, and it will be only then that such a situation can really be alleviated, and this half a month is really troublesome.
The yamen can't manage so far, if this is in the county seat, the county government must be giving, the key is to be far away, the temple will also give porridge, but just a little thing, run fast to share a bowl to eat, if the legs and feet can't keep up, then there is nothing, in order to survive, don't you have to beg for things in the villages?
These people were so hungry that if the villagers didn't give them anything, they would just grab them, and there were several fights and brawls because of this.
But because there are a lot of people in Tongxin Village, the young and strong laborers combine to go to the entrance of the village, and those people don't dare to come nonsense, and after a few troubles, no one comes again.
Siqi can be regarded as seeing the scene of refugees grabbing food to eat, which is also terrible, fortunately, this year's wind and rain are smooth, and there will be another year of drought, it is estimated that she can still see the legendary Yi Zi and eat, it is difficult to accept it.
It's almost time to harvest food, there are fewer refugees, and many people's hometowns are not far away, and there is nothing to eat at home, and the grain in the field cannot be harvested, so they came out to beg for food.
Siqi felt that the imperial court was really not very good, the scope of the drought this time was not too large, they went to Chongqing Mansion to go over there, just such a small range, the imperial court could not distribute disaster grain to help the victims, and make the people hungry.
I still think that the society in my previous life was good, but in the event of any disaster, the country quickly came forward to provide relief, and all over the country reached out to help, which cannot be compared at this time.
I looked forward to this year's harvest of grain, the villagers were beaming, the granary at home had already been empty, these grains were taken back and dried and piled inside, which was not as much as in previous years, because there was no surplus grain at all, it all depended on this year's harvest, and it would take at least two or three years to live like before.
And two or three years later, the three years of tax reduction and exemption from the previous earthquake came to an end, and I had to start paying taxes again.
This time the drought is not too serious, compared to the previous catastrophes, it is nothing, so there should be no tax cuts, and in the end it is the common people who suffer.
Fresh rice back home, according to the way of previous years, the rice ears are dried directly with a cover, now the sun is just right, after a few suns can be beaten down, each family quickly took the fresh rice out of the rice, cooked new rice to eat.
The Lin family is the same, although there is still surplus grain at home, but the taste of this new rice is different, after the rice can be taken off, the new rice is immediately cooked and eaten, smelling the smell of rice, everyone feels that their stomachs are growling, this taste is really fragrant.
It's very tiring to harvest grain this year, and there is no Xuan family to cook at home, so according to what was said before, I found a short-term job to go home to work this year.
The speed of someone helping is really different, the work is done in front of the Gu family, and the Gu family is the fastest in previous years.
The people in the village looked very envious, but there was no way, there were people in the family who were officials, and they had the ability, and they could get the money.
I don't have the qualifications to hire a short-term job at home, and I feel sorry for the silver, so I can only watch others hire people.
Gu Ping had the courage to blow his beard and stare at him, but he couldn't help it, he had a lot of his own land, and this year, in order to store grain, all the paddy fields were planted with rice.
Now that it's time to collect, relying on a few people in his own family is completely busy, and he can't come up with the money to ask the villagers to help this year, so he has to let the Yun family go back to her parents' house to invite a few brothers from her mother's family.
There is no need to give them silver this year, and now that the Yun family's mother's family has no food, those brothers and nephews only need to provide them with food, otherwise they will not be able to do their own work without food.
No matter what, there are people in his family who help him with the work, Gu Pingyong feels more comfortable when he thinks about it, and he is not much worse than the Lin family.
After half a month of busy work, the grain in the field was finally harvested, and the whole village was very happy, and the granary was almost full, which was really good.
I thought that I was going to experience another catastrophe, but fortunately God withdrew his hand and did not continue to toss to death, and many women went to the temple to burn incense together.
Happy is happy, the work still has to be done, at this time you have to collect things at home, and many crops have to be harvested next to home.
Other people's families only need to take back the rice, but this year, many families in the village have planted corn with the Lin family, and now they have to harvest the corn, and then they have to dig up the longevity fruit, and there are many things.
There is a requirement for planting longevity fruits, which has been said before, in addition to keeping seeds, the rest of these longevity fruits need to be sold to the Lin family.
At the beginning, I thought that I wanted to save my life, and I originally only planted crops such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn for the villagers, but after thinking about it, I still added the longevity fruit to it, and the family didn't give much, and many people didn't take such seeds at all.
Only a dozen families have taken the seeds of the longevity fruit, and it is estimated that they have planted a little bit of soil, which is not a lot, but if all of them are added together, it is a lot.
When I thought of this, I also thought about it for the future, the Lin family had already established a cooperative relationship with the Song family, and they would always sell the longevity fruit to them in the future, but there was only so much soil in their own family, and they couldn't plant much, and they would sell at most one or two thousand catties a year, so they would have to delay planting other crops, and it would not be a way to go on like this.
If the villagers are allowed to plant some, they buy them from the villagers, and then fry them and sell them to the Song family, and the supply of goods will be available, so that they will earn more?
When he first thought about this idea, Lin Changyuan was overjoyed, so when the villagers took away the seeds, he repeatedly emphasized that everything except the seeds should be sold to the Lin family, and they would be purchased at a price between five and ten yuan.
Even if it is only five cents a catty, this price is much more expensive than rice and wheat, and everyone is naturally willing, and they nodded their heads at the beginning.