Hearing Wu Guifang say this, Wu Hongsheng nodded approvingly.

He's been thinking about it the same thing in the past few days.

Even if everyone only eats half a catty of food every day, the sum of this large family will consume dozens of catties.

Seeing Wu Hongsheng's face, he was slightly stunned, as if he was thinking, Wu Guifang said again.

"Think about it, such a large family of people eats more than 20 catties of food a day. This year's late autumn, plus the three months of winter, is almost 100 days. This means that we have to prepare more than 2,000 catties of grain to ensure that we can survive until the spring of next year......"

"In addition, in the spring of next year, our family will have to add more words. Then the burden on our family will be even heavier. ”

Hearing this, Wu Hongsheng nodded again.

It's too much of a task to feed this family. It's not easy for any man.

What's more, Wu Hongsheng now has another layer of concerns.

He thought to himself that by next spring, everything would be restored. Farmers in many places, hunters, they will also be active.

They also go out into the mountains and forests.

If they know, there are almost 400 people from the Wu family, the Duan family, and the Niu family, who have settled here and are ready to multiply. Then, the village chiefs of their villages, the lieutenant chiefs, will definitely report this matter to the governor of this place.

When the time comes, those people will come and collect their taxes.

Wu Hongsheng used to pay a poll tax of 80 wen per year. And, sometimes, it's more than that.

The poll tax for adults is a full 80 Wen. For children who do not have adults, the annual poll tax is a full 40 Wen.

Now, except for those who have nothing to do with it, once they are picketed by the government, they say that they want to pay the poll tax to the imperial court.

Then, as a large family, they will get a few taels of silver.

This is also a poll tax.

At that time, if they wanted to hunt in the mountains and forests, they would have to pay the mountain tax.

If they open up the wasteland, they are ready to farm. Then, they have a large family, and they have to pay land tax and grain tax.

In addition, they have to serve every year as a large family.

In late spring, summer and autumn, they work with others to clear the silt from the river, carrying a large amount of sediment and strengthening the river embankment.

If they were unlucky, they would have to be forcibly conscripted.

Thinking of his people, once they were discovered by the people in the court, they would have to pay so many taxes and serve all kinds of labor, and Wu Hongsheng's heart was under great pressure.

He actually doesn't know how he will live in the future.

He only knew that he wanted to take this big family with him, live peacefully, and live to old age. It was a really tough one, and a huge one.

Thinking of this, Wu Hongsheng sighed heavily.

"Daughter-in-law, don't think too much."

"Whatever is at home, I can take care of it."

"More than 2,000 catties of rations, although our family does not have them. But last night, on a deserted mountain, I found such a good thing. ”

As he spoke, Wu Hongsheng took out a black thing from the pocket of his jacket.

"Daughter-in-law, look what kind of ...... this is"

When Wu Guifang heard this, she quickly sat up from the bed and saw his palms with two eyes.

I found that on his hand was a thing covered with thorns.

Wu Guifang said a little uncertainly, "This seems to be a wild hairy chestnut, right?" ”

Wu Hongsheng listened, smiled and nodded.

"Yes. This is the wild hairy chestnut. ”

"I've eaten several of this, and it's so sweet!"

After saying this, Wu Hongsheng directly used his hands to peel off the shell of the hairy chestnut.

After all the prickly hairs of the chestnuts were peeled off. The small chestnut with distinct grains inside was revealed.

Wu Guifang tasted one.

This stuff is really sweet.

However, they look too small, and there is not much flesh in them, which makes them a bit laborious to eat.

Seeing that Wu Guifang ate with relish, Wu Hongsheng said at the time, "There are a lot of hairy chestnuts there." When I went, I only brought the kind of bamboo basket with a very large hole. I didn't bring that kind of bamboo basket. I plan to take advantage of the fact that there is no snow outside and the mountain is not closed, and quickly bring back all those hairy chestnuts. ”

Hearing this, Wu Guifang nodded at that time.

"No matter how small a mosquito is, it's meat. At this time, we can't be picky eaters. ”

Wu Hongsheng talked to Wu Guifang with a smile for a while, and the first two people sat together, and after eating a meal of fragrant noodles, Wu Hongsheng, who was full of energy, went out again.

This time, he had to take most of the men in the family and hurry over the mountains and mountains to get all the hairy chestnuts there.

After most of the men in the Wu family left the house, Wu Guifang called the others to quickly lock the courtyard door. The door was shut.

In addition, the cellar at home has to be dug quickly.

Because this winter, as well as the spring of the following year, there will be strong winds.

And in the spring of next year, it may be affected by the typhoon as well as the coast.

If they don't dig a few more cellars, don't dig them a little deeper. Once all these things in their house and on the ground are blown away by the typhoon, the human beings hiding in the house will be even more dangerous.

Because Wu Guifang has always emphasized there that there must be a few more cellars to store materials and food, those men with great strength at the head of the family basically don't rest much as long as they are at home now.

Every day they took a shovel and dug there. Or just chopping wood non-stop.

The chopped firewood accumulates little by little next to the firewood house that has been built.

Soon, the Wu family's house was repaired more and more. After five more houses, they slowly stopped.

A family of more than 50 people has formed a small tribe.

In order to make a living, they are busy every day.

And Wu Hongsheng took nearly 20 men that day, all carrying large aluminum buckets, to the mountains and forests.

After staying outside for the night, they returned in the evening of the second day.

When they returned, each of them had two large buckets full of chestnuts in their hands.

After Wu Dahu came back this time, the whole person was a little excited.

"Dad, I really didn't expect that the whole mountain was full of such hairy chestnuts."

"You see, when we went on that trip, we got back dozens of barrels of hairy chestnuts. If we go a few more times, we will definitely be able to move the chestnuts there! ”

"With these things, we should be able to survive this winter."

Hearing Wu Dahu say this, Wu Hongsheng also nodded with a smile on the corner of his mouth.