Chapter 65 Taxes are collected after the flood waters reced

Ginger is more drought-tolerant.

Wu Guifang thought that about half a year later, when the world entered the middle of winter, there would be an ice disaster all over the world, and Wu Guifang suddenly decided that she must seize the time, seize the opportunity, and get a variety of ginger!!

Ginger is a particularly good thing, and in ancient times, when the medical level was not developed, it was a traditional Chinese medicine with good curative effects.

In the cold winter season, drinking a cup of steaming ginger water can drive away the cold and warm the whole body.

Their Wu family opened up the wasteland on the hill here, planting all kinds of melons, fruits and vegetables.

On the other side of the mountain, the surviving people of Jiajialing and Wujia Village were already living in the bunker.

More than 300 of them have survived.

Living in a small bunker, they still feel that there are not enough rooms, and they have to sleep next to each other at night.

At present, there are more than 10 people in charge of the bunker.

They are all families who can speak.

Among them, there is also the patriarch of the Jia family.

They knew now that after the flood in this area, the imperial court could not send people over. Moreover, this year's tribute rice, they have no way to give it to the imperial court, so they want to race against time, open up some wasteland, and go to a variety of things.

They can't sit and eat nothing, and they can't eat grain, otherwise, as soon as this good season is over, they will most likely starve to death here.

Out of various considerations, they arranged for all the surviving people to hurry up with all kinds of tools to clear the wasteland.

How much can be planted.

Moreover, each household has its own.

Don't take advantage of anyone!

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The people on the bunker are busy. They didn't have any leisure at all.

Wu Guifang just thought that since they didn't come, the people on their side had to seize the time and seize the opportunity.

Wu Guifang has so many seeds.

Moreover, all of them are fruits and vegetables with a relatively short growth period.

Wu Guifang's space has a time to stop function, that is, the function of food preservation.

Wu Guifang thought about it and decided.

During this time, don't grow the kind of food that grows for a long time.

Like loofahs, cucumbers, eggplants, potatoes, red peppers, etc., she planted them all!

The insects in the field, she took the children and killed them every day.

Because in this ancient society where the productive forces were not developed, there were no pesticides at all. Wu Guifang was there every day, racking her brains to think about how to kill insects in the fastest way.

Later, she really came up with one, not a solution.

She knew that in her space, any living creature other than herself would become dead if it entered it.

Therefore, Wu Guifang did some related experiments. She found that she had put all those bugs, and all the viable eggs, into her own space, and in less than half an hour, they were all dead!

Wu Guifang couldn't figure out what the principle was.

So, Wu Guifang also did some related experiments.

After she put the muddy water with a lot of microorganisms into a plastic bottle, she took the bottle to her own space.

Then, in less than an hour, the bottle of water was layered up and down.

The dirty stuff, the heavier stuff, the parasites and all that, just under the bottle.

As for the clean water, it is presented directly on top of the mineral water bottle.

Based on the characteristics of her own space, Wu Guifang continued to arrange her children during this period of time, and quickly washed the thousands of mineral water bottles and oil cans filled with oil, and poured water into them after washing.

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During this time, Wu Guifang was really busy and busy.

She was so busy, and the people around her were even busier.

Because from beginning to end, all the people in her family were arranged by her.

However, the main labor force of the family, that is, the adults, was called over by the surviving villagers of Wujia Village and Jiajialing.

They had to go to that place to clear the land.

To that place, a variety of food.

As a result, Wu Guifang's subordinates could only manage twenty small soldiers.

She has two younger brothers and has a total of 10 sons.

In addition, her three sons also gave birth to one or twenty.

Therefore, Wu Guifang selected 20 soldiers from them.

These 20 and a half children follow her every day and revolve around her every day. I got a lot of benefits when I usually eat.

Wu Guifang has been preparing to make pickled cucumbers recently. Pickled eggplant, pickled loofah, pickled pepper.

In short, the fruits and vegetables in her field must be pickled by her. Just in case.

As for the red peppers she planted with her own hands, she left them seedlings.

But for her, the most important thing is the potatoes.

The yield per mu of potatoes is particularly high.

As long as she raises and cultivates well, potatoes can yield thousands of catties per mu, which is an easy matter.

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Since the disaster, life has not been easy for all people.

However, those who are local errands are still living well.

In fact, they are still the same as usual, they can eat fragrant food and drink spicy food every day.

There are fish and meat dishes every meal.

You can eat fresh fruit every day.

As for the castrated villages and the affected peasants, they could only look at the endless flood and cry out in misery.

They worry all day about whether they have eaten their last meal or not.

After the month they were worried about was over, would those errand servants come to collect grain and taxes?

If they want to take it, what will they pay for it then?

Sure enough, the things that the farmers feared came true.

Many flooded villages, although there are no people left. But in those villages, there are always some survivors.

There were only a few left in the family, and they didn't dare to meet them in the face of those fierce and vicious servants.

As soon as they heard the bad news, they did not hesitate at all, and took their children, or their old mothers, to escape from the disaster.

As for the villages where the flood waters receded, but the houses did not collapse and the fields were still there, this is the darkest time of their lives.

Faced with the menacing demand for taxes, they had to do everything they could to raise money.

They discussed and discussed the past, and in the end, the only way they came up with was "selling children".

Of course, the son is the root of the family.

Those of them who are the elders of the family generally do not sell.

In the end, they only sold a few dozen big families, so one or two poor daughters.

Or, after some men gritted their teeth and stomped their feet, they mentioned that their wives went to the county seat and sold her.

Some men are even worse, even this 50-year-old lady does not let go.

I know that some places are poor, and they can't marry a wife in the mountains, but for them, as long as it's a woman, they feel that their wife, although she is old and doesn't have a lot of beauty, is at least worth a little money......