By April and a half, the Huang family had been digging the pond for half a month.

The pond has been dug up, seven zhang long and four zhang wide, and after three days of irrigation, the pond has been filled with water, and Huang Congjiang bought lotus root seeds from the town and threw them into the pond.

See if you can germinate and grow lotus flowers.

Lotus out of the mud and not stained, this thing is good to plant, only need to sprinkle a few seeds down, as long as the lotus leaves and lotus flowers come out, and then form a lotus pod and lotus seeds out, and so on the lotus seeds mature, fall off by themselves and fall into the pond, and wait for tomorrow, there will be a batch of lotus lotus roots to grow, don't worry about how to transplant or the like.

It's just that as time goes by, many people are worried that this year will really cause trouble.

Those who are smart and wise begin to use the money in their families to go to the town or county seat to buy food and come back, and use it to eat and live in times of disaster.

It's just that it's too late to stock up on grain at this time.

Because of a large number of people tuning grain, and the weather is hotter than in previous years, the host of Huayun Temple in the county said that there must be a drought this year, and the drought will be locusts.

Now, whether it is in the town or in the county, the price of grain is rising day by day, and it is getting more and more expensive day by day.

From being one-third or one-half of the price of grain that was twice as expensive as before, to now in May, the price of grain has directly tripled compared with the previous days, and there is even no price in the market, and there is no grain to buy and sell.

People who had no food to buy, and there was not much surplus food, began to live a life of shrinking clothes and dieting.

Fortunately, although most people in Qingshan Village did not believe that there would be a disaster this year, they also kept some thoughts, and most of the corn grown in previous years was replanted into sweet potatoes and potatoes.

It will not be difficult to survive this year.

"If the weather continues like this this year, I wonder how many people will not be able to harvest their food?" In May, the sun was shining brightly, and the water in the canal next to the paddy field was only a shallow layer.

The water in the canal is no longer enough for the villagers to release water into their paddy fields.

There are even villagers who fight with the people in the village to release the water.

The Dragon Boat Festival is coming.

Before, Huang Congjiang and Huang Conghe of the Huang family did not take advantage of the idle farmers to go to the town to find work, and when they were idle at home, the Huang family began to compile lotus lanterns, wanting to sell again on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.

After pondering by Huang Pingcheng and Huang Conghe, the two of them came up with several newly compiled lotus lanterns.

One is two lotus flowers stacked on top of each other.

One was actually woven by Huang Pingcheng into a small house lantern of a certain size.

This kind of small house lantern, by Huang Pingcheng design is eye-catching, this small house weaving is a semi-hollow lantern, and inside, Huang Pingcheng design exquisite, even weave some exquisite tables and chairs and a family of three, placed in the lotus lantern in the room.

In addition, the lotus lanterns in this room are woven out of the position on the left and right, and the candles can be placed on the upper period.

After the candle is lit, it is put into the water, and there is a kind of light of ten thousand families, and the scene of family reunion.

However, the lanterns of this kind of small house that Huang Pingcheng came up with require a lot of complicated hands and feet, and it takes more than an hour to weave one.

There is also a seven-story pagoda lantern.

After lighting the candle from inside, from a distance, a faint yellow candlelight emanated from the pagoda, which really looked like the immortal pagoda of the Nine Heavenly Palace.

However, Huang Yiyun was afraid that after lighting the candle from the tower-shaped lotus lamp, he would light the entire lighthouse, so Huang Yiyun asked Huang Pingcheng to vacate a breathable hole from the place at the top of the tower, so that the candles lit in the tower could be used for heat dissipation.

Moreover, Huang Yiyun also asked Huang Pingcheng and them to weave a little bigger, so that they would not let the lanterns burn when they put them.

The Huang family has been preparing to sell lotus lanterns on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival.

After three months of preparation, a lot of lotus flowers were weaved.

Huang Yiyun knew that this year was a disaster year, and he was afraid that many families would be very poor, and it was estimated that there would be much less people to buy lanterns than last year, so Huang Yiyun asked the people at home to weave the newly created lotus lanterns.

The lotus lamps that I sold before were imitated and woven by people a long time ago, and they were considered to be the weaving method of the bad street, I am afraid that the competitiveness is too great, it is not easy to stand out, and I am afraid that I will not sell much.

Therefore, Huang Yiyun tried his best to let the people at home weave the newly woven lotus lanterns.

Wait for this year's Dragon Boat Festival to arrive.

The Huang family got up early, the Huang family suffered a loss last year, although the lotus lamps sold last year were popular, but the position was not well occupied, secondly, the Huang family still wanted to put the lotus lanterns on the table this year in the old place last year, and the Huang family was also afraid that the old place would be occupied, so the Huang family got up early, went to the county seat earlier, and occupied the place.

The two donkey carts had already been rented.

After getting up, everyone in the Huang family got busy.

Huang Li's and Huang Jiang's baked cakes are made into steamed buns, so that they can be taken to the county to eat.

The two Huang Congjiang brothers carried all their things onto the donkey cart, and after they were ready, after the donkey cart still had some open space, there were seven brothers and two sisters in one car, Huang Yiyun and six sisters in one car, and Huang Congjiang brothers drove.

After the things are moved into the county seat, after the donkey cart is empty, they will come back to drag the rest of the Huang family.

This year, all the members of the Huang family went to the county seat, and there was no one left at home.

"Is Zijun going to the county seat with our family today? Last year, my family went to the county seat to sell lotus lanterns, which was fun, and I could make money and have fun. After the two donkey carts of the Huang family left, the fourth brother approached Xu Zijun and asked Zijun with a smile.

"Is this okay? I have to ask my grandfather and grandma and my parents. Xu Zijun also hesitated a little and said.

After all, the Dragon Boat Festival is to have a meal around the family, Xu Zijun is also very interested in going to the county seat, selling lotus lanterns with the Huang family, and playing, but she is afraid that the people in the family will not be behind, so she hesitated.

"Why don't you go back and ask, Grandpa Xu and Grandma Xu and your father." The fourth brother also said.

"Cheng, I'll ask." After Zijun was moved by the fourth brother, she hurriedly ran home.

"Hey, why did you come back today? Is there something left at home, or is there something that can't be done? Xu Zijun asked Xu Liu a little strangely.

In the past, this girl stayed in the Huang family for a day, helping the Huang family do what she could, and she would come back when she finished eating breakfast and dinner, which really became the little daughter-in-law of the Huang family.