Chapter 233: Saving the Year of Famine (22)

By the time they entered the entrance of the village with the grain cart, there were already children watching there.

In the past, the children did not come out to play, they were hungry and bored, and they wanted to lie on the kang and not move. Who has the energy to play?

But I got a lot of food from the hollow of the tree yesterday.

When I got up this morning, I chewed two pine nuts in my mouth, and I suddenly felt that everyone was refreshed.

Especially in the afternoon, I also ate a meal of various beans and dried fruits mixed with wild vegetables and tree bark dug from the mountains and boiled into porridge, which was hot and delicious, and the children were full of energy, so they gathered at the entrance of the village to watch.

The old village chief is the backbone of the village, he went to Fucheng, and he went to help sell pork, it is said that after selling pork, he bought back the grain, but he had to share it with everyone in the village, so the children are looking forward to it here, and the children at this time have an inexplicable desire for food after the disaster year.

It's been a long time since I've eaten food.

No, when they saw them pushing the carts of grain into the village, the children immediately cheered, and all the people in the village came out.

It's as lively as the New Year.

Mrs. Zhang's children also came out.

In fact, the sum of this grain is not much catty.

One stone of grain is less than 200 catties, and the sum of these ten stones of grain is only more than 1,000 catties.

It's really thanks to the fact that there are few of them, and the average score of forty people is almost more than forty pounds per person.

However, it is only three or four months before the autumn harvest, so if it is even, it can really survive.

Mrs. Zhang directly began to distribute food, regardless of the size of the old and the young, more than 40 catties were divided on one person's head.

In fact, there are less than 50 people in total, and there are more than 30 people, nearly 40 people.

In fact, one person can get forty pounds.

If it is based on the family unit, in fact, a family is an old man with two or three children living in the family, in fact, the family also has one or two hundred catties of food.

In addition, if you go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, and if you plant some vegetables and things in the field, you will actually have no problem staying up until the autumn harvest.

Divide the grain, although it is not much, but every family understands that as long as they have food in their hands, they have a bottom in their hearts, and they still have those things that were dug out of the tree hole yesterday, and the family actually has forty or fifty catties, which is a lot.

Everyone is confident that they will be able to survive until the autumn harvest, but the old man is anxious that now they have no wheat seeds, and they can't grow grain without seeds.

Besides, it has already been more than a month past the season, and even if you can grow grain at this time, I am afraid that you will not be able to harvest it in the autumn.

Mrs. Zhang's idea for everyone today is to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes according to the method they planted on the wasteland, which were originally wintering things.

If everyone planted this, maybe it would really have a little yield, anyway, it wouldn't be a loss.

It is hundreds of times stronger than growing grain, after all, grain is not so high-yielding, and now we can't figure out these tastes, we can only say that sweet potatoes and potatoes are high-yield crops, and one acre of land is used, and their village will have no problem for two years.

Mrs. Zhang also plans that potatoes and sweet potatoes need follow-up storage space, if they are not well preserved, I am afraid that these things will not be able to be put on hold for two years, but the new things they grow can be sold to restaurants.

When the time comes, they will sell it to the restaurant, and they will come back to buy grain after changing the silver, so that the grain and potatoes and sweet potatoes will be eaten alternately, and they will have no problem holding on for a while.

The old village chief now listens to Mrs. Zhang, because this old lady is knowledgeable, and just by talking to the shopkeeper, you can know that this old lady was probably born in a big family before.

I don't know how my family suffered a disaster to get to where I am today.

But even at this point, people should still help them, help them, and they are willing to listen to the old lady for this kindness.

Everyone had food and immediately began to prepare for it.

The old man still planted a few acres of vegetables, pumpkin and vegetables, but Mrs. Zhang helped them raise some potato seedlings and sweet potato seedlings, and these things were planted directly in the ground.

Old man, they've never seen anything like this.

The heart is beating drums.

Fortunately, the water they brought from the mountains was enough to water the ground, and although everyone worked hard, as long as the harvest in the field was good, there was hope for everything in the future, especially watching the seedlings in the field grow little by little.

The hearts of the whole village were filled with hope.

Seeing that the vegetables in the field began to bear fruit, the harvest was just around the corner, but at this time the village chief hurriedly ran back to discuss with the old lady, mainly because the current condition of the field was not very good, and it was obvious that they found that there were many locusts in the field, which indicated that there would be a locust plague after the drought.

Mrs. Zhang can't help it, she doesn't have a good way to deal with these locusts, so she can't stand there by herself and use her divine sense to drive away the locusts.

No matter how powerful she is, it can only be a small attack, and it is impossible to treat her as a mobile locust repellent, and that would be a palliative rather than a cure.

It's not all to blame for 119, confiscating all your charms.

Now there is no rune paper, and she is at a loss.

The villagers came up with a way to smoke the locusts in the fields by burning branches and smoke, but unfortunately there were more and more of them.

After about 10 days, a large area of locusts passed through, and the whole field seemed to be plagued, and all the plants on the ground were gnawed clean.

The old people and children in the village sat on the ground and didn't even want to move, mainly because the crops they had planted after working hard for a long time could be poured now, and they could be harvested in more than a month or two, but the problem was that they were all eaten up by locusts now.

A lot of people are crying.

God just doesn't give people life.

Mrs. Zhang glanced at them.

What can I do?

She can't deal with locusts either.

The seedlings on the top are gone, and the potatoes and sweet potatoes at the bottom are almost long anyway, even if they don't grow to the largest, but it is estimated that they have grown eighty percent, after all, they are about to be harvested according to the day.

On the second day, I directly called the whole village to go down to the ground and dig the ground.

They are going to harvest potatoes and sweet potatoes.

The village chief and they went to the field.

The problem is that everyone can't keep up their spirits, what are they going to collect now, this land is empty.

Mrs. Zhang didn't say anything and directly instructed her son to go down to their fields to dig the pit first, after all, they planted earlier than them, and it was time to harvest in this season.

The old lady's three sons, although they knew that the locusts had crossed the border, and the field was now empty, but the problem was that they had been tending to the land for so long, and they had never seen their land bear fruit, and they couldn't figure out what his mother had planted this thing, mainly because no one had seen it.

At this time, his mother let the ground be plowed, and they naturally did it, in their minds, what the mother said was what it was, and there was a fairy behind the mother.

The eldest went down with a hoe and scooped out a dozen round potatoes from the ground, but he had never seen them, and ran happily to his mother with these things in his hand.

"Mother, is this the potato you are talking about?"

"It's it if you didn't run. Hurry down to the ground and dig out everything that is underneath the ground, for this is a high-yielding crop. We can count on this stuff for this year's food next year. ”