Xie Sifei suddenly became angry, and said that you old man is unreasonable? Talk to you well, what's the deal with swearing?

The old man took off his straw hat and said very sincerely: "Don't get me wrong, young man, we really don't have anything here. There was no food at all, only water to drink. ”

After speaking, he took out the kettle and poured a few sips into the sky.

Xie Sifei was very puzzled, and pointed to the green patch in front of the old man: "These.... Isn't that all food? Why are you talking nonsense with your eyes open? ”

The old man said that those were soybean seedlings, and they only produced soybeans here.

And there aren't many of them.

It's not soybean harvest time, so you can only drink some water to satisfy your hunger.

As he spoke, he didn't forget to raise the kettle in his hand and shake it at Xie Sifei. Xie Sifei disdained to say, who are you fooling? What kind of society is there now, and there will be people who can't afford to eat? Three-year-olds don't believe it.

He also said that you, the old man, must be stingy, and he was reluctant to use his own food to entertain guests, so he made up such a story to deceive us. It's not that they don't give you money.

The old man said with a sincere face that there was really no.

This became a big lie in Xie Sifei's opinion, and he scolded and scolded along the highway to find food for himself.

Holding his stomach in the middle of the night, he ran back sweating profusely: "Mom, senior brother! They really don't have anything to eat in this village, just now I asked no less than ten families along the road, all of them said that they have no food to eat and can only drink water, I look at their faces are yellow and thin, and the children are like big-headed dolls who have drunk Sanlu milk powder, I guess it's true, right? ”

"Young man! Now you know, right? ”

The old man wiped the sweat from his face, and said with an expression that you still don't believe: "In our place, you just walk ten miles and twenty miles further, and you have no food, so you can only drink water." ”

Xie Sifei was puzzled for a moment, sat down next to the old man, and said Uncle, can you drink enough just to drink water?

Uncle said what can you do if you are not full? If you don't die, you can do it.

Seeing us in disbelief, the uncle took out something and handed it to us: "I'm really hungry, so I'll eat some of this." ”

I looked down and saw a white and chubby bean lying on the uncle's mottled palm.

Looking at our bewildered expression, the uncle also explained: "This is the method that our ancestors got by chance from a senior master, in the past, the feudal society was turbulent, the people were not able to make a living, and the common people could not eat, and there was a Taoist named Zuo Ci to pass on this method to some poor people, so as to help everyone spend the years without food." ”

How?

Say when you don't have money to eat, choose soybeans that are evenly sized.

Cook the raw beans first, put them in the palm of your hand and rub them repeatedly until the beans appear shiny, then put your hands together and press the beans between the palms of your hands, so that the warmth of your palms can penetrate into the hearts of the beans.

Then I stopped eating for a day, that is, I didn't eat water and rice all day, and I didn't eat anything.

Then three liters of soybeans are given cold water, and after these beans are eaten, you can't eat anything else. Drink water immediately when you are thirsty, but never drink hot water, as hot water can cause the beans to swell and cause stomach damage.

In the past, when someone used this method, they accidentally drank hot water and died.

When you first use this method, you will feel dizzy and weak in your limbs, but after more than 10 days, you will feel strong and powerful, and you will not have any appetite.

The old man relied on this method passed down from their ancestors to survive on a few soybeans for several years.

When we heard this, it dawned on us.

No wonder the old man just said that they only drink water and don't eat, and they look like normal people, although they are not in good spirits, but they are not to the point of being hungry and listless.

The old man sneered and said, "This method has been passed down for decades and has not been used anymore, and the people in our village are about to forget it, who would have thought that?" And there can be a day that comes in handy. ”

"That's weird,"

I became more and more puzzled: "Now that it is the era of hybrid rice, many people let Grandpa Yuan Nongping feed him and have nothing to do, and he thinks of some ways to be a demon." Why are your villages still worried about food? ”

After speaking, I looked around again: "And all you plant in the soil are soybean seedlings, can't you grow some rice or other crops or something?" ”

"I thought!"

The old man gave me a disdainful look: "Then you have to be able to live!" ”

"In our place, except for soybeans, no crops can be grown, and even soybeans, even if you buy 10,000 tons of seeds, the annual output of each household is only a few dozen catties, and it can't eat for a year."

I couldn't believe it and asked why.

The uncle's expression was faint, as if he was used to it, saying that we have a drought lady in this place, and the villagers accidentally offended her a few years ago, and she was angry and sinned here, so that this place could not grow anything except soybeans, and the villagers had to rely on these soybeans to satisfy their hunger.

"Drought Girl?"

Xie Sifei touched his big bald head and was puzzled: "I've heard of this water lady, what kind of thing is a drought girl?" ”

"Shhh

As soon as he heard this, the uncle, who was leisurely fanning the wind with a straw hat, was immediately frightened, threw away the straw hat and went up to block Xie Sifei's mouth: "Dry Niangniang hates others for being disrespectful to him the most, and his old man's clairvoyance is smooth, he knows what you say and do." If you want to listen to this disrespectful word, you will be unlucky! ”

After speaking, he threw away the hoe and knelt on the ground, and kept kowtowing to the sky: "Drought Niangniang, Drought Niangniang!" But this kid said it, and it has nothing to do with me, and I don't know them well. If you want to condemn them, you will condemn them, but don't count me! ”

Then before we could react, they had already picked up their grass hats and ran away.

We were stunned, and it took us to change our families to find out what was going on.

It is said that this drought lady is a god on the nearby prison mountain, and she is in charge of the local grain harvest. To put it bluntly, as the myth says, how much grain you produce in this place every year, and what kind of food you produce, are all decided by this lady.

And this is the same as the iron fan princess in Journey to the West, who asks the villagers to make offerings every year.

At the beginning of spring every year, three sacrifices and six ceremonies, colored silk and red cloth go to worship her.

Otherwise, it will not be blessed with a good harvest of grain that year.

In the past, people were superstitious, thinking that since there is such a legend, it is better to say goodbye. As a result, the wind and rain are really good every year,

As a result, there is a bumper harvest of grain every year, even if it is particularly difficult in a certain year, the wind and rain are not smooth, and the grain in other places is caused by natural disasters, this place can still dig up big potatoes, yams, and all kinds of agricultural products.

In short, other places are better, and this place is better. Elsewhere there is hunger, but there is still food in this land.

Every year, never stopping.

The villagers also make offerings to the drought lady every year, praying that he will continue to show his magic and bless the local grain harvest.

As a result, when the four old days were broken, all the cows, ghosts, snakes and gods were poured, and the locals did not pay tribute to the drought girl, and they starved for many years.

The locals were apprehensive, and as soon as the atmosphere passed, they offered the drought lady again.

He also goes to the mountains every year to deliver offerings.

The drought lady showed her magic again, so that this place continued to have food and clothing, and became a land of grain production.

As a result, it has also led to local development and improved living standards.

As soon as this standard of living goes up, the locals are a little floating, and in recent years, non-belief has become more and more intense, and many future generations actually feel that we produce so much food here every year, all of which are the fruits of hard work and sweat of our parents and grandparents, and have a fart relationship with your ethereal immortals!

In this way, he refused to give an offering to the drought lady, not to mention, the old man who was still in the village chased them with a crutch and beat them, and only agreed to continue to give the drought lady a last resort.

The next day coincided with the spring equinox, and the young people rushed to the prison mountain to pay tribute to the drought lady.

But they didn't have the heart to worship sincerely.

Originally, the tribute to the dry lady should have been three sacrifices and six ceremonies, and a lot of gold and silver treasures have been added over the years.

The young people on the road looked at the things and muttered in their hearts, thinking to themselves, what's wrong with keeping such good things for themselves to eat and use? I have to give it to that ethereal drought girl.

You believe it, but I don't.

After that, as soon as the young men summed it up, they swallowed the tribute privately.

Only sent a small plate of soybeans to the dry lady, which was called "amusing you".

made the drought lady furious, and gave them a thousand miles of dry land back then, and there was no grass.

Originally, they were a large grain producer here, and in the first year, they signed contracts with several grain merchants from other places to sell grain. Let a few young people do this, they can't get a grain of rice, and they will lose several times the liquidated damages.

is also such a plate of work, many people even sell rice cookers at home.

It can really be described as decades of hard work, and I will go back to the pre-liberation period.

Offending the drought lady really has no good fruit to eat.

But those younger generations still don't believe in this evil, saying that people have good and bad luck, and there are unforeseen circumstances.

Who can predict natural disasters?

Accidents, must be accidents.

He also called on everyone to start sowing seeds in the second year, but as a result, so many varieties of grain were sown, and soybeans gave birth to seedlings, and there was no movement at all, and some of them gradually withered even if they grew, and only soybeans were lush and green.

By the time of this year's harvest, only soybeans were received, and even rice was not viable.

When the locals are thinking, let's just grow soybeans, right?

As a result, a lot of soybeans were collected, and the money from the sale was barely enough for the family to eat and drink.

After grinding like this for several years, some people really can't stand this poor life, or eat soybeans every day, and they are forced to scold at the sky, all of which are disrespectful and unbearable swear words to the drought lady.

As a result, the next year's sowing was repeated, and each family could not even harvest soybeans.

Let you have thousands of heaven and earth, and sprinkle more than 100 catties of soybeans.

By the time of the harvest, it was only a few dozen catties, not even a fraction of what it used to be.

And it is useless to let the local government allocate funds to them and set up projects to support them.

It can't grow food, and it can't grow food.

Many young people are forced to work in other places, but their luck is not good, and the poor cannot even support themselves, let alone take care of their families.

The old people and children in the village were left starving and waiting to die.

If someone hadn't found such a way of eating soybeans and drinking water to survive the famine in the ancestral hall, the people in the village would have starved to death.

And the drought lady doesn't seem to want to forgive the villagers after this incident, no matter how she gives her gifts, there will be a famine in the famine. And because I have been too poor in the past few years and have hollowed out my foundation, I can't get the final gift.

We were dumbfounded, and Xie Sifei was even more slumped, saying that there is still this kind of copying?

I also wondered where this drought lady was sacred, so powerful?

As he was talking, he only heard someone in the small courtyard of the farmhouse behind him, "Ah! Then I heard a "pop", and it seemed that a large crockpot had fallen to the ground.

Hurriedly rushed in with the host to take a look, and there was really a black water in the place, broken crockpot pieces lying on the black water, as well as countless swallow feathers and a clump of unknown weeds, exuding a strong stench.

When the master saw it, he rushed up to pick up the weeds and pulled them a few times, which immediately frightened the things inside.