Zhoujia Village, Quanpi Township, Dingzi County, Nancheng of the Great Xiao Princes.

Obviously, it was the harvest season in late autumn, but everyone in every household could only stay at home, looking at the heavy rain outside the house, sighing.

More than two months ago, the neighboring state of Chu, the state of Qi, launched a war of aggression against the state of Chu.

The forces of Chu and Qi were evenly matched, and the battle situation was stalemate.

In order to keep the supply of materials sufficient and support the front-line army, the monarch of Chu ordered the people to hand over fifty percent of the autumn grain as the imperial grain in advance a month ago.

At this time, the grain was not ripe at all, and the people had no choice but to hand over all the stored grain accumulated in their hands as imperial grain.

However, the house leak happened to be rainy, and when the rice was about to be harvested, most areas of Chu State actually suffered heavy rain that lasted for nearly half a month, and all the rice was drenched with mold and germination!

During this period, only Zhou Dazhi's family, when he found that some rice was moldy and germinated, took the lead in braving the rain for days to harvest all the rice, and dried it with charcoal fire, without suffering any loss.

Zhou Dazhi also notified all the villagers of this method in a timely manner, so that the whole village benefited.

"Brother Zhou, the dry firewood at home has run out, but the rain is still falling, what are we going to burn tomorrow?" In the kitchen, after throwing the last few pieces of charcoal into the stove, Chu Yunniang looked sad.

She is a new bride, although she has been in Zhoujia Village for more than three months, she has only been married to Zhou Dazhi for more than two months.

Before marrying Zhou Dazhi, she used to call Zhou Dazhi "Brother Zhou".

It's called Shunkou, but after getting married, I still can't change my mouth, so I continue to call him that.

"If the sun does not rise tomorrow, I will split the baskets, baskets, and baskets at home, and burn them as firewood, and when the weather is clear, I will come back from the mountains and cut bamboo and weave new ones." Zhou Dazhi had already planned, and replied with a smile while using a small shovel to quickly turn the grain in the big basket on the stove.

Chu Yunniang didn't expect to be able to do this, and immediately smiled: "It's still Brother Zhou who thinks about everything!" ”

"Indeed, my dad is amazing!" Seven-year-old Lori Xiao Qiongzhi is changing her teeth, and when she speaks, her mouth is a little leaky, but her voice is quite crisp.

She has traveled over for more than three months, and she has not been able to receive any memories of the original owner, and she is still acting cautiously every day, for fear that the fact that this body has changed its core will be regarded as a demon and burned to the fire.

Later, I found out that her mother Chu Yunniang and her father Zhou Dazhi were simply spoiled women, no matter what she said, they believed it to be true, and no matter what she did, they were all proud, as if what she said and did was justified.

After a long time, Xiao Qiongzhi was relieved, he should eat, drink, talk, do, in short, how to be comfortable.

Zhou Dazhi was very praised by Xiao Qiongzhi.

He bent the corners of his mouth slightly, touched Xiao Qiongzhi's head with his hand, lowered his body, and said softly: "No matter how powerful Dad is, he is not as powerful as our branches, if you hadn't reminded Dad that ten days ago, the grain in the field would be cut back in time and dried with charcoal, then our family, in two days, would have to run out of food!" ”

"But no, if it weren't for a reminder, our family would have been out of food for several days!" One of Xiao Qiongzhi's followers, the son of Zhou Youzhong in the east, also followed Zhou Dazhi to praise Xiao Qiongzhi.

He is three years older than Xiao Qiongzhi and is ten years old this year.

Xiao Qiongzhi listened curiously and asked him: "Your mother is usually so calculating, why did your family run out of food earlier than ours?" ”

"Because my mother eats inside and out, she cares too much about her family!" Stone, the dog's brother, interjected sharply on the side.

He is two years older than Xiao Qiongzhi, and he is not as tall as Xiao Qiongzhi, and when he talks in front of Xiao Qiongzhi, he likes to stand on tiptoe, thinking that he has to do this to look like an older brother.

And the dog was afraid that the stone would be too vague, Xiao Qiongzhi couldn't understand it, and specially explained for the stone: "When urging the emperor to produce grain last month, my uncle's family couldn't hand it over, so my mother secretly carried a basket of rice at night and gave it to my uncle's house." ”

"Later, my father found out and beat my mother to death, and she couldn't go to the ground in bed for many days, so she never came to your house to play for a while." The stone is like this, and it is explained for the dog.

It's really a pair of living treasures, and I don't know what it means to be "ugly." ”。

Xiao Qiongzhi listened to Coke and asked again: "Then do you still have dry firewood at home?" ”

"It's been gone for a long time, but my mother will be smooth, recently she is in line with this family, that is in order, and it adds up to a lot, at least it can be burned for ten days and a half months." Shi was proud when he talked about this, after all, Xiao Qiongzhi's family would have to split baskets, carry baskets, and baskets to use as firewood tomorrow.

Well, a person who has just been beaten to the point that he has been lying in bed for a long time can have the energy and courage to go to other people's houses to steal firewood, which is also a skill.

Xiao Qiongzhi raised her eyebrows and asked the stone: "Then your mother, do you have any firewood from my family?" ”

The stone nodded heavily: "It must be smooth!" Don't listen to her nonsense that 'rabbits don't eat the grass by the nest', she didn't say that in front of us, she would say, 'Rabbits who don't even know how to eat the grass by the nest are generally stupid to death.'" ’！ ”

Well, this statement is strangely reasonable, and sure enough, thieves have thieves.

However, it is also a miracle that the dog and the stone are not crooked on such a mother.

Xiao Qiongzhi was very emotional in her heart, she didn't ask any more, she just hoped in her heart, hoping that God would stop raining and the sun would come out as soon as possible, so as not to cause more people to worry about the lack of firewood to cook.

By the next day, early in the morning, the sky was actually clear.

Zhou Dazhi got up early, cut an old back basket as firewood for today's morning cooking, and then, without waiting for Chu Yunniang to make breakfast, he strode up the mountain, cut back a load of thin dead branches, spread them on the roof, and exposed them to the sun.

Xiao Qiongzhi had already gotten up at this time and was watching Chu Yunniang cooking in the kitchen.

Zhoujia Village is a very backward small mountain village, every household is poor, and no one has the money to buy delicious condiments such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and so on.

Most of the oil used is refined from pig skin or pig water, which is not only particularly greasy, but also smells of oily feces or pig manure.

The salt used is a large irregularly shaped granular salt dug directly from the mine, which has not been refined and processed, and has a salty and astringent taste.

As for sauce, vinegar and the like, there is no ginger and green onion at all, there are kinds of ginger at home, however, ginger has basically rotted in the ground because of the recent rain, only green onions, which are easier to grow, and there are a lot.

For breakfast, the dish made by Chu Yunniang was minced meat loofah.

The minced meat used in it is a piece of meat the size of three fingernails cut from a small piece of bacon left at home, and chopped into pieces, which is better than nothing.

Although Chu Yunniang told Xiao Qiongzhi more than once that she used to be a first-class cook in a big family, based on the above situation, the dishes she made were actually not delicious.

When Xiao Qiongzhi first arrived, it was difficult to swallow basically every meal.

Now, after more than three months, although I am gradually getting used to it, I have always been in my heart, and I have a plan to improve my life.

While eating breakfast, she was about to tell Zhou Dazhi and Chu Yunniang about her plan, when outside the courtyard, there was a sudden anxious voice from Zhou Youzhong, who was in the west: "Brother Dazhi, it's not good, it's not good, it's not good!" ”