After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the crops of all households in the village have almost been harvested.

Li Yunzhi set off with Zhou Wen this time. As the only two scholars in the village, it is not easy to achieve today's achievements, so when he was leaving, Li Zheng specially took the villagers to send it off, and at the same time did not forget to tell them carefully to be careful after arriving in Zhongjing.

After that, nothing big happened in the village, but Li Zheng still told the people in the village what Jinshu said before. As for whether they listened or not, others didn't care, so Li Zheng didn't emphasize it repeatedly.

As Jinshu expected, after the autumn harvest, the grain harvest in Ren'an County alone was greatly affected, not to mention the entire Shuzhou or the entire Xia Kingdom. Some merchants also feel that the situation is not right, so they have secretly begun to think about it. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Jinshu asked the shopkeeper Lin to arrange for someone to go to the county seat to collect a lot of grain and come back, and hoard it at four o'clock, so as not to rise again and again.

This year's autumn is also a little later than usual, and although it is the end of September, the weather is still very hot. The water level of the Qingshui River has dropped again, but fortunately it has not dried up completely, so the villagers of Qingshui Village have not panicked.

After the frost fell, it rained heavily, and the water level of the Qingshui River rose somewhat, and the stuffiness in the air disappeared.

Finally, winter is here. It's just that there hasn't been a single snow since the beginning of winter this year, and looking at the green wheat in the field, Jinshu is faintly worried.

Grain prices remain high, and several families in the village have seen the opportunity to sell a lot of their grain. I inquired about this matter in peace. But Jinshu should listen to gossip and don't want to meddle in things.

In the winter, the number of visitors is decreasing every day. After predicting the future situation, Jinshu closed the store in the middle of the previous year, and the time for opening the store has not yet been decided. The guys in the store were worried that their work would be affected, but Shopkeeper Lin quickly conveyed the meaning of the brocade book to everyone: the closure of the store is only temporary, and everyone will have to return to work as usual after the situation stabilizes in the coming year.

Seeing that the New Year is about to come again, although the smell of the New Year outside Qingshui Village is not as strong as in previous years, but the village is completely unaffected, thanks to the waterwheel made by Jinshu, it has saved the village from a lot of trouble.

I thought that this year would pass like this, but who knew that the unexpected came earlier than expected.

On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household is preparing for the New Year. Jin Shu also went to the town with Zhao Hui and took Ping An and others to the town to purchase. When he came back, he was in a carriage and heard a noise outside, so he opened the curtains and looked, only to see that the group of children in the village was bullying another child.

Through the carriage, Jin Shu couldn't see the child's face clearly, only that he was dressed in tatters, and he didn't seem to be from the village. Out of sympathy, she wanted to drink the group of bullying bear children, but before she could speak, she came to meet the eldest daughter-in-law of the Lizheng family, Zhang Dalian.

"What are you doing?"

A group of children were frightened by the sound of the adults' questioning, and immediately scattered and fled, leaving the ragged child still crouching in place. Zhang Dalian came over to help the child up, and Jinshu also got out of the carriage.

When she got out of the car, Zhang Dalian was asking him, "Child, where are you from?" What about your family? ”

The child cowered, and even his voice trembled: "There is a disaster in the family, and my father and mother are dead." ”。

Jin Shu sighed, guessing that it was probably due to the impact of this year's drought that the family lacked food and clothing, and the child would be reduced to this.