"It's nothing, I'm just curious about what you think so engrossedly, how many times have I shouted you and I can't respond? Is this wild boar still smoked and made into dried bacon? ”

The eldest lady who has changed her name to Qin Miao has lived with Qin Shuang over the years, and her personality has become more hearty, and she has long since disappeared from the cowardly and timid appearance that she always lowered her head and stuck behind Qin Shuangshuang and didn't dare to speak loudly.

Qin Shuangshuang nodded, got the pork back into the house, and said to Qin Miao: "It's better to make it jerky!" I walked around the house again, but I didn't see Bai's, "Our mother went out to dig wild vegetables again?" ”

"Yes, there are no greens in every household recently, and the fields are too dry to grow greens at all, even wild vegetables are very scarce." As Qin Miao spoke, he had already come out with a knife and a basin to prepare to divide the wild boar.

The pig's head and the water are gone, and some of the fatter pork belly has been taken away by Qin Shuangshuang. It was best to have fatty meat in those years, because cooking with fatty meat was delicious and fuel-efficient.

Qin Shuangshuang first went to the place where she put the bacon and took a look, it was an attic that Qin Shuangshuang had specially built, and it was densely filled with dried meat that had been smoked and baked in an earthen stove and could be kept for a long time! This was secretly saved by Qin Shuangshuang for nearly half a year.

After vacating a place to put new jerky in the full jerky room, Qin Shuangshuang went out to help Qin Miao deal with the wild boar, and it happened that the Bai family also came back, and in the willow basket, there were a small pile of wild vegetables that were not in good condition.

Qin Miao was very cherishing to wash these wild vegetables with water, and he was reluctant to throw away even the yellowed dead leaves.

Whether it is vegetables or water, it is a rare thing now, and the water is okay, when there was a drought last year, Qin Shuangshuang spent a full twenty taels of silver and asked someone to dig a well not far away that was deeper than an ordinary deep well.

Now all the wells in the village have dried up, and only the water from this deep well has not dried up, but it is only for the villagers to use water, and it is completely impossible to water the ground!

The pork belly is chopped into meat filling, the wild vegetables are chopped, seasoned with the meat, and the ground black noodles are as delicate as the white noodles, and the dumplings are formed into vegetable dumplings, which are steamed in the pot! Sticky with garlic chili oil, not to mention how delicious it is.

While Qin Shuangshuang was eating, he discussed with Qin Miaomiao of the Bai clan to send some to their master, in fact, it was mainly for Fang Yaoyao, her master Fang Zhongyi was a pure carnivorous animal, and he was not tired of eating meat every day, so let him eat green vegetables like taking medicine.

Before Qin Shuangshuang could deliver it, Fang Yaoyao first kept a basket full of fresh elm money.

Qin Shuangshuang knew at a glance that it must have been picked by her master when he went to the mountains, and this year, the trunks of several elm trees in the village did not even send a few leaves, let alone make elm money.

Fang Yaoyao came over, just along the way to eat vegetable dumplings together, and then helped Qin Shuangshuang deal with the wild boar at home, cut the meat and smear the salt, smoked and roasted, dried, and a wild boar was made into jerky, which was a water mill work, and it would take more than ten days.

It still didn't rain in the village, and the villagers were already faintly desperate, but they still held on to a little hope for tomorrow, and refused to completely despair. Many people's grain stocks have begun to run low, but the price of grain outside remains high, and they can't afford to buy it.

At this time of food shortage, Boss Qin didn't know that a cart of grain had been transported from there, so he set up a pretense at home to sell grain to the villagers at a price that was two copper coins cheaper than in the town.

Qin Shuangshuang frowned, the Qin family is an ordinary family, with no background and no background, at this time, to earn disaster money from people of the same clan, the reputation is gone, and it is really so hungry that even people can eat, and it is time for them to be unlucky if they have no defensive skills.

Qin Shuangshuang has experienced it personally, and in his previous life, Boss Qin also got a batch of grain to sell, but as the time for spring sowing passed, the villagers who couldn't wait for the rain began to panic and desperately hoard grain.

The Qin family's food rose again and again at the beginning, and later even if he gave money, Boss Qin didn't dare to sell it, mainly because he wanted to keep it for himself, and when he really ran out of food, the silver was useless.

However, the Qin family's food was not kept, and the people of this village took care of the same surname and the same clan, even if the Qin family bit to death and refused to continue to sell grain, they also endured it, but the people in the neighboring villages didn't care about this, and later, many people were so hungry that they went to eat the people who died of starvation, and their moral humanity had long been lost.

At night, several families in Qinjia Village colluded with villagers from two nearby villages. sneaked into the Qin family, snatched all the grain in the Qin family's granary, and injured several people in the Qin family.

Fortunately, the Qin family's grain was hidden in several places, and two of the places where the grain was hidden were very secret, so they would not starve to death. But after being robbed of food, the Qin family didn't dare to eat it even if they had food in their hands, for fear that the people who were already driven crazy by hunger would rob it again.

In order to dispel other people's suspicions that their family still has food, Qin Laosan and Qin Boss, plus Lao Chen and Xiao Chen, came up with a very inhumane way to take the useless girls in the family to other villages and eat them.

The Qin family wanted to use this to show that the family had no food at all, so as to prevent people who were hungry and crazy from beating their family again, and the girl who was eaten by Yi Zi was Qin Shuangshuang.

If it were normal times, if this kind of thing happened, the Qin clan would definitely deal with it strictly to avoid hindering the reputation of the Qin clan, but when every family was hungry and crazy, the Qin family's disposition was just a hasty discussion by everyone, and a simple matter of removing the clan.

Later, Qin Shuangshuang was rescued by Fang Zhongyi, and after Fang Zhongyi died of illness, Qin Shuangshuang was brought back by the Qin family, and then was soon sent by the imperial court to the border city like a prisoner.

But these are all things from the previous life, and this time Qin Shuangshuang will not let this kind of thing happen again no matter what!

It still doesn't rain, seeing that the best time for spring sowing in another month is about to pass, everyone is anxious, Qin Shuangshuang ran to the mountains early and late this month, and the pheasants and hares hit countless times, but they never encountered a big prey like a wild boar again.

The drought is getting more and more serious, and the grain of every household is about to bottom out, but fortunately, with the deep well of Qin Shuangshuang's family, everyone can still use enough water to cook a pot of flowering porridge to barely satisfy their hunger. *

There wasn't enough food to eat, so he could have bought it with the Qin family, but Boss Qin recently saw that something was wrong, and he didn't dare to continue selling food. The villagers could not buy food, so they had to continue to eat more economically.

Originally, although there was no food, everyone still had a hope in their hearts, that is, the imperial court would issue an order to open a warehouse and release grain to help the victims! But this hope was soon shattered with an edict issued by the imperial court to relocate the people to the border!