Chapter 257: The Year of Calamity
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Lu Yu asked Liang County Order: "Is the food in the city enough to eat?" β
Liang Xianling smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "The number of grain and grass in the city is still being counted, but I don't estimate that it will last long. And this is thanks to the Tianhai Gang Qin Gang Leader, he sent a lot of grain into the city to sell a few days ago, otherwise, even if it is us, we will already run out of food. β
Lu Yu was silent, thinking: "Qin Zhongquan is also quite unlucky, the second crop of rice will be harvested in more than a month, but when he encounters this sudden snowstorm in early autumn, the hard work of a group of them for half a year will all be in vain." Lu Yu thought that Qin Zhongquan had also sent him a lot of food, and he was secretly happy, but he couldn't help but worry about Qin Zhongquan and them.
"Fortunately, there are not many farmers who grow rice in our Jinhua City, and almost all the corn and soybeans have been harvested, so in addition to the city, the people in the countryside below don't have to worry about having no food for a while. As for the people in the city......" Liang Xian Ling shook his head and said, "I'll think of a way again." β
Lu Yu said: "The countryside has been much better in the past two years, most families have surplus grain, and Lord Liang can also wait for the weather to warm up and send people to the countryside to buy some grain." β
Liang Xianling sighed and said, "In this situation, even if the farmer has a lot of grain, who is willing to sell it?" β
What Liang County Ling said was very reasonable, Lu Yu didn't know what to say, if there were not so many people in his family, if he didn't have to take care of Lu Ming's family, he could give most of the food to Liang County Ling. But he couldn't.
Bidding farewell to the Liang County Order, Lu Yu went to Qichu Villa again.
Like the outside, Qichu Villa is also covered with snow, there is no grass and trees, and everyone in the villa is shrunk in the house, not daring to go out.
Soon after Cheng Huai got married, he lived alone with his daughter-in-law in a newly renovated house.
Lu Yu went to a hall with a lot of people, so Cheng Huai's brother went to call him over. As soon as he saw Lu Yu, Cheng Huai said with a sad face: "Mr. Lu, this God, why is this like this again?" β
Lu Yu smiled bitterly: "Who knows, maybe it's this ruthless god who doesn't want us to have a good life." After speaking, Lu Yu looked up at the sky, the sky was blue, cloudless, the sun was very dazzling, but it couldn't make people feel half a point of warmth.
Cheng Huai hesitated for a moment and said to Lu Yu: "Mr. Lu, will there be a shortage of food over there?" If you don't have enough to eat, I've got some here, and you can take some back. When Cheng Huai said this, the faces of several brothers around him changed slightly.
Lu Yu smiled: "Thank you, I still have enough food to eat, I just want to come over today to see how you are doing." "He did come to see it, not to ask for food.
"That's good." Cheng Huai said with a wry smile: "It's not snowing, but the weather is still very cold, the crops that have not been confiscated on our farm have been frozen to death, and the cattle and sheep have also died." β
"Yes, some families in our village have lost their food, and it is estimated that they will not be able to collect it." Lu Yu felt lucky again, if it weren't for his hands and feet being fast enough, and Yan Xi'an and their help, the corn and soybeans in the field would definitely be ruined.
There is no doubt that it is another year of disaster, and that the situation is dire for all. But on the other hand, Cheng Huai and his brothers are living a better life than most people, at least for the time being, there is no shortage of food, and there will be no shortage of firewood for heating.
Lu Yu had nothing to say, said goodbye to Cheng Huai, and went to Pingze Lake again. This time, Cheng Huai didn't mention the matter of his younger brother and Fang Huaru, and he probably wasn't in the mood.
Qin Zhongquan and they are not short of food for the time being, but they are not having a good time. In the past two years, the fields around Lake Pyeongtaek have indeed harvested a lot of grain, but there are many people here and there is a lot of food in need. Moreover, some time ago, Qin Zhongquan released a lot of grain out, and opened several grain shops in Jinhua City and several surrounding towns, and the grain released out of ten will not be recovered.
Lu Yu saw the worried Qin Zhongquan and asked him if anyone here was frozen to death (frozen to death).
"We don't have a lot of firewood here, but fortunately, there is a lot of straw, and the sleeping people's houses are stuffed with a lot of straw, and the house is not particularly cold." Qin Zhongquan said: "As long as the weather is normal, we can plant again next year, and that day is not bad." β
Lu Yu thought to himself: "This god can give you a heavy snow in August, will life be better next year?" I think it's hard. But he still said, "Last time, the Qin Gang Master sent me a lot of food, if you don't have enough food here, I'll send it back, right?" β
"Not really." Qin Zhongquan hurriedly waved his hand and said with a smile: "Mr. Lu is just joking at this, no matter what, we will not lack that little bit of food." β
"Then thank you Gang Leader Qin." Lu Yu has collected a lot of food by himself this year, plus the food sent by Qin Zhongquan, which is enough for the Yan family and Lu Ming's family to eat for a long time.
Qin Zhongquan shook his head and said, "What is there to thank for, speaking of which, it still depends on what the weather is like in the back." If the weather is bad all the time, we don't have to live. β
Lu Yu knew that what Qin Zhongquan said was right, such bad weather only needed to last for another half a year, and the people in this world would be reduced by more than half. Thinking of this, Lu Yu suddenly had a doubt: "I don't know if it is tens of thousands of miles away, is it the same as here, and is also experiencing an unprecedented snow disaster?" β
Lu Yu suddenly wanted to go out and take a look.
Before going home in the evening, Lu Yu took a look in Anding Valley, the snow in the valley had melted, and the goats were alive and well. Lu Yu felt lucky, thinking that if he really couldn't stay outside, he would move all the people in the village in. The valley is not big, and it seems that it can only accommodate the people of one Yangshan village, and no more may not work.
In the past two days, everyone's mood is not very good, Lu Yu feels that this is not a good thing, even if the natural disaster is bad now, everyone should pack up their emotions and be positive and optimistic.
So Lu Yu decided to get some delicious food for his family at night.
There are fish in Anding Valley, there are fish in Yangshan Stream, and there are many fish in the backyard pool of Lu Yu's house, but now except for this stream in Anding Valley, other waters are frozen, and it is estimated that the fish in the water are not spared. Lu Yu wanted to get two fish in the valley and cook them back.
Before catching the fish, Lu Yu thought that there was a warm pool outside the valley, and the section of the stream below the warm pool should not freeze, and there must be fish in it.
Lu Yu "flew" out of the valley, and only borrowed his strength on the mountain wall once in the middle. In fact, even if he didn't borrow his strength, Lu Yu estimated that he could barely fly over, and he felt that he could try it again next time.
The warm water pool on the outer edge of the valley is much warmer than the stream in the valley after being reheated by the mountain wall. Lu Yu washed his hands in the pool and walked downstream again.
The further down you go, the cooler the stream becomes, and gradually, you can see some fragments of ice floating on the water. And in this small section of the stream, which is neither hot nor cold, there is a large school of wild fish.
The fish are not stupid and know where to stay in the waters and where not to stay, so many fish come here.
Dense wild fish swam in a short stream, and Lu Yu couldn't help but get goosebumps (dense phobia) in his eyes when he saw it.
"These fish, even if they don't catch them, will starve to death and suffocate to death, right? Then I might as well pick them up and eat them, and make the most of them. Lu Yu didn't want to kill, but he didn't want to waste it, with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen fish flew onto the shore and landed on the snow, but the weather was too cold, and they all struggled a few times before they froze.
There are a lot of fish, Lu Yu didn't expect that there would be so many fish in this narrow mountain stream. Now that I think about it carefully, I am relieved that although the mountain stream is narrow, it is more than one or two hundred miles long after all, and the total number of fish will certainly not be less.
Lu Yu didn't bring baskets and cloth bags, so he couldn't take too much, so he brought back more than a dozen fish on the shore. There are still a lot of things left in the stream, and Lu Yu hopes that they can all survive, at least until the next time he comes to catch them.
When I got home, the Yan family was all in the hall to make a fire. The kitchen was too cold, and Mrs. Yan didn't dare to cook easily.
"Everyone's hungry, I'm going to cook. There is a lot of fish, so let's eat fish at night. "Lu Yu wants to be as relaxed as possible, so that others can also be more relaxed.
Yan Xi'an said: "Uncle, you go to wash rice and cook, and I will go to the backyard to wash fish." "Except for Lu Yu, Yan Xi'an is the least afraid of the cold.
"I'll wash it, it's too cold." Lu Yu asked Yan Xi'an to bring salt and a clay basin over, and he was going to go to the backyard pool to wash the fish, and marinate it by the way.
In the pool, all the lotus leaves and lotus flowers still maintain the appearance of "before death", and seem to be standing proudly, but they are all lifeless. Lu Yu was a little stuffy, he didn't eat a few lotus roots, and he didn't eat lotus roots, so these lotus roots died.
There was a thick layer of ice in the pool, Lu Yu squatted on the edge of the stream, slammed his fist into the ice, and heard a creaking and crunching sound, and the thick ice surface was torn apart.
After the ice cracked, Lu Yu heard the sound of splashing, and he was happy, it turned out that there were still some fish under the ice that were not dead and were still swimming (this is reasonable, the water is highest density at minus Celsius, and the temperature at the bottom of the water is generally this temperature, and the fish can survive).
Lu Yu cut the fish, washed the fish, pickled the fish, and Yan Xi'an squatted on the side to accompany him.
"I smashed the ice, and there were still a lot of fish in the pool." Lu Yu smiled and said, "There are also a lot of fish in Yangshan, especially the one near Nuantan, there are a lot of them. β
Yan Xi'an looked at the dozen or so fat and big fish on the ground, and asked Lu Yu, "Uncle, have you caught all the fish you saw?" β
"No, there are many." Lu Yu washed a fish, threw it in a basin, smeared a layer of salt on the fish, and then said: "The water there is shallower than the water in our pool, and most of the streams are completely frozen, and the surviving fish gather in the short section near the warm pool." β
"Eh, the fish are so pitiful." Yan Xi'an said: "Uncle, you can catch more live fish, let's put them in the valley or this pond and raise them." There were so many fish near the pond that I was worried that they would starve to death because they had nothing to eat. β
Lu Yu thought for a while, shook his head and said: "I can't see it, it's not difficult to catch fish, but as soon as the fish come out of the water, they will soon be frozen, and they may not be able to live to change places for them." After a pause, he said, "I'll try it tomorrow, and maybe it will work." β
Yan Xi'an nodded: "Then I'll be with you." β
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