For seven days in a row, the weather was not beautiful, there was no rain, the temperature remained high all the way, the heat was not the same, and the crops in the paddy fields of Shangou Village were almost dry and dead.

Although there are people carrying buckets and poles to carry water every day, they can't stand the high temperature all the way, and the speed of watering is not as fast as evaporation, but the corn and sweet potatoes planted in the dry fields are drought-tolerant crops, and they can be fed by watering a little water every day.

The villagers of Shangou Village have planted more paddy fields this year, and the paddy fields have died of drought, and some villagers in Shangou Village are panicked and complaining one by one.

Now it's June and July, the growing season of wild vegetables has passed, Liu Yiyu led his younger brothers and sisters to the mountains to see if they could bring some food back, and for a few days on the mountain, except for the first few days on the mountain to pick some green, sour and astringent wild apples and wild pears, nothing was found.

Liu Yiyu wanted to wait for these wild apples and wild pears to be picked after they were ripe, but now there is a natural disaster in Shangou Village this year, and the grain cannot be harvested, and many families now only eat one meal a day, and the middle-aged men in Shangou Village go to the town to work, hoping to earn more money, buy more grain, and survive this year's natural disaster, as for the peasant women, they embroider at home and earn some small money, and some half-old children go to the mountains every day, and when they meet something that can be eaten, they will pick it and move it home.

If Liu Yiyu doesn't pick it, some people want to pick it.

On this day, inside the bamboo house of the Liu family.

"If it doesn't rain anymore and the grain can't be harvested, many people are afraid that it will be difficult to go down this year?" Liu Zhang's sad and merciful way.

"Eldest sister's things are packed, take advantage of the early morning, the sun is not big, go to the town and go back quickly, don't have heat stroke, and, the silver on your body is properly placed, don't lose it?" Liu Li saved the eggs laid by the two hens some time ago, and asked Liu Yiyu to sell them in the town for money, and Liu Yiyu's sister and brother took two hares and a pheasant from the trap on the mountain to clean up, and walked into Liu Yiyu with a basket and instructed.

The last time Liu Yiyu caught the hen from the mountain to hatch chicks, a month ago, hatched eight chicks, after that, the two hens in Liu Yiyu said, saying that the hens eat more insects, after laying eggs quickly, their sixth sister led the seventh brother and the eighth sister diligently dug earthworms from the mountain to catch insects and feed the two wild hens.

The two wild hens are obese, unlike the hens fed by other farmers, who lay eggs every other day, but the Liu family feeds more insects, and after the wild hens eat them, they will lay an egg every day, and even the eight chicks are growing very well.

Liu Yiyu saw that it was still raining from God, and most of the paddy fields and crops in the fields had died of drought.

The Liu family decided to take advantage of the fact that the disaster had not yet expanded and the news had not spread too far, and the price of grain had not risen, so they took out most of the silver that the family had sold honeysuckle and honeysuckle vines to buy grain.

Liu Yiyu estimated that it was only more than July now, and if he wanted to save food for the winter, he needed to last until March of the next year, and his family needed to buy at least enough food for his family of ten to eat for eight months before he could last until March next year.

At that time, when the wild vegetables were growing wildly, and the honeysuckle was slowly growing at that time, the Liu family was not afraid of not eating.

It's just that the ten members of the Liu family, on average, use brown rice to cook porridge mixed with black flour cakes or corn tortillas to eat, and the ten members of the Liu family, at the end of the day, need at least one and a half catties of brown rice and about three catties of black flour or cornmeal, as for fine rice, rice and white flour, Liu Yiyu didn't dare to think about it, because there was no silver to afford it.

In this way, the Liu family will eat forty-five catties of brown rice a month, that is, three hundred and sixty copper plates, and if they buy eight months of brown rice, it will cost two taels of silver and eight hundred and eighty copper plates.

To buy the cheapest black noodles, the Liu family will eat 90 catties of black noodles a month, four copper plates for one catty of black noodles, 360 copper plates for 90 catties of black noodles, and eight months together, it will cost two taels of silver and 880 copper plates.

The brown rice and the black silver coins were added together to cost five taels of silver and seven hundred and sixty copper plates.

The money from the sale of honeysuckle is almost six taels of silver, and these silver can just be used to buy grain for the winter, but if you buy all the silver for the winter, when the time comes, your own family will have no money to buy cotton, make quilts and cotton clothes, so that this winter, it will be difficult for the Liu family to survive this winter.

"Well, mother, my daughter knows that the second, third, fourth, and fifth brothers all went to town with the eldest sister today, and the eldest sister is going to buy more food and bring it back." Liu Yiyu nodded.

"Be careful on the road, go and come back quickly." Liu Li instructed with some unease.

Liu Yiyu led his younger siblings to the town with bamboo baskets on their backs, and on the way, he met some villagers in Shangou Village who knew the Liu family's family and had a better relationship, so they said hello with a smile, and asked what the eldest sister of the Liu family was doing with her younger siblings in the town.

The relationship is not good, or if you don't know the Liu family, you don't look down on the Liu family, they are dressed in tatters, and they are wearing straw sandals, and they look like beggars.

On the way to the town, Liu Yiyu saw many old and weak women and children in messy and tattered clothes leading thin babies, as if they had fled here.

When Liu Yiyu saw this, he sighed in his heart.

"Isn't it that the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of Shepherd are fighting again."

Thinking of this, Liu Yiyu's steps quickened, and he walked quickly towards the town.

After coming to the town, Liu Yiyu saw more homeless people, most of them holding shabby bowls and begging for food along the streets of the town.

When you meet a kind person, a good person, you will give some food or copper plates, and when you encounter a bad heart, some of them just scold and scold the bad people, and some of them will be directly punched and kicked.

Liu Yiyu looked at this scene and sighed, in this war-torn ancient times, life was the least valuable.

Liu Yiyu, who came to the town, went straight to Xiangmanlou and knocked on the door.

Behind the door, Wang Hu answered, called the door after a few breaths, and saw that it was Liu Yiyu, and hurriedly welcomed Liu Yiyu's sister and brother in, and said with a smile, "The shopkeeper also said that he hadn't seen the Yiyu girl in the past two months, and said, isn't the Yiyu girl developed?" Forget about the incense full of buildings".

As Wang Hu spoke, out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the second sister Liu Yisa and the fourth sister Liu Yiya, who had never seen before.

"What did Brother Huzi say, no, I caught a few wild animals on the mountain, didn't I send Xiangmanlou to replace the copper plate? This is Yiyu's second sister Liu Yisa and fourth sister Liu Yiya." Speaking of the last Liu Yiyu, he pointed to his second sister and fourth sister.

"Well, I'll call the shopkeeper." Wang Hu said and ran inside.