Chapter 20: The Flood
In May, many of the vegetables in the field have begun to ripen, and the pumpkins are still very tender, so she occasionally picks some to cook and eat, and from time to time picks some to dry, and the winter melons also begin to bear a lot of small melons. However, there are also cowpeas, peppers, eggplants, etc., which are still growing and blooming.
Now the corn in the field has also grown, and the germination rate is okay, but the corn has to be fertilized in the first stage during this time. The next step is to put away all the vegetables that can be harvested, and then fertilize the corn. After spending two or three days to apply corn fertilizer, she had to go down the mountain to buy grain, and she kept the habit of selling grain, buying grain twice a month. And now she has a lot more strength than before, and she can carry more things home every time.
Today is the day when she goes to the town, and when she comes to the town, she walks around the streets as usual, and then goes to buy food and other things. I first went to the cloth shop and bought some cotton cloth and cotton, then went to the grocery store to buy candy, and finally went to buy grain and went back.
In addition to buying grain this time, the most important thing is to buy muslin, and she hasn't done a good menstrual belt since she came to Kwai Shui this year. When she first arrived, she was still in a panic, because unlike modern sanitary napkins, there is nothing to sell here, so she can only make it herself. And she didn't just make a few strips of cloth with plant ash out of cotton, which was not convenient at all, she couldn't do much every day, and sometimes she had to be careful when cooking until the end of the first time. Later, I forgot it because I was busy planting vegetables, and I used it again for the second time and replaced it with the first clean one. This month, Sleep Aoi Shui is coming again, so she wants to make something more convenient from scratch.
She's going to make it look like a modern one. First, sew the cotton into it with cotton cloth to make a wide thick band, and then sew two thin straps on each side for fastening. The five-foot cloth and two catties of cotton she bought can probably be used for a long time when she uses new ones, but this is still a bit of a waste for her, so she is still ready to change and use it, but she will not change it too many times. It took about four or five days to do this, but it wasn't difficult, just cut a whole piece of cloth into small pieces, sew the cotton in, and finally sew the strap six.
When it comes to washing, I have to talk about washing clothes and sheets, when I first came here, because I was very busy and tired, my clothes were very dirty, but because the food was not very good, the clothes were still easy to wash. Just soak your clothes in ash and wash them clean. But later, after the days slowly get better, there will be some oil on the clothes occasionally, although they are also washed with plant ash water, but they need to soak for some more time, but the grass and wood ash water is soaked for a long time, and the clothes are easy to break, and they will not be worn for a long time. But there was no other way but to continue, knowing that once she found a few oil bead trees in the mountains.
She was very happy when she found the oil bead tree, but the oil beads were not ripe when she found it, but that's something to be happy about, isn't it? As long as you wait until the oil beads are ripe, you can use it to wash clothes, wash your hair, take a bath or something, although there are bath beans in the bath, but there are only grass ashes for washing clothes, and there is no need to use plant ashes to soak clothes with oil beads. As long as you remove the oil beads and put them inside, you can rub the foam and wash the clothes, and there will be a fragrance on the clothes after washing, and the quality will not deteriorate.
She still knew about the oil beads when she was a child in her previous life. At that time, they used it as a toy to play, but later they heard that adults said that it could be used to wash clothes and wash their hands with a lot of foam, so they broke the oil beads and took them to experiment, and found that it could really rub out a lot of foam, and they could also wash their hands clean. Later, she also deliberately used it to wash her clothes, and it did wash it, but there was laundry detergent at that time, so she never used oil beads. Later, when she grew up, she stopped playing, until many years later, she saw someone selling shampoo that she said she had made herself, and she saw oil beads in it.
Of course, you can also use soaphorn to wash, but she doesn't know soaphorn, but she has heard a lot of people say what soaphorn tree soaphorn or something, but every time she sees it, it's different, so she really doesn't know much about soaphorn.
At the end of the month, she went to the town to sell grain, and heard people talking about more rain this year than usual. Indeed, she also thinks that it has rained several times in just one month this year, but it is still early and there have been no days in a row, so there is not much difference. However, this time she still bought more grain, and only bought grain, originally she also wanted to buy grain for storage, but now she just bought a few catties more, which will not attract special attention. In addition, it is only a little rainy now, so maybe it is normal for it to rain a few more times.
In mid-June, Yang Xue wanted to take some rabbit skins from her family to the town to find the master to nitrate the skins and buy food by the way. There are almost a dozen rabbit skins at home, although they are not very complete, and there are even two with many holes, but it is still possible to make them into scarf mattresses and leather clothes after nitting. It's pure leather rabbit fur, and she hasn't worn leather clothes yet.
When she came to the town, she found that there were many more people in the town than before, but she didn't pay much attention to it. Since she didn't have breakfast before going down the mountain in the morning, she went to eat steamed buns at Aunt Zhang's place, and Aunt Zhang was the boss who reminded her when she first went down the mountain that someone followed her. When I was eating, I asked Aunt Zhang about the reason for the large number of people in the town, and when I heard about it, I paid and went to the grocery store to buy some brown sugar, and asked the shopkeeper Li of the grocery store. In fact, the news in both places is similar, probably because the river embankment collapsed due to the flooding of Jiangcheng this year, and many houses and land downstream were flooded, and the officials in Jiangcheng did not accept the displaced farmers for some unknown reason and did not report the disaster. Only a few merchants secretly gave porridge, but this could not feed them, so they had no money or food to flee in all directions. And Jincheng is separated from Jiangcheng by a Belvedere and Baihu Town is on the edge of Belvedere, so there are so many people. However, I heard that there are more displaced people in Belvedere, and many of them have stayed in the Belvedere area.
Yang Xue was a little shocked when she heard these news, after digesting it, she was going to buy more food, and after saying goodbye to Shopkeeper Li, she first took the rabbit skin to the store of nitrate skin, said the price, paid half of the money, and then went to the grain store. Along the way, I saw a lot of people in tattered clothes squatting or sitting on the side of the street, and it was the hottest time of summer, and many of them could be seen sweating profusely. There are also children who lie in the arms of their parents and moan quietly, and occasionally see someone give them something, but this brings them a lot of attention, and they can only eat it as soon as they get it.
There are also some people who want others to find them to work, but there are not many things to do at this time, and they are all outsiders, so basically no one will ask them to work. Looking at these, she felt that life was really difficult in this era, and she felt some sadness and sympathy in her heart, but this didn't make her do anything, she couldn't even manage herself, how could she not manage so much. So she could only speed up her pace to the grain store.