Although the people in the disaster area had a harder life, they were able to maintain their daily lives, and there was no phenomenon of fleeing from their hometowns. The common people are grateful to the imperial court, and many families have set up immortal cards for the emperor.

Yu Xiaocao's grandfather's family lives on the west side of Xishan, separated from Dongshan Village by a West Mountain. There is a rugged path on the mountain, which can lead directly to Xishan Village, although the road is closer than taking the official road, but the mountain road is difficult to walk, and there are occasional wild beasts hurting people.

The Yu family's food is enough to eat until the spring grain comes down, so there is no need to worry about not having enough to eat. After Liu's heart was put down, he remembered that his mother's family of fifteen people, old and young, would they starve if there was enough food to eat.

When the Liu family talked about his mother's house in front of Yu Hai and the children for the Nth time, Yu Hai clapped and said: "Since you're worried, let's just send some food over!" I don't have to be a big fish and a big meat for my children and grandchildren, and let my father and brother starve! ”

Because of the locust plague, they could not grow grain, and most of the Yu family were idle at home, except for Liu Hu, who went to the dock to find a job as a loading and unloading. Lao Yutou took a few children and went to the sea. Yu Xiaolian sells jelly at the dock. The ingredient for making jelly is dried sea weeds that we stockpiled last year. Due to the high price of food, cold noodles cannot be sold!

The reason is very simple, a bowl of cold noodles usually sells for five cents, but now the price of grain has soared to 30 times or 50 times the sky-high price, and the price of cold noodles is set low, not enough for the capital, who can afford to eat it if it is set high? Fortunately, there is still a lot of dried sea cabbage left from last year's harvest, and it should be no problem to sell it for two or three months. However, the price of cold noodles has also increased a bit, and it costs five cents a bowl. Although the business at the wharf is not as good as in previous years, it still makes some money every day. Yu Xiaolian naturally won't give up.

The busiest people in the house now are Yu Xiaolian and Yu Hang. They all have their own businesses to do. Everyone else is at home, tidying up the few acres of vegetable fields in the yard.

Liu's gave the job of spraying the vegetable field to the eldest sister Yu Caifeng. Yu Hai loaded ten bags of grain into the carriage, each bag was about fifty catties. When Liu saw it, he was very moved. Five hundred catties of grain is enough for my mother's family to eat for two or three months. The nephews and nieces of the mother's family are all older, and the top adults eat, and it is good to eat half full just by relying on the food for disaster relief! I don't know when the affordable grain mentioned by the official uniform will come, she can't watch her mother's family starve!

No matter how much food there is in the family, it is also earned back by the Yu family. If you don't give the Liu family a pound or two, others can't say anything. After all, food is the most important thing in disaster years. As soon as she mentioned it, the man in her family got a cart full of grain and asked her to send it to her mother's family. How could Liu's heart not be moved?

"Mother, I haven't been to my grandfather's house, can you take me to the door?" When Yu Xiaocao didn't come here, she was sick in bed all day and couldn't go anywhere. After the separation, for one reason or another, I never went to Xishan Village. She had been idle and bored at home for the past two days, and when she heard that she had the opportunity to go out, she hurriedly asked to go together.

Little Stone also burst out of his room, shouting, "I'll go, I'll go too!" ”

Yu Hai smiled and said, "Okay! All go, go together! ”

Liu Shi glanced at him and said, "You, you will get used to them!" ”

Yu Xiaocao took out the grasshopper sauce from the cellar, and brought a package of biscuits made yesterday, as well as homemade bacon and wind duck. Such a souvenir is absolutely handy!

The grain on the carriage was covered with grass and corn stalks, and Yu Xiaocao and small stones climbed to the top of the grain and sat on it, Liu sat on the wheel, Yu Hai drove the carriage, and the family of four went from the newly built road at the foot of the West Mountain to the direction of the official road.

Originally, if the Yu family's old mansion wanted to go out, they had to pass through the entire village. Later, King Jing's Mansion opened another road in Xishan to repair the courtyard, which happened to pass through the gate of the Yu family's old house, which was able to avoid the village and go straight to the official road, saving a lot of distance.

The chattering women in the village saw from a distance a carriage coming out of the Yu family, which was full of goods of unknown importance. Xiong, who had the most broken mouth, said to Li: "Your brother-in-law pulled a cart and went west." The Liu family also followed, wouldn't it be to send food to her mother's family? ”

Li's triangular eyes rolled and said, "Who is my brother-in-law?" My brother-in-law only has the aftermath, he is studying in Fucheng, waiting for the next year's exam! ”

Another daughter-in-law who couldn't get used to her pouted and said, "Yes, you have completely made a clear relationship with Uncle Yu, and you are not a family anymore." Brother Dahai, I'd rather subsidize other families than your share! ”

Li's eyes widened, but he could clearly see the daughter-in-law in front of him who was the best at fighting, and he coaxed again: "'Brother Dahai', it's called weird." It's a pity that if you talk to others again, they won't share a grain of food from you. ”

The daughter-in-law pouted again and said, "I'm not like some people, I'm lazy and have my mother-in-law pressing on me." Our family took back all the sweet potatoes before the disaster, and with the food for disaster relief, it was no problem to eat for three to five months. How sad it is that some people receive food but cannot eat it in their mouths! ”

When Li heard this, the fire in his heart rushed up, but he couldn't find a way to vent. The reason why she was able to run out and talk to the east and west of the family today was because her mother-in-law was not at home and went to Fucheng to send rations and silver to her baby son.

The food received by the family was locked in the cabinet by her mother-in-law, and she only left three catties of food in the three days she went out. Two adults in the family plus one and a half children, three catties of food is not enough to eat for a day!

Li always whispered in her man's ear that the food they received was deducted by her mother-in-law to her brother-in-law. Li also quarreled with Zhang because of this. But where is her Duan number Zhang's opponent, after being starved as a punishment, she is honest.

When this daughter-in-law said this, it was tantamount to revealing her scars that were not yet healed. Li stood up on the ground, his eyes widened, and he was about to scold, but he saw the daughter-in-law rolling up her sleeves, with a posture of "you dare to scold an old lady with a big mouth and a melon seed to slap you", and it deflated like a leaky balloon. She glared fiercely at the daughter-in-law, who had already died many times if the eye knife could kill someone. Li snorted, patted his ass and went home!

Xiong said sourly: "Yu Hai's family has made a lot of money in the past two years, and I saw them buy grain from the town before the disaster." There is certainly no shortage of food in their family! That carriage was definitely loaded with grain, and it looked in the direction of Xishan Village! Alas! This Yu Hai is really generous, and the food is a cart as soon as it is delivered. The Liu family in Xishan Village is blessed, sitting at home and doing nothing, and falling hundreds of catties of grain from the sky in vain. Why don't we have such generous relatives in our family? ”

The daughter-in-law who was opposite the Li family couldn't get used to Xiong's style, so she stood up and prepared to leave: "What are you talking about so much?" It's someone else's business who they send, and no matter how much they say, it won't be our turn. I'm going to help us dig up the sea intestines, and I can make some money to buy salt at the end of the day! It's better than sitting here and waiting for pie to fall from the sky! ”

Yu Hai's family didn't know that they were being talked about, so they rushed to the carriage all the way to Xishan Village. There is hardly a pedestrian to see on the road, those who can find a way to work, have already gone to work, and those who can't find the way are all at home, and try to consume less food by doing as little activity as possible.

The family set off relatively late, and the carriage pulled hundreds of catties of grain and did not go fast. The difference between Xishan Village and Dongshan Village is huge! First of all, no royal palace in Xishan Village built a courtyard here to build roads for them. Therefore, after getting off the official road, there is a section of the road that is full of potholes, but it is troublesome.

In addition, Xishan Village is not near the sea, unlike the villagers of Dongshan Village, who can rush some seafood to exchange for money in their leisure time. However, there is a lot of fertile land in Xishan Village, and wheat is planted except for sweet potatoes on the land that has been cleared in the mountains.

In this locust plague, Xishan Village suffered great losses. The wheat will soon be harvested, and it will be all spoiled by the pestilence of locusts. Sweet potatoes are buried in the ground, and some of them can be harvested back.

The Liu family has more than ten acres of fertile land, and the wheat grains planted have not been harvested. Sweet potatoes were planted on five acres of mountainous land. After hearing the news from the Yu family before the disaster, the three brothers of the Liu family, under the leadership of their father, snatched all the sweet potatoes back home, and cut a few acres of wheat day and night. Although the wheat is not ripe, after all, it is in the late stage of grain filling, and the green wheat is roasted and roasted over a fire, and then the wheat grains are kneaded, which can also be used as grain.

When Yu Hai's family of four drove the carriage to the door of Liu's house, the whole family was sitting in the yard rubbing wheat!

"Dad-" Seeing that there was a lot more gray hair on his father's head, Liu's nose was sour, and he couldn't help shouting.

Thirteen-year-old Liu Zhimin, the son of Xiaocao's third uncle Liu Hao, raised his head and shouted in surprise: "Sister-in-law! Grandpa, sister-in-law is here!! ”

Liu Cunjin raised his head and saw his daughter standing at the door with red eyes, so he hurriedly stood up and greeted him, "Yun girl, why are you here?" Is there not enough food to eat? Our family has collected a lot of green barley, you can take some back to help the emergency! ”

When Liu Shi heard this, tears came out of the ground. She is the youngest and only daughter in the family, she has been favored by her father and mother since she was a child, and she has been spoiled by three older brothers, and she has always lived a carefree life before she got married.

When she got married, she sent a lot of things to her family, but they were confiscated by Zhang's family, saying that she kept them without separation, and since then, she has never seen her dowry.

After getting married, she had a hard time and occasionally complained to her mother's family. My mother's family has a lot of land and little land, and she doesn't have enough money, but every year she saves some money and food from between her teeth and sends it to her. It's a pity that she is not angry, and the silver and grain are coaxed away by the Zhang family.

When the family first separated, it was the most difficult time for her family, and it was also the elderly father and mother, who took her brothers and sisters-in-law to help repair the house, send food, and buy daily necessities for her, so that their family could survive the most difficult time.