So, a group of refugees followed Jiang Saburo to cut bamboo.

Many of the wild bamboo forests here were bought by Jiang Saburo and other villagers, so refugees had to get permission from the villagers to get a long bamboo pole.

After cutting the bamboo poles, it is much easier to pick honey locusts.

Nowadays, Sakura often sees a group of adults and children in tattered clothes holding bamboo poles to pick honey locusts.

By November, the snow finally fell.

Zhou Wuchang took advantage of the fact that the snow had not blocked the road, and rushed to the county seat with his eldest apprentice, and the second apprentices Zhang Min and Ying Bao were still left behind.

This time, Zhang Min didn't feel uncomfortable, but was very happy, and every day he mixed with Wei Zhan, Huzi, Jiang Wu, and a few demons, and went to the wild to hunt pheasants and hares, and had a lot of fun.

And the pheasants and hares on the southern slope poured blood mold, and they were about to be extinct by them.

Li Xu finally came back at the end of the month, he was not on the list, but he was not discouraged at all, but happily returned to Dongchen Village and continued to teach the children.

His mother was not disappointed, she was able to live peacefully with her son here for the rest of her life, she was already self-sufficient, but her son was as old as a year, and it would be a bit unreasonable if he did not marry a wife.

But in this small mountain village, there are very few girls who can match their sons, and An Shi is anxious at the same time, he sets his sights on the Jiang family.

The Jiang family has a good upbringing, and the children are all excellent, but unfortunately the Jiang family does not have an unmarried girl of the same age as her son.

After Mr. Wu came back from Li Xu, he would sometimes go to the school and occasionally give Li Xu a few words of advice, but most of the time, he sat under the wall with the elderly people in the village, chatting in the sun.

At the end of each month, when Jiang Jie came back from retirement, Mr. Wu asked him about his homework, corrected his homework, and explained to him the classics he didn't understand.

The days passed day by day, and soon entered the wax moon.

Sakura Bao has been very idle lately, except for occasionally looking at prescriptions, just walking around with rhubarb.

The bazaar is a place she frequents, even on a snowy day.

Chen Zhao's sugar cake business is good, even if he doesn't gather on the market, he can earn one or two hundred wen a day.

Yingbao often saw Chen Wan also coming to help her sister.

Now Chen Feng's granddaughter is no longer counted, but sometimes Chen Zhao will pay for salt and sesame oil.

Chen Zhao was naturally unwilling to spend his own money, but he couldn't resist Chen Feng's, because he and his eldest sister and brother also had to eat.

"Sakura, let's try the sugar cake." Chen Zhao beckoned to Sakura Bao. "It's bean paste that has fallen today."

Sakura Po was not polite, took a sugar cake and ate it.

It's very comfortable to have a sweet tooth in the snow and ice.

Chen Zhao's stall is a small straw hut, surrounded by straw curtains on three sides, which can block the cold wind a little.

Sakura Po eats sugar cakes while looking at the stall outside.

This bazaar is well planned by my father, there is a row of straw huts on both sides of the road, these stalls also have a place to shelter from the rain and snow, and there are several thatched huts not far away, which are the oil mill opened by the eldest cousin and his wife, the tailor shop of Sister Erni and her mother Leng's, and a bamboo shop, a seller of water tank pottery.

The two thatched houses of the Leng family were built by Erni for her at the expense of her, and the second uncle did not stop her, but he never looked over there, and Huzi was not allowed to have contact with her.

"Sakura-bo, do you want tea?" Chen Wan suddenly spoke.

Sakura Po looked at her and nodded.

Chen Wan is thirteen years old this year, and she will be fourteen years old after the New Year, and she is already very beautiful.

But when she came to the market to help, she would always wrap her face in a blue cloth turban, revealing only one pair of eyes.

Chen Wan boiled a pot of bamboo leaf tea on the stove, and put jujubes in it, and added two boiled soft red dates to each bowl of tea.

Sakura Bao drank the tea in one go, put ten copper coins on the small table, and returned to the village with the rhubarb.

In this life, it seems that many things have changed, including some people.

When I walked into the village, I saw my father and a group of people carrying stones to build a guard tower.

The watchtower is built very high, more than two zhang, which is just more than the height of the saponaria tree.

The interior of the stone tower is also very spacious, and the spiral staircase goes up to the highest point, which can accommodate several people at the same time.

If you stock up on enough arrows and stones, and stock up on some food and water, a few people can protect one side.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

Two villagers knocked the gong to Dongchen Village on the southern slope and shouted: "The court has an order!" Each household pays one percent of the grain per mu! If there is no land, each person shall pay two heads tax and pay it within three days! Violators will be dealt with according to the law! ”

Jiang Saburo and the others stopped what they were doing and looked at each other worriedly.

"Why does the imperial court want to levy grain again?"

"Didn't you just pay taxes and grain last time?"

"Still not letting people live?"

Jiang Saburo also looked solemn.

This year's taxes were heavier than in previous years, and he went to the next township to ask if it was the same, but the villagers complained.

In this world, it is extremely unfriendly to farmers, and all taxes are pressed down layer by layer, which can peel off the skin of the people.

Fortunately, their village is still relatively wealthy, otherwise many people would have to flee the famine.

Complaining is complaining, and the grain that should be paid must be paid.

The people of Dongchen Village are fortunate to have the habit of stockpiling grain, otherwise they really have no way to pay taxes.

Because the entire Qinchuan County was very short of grain, even Jiang Quan came back to say that the price of grain in the grain store had risen, and the county government also opened a Yicang for this purpose, and boiled porridge in a pot at the mouth of the vegetable market to distribute it to the refugees stranded in the county.

Sakura only felt that there was something wrong with the county magistrate's brain.

For such a long time, they didn't even settle the flood victims, and still let them wander in the county.

Or did the county order open the Yicang and wanted to quietly sell the grain in the Yicang in the name of disaster relief?

But none of this is her own business, and she has no ability to interfere with the decision of the county order.

Now we can only take one step at a time, and if there are homeless people who make trouble, Dongchen Village can resist it.

Soon it was January.

The Jiang family is lively.

Not only did Wei Zhan not go home for the New Year, but Mr. Wu didn't leave either, even Zhou Wuchang came to Jiang's house with his eldest apprentice, and brought a large box of books to give to Jiang Jie.

Fortunately, Jiang Saburo's family has many houses, otherwise it is really not enough to live.

After the New Year, Zhou Wuchang left with his big apprentice.

Ying Bao and Zhang Min had long been accustomed to it, and they had almost forgotten that they were his apprentices.

In early spring, before the snow and ice have completely melted, refugees living on the southern slope are looking for wild vegetables to eat.

There are so many wild vegetables outside Dongchen Village, and the shepherd's cabbage grows in patches, not only big, but also tender and watery, and they can't be dug up at all.

They dig it up, wash it, chop it, mix it in rice and cook it together, so that the whole family can eat it until it is full.

The refugees' rice is exchanged with the Jiang family and the people in the village, so they can eat sparingly, and there is no problem in eating until the summer harvest.

During this period, as long as they find a job in Dongchen Village, they will not be able to live without worry.

Although this life is miserable, it is a hundred times stronger than the days before them.

The days when they were in their hometown were called despair.

In order to survive, they could only sell their fields and embark on the road to escape with the grain they bought from the fields.

Eventually, they discovered the village, which was so rich that it was eye-popping.

So Lin Goro, who was their leader, decided to stay and not leave.

As it turned out, Hayashi Goro was right, and they were finally able to settle here.