"Plant it! Only those three acres of medium-sized fields were planted, and the newly opened land was temporarily not planted, saving some wheat seeds. ”

Song Dachuan said after thinking about it.

"Listen to you, we're busy planting three acres."

Hui Niang is a standard woman who takes her husband as the sky, and Song Dachuan is whatever she says.

Ripple also helped this time, she didn't let Song Dachuan cut off the winter wheat that didn't grow, but dug a fire belt, and directly burned these empty wheat stalks with a fire, and the burned grass ash can just be used as nutrients for the land, and it can also burn some of the insect eggs in the soil, although it can't burn all of them, but it can be less.

After that, Song Dachuan began to turn the ground, and the ripples still took the tiger to cook for the husband and wife, and by the way, took care of the vegetable field in the backyard of the house.

Huzi now walks very steadily, and speaks more clearly, perhaps because of the spiritual warmth, he has grown a little taller, and now he looks no different from a four-year-old child, and Huzi is very smart, and he will learn what Ripples teaches.

Ripples started with the Three Character Classic, which is the best-selling enlightenment book, and she went to the town to spend money to buy one, which has been kept at home so far.

When Song Dachuan asked about it, Lianyi just deduced that he learned it in the Dong family, because he wanted to be a dowry maid, so he had to read and hyphenation, otherwise he would not be able to tidy up the study for Miss Dong Er.

"I learned some from Miss Dong Er on weekdays, and when I decided to be a dowry maid, there was a special female chair who specially taught, the purpose was nothing more than so that I could help Miss win my uncle's heart, but in the end, it was me who was cheaper, and they couldn't take back what I learned, I just happened to teach my younger brother."

Ripple explained with a smile.

"It's hard for you."

Song Dachuan once again felt indebted to his daughter.

"What's so difficult about this, I've also learned something, now the family conditions are limited, I'll teach Huzi first, and when the family conditions are good, Huzi is older, I'll send him to the school, Huzi is smart, and he will definitely be able to learn to be famous."

Ripple already has a plan for Huzi.

"Sister, I must study hard."

Huzi's eyes sparkled reassuringly.

"Okay, when Huzi becomes the champion, my sister will be a good one."

Ripple said with a smile.

After the villagers were busy with spring planting, they prayed to God for rain every day, but after a spring rain, no rain fell, so in order to make the seeds sprout, the villagers could only carry water to water the ground.

Song Dachuan's family also joined the ranks of watering the ground, but this time the main force was replaced by Ripple and Song Dachuan, and Hui Niang took care of Huzi at home, taking care of the family's vegetable patch and chickens and ducks.

Ripples will collect some water into the space when carrying water, and the accumulation is a lot, at least it is enough to eat, and she also pays attention to the water tank at home, the water level has never fallen.

In the end, the village chief came forward and lined up to ensure that each household had three acres of land that could be watered thoroughly, and the rest depended on the water level in the river.

Fortunately, Song Dachuan had the foresight to give up two acres of wasteland, and planted three acres of medium fields, in the case of the land being watered, the wheat in the field barely took root and sprouted and grew, and the peasant family just breathed a sigh of relief, on this day of the beginning of summer, the overwhelming locusts attacked all the crops south of Liangzhou Mansion, which became the last straw that crushed the camel.

All the towns and villages under the jurisdiction of Yongfeng County have suffered from insect plagues, and the county magistrate was so anxious that he took off his beautiful beard, so he had to write an excerpt overnight, and then sent it to Kyoto in an urgent manner for 800 miles.

Without the holy decree of opening the warehouse and releasing grain, the county magistrate could not open the granary privately, but the people had realized the seriousness of the problem and began to loot the grain.

These are all heard by Song Dachuan and the four brothers of the Zhang family in Wangshan Town, although they have grain stocks at home, but they will also go to the town to grab some grain like the people in the village, everyone is grabbing food, you are still lying at home, people will definitely suspect you.

The Zhang family is now very glad to listen to Hui Niang's words and bought some food in advance, at least when they bought it, although the food rose by one or two cents, it was still within the normal range, and they could afford it.

Now the grain has risen to an incredible price, and one tael of silver cannot buy fifty catties of grain now, and it is still coarse grain.

"Our family is better, and it hasn't reached the point where the mountains and rivers are exhausted, but now that the entire state capital has been affected, we don't know how long we can hold on to this little food."

Old man Zhang is also worried, they are in the village affected by this disaster, and they can't sit and eat.

If it was just their village, they would have given up their old faces and could borrow some from relatives and friends, but now that everyone has been affected by the disaster and is in the same environment, no one can help anyone.

"Master, let's get ready to escape!"

Ripple said directly when everyone was silent.

Listening to Ripple's words, Song Dachuan and the Zhang family focused their attention on Ripple, and Old Man Zhang even frowned, obviously disagreeing with Ripple's proposal.

"Ripple girl, do you know what it means to escape the famine?"

"I know, but we have to survive first, do we wait to die guarding the ground where not a grain of grain can grow?"

Ripple said disapprovingly.

"The county magistrate will not sit idly by and watch the people starve to death."

Song Dachuan said without confidence.

"Dad, if the county master really had a way, now the grain will not be at one price a day, three or five wen a day will rise, and the grain in the hands of those big grain merchants will also be covered to death, and they will not buy grain until they starve to death."

The ripples shattered Song Dachuan's illusions.

"But where are you going to flee from the famine?"

This is what Lao Zhang asked, after all, she has stayed in Zhangjia Village all her life, and she has been to the county once at the farthest, and she has never been to any farther place, and she wants to leave here, which makes her feel very dazed.

"Flee to a place where there is no trouble, and there is a way to live."

Ripple said directly.

"This is a big deal, let's discuss it carefully."

Although Old Man Zhang didn't approve, he also knew the truth of people's lives, so he wanted to hear Ripples' opinion, after all, she brought up this matter.

"Master, there are many people who think the same as you now, and they think that they can wait for the government's relief, but once the grain is exhausted and the government does not act, there will definitely be a large number of desert escape teams, and then we will have no advantage if we set off again.

The closest to our Liangzhou is Huzhou, which is smaller than our Liangzhou territory, and it simply cannot accommodate so many people fleeing the famine, and conflicts are inevitable. ”