204. Before the Storm
On this day, the Hua Yunao brothers have a farm vacation, because tomorrow is the right day for the autumn harvest.
Hua Jin stared at the sunny sky, squinting her eyes through the gap in her hand to meet the dazzling sunlight.
The discomfort in her eyes and the growing sense of urgency in her heart were telling her that time was running out.
On this day, Hua Jin silently climbed the Qinggu Mountain behind the village, climbed to the top of the mountain for the first time, and stood on the top of the mountain a few hundred meters high overlooking the entire Shanggu Town, even the Crescent City a hundred miles away, although he couldn't see anything.
Hua Jin hesitated, did she really do nothing?
Can...... No one will believe it.
Sighing, Hua Jin quickly went down the mountain, and tomorrow was very busy, and she couldn't let her think nonsense.
It really can't wait for the farm to take a day to go to the city, write out what is going to happen and throw it into the palace, this is the only way she can think of to be safe and reminded.
Even if she goes, no one will believe her.
"Where?"
As soon as she got home, Qi grabbed her daughter and asked, she was busy preparing the food for the past few days, she really didn't know that the child had gone out.
I thought I was just going out for a while, but I didn't expect to see anyone for a while, if I didn't know my daughter's ability, I would have asked my son to find it.
"So I went out for a walk, and then entered the blessed land, and I forgot the time when I was busy inside." glanced at the brothers in the yard Hua Jin whispered, but she didn't dare to tell her mother that she had gone up the mountain by himself.
"Say it to my mother next time," Qi Shi stared at his daughter and nodded the child's forehead angrily.
I know that there will be no danger, but it is still very anxious not to come back.
"Uh-huh" nodded obediently.
This little episode passed quickly, and the family, who should have taken a nap after dinner, was not idle, making preparations before the last farm work.
Stretch out all the sacks of oilcloth to dry, sharpen the sickle sharper, etc., and be busy until Hua Chengtian, who lives in the field, and the old man comes back to eat.
At night, we have to continue to guard, the grain harvest in the first half of the year is bleak, and if you are hungry, there will be people who take risks, even if the people in Huajia Village are notoriously difficult to provoke, they have to be guarded against.
It doesn't take too many people to come out of one family, the Huajia villages are basically connected, and there are almost 200 strong men in each family, and the deterrent power is very strong.
After resting at home for a while after dinner, Hua Chengtian took a water bladder and a machete for self-defense and went down to the ground again with Hua Meng and others who came to call him.
Fortunately, there was nothing wrong all night, although a few dark shadows shook at night, but almost the moment they appeared, they disappeared.
The autumn harvest has officially begun.
The family, including Hua Jinqi, spent three days harvesting seven acres of wheat, and then it was a few days of intense sunscreen threshing.
On the fourth day, the Hua Fen Fang sisters brought their family to help together for two days, and did not leave until all the grain was put into storage.
Before leaving, Hua Laohan was still not at ease, and told the two sons-in-law that the food at home must not be sold, and looked at the daughter-in-law and son-in-law nodded seriously before letting them go.
Compared with the first half of the year, this time it can be said that it is a bumper harvest, and each mu has been harvested one or two more than before, which can make the farmers happy and let many people breathe a sigh of relief.
Then it's time to pay taxes and grain, according to the meaning of Hua Laohan, I actually want everyone to pay directly with money, but it is a little difficult to operate, and the reason is even more difficult to find.
You can't tell them that the great disaster is coming, and that the food that is all life-saving is in your hands.
Can...... No one believes it!
After paying the tax and grain, Hua Laohan still stopped the villagers from selling grain.
Everyone didn't want to offend the village chief, but they also knew that the village chief was a human being, and they understood that there must be a reason.
Their village chief is also dedicated to thinking about the people in the village, and besides, they don't lack silver in their hands now, so they won't sell it if they don't sell it, and they won't lose anything if they eat it in their stomachs.
It won't take half a month to get busy again, sweet potatoes, potatoes and cotton that can keep out the cold will also be ripe, and there is no shortage of food at home, so there is really no hurry.
When others began to rest after the farming was busy, the village of Huajia Village and the two Hua Fen sisters and some prescient families who were willing to spend money to buy seeds began to get busy again.
It took three days to clean all the sweet potatoes, potatoes and cotton in the field, and looking at the piles of gratifying results, everyone in Huajia Village was not only happy but happy, and it took half a day just to pull them home.
After two days of drying, the sweet potatoes and potatoes were put into storage, and everyone was really relieved at the same time.
The joy of the harvest made no one realize that the weather at the end of September did not change in the slightest as at the beginning of September.
Hua Jin still didn't hold back in the end, no matter whether the things in the dream would happen or not, she still decided to go to the city to wake up, not for anything else but for peace of mind.
Then Hua Jin went to the town's official residence while his family was asleep, climbed a tree and shot the written note into it with a crossbow arrow.
At the same time, he drove to Crescent City overnight, looked at the high walls of the closed city gate and dispelled the plan he had pondered, and shot another homemade crossbow arrow in the same way, and inserted it tightly into the city gate.
"Who?"
With a loud shout, Hua Jin quickly left and disappeared into the night.
When I got home, I saw my father and father sitting in the yard.
When Hua Jin came back, the two of them were obviously relieved, and they looked at the child and didn't say anything, leaving a sentence of "go to bed" and went back to the house.
In the next time, Hua Laohan and Hua Chengtian were busy, and all the things in the house that they kept sorting out in the strangeness of the old woman Qi were put together, and even the dishes in the backyard were not let go, and most of them were picked and put into the space.
And Huajin is not idle, you can't do more, but it's still okay to fool a few little sisters.
So he set up a carriage and ran to the town with a few little sisters who had a good relationship, coaxing them to exchange all the money in their hands for all kinds of food, and even the indispensable things such as salt and sugar were fooled into buying a lot.
Originally, these silver coins were earned by Huajin with them, although they were a little distressed when they spent money, but the little girls were relatively thin-skinned, and they were reluctant to buy a lot of them according to the meaning of Huajin.
If it weren't for Hua Jin's learning of the beautiful new knot patterns from the town and teaching them without private hiding, and helping them sell them to the town's embroidery workshop, where would the silver money be left in the copper plates sold to the merchants, and even then most of the silver money earned would be subsidized at home, that is, from the New Year's Festival, when the family life was good, the silver money they earned by braiding knots began to be able to be saved.
If you want to buy it, you can buy it, just make Huajin happy, Huajin is also distressed that they are too thin, and I want them to make up for it, which is kind.
Besides, the money will not last a few months and can be saved, and it is not a waste, and the food they buy is also used in their stomachs.
Almost didn't let Hua Jin say much, and the girls found a good reason for themselves and comforted themselves.
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As the days go by, Huajin's birthday has arrived.
Hua Laohan and his son's nerves also collapsed, and in a short period of time, they were disgusted several times by their spouses who were preparing to celebrate their granddaughter's birthday.
"What's the matter, God doesn't keep it, why do you tell you to work and be unhappy?" Looking at the old man who can be stunned for a long time to burn a fire, the old woman is really hot.
It was almost noon, and the daughter-in-law and son-in-law were about to come, and the old man was not doing much.
(End of chapter)