The hot wind blows, the ears of rice bend, and the grains are full.

"Dad, look at them."

Holding a sharp sickle in his hand, Daddy Wang bent down to cut the rice, and from time to time looked at a few refugees guarding the shade of the trees.

A woman held a child in her hands, and several of them were ragged, licking their chapped lips from time to time.

Whenever someone finished harvesting the rice, they would come forward to pick up some of the fallen ears of rice, and even the ones that were sprinkled on the ground would be picked up one by one.

The villagers of Qinghe Village knew that they had fled from the north, and they didn't care about the few grains of grain that were thrown away.

Qinghe Village has a bumper harvest of rice and corn this year, and the output is ten times that of the past.

Not only Qinghe Village, but also the entire Mengtang rice has grown very well this year, and everyone will patrol their fields every night.

When the rice is ripe, everyone puffs up the harvest.

In the shade of a tree, a man hesitated for a long time and walked barefoot into the field.

"What's the matter with you?" Wang Yongye looked at the man who stepped forward and became vigilant.

"That, can I do the work for you, I have the strength, a few big brothers, can you give me a meal after you are busy."

The man's tone was very humble, and his hands rubbed the corners of his clothes restlessly.

This way he fled from the famine, and only in this place did he see a bumper harvest of grain.

The rest of the village saw that the hungry people who had fled were locked up.

"Where are you from?"

Daddy Wang held the grain in both hands and hit it on the washboard, and the plump rice swirled in the rice bucket.

"I am a native of Hanbei in the land of Qingyuan, my hometown is dry, and the seeds that sprout at the beginning of the year are not planted, so I have to move my family to the south to earn a living."

Liu Chunlan looked at the person in front of her, skinny and weak.

Lifted the corner of his clothes and wiped a handful of sweat and said: "Is your land so dry, don't your officials care about you?" ”

The man picked up the cut paddy and threshed it.

"I can't control it over there, many people have run away, my wife is starving to death, and under the tree over there is my wife and children, there is no harvest, if I don't run, I will only starve to death."

Father Wang straightened his waist, saw that the man was working very hard, and asked: "Why did you escape from here, Qingyuan is far away from us, even if you have to walk for a month, why don't you find a place to stay." ”

The man shook his head, it wasn't that he didn't want to find a place to stay, he had been to the Dazhou Mansion with his wife and children.

In the richer places, there were many hungry people, who sold themselves to others as long as they stuttered.

It was not their turn, and the officials in the state capital did not accept them, but only let them return to their places of origin, and there was no way to guide them, and they were arrested on the charge of smuggling, but unfortunately there were not so many prisoners in prison, and they had to take care of prison food.

They had to be driven out and the exiles were restricted from entering the city.

"Then you are so desolate, so many people have run away from home."

The man answered them one by one, and said the pain along the way as if pouring beans, and he couldn't help but burst into tears when he was so bitter that he was sad.

Several women listened to empathy and wiped their tears with the corners of their clothes.

Fortunately, their family is covered with a blessed treasure, and they are diligent and grow some food, otherwise what happened to this man is their situation.

Nowadays, the fields full of golden rice are all seeds given by Fubao, so that everyone can grow such good food.

"And what are your plans for the future?"

The man wiped his sweat, he wanted to go to Luochuan, that place is the Great Plains, there is always a place to take them in.

"You're going to Luochuan!"

Luochuan is a land of abundance, with fertile fields, half of the grain produced every year, and it is also a city of commerce and trade.

"Yes, Luo Chuanda, it's okay to do long-term work for others, I can do a lot of work, raising horses and driving to grow crops."

"Long-term workers? You, young man, the big families over there buy slaves, and the debt is the largest slave market in the city, comparable to the call of livestock. ”

Father Wang shook his head and sighed that this man was thinking too well, when they were in Luochuan, he had seen the debt.

The people who were tied inside were still people, like animals for people to choose, and he still remembered the faces of the sellers.

The man was born and grew up in northern Hanbei, and he had never seen the land of the south, but he had heard that Luochuan was the richest place in the south.

"Drink water, go and call your wife and children, give the children some water, don't pick it up everywhere on your back, be careful of fever."

"Okay, thank you, big brothers."

"Mo Niang, come and drink water." The man called out to the woman not far away.

The woman looked up, strands of her hair wet against her face, and ran over with the child in her arms.

Liu Chunlan took out a bowl and poured a bowl of clean boiled water with a kettle.

The woman gratefully took the water and first gave it to the doll in her arms.

Fang Cuiying looked at the baby in the woman's arms and asked how old she was.

The woman pursed her lips and said, "I'm three years old, and I'm getting a little smaller." ”

Several women's mouths couldn't help but open wide, incredible.

Three years old? It looks smaller than Fubao.

"Thank you kind sisters, I'll do the work for you."

Liu Chunlan couldn't look past it and wanted to stop it.

Fang Cuiying stopped and whispered: "You just let them do it, let's give us more food later, don't let them feel that we are soft-hearted, we will sell miserably, what if we rely on us." ”

Liu Chunlan felt that there was some truth, these people from other places don't know the details of people, if they have a soft heart, it is not good to be deceived.

The sun is setting, the sunset is gorgeous on the horizon, and everyone is transporting the beaten rice home to dry one after another.

"Grandpa, let's do the work."

The boys ran to the edge of the field, and Meng Fuzi finally let them go.

"Mother, I'll carry it."

Wen Mingsu neatly put the strap through his arms and got up with the force.

"Slow down." Liu Chunlan was very relieved and gave her son a hand.

"I'll get the kettle." Wenbo carried a kettle and a sickle that he didn't use.

Li Aling led Xiao Fubao and slowly walked through several fields.

Watching the sunset peacefully, there are small wildflowers blooming on the roadside, and the scenery is pleasant.

The fragrance of rice flowers says that there is a good year, and the sound of frogs is heard.

"Be careful, there's a big toad up ahead."

Li Aling reminded that a toad with a bulging belly jumped out of the rice field and happened to be on the road they were about to walk.

Enron is not afraid at all, this thing can be used in medicine.

Since reading a few books, going out to see what grass and insects are treasures.

"Go home!"

The boys were playing around and catching bugs and picking wildflowers.

"This grass is big black and likes to eat." Li Aliu picked up the sickle and cut a bunch of brushes in a few strokes.

"Fu Bao, look at the cattle and cattle insects."

An Ran saw a black worm waving its legs at her.

"Don't catch my sister."

Wen Zhuo simply tied the mouth clamp of the cow and cow insect with a thin straw rope, and handed it over with a long beard.

An Ran carried the whiskers of cattle and cattle insects with one hand, I had never seen this kind of worm, the whiskers were very long, and each section was like sugar cane.

"I'll count it, and my father said that one section is one year old, and this cow and cow worm is nine years old."

"Does the old cow worm have to be longer than me?"

An Ran was startled by the sudden take-off of the cattle and cattle insects, this thing can fly, and he was so frightened that he immediately threw it off.

The cow worm fell to the ground, and the little black man fluttered up and teased with his paws.

An Ran immediately heard the little black man's chirping and chirping, and the dog's paws were clamped.

A few children laughed at the little black man and kindly helped to get the cow and the cow worm down.

(End of chapter)