Chapter 204 Fear of Drought
There is no pork for sale in Shiya Village. If you want to buy it, you have to go to the market in town.
Besides, the market has already closed by this time, and we have to wait until tomorrow morning at the earliest, and we still don’t know if it will be available.
Shiquan Town is a small border town with a small jurisdiction and a small population.
In peacetime, the flow of people was fine, but the war between Da Zhou, Laos, and Simon had just ended, and the merchants were afraid to come here to trade. The town market was only attended by people from a few nearby villages. The flow of people was small, the goods were scarce, and pork was even more scarce.
By this calculation, I may not be able to buy meat tomorrow. If I want to eat meat, I have to go to Jincheng.
She was thinking, could she catch some pheasants or rabbits and throw them into the space for the golden retriever to feed? Then she could have meat whenever she wanted, which would be convenient and quick, without having to buy it.
We raised them at home. My grandmother stopped us from killing them, saying that the chickens should be kept for laying eggs and the rabbits should be kept for eating during the Chinese New Year.
Oh, it’s so hard to eat meat!
With the rice and flour that Bai Li brought back, Li Mingyue steamed a large pot of white rice. As soon as the fragrant rice was served on the table, the two little ones, Bai Yu and Bai Liulang, cried out, "It smells so good, it smells so good! I can eat two big bowls without eating meat!"
The whole family laughed. Of course, white rice tastes better than brown rice and coarse grains. Eating it makes you feel energetic and you won’t feel hungry so quickly.
The ancients did not understand what was nutritious or not. They only knew that eating white rice would make the body less tired and more energetic.
White rice with cold wild vegetables, steamed wild vegetable dumplings, wild vegetable steamed buns made by Aunt Bai, and a wild vegetable and egg soup, the whole family enjoyed it very much.
After lunch, Bai Li asked his grandmother and found out why the rice she had left for the family, enough to last the family for half a year, was gone so quickly.
“Alas, we are all from the same village, and it’s not easy for everyone.
"It's unbearable for Grandma to see them fainting from lack of food and remain indifferent, so she exchanges her fine grains for their lives. In this world, if you can save as many people as you can, save them!"
After understanding the whole story, I realized that although Li was kind-hearted, he was not a big shot. The people who were helped were all hardworking and honest, not lazy, greedy or cunning.
But because the family was so poor, they could not even fill themselves up with coarse grains and black noodles every day, which led to severe malnutrition among the elderly and children in the family. They could even fall over and pass out while walking.
Mu had told the villagers that the Li family had fine grain before she left, and it was difficult for Li to say that they didn't have any.
When people came to her and asked her to exchange a few pounds of coarse grains for a pound or half a pound of fine grains, she had no choice but to agree.
Once there is one, there will be two. The young people can eat coarse grains and wild vegetables, but the elderly and children at home cannot. So they tighten their belts to save coarse grains and exchange them for fine grains from the Bai family to feed the sick and weak people in the family.
In this way, the amount of fine grains in the house became less and less, but the coarse grains could still be eaten until June and July.
After listening to her, Bai Li didn't think there was anything wrong with her grandmother's approach. Although the fine grains at home had been exchanged, there were still eggs to nourish the elderly and children.
Her grandmother was not a fool. She did not risk her own life and death to gain that empty reputation.
It's right to help fellow villagers and neighbors when you are able to.
But the more Bai Li listened, the tighter her brows furrowed. Li thought she was angry about this, so she looked at her cautiously and explained, "Li'er, our Bai family was exiled here. The people of Shiya Village didn't reject or look down on us. They are all kind and honest people. Grandma just wanted to help as much as possible..."
"Grandma, I don't mean to blame you, I just think the weather this year is too abnormal, I'm afraid there will be a natural disaster."
"You mean, there will be a drought?"
Li was born into a farming family and had lived for several decades, so he naturally accumulated a lot of life experience.
I have some experience with climate change.
"Grandma remembers that when I was ten years old, it also started raining heavily at the end of February and didn't stop until mid-March.
After the heavy rain, the water level rose and the river overflowed, drowning the crops.
After replanting, the sun was shining brightly every day. After the water in the fields was drained, we had to carry water every day to irrigate the crops.
Even so, many crops were still sun-dried to death, resulting in a significant reduction in yield and many crops were completely lost.
That year, the villagers were so hungry that they went up the mountain to eat tree bark. By winter, many elderly people and children in the village had starved to death..."
As Bai Li listened, the scene was exactly the same as this year!
Drought, then she has to make plans early!
After chatting with grandma, I quickly went back to the house to lie down, entered the space to open up some land, and let the golden retriever take care of it!
Bai Li used to feel embarrassed to order Golden Retrievers around at first, but now he feels at ease.
If you follow her, you have to work to earn a living, otherwise who will keep them for nothing?
Bai Li went back to the room and closed the door. Instead of lying down, he went straight into the space.
In the space, the golden retriever was working honestly in the field like a diligent old mother, while the black hawk was busy picking up the grass roots and stones it had dug out and throwing them into the field next to it. The field had obviously just been tidied by the golden retriever, and it was smooth and free of weeds. The weeds thrown by the black hawk lay on it in an unsightly manner.
King Kong was pulling out the seedlings that his mother had just planted one by one.
"Okay, you two are only making things worse. Go find your own food from now on. Don't eat anything grown by Golden Retriever!"
Bai Li got furious when she saw this. It turned out that the two little ones always bullied Jinmao behind her back, and Jinmao, the big victim, just worked hard silently and never complained to her.
The three little ones suddenly saw their owner coming in, and they quickly stopped what they were doing, secretly glancing at their owner with uneasy eyes from time to time.
Even the naughty King Kong and the cunning Black Hawk dared not do it again.
Woo woo, the master’s aura is getting stronger and stronger, it’s so scared!
Ever since Zhao Yuntian was spotted in Yuanzhou, Bai Li didn't dare let King Kong and the others out.
If he captured them for training or research, she would have to go to great lengths to rescue them.
Having said that, Zhao Yuntian is not scary, but the witch doctor around him is mysterious and behaves strangely, so we should be wary of him.
I thought the three little ones worked diligently and willingly in the space, but who knew only the golden retriever was like that.
"Black Hawk King Kong, you are not allowed to eat for three days. If you want to eat, go find it yourself!"
Black Hawk cried out, "Why? We all helped with the work!"
Bai Li was furious. Don’t think she didn’t see the cunning and complacency in Black Hawk’s eyes.
"Work? Look at what you are doing?"
Black Hawk turned his head away guiltily, not wanting to look. As long as he didn't look, the mess had nothing to do with him.
Anyway, it has to eat since it works. The owner said that if you work, you will eat.
King Kong secretly turned his head to take a look. The seedlings he pulled out were now wilted. Even if he was ignorant, he knew that they were the ones his mother had just planted.
Even if it thinks it's fun, the mother will pull it out after it's planted. Anyway, the mother will plant it back after it's pulled out. How fun is that!
It's the owner's fault for not letting them go out. There are no big trees or forests here, so they can only play with this.
Bai Li was so angry that she was about to fume. These two naughty kids really thought she couldn't do anything to them, right?
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