The villagers felt a little better after taking the herbs home.
It had already happened, and even if they were unhappy, they couldn't change anything. Besides, their village didn't suffer the most losses.
With Lin Shiyu's reminder, even the families who refused to listen at least kept some vegetables from their gardens, so it was not considered a complete loss.
There is hurt only when there is comparison, and in this way, sadness is immediately transferred.
The villagers gradually brought the herbs home, which suddenly gave them more space. The fields outside were bare and there were no herbs to pick to fill the gaps.
After living in their new home for a year, they expanded the small house again and again, leaving plenty of space inside to store things.
"What's the point of leaving so many empty spaces? There's nothing to put in them."
Liu complained while cleaning and tidying up. If the room had been vacated earlier, she could have bought more food to store.
Liu, who complained that there was nothing to put in the empty space, was slapped in the face that night.
When the villagers fell asleep, there was a knock on the Lin family's door.
"Why are you here so late at night?"
After opening the door and seeing the visitor, Liu welcomed the person in and asked in a low voice.
The person who came was the younger brother-in-law Chang Lin. He did not come alone. He was accompanied by three servants.
"I brought two carts of food here. One is for my third brother and his wife, and the other is for my father-in-law and mother-in-law and my eldest and second brothers' families."
Chang Lin explained, pointing to the ox cart behind him.
Because he was partial to the third wife, he gave one of the two carts of grain to the third wife, so he visited the third wife first and then went to his father-in-law and mother-in-law's house, so that no one would know that he was partial.
"We still have food in stock..."
"Then keep it and eat it slowly." Chang Lin interrupted Liu and waved his hand to have the food brought in, leaving Liu no chance to refuse.
As far as we know, the entire county was affected by this locust plague.
The days ahead for ordinary people will be difficult. No new grain to harvest means starvation, and no grain to pay taxes.
None of this has anything to do with the Chang family. They have a lot of land, a lot of stored grain, and a small population. Even if they eat as much as they want, it will take them three to five years to finish all the food.
However, the Lin family is different. They are genuine farmers who rely on the land for their survival.
After the locust plague occurred, Lin Anyi, the youngest daughter of the Lin family, shamelessly asked her in-laws for help.
The Chang family originally had this plan, thinking of tidying up the damaged fields first and then sending the grain over after a while.
Unexpectedly, Lin Anyi, the daughter-in-law, spoke at this time, and Mr. Chang asked the servants to deliver the food in advance.
She was the only daughter-in-law in his family, and she had given birth to a big fat grandson for the Chang family. He had to give her face, and give her enough.
"Third sister-in-law, just accept it with peace of mind. This little grain is nothing to our family." Seeing Liu looking at him disapprovingly, Chang Lin had no choice but to let the servants continue working. He tried to persuade them, "Taxes will be due in two months. Even if you don't eat, you still have to pay taxes, right?"
Although a major disaster has occurred, don't expect the government to be kind enough to not collect taxes.
"Taxes can be offset by spending money."
In fact, the grain they secretly stored was enough to pay taxes, but they couldn't tell outsiders about it, so they had to say that they would pay it with money.
Using money to offset that is common practice.
"Having said that, I know your family has made money from collecting herbs, but you should save that money and leave it for my third brother to study. I'm still waiting for my third brother to pass the imperial examination so that I can borrow some of his light."
While they were talking, the servants had already carried down all the food and put it away.
Chang Lin stood up and stopped talking: "Third sister-in-law, it's getting late, you should go to bed early, I still have to pull another car to the old house."
Liu stood up to see him off.
"We secretly gave that car to Third Brother and Sister-in-law just now. Don't let her know when the time comes. This car also has a share for Third Brother and Sister-in-law. When my father-in-law and the others divide it up tomorrow, you can just take it with peace of mind."
Before leaving, Chang Lin gave instructions.
The second day.
Lin Shiyi came early in the morning to inform everyone to go to the old house to collect food, but in order to prevent everyone from knowing that someone from the Lin family had sent food, Old Mrs. Lin specifically asked them to come to the old house in the evening to get it.
Not long after Liu closed the door, Lin Shiyi came over again.
"Grandma is calling everyone to go get food now."
Liu closed the door and walked towards the old house with a head full of doubts.
It turned out that Chang Lin had sent another cart of food after returning home, but this time the food was sent over openly.
As someone's son-in-law, it would be strange not to help when my wife's family is in trouble and my family is capable of doing so.
Families in the village whose daughters have married well will secretly subsidize their parents' home during this period.
There was nothing unusual about Chang Lin's coming here. The only unusual thing was that he brought much more food than others.
But what can be done? After all, Lin Anyi married well, right?!
After the food was delivered, Chang Lin said goodbye.
He hadn't slept all night and now he had to rush home to have a good sleep.
"Bring the scales and divide the food into four portions, one portion for each family."
Old Master Lin called his eldest son to come and help and divided the cart of grain into four parts.
One of them belongs to the two elders, and the rest belongs to the three brothers.
After the grain was divided, Grandpa Lin and Lin Anji moved the portion belonging to the first and second wives to their homes, while Grandma Lin, Sun and Liu moved the portion belonging to the third wife back to the third wife.
The villagers stared at the large sacks passing by them.
Although the food is not much, if they save it, the whole family can eat it until the end of the year.
"Isn't this too eye-catching?"
Sun asked anxiously after arriving at the third room.
"Don't sleep so soundly at night, or someone might steal your things."
After hearing this, Mrs. Lin gave the two of them some instructions before going home.
Now, Sun was even more worried.
She was very happy to get a batch of grain, but she was also afraid that the grain would cause trouble.
"Don't worry too much. The people in our village haven't gotten so bad as to steal food." Liu reassured her, "At least there's nothing to worry about in the next one or two months."
Every household made some money last year. Apart from paying taxes and using the food they grew, they probably didn't sell the grain for money, so the stock should be a little more than in previous years.
"I hope so..."
Sun was still a little worried.
After returning home and telling her husband, there was one more person who was worried.
"Don't think too much. We still have to go to the old house to move food tonight!"
This made Sun even more worried.
In the middle of the night, the Lin family went out again to the old house to move food.
Looking at the more food at home, Sun didn't even dare to sleep.
It's too conspicuous and will attract thieves.
Lin Shiyi woke up in the middle of the night and heard her parents mumbling to each other before going to bed. After asking around, she found out what they were worried about.
After thinking about it, I gave them an idea.
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