allonlinenovel Chapter 325 Three people returned to the city
Chapter 325 Three people returned to the city
"Plant the sweet potatoes we have left as soon as possible and take good care of them. If anyone asks, tell them that they were taken away by the adults."
Who would ask? It must be someone from Qingshan Village. Now they have opened a tea stall, and everyone who comes is a guest. They all come up to him with a smile, so it's not good to keep giving him the cold shoulder.
Therefore, this month the people at the tea stall have been interacting more frequently with the people in Qingshan Village.
"This year is another difficult year, but for us in Tianyuan Village, life is still easy. Here I want to remind everyone to be low-key and live a down-to-earth life. Aunts, if you have any skills in pickling meat, you can discuss and make some together and store them at home. While there are many fruits and vegetables now, make more pickles for storage. Every household should prepare. If you want to drink some iced drinks at home, you can come to Yanzhi or go to the tea stall. People in our village can drink for free."
"That's all for now. Now that we're all here, we can think of a way to get through these two years of food shortage together."
Su He finished quickly and called a few managers to the side for a small meeting. The rest of the people were also having a lively discussion.
When they were fleeing famine, they had sweet potatoes in hand, and the south was not affected much, so they just had to follow Su He to flee to the south. Now there was a shortage of food everywhere in Dayong, and there was nowhere to escape, and they had too few sweet potatoes. They could only think of other ways.
"Guihua, did you make the dried meat that Hehua exchanged with us during the two days when we set out to escape the famine? I want to make something like that, how about you teach me?"
Jin Taozi and her sister-in-law sat next to Jin, and Jin replied with a smile.
"That wasn't me. That was done by Lotus and Liu Niang."
When Jin Taozi heard this, she immediately looked at Liu Niang. Although they didn't often come into contact, they had experienced fleeing famine together after all. In order to ensure that the family would have meat to eat for a long time in the future, Jin Taozi shamelessly moved over.
"Sister Liu, look how capable you are. I heard that you are good at embroidery. I didn't expect that you are also good at making dried meat, hehe."
Liu Niang smiled faintly as she watched everyone swarm over.
"I'd love to. Our meeting room is empty, and there's a kitchen next to it. Why don't we sell the meat together and divide it after it's cooked?"
Liu Niang was surprisingly easy to talk to, and Jin Taozi was very happy. "Sister, in order not to let you work in vain, we will each give you 10 kilograms of meat, how about that?"
Liu Niang didn't bargain at all and agreed directly.
"Then we can find more sisters to join us. Since we are going to make it, we should make more. The bacon can be kept for two to three years if stored properly."
"Well, why don't we just buy a few pigs. There are people raising pigs in Qingshan Village."
Liu Niang shook her head. "We should buy separately. Didn't He Hua ask me to keep a low profile? If we want to keep a low profile, first we can't buy from our neighbors, and second we can't buy pigs and kill them. We will process them outside and bring them back by horse carriage. No one will know."
The women in the family thought it made sense. Buying a pig and slaughtering it was too ostentatious. Prices in the city had risen a lot now, and many people in Qingshan Village could hardly get enough food.
"What Liu Niang said is right. I heard from the people in Qingshan Village at the tea stall that many people in their village had embezzled the food of the disaster victims. This year's harvest is not enough to pay the debt. I heard that two families had to sell all the valuables at home to pay off their debts. We can't leave no food at all, otherwise we will starve to death. We should be careful and don't let them target us."
Since Li Da's wife didn't have any skills, she could only do odd jobs at the tea stall. She was satisfied with this and any money she could earn was good.
"Oh no! Have they targeted us? Even if they don't know how much we have in stock, they can tell from the food in our tea stall that we are definitely not short of meat. They must know about our chicken farm."
Jin Taozi became anxious when she thought of this, as they still raised hundreds of chickens.
"Aunt, don't worry, we haven't reached that point yet. This is the south, and every household here has stored grain, so there won't be chaos. We are making preparations now so that we can have meat and rice every day. We can't say we are 8% full, but at least we can have % full for three meals a day. This is our goal. As for those who sell things to pay off debts, they are greedy even for disaster relief grains, and they are basically not wealthy people, so there is no need to worry about them. The man surnamed Zhu used his connections to let his son be the acting village chief, and County Magistrate Ge has already warned them not to cause trouble for us."
Su He came over to comfort everyone, and the atmosphere in the female team suddenly relaxed.
"Hehua, why is County Magistrate Ge taking such good care of us? It must be because you have a lot of face."
Wang Laowu's wife came over to flatter him. Since she had been in charge of the meals for a few days at the tea stall, she felt much more confident now and felt more at ease among the crowd.
"It's all thanks to everyone. We handed in the sweet potatoes this time, and Magistrate Ge was very satisfied. Let's farm well. Everyone will be very busy next time. I thought, why don't we just make some cold drinks in the meeting room, and everyone can drink directly if they want. Cousin, this is up to you."
My cousin’s mother-in-law is Ma, and Su He still prefers to leave these tasks to her own family.
Jin has to take care of her pregnant daughter-in-law, and Zhou is pregnant herself. Now she doesn't care about anything else and only worries about herself.
"Okay, I'll go ask Yanzhi how to do it, and we'll start tomorrow."
The women in Tianyuan Village began to get busy.
The men in Tianyuan Village had already gone to sort the sweet potatoes. Tomorrow they would start planting again. This time they would plant them in the yard. The extra ones would be planted in the fields outside.
The more than 100 people who came later all went to the house next to the meeting hall to collect the sweet potatoes that Su He had brought out. Each family received 100 kilograms. Uncle He's family did not participate in digging sweet potatoes, so they did not know the exact number of sweet potatoes. Moreover, they, like the people in the village, did not know about the agreement between Su He and the government office.
So no one doubted why Su He could come up with so many sweet potatoes.
Su He returned to the city the next day. Because he had asked the constable who came to collect sweet potatoes to bring a message to Liu Bai yesterday, the four of them had food to eat as soon as they returned.
"Brother Bai, there are so many dishes today. We were afraid that you wouldn't be able to eat good food in the city, so we picked half a carriage of vegetables for you."
Wang Liang washed his hands with his brothers and sisters, smiling, and sat in the kitchen to chat with Liu Bai.
"I went to buy some this morning, but the vegetables were few and expensive, so what you brought is just right for use."
"Hehe, this is a good way to save money. By the way, we have harvested all the sweet potatoes, and the village has started planting them again today."
Liu Bai nodded, served the fish soup and placed it in front of Su He.
Wang Bin glanced at him and lowered his head to eat his steamed bun.
"Brother Bai, how have you and Mu Tou been doing these days? Is there any new news in the city?"
"Life is not bad. Magistrate Ge is in the city, and there are detectives patrolling from time to time, so there is no chaos. But food, oil, salt and other daily necessities have become much more expensive."
Su He finished a bowl of delicious fish soup before speaking.
"We have no shortage of vegetables, but we still need to buy fish."
Liu Bai smiled, "It's okay, the fish isn't that expensive, you can have it every day if you want."
Wang Liang was a little confused. When he came to his senses, he looked at the two of them in surprise. Then he looked at his two brothers who had been silent, and lowered his head to eat in silence.
Su He smiled, finished eating and left the kitchen first.
"I'm going back to my room to rest. I'll go to the government office in an hour. You guys go ahead and get busy."
Wang Bin responded. After Su He left, the kitchen suddenly became quiet. Liu Bai finished his meal silently and cleaned up the dishes.
Wang Liang winked at his two brothers and was slapped by Wang Zhi.
"Brother, shall we go directly to the government office after we finish eating?"
Wang Bin looked at Wang Zhi in surprise, "Aren't you going to take a break?"
"No, I'll go back to the house to change clothes and wait for you."
Wang Zhi wiped his mouth and left. Wang Liang quickly finished the rice in his bowl and followed him.
The atmosphere in the kitchen became even more depressing. Wang Bin finished his meal slowly, snorted coldly, put the bowl and chopsticks on the stove and left.
Liu Bai was the only one left in the kitchen, calmly collecting the dishes.