Fields of Gold

The rest of the old man ate rib soup and shook his head: “It's not that expensive to have money! Save some more silver in your hand, there's something to deal with in the future! By the way, the ocean, tomorrow you go to town and buy some more food. I don't know when it will rain! If the drought does not subside, food prices will surely rise slowly. ”

Yu Caifeng frowned: “The food is easy to grow insects! If it gets too much, if it rains in a few days, the food will be wasted. ”

The old man finished eating the last rib and looked at the pair of sons and daughters: “Then buy more sorghum, wheat and so on. Pull out more sun on a sunny day and you won't lose much! ”

Yu Caifeng remembered what happened in his home in the northeast and worried about the tunnel: “Father, would you like to remind the village chief to put some food in the village? Otherwise, only our family will have food. This will borrow that, and it won't last long! If people are hungry, they won't say anything! ”

Last year, during the Northeast drought, their family had been able to support food until the spring, but it was later remembered that they had to leave their homes to turn to their mothers. She doesn't want her brother's family to make the same mistake.

The old man thought about it and nodded: “After dinner, I went to the village elder brother's house to talk to him. ”

Yu Xiaowei eats sprayed boiled corn. That's right, just cooking corn! In previous life, when Yu Xiaocao came down to fresh corn, he would always buy a few ears, cook them soft and sticky, and eat them with fragrance in his mouth. She loves it.

After wearing it, the corn hasn't passed into Nakahara yet. If you want to eat it, you can't eat it. I finally got the seeds back from the Little County King and planted more than a dozen acres of corn. How can I not get a few ears to unravel them?

While Xiaoxian Wang's supervisor was away these days, Yu Xiaoxiao made Xiao Tianshi cook a few corns, picked a dozen ears of corn sticks today and cooked them for everyone to taste.

After all, corn was important to the court. When Yu Xiaoxue came back, Liu's family at Zhang Luo's dinner in the kitchen almost didn't scare the past. Sneaking up on corn is a felony. How dare her daughter break the corn back silently? Now she can't even look up, so angry that she's holding a firecracker and beating her with a little grass. Luckily, the legs and legs are quick and easy to avoid the "poisonous hands”.

Yu Xiao grass chewed corn like a squirrel, and Liu Shi chewed his teeth: "Eat! How dare you eat it in your mouth!! If the County King finds out, he won't hit you!! If you report it to the court, you might behead! ”

Yu Xiaograss turned his white eyes and said, “Why don't you just eat ear corn? As for? What's the point of eating so much corn? Besides, I've broken it down and can't grow back. It's a waste if I don't eat it on hold. Auntie, uncle, Junping, eat too! I'll eat for you if you don't! ”

Yu Caifeng saw Yu Xiaograss's dexterity relaxed, and the tension in his heart resolved a few points. The niece is right. It's broken down anyway. Eat it! She handed it to her man and smiled: "How big a belly can you eat a dozen ears of corn? Aren't you afraid to hang on? ”

Liu Junping saw that both his mother and father ate it. He also took an ear and learned the look of Yu Xiaograss. He ate a large bite. The corn is uniquely fresh, spreading slowly in the mouth, with a sweet hint of glutiny.

Honestly, corn moisturized by spiritual stone water tastes better than sticky corn. Even Xiao Squang chewed happily. Yu Xiaohua cautioned: "Ping, you have to chew carefully before swallowing. Otherwise, the whole corn grain will be pulled out when you pull it! ”

Small square mouth chewed hard, unable to speak, hard to say what he meant.

Liu Yan also liked the taste of corn. She tasted it carefully and swallowed it for a long time. "This corn is indeed a high-yielding crop. Three or four corns boiled this large pot. I weighed a corn stick, not to mention a half a pound. Uncle, how much corn and how many pounds of grain does this acreage have to produce? ”

Xiao Ping tried to swallow the corn in his mouth and smiled: "Yes, it is! You can't eat so much corn every day! ”

Liu Junping banged him in the head and said: "You snack! Just thinking about eating!! The corn in your uncle's land is for the court. If you eat it all, when the court comes to ask for it, what will you give them? Don't go outside and say anything about eating corn, or the government will take you away and put you in jail! ”

Xiao Fangping listened to one ear of corn and went to jail. He immediately ate half of the corn, wondering if he should continue eating.

Yu Xiaoxue saw his crying face and thought it was particularly cute. He pinched his little face. "As long as you don't tell us, the government doesn't know, you won't catch us! We planted so much corn, one or two less. Who can tell? Hurry up and finish your meal. Cousin has something good for you! ”

Yu Xiaograss said it was corn straw. When the corn was picked, Yu Xiaoxiao made the manicure stone cook the corn straw again, with spiritual stone water irrigated corn straw, the taste is fresh and sweet, better than sugar cane!

After dinner, several children each held a piece of corn straw and held it in a delicious way. Xiao Fangping smiled: "Brother, why don't you grab us? We'll cut back the corn straw as a snack! ”

“Once the corn straw has dried, there will be no moisture. If you want to eat it, just eat it for a day or two. However, corn straw feeds the livestock well. Our little grays and horses have winter rations! The sun-dried corn straw is also good wood grass!” Yu Xiaograss describes the purpose of this corn straw.

Xiao Fangping said happily: "Corn is full of treasure! Let's have some more! ”

Yu Xiaowei estimated: “We can produce at least 20,000 kilos of corn in 10 acres. Corn is milled into noodles, tastes better than noodles, and doesn't eat more hearts like potatoes. ”

The old man stunned his tongue and said for half a day: "This corn acre has a capacity of 2,000 kg? It turns out to be a high-yielding crop, so no wonder His Majesty the King of Pixian is not far underground in the West. If this corn could spread, the people wouldn't be afraid to starve!! ”

Yu Xiaograss exclaimed: "Yes! Your Majesty is a good emperor for the people!” For now, she's a pretty good traveler through the countryside, at least not a faint king. Perhaps one day, if she were exposed, it wouldn't be too bad to face an opponent like that!

Chewed corn sticks and corn leaves, exposed to the sun for a day, were used to burn the fire. It wasn't until the corn rods and leaves burned completely in the furnace, turning into ashes to destroy the remains that Liu's heart let go a little bit —— no one should know, right?

Drought continues. Every day, the rest of the family went under the west mountain to collect water and return to pour cornfield. Cool, hot weather, intense sunshine, seems to cook the earth.

On this day, Yu Xiaograss carried a straw cap to help water the cornfield. The little golden cat came this way from the distant mountain forest, like a golden lightning bolt. The voice of Little Tianshi was filled with anxiety and a hint of joy: [Master, master! Big deal is bad!!

Yu Xiaograss didn't pay attention to it. What's wrong with it? What makes you so excited and happy?

[Master! My powers are now restored to communicating with birds and animals!] The little golden cat jumped onto the shoulder of the remaining grass, showing off the tunnel slightly.

“Congratulations! Congratulations!” Yu Xiaowen said, you can communicate with birds and animals. That's a good thing. What's wrong with that?

Kitty Golden Cat seemed dissatisfied with Yu Xiaocao's absenteeism and scratched her cheek with a meat pad of claws. "Be serious!! What a big deal!!

“Say what you have to say, fart what you have to say, and don't sell it, okay?” Yu Xiaowei was too busy to straighten herself out and didn't have time to fight it haha.

Little Tianshi snorted, "The birds in the woods are flying south. Do you know why?

“Heading south? Isn't it time for the weather to get cold? Are droughts aggravating and animals migrating predictably?” Yu Xiaograss is a little nervous, after all, natural disasters tend to accompany man-made disasters. Do you want to buy a bigger house in town, move the whole family over? There are people in town, so it won't be a mess.

Little Tianshi shook his head: [No, it's worse than a drought!!

Yu Xiaograss got more nervous, pinched the little golden cat's neck, swayed hard, anxiously: “Can you say all that? Don't just say that. How's your appetite? ”

The little golden cat was strangled by her eyes and turned into a golden mist in her palm, floating out of her finger seams, and then condensed back into a golden kitten next to her. Yu Xiaograss looked around like a thief. He felt heavily relieved when he didn't find anyone else. In his heart, he reminded Xiao Xiao Tianshi not to change in the daytime, lest he be burned as a monster!

Little Tianshi flipped another big, big white eye and gave it to her: This stone has already been spiritually explored. No one is around!

Without waiting for the grass to continue its questioning, it solemnly said: "I know from the mouths of the birds that there are a considerable number of locusts in the south that are flying towards us. The birds went south for a meal!

Locusts? By the way, she secretly remembers that locust plagues are usually accompanied by droughts, with the so-called "locusts for a long drought” and "locusts for a dry pole”. The drought is severe in the south, so locust plagues begin in the south.

Yu Xiaocao is not calm, locust disaster is not a joke. In the event of locust infestations, tens of millions of locusts will devour seedlings, devour trees and completely destroy crops and mountain forests, resulting in unpredictable losses.

Locusts flourish and migrate from drylands to low-lying flood-prone areas. This side of Dongshan Village is also an arid zone, and these locusts should just pass by. But after locusts, all that is left is famine and calamity.