ancient five-star seventh system

Chapter 265 It’s Impossible to Be a Child Bride-in-Law (8)

"They say they want to collect dry grasshoppers, without wings and legs, but to dry them in the sun. One penny of silver costs thirty kilograms. Anyway, there are so many grasshoppers this year. I can catch grasshoppers in the field and exchange them for money. Isn't that good? Of!"

"That's true. Tell me where that family is, and I'll get some to exchange for two taels of wine!"

"However, dry grasshoppers can be exchanged for money, and live grasshoppers are also fine. It is said that [-] catties of live grasshoppers can be exchanged for an egg. I see that there are more and more grasshoppers anyway. If you have nothing to do, you can also be idle. In addition to protecting crops, you can also exchange eggs, which is pretty good."

"But why does his family need so many grasshoppers?"

"It is said that these dried grasshoppers are medicine, and someone wanted to collect them. Wang Qigou was asked to help, and didn't his family start breeding? A while ago, a lot of piglets were born, and Zhang Juhua was too busy to take care of the chickens and ducks. It can also save trouble by exchanging eggs and duck eggs for grasshoppers that can be eaten by chickens and ducks.”

"But I see, their family is doing good deeds. Seeing that there hasn't been much rain this year, the crops in the field can't survive. A long drought will bring disaster. The locusts have just arrived. They The family is flourishing like this, isn’t this saving people?”

It was an old beggar who was talking, and before he finished speaking, he turned around and went to catch grasshoppers in the field without waiting for others to say anything.

Wang Qigou's family collected nearly [-] catties of live grasshoppers that afternoon because they said they would harvest grasshoppers, but their chickens and ducks could not say that they could eat so many live grasshoppers that day.

So in order not to let everyone down, Wang Qigou's family told those who came later that grasshoppers can be cooked and eaten, and also said that although the live grasshoppers cannot be harvested today, they can be dried into dried grasshoppers, and they will do the same when the time comes will charge.

"I didn't expect this grasshopper to be fried and eaten like this. It tastes pretty good!"

"Yeah, even if you don't sell this thing, it's okay to keep it for yourself!"

After the person who ate stir-fried grasshoppers at Wang Qigou's house left, he was immediately enticed by the smell of grasshoppers.

Just as the Wang family released the news that grasshoppers were being harvested, from the next day, the chickens and ducks hatched by several old hens broke their shells one after another. A total of more than 70 chickens and ducks were brought by the old hens to graze on the mountain. The grasshoppers collected at that time can just be used as feed.

In the next few days, the story of the Wang family harvesting grasshoppers was widely spread. Many people knew about it, but they also knew that the Wang family didn’t need many grasshoppers every day. The grasshoppers were all sun-dried.

One day, a beggar came to Wang's house and said he wanted to exchange some eggs with grasshoppers.

"Old man, we have collected enough live grasshoppers today. How about you dry the grasshoppers and bring them back? We will also collect them!" Wang Xi saw that the old man was carrying a bag of grasshoppers. It only weighs more than ten catties, and it is not enough to exchange eggs, and the grasshoppers harvested by the family today are already enough, so I turned him down with good words.

"But I've been walking for a long time, and I haven't eaten all day, so you can do it..."

"But our family really..."

"What's wrong?" Zuo Xiaole who heard the voice came out at this time.

Wang Xi explained his situation, and Zuo Xiaole saw that the old man was a pitiful person, "Go and bring a bowl of water to the old man, and bring out two of the sweet potatoes and steamed buns on the stove."

"Huh?" Wang Xi thought, that was their family's dinner. If it was given to others, they wouldn't have enough to eat.

"Ah what, go!" Zuo Xiaole glared at him.

"Oh." Wang Xi had no choice but to run and do as he pleased.

Today they fried grasshoppers again, and Zuo Xiaole wrapped a pack of them in clean lotus leaves, "Old man, did you come from a far away place?"

"Well, it's been a long way. I heard that you can trade grasshoppers for food, so I came to beg for a stutter." The old beggar was wearing patched clothes and his hair hadn't been washed for many years.

"Give me the grasshopper. This is for you. This grasshopper is made into a dish in our family. You can try it too." At this time, Wang Xi took out the steamed buns and sweet potatoes, and Zuo Xiaole They wrapped them together in another lotus leaf and handed them to the beggar.

"Thank you, thank you, your family is a kind person, a kind person, thank you, thank you..." The beggar didn't expect that Zuo Xiaole really gave him such things, and the half bag of grasshoppers was not worth it.

"Old man, if you can, you can help our family to publicize, say that we collect grasshoppers here, and you can also tell everyone that grasshoppers can cook. This is a good thing."

There are many channels for beggars to pass on news. Zuo Xiaole didn't think much about it, but felt that within his limited ability, he could give some tips to others before the catastrophe came, and he could help one person. Well, there was really nothing else she could do.

After the beggar left, Wang Xi took a look at the grasshoppers he had brought. They were all dead and smelly. "This can only be fed to chickens."

"I was going to feed the chickens, what's the big deal." Zuo Xiaole knocked on his head, "As the saying goes, if you are poor, you can be alone, and if you are prosperous, you can help the world. He happens to be poor, and you happen to have it, and These things are not inseparable from you, just treat them as charity."

Knowing that Zuo Xiaole was teaching him the truth, Wang Xi muttered a few words, and suddenly thought: "What if other beggars come like this in the future? Are we still like this? There really isn't enough for them to eat." right?"

"Of course we can't give charity, but we can let them help with things!" Zuo Xiaole said.

"What are you doing?"

"What needs to be done at home?" Zuo Xiaole asked back.

"Is there anything I need to do?" Wang Xi felt that there was nothing that needed help from others.

Zuo Xiaole didn't say anything more to him, shrugged and went into the kitchen to roast sweet potatoes for himself.

However, Wang Xi also observed because of this, when Wang Qigou came back from the field and was already very tired, he went to chop a bundle of firewood for tomorrow. In addition, the water tank at home was empty. I also took two loads of water to fill the water tank.

His mother had just finished cleaning up the chickens on the mountain, disposing of the chicken poop, and rushed the chickens to the chicken coop. Finally, she fed the pigs in the pig pen. After all this work, the family sat down to eat. Get up and eat.

After eating, his father went to dig out the pig manure in the pigsty, and got water to clean the pigsty again.His mother didn't have time to spare, she cut the sweet potato vines from the ground in the dark and came back, and cut out all the sweet potato vines in the two baskets. This is what the pigs will eat tomorrow. The sweet potatoes in the dustpan brought a bucket of chaff.

Before the family was ready to go to bed, Wang Qigou and Zhang Juhua poured the cut sweet potato vines, sweet potatoes, and bran into the cauldron and stuffed it. This is the ration of the piglets tomorrow.

Wang Xi thought about it, there are indeed many things at home!

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"...Don't say it, it's delicious to eat, close your eyes and don't look at it, I'm sure you don't know what it is!"

"Would you like a plate then?"

"Come here, I'm just hungry!"

"Waiter, here's a plate of fried grasshoppers!"

"Come on—"

This day, Tianwang Qigou bought nearly [-] catties of grasshoppers and delivered them to the city. Unexpectedly, many inns and restaurants in the city served fried grasshoppers and stir-fried grasshoppers. The difference is that some of them are more advanced. The name of the restaurant is very pleasant, like "locusts are in the sky" and "the heavenly girl descends to earth" and so on. It seems that the supply is still in short supply.

He was also curious, how did this grasshopper become such a popular thing overnight?It's really weird, but he didn't bother to delve into this matter. He sold the grasshoppers to get rid of the cost. He made a total of four taels of silver, which was not a waste of his busy work for so long.

"The weather is so hot, and I don't know when it will rain?" On the way back, he drank a bowl of herbal tea at a roadside tea shop. The boss saw that he was a familiar face, and there were not many people in the tea shop. , chatted with him.

"That's right, the big pond in our village has been dry for several days!" Wang Qigou answered.

"Look at the crops in those fields, everyone is drooping, and I don't know if they will last until the rainy day!" The boss sighed. Isn't this kind of crops just relying on the sky to eat?

"I hope!" At this time, Wang Qigou, who was one million, felt that his family was lucky, and used all the land to grow sweet potatoes.

This year, the sweet potatoes grown by their family are divided into two seasons. The spring sweet potatoes are planted first, and the summer sweet potatoes are planted immediately after harvesting. After waiting for more than a month, the spring sweet potatoes can be harvested. When the time comes, disaster or not, their family’s food It is definitely enough, after all, it was prepared years ago, so don't be afraid.

"Looking at this drought, it is only a matter of time. Fortunately, there is a saying somewhere that locusts can be eaten and can be used as medicine. Now it seems that the locust plague will be eaten by everyone, otherwise this drought will come again. It’s a locust plague, and I don’t know how many people will die!” Many people have said this along the way.

Now in this small tea shop, they also prepared a snack called fried locusts, but the owner of the tea shop didn't expect his words to directly shock Wang Qigou, thinking of what Zhang Juhua said about Yang Wan is the saying that the gods in the sky came down to save their family.

Not to mention anything else, the life of their family today, if two years ago, he would never have believed that they could also live such a life that everyone envied, but now their family has not only lived it, but also brought Many people in the village have lived well, and, most importantly:

This locust incident was also mentioned by Yang Want!

Did she already know?She expected a drought, and locust plagues after the drought, right?

Wang Qigou's heart was beating thumpingly. If this was the case, Yang Wan of their family would really be a Bodhisattva descending to earth!
But Wang Qigou didn't say anything about it. Since he went to the city to see it, he has more eyes. He knows that people can't show off their wealth. After all, there are many robbers and bandits in this world. Who knows who has a heart son?

By mid-May, dozens of piglets in the Wang family were growing very well. Many villagers and some people from other villages knew that their family was going to sell piglets, so they lined up to beg for them. Wang Qigou made a decision. I bought fifteen heads and went out.

There are only two sows left in the family, the piglets bought after three years, and the next five, a total of ten. In this way, the workload for him and Zhang Juhua will not be so heavy, and they can easily some.

After the piglets are sold, the family's chickens and ducks can be put on the market. In addition to the villagers who have already agreed to buy chickens and ducks, some people who have decided to buy them temporarily also come to their house to buy some.

In the end, there were more than 20 chickens and a dozen ducks left in the Wang family, but this was done sequentially, and when the hens came to hatch their eggs, Zhang Juying was not idle. Anyway, there are so many grasshoppers now that every household can She has nothing to worry about if she catches them to eat or feed the chickens, or sell them to her family.

Instead, because others envied their family's prosperous life and thanked her for the help she gave, she felt that it was such a joy to live these days.

Another important point is that since the last time Yang Wan gave food to a beggar, he has given it to a beggar one after another, not to mention every day. In short, beggars will come to the door every few days to beg for food, and Yang Wan will give it to them, but accordingly Yes, they will do some things for the family.

For example, chopping firewood, picking water, cutting pigweed, etc., anyway, it is just for food, and their family has no shortage, so just give it.

The drought continued. By the end of June, the bottom of the pond in Wangjiawan was completely dry. As for those who had planted millet, they could only watch their crops dry up and had nothing to do. At this point, the Wang family is really very timid. The sweet potatoes grown at home are drought-tolerant crops, but they really have no worries at all.

It’s just that there is no rain in the sky, and the Sanqi on the mountain will be ruined if it is not watered because of the drought. Fortunately, at this time, beggars often come to Wang’s house to beg, and Wang Qigou will discuss with them and help carry water to the mountain. Watering the ground, he can manage their food and drink, and pay them back wages.

Seeing that there was food to eat, the beggar immediately said nothing, and made an appointment with seven or eight people in less than a day, and all the notoginseng on the mountain was poured.

By mid-July, it had been almost two months without rain, but it was also the time to harvest sweet potatoes in Wangjiawan. Since every household had planted sweet potatoes, there was no need to worry about the confiscation of the crops. No matter how hungry you are, you will always find what you don't have, and a lot of sweet potatoes in the Wang family's field have been dug up one after another.

Zhang Juhua therefore stood in the field and cursed for a long time. Later, Wang Qigou found seven or eight beggars, and several villagers gathered all the sweet potatoes in the field in one day.

After that, he went to the village head and told him about it, and he made it very clear that if anyone in the family was short of food, he could go directly to his Wang Qigou's house. As for stealing from the ground, isn't it?
After all the spring sweet potatoes are harvested, it’s time to plant summer potatoes, and every household is busy because of this. Even those whose crops are dry and dead, they also plant sweet potatoes together. After all, in the current environment, planting sweet potatoes It couldn't be better, so that people don't have no food and starve to death.

(End of this chapter)