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After lunch, the sun came up and the whole family stayed at home to avoid the heat, waiting until it was less hot outside before going to work in the fields.

The family had ten acres of fertile land and sixteen acres of dry land. Although the family's food was fully earned from the fields every year, there was still some money left over to pay the corvée fees for Li Xu and Li Sheng every year.

Every winter, the county would send people to every village, requiring each household with male adults to provide a able-bodied laborer. Those who failed would have to pay one or two taels of silver.

No one dared to disobey the government's orders. They either had to provide manpower or money.

Every year, there were people who died from exhaustion due to forced labor. The original owner's family had some savings, and he was reluctant to let his two sons do forced labor, so he chose to pay the money.

Fortunately, the family has never been divided, so I only have to pay one portion of the money every year.

It may look glorious only in the eyes of outsiders, but the family members know their own business.

Since Li Ming's death, life at home has indeed become difficult.

In previous years, during the busy farming season, the original owner and his family would hire a few people to help with the harvest, and each person only needed to be paid thirty cents a day. Anyone who has worked in the fields knows that harvesting is really tiring work.

These hired helpers are landless farmers who go to various villages to find work during the autumn harvest every year.

In the golden wheat fields, their dark and skinny skin is exposed.

But that was Li Cuicui's childhood memory. Since her father died, the work in the fields was left to her two brothers, and occasionally her mother and sisters-in-law would go to help.

Several people sat in the yard, looking at the sky which showed no sign of rain, feeling a little worried.

Li Sheng took out a palm-leaf fan and fanned himself as he said, "I don't know what's wrong this year. It's not even summer yet, and it's already so hot."

Fortunately, the seeds had been sown some time ago, so the work in the fields was not so heavy.

Li Xu was also worried. During the severe drought six years ago, people in the village starved to death. Looking at the situation this year, it might be even worse than that year.

The crops in the fields have just been planted, and it is still unknown how much the harvest will be this year. If things continue like this, we may not even be able to pay the taxes.

How could Jiang Jiang not see the emotions of his family members? Farmers are like this, they depend on the weather for their livelihood, and the slightest bad sign will make them worry for a long time.

But this time they were right, a severe drought was coming.

Before summer came, Jiang Jiang heard the annoying sound of cicadas, so she put her palm-leaf fan aside.

Hot and windless.

Sweat dripped down her cheeks.

Jiang Jiang missed the air conditioner fan so much at this moment.

"Let's go and make some medicine, and see how much food we have at home."

Jiang Jiang couldn't wait any longer, so he started looking for something to do.

Seeing the mother speak, everyone obeyed.

Huang Ying found the medicine prescribed by the doctor, mixed it with a pot of water, and boiled it for Li Xu.

Simmer over low heat until three bowls of water become one bowl of water.

Huang Ying skillfully made a fire, and asked Li Dongliang to watch the fire while she went to find Jiang Jiang and the others nearby.

The whole kitchen is not big, with an earthen stove, a water jar, a rice jar, and a small cabinet for seasonings and occasionally some vegetables. But most of the time when they want to eat vegetables, they just pick some in their backyard.

Jiang Jiang first opened the rice jar. There was only a thin layer of rice in it, and it was estimated that it would be gone in a few days.

"Are we going to run out of rice?"

Facing Jiang Jiang's question, Huang Ying, who was usually in charge of cooking, lowered her head and said a little embarrassedly: "Mom, maybe I put too much rice in the rice I usually cook. I will cook it thinner later, and I will definitely not eat so much food."

Sun Qiaoqiao, who was standing by, also felt that her sister-in-law was too extravagant and was looking forward to Jiang Jiang criticizing her. It would be better if she could be responsible for cooking.

She can secretly prepare some special dishes for Laibao.

Every time Sun Qiaoqiao looked at Laibao, who was shorter than other children, she kept blaming herself.

Jiang Jiang didn't mean to criticize anyone, she was just asking casually. If they ran out of food, they could just go to town to buy some.

Although the price in the village would be lower, there would be endless troubles. If you buy other people's grain, they will starve to death and cry and beg to buy the grain back at the original price. Would Jiang Jiang and the others do it or not?

In order to avoid this kind of trouble, Jiang Jiang planned to buy all the food from the town and settle the payment on delivery.

"What I meant is that there is no more food. I will go to town to buy some tomorrow. I don't mean that you have eaten too much."

Sun Qiaoqiao was a little disappointed, it seemed that she had failed to pry the position.

"Mom, if you want to buy food, I'll go with you tomorrow." Li Sheng took the initiative to speak.

"Don't you have to go to the fields? Let me go with mother." Li Xu said, raising his other uninjured hand.

Seeing that the two brothers started to argue about who should go, Jiang Jiang made the final decision.

"You two don't have to quarrel anymore. We'll all go tomorrow, including all the children."

"But we still need people on the fields." Li Sheng didn't dare to refute Jiang Jiang, but just said softly.

"The fields are fine now, so missing a day won't have much of a impact. Our family hasn't been to town for a long time, so we can go to the market tomorrow and have some fun together."

Seeing that Jiang Jiang had said so much, everyone nodded.

Huang Ying and Sun Qiaoqiao also began to consider whether they should use their private money to buy something.

"Everyone, have a good rest. We have a lot of things to buy tomorrow."

Li Dongliang, who was burning a fire nearby, was delighted when he heard the news.

They are all going to town tomorrow!

A few days ago, he and his brother wanted Li Xu to take them to the town to play, but they both got slapped on the back.

Milk is still the best!

He had to tell his brothers and sisters the good news.

Li Cuicui also turned around and went back to her room, counted her 156 cents of private money twice, and carefully took out 20 cents.

She planned to buy some beautiful hair flowers tomorrow so that she could receive the envious looks from her little sisters.

The next morning, the whole family set out before dawn.

According to the plan, everyone walked five or six miles to the town together, but as soon as they went out, they met Li Zhuang who was driving a ox cart.

He drove a ox cart between the village and the town every day to earn some money to supplement his family income.

Jiang Jiang took a look and thought, isn’t this just an ancient version of a bus?

Seeing that no one else was going to the town, Jiang Jiang and his family filled the car with their whole family. If there weren't several children and Li Laibao was held in Sun Qiaoqiao's arms, the car would definitely not be able to accommodate everyone.

There were no empty cars early in the morning. Li Zhuang couldn't stop smiling. If they hurried up, they could pick up a few more groups of people later.

The original fare was one cent per person, but Li Zhuang waived the children's fee and only charged five cents.

He shouted at the cows and drove along the country road, swaying forward.

After walking for about an hour, Jiang Jiang and his friends saw the outline of Qingfeng Town in the distance.

Today is market day, and many villagers from nearby villages brought their own chickens, ducks, fish, vegetables and fruits, hoping to sell them at a good price.

After giving the money to Li Zhuang, Jiang Jiang and his family marched into the town in a mighty procession.