Siheyuan: There are seven fairies in my house, I am so busy

Zhang Jialiang also wanted to confirm from Xu Damao the drought situation in the rural areas of the commune this year. According to Zhang Jialiang's impression, this autumn was the time when natural disasters began.

However, there are also signs before natural disasters. At least since last year, there have been many places across the country, especially in Hebei Province around Beijing, where it has not rained for a long time. The drought is quite serious and the losses caused by the disasters are already huge.

Especially this year, the drought was more severe in the spring and summer, resulting in a large-scale reduction in summer grain production. By the time this situation was transmitted to ordinary citizens, it was already the second half of autumn.

Because by autumn, the disaster had not eased but became even more severe, resulting in an even worse harvest of autumn crops.

What was even more serious was that this continued for several years in a row. The main disaster was drought, which led to a large-scale reduction in production in the main grain-producing areas across the country, causing the disaster.

The situation was made worse by the fact that they had to repay their debts to the North at the same time, which had a very serious impact on people's lives.

Zhang Jialiang himself only has a basic knowledge of these things, but he does not have a deep impression of the details. However, he has been in this world for quite some time, and the daily lives of ordinary people are already difficult. It is really hard to imagine what the scene will be like at that time.

So since Zhang Jialiang started to earn some income, he has been stockpiling food. He never relaxed for a moment and exchanged all the money he had for food.

In the first few months, he didn't have much money and his stockpiling of food was very slow. However, as his income gradually improved, he stockpiled food at an increasingly faster rate.

Especially after the general hunting area was opened, his income increased greatly, and now he has stored several kilograms of food in his storage space.

These grains include a small portion of white flour and rice and other fine grains, the vast majority is cornmeal, and there are also some other grains such as soybeans, millet, etc.

There are two types of corn flour. One is cornmeal, which is made from pure corn, and the other is cornmeal, which is made from crushing the entire corn cob including the corn cob.

Cornmeal is not very delicious. It has a bad taste and is very irritating to the throat. Now that Zhang Jialiang has no shortage of food, he has gradually replaced the cornmeal at home with cornmeal.

In fact, in terms of the amount of stockpiled food alone, it has already exceeded the goal Zhang Jialiang originally set, but this impending crisis has always been around him.

Stockpiling food can relieve the pressure in his heart. Besides, food will never depreciate, especially in the past few years. Therefore, as soon as he has some money, he will exchange it for food and store it in the space.

With food in hand, there is no need to panic. It is precisely because of the existence of this large amount of food that Zhang Jialiang can face the upcoming difficult period calmly.

Collecting these seeds might be a subconscious reaction to the difficult times, otherwise he had no intention of growing food and vegetables in the hunting space.

After all, the outside world will be a miserable and desolate place by then, and he will feel guilty for not using such a large space and leaving it to waste. However, it is not realistic for him to open up the wasteland and cultivate it alone and unarmed.

He himself is not that hardworking, so he came up with the idea of ​​planting without clearing the land and just sowing seeds.

It's like getting the job done without having to work so hard, which can bring him some comfort.

Of course, the main reason is that he has no shortage of food, but if the situation is really that serious by then, vegetables will probably be very scarce.

Vegetables cannot be stored for a long time. After all, its storage space is not a static space, it can store living things.

So he collected a lot of vegetable seeds and scattered them in the space. At least some of them should be able to survive and solve the problem of food for their family.

“You are right. The drought in the countryside is quite serious. I don’t know about other places, but at least the drought in the communes I have been to has lasted for a long time.

The drought started last year, and now the commune and rural areas are organizing people to fight the drought, and the work is in full swing. I guess the reason why the authorities keep asking us to show movies during this period is to encourage the farmers.

Although people’s efforts have alleviated some of the drought, the big problem has not been solved, and the land is still short of water.”

Xu Damao's words confirmed that the drought did exist. Although he had not been to many places, this part also represented a certain reality.

In fact, Zhang Jialiang also experienced from his own process of hoarding food that the price of food has been gradually increasing over the past year, especially in the black market.

Although the price increase was not large, the amount of food appearing on the black market was gradually decreasing, making it increasingly difficult for him to obtain food.

In addition, some refugees who have fled famine have appeared in the capital. Although the number is not large now, it shows that the situation in the countryside is already very bad.

Zhang Jialiang also communicated with these people who fled famine and learned about the situation there.

Most of those fleeing famine were from the vicinity of the capital, especially from Hebei. Through their descriptions, he had a general understanding of the real situation.

All these signs have completely demonstrated that Zhang Jialiang's memory is not wrong, and the situation can only be more serious than he knows.

So he secretly told his mother and grandmother everything he knew.

Zhang Jialiang's grandmother was the most sensitive to this situation. She had the richest life experience. She had experienced the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and the Anti-Japanese War. She understood better what it was like to encounter a disaster and have no food, so she quickly decided that the family should start stockpiling food.

Wang Shujuan is not without life experience. Although her character is a little weak, she is able to survive with such a large family, so she must have her own way of survival.

The Zhang family is such a large family. If the serious situation that Zhang Jialiang described really happened, their family would be in trouble. So she also agreed with the decision of Zhang Jialiang and the old lady of the Zhang family.

As for why he had to tell his family in advance, Zhang Jialiang also had some considerations. Although he had made all the preparations, letting his family know in advance would prevent them from panicking and causing any accidents when they suddenly faced such a situation.

Of course, no matter how experienced Zhang Jialiang's grandmother was, and no matter how much Zhang Jialiang's mother thought about it and prepared well, neither of them could have expected that this difficult period would last so long and that the difficulties they faced would be so great.

So even if the family is prepared, it will not completely solve the problem, and ultimately it will still depend on Zhang Jialiang himself to solve it.