Otherworldly Farmhouse
Chapter 52
Lin Zuo knew that since Tang Anwen wanted to rent a car, he would have to buy grain, so he bought a thousand catties of grain from the shopkeeper. Lin Zuo could see that Xiao Heila couldn't afford two thousand catties of grain, and he would score points later.
Tang Anwen drove the mule cart to the grain store, and the shopkeeper quickly asked the shop assistant to bring up fifteen bags of [-]-jin sacks. Tang Anwen waved to the shopkeeper, and whispered to Lin Zuo beside him with a smile: "Mule You come to drive the car, I will drive the horse-drawn cart to transport the food back first. If there is time, I can go to the town to buy other things, if the disaster is serious, maybe it will be difficult to buy vegetables by then."
Lin Zuo nodded, it was inconvenient for him to come to the town, and he would not have rushed over this time if it wasn't an emergency.After all, if you go to the town many times, you are also afraid of being found out. I am afraid that not only Tang Anwen and the others will be implicated, but Tang Xuan will also be implicated. If there is no such person in his heart, Lin Zuo would not be so careful to hide.
Tang Anwen was driving the carriage, and Xiao Hei's speed was significantly slower this time because he had pulled a lot of food.Tang Anwen slapped Xiao Hei lightly and unhurriedly, and Xiao Hei was also very upbeat, pulling the goods and running towards the deserted village at an even speed after all.
Mu Feng ran to Tang Lang's house, kicked open the courtyard door with a "bang", Mu Feng called Zhang Lan Tang Lang loudly, his voice was full of anxiety.
Tang Lang is not a dead person. He just squinted his eyes for a long time, and he was still asleep. He was awakened when the courtyard door was kicked and made a loud noise. He raised his eyes and asked Zhang Lan what was going on, and then listened. I heard Woodwind's shouts.Zhang Lan responded with a cry and quickly put down her needlework and ran out, thinking that something had happened to Mu Feng.
Zhang Lan saw that Mu Feng standing in the yard was doing well, and then asked in relief, "What's wrong with Mu Feng? He looks very anxious."
Mu Feng took a breath and said: "Quickly call Tang Lang to get up, insects and locusts are overwhelming the sky, and the sky is covered, hurry up to harvest rice, no matter how fast it comes, it has already fallen in the yard." Refers to the covered sky and the scattered locusts that have fallen in the yard.
Hearing Mu Feng's words, Tang Lang grabbed a piece of clothing and rushed out. He didn't even bother to say hello to Mu Feng, so he ordered Zhang Lan to wake up the two children and let them go to the field to cut rice ears, otherwise they would be killed by locusts. If you gnaw it, you will have no harvest this year.
Seeing Zhang Lan calling the two children to get up, Mu Feng was relieved to go out with a basket and sickle in a hurry. He ran a little too fast just now, and Mu Feng slowed down before walking towards his own field. The next insect plague is the same as that of a young man in his twenties, so this day is about to change.Although he was very worried, but thinking of the few people in his family, Mu Feng vowed that as long as he was alive, he would never let anyone hurt Ah Wen and the child, as well as their unborn three treasures.
When Mu Feng returned to the field, Tang Xuan didn't care what was in the vegetable field, he pulled out all of them and put them into the baskets. The green vegetables, cabbages and radishes quickly filled the two baskets. When Tang Xuan saw Mu Feng came back Said: "Both Mufeng are full, let's carry them back first, and later use a hoe to dig out the potatoes."
Mu Feng nodded, the grassland locust plague was much more terrifying than the general locust plague, these locusts were not only big in size, but also fast in eating, as long as they gnawed and moved, the place they passed was barren, and they came in batches.
Tang Dou didn't listen to Mu Feng and stayed in the house obediently. He had heard Eminem tell him before that the locusts were very powerful and would eat up all the food.So he took his younger brother to open the door and took a sickle for cutting rice, ran to the yard not far away and cut the red beans by the roots, and asked his younger brother to drag them back into the room. Lock it up.
Little Tang Guo saw that his brother looked very serious and worried, and was also very well-behaved. Although he was not strong, it was no problem at all to drag a few long tangled red bean vines full of red bean clips.
The two brothers just cut one and dragged the other. Seeing that the younger brother was tired, Douzi asked the younger brother to rest first, and he dragged the red bean vines by himself.
When Mu Feng and Tang Xuan carried the vegetables they had cut back from the field, they saw the two little guys running into the yard dragging long red bean vines. Tang Xuan smiled and said to Mu Feng, these two little guys are promising again Well, before the adults even said it, the little guy knew he was going to drag the food home.
When he came back, Tang Xuan asked Mu Feng to stay at home to rest for a while. A three-month-old child couldn't stand it, so it's better to be careful.
Mu Feng also nodded and said that he would pay attention. Tang Xuan went to dig potatoes in the field with a basket on his back and a hoe.Mu Feng felt that he was in good health, so he simply took the sickle from Dou Zi's hand, and he cut the red bean vines very fast, and asked the two children to drag the red bean vines back. The long-eyed one has already hit the person directly, and the face is painful, especially the grassland migratory locust's claws have burrs. It's okay for adults. If it sticks on the child's face, the child's delicate skin will definitely be injured .
Mu Feng hurriedly asked the two children to go back to the house to stay, fearing that the two children would run out if they had nothing to do and would be bored, Mu Feng also prepared a big basket for the two children and asked his mother to pick red bean clips.Then Mu Feng went to another yard where the livestock were kept. Except for the chicken coop, the bamboo shed for raising sheep and stacking hay was closed by Mu Feng to prevent the locusts from running away.
Mufeng came outside the yard again, and black locusts kept falling on the ground. There were rustling sounds in Mufeng's ears, forming a continuous patch. This was the sound of migratory locusts gnawing on plants.Mufeng walked to the mung bean field and looked at the plants surrounded by dense migratory locusts. Finally, Mufeng sighed and waved away the locusts that landed on his head. Mufeng had no choice but to go home. There is no way to save it.
Tang Anwen was driving back in the carriage, and locusts kept falling on the way, and he had to shake off the locusts that landed on his head from time to time.After going back and forth for half an hour, Tang Anwen finally came back with the carriage. He looked at the locusts all over the yard but didn't see a single person.
Tang Anwen yelled towards the house, Tang Xuan opened the door and came out, just now he was attacked by locusts all over his face, and now he didn't want to come out at all, Mu Feng thought of a way and got Tang Xuan a black gauze hat , so that the locusts can't land directly on the head. He was planing those fresh vegetables just now, otherwise the things in the hot weather won't last long.
Mu Feng originally wanted to help move the food, but was rejected by both Tang Xuan and Tang Anwen. Tang Anwen told Tang Xuan his scruples.Tang Xuan immediately waved his hand, pulled the carriage and went to the bamboo house. The carriage was parked in the yard. Tang Xuan asked Tang Anwen to go to the town to buy some other things. Seeing that the locust plague would not end for a while, his family and Tang Anwen The family is not short of money, so it is natural to prepare more food.
Tang Anwen untied Xiao Hei, snatched Tang Xuan's bamboo hat and sand hat, climbed on the horseback and rushed towards the town.
Tang Xuan shook his head and sighed at Tang Anwen who was going away. This world is finally getting better. Seeing that the rice harvest is about to be bumper, but in the end there is a plague of locusts. If it continues like this, there will definitely be a food shortage, and it will only be more than 20 years when it is stable Is the world going to be chaotic again?Tang Xuan got rid of the things that were in his mind, anyway, there would be a tall man to support him when the sky fell, he just needed to live a good life with Lin Zuo.Tang Xuan walked into the house, cleaned up the place where the sundries were piled up, removed the bamboo board, opened the stone board, climbed down to light the oil lamp, and then moved the bags of grain into the storage room.
When returning to the town, Tang Anwen ran into Lin Xuan and asked Lin Xuan to store the grain at the bamboo house. There were already five or six hundred catties of millet at home, so there was no need to store more.Lin Zuo naturally understood what Tang Anwen meant, and nodded towards him to show that he understood.
When Tang Anwen returned to the town, the stone streets of the town were already covered with locusts. The once lively streets had become deserted, and people were rushing home to harvest rice and vegetables.Tang Anwen walked into the grocery store. What he bought were not fresh products, but all dried products, such as mushrooms, fungus, kelp, seaweed, day lily, wide powder and fine powder, which were easy to store and ready to eat.
Tang Anwen went to buy a lot of soybeans. Originally, they had planted them at home, but their family planted October beans, and the beans had grown, but there was no fruit yet.If the pests are serious and there are no vegetables, it is very good to buy some soybeans. They can be eaten directly or made into various bean products, and they can also be turned into bean sprouts. Tang Anwen is planning to spend half a year of this year's food in one day. All bought enough.
Did Tang Anwen just ride it? The shopkeeper of the grocery store just came back from the purchase office. Seeing Tang Anwen's horse with large and small bags on his back, he scolded his young son fiercely when he entered the shop. How could he sell things at such a time? If it is dropped, the price might double tomorrow, so Tang Anwen just walked away when the shopkeeper closed the shop behind him.
Among them, the shopkeeper of the grain store, his intestines are almost turning green. It was a whole three thousand catties of high-quality rice, and he sold it at such a low price. You must know that in the face of such a plague of insects, the grain has doubled Even though the price just now was not a loss, he still made a lot of money, but who knows if the price of grain will increase several times tomorrow. Compared with that price, he is really losing money.
The shopkeeper cursed Tang Anwen secretly in his heart, he never thought that this seemingly honest boy would be so clever, causing him to lose three thousand catties of high-quality rice in vain.
Naturally, Tang Anwen didn't pay attention to these things. He rushed to take his things home. There were more and more locusts along the way. Most of the sky was occupied by locusts, and the sun was almost covered. Tang Anwen couldn't count how many locusts it took to give someone Such momentum.
After finally rushing home, Xiao Hei kept snorting, and hit the ground with his front hooves, constantly crushing the locusts on the ground. On the corner of the eyes and nose, this caused a lot of trouble for Xiao Hei.
Mufeng and Tang Anwen carried the things into the house together, and then came out to take Xiao Hei back to the stable. After closing the door, Tang Anwen lit the oil lamp in the house and fed Xiao Hei with hay, and then closed the door to feed the sheep. As for the chickens, Tang Anwen thought that he would not need to feed them these days. These are great supplements for the chickens at home. Looking at the hens in the chicken coop chasing the locusts, Tang Anwen simply put the chickens Open the cage and let them have a good meal.
After finishing these Tang Anwen can finally go back to the house to take a breath, walk into the main room, Mufeng and the children are there, the beans and Guoguo are still picking their pods, the basket has already filled a lot of black, gray, half-green and half-yellow pods Tang Anwen from A glass of water was poured on the coffee table, and he poured it down, feeling like he finally came alive. He had been rushing and rushing just now, and his nerves were tense, and Tang Anwen was nervous because of some psychological factors.
In addition to the vegetables to be eaten these days, Mufeng cut the cabbage into four pieces and prepared to pickle them into sour cabbage, cut the radishes into radish sticks and pickled them. Hang it to dry in the room.There are freshly dug potatoes at home. Although they haven't grown much, they can last for a while.
It shouldn’t be a problem to plant green vegetables after the pest plague is over. What’s more, in the spring, Mufeng makes dried bamboo shoots when he has time. Now there are quite a few at home, and some dried meat and bamboo shoots noodles is a good dish.Although there are six people in the family, Ah Wen bought so many dry goods from the town, enough to last half a year.
Tang Anwen wanted to help Mu Feng chop radishes, but Mu Feng disliked him for being clumsy. In fact, Mu Feng was afraid that Tang Anwen didn't chop vegetables very much, and it would be bad if he did.Don't think that he moves fast and cuts evenly, that's all from practice. Mu Feng watched Ah Wen dangling in front of his eyes with nothing to do, it really got in the way.
While chopping radishes, Mu Feng said: "The cattle and sheep that Ah Wen grew up eating locusts are very fat. Why don't you catch locusts in the yard and put them in sacks. After you catch the locusts, I'll roast some on charcoal fire. Dried and ground, it can be fed to chickens and raised, and Xiao Hei can also be eaten to grow stronger.
Tang Anwen nodded when he heard Mu Feng's words, and the two little guys with sharp ears heard it too, and wanted to go out with their father, but seeing the densely packed locusts in the yard, they still didn't dare to leave the house, so they could only obediently continue picking their beans.
Tang Xuan and Lin Zuo stored the food, Tang Xuan went to the town to return the snails, Lin Zuo closed all the windows at home, and then walked towards Tang Anwen's house, where they lived together recently.There are a lot of people in the yard, and the personalities of the few people are very compatible. Tang Xuan also likes to live here, so they all live in Mufeng's house recently, and they are no longer staying overnight occasionally.
Lin Zuo watched as Tang Anwen put a sock on his hand and grabbed the locusts into sacks by the handful. He asked Tang Anwen what he was doing with this thing, and he just swept it out of the yard after killing it.
Tang Anwen told Lin Zuo what Mufeng had said, and said that it would stink if he was shot dead, so Lin Zuo also put on Tang Xuan's other sock. The boy told Lin Xuan that this sock was made by Mufeng for him, and that he hadn't worn it yet. Two sacks catch locusts together.
The sky finally gradually darkened, and the locusts in the sky have become rare, and it will take a while to see a wave of locusts flying by.Tang Anwen was called by Mu Feng to fetch water, and the water that he washed a lot today was quickly used up.
Tang Anwen came to the small pond with a bucket as usual, and stared at the small puddle filled with locusts in a daze. He let out a loud cry, feeling distressed and sad, his small pond was buried by locusts Well, even if it is cleaned up now, the water in this pond will not be drinkable in a short time, it is all corpses, the corpses of countless locusts.
Tang Anwen had no choice but to go back with a bucket. He asked Tang Xuan to help fetch water from the well in Tangjia Village, and he called Lin Zuo with the wooden basin. The two went to deal with the small pond together. Otherwise, when the locust corpses rotted tomorrow, they would still Do you want this pond?
Pots of locust corpses and water were scooped out. Tang Anwen looked at the locust corpses dumped in the distance and suddenly said to Lin Xuan: "Lin Xuan, you said that we will bury those locust corpses in the soil over there. The land will definitely become fertile, right," Tang Anwen said, pointing to the bare ground not far from the small pond, which was covered with grass in the morning.
Lin Zuo looked at the small pond, and then visually inspected the tunnel Tang Anwen was pointing at: "I don't know if the land is fertile or not, but I know that if you bury the locust corpses over there, wait for the water over there." If it overflows to this side, it’s not clear whether the water is still drinkable, maybe people can gain weight after drinking it.”
Tang Anwen was stunned for a moment when he heard Lin Zuo's words, and then he smiled awkwardly and said, "That's right, if the pond is too close to the field, then the sewage will overflow into the pond when fertilizing, and the water will I can't drink it anymore, it seems that even if you want to fence the fields on the side of the mountain, you have to be far away from the pond."
Lin Zuo looked at Tang Anwen and said: "Ah Wen, your family is not short of money now, and it is no problem to buy food to eat, let alone the two of us, why do you want to fence the fields so much? Logically speaking, you are a scholar , and not a farmer, this kind of thinking is really weird, just like me, I never thought of farming with Tang Xuan."
After hearing Lin Zuo's words, Tang Anwen said: "That's not the case. Isn't the rice grown in our field delicious? Although the rice bought in the town is said to be grown here, we can eat it, and the taste is completely different. , and we need to do something to do the planting at home, the four of us in total can do it quickly on two acres of land, and the work is not too much."
Lin Xuan nodded after listening to Tang Anwen's words. If it was really a war, food would not be easy to buy. If he had two acres of land, he could barely survive a year with rice.So Lin Xuan said: "This little water has drowned so many locusts. We will collect more locust carcasses tomorrow, and then we will enclose two acres of land 50 meters away from the small pond. There are hundreds of locusts." The carcasses of locusts will surely be fertile in the coming year, no matter whether we plant them or not, or plant other things, we will not lack that bit of land tax.”
When Tang Anwen heard Lin Zuo's words, he told Lin Zuo that it was very difficult for him to encircle and dig fields by himself. He originally thought that Mu Feng would talk about it after giving birth, but now that Lin Zuo nodded, Tang Xuan would also help. There were three people, In addition, the grass on the ground has been gnawed clean by locusts, and there are only some grass roots left. It must be easy to dig, and it is God's help. If Tang Anwen can't reclaim two acres of land, then he can buy a piece of tofu and kill him .
In the evening, the food was quite plentiful, and Mu Feng also considered that everyone had been busy for a day today and had hardly stopped, and after listening to Tang Anwen's plan, he also felt that it was feasible.So today Mufeng cooked more, meat, fish and vegetables, and tomorrow he will have a big job, and he will use up his energy to make up for it first.
After dinner, Lin Zuo and Tang Xuan cleaned up the dishes. Mu Feng caught two locusts and put them into Tang Xuan's small bamboo cage made of bamboo silk, and gave them to the two children to play.Only then did firewood be set up and burned in the yard. Two sacks filled with locusts were set up to bake in mid-air, ready to bask in the sun for a few times and after the locusts dried out, they could be ground and fed to the sheep.
Tang Anwen asked Mu Feng if this food was edible. He had eaten locusts in restaurants in his previous life. Mu Feng told him that this kind of grassland locusts could not be eaten, because eating them would cause stomach problems, but there was a kind of food in their tribe that could be eaten, but There were no more here, Tang Anwen was a little disappointed when he heard that, but thinking of the densely packed locust corpses in the small pond, Tang Anwen immediately lost his appetite.
The next day Tang Anwen got up early in the morning, Mu Feng was awakened by Tang Anwen's noise, Tang Anwen opened the door and looked at the insects rushing towards him, he closed the door back in fear, who could tell him that yesterday's insect plague was not over, Why did it come again today, and it looked no less than yesterday's.
Mu Feng was halfway through his clothes, when he saw Tang Anwen shut the door back with a terrified sound, and asked, "What's wrong with Ah Wen?"
Tang Anwen turned around and said: "The wood wind is here again, today is the same as yesterday, the sky is still densely packed."
After listening to Tang Anwen's words, Mu Feng said: "The grassland migratory locusts will cause a disaster every three to fifty years, but this time the interval is a little shorter. I know that the last locust disaster was 50 years ago. After the locust disaster, the world is hard. Grassland barbarians broke into the border of Weinan. The autumn harvest the barbarians did was to rush across the border to plunder our food wealth in Weinan. The emperor ordered conscription, and my father went to the border at that time. In a battle, my mother rescued my father’s Fate, later Daddy fell in love with Ah Mu, so he stayed in the Muha clan, but unfortunately, Ah Mu still had an accident..."
Tang Anwen saw that Mu Feng was a little depressed.So he went to Mufeng, hugged Mufeng and comforted him: "Don't be sad, those things are over, now you have me and baby, we live a very good life, I believe you will be very relieved to know that your mother is in the spring. "
Tang Anwen knew very little about these, because fools seldom pay attention to them. If it wasn't for a particularly deep memory, Tang Anwen wouldn't be able to find out what the fools put in their heads.
The two got up, and Mu Feng went to cook. Tang Anwen was thinking about his plan. No matter how long the locust plague lasted, it would not last until next year. Tang Anwen was wearing a bamboo hat and sand hat, and was fully armed with a shovel brought from Lin Zuo's house. I started to walk towards the land to be reclaimed, and slapped a few shovels, and the locusts gnawing on the grass roots on the ground suddenly died.
Tang Anwen looked at the dead locusts all over the place, and was quite satisfied with the effect. When he took pictures of the locust carcasses, the land must be very fertile by this time next year, and maybe there would be no need to fertilize it.
Batches of locusts flew by in the sky, and Tang Anwen slapped countless locusts to death on the ground. Suddenly, Mufeng's shouts came from a distance, and Tang Anwen went back with a shovel. It should be that Mufeng called for dinner. It seems that we still need to ask Tang Xuan and the others for help, and we will kill more people later. Tang Anwen plans not to fertilize next year.
Tang Xuan was terrified of being hit by locusts yesterday, and refused to come out with Tang Anwen, but Lin Zuo took a bamboo hat and sand hat newly made by Mu Feng, and shot locusts with Tang Anwen, killing one and killing the other, and less damage to the crops .In fact, everyone knows that the locusts that disappeared yesterday have already flown farther, and the ones that appeared today should be a new batch from the grassland. Tang Anwen thought that these locusts really looked like they would devour the Weinan Dynasty. This year's locust disaster I don't know where it will spread.
Looking at the locusts all over the ground, Tang Anwen thought that if thousands of chickens and ducks were raised, no amount of locusts would be eaten. Maybe he should go to the grasslands to promote raising chickens and ducks, which can not only lay eggs but also solve the locust disaster .
The plague of insects lasted for five full days. The weather was fine and the sky was clear. There were no more groups of black locusts in the sky. However, with the departure of the locusts, the ground became smooth and clean. There were grass roots in front of Tang Anwen's house. nothing.Mu Feng asked Lin Zuo to take Xiao Hei out to get some air. It had been imprisoned for five whole days, and it had already become restless, and even angrily swallowed the locusts that had slipped in from nowhere.
After the pest plague passed, Tang Anwen went to Tangjia Village to fetch water, and went in to do it for a while after passing by Tang Lang's house.Tang Lang told Tang Anwen that their family had lost some vegetables, and more than half of the ears of rice had been taken back, so there was less land allocated to them by their father and mother.For the rice in the one-acre field, they only harvested the ears of rice, and let the locusts eat the stalks casually.
Although a lot of vegetables were lost, his family had a lot of potatoes and radishes. After the locusts ate a lot of leaves, Tang Lang and Zhang Lan directly buried the potatoes and radishes under the soil with hoes. Now the plague of insects has passed Now, the two of them are going to dig out the pressed radish and potato leaves again, and continue to plant the living ones, and pull out the dead ones to eat.
Tang Anwen walked into the village with a bucket. A few days ago, the windows and doors of every house infested with insects were closed. Now that the insect infestation has passed, Tang Anwen can feel that the atmosphere in the whole village is very tense. Before, you could always see people visiting the village, but now it is very difficult to see them. The man took a hoe and started planting red-brown rice. This thing was planted after the rice was harvested in previous years. This year, most of the rice in the family did not come to rush to harvest.
Some people who respond quickly and have a large family can snatch more rice back. Some people who respond slowly have serious losses and almost no harvest. This season rice is the main income of most families in a year. Now it is gone. For most families Said it was a fatal blow.
When Tang Anwen came back from fetching water, he met Tang Anbao on the way. Tang Anbao asked Tang Anwen if he was okay and if there was any damage in the field.
Before Tang Anwen could open his mouth, he heard Tang Anbao's second elder brother, Chen Fang, snorted and said, "What loss does his family have? The rice has been harvested long before the insect plague. I also heard that Mufeng informed Tang Anbao early Lang and the others were plagued by insects, and they didn't think about who they were relatives with, and they didn't know to notify us, which caused us such a big loss."
Tang Anwen was very unhappy when he heard this, and said: "Mu Feng is pregnant, Tang Lang's house is also close to my place, he just yelled casually. At that time, many people in the village knew about the locust plague, why didn't you I know, did everyone in the house die? Still no one notified you. There are also many people in the village who didn’t lose much, which shows how bad your relationship with your neighbors is. No one else can blame you for this, you can only blame yourself. What’s more, Mufeng has Do you have to run to inform you of that obligation? Will you be grateful to him, or will you give him benefits, and brother, think about it before speaking."
After saying this, Tang Anwen didn't even want to pay attention to his second brother Tang Anbao, and walked towards the end of the village with two buckets of water.
Tang Anbao gave his daughter-in-law a hard look, and shut up after saying something that he couldn't speak.Only then did he catch up with Tang Anwen and say, don't be angry with Tang Anwen, your sister-in-law can't speak and don't take it to heart.He also explained to Tang Anwen that he and his eldest brother went to the town to do some work that day, and they didn't have time to come back at that time, and the whole family didn't find out. Most of it was eaten by locusts, and their family lost a lot this time, far from the harvest of previous years.
Tang Anwen stopped and said to Tang Anbao: "Second brother, what do you tell me about this? If you have time, you should go home and take care of your daughter-in-law. It's okay to say the wrong thing to me. Then what about him, if outsiders can't see his stinking mouth, it will be his turn to talk nonsense with that man's wife."
After Tang Anbao heard Tang Anwen's words, he said in embarrassment: "Awen, do you know your second brother? He is so straightforward. Just don't take it to heart. Since the separation of Awen, you and your family have had a quarrel. Yes, after all, we are brothers and sisters. Although we have said that we have been sorry for Mu Feng these years, you also know that there are difficulties at home. If you have time and nothing else, you can take your children and Mu Feng to the house. Daddy and Eminem After you left, although you didn't say anything, they often looked at your room and sighed, "My parents are getting older, so you should be more filial, lest you regret it in the future."
Tang Anwen just nodded and didn't refute Tang Anbao. Maybe it's really a fool who wakes up and is willing to do his filial piety, but he is not a pure fool Tang Anwen. He is Tang Anwen from the 21st century. Being bullied by those people, Tang Anwen still can't swallow the breath even now thinking about it.
Seeing Tang Anwen walking away in silence, Tang Anbao didn't know what to do. Daddy and Mu wanted his brother to go home, but he knew from his expression that his brother was determined to live a good life with Mu Feng, so how could he be willing to interfere? In the compound.What's more, when my younger brother separated the family, my father and mother did a little too much, and the distribution was so little, it was like leaving the house without leaving the house. My younger brother had resentment in his heart, so Mu Feng also had resentment in his heart.If these things are not resolved, the younger brother and their family will always be very different, and they will not be able to get close at all.
In addition, the few children in the family used to bully Tang Dou and scare Tang Guo. Those two children didn't want to come to play in the compound at all, and they couldn't even be coaxed.Thinking of what his father and elder brother said, Tang Anbao felt that it was basically impossible for his younger brother's family to move back.
They don't know where they heard that his younger brother has a good job in his hand now, and he is earning a lot of money, so his father and brother are tempted. Tang Anbao is really unwilling to be this lobbyist, not to mention that now he feels that he is with Ah Wen. The brotherhood has long been very weak, and it can't stand any wind and rain at all, otherwise it is very likely that even the last bit of second brother's affection will be gone.
Since the insect plague passed, not only has the atmosphere in the village become tense, but even the prices in the town have skyrocketed, whether it is food or meat, everything is rising.
During the period, Song Yi came back from the city once and told Tang Anwen that a new friend he had made worked in the government office. According to the government office worker, although the insect plague was severe this year, the land tax still had to be paid, and the land tax was still paid. Maybe grain would be collected in winter, but he didn't know exactly what was going on, but it wouldn't be wrong to ask Tang Anwen to prepare more grain.
At the same time, Song Yi told Tang Anwen that they were only plagued by insects, and they could grow red and brown valleys next.And the frontier is not only plagued by insects, but it has not rained for several months now, and there may be a drought. Maybe there may be some refugees in the future, so let them be more careful.
Tang Anwen told several members of the family about this, and the atmosphere in the family suddenly became more tense than ever. Although the harvest has not been very good in recent years, there have been no major disasters, not even floods.But this year is different, not only floods, locust disasters, but also droughts in the borderlands, which is very unlucky, so Tang Anwen, who has not lived for a long time in ancient times, became extremely nervous.
Tang Xuan didn't take it seriously, and wasn't worried at all.He told Tang Anwen that if something happened and there was an unmanageable famine, then let Tang Anwen's family follow them into the mountains. In the [-] mountains, it is no problem to support a few people. Although the trees in the mountains are now gnawed bare by locusts, However, the tenacious tree will soon be able to regain its vitality.
Tang Anwen drove the mule cart to the grain store, and the shopkeeper quickly asked the shop assistant to bring up fifteen bags of [-]-jin sacks. Tang Anwen waved to the shopkeeper, and whispered to Lin Zuo beside him with a smile: "Mule You come to drive the car, I will drive the horse-drawn cart to transport the food back first. If there is time, I can go to the town to buy other things, if the disaster is serious, maybe it will be difficult to buy vegetables by then."
Lin Zuo nodded, it was inconvenient for him to come to the town, and he would not have rushed over this time if it wasn't an emergency.After all, if you go to the town many times, you are also afraid of being found out. I am afraid that not only Tang Anwen and the others will be implicated, but Tang Xuan will also be implicated. If there is no such person in his heart, Lin Zuo would not be so careful to hide.
Tang Anwen was driving the carriage, and Xiao Hei's speed was significantly slower this time because he had pulled a lot of food.Tang Anwen slapped Xiao Hei lightly and unhurriedly, and Xiao Hei was also very upbeat, pulling the goods and running towards the deserted village at an even speed after all.
Mu Feng ran to Tang Lang's house, kicked open the courtyard door with a "bang", Mu Feng called Zhang Lan Tang Lang loudly, his voice was full of anxiety.
Tang Lang is not a dead person. He just squinted his eyes for a long time, and he was still asleep. He was awakened when the courtyard door was kicked and made a loud noise. He raised his eyes and asked Zhang Lan what was going on, and then listened. I heard Woodwind's shouts.Zhang Lan responded with a cry and quickly put down her needlework and ran out, thinking that something had happened to Mu Feng.
Zhang Lan saw that Mu Feng standing in the yard was doing well, and then asked in relief, "What's wrong with Mu Feng? He looks very anxious."
Mu Feng took a breath and said: "Quickly call Tang Lang to get up, insects and locusts are overwhelming the sky, and the sky is covered, hurry up to harvest rice, no matter how fast it comes, it has already fallen in the yard." Refers to the covered sky and the scattered locusts that have fallen in the yard.
Hearing Mu Feng's words, Tang Lang grabbed a piece of clothing and rushed out. He didn't even bother to say hello to Mu Feng, so he ordered Zhang Lan to wake up the two children and let them go to the field to cut rice ears, otherwise they would be killed by locusts. If you gnaw it, you will have no harvest this year.
Seeing Zhang Lan calling the two children to get up, Mu Feng was relieved to go out with a basket and sickle in a hurry. He ran a little too fast just now, and Mu Feng slowed down before walking towards his own field. The next insect plague is the same as that of a young man in his twenties, so this day is about to change.Although he was very worried, but thinking of the few people in his family, Mu Feng vowed that as long as he was alive, he would never let anyone hurt Ah Wen and the child, as well as their unborn three treasures.
When Mu Feng returned to the field, Tang Xuan didn't care what was in the vegetable field, he pulled out all of them and put them into the baskets. The green vegetables, cabbages and radishes quickly filled the two baskets. When Tang Xuan saw Mu Feng came back Said: "Both Mufeng are full, let's carry them back first, and later use a hoe to dig out the potatoes."
Mu Feng nodded, the grassland locust plague was much more terrifying than the general locust plague, these locusts were not only big in size, but also fast in eating, as long as they gnawed and moved, the place they passed was barren, and they came in batches.
Tang Dou didn't listen to Mu Feng and stayed in the house obediently. He had heard Eminem tell him before that the locusts were very powerful and would eat up all the food.So he took his younger brother to open the door and took a sickle for cutting rice, ran to the yard not far away and cut the red beans by the roots, and asked his younger brother to drag them back into the room. Lock it up.
Little Tang Guo saw that his brother looked very serious and worried, and was also very well-behaved. Although he was not strong, it was no problem at all to drag a few long tangled red bean vines full of red bean clips.
The two brothers just cut one and dragged the other. Seeing that the younger brother was tired, Douzi asked the younger brother to rest first, and he dragged the red bean vines by himself.
When Mu Feng and Tang Xuan carried the vegetables they had cut back from the field, they saw the two little guys running into the yard dragging long red bean vines. Tang Xuan smiled and said to Mu Feng, these two little guys are promising again Well, before the adults even said it, the little guy knew he was going to drag the food home.
When he came back, Tang Xuan asked Mu Feng to stay at home to rest for a while. A three-month-old child couldn't stand it, so it's better to be careful.
Mu Feng also nodded and said that he would pay attention. Tang Xuan went to dig potatoes in the field with a basket on his back and a hoe.Mu Feng felt that he was in good health, so he simply took the sickle from Dou Zi's hand, and he cut the red bean vines very fast, and asked the two children to drag the red bean vines back. The long-eyed one has already hit the person directly, and the face is painful, especially the grassland migratory locust's claws have burrs. It's okay for adults. If it sticks on the child's face, the child's delicate skin will definitely be injured .
Mu Feng hurriedly asked the two children to go back to the house to stay, fearing that the two children would run out if they had nothing to do and would be bored, Mu Feng also prepared a big basket for the two children and asked his mother to pick red bean clips.Then Mu Feng went to another yard where the livestock were kept. Except for the chicken coop, the bamboo shed for raising sheep and stacking hay was closed by Mu Feng to prevent the locusts from running away.
Mufeng came outside the yard again, and black locusts kept falling on the ground. There were rustling sounds in Mufeng's ears, forming a continuous patch. This was the sound of migratory locusts gnawing on plants.Mufeng walked to the mung bean field and looked at the plants surrounded by dense migratory locusts. Finally, Mufeng sighed and waved away the locusts that landed on his head. Mufeng had no choice but to go home. There is no way to save it.
Tang Anwen was driving back in the carriage, and locusts kept falling on the way, and he had to shake off the locusts that landed on his head from time to time.After going back and forth for half an hour, Tang Anwen finally came back with the carriage. He looked at the locusts all over the yard but didn't see a single person.
Tang Anwen yelled towards the house, Tang Xuan opened the door and came out, just now he was attacked by locusts all over his face, and now he didn't want to come out at all, Mu Feng thought of a way and got Tang Xuan a black gauze hat , so that the locusts can't land directly on the head. He was planing those fresh vegetables just now, otherwise the things in the hot weather won't last long.
Mu Feng originally wanted to help move the food, but was rejected by both Tang Xuan and Tang Anwen. Tang Anwen told Tang Xuan his scruples.Tang Xuan immediately waved his hand, pulled the carriage and went to the bamboo house. The carriage was parked in the yard. Tang Xuan asked Tang Anwen to go to the town to buy some other things. Seeing that the locust plague would not end for a while, his family and Tang Anwen The family is not short of money, so it is natural to prepare more food.
Tang Anwen untied Xiao Hei, snatched Tang Xuan's bamboo hat and sand hat, climbed on the horseback and rushed towards the town.
Tang Xuan shook his head and sighed at Tang Anwen who was going away. This world is finally getting better. Seeing that the rice harvest is about to be bumper, but in the end there is a plague of locusts. If it continues like this, there will definitely be a food shortage, and it will only be more than 20 years when it is stable Is the world going to be chaotic again?Tang Xuan got rid of the things that were in his mind, anyway, there would be a tall man to support him when the sky fell, he just needed to live a good life with Lin Zuo.Tang Xuan walked into the house, cleaned up the place where the sundries were piled up, removed the bamboo board, opened the stone board, climbed down to light the oil lamp, and then moved the bags of grain into the storage room.
When returning to the town, Tang Anwen ran into Lin Xuan and asked Lin Xuan to store the grain at the bamboo house. There were already five or six hundred catties of millet at home, so there was no need to store more.Lin Zuo naturally understood what Tang Anwen meant, and nodded towards him to show that he understood.
When Tang Anwen returned to the town, the stone streets of the town were already covered with locusts. The once lively streets had become deserted, and people were rushing home to harvest rice and vegetables.Tang Anwen walked into the grocery store. What he bought were not fresh products, but all dried products, such as mushrooms, fungus, kelp, seaweed, day lily, wide powder and fine powder, which were easy to store and ready to eat.
Tang Anwen went to buy a lot of soybeans. Originally, they had planted them at home, but their family planted October beans, and the beans had grown, but there was no fruit yet.If the pests are serious and there are no vegetables, it is very good to buy some soybeans. They can be eaten directly or made into various bean products, and they can also be turned into bean sprouts. Tang Anwen is planning to spend half a year of this year's food in one day. All bought enough.
Did Tang Anwen just ride it? The shopkeeper of the grocery store just came back from the purchase office. Seeing Tang Anwen's horse with large and small bags on his back, he scolded his young son fiercely when he entered the shop. How could he sell things at such a time? If it is dropped, the price might double tomorrow, so Tang Anwen just walked away when the shopkeeper closed the shop behind him.
Among them, the shopkeeper of the grain store, his intestines are almost turning green. It was a whole three thousand catties of high-quality rice, and he sold it at such a low price. You must know that in the face of such a plague of insects, the grain has doubled Even though the price just now was not a loss, he still made a lot of money, but who knows if the price of grain will increase several times tomorrow. Compared with that price, he is really losing money.
The shopkeeper cursed Tang Anwen secretly in his heart, he never thought that this seemingly honest boy would be so clever, causing him to lose three thousand catties of high-quality rice in vain.
Naturally, Tang Anwen didn't pay attention to these things. He rushed to take his things home. There were more and more locusts along the way. Most of the sky was occupied by locusts, and the sun was almost covered. Tang Anwen couldn't count how many locusts it took to give someone Such momentum.
After finally rushing home, Xiao Hei kept snorting, and hit the ground with his front hooves, constantly crushing the locusts on the ground. On the corner of the eyes and nose, this caused a lot of trouble for Xiao Hei.
Mufeng and Tang Anwen carried the things into the house together, and then came out to take Xiao Hei back to the stable. After closing the door, Tang Anwen lit the oil lamp in the house and fed Xiao Hei with hay, and then closed the door to feed the sheep. As for the chickens, Tang Anwen thought that he would not need to feed them these days. These are great supplements for the chickens at home. Looking at the hens in the chicken coop chasing the locusts, Tang Anwen simply put the chickens Open the cage and let them have a good meal.
After finishing these Tang Anwen can finally go back to the house to take a breath, walk into the main room, Mufeng and the children are there, the beans and Guoguo are still picking their pods, the basket has already filled a lot of black, gray, half-green and half-yellow pods Tang Anwen from A glass of water was poured on the coffee table, and he poured it down, feeling like he finally came alive. He had been rushing and rushing just now, and his nerves were tense, and Tang Anwen was nervous because of some psychological factors.
In addition to the vegetables to be eaten these days, Mufeng cut the cabbage into four pieces and prepared to pickle them into sour cabbage, cut the radishes into radish sticks and pickled them. Hang it to dry in the room.There are freshly dug potatoes at home. Although they haven't grown much, they can last for a while.
It shouldn’t be a problem to plant green vegetables after the pest plague is over. What’s more, in the spring, Mufeng makes dried bamboo shoots when he has time. Now there are quite a few at home, and some dried meat and bamboo shoots noodles is a good dish.Although there are six people in the family, Ah Wen bought so many dry goods from the town, enough to last half a year.
Tang Anwen wanted to help Mu Feng chop radishes, but Mu Feng disliked him for being clumsy. In fact, Mu Feng was afraid that Tang Anwen didn't chop vegetables very much, and it would be bad if he did.Don't think that he moves fast and cuts evenly, that's all from practice. Mu Feng watched Ah Wen dangling in front of his eyes with nothing to do, it really got in the way.
While chopping radishes, Mu Feng said: "The cattle and sheep that Ah Wen grew up eating locusts are very fat. Why don't you catch locusts in the yard and put them in sacks. After you catch the locusts, I'll roast some on charcoal fire. Dried and ground, it can be fed to chickens and raised, and Xiao Hei can also be eaten to grow stronger.
Tang Anwen nodded when he heard Mu Feng's words, and the two little guys with sharp ears heard it too, and wanted to go out with their father, but seeing the densely packed locusts in the yard, they still didn't dare to leave the house, so they could only obediently continue picking their beans.
Tang Xuan and Lin Zuo stored the food, Tang Xuan went to the town to return the snails, Lin Zuo closed all the windows at home, and then walked towards Tang Anwen's house, where they lived together recently.There are a lot of people in the yard, and the personalities of the few people are very compatible. Tang Xuan also likes to live here, so they all live in Mufeng's house recently, and they are no longer staying overnight occasionally.
Lin Zuo watched as Tang Anwen put a sock on his hand and grabbed the locusts into sacks by the handful. He asked Tang Anwen what he was doing with this thing, and he just swept it out of the yard after killing it.
Tang Anwen told Lin Zuo what Mufeng had said, and said that it would stink if he was shot dead, so Lin Zuo also put on Tang Xuan's other sock. The boy told Lin Xuan that this sock was made by Mufeng for him, and that he hadn't worn it yet. Two sacks catch locusts together.
The sky finally gradually darkened, and the locusts in the sky have become rare, and it will take a while to see a wave of locusts flying by.Tang Anwen was called by Mu Feng to fetch water, and the water that he washed a lot today was quickly used up.
Tang Anwen came to the small pond with a bucket as usual, and stared at the small puddle filled with locusts in a daze. He let out a loud cry, feeling distressed and sad, his small pond was buried by locusts Well, even if it is cleaned up now, the water in this pond will not be drinkable in a short time, it is all corpses, the corpses of countless locusts.
Tang Anwen had no choice but to go back with a bucket. He asked Tang Xuan to help fetch water from the well in Tangjia Village, and he called Lin Zuo with the wooden basin. The two went to deal with the small pond together. Otherwise, when the locust corpses rotted tomorrow, they would still Do you want this pond?
Pots of locust corpses and water were scooped out. Tang Anwen looked at the locust corpses dumped in the distance and suddenly said to Lin Xuan: "Lin Xuan, you said that we will bury those locust corpses in the soil over there. The land will definitely become fertile, right," Tang Anwen said, pointing to the bare ground not far from the small pond, which was covered with grass in the morning.
Lin Zuo looked at the small pond, and then visually inspected the tunnel Tang Anwen was pointing at: "I don't know if the land is fertile or not, but I know that if you bury the locust corpses over there, wait for the water over there." If it overflows to this side, it’s not clear whether the water is still drinkable, maybe people can gain weight after drinking it.”
Tang Anwen was stunned for a moment when he heard Lin Zuo's words, and then he smiled awkwardly and said, "That's right, if the pond is too close to the field, then the sewage will overflow into the pond when fertilizing, and the water will I can't drink it anymore, it seems that even if you want to fence the fields on the side of the mountain, you have to be far away from the pond."
Lin Zuo looked at Tang Anwen and said: "Ah Wen, your family is not short of money now, and it is no problem to buy food to eat, let alone the two of us, why do you want to fence the fields so much? Logically speaking, you are a scholar , and not a farmer, this kind of thinking is really weird, just like me, I never thought of farming with Tang Xuan."
After hearing Lin Zuo's words, Tang Anwen said: "That's not the case. Isn't the rice grown in our field delicious? Although the rice bought in the town is said to be grown here, we can eat it, and the taste is completely different. , and we need to do something to do the planting at home, the four of us in total can do it quickly on two acres of land, and the work is not too much."
Lin Xuan nodded after listening to Tang Anwen's words. If it was really a war, food would not be easy to buy. If he had two acres of land, he could barely survive a year with rice.So Lin Xuan said: "This little water has drowned so many locusts. We will collect more locust carcasses tomorrow, and then we will enclose two acres of land 50 meters away from the small pond. There are hundreds of locusts." The carcasses of locusts will surely be fertile in the coming year, no matter whether we plant them or not, or plant other things, we will not lack that bit of land tax.”
When Tang Anwen heard Lin Zuo's words, he told Lin Zuo that it was very difficult for him to encircle and dig fields by himself. He originally thought that Mu Feng would talk about it after giving birth, but now that Lin Zuo nodded, Tang Xuan would also help. There were three people, In addition, the grass on the ground has been gnawed clean by locusts, and there are only some grass roots left. It must be easy to dig, and it is God's help. If Tang Anwen can't reclaim two acres of land, then he can buy a piece of tofu and kill him .
In the evening, the food was quite plentiful, and Mu Feng also considered that everyone had been busy for a day today and had hardly stopped, and after listening to Tang Anwen's plan, he also felt that it was feasible.So today Mufeng cooked more, meat, fish and vegetables, and tomorrow he will have a big job, and he will use up his energy to make up for it first.
After dinner, Lin Zuo and Tang Xuan cleaned up the dishes. Mu Feng caught two locusts and put them into Tang Xuan's small bamboo cage made of bamboo silk, and gave them to the two children to play.Only then did firewood be set up and burned in the yard. Two sacks filled with locusts were set up to bake in mid-air, ready to bask in the sun for a few times and after the locusts dried out, they could be ground and fed to the sheep.
Tang Anwen asked Mu Feng if this food was edible. He had eaten locusts in restaurants in his previous life. Mu Feng told him that this kind of grassland locusts could not be eaten, because eating them would cause stomach problems, but there was a kind of food in their tribe that could be eaten, but There were no more here, Tang Anwen was a little disappointed when he heard that, but thinking of the densely packed locust corpses in the small pond, Tang Anwen immediately lost his appetite.
The next day Tang Anwen got up early in the morning, Mu Feng was awakened by Tang Anwen's noise, Tang Anwen opened the door and looked at the insects rushing towards him, he closed the door back in fear, who could tell him that yesterday's insect plague was not over, Why did it come again today, and it looked no less than yesterday's.
Mu Feng was halfway through his clothes, when he saw Tang Anwen shut the door back with a terrified sound, and asked, "What's wrong with Ah Wen?"
Tang Anwen turned around and said: "The wood wind is here again, today is the same as yesterday, the sky is still densely packed."
After listening to Tang Anwen's words, Mu Feng said: "The grassland migratory locusts will cause a disaster every three to fifty years, but this time the interval is a little shorter. I know that the last locust disaster was 50 years ago. After the locust disaster, the world is hard. Grassland barbarians broke into the border of Weinan. The autumn harvest the barbarians did was to rush across the border to plunder our food wealth in Weinan. The emperor ordered conscription, and my father went to the border at that time. In a battle, my mother rescued my father’s Fate, later Daddy fell in love with Ah Mu, so he stayed in the Muha clan, but unfortunately, Ah Mu still had an accident..."
Tang Anwen saw that Mu Feng was a little depressed.So he went to Mufeng, hugged Mufeng and comforted him: "Don't be sad, those things are over, now you have me and baby, we live a very good life, I believe you will be very relieved to know that your mother is in the spring. "
Tang Anwen knew very little about these, because fools seldom pay attention to them. If it wasn't for a particularly deep memory, Tang Anwen wouldn't be able to find out what the fools put in their heads.
The two got up, and Mu Feng went to cook. Tang Anwen was thinking about his plan. No matter how long the locust plague lasted, it would not last until next year. Tang Anwen was wearing a bamboo hat and sand hat, and was fully armed with a shovel brought from Lin Zuo's house. I started to walk towards the land to be reclaimed, and slapped a few shovels, and the locusts gnawing on the grass roots on the ground suddenly died.
Tang Anwen looked at the dead locusts all over the place, and was quite satisfied with the effect. When he took pictures of the locust carcasses, the land must be very fertile by this time next year, and maybe there would be no need to fertilize it.
Batches of locusts flew by in the sky, and Tang Anwen slapped countless locusts to death on the ground. Suddenly, Mufeng's shouts came from a distance, and Tang Anwen went back with a shovel. It should be that Mufeng called for dinner. It seems that we still need to ask Tang Xuan and the others for help, and we will kill more people later. Tang Anwen plans not to fertilize next year.
Tang Xuan was terrified of being hit by locusts yesterday, and refused to come out with Tang Anwen, but Lin Zuo took a bamboo hat and sand hat newly made by Mu Feng, and shot locusts with Tang Anwen, killing one and killing the other, and less damage to the crops .In fact, everyone knows that the locusts that disappeared yesterday have already flown farther, and the ones that appeared today should be a new batch from the grassland. Tang Anwen thought that these locusts really looked like they would devour the Weinan Dynasty. This year's locust disaster I don't know where it will spread.
Looking at the locusts all over the ground, Tang Anwen thought that if thousands of chickens and ducks were raised, no amount of locusts would be eaten. Maybe he should go to the grasslands to promote raising chickens and ducks, which can not only lay eggs but also solve the locust disaster .
The plague of insects lasted for five full days. The weather was fine and the sky was clear. There were no more groups of black locusts in the sky. However, with the departure of the locusts, the ground became smooth and clean. There were grass roots in front of Tang Anwen's house. nothing.Mu Feng asked Lin Zuo to take Xiao Hei out to get some air. It had been imprisoned for five whole days, and it had already become restless, and even angrily swallowed the locusts that had slipped in from nowhere.
After the pest plague passed, Tang Anwen went to Tangjia Village to fetch water, and went in to do it for a while after passing by Tang Lang's house.Tang Lang told Tang Anwen that their family had lost some vegetables, and more than half of the ears of rice had been taken back, so there was less land allocated to them by their father and mother.For the rice in the one-acre field, they only harvested the ears of rice, and let the locusts eat the stalks casually.
Although a lot of vegetables were lost, his family had a lot of potatoes and radishes. After the locusts ate a lot of leaves, Tang Lang and Zhang Lan directly buried the potatoes and radishes under the soil with hoes. Now the plague of insects has passed Now, the two of them are going to dig out the pressed radish and potato leaves again, and continue to plant the living ones, and pull out the dead ones to eat.
Tang Anwen walked into the village with a bucket. A few days ago, the windows and doors of every house infested with insects were closed. Now that the insect infestation has passed, Tang Anwen can feel that the atmosphere in the whole village is very tense. Before, you could always see people visiting the village, but now it is very difficult to see them. The man took a hoe and started planting red-brown rice. This thing was planted after the rice was harvested in previous years. This year, most of the rice in the family did not come to rush to harvest.
Some people who respond quickly and have a large family can snatch more rice back. Some people who respond slowly have serious losses and almost no harvest. This season rice is the main income of most families in a year. Now it is gone. For most families Said it was a fatal blow.
When Tang Anwen came back from fetching water, he met Tang Anbao on the way. Tang Anbao asked Tang Anwen if he was okay and if there was any damage in the field.
Before Tang Anwen could open his mouth, he heard Tang Anbao's second elder brother, Chen Fang, snorted and said, "What loss does his family have? The rice has been harvested long before the insect plague. I also heard that Mufeng informed Tang Anbao early Lang and the others were plagued by insects, and they didn't think about who they were relatives with, and they didn't know to notify us, which caused us such a big loss."
Tang Anwen was very unhappy when he heard this, and said: "Mu Feng is pregnant, Tang Lang's house is also close to my place, he just yelled casually. At that time, many people in the village knew about the locust plague, why didn't you I know, did everyone in the house die? Still no one notified you. There are also many people in the village who didn’t lose much, which shows how bad your relationship with your neighbors is. No one else can blame you for this, you can only blame yourself. What’s more, Mufeng has Do you have to run to inform you of that obligation? Will you be grateful to him, or will you give him benefits, and brother, think about it before speaking."
After saying this, Tang Anwen didn't even want to pay attention to his second brother Tang Anbao, and walked towards the end of the village with two buckets of water.
Tang Anbao gave his daughter-in-law a hard look, and shut up after saying something that he couldn't speak.Only then did he catch up with Tang Anwen and say, don't be angry with Tang Anwen, your sister-in-law can't speak and don't take it to heart.He also explained to Tang Anwen that he and his eldest brother went to the town to do some work that day, and they didn't have time to come back at that time, and the whole family didn't find out. Most of it was eaten by locusts, and their family lost a lot this time, far from the harvest of previous years.
Tang Anwen stopped and said to Tang Anbao: "Second brother, what do you tell me about this? If you have time, you should go home and take care of your daughter-in-law. It's okay to say the wrong thing to me. Then what about him, if outsiders can't see his stinking mouth, it will be his turn to talk nonsense with that man's wife."
After Tang Anbao heard Tang Anwen's words, he said in embarrassment: "Awen, do you know your second brother? He is so straightforward. Just don't take it to heart. Since the separation of Awen, you and your family have had a quarrel. Yes, after all, we are brothers and sisters. Although we have said that we have been sorry for Mu Feng these years, you also know that there are difficulties at home. If you have time and nothing else, you can take your children and Mu Feng to the house. Daddy and Eminem After you left, although you didn't say anything, they often looked at your room and sighed, "My parents are getting older, so you should be more filial, lest you regret it in the future."
Tang Anwen just nodded and didn't refute Tang Anbao. Maybe it's really a fool who wakes up and is willing to do his filial piety, but he is not a pure fool Tang Anwen. He is Tang Anwen from the 21st century. Being bullied by those people, Tang Anwen still can't swallow the breath even now thinking about it.
Seeing Tang Anwen walking away in silence, Tang Anbao didn't know what to do. Daddy and Mu wanted his brother to go home, but he knew from his expression that his brother was determined to live a good life with Mu Feng, so how could he be willing to interfere? In the compound.What's more, when my younger brother separated the family, my father and mother did a little too much, and the distribution was so little, it was like leaving the house without leaving the house. My younger brother had resentment in his heart, so Mu Feng also had resentment in his heart.If these things are not resolved, the younger brother and their family will always be very different, and they will not be able to get close at all.
In addition, the few children in the family used to bully Tang Dou and scare Tang Guo. Those two children didn't want to come to play in the compound at all, and they couldn't even be coaxed.Thinking of what his father and elder brother said, Tang Anbao felt that it was basically impossible for his younger brother's family to move back.
They don't know where they heard that his younger brother has a good job in his hand now, and he is earning a lot of money, so his father and brother are tempted. Tang Anbao is really unwilling to be this lobbyist, not to mention that now he feels that he is with Ah Wen. The brotherhood has long been very weak, and it can't stand any wind and rain at all, otherwise it is very likely that even the last bit of second brother's affection will be gone.
Since the insect plague passed, not only has the atmosphere in the village become tense, but even the prices in the town have skyrocketed, whether it is food or meat, everything is rising.
During the period, Song Yi came back from the city once and told Tang Anwen that a new friend he had made worked in the government office. According to the government office worker, although the insect plague was severe this year, the land tax still had to be paid, and the land tax was still paid. Maybe grain would be collected in winter, but he didn't know exactly what was going on, but it wouldn't be wrong to ask Tang Anwen to prepare more grain.
At the same time, Song Yi told Tang Anwen that they were only plagued by insects, and they could grow red and brown valleys next.And the frontier is not only plagued by insects, but it has not rained for several months now, and there may be a drought. Maybe there may be some refugees in the future, so let them be more careful.
Tang Anwen told several members of the family about this, and the atmosphere in the family suddenly became more tense than ever. Although the harvest has not been very good in recent years, there have been no major disasters, not even floods.But this year is different, not only floods, locust disasters, but also droughts in the borderlands, which is very unlucky, so Tang Anwen, who has not lived for a long time in ancient times, became extremely nervous.
Tang Xuan didn't take it seriously, and wasn't worried at all.He told Tang Anwen that if something happened and there was an unmanageable famine, then let Tang Anwen's family follow them into the mountains. In the [-] mountains, it is no problem to support a few people. Although the trees in the mountains are now gnawed bare by locusts, However, the tenacious tree will soon be able to regain its vitality.
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Go to become a god, let me marry into the sect
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I'm a monster in Demon King's Castle
Chapter 828 17 hours ago -
Harry doesn't want to be a wizard, he just wants to be a superhero
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