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Chapter 114 The parents on the road to escape 12

Time passed by and it didn’t snow in November, and except for the occasional cloudy day in December, it didn’t snow either. January, February too.

During the official farming season in March, not a drop of rain fell, and it still didn’t rain in April and May. Not only that, the water level of the creek outside the village began to drop, and the water level of the two wells in the village also began to drop, even affecting the villagers’ water use.

As the saying goes, when something goes wrong, there must be a monster. The completely different weather from previous years, as well as various anomalies, made people throughout Yu County panic. Zhangjia Village also held several clan meetings. The Zhang clan leader, who is also the village chief of Zhangjia Village, suggested that the villagers stock up on food as much as possible to prevent unexpected events.

Zhangjiacun Ancestral Hall.

"Chief, the price of food in the county has risen again."

"Yes, and the court's taxes are getting heavier every year. It's not easy for us to fill our stomachs all year round. Who has enough money to buy food?"

"Those profiteers, when there is any disturbance, the price of food starts to rise, and they don't care about the life and death of us ordinary people."

"I went to the rice shop yesterday and saw that one stone of old rice (100 kilograms) costs one tael of silver, and one stone of millet costs five hundred cents..."

"Your price was yesterday's, and today it's gone up by another hundred cents."

Everyone in the ancestral hall was chattering.

Zhang Yuanlin felt lucky when he heard that there was no heavy snowfall in November. The third brother felt uneasy and bought a bunch of grain, which was enough for their family for a year. At that time, he thought that the third brother was a prodigal, but now he is lucky to have listened. Third brother's words.

These days, the price of food is the same every day. If I buy it now, I don’t know how much money I will spend in vain.

He looked at the people complaining in the ancestral hall and knew that they were just talking about it. They had to buy it when it was time to buy it. No matter how expensive it was, they had to buy it. The whole family couldn't starve to death together.

"Okay, okay, everyone, be quiet."

When the clan leader spoke, everyone shut up.

"What's the use of you arguing here? Let me tell you, go to the county town to buy food. Now the price is the same every day. It's a good deal to buy it early."

A man became anxious and retorted: "Patriarch, who has enough money left to buy expensive grain from the grain store? In addition, the grain in the fields will be available in another month. It will be over soon, why bother to go there?" The county spent this money unjustly.”

"That's right."

Several people responded.

"Okay." The patriarch raised the crutch in his hand and knocked on the ground a few times, stroking his gray beard and said: "My words don't work anymore, do they? Just go ahead and buy it. I can still trick you." Can’t do it?”

Several villagers looked hesitant on their faces, hesitating to speak. They wanted to speak but were too intimidated by the majesty of the clan leader to dare to speak.

Some villagers appeared to agree, but the looks in their eyes gave it away. It was obvious that they also disagreed with the patriarch's words.

The patriarch glanced at the crowd, and after looking around, he had an idea in his mind, and said: "You guys are short-sighted, no matter how important money or life is, you don't even look at what time it is. I'm really pissed off. ”

"It hasn't rained in half a year, and there wasn't even a single snowflake last winter. Hey." He sighed. The clan leader seemed to have aged several years. "I'm afraid there's going to be a drought."

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the ancestral hall was in an uproar.

"Chief, this is not enough, why is there going to be a drought?"

"Yes."

"Clan leader."

The other villagers looked at the patriarch helplessly. A few elderly people calmed down and nodded thoughtfully.

Zhang Yuanlin said: "The water levels in the two wells in the village have dropped, so we have to go around more to get water than before."

Zhang Yuanlin is one of the clan elders in the village. He is still literate and can barely be considered a cultural person. His prestige in the village is only lower than that of the clan leader.

As soon as he spoke, other elderly people in the village also began to speak, pointing out various abnormalities.

In the end, the clan leader concluded, "Don't take chances. Please save more food during this period to be prepared. If the situation is not good, our village may have to flee famine."

People fleeing from famine came out, and most people were terrified.

After the clan association was disbanded, Zhang Yuanlin and several other clan elders stayed behind to discuss the future matters with the clan leader.

After returning home, Zhang Yuanlin initiated a family meeting and briefly discussed the content of the clan meeting, as well as the clan leader's plans for escaping from famine.

"Why are you running away?"

"Second sister-in-law, if it doesn't rain, it will be a problem for us to drink water. What the patriarch said makes sense."

Yuan Xi had never thought about taking advantage of the drought to leave early with his family, but after thinking about it, it was unrealistic, so he gave up.

However, during this period of time, he had been sneaking around Zhang Yuanlin, and then took the opportunity to take out some of the food in the space and cross the open road. For this reason, he also learned to drive and walked to the county seat alone without buying anything. The car at Qi Hu's house was full, and no one could say anything.

Qi Hu's house has become Yuan Xi's small warehouse. There are currently two ox carts and three donkey carts there; one of the ox carts and the donkey cart pulls a flat cart with a larger capacity. A pile of grain in the cellar, as well as various cotton cloths that he often took home, were all made into clothes. It was not easy for him to have two extra changes of clothes.

"Third brother, thanks to you some time ago, our family has enough food now." Zhang Yuanlin pondered for a while, "I will get some more money, and we will go to the hospital to prepare some medicine, to relieve the heat, to relieve the cold,... , these common illnesses come with a few packets of medicine."

As he said that, he stood up and went to the house to get the clay pot and pay for the medicine.

Yuan Xi stopped him, "Second brother, I have prepared all those medicines. They are kept in the big wooden box in my house."

Zhang Yuanlin sat down again, "Oh, just be ready."

Then he stood up again and said, "Would you like to buy two more donkey carts and ox carts? There are so many of us and the two before are not enough."

"Second brother, I'm ready too."

Zhang Yuanlin was stunned, "Ah, are you ready again?"

"Yeah, I bought two more donkey carts and an ox cart later, which is enough for us."

Not only is it enough, it is simply enough.

Zhang Yuanlin sighed in his heart, thoughts whirled around in his mind, and he came up with one thing after another that might be used to escape the famine. He said the same thing, and Yuan Xi's answer was that he was ready.

Zhang Yuanlin was puzzled, why, the third brother didn't escape the famine either, how could he be so experienced?

Zhang Lei, Zhang Xing and other juniors were a little sad at first when they saw that the two elders had already agreed to flee. However, as the two asked and answered, they gradually became more confident.

If it’s not just an escape, what are you afraid of? Dad/Uncle is so well prepared.

In the evening, when he returned to the house, Zhang Yan saw his wife's pale face and knew that she was remembering the past again. He hugged her and comforted her: "Daughter-in-law, it's okay. I'm here this time. Even if you can't trust me, you still have a father." With my second uncle here, our family will be safe and nothing will happen."

"Running away is no big deal."

"Just make up your mind. You haven't experienced it, so you don't know how terrible it is. When there was a flood, our village fled together. One after another died on the road. If we had nothing to eat, we could only eat grass and leaves. I was also lucky. I passed by you The village was saved by you, otherwise it would have been impossible to escape death."

At this point, she cried bitterly, "I'm sorry, I lied to you. The man who was buried at the beginning was not my father at all. My family had long wanted to sell me as a slave. It was still a way to survive. But Qian Qian No, no, they wanted to sell me into the building, but I ran away if I refused."

"Later, when I arrived in your village, I really couldn't hold on any longer, so I thought of this solution."

Zhang Yan smiled and said: "Then we are really destined."

"Don't you blame me for lying to you?"

Xiu Xiuniang looked up at her husband, their eyes met, Zhang Yan said seriously: "I have guessed it a long time ago, I don't blame you."

The couple started talking, and Xiu Xiuniang burst into tears while holding him.

Hearing his wife's voice become hoarse from crying, Zhang Yan comforted her:

"Okay, stop crying, don't be silly. I was attracted to your cleverness in the first place. Look how clever Xiu Xiu is now, and how much our father likes her."

"Let's hurry up and give birth to a big fat boy. We will send him to study in the future. With our smart minds, he will definitely be able to become famous in the future."