Hard times have room

Chapter 591

The days passed by as usual. Pauline had nothing else to do except dig wild vegetables, cook and read books every day. Of course, she was also very busy. Just doing these things every day took up all her free time. time.

Oh, by the way, she is also in charge of the bamboo rats at home. She feeds them all fat. The bamboo rats can only eat bamboo, and Pauline will naturally not be stingy with them. , Ke Jin feed, the fatter the better.

In a flash, half a month has passed, and the sweet potatoes that were buried before have grown up, and the sweet potato seedlings have grown from the covered straw to the length of a finger. It is rare to see it, and it will grow again soon. , This sweet potato seedling can be transplanted.

The people in the village are also very concerned about those sweet potato seedlings. Every day someone removes the grass and waters them and fertilizes them to catch insects. The one who sees them is called a treasure.

The sweet potato seedlings are growing well. This is a good thing for the village. The bad thing is that it hasn't rained for more than half a month, and the rice seeds have not been sown yet, so the villagers are anxious.

Now the spring rain is not falling, and the field has not been plowed, let alone the rice seeds. Before, the people in the village were not in a hurry, because it was still early, but now they are in a hurry, and they are still in a hurry. .

There are those who feel keenly thinking of the strange weather in the past two years, and become more silent. Whenever I have time, I go outside to dig wild vegetables. The whole family, young and old, will go into battle. The method is to store things at home.

Now this year, even if Shanghe Village is backed by mountains, life is still passable. Last year, five elderly people died. Among them, in winter, three of them were in their 80s. I couldn't take it anymore.

I don't know about other places, but the people who fell should be no less than those in Shanghe Village.

Now the only hope in the village is those sweet potato seedlings. As long as the sweet potatoes grow, take care of them carefully, and wait for the vines to grow, they will be able to plant sweet potatoes in the fields near the water source in the village. It's not that you can't grow sweet potatoes, because that's how it was done before.

Wang Jiandang also thought about doing this before, but after seeing the increasingly dry land and the Daqing River whose water level was getting lower and lower, he changed his mind and felt that it was better to plant sweet potatoes early.

That night, just after the family of three had finished eating and cleaned up the dishes, he explained his thoughts: "Daughter-in-law, Paulin, this day is getting more and more strange. The planting of sweet potatoes in the village has to be ahead of schedule, and I can’t wait for the sweet potato vines planted in the village to grow and cut the sweet potato vines.”

"By that time, there will still be a problem with the water in the Daqing River."

"If we wait, it will take more than a month at least. At that time, it will be a big problem if the sweet potato vines that are planted will not be able to be cut by our family, and our family will plant them."

Wang Jiandang felt that [-]% of the time it was not theirs. In this weather, every sweet potato seedling needs to be irrigated with water to grow. This is very difficult. If something happens, it will be over.

Originally, there were not many sweet potatoes here. After the past two years, there were not many seeds left in the village, enough to be planted on the dry land in the village, so more than one mu of land was buried.

If the rain does not fall, the paddy fields in previous years will become dry fields, and sweet potatoes may be planted at that time. When the collective fields are planted, when it is the turn to plant individual vegetable fields, the daylily may be cold.

Su Hongying also knew this. In fact, several days ago, Wang Jiandang had discussed this issue with her many times, but it had always been a discussion before, and he had never said so solemnly in front of her and Pauline. Pass.

She also thought about it carefully, so as soon as Wang Jiandang said it, she had a plan in her heart. She had no objection to what Wang Jiandang said. Now that she is an adult, she can grow her own backyard well. , is indeed a top priority. There is not much food at home, and the food in the black market is so expensive that I can't afford it at all, so I can only make my own ideas into my own land.

As long as you take good care of the sweet potatoes from now on until June and July, you will be able to dig out some of them from the ground, so there will be no hope at all.

Although it doesn't cost money to plant with the village, it takes time, and now is indeed a time when time waits for no one, and the most important thing is time, and God is fighting for time!

"I listen to you, do what you want to do, then do it. If you need money, just ask me to get it. Although our family doesn't have much money, we still have to spend it."

Now that she doesn't even have to eat, she can't even think about saving money for Paulin to go to college, which must be based on filling her stomach!

This person is going to starve to death, and it doesn't matter if she doesn't go to university. She still knows this very clearly.

This has been going on for two years, and the food reserves are basically exhausted. If there is another trouble this year, it will be a big problem.

"Well, I'll go to the town tomorrow to ask Kuang Lao Liu. If it doesn't work, I'll go to the black market to ask."

"If there is really no one to sell it, then we can only buy some sweet potatoes and come back, and we will raise the seedlings at home. In short, we must hurry up." Wang Jiandang frowned and said worriedly.

If there were other ways, he wouldn't want to do it, not to mention the time-consuming and labor-intensive cost, and it would cost a lot of money. As far as his family's wealth is concerned, he really didn't say it. It should be one of the poorest families in the village. The 40 If you put more money in the black market, you really can't even make a splash.

Of course, he didn't want to go to the black market to splash water, and he didn't have the ability. His main purpose was sweet potato seedlings.

"Okay, don't worry, I'll ask you a leave tomorrow." Su Hongying had no doubts about her husband Wang Jiandang's words
This kind of thing, that kind of place, can only be run by him who is the mainstay of the family. At this point, neither she nor Pauline can help much.

Although there may be a heavy rain, the thought and money they spend may not seem so worth it, but this time is not the time to cherish the money, she still said that it should be spent.

If the rain can be normal after that, everything will return to two years ago, and the weather will be fine. Even if she spends all the money in the family, the family can earn it again, and she is happy.

The strategy adopted now is just to prevent God from acting as a demon. If something happens, their family is prepared. If there is nothing, it is better. She is happier. With her own hands, how can she earn her own rations.

After the discussion the night before, early the next morning, Wang Jiandang hurriedly set out with a backpack on his back. It was filled with fresh and tender wild vegetables that Paulin had dug up yesterday. Although not much, it is a piece of mind.

(End of this chapter)