Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 34 The Art of Begging

Seeing this, the other villagers returned home if they could afford it, and the rest just watched at the entrance of the village. They could buy grain, but they couldn't go in.

But they didn't seem to be on guard against the children, Xu Yue wiped her tear-soaked face, took Aunt Wang and her sister, and slipped into the village under the care of Xu Dalang.

The villagers saw it, but didn't say anything. They guessed that they might be going to other people's homes to beg for food, and they just felt sad.

While looking at the village, Xu Yue told her elder sister and Mrs. Wang beside her:

"Whoever opens the door, just look at the door. Don't enter other people's doors indiscriminately. Someone will come out and say a few auspicious words, such as auspiciousness for the owner, wealth, good health, etc."

"Everything is taken away. If you take it, you have to say thank you to the good person for a safe life. If you don't give it, you have to thank it before leaving. Remember?"

After trying to write it down, Mrs. Wang nodded her head heavily: "Yeah."

"Where's sister?" Xu Yue looked at Xu Erniang.

Xu Erniang, who was shocked by her sister's begging skills, came back to her senses and said that she would bless well-wishers.

Xu Yue turned her head to look at Xu Dalang who was following behind her, "Where's brother?"

Xu Dalang grinned, imitating the movements she had just taught Mrs. Wang, cupped his hands and said, "Auspicious!"

OK, very good!Xu Yue nodded in satisfaction.

There happened to be three houses with their gates open in front of them. With a wave of Xu Yue's hand, Mrs. Wang went to the left, Erniang Xu went to the right, and Xu Yue and Xu Dalang went to the house directly in front.

When someone came out of the room, Xu Yue opened her mouth with a smile and said auspicious words in a jerky local dialect, she was sensible and didn't rush into the room, and kind-hearted people would give her something to send them away when they saw that they were pitiful.

Xu Yue took the things, and took her brother to thank the master obediently, and then left.

Some kind-hearted people called the brothers and sisters back again, and gave them an extra broken bowl or vegetable dumpling or something.

Of course, there are very few villagers who really hate this kind of behavior. When they saw them coming from a distance, they slammed the door.

When I saw it at first, I felt a little sad, but Xu Yueneili's soul is an adult after all, and he soon felt relieved, and continued to the next house with a smile on his face.

As for morality, what is that?Can I eat it?
After such a discussion, there is always something to gain.

One broken mat, one old pottery pot, three broken bowls, three vegetable balls, half a pancake, and a child's old clothes with patches on top of each other.

The level of productivity in this era is only so low, and these things that are left in the garbage dump for future generations and no one picks them up are already the greatest kindness of the villagers.

Xu Yue didn't dislike it at all.

Although the mat is torn, it can still block the early morning moisture. Although the patched clothes are full of holes, it is also cloth, and it is always better to cover the body than nothing at all.

The earthenware pot and broken bowl are more useful. You can cook and eat, and you don’t have to eat dry barbecue or anything. At least you have a mouthful of hot water to drink.

Vegetable balls and pancakes, to be honest, this is the first time Xu Yue sees a little green in food after traveling for so long.

Why do you think they are constipated?

It is because of long-term lack of fruits and vegetables, severe lack of dietary fiber, and excessive and unbalanced nutrition.

Xu Yue put all the things sent by the villagers into the old pottery pots, handed them to her elder brother, and led her elder sister and Mrs. Wang back to the entrance of the village happily.

The adults have already exchanged food, some are cooked food, some are a handful or two of wild vegetables, and most of them are millet mixed with chaff.

In Yanzhou, Gu is also called beam or millet. The difference between the two is that beam is high-quality millet and millet is common millet.

Unhulled millet or millet mixed with more than one-third of the bran is called valley.

In this era, agriculture is not developed, and it is still in the era of relying on the sky, so even if it is chaff, it will be left to cook together.

The reason why the villagers sold the millet with bran to Xu and Wang was not to take advantage of them, but the general market was like this.

Xu Da spent [-] yuan in exchange for a handful of wild vegetables, two wheat cakes, and five catties of millet with bran.

All in all, the villagers are already very kind, there are no middlemen to make the difference, and they give more than the market.

"Everyone's harvest is not very good this year, so I can only give you so much." The villagers explained in fear that they might misunderstand.

Wang Dayou also spent [-] yuan in exchange for a handful of wild vegetables and five catties of millet with bran.

As for the wheat cakes, he had none.

Speaking of this, Wang Dayou couldn't help admiring his elder brother Xu even more.

He never knew that Big Brother Xu was also good at divination, and his mouth was moving up and down, so that he was given two wheat cakes for nothing, and he was grateful to Dade and called him an expert.

Wang Dayou thought, he is not an expert, this kind of feng shui calculation secret technique has never been passed on to the outside world, and those powerful families probably don't know much about it.

For a moment, I just felt that the Xu family's background became more and more confusing.

There was also a woman who rushed to see Xu Gaoren with her child in her arms, which profoundly demonstrated the inexplicable worship and awe of the ancient people for the power of ghosts and gods.

Unfortunately, the two families bought food and left the small village. The woman could only look at the village entrance that had been vacated long ago, and sighed secretly that her children were not blessed.

The two families did not go far, but came to the small river near the village and found a flat place to rest.

Each family set up a fire to prepare for cooking.

Xu Da found a big stone and skillfully set up the stove, put the clay pot on it, poured water, put half a catty of corn in it, put a lot of wild vegetables, sprinkled two grains of salt given by the villagers, and stirred it with a branch .

Soon, the aroma of food came out, and Xu Yue's brothers and sisters, who were already hungry, began to growl.

But there was still some time before the wild vegetable porridge was fully cooked, so Mrs. Wang gave them the vegetable balls and pancakes that the children begged for first.

Aunt Wang also had a portion, which was less than half the size of her palm, and she did not forget to share some with her younger brother.

The children ate slowly, as if in this way, the waiting time would be shorter.

After a quarter of an hour, the wild vegetable porridge was cooked, and there were only three broken bowls. After distributing one to the Wang family, the Xu family only had two. The five members of the family took turns to use bowls to hold the porridge.

After eating the warm wild vegetable porridge, Xu Yue's burning stomach finally calmed down.

The water was gurgling in front of him, and a few yellow leaves drifted with the water, but the family of five who had filled their stomachs did not know where to go.

I thought that after leaving Sanyang County and finding a water source, everything would be fine.

I thought that when I arrived in Puyang, I would get the blessings I deserved and have a shelter.

However, it's already September, and they are still huddled outside other people's villages, using the sky as their quilt and the ground as their mat!
The five members of the family looked at each other and sighed together, "Oh~, go to sleep."

Lying on the tattered straw mat, thinking about the days when her family had eaten every meal, Xu Yue suddenly wanted to recite a poem.

"During the year of Qingxuan, there was hunger, tens of thousands of households were frowning, there was food but no food, and tears were dripping into pearls. Disasters, disasters, how to hide when disasters are imminent!"

(End of this chapter)