Escape from the desert

This period is the busiest period in the entire Linjia Village. The people of the village huffed and groaned and started the autumn harvest non-stop as soon as they hoeed the ground and planted peppers. As soon as the autumn harvest was over, the whole village started digging the fields together, running in both directions in the mountains and in the fields. For a while, the entire Lin Family Village was bustling with activity.

At this time of the previous year, the crops in the fields were harvested, and everyone was slack. Those who had the strength at home would look for work everywhere, wishing to save two more copper coins for the New Year.

In the past two days, Jiang Yan and the whole family of the Lin family were equally busy without touching the ground. Lin Dong and his two daughters-in-law would go to the town to open a shop for half a day every day, and they would be busy with homework when they came back in the afternoon.

Lin Nan and Lin Xi led the whole village to turn over the fields and dig the soil. With the new farm tools, the speed of the whole village was much faster.

Because Shangguan Zixuan didn't want to go home yet, Jiang Yan arranged for Xiaodouzi to take him and Wangcai to cut wild vegetables every day. Dozens of chickens and ducks gradually grew up and their rations increased day by day. The ducks went to the fields to look for grains to eat, and they were fed wild vegetables at night.

With Xiaodouzi, a professional chicken farmer, taking the lead, the three of them have to do this job with great vigor.

The bullock cart wobbled towards Yong'an Town. Jiang Yan hadn't been in a bullock cart for a long time since she had a horse cart. Qiao Le will come to Linjia Village tomorrow. She has already rented a house in the village. I went online to buy some daily necessities, and by the way, I went to see how the store is doing recently, and she hasn't visited Lin Bei and Erbi after studying, so I can go and have a look today.

The house he rented to Qiao Le was in Houcun, very close to their home. There were only two boys in their early teens left in that family. Come with a few big baskets.

The two children are thinner and more numb. If they are not young, they would like to go with them when they build the factory. Jiang Yan has seen their house. Although it is also an adobe thatched house, it is better than the space, bright and clean. , she wanted to help the two children, so she directly paid the rent and rented them out first.

"Mother, are you going to come back with me later, or wait until the eldest brother closes the stall together?" Lin Nan supported the leaf in his hand, carefully shielding Jiang Yan from the glare of the sun.

He went to the town to transport the finished farm tools back to the village, and also brought back the two cows that Uncle Wu helped to buy. It would be great if Mother could accompany him.

"Look at you happy." Jiang Yan looked at Lin Nan's silly smile: "I will come back with the boss and the others in a while, you are busy with your work."

Lin Nan nodded embarrassingly: "Our family will have buffaloes, or two! Before this, I dare not dream like this!"

As he said that, he held Jiang Yan's arm tightly, sat a lot closer, his face was reddish, and his tone was tranced and joyful: "Mother, only when I'm so close to you and hold you tight, I feel that these days are real, and I don't think it's real." Dreaming, I am afraid that when I wake up, I will go back to the past."

Jiang Yan raised her head and rubbed his face. The thin, black-skinned young man's eyes were tinged with unreality. Lin Nan was stubborn, but he was also a very insecure child. Although he had experienced a lot, he was more Most people are still mature, but after all, they are only 16 years old, and there will be times when they are uneasy and helpless.

"No, the old days are over. Our family is different now. As long as everyone works hard, life will be fine."

The road was a bit uneven, the bullock cart was driving a bit fast, and bumped a bit. Lin Nan simply took advantage of his strength to lower his head, and leaned gently on Jiang Yan's shoulder. The warm wind blew by. Looking at the scenery on the side of the road, he nodded vigorously.

By this time, almost all the rice in the field has been harvested, leaving only stubbles of rice and the shallow layer of clear water in the paddy field.

Smelling the fragrance of rice, Jiang Yan felt at ease physically and mentally. She patted Lin Nan's back lightly and hummed a soft tune in her mouth.

The carriage slowly approached the town, and many villagers were already waiting at the gate of the town. Everyone was less mean to Jiang Yan, and now they would greet Jiang Yan kindly once or twice.

Jiang Yan also only responded politely. Lin Nan was going to meet Lao Wu at the Baoren's place. Jiang Yan also had her own arrangements, so the two walked separately.

She went to buy some daily necessities first, and then went to the cloth shop to buy two quilts and bed sheets. Except for one bed in the rented house, she didn't plan to use the other things for Qiao Le, and replaced them all with new ones.

It's not that Qiao Le is so expensive, it's because the sheets in the two bear children's homes are old and rolled up, the pillow and quilt covers have been washed so that they can't see the original color, and there are even many irregular holes and cracks, and Beggar's Nest is not much different.

Qiao Le is a scholar no matter what, and she was a young master before, so she is too embarrassed to let people use these things.

It was rare for her to go to the street alone, so she hid in the alley not far from her shop and bought eight bags of rice noodles in the mall before going to Lin Dong.

The shop was relatively busy, so Lin Dong found two people in the village. Hearing Jiang Yan's call, the two quickly ran to the alley to carry food.

For them, being able to work in the Lin family is the best thing, the salary is high, and the benefits are good, especially during this period of time, when the village harvests in autumn, they will be allowed to go home to help during the holidays, and no deductions will be made during the holidays. They only work for half a day, and sometimes they can take the Lin family's carriage when they go back to the village.

It is a luxury for them to ride in an ox cart, and they don't even think about horse carts.

"Boss, Jinhua, Xiaomeng, don't be in a hurry, you can't be in a hurry when doing business, especially in this stove, everyone takes turns changing positions, and move slowly, so as not to burn your hands from the heat."

There are a lot of people at this meeting, and the small shop is already full of people. The whole family is busy with their hands and feet. They have been quite familiar with it for so long, but they still burn their hands when they are impatient.

Wang Jinhua was cutting the pig's head meat, her face was bright red from the heat, she said with a warm smile: "Understood, mother, you go to see Xiaobei Erbi and the others first, and you can go home after you're done."

"That's right, mother, you go now, don't worry about us, we all know about it." Lin Dong also said hastily, shaking the dustpan in his hand, and made another rice roll.

Jiang Yan nodded, everyone was busy, so she had to go to the private school to see Lin Bei and the others first, because it took a lot of time to go shopping, and this would be the time when the sun was shining.

She was carrying two packs of pastries and walking on the street, looking at the more bustling Yong'an Town, she couldn't help being fascinated. There were many more people on the street, and there were also many more... Beggars, looking at those shabby, hungry skinny, Dirty people who were begging in the sun, she had a complicated heart for a while, especially many of them were children of a certain age.

There were so many beggars not long after the autumn harvest. If the government doesn't care about it, there will be more refugees in the future. If there are too many refugees, they will easily develop into bandits. The disaster caused by this year's drought may be far worse than hers. It's more serious than imagined.