Crossing the farm gate, the whole family reunites in the disaster year

"His aunt Feng in the village introduced her to a niece from her mother's family. She's not from our village, but whether it will work out or not will have to wait until Dalang's father comes back. According to his aunt Feng, the girl is quite nice."

Aunt Feng lived at the east end of the village. She was a key member of the gossipmongering group under the big locust tree, and Lin had heard of her.

"This is a big deal. It concerns Dalang's future happiness. We should find out more about it."

The matchmaker's mouth has two doors. Apart from the gender of the person, which can be trusted, all other words must be washed in water and dried before being listened to.

In my previous life, the daughter of a colleague was going on a blind date. The matchmaker came and said that the man fell in love with her daughter at first sight. The colleague happily persuaded her daughter to go on the blind date. However, when they met, she found out that the man had visual impairment in one eye. She was so angry that she started cursing in the office.

I don’t know how much truth there was in the words of ancient matchmakers, but it’s better to be on the safe side.

Yu had been so happy these past two days, but after hearing what Lin said, she calmed down a little.

If you marry a bad daughter-in-law, three generations of her family will suffer. The second wife is a living example.

"You're right. I'll ask someone to find out more later."

Lin smiled and said that nothing is absolute. Maybe Aunt Feng's niece is really a good person.

Dalang is now seventeen, and it is indeed time for him to get married. Following the order of succession, his own son will be getting married in a few years. Thinking of this, Lin felt a sense of urgency.

"If it's settled, I'll help you with it."

Just treat it as a rehearsal in advance.

"Okay, I won't be polite with you." Yu agreed with a smile, and then thought of something else. "I heard the village head say that every household in the village should raise a large number of chickens and ducks, saying that they can eat locusts. Is this true?"

A duckling costs ten coins. According to the head of the village, a family wants to raise dozens of ducks, which will cost hundreds of coins.

Having just experienced a drought, every family had little spare money, and a few hundred coins were equivalent to their entire family assets.

After the head of the village spoke yesterday, except for a few families who agreed on the spot, everyone else discussed it privately, hesitating whether to keep it or not.

Yu was unsure, so she went back and counted the remaining money at home. She found that she could only raise eighty chickens at most, and after that, the family would be penniless.

Dalang's father was not at home, so the only person she could discuss things with was Lin.

Lin said softly, "This method was proposed by Jingwen's father yesterday. I was there at the time. The three chickens you sent were all vying for the locusts, so it should be correct. I haven't planted the land yet, but I plan to plant the seeds in two days and raise a batch of them."

Yu had a few chickens at home. After hearing what Lin said, she decided to catch a few locusts and feed them to try. If it really worked, she would use the remaining money to buy chicks and ducklings.

"Then I know what's going on. Dalang's father is not at home, so I have to make all the decisions. Whenever I hear about spending money, I get nervous, afraid that the money will be misused."

Lin calculated the days and asked, "Da Lang's father will be back soon, right?"

"He said he'll be back at the end of the month, so he shouldn't be back for a few days."

Dalang's father used to farm in the village. After the disaster in the spring, he saw that there was not enough food. Just then, Erlang's father came back from sailing. After hearing about the boatman's wages, he gritted his teeth and followed him.

A trip takes three months, but one can earn three taels of silver. As long as one signs up to board the ship, the host will give one tael of silver to his relatives on the spot.

It was this one or two taels of silver that prevented Yu and her three children from starving. After a few days, when his father came back, the remaining two taels of silver would be enough for Dalang to get married.

Her husband will be back soon, and Dalang will be getting married soon. The more she thinks about it, the more she feels that her life will be prosperous.

Yu left the old house with a smile.

Some people laugh and some people cry.

At the same time, an ox cart slowly drove into the village. Li Zheng was sitting dejectedly on the cart, and there were dozens of chickens and ducks in the two bamboo cages next to it, with their heads drooping dejectedly.

The fantasy was beautiful, but I had to travel to several nearby villages before I could buy a hundred of them.

He should have thought of it earlier. The drought had just ended, and there were only a few households in Xiahe Village with chickens and ducks, let alone other villages.

The difference in quantity is too huge. The village has thousands of acres of land, and even if we rely on a hundred chickens and ducks, we still cannot finish eating all the food.

What is more frustrating than having no solution is that the original problem has not been solved yet, but new problems have already emerged.

It's harder.

The headman closed his eyes, picked up the cage and went to the Cui family's old house.

"...The surrounding villages barely bought a hundred, which is far from enough." The village head was worried sick.

Lin frowned. A hundred chickens and ducks were like a drop in the bucket when facing a swarm of locusts.

You can buy ducklings in Zhaozhao’s mall, but their origin is hard to explain.

"It would be nice if there were a chicken coop," the village head muttered to himself. After a few seconds, he suddenly looked up and asked, "Have you ever heard of any chicken coops near the county town?"

He had heard before that the chickens, ducks and geese used in restaurants in the county were all supplied by special merchants. Those who could afford to supply such a large restaurant must have raised a lot of chickens and ducks.

Lin was stunned for a moment, it turned out to be true.

"...There is a poultry house in Shilipu outside the city. The eggs used in the breakfast shop were bought from there." I don't know if the poultry house is still there.

But she didn't say this out loud. She had to keep some hope until she saw it with her own eyes.

The village head's eyes sparkled: "There should be chicks in the chicken coop, yes, there must be."

"Do you have time tomorrow? Show me the way and we'll go take a look."

Tomorrow was the day we had agreed to go to the county town to sell porcelain. Lin thought for a moment and said, "I'm going into town tomorrow too, so I'll stop by and take a look. If there are any chickens, I'll let you know when I get back, and we can get more people to go buy them together."

The village head slapped his forehead and said, "Yes, yes, if the quantity is large, we need to call more people to transport it back. I will wait for your news in the village. I'm sorry to trouble you with this matter."

"It's nothing if it happens along the way."

After resolving his troubles, the village head left with a much lighter heart.

Lin seemed to be lost in thought, and a risky idea gradually emerged in his mind.

Looking over the distant mountains, I still don’t know where Zhao Zhao is at the moment.

After crossing the mountain of Xiahe Village, and then crossing a few more mountains and crossing a few villages, Cui Zhaozhao and his group are now where they are.

"Ah!"

Cui Zhaozhao rubbed his nose and lowered his head to continue drawing circles for the ants.

A small piece of cake was placed in the middle of the circle. The ants, attracted by the delicious food, were biting the food crumbs and couldn't get out of the circle, so they were running around in circles in a hurry.

Cui Zhaozhao stretched out his hand and drew a gap. When the ants lined up to walk out, he drew an outer circle outside the gap.

Seeing the ants trapped again, a smile appeared on his face, and as he smiled, his nose couldn't help but feel sore. He remembered a sentence he saw in his previous life: when a person finds ants particularly interesting, it means that there is really nothing else to play with.

Isn't this sentence describing her right now? When she first came here, she would touch her phone in a daze every morning, but now she no longer has this habit.

For her, the mobile phone is her spiritual home, as important as the home where she eats and sleeps.

And now, the home is gone.

I don’t know what the ending of the novel I’m reading will be.