The end of natural disasters: the daily life of child brides in ancient times

When I woke up again, there was no one in the room and it was already evening.

Lu Qingqing got up, put on her half-wet clothes and went to the kitchen where Mrs. Lu Li was cooking.

Seeing the fire burning brightly in the stove, Lu Qingqing took the initiative to go over and light the fire, hoping to dry her clothes.

At dinner, under the supervision of Mrs. Lu, Mrs. Lu Li fried four eggs. She said she fried them, but in fact she just wiped the pan with an oilcloth.

He also cooked the mushrooms that Lu Qingqing brought back into soup, and was reluctant to add too much salt.

Old Mrs. Lu just took out the salt shaker, wiped a little with her fingernail, and dipped it into the mushroom soup.

Lu Qingqing's eyelids twitched when she saw this cooking method, and she silently thought that it was not clean and she would not get sick if she ate it.

However, Lu Qingqing still didn't eat the mushroom soup at dinner.

Just thinking about the black water used to rinse my nails makes me unable to eat it.

As for the eggs, they were in the bowls of Grandma Lu and the four male laborers, and Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang, the grandchildren, also got a small chopstick.

There is no need to think about others.

Erya and Sanya, who were standing next to Lu Qingqing, stared at the eggs and kept swallowing their saliva.

Seeing them like this, Old Lady Lu scolded the little girls directly, and the two girls were so scared that they dared not look up and just kept eating the vegetable porridge in their bowls.

Old man Lu next to him ate in silence. Neither the men who were given eggs nor the wives of the third room who did not get any eggs seemed to have heard him and just lowered their heads to eat the porridge in their bowls.

Dinner ended in silence. This month, the eldest wife was still in charge of the kitchen work.

After dinner, Mrs. Lu Li called Lu Qingqing over and asked her to help clean up.

At night, after they all fell asleep, Lu Qingqing went into the space to tidy up.

First pick out the less good ones from the sweet potatoes, and use the remaining large and plump ones for seedling cultivation.

After picking and choosing, I finally kept a dozen or so that were not so good and planned to roast them.

Place the sweet potatoes to be grown on the ground one by one, making sure that each sweet potato is in contact with the soil.

The space and land have the effect of accelerating growth. I hope that the sprouts will sprout quickly. After the sprouts grow up, the sweet potato seedlings will be broken off and planted.

I bought too many things today and need to plan the space properly.

Now wheat and corn are planted on the south side of the well, and sweet potatoes are placed next to the wheat. Sweet potatoes will be planted here later.

The vegetable garden occupies a small piece of land just west of the well.

The transplanted yams and planted yam beans are all on the west side of the vegetable garden.

To the north of the vegetable garden is a fenced chicken coop, and to the west of the chicken coop are chestnuts that were sown earlier, some of which have already sprouted.

To the east of the well is the rest area planned by Lu Qingqing, with thick wheat straw laying underneath.

Lu Qingqing spread the newly bought mat on top and lay down to try it out. It felt much more comfortable than the hard kang outside.

Place the base of the clay pot next to the north side of the well and place the clay pot on it.

The clay pot is next to the rest area, making it very convenient for cooking and boiling water.

On the east side of the rest area was a newly purchased three-layer wooden shelf. Lu Qingqing placed the newly purchased bowls, water bags, ladles, and kitchen knives on the middle shelf.

He also placed the salt and the cloth bag containing steamed buns next to the kitchen knife.

Put the basket of mushrooms and the yam beans collected earlier into the basket and place it under the shelf.

The yams collected earlier were placed on the shelf below, filling it up.

Lu Qingqing can't reach the top shelf yet, so she has to find a wooden block to step on before she can put it down.

However, most of the wooden shelves in the space are empty now, and there is no urgent need to use the top shelf.

Place eight wooden shelves around the space, against the walls.

The baskets I bought are basically not used yet and are just placed on the empty shelves.

These baskets can be used when it’s time to harvest the grain.

Except for the wooden rack placed against the wall on the north side of the well, most of the rest of the space is empty, and the crops planted are arranged here.

A piece of open space was left in the northwest direction of the space, and Lu Qingqing planned to find time to dig a deep pit.

Insert sharp branches at the bottom to make a trap.

If you encounter a wild boar again in the future, you can put it directly into the deep pit in the space.

After everything was almost in order, Lu Qingqing left the space and went back to her room to sleep.

If it doesn't rain tomorrow, we'll have to continue working in the fields, so we need to have a good rest.

As a result, not only did it not rain the next day, it didn't rain for a whole month.

Now, the air feels very dry.

In about two weeks, the millet will be ready for harvest. The crops in the fields are in the growth stage now, and they absolutely cannot do without water.

These days, the whole Lu family is very tired.

We carry water for watering the plants at home from morning to night. The weather is dry and hot, so the water evaporates faster.

The whole family was watering the fields almost from morning to night. Even the older two children, Da Zhuang and Er Ya, came to work in the fields.

Lu Qingqing felt dizzy from the sun. Seeing that she was far away from the field, she wanted to save some energy to carry water.

She secretly put some water from the space into the bucket, but was soon discovered by Lu Li. With the same bucket of water, Lu Qingqing watered a little further than her.

Mrs. Lu Li thought that Lu Qingqing was lazy at work and did not water the plants enough. After she told Boss Lu, she was scolded.

Naturally, Lu Qingqing didn't dare to do any tricks anymore and just followed the instructions and worked obediently.

That evening while having dinner, I heard that a fight had broken out in the village over water use.

These days, the water level in the river ditch of Lujia Village has dropped sharply, and the river bend in the southwest has no water today.

The villagers from the southwest fields went to the river bend south of the village to fetch water, and the villagers on both sides started fighting.

When the village chief went to mediate, neither side would give in.

In the end, they had no choice but to ask the villagers in the southwest to fetch water from the river north of the village.

The river flows down from the mountain northeast of the village and passes through Lujia Village from east to west.

Although the amount of water in the river has become much smaller, there is still water to irrigate the fields.

It’s quite a long distance just to fetch water from the southwest fields.

But food is the life of farmers, so they have to spend more time running back and forth to fetch water.

Fortunately, of the three plots of land owned by the Lu family, both the east and west plots are next to the river.

Only the land in the south may need to take a detour to fetch water in a few days. There is not much water left in the bay in the south.

After dinner, the village chief asked someone to call the head of each family to the ancestral hall.

The Lu family was where old man Lu went. When he came back, he called his three sons into the house and gave them some instructions.

Lu Qingqing only knew that Old Man Lu called his sons into the house to discuss something, and then Old Man Lu and his three sons went out with shovels.

Lu Qingqing didn't know when Boss Lu came back.

Lu Qingqing has been working in the fields recently and has to go into the space to work at night, so she basically falls asleep as soon as she lies down.

One morning, when Lu Qingqing was watering the fields, she heard the sound of a gong.

Boss Lu shouted to Lu Qingqing to bring the farm tools and follow him, and everyone on the road took their tools and ran to the end of the village.