In the years of famine, the knife in my mother's hand is not bad either

"Village Chief, you are joking." Shen Qian forced a smile on her face and replied:

"Since the day I got married, our village has only had one source of water, the creek."

"I'm not a living god who can make water appear."

There was nothing Shen Qian could do.

Village chief Wang Dakuo smiled bitterly and shook his head.

I am getting old and confused. As a woman like Wang Shen, what good solution can I have for such a thing?

At most, we can just advise everyone to store more water at home.

"Please store more water at home." The village chief said as he left Shen Qian's house.

lunch.

Because I have been working a lot recently, I have been eating dry rice at noon.

But the vegetables... were just a bunch of nameless wild vegetables and pigweed.

It was sprinkled with some salt to add a little flavor.

As the lunch came to an end, Wang Wu couldn't help but say:

"Mom!"

"The stream outside the village is almost dry."

"Can the crops in these fields survive?"

"Half a month later, we'll harvest the crops." Shen Qian glanced at him and told him her plan.

"It can drop over a thousand pounds."

"More than a thousand pounds?" Shen Qian's words made the eyes of several children in the family widen at the same time.

This amount of grain was not enough to pay taxes in previous years.

Not to mention supporting a family’s expenses for a whole year!

"What about the family's savings..." Wang You and Wang Liang asked worriedly.

Shen Qian did not hide anything:

"I bought a cow."

"This..." Everyone sitting around the table felt like the sky was falling!

If they hadn't bought the cow, the family would probably have been able to survive the disaster with their savings and could have added a few more acres of land!

But...because of buying the cow, my family may have to sell the land!

Thinking of this, Wang Tianci asked anxiously:

"If the stream dries up, won't my family have money to buy water?"

Shen Qian nodded without comment.

Wang Tianci was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead:

"Mom!"

"It's really not possible, let's sell the cow!"

"We can't even survive the drought, let alone the two cows we raise."

"While they are still strong and healthy, they can be sold for a good price!"

As soon as Wang Tianci made the proposal, Wang You and Wang Liang immediately agreed!

Without waiting for Shen Qian to speak.

Xiao Qi's eyes suddenly turned red and he shouted:

"do not want!"

“Don’t sell the rhubarb and the cow!”

"Fourth brother, fifth brother, sixth brother, you are all bad guys!"

Looking at Xiao Qi's aggrieved look, Shen Qian always felt that this look was inexplicably familiar?

Just like when I sold those two pigs in my previous life?

The difference is that this time, Xiaoqi's hateful gaze is directed at the fourth, fifth and sixth brothers?

Interesting, Shen Qian thought to herself.

"Wang You, Wang Liang." Shen Qian did not respond to Wang Tianci's words, but looked at her twins.

Wang You and Wang Liang subconsciously shrank their necks when Shen Qian called them.

Wang Tianci, who had been shouting on the platform that he wanted to sell the cow, suddenly lost his enthusiasm.

"The three ox carts I asked you to make are not finished yet?" Shen Qian glanced at the two of them with sharp eyes.

In an instant, beads of sweat the size of beans slid down the foreheads of Wang You and Wang Liang.

I was questioned by my mother for being lazy.

Although it has been more than half a month since Fourth Brother Wang Tianci was punished.

But the impression left a deep impression on them.

"Tomorrow at noon, we must see our ox carts able to go on the road normally." Shen Qian gave the two of them an ultimatum.

Wang You and Wang Liang felt as if they had been pardoned after hearing this.

He made repeated assurances.

When Xiaoqi saw that his mother had changed the subject of selling the cow, he looked at Shen Qian with gratitude.

I thought to myself: "Mother is so kind!" I disagreed with the bad fourth, fifth, and sixth brothers' proposal to sell Niu Niu and Da Huang.

After arranging Wang You and Wang Liang.

Shen Qian looked at the boss, Wang Qingliu, who had silently put down his bowl and chopsticks and acted like an invisible person!

Wang Qingliu felt Shen Qian's gaze on him.

His fingers drummed nervously on his leg.

"Clear stream."

"It's August."

"Isn't it time to pay the 250 copper coins that your mother paid to the government?" Shen Qian went straight to the point, and Wang Qingliu felt uneasy under his gaze.

"Hand it over right away!" Wang Qingliu said, and ran back to the room to get the 250 copper coins he had prepared long ago and handed them to Shen Qian.

Shen Qian didn't even count them and just took them into her arms under Wang Qingliu's heartbroken gaze.

Get up and leave.

"That..." Wang You looked at Shen Qian and called out:

"Mother, we need to buy the wheel axle from the blacksmith."

"Six axes will cost at least 200 coins."

"And some things for the carriage, all sorts of odds and ends..."

"That's perfect. 250 Wen for you." Shen Qian said, and threw the money she had just put into her arms directly to Wang You and Wang Liang:

"I must see three ox-carts that can be harnessed to oxen before lunch tomorrow!"

"If it's too little, I won't make up for it. If it's too much, you don't have to return it."

Hearing that they didn’t need to retreat, Wang You and Wang Liang’s faces were immediately filled with joy!

This is a legitimate way to save some money.

Especially since my stomach is already empty, I can use the remaining money to eat some meat this time.

But the premise is... to get things done with the least amount of money!

"Don't worry, mother!" Wang You and Wang Liang responded in succession.

Wang Qingliu, who was standing by, watched his 250 coins fly from his mother's hands to his fifth and sixth brothers.

I feel like my heart is bleeding.

That was earned by copying the Thousand Character Essay for several days with great effort!

Because of the rising food prices, there were fewer jobs copying books, and the price was pushed down to the lowest level in history: fifty cents for a copy of a thousand-character text.

So after he paid the money to the public, he only had 500 coins left!

At a time when food prices are skyrocketing, this is just twenty kilograms of stale corn.

Yes, because the drought became more severe, the price of aged corn soared by another five cents, reaching twenty-five cents per catty!

After returning to the room and taking a nap, Shen Qian took out the buns she had bought in the morning from the bag beside the bed, stuffed them into her mouth and started eating.

After eating four meat buns, Shen Qian felt that the pain of eating corn at noon was mostly cured!

Walk out of the house and head straight for the mountains!

According to my memory, if I want to find the water source in the mountains, I need to cross the sunny side of the mountain and reach the shady side of the mountain.

Halfway up the mountain, in the shadow of the mountain, there is a flowing stream pool covered by shallow rocks.

Because of the overgrown weeds, even the hunters in the mountains could not find it when they arrived there.

Moreover, Shen Qian concluded that there would be edible food nearby.

Otherwise, how could those two stupid guys, Wang You and Wang Liang, escape into the mountains and survive for more than a month, and return safely on the eve of the village's decision to flee the famine?

Because Shen Qian avoided the time when the sun was at its highest when she went up the mountain, she was physically tired.

But after reaching the top of the mountain, just a layer of sweat appears on the surface of the body.

Walk behind the mountain.

If it weren't for the long daylight hours in summer, it would probably have been dark by the time she reached the mountainside.

Not to mention going back.

When they reached the mountain stream, Shen Qian took the pickaxe she brought from home and started knocking and smashing things.

After struggling for more than an hour, Shen Qian stopped in front of a reddish-brown rock.

I thought to myself: Is there anything I haven't hit? And with such skill, I can feel several figures moving in the forest.

Reaching out her hand, Shen Qian suddenly felt the rock under her butt, and her palm was slightly cold?

After covering it for a while, the cool feeling coming from the rock was obviously wrong.

Shen Qian was startled, and at the same time, she picked up the pickaxe on the ground and hit the rock she had just been sitting on!

There was a sound of 'bang!'

The reddish-brown rock cracked, and clear springs gurgled out!