Chapter 36 Where are my potatoes?
"If you and your aunt work hard, it won't be difficult to give birth to a brother for me, right?"
When Yun Zhao thought about being the target of public criticism, he became extremely frightened.
"Your aunt wanted to have a boy until she died."
"Huh? My aunt is gone?"
"Yes, poor woman, I gave birth to three girls and survived one..."
"Marry again...ah——"
Before Yun Zhao could finish his words, he was kicked into the body flower bed.
The roses in the flower bed were in bloom, and the hard thorns on the branches were sharp. Yun Zhao was fished out of the flower bed by Uncle Fu with a smile, and the thorns were pulled out. Yun Zhao slapped him on the butt and said, "Well done! If you continue like this, your sixth uncle will really treat you as his own son.
I have already told the eldest lady that in the Yin Clan, Don’t worry about this matter. As long as you get along well with your sixth uncle, they are blood relatives after all, and everything will be yours. She will never listen!”
Yun Zhao said with a smile: “I am! I really like Uncle Six."
Uncle Fu looked at Yun Zhao and laughed and said, "Yes, that's it, that's it. You are not even a bit better than your father."
p>"I really like Uncle Six!"
Uncle Fu smiled even harder, and his eyes, which were always squinting, became even brighter.
Mr. Xu was in high spirits today. After teaching the children, he stood on a long case and drew a picture of Buddha.
Yun Zhao didn’t recognize the Buddha, so he asked Mr. Xu, but Mr. Xu said that this was not the Buddha, but a sage whom he drew based on the painting method of the Buddha’s murals.
"Who is this sage? Confucius? It doesn't look like that." Yun Zhao also didn't know this sage. At least, the sage with the ravines on his head didn't look like a person. If a person's If his head looked like this, it would be difficult to call him a human being.
"It's not Confucius, nor Lao Zhuang, nor Yan Hui, but the sage in my heart..."
Mr. Xu was a little sad.
"Why draw such a sage?"
"I really hope that there will be such a sage who can solve the doubts in my heart and save the coming troubled times.
Your husband and I were originally disciples of Mr. Hengqu. When we were young, we made great aspirations to establish a heart for this world, to establish a destiny for this living people, to carry forward the unique knowledge of the past saints, and to serve all generations. Open peace... Thirty years have passed, and I haven't done anything. I still have to watch the building collapse and the lives of the people... but there is nothing I can do."
Yun Zhao was silent for a moment, rolled up the painting and hugged it. He said in his arms: "Give this painting to the students!"
"Your recent homework is not good!"
"It's because I don't care about my homework!"
"Why are you not interested in your studies?"
"Because you want to live first... Sir."
"Did the wild boar spirit tell you that life will be so difficult in the future?"
"No one can escape...half of us will die."
Mr. Xu was silent for a long time and sighed. : "After Zhu Ming is over, who can run the world with great talent and strategy?"
Yun Zhao smiled bitterly: "It is probably the worst ending among the worst endings."
" Oh, that means the bandits take over the world... Well, this painting belongs to you."
Yun Zhao didn't understand why Mr. said that the worst outcome would be the bandits taking over the world, but he soon came to his senses. Come here, Nurhachi and his family have never been an option in your husband’s choice.
He thought that chaos in the world was already terrifying, that the collapse of Zhu Ming's country was the ultimate thing he could imagine, that the loss of life was the most terrifying thing in the world, that powerful figures like Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, and that literati There will be another catastrophe... This is the extreme that his eyes can see and his mind can imagine.
A sharp pain shot up from his buttocks. Yun Zhao's small body flew in the air for a while before his buttocks landed on the ground, rubbing against the loess for a full three feet.
"How dare you lose your mind when you are facing an enemy?"
Uncle Yunmeng's ugly face with Chinese characters appeared in front of Yun Zhao. Of course, he was mentioned again.
Yunyang was about to be crushed to death by the bricks on his back. He shouted to use his arms to prop up his body. One of Yunjuan's legs was hung up high, and his crotch had been torn. The bird was hanging weakly on one side. He had to use this leg to pull up the blue brick on the other side of the rope to feel more comfortable.
Yunshu and Yunshu are still running. As for the other brothers... they are also in their own miserable situations.
When Uncle Fu was training, everyone could still act coquettishly and be lazy. Uncle Robber began to take over the training... No one had a good life. Go home and tell your parents if they dare to say one more word, Robber Uncle even beats his parents...
Yunzhao has not shed tears for a long time. Although his mind has matured, his body is still young, and crying is beyond the control of reason. , is controlled by instinct.
So, when he was in pain, he couldn't help but shed tears.
Then, the pain will intensify again, because bandits and robbers have no humanity at all! ! !
The heat in Guanzhong continues. The emergence rate of millet and millet planted on the hillside is very low. Only the seedlings in the paddy fields remain the same. It is a conclusion that this year's autumn grain harvest will not be very good.
So, my mother ordered the stone wall at the entrance of Yun's Zhuangzi to be raised another ten feet. At the same time, she ordered the villagers in Zhuangzi that this year, no grain would be sold, and all the food would be provided by Yun's big house. acquisition.
No matter how much grain is harvested, Yun's grain depot is still empty, like a bottomless pit. Even if Uncle Fu transports back all the grain that originally belonged to the Qian family, the grain depot is still empty.
Several Yun's grain shopkeepers in Chang'an came to the house, and my mother met them in the atrium.No matter how much they begged, mother still had no intention of selling the food.
"The harvest of summer grain has just been completed, and the price of a load of grain is already three taels of silver."
While eating, Yun Niang glanced at her son in front of the sisters at home. Just sigh.
"Auntie, the price is high, why don't you sell it?"
The tall Yunxia carefully asked her doubts.
"The price is high? The price will be even higher next year! By then, a load of grain can be exchanged for two girls like you!"
Yunxia immediately lowered her head, looking like she was very afraid of the aunt. Sell her.
Yun Zhao looked at the trembling sisters, and finally decided to go out to eat with his rice bowl. It was too depressing here.
Eating with Yunmeng and Yunfu is much happier. At least listening to their conversation makes Yunzhao full of hope.
"Monk Peng now knows that he is at a disadvantage, and thinks that as long as our family has food and livestock, he will take advantage of it. Now, hey... I want to buy food from grandpa. I won't sell it for any money, and let him hold it. When the pile of gold and silver is about to die, grandpa will go pick up the silver."
"Be careful of Monk Peng jumping over the wall in a hurry!"
"Jump, just wait for him. Come on, the government is now targeting the Weinan Plain, and they want to get grain from the Weinan Plain. If he jumps out at this time, the government will take action on him.
Our family is now full of common people who are farming, and there are no robbers. , The eldest lady even has to pay this year’s taxes. How much can a Yun family village have several thousand acres of land and have the honor of their ancestors?"
Fu Bo smiled and put down his bowl of rice and said: " All the surplus grain from the surrounding villages has gone into our house, right?”
Yun Meng smiled and said, “We have taken in all that we can. I have not spent much of the gold and silver accumulated in the village over the years.” ."
Yunfu nodded and said, "What do you need those things for? If you accumulate too much, you will attract the covetousness of the military household. Only food is the foundation for survival in this troubled world!"< /p>
Yunzhao was very excited as he listened to the two elders talking while eating. He put down his rice bowl and said, "We should save more food."
Yunmeng raised his hand and rubbed Yunzhao's hands. The round head said: "Everyone knows this, you don't need to say more."
Yun Zhao smiled and said: "How about we grow corn and potatoes in the future?"
Yun Fu frowned and said: "Corn? Potatoes? Never heard of it! Children, don't talk nonsense. Although millet and millet have been severely affected by the drought, there is still some harvest after all. I have been growing these two things you mentioned, Uncle Fu, all my life. "I have never heard of it."
When Yun Zhao heard what Uncle Fu said, he smiled slightly. The loess soil is very suitable for growing these two things, especially potatoes. As long as he can find the seeds, Yun Zhao will feel hungry. The problem may be greatly alleviated.
He remembered very clearly that these two things were introduced to China at this time. How could he not find them?