Chapter 71: Heavenly Stem Years
Even the Jiangjia Dam was not spared from the incident that happened in Majia Village.
The water level of the huge reservoir has obviously decreased without raining for several consecutive months.
The more than 400 acres of land in Jiangjia Dam were all cracked.
The water released cannot flow far and becomes empty.
In the end, the seedlings can be planted normally in less than 50 acres of land.
"Second brother, what can you do if this continues!"
"Yes, Grandpa Second, we have to pay taxes this year. The things planted in this field are not enough to get stuck. It is difficult to support more than 400 people!"
"Second brother, the problem is serious."
When Ma Ruyue returned to Jiangjia Dam, she met the Jiang clan members and the meeting again. This time, representatives would be sent to each room.
Jiang Zhiyuan naturally went there as a representative, but he did not eat meat.
"Today, the clan made a property statistics. The autumn harvest cannot be eaten, and the autumn harvest must be a lack of harvest. Let the houses prepare for famine." Jiang Zhiyuan frowned and said, "That's what I mean, everyone is going to be hungry!"
"I thought you would eat meat when discussing matters." Ma Ruyue felt that most of the people in the clan would go hungry regardless of whether they were owed or not, but the degree of hunger was different.
"The clans are like this, so how can I have the money to eat meat and drink wine?" Jiang Zhiyuan said: "And, when did you eat it again when there were too many people?"
That's right, there are many people who are suitable for doing things but not for eating.
Jiang Zhiyuan couldn't get any food in the last meeting where people participated in each room.
This time, no.
Qing brought an umbrella and had dry food. The Jiang family had no grain or balance in business for so many years. How did this boss be?
It's simply unreasonable to have a natural disaster that can't last for a year.
Jiang Zhiyuan frowned. This is not a good thing.
Just like their big house, they were the prefects at the time. It was so glorious, but when they encountered an accident, they had to return to their hometowns and rely on the help of their tribes.
Unexpectedly, when the clan encounters trouble, there will be no way out. More than 400 people in the clan have to be prepared to go hungry.
"If you can't plant seedlings, you can only be empty?" Ma Ruyue didn't understand. Ma Wensong and the people from Majia Village used hoes to dig soil and make nests and watered them. The dishes and foot water they used were poured into the manure buckets, and they would go to the field to water once a day, and make a mark where they were watered. The next day, the next day, the seedlings in the fields began to turn green when they left Majia Village.
Turning to green means taking root, while the Ma family has nearly 300 acres of land is cracked. When the big men of the Jiang family met, they could only shake their heads and sigh, saying that the heavenly affairs were miserable this year and they would have to be collected and had no food to eat. They were complaining about the weather and did not find a way to make up for it.
Jiang Zhiyuan glanced at his sister-in-law, could you have any other solutions?
"You have to save yourself!" Ma Ruyue told him about the situation in Majia Village: "You go and pay back the loan of one or two taels of silver, and tell him about this."
It is said that we will follow the wolf and eat meat, and follow the dog and eat bones. It seems that the patriarch of the Jiang family does not have the leadership function at all.
"Where did you get the money?" Jiang Zhiyuan regretted after asking this. Didn't this woman say that she had no money before? She asked herself to pay back the bill now.
However, it was useless to ask, and she would definitely not tell herself.
"I got it for selling antelope horns." Ma Ruyue said lightly: "I sold two taels, and I bought some rice and flour for the Ma family. I spent some, and one tael was enough to pay the bill."
Jiang Zhiyuan didn't say anything anymore. Antelope horns could even be sold. This woman's ability was even greater than she thought.
No wonder she disagreed when she said she was selling meat that day. It’s better to have a full meal than a full meal.
Jiang Zhiyuan went to pay back the bill, and his face turned red when he came back.
"He disagreed and said that I am a scholar and I don't understand farming." Jiang Zhiyuan felt that the second old man Jiang had a reputation as an insult to scholars. He refused to let himself go to the clan school. He borrowed all the books he read from his husband in private. He told him that he planted seedlings like Majia Village, but he said that he was too naive: "He said that Majia Village has little land, and planting a dead horse in this way is to treat it as a living horse. There are so many dams in Jiangjia, so it is impossible to use this method."
Neuropathy!
Is it good to have more land and people? It is self-rescue and remedy. If you can plant a little, you will be a little bit.
But the person in charge disagrees, which means that this season is abandoned because of the waste of heavenly stems, and the next step is to lose money, so it is certain that hunger is hungry.
"In this way, the amount of food will be reduced!" Ma Ruyue could already have a premonition that this year would be a famine year, so she had to prepare for storing grain: "I don't know how to increase revenue and only know how to reduce expenditure, and it's a disaster for the Jiang clan people!"
The disaster in Ma Ruyue's mouth is a natural disaster plus man-made one.
The fields cannot be planted, there are few things planted in the fields, and all the vegetables planted are dry!
Why not find a way to irrigate?
The answer I got was that no one notified me above.
Ma Ruyue had to roll her eyes. This is the so-called collective economy. If you don’t find a way to wait for the organization’s notification, you don’t have to do anything without instructions. Even if you all have a meal and sit and brag.
"I know how the pig died now!" Ma Ruyue was so angry that she was so angry that she was not a person in the Jiang clan who could really lead the way? This second master Jiang relied on his old age to save everyone's life.
"How did you die?" Jiang Liyuan and Aunt Qiu asked in unison.
Jiang Zhiyuan also looked at her. Although she didn't say anything, she was also waiting for the answer.
"So stupid!" Ma Ruyue snorted coldly: "It doesn't matter if he is stupid, but he has to take more than 400 people from the Jiang family to take care of him. If this continues, people will die and starve to death. Do he know?"
"They won't starve to death." Qiu said in a low voice: "There are people in their clan who have never seen anyone starving. They often hold meetings and often eat together."
Yes, some of them have excuses and some of them have reasons, and they even have keys to steal things.
Ma Ruyue squinted her eyes and thought about Jiang Feiyuan and the others stealing sweet potatoes before.
"The sweet potatoes have been planted, but they have sprouted less. It depends on how much they can be planted at that time." Mr. Jiang and his group inspected the production: "This year, everyone must be prepared for hard work, but as long as we unite, this difficulty can still be overcome."
What is this so-called unity?
"The amount of rice has been reduced again." Qiu took the rice back: "Grandma, the second young master, the maid and concubine have carefully looked at it. The rice I have taken now is one less than what we took when we first came."
In other words, the benefits Ma Ruyue worked hard for the children of Jiang Jingyuan were taken away in a blink of an eye.
Is it only for your family or for all.
"Everyone has fewer families, and many people say they are getting less and less full." Qiu Shi said: "The four brothers Jiang Zhirong are still catching grasshoppers to cook for food. Children in the clan love to do this."
Children do this just because they are fun. If they treat it as a serious matter, it means that hunger is really coming.
Chapter completed!