A Husband Who Traveled Through the Famine and Developed a Chronicle

Chapter 12 The Great Drought
Having got the first pot of gold, Bai Xia was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear.

This is the first copper coin she earned here, and it also shows that her method of selling straw hats is feasible.

After filling the water and giving it to Li Sansheng, she walked towards other houses in the field.

Li Sansheng is a widower, and there is no one else in the family, otherwise he could be persuaded to buy one for his family.

But it doesn't matter, there are plenty of markets in this village.

Most people shook their heads when they heard that they wanted two pennies, but Bai Xia was not worried, and sent out some of her own mint water, and two families finally bought the straw hat in her hand. Of course, Didn't forget to ask her to fill their water jug, either.

In less than half an hour, the straw hats in her hand were sold out.

Not only that, the small half bucket of mint water was almost delivered.

Holding the six copper coins she earned, Bai Xia felt an indescribable sense of pride.

Not to mention anything else, when I got home, I took my hatchet on my back and went up the mountain to cut bamboo.

The weather became hotter and hotter day by day, and in the blink of an eye, the fifteenth day passed.

Lin scooped up the last bit of rice, and there was not even a grain of rice out of the rice vat at home.

"Sanya, go cook"

Lin's voice was hoarse, her throat was very dry, but she didn't dare to drink water.

The wells in the village are running out of water. Since yesterday, each household has taken half a bucket of water for three people, and no one is allowed to take more.

The water in the river was almost dry, and there was only one layer of water bottom, which could not be lifted up with buckets, so everyone could only use melons to fetch water and pour all the water into the buckets.

Such a small amount of water is not enough, everyone realized something. Since the past two days, they have stopped watering the fields.

In just a day or two, the farmland in Lijia Village was completely dry.

The rice is only half grown, and every grain is shriveled. However, if it does not rain, no matter how much water is poured into it, it will be useless.

Bai Xia's fishing nets have also been withdrawn long ago.

There are only a few days of fish in ten or so days, and they are all about the size of a palm, and there are not a few taels of meat.

In addition to eating two meals in the first few days, Lin also returned to one meal a day later, mainly because the food at home was really not enough.

Bai Xia earns an average of ten copper coins a day selling straw hats. After more than ten days, he has also saved 150 copper coins.

After she earned money, Lin didn't take it away, but she kept it herself. It's just that she was busy earning money and didn't think about buying food, so now she can't buy food even if she has money.

原来100个铜板就能买10斤米，平均10文钱一斤，而现在已经涨到了500个铜板10斤米，也就是说至少要50个铜板一斤。

The little money she has on hand is only enough to buy 3 catties of rice.

Even if you eat one meal a day and only eat half a catty a day, you can only last for 6 days.

While she was lighting the fire, she was thinking in her mind that it had been 19 days since she came here and today, even if she lasted another 6 days, there would still be 5 days before Goldfinger awakened.

Although in theory, as long as people have water, they can survive starvation for seven days, but the key is that there is not enough water now!
Bai Xia was so worried that her hair turned gray.

If the price of rice is not so high, or if I can find a way to make some more money...

She frowned tightly.

Lin didn't have a single copper coin in his hand, otherwise he wouldn't be clinging to the money, and would have gone to buy food long ago.

"I'll go back to Linjiacun in the afternoon, Sanya, take Brother Yuan and don't go out"

Holding the bowl, Lin poured most of the porridge into the basin, drank the porridge in two or three mouthfuls and put down the chopsticks.

The family was in dire straits, and Bai Xia only found out later that Lin had sold all the handwritten books left by Li Xiuyuan's father before returning in exchange for ten catties of rice.

Now that the ten catties of rice have been eaten, I'm afraid she is planning to go back to her mother's house to borrow food.

Bai Xia pawed at the porridge, not having any hope for it.

The Lin family also had a large family to support, even if there was still food left, how could they lend food to the Lin family in the face of a severe drought and no food for the autumn harvest.

Not to mention that Lin's family has long since lost contact with her natal family.

"Mom, wait"

Bai Xia stopped Lin Shi who was going out, and took out a cloth bag, inside was the copper coins she had saved for a while.

"I've made a little money selling straw hats these days. If we really can't borrow food, can you ask them to sell some of it to us?"

"If it really doesn't work, see if you can go to the town and buy some back."

Lin's fingers holding the bag turned white, her eyes were red, she didn't say a word, she just replied: "I see", and went out.

Seeing Lin's leaving back, Bai Xia's right eye jumped.

There was always an ominous premonition in her heart.

Could something happen to Lin's trip?

Bai Xia was feeling down, when the pigs squawked one after another from the pigsty in the backyard, the squawks were sharp and ear-piercing, miserable.

"Sanya, the pig is hungry"

With a downcast face, Li Xiuyuan pointed in the direction of the pigsty.

Bai Xia tidied up the dried wild vegetables, thinking that this basket of wild vegetables might last for a few days, and in this case, she might survive until her golden finger awakened.

She made up her mind, provided that nothing happened.

"I gonna go see"

The pig has not been fed since two days ago, and it is also because there is no pigweed outside, and the family does not have enough food to eat, let alone feed the pig, so the pig has been barking since yesterday, whether it is Neither Lin nor Bai Xia has the time to deal with it.

It's just that the family has run out of food today, and the food in the field can't be recovered, and the pig grass can't be harvested outside, so I'm afraid the pig can't be raised.

Looking at the half-grown pig in the pigsty, it has been fed for half a year. The pig has not touched any food, and it is all raised on pig grass. After such a long time, it has only grown a few dozen catties of meat. It is bigger than the piglet that was just brought back.

There is not much meat on the body.

At this moment, he was lying on the ground and screaming.

"Sanya, what should I do?" Li Xiuyuan was a little anxious. He knew that his mother was counting on the pig to be raised and sold for money. Now that the pig was so hungry that it couldn't even stand up, would it be possible to sell it for money during the Chinese New Year?

He was a little worried.

The poor child doesn't know what situation his family is facing now, and he is even worried about starving the pigs. It is better to worry about whether his family can live until the New Year.

"Don't worry, it will stop barking in two days"

Bai Xia looked at the pigsty.

If it is dead, it will naturally stop screaming.

This will ensure that the family's food can last until her Golden Finger awakens.

Bai Xia also just looked around, not looking for something to feed the pigs.

She herself was still hungry.

The private school stopped classes two days ago, and Li Xiuyuan followed Lin and Bai Xia for one meal a day, and the whole child was in a bad mood.

"Sanya, are we going to die?"

His stomach growled, and he looked at Bai Xia who was sitting under the eaves with him, staring at the ground and asking.

Bai Xia turned her head and rubbed his head vigorously.

"Will not"

She didn't die so easily.

As long as she doesn't die, she won't let Li Xiuyuan die.

"But I know, we have no food and no water at home." Li Xiuyuan fanned himself with difficulty, his body was already soaked in sweat.

"Mother said, this is a severe drought"

"The master said that if the court ignores us, our whole village will die"

(End of this chapter)