Chapter 230 Just enough to fill my stomach
Xu Qing carefully put away the deed of betrayal, waved his hand and took the person to the farthest room and closed it. The guard had just come over after arranging the guards.
Everyone in Baijiazhuang focused on the bulging vehicles, but no matter how curious they were, no one dared to touch it or ask Bai Manshan.
His employer treated him very well, but the punishment for doing wrong was very clear, leaving no room for bargaining. The Sun family is the best example.
The people from Shanshui Village were also shocked. They had never seen a salesperson and always thought it only existed in dramas.
When I saw Bai Manshan just now, I realized that he was the eldest man in the play! The family has great wealth and numerous subordinates.
Thinking about it, this should be the case, otherwise, how would we manage so many people? If you don't manage things well, how can you have a huge fortune?
The scene was silent for a while, except for the rustling of leaves and the chirping of cicadas.
Bai Manshan didn't care what the people on both sides were thinking. He only asked Xu Qing: "How long can your food last?"
Xu Qing had already calculated these days. This was also the issue he was most worried about. When his boss asked, he immediately replied: "I could have eaten until April or May next year, but the floods were not completely carried to Yubei Mountain, and part of it was lost." , now even if I save on eating, I can only eat until about January;
Boss, I went to Fucheng two days ago. The price of food there has been sky-high. The price has increased too much. The food in our village cannot sustain the winter wheat harvest. What should we do? "
Their village has a lot of fertile land and good grain harvests. The boss always keeps a lot of food. According to the past, the grain storage can last until April and May next year. With the new grain harvested this autumn, there will be more food every year. There will not be a shortage of food or a shortage of food at home. .
But isn’t there a flood this year? No new grains have been harvested. Winter wheat won’t be harvested until April or May next year. What will we eat in the two or three months in between?
It's okay for one or two people. Even if the food in Fucheng is already sky-high, buying a bag with wild vegetables can last two or three months, but there are more than two hundred people in their village!
One sack of grain is gone in one day. Not to mention this is a huge expense. If dozens or hundreds of sacks of grain are transported from Fucheng to Baijiazhuang, then Baijiazhuang will be the biggest fat in the eyes of all disaster victims!
Bai Manshan did not answer the question, but continued to ask: "What else is missing in Zhuangzi? What needs to be added?"
“I took away part of the hoe and shovel, and the rest was fine if I put it in a pit and soaked it in water. It can still be used after digging it out. A lot of farm tools were damaged, but it’s fine. The carpenter is already working on it;
Houses and firewood are being slowly added, and the roof will be thatched first. It's no problem. The only troublesome thing is salt." Xu Qing paused here.
Bai Manshan frowned. Baijiazhuang was far away from Nanning Mansion and it was inconvenient to travel. He left enough food every year and enough salt to buy the village leader for two or three years.
One is to save the inconvenience of traveling; the other is because salt is essential and you need to be prepared.
He looked at Xu Qing and asked clearly, "Just tell me."
"When I took over, I found that there was only enough salt for two or three months. When I asked Sun Laozhuang, he didn't tell me whether there was any salt left or where the money to buy the salt had gone." Xu Qing knew in his heart that the money to buy the salt had gone. Most of them were misappropriated by Sun Zhuangtou.
It's just that if you don't eat salt, you won't have strength. A lack of salt is really not good.
Bai Manshan sighed: "I guess it was used. There is no salt or silver."
It was going to be sold anyway, and he didn't want to chase the dogs into the back alleys with a little money to buy salt. Most of the time he managed people and affairs by catching the big ones and letting the small ones go.
He walked to the cart that Hu Wenhua was in charge of, took out a small bamboo basket from the pocket of the cart covered with oil paper cloth, and handed it to Xu Qing, "Tomorrow you sold the Sun family, no matter how much money you have, use it to buy salt;
And part of the money in this bamboo basket was used to buy salt, and the rest was reserved for emergencies. "
Xu Qing was so excited that she didn’t know what to do!
Other families in the village of Zhuangzi were destroyed, but they were all fine. This was all the credit of the boss.
Now the victims are everywhere, without food, water or shelter, and their bosses have come to give them money!
"You can also buy some food, but not too much to avoid being jealous. The main reason I came here this time is not to give away money, but to give away things in the car;
These are called potatoes. They are edible and delicious. They should be planted at the end of August. The people I have brought with me will teach you the planting methods and precautions later. You can pick a few good farmers and memorize them and learn them carefully.
The most important thing is that it can be harvested in four months, almost one month, and can almost meet your food rations. "Bai Manshan is extremely lucky that Shui Qing discovered Tudou, and Qian'er got to know Shui Qing's family by chance!
Otherwise, he, Zhuangzi, would not be able to keep his fertile land, and neither would the two hundred people in front of him.
In famine years, everything is in vain without food, but in troubled times, no one can do anything.
Xu Qing didn't know what to say anymore. All he could think about was that his boss deserved to be his boss!
"Master, you, you"
Bai Manshan stretched out his hand to stop: "Okay, the people who came with me haven't had dinner yet, go and make arrangements."
Xu Qing sighed and quickly led people to make arrangements.
Those who light the fire light the fire, those who draw the water draw the water, those who cook the food cook the food.
Baijiazhuang was almost wiped out by the flood. After the efforts of the entire village, they were able to manage to clear a clean and tidy land to build houses.
The previous vegetable plot was all gone. When I went to Yubei Mountain to avoid the flood, I took the vegetable seeds away, but I couldn't eat them even after they were sown.
The only good thing is that it is summer now, with lush vegetation and a lot of wild grass and vegetables on the mountain. The women in the village cooked a porridge with the wild vegetables they found during the day and cracked a few eggs into it.
Seventy or eighty men, a few eggs are tasteless, but this is the best food that the people of Baijiazhuang can offer to entertain guests.
Everyone, including Bai Manshan, drank silently from coarse pottery bowls.
The porridge was bland, and even the salt was saved.
"Alas, they are suffering here. Compared with them, we are really living a fairy life." Li Wu sighed for a long time, with mixed feelings in his heart.
The porridge made by his sister-in-law not only contained peanuts and sesame seeds, but also enough salt. Whether it was brewed or boiled, it was always delicious.
The portion was even more sufficient. He and his third brother ate their fill every meal and estimated that there would be some left when they got home.
Holding the wild vegetable porridge, Xu Laosan also sighed: "Who said it wasn't? At least we have vegetables to eat, so we don't need to eat wild vegetables."
Wild vegetables are rough, and they are even harder to swallow without oil and salt. They are not as good as vegetables grown at home, which can be eaten after boiling in water.
The wild vegetables in this bowl are no different from weeds. People in Shanshui Village also eat wild vegetables, and often dig wild vegetables to dry and keep as winter vegetables, but they don't dig the ones in the bowl. It can be seen that they really don't care whether they taste good or not, as long as they can fill their stomachs.