Porridge and side dishes [farming]

Chapter 60 Causes of Drought [6000]

"It's not that early yet. It's going to rain until midnight, so hurry up and get ready. Bury this coffin as soon as possible, as if nothing happened." The man shook the Taoist robe on his body, and looked at Li Ji with a smile on his face, " I thought I could have a sip of tea from the Venerable Venerable, but now I don’t have that fate, I hope that next time we meet again, I can drink the tea made from the stream water from the Venerable Venerable, so let’s say goodbye, everyone, take care.”

After speaking, lead the child and leave.Of course, the people in the village were unwilling to let him go like this. The village has not had a drop of water in the past year, and the Taoist priest thundered as soon as he came.

How could such a person just let him go?Anyone who doesn't understand, or has difficulties, please ask this living god, won't all of them be solved?

People in the village gathered around and talked about wanting to keep him, but Li Ji didn't go there. He lives very comfortably now, and the road ahead is to take one step at a time.He is stubborn when he is free, he doesn't like to ask others for everything, he only likes to ask for himself, so when everyone surrounded him, only Li Ji smiled at the Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest pulled up the child and ran away. The fairy wind and bones just now went to nowhere, and he ran as fast as he was walking on the flat ground in the rugged mountains. Looking at the direction, he was running towards the deep mountains. The villagers chased for a distance, afraid of getting lost. The road stopped, looking at the place where the two Taoist priests disappeared, he sighed regretfully, and said that he was unlucky, that such a living god came, even if he just asked for a peace talisman, it was better than those rough water-like temples The character is easy to use.

The Taoist priest left, and in a blink of an eye it was Li Ji who was onlookers. Li Ji listened to them asking about the origin of the Taoist priest one sentence at a time. Since this matter was planned to be concealed from the beginning, it is better to continue to conceal it from now on.

After Li Ji said the previous sentence three times, the village let Li Ji go, and each of them began to reminisce about the miracle they had just seen. If it wasn't for the arrival of this living god, Zhang Fucai might have ruined the surrounding area. Kind of.

It must be the legendary drought that can make the neighborhood so dry that it doesn't even rain. Anyone in the village has heard of this kind of thing from childhood to adulthood, but if it is in this neighborhood, it is definitely the first in a hundred years.

What made the villagers even more worried was Li Changdong who also died on New Year's Eve. Unfortunately, the Taoist left after finishing Zhang Fucai, and did not leave a message to understand whether Li Changdong was safe or whether he would also become a drought and scourge the village.

A group of people walked back without stopping. Li Ji was afraid that Er Gouzi would be impatient, so he hurried back before hearing a few words.

Thunder will be heard after a while, but the rain has not fallen for a long time, so it is inevitable that I am a little impatient.When we got home, the sun started to set, and the light was getting darker and darker. Er Gouzi's meal was ready immediately. While it was still bright, I made dinner as soon as possible so I could go to bed.

While eating, Li Ji told Er Gouzi all he had seen and heard today: "Tell me, I used to be dubious about those ghosts and gods. I don't believe them all, but I don't touch those taboos either. I'd rather believe it or not. Today I saw the real thing. The flame came out from the crack. Lao Gao couldn't feel the heat at all, but he still felt cold. Isn't it strange? "

Er Gouzi couldn't understand, how could the flame not be hot?But seeing that Li Ji's interest was in full swing, he didn't say anything to disappoint.

Li Ji took another two mouthfuls of food and said: "But this Taoist priest really has a heart, he only opened the coffin a little bit to deal with it, he must be afraid of opening the coffin, and the villagers are afraid of having nightmares when they see it, so it is so easy to solve Yes. People in the village say that this is a meeting with a living god, and I think it is true. He solved the drought that Zhang Fucai turned into without asking for a penny, and ran away as soon as he said it."

Li Ji took a sip of tea and went down to eat: "I heard from him that he will come to taste our tea next time, so he will come again in the future, when we have stream water and rain, the villagers finally don't have to think about it." Fleeing famine, as long as there is water, there is no fear that there will be no farmer in the field, and we will not starve to death."

"We won't starve to death." Er Gouzi said at this time: "We won't starve."

There is no food, but there is meat. There will always be grass growing in the mountains. If there is grass, you can feed the livestock and you can have meat. If you don’t have enough, Er Gouzi can go hunting in the deep mountains, and neither of them will be hungry.

"We don't know, I mean the village." Li Ji thought for a while, then smiled, "You grew up in the mountains, and now you're back down the mountains, don't you also think about the mountains? You always think about going up the mountains to hunt, The same reason. Even if I go up the mountain, I will always think about going down the mountain. The people in the village watched me grow up and took care of me. If we can help, we must always reach out to help, of course, if we are in trouble ourselves, then we can only make sure that we are all right."

Li Ji is actually quite selfish, but he has not reached the point of selfishness.When he was very young, he forced himself to mature and support the whole family, so he thought about things much more than his peers, even people who were ten years older. He had to think comprehensively, taking his own interests and the interests of others into consideration. Clearly, only in this way can he live a good life.

Li Ji's words made sense, Er Gouzi's eyes were dark, Li Ji said so, how sad will Li Ji be if they really have to go to the mountains to live in the future?

"Look, let's bring this topic up again. In fact, it's useless to think too much. We can't figure out what God will do, let alone think about it. All we can do is what God sends down. We just accept it. Don't worry about it." If you look too far, it is very important right now, come to eat meat, we can eat it vigorously, so that even if we can’t eat it in the future, we have eaten it, so we will have no regrets.”

Er Gouzi looked at the chopsticks stretched out, opened his mouth with the chopsticks in his mouth, and was not in a hurry to bite the meat in, but just looked at Li Ji with his eyes open.

Li Ji smoked twice but didn't come back: "Eat well, don't play tricks like a child."

After hearing this, Er Gouzi put the meat in his mouth and let go of his chopsticks. He ate the meat that Li Ji fed him, and said with a smile: "We have always been together, no matter where we are, or if we are together, we will die. Together too. Thinking about it this way, it doesn’t matter where you are, as long as you’re together.”

Unexpectedly, Er Gouzi could say such a thing, Li Ji added another piece of meat to Er Gouzi: "You are right, as long as we are together, we are all the same."

After eating and feeding the squirrels, one of the three squirrels was raised to death. I don’t know why, but the remaining two are doing well. They are still breastfeeding and feeding them with some rice grains from home. Now When it is mature, it often climbs on people when it is free. It is good-looking and clingy. Because of this, Xiaowei once thought that he had fallen out of favor, and was depressed for a long time.

After eating, it was almost dark. The two of them spread out the kang, and before they could lie down, a hamster stepped on them first. Seeing a body lying on the quilt with its front paws resting on the pillow, Li Ji was very angry. Funny again.

"Look, it's going to be a pillow."

Er Gouzi directly pulled Li Ji into his bed: "I'll give him yours, and you sleep here with me."

The two have been together for a long time, but when laying the kang, it depends on who is laying the kang. Er Gouzi only makes the kang for one person, and the two of them should be entangled together. When Li Ji lays the kang, he will make the same as before. Two, but most of the time when I sleep, I only sleep in one quilt, and the other is dry.

Even if the two of them don't cause trouble, they are used to sleeping next to each other. Now if they sleep separately, neither of them will be able to adapt.

But laying two quilts is also good. In case someone comes in the morning and it is too late to clean up, after laying two quilts, as long as you get out of the bed, who can know that the two of you live in the same bed?It happened to be a cover, but unfortunately, no matter how many times Li Ji said it, Er Gouzi always listened to the left ear and snorted in the right ear.

Being dragged into the bed by Er Gouzi and hugged together, Li Ji had nothing to refuse, so he found a comfortable position and let Er Gouzi blow the lamp.

"Do you think we should give the two squirrels a name?" The two of them have always been slow to name things. The name of the little tail was determined after a period of time. The two little squirrels People have absolutely no memory of naming them.

"You take it." Er Gouzi threw the problem to Li Ji as it should.

"How can I choose a name? These two are very tough. Why don't you call one naughty and the other dead?"

Er Gouzi laughed immediately. He has been with Li Ji for more than a year, so he still knows what this means.

Er Gouzi: "It's not good to die, let's not talk about bad things."

Li Ji thought for a while: "Then change it to Songsong, after all, it's a squirrel, and the name Naughty is quite a mouthful, so let's change it to Taotao, the one with more patterns is called Taotao, and the other one is called Songsong , this name sounds much better than Doudou Mimi."

"It sounds good." Er Gouzi was very supportive.

"Then go to bed." After deciding on the names of the two new members, there were no more questions.There are still thunderclouds outside, and it hasn't rained yet. I heard from the Taoist priest that it will wait until midnight, and I don't know if the rain will stop tomorrow morning. I went to pick it up, I worked a lot during the day and got a good night's sleep. I just bought water at home, and it's not bad for water.

Li Ji yawned, hugged Er Gouzi to find a comfortable position, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

After listening to Li Ji's breathing, Er Gouzi felt drowsy, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

The two of them don't have sex frequently. Although Er Gouzi is full of blood and tastes, he is not a smart person with a brain, and if he does too much, Li Ji will be very tired from work the next day, so the frequency has been kept at two or three times. Once a day, although it is not enough to eat, it is enough to satisfy the gluttony.

After kissing Li Ji on the face a few times, Er Gouzi closed his eyes and fell asleep contentedly.

(The following is Li Ji's dream)

Li Ji had a fever, turned over in a daze and was in a daze, as if someone was calling him, not sure.

Opening his eyes gently, there was green smoke everywhere, Li Ji panicked, sat up suddenly and looked around, and saw two people, one tall and one short, chatting not far away.

Li Ji stood up and walked over. Through the fog, he vaguely recognized two people, they were the two Taoist priests he met during the day.

The two of them didn't seem to see Li Ji and were talking about this.

"Why did the master lie?" the child asked, tilting his head.

"What did I lie about?" The man's voice was gentle.

"The student's navigation is superficial, but he is familiar with the master. Every time the master lies, his fingers like to tap the side of his leg. This problem can't be changed."

The man smiled softly: "I lied. That person's resentment didn't gather because of the wrong time of death. This resentment was either during his lifetime or when he died. It has nothing to do with the time of day. There are mountains and rivers nearby. , has nothing to do with Feng Shui."

"Why is that?" the child wondered.

The man patiently explained: "He was buried alive, and he was unwilling, so he became so resentful."

The child was surprised: "Huh? Buried alive? Didn't he stay alive for a few days after death?"

Man: "Think about what His Holiness said in his original words."

The child thought carefully: "He said that he saw the deceased move before the fifth day of the first lunar month, but he had no pulse. He was still a dead person, and the corpse was about to change, so he was buried in a hurry."

The man nodded: "That's the problem. In fact, there are many such cases. Many people die suddenly, which may not be real death. There is a situation called false death, that is, the breathing and pulse have stopped, but they will wake up in a few days. In fact, most of the so-called corpse changes are like this. But in the concept of ordinary people, there is only life and death, and there is no such thing as suspended animation. The deceased should have woken up at the time, and a slight pulse was recovering, but he couldn't feel it, but he was misunderstood by his family. Thinking that the corpse had changed, it was buried in a hurry. When the man woke up, he was buried deep in the ground and suffocated to death, so he naturally had resentment."

The child trembled in fright and said, "Then why did the master lie? Why didn't you just say it outright?"

The man just said: "They have been fooled all their lives, telling them is useless, and they have strangled their lives for nothing. So far, they have been sorry for the dead, and they will pay more homage to the dead in the future. This debt will be repaid forever. In this way they live their lives, the dead have passed away from reincarnation, as for them, let's continue to be confused."

The child nodded half-understanding: "That man is so pitiful."

Li Ji heard the cold wind blowing, and even thought that maybe when Zhang Fucai woke up, it was the time when his son was filling his coffin. He might be struggling desperately, but Zhang Changfu couldn't hear it, or even heard it. I just thought it was a dead body.

A living person, an old man who finally lived to be 50 years old, was buried alive in the grave by his relatives.No wonder there was so much resentment, no wonder it became a drought.

A gust of breeze blew away the mist, Li Ji saw the two people clearly, and the two also turned their gazes.

The man smiled lightly at Li Ji, raised his index finger to his lips: "Shhh, your lord must keep this secret, and don't let outsiders know it for the rest of your life."

"Why did you tell me?" Li Ji asked in confusion.

The man's figure gradually faded away, leaving only an ethereal sentence echoing in Li Ji's ears: "Among the confused crowd, there must always be someone who understands."

"Wait a minute, what do you mean!"

(dream end)

Li Ji sat up suddenly, sweating profusely.

The palm of the right hand was glowing faintly, and upon closer inspection, an inexplicable pattern was fading away, and then disappeared into a golden mist.

Li Ji was still in shock, Er Gouzi hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Outside there was thunder and heavy rain.The long-lost rain makes spring a bit colder.

Li Ji opened his mouth to say something, but it was so scary in the middle of the night, and he couldn't bear to let Er Gouzi fidget with him.

He smiled stiffly and said, "It's okay, I had a nightmare, go to sleep."

Er Gouzi stretched out his hand to hug him back to the bed, and patted him lightly to coax Li Ji to sleep.

Li Ji was frightened by the dream, but being hugged by Er Gouzi calmed down his mood a lot, and he closed his eyes and fell asleep again unconsciously.

When I woke up the next morning, the dream was still clear.Li Ji believed that this was told to him by the living god on purpose. Li Ji didn't understand why he had lied before, and then told him the truth in a dream, maybe it was really for the so-called so-called making him a sensible person.

But if he knows it, he won't spread it anymore, just like the Taoist said, since he was confused before, it doesn't matter if he continues to be confused in the future.

Zhang Changfu didn't bury his father alive on purpose, nor did he really intend to kill him. He was really guilty, and it also came from ignorance.If he really told Zhang Changfu about this reason, he would only be immersed in the shadow of burying his biological father alive for the rest of his future life, and even if it was reported to the government, he would be sentenced to death.

The Taoist’s solution is very good. Zhang Fucai has already entered reincarnation. Let Zhang Changfu burn paper and burn incense on New Years and festivals to treat him devoutly. As time goes by, Zhang Fucai’s grievances will be completely washed away one day. If he repays this debt, everything will be fine. It's all over.

After breakfast, it was still raining outside. The kitchen prepared a lot of firewood in advance. Even if it rained all the time, it would be enough to burn for a few days. There is also a firewood room in the backyard. The firewood placed inside is enough for heating and cooking. used.

At noon, the rain became lighter, and I heard someone coming to announce the good news. The stream that had been cut off for half a year finally saw water. Although there was only shallow water flow, it was dry enough to make people dance.

Not to mention returning to the previous water flow, even if it will always be the current water flow, such a large water flow is enough for the whole village to use carefully.

Li Ji and Er Gouzi went to the stream to watch together. At this time, many people gathered by the stream, including Zhang Changfu.

Zhang Changfu's eyes were still swollen, and he let out a long sigh of relief looking at the gurgling water.

Some people were afraid that Zhang Changfu would think too much, so they walked over and said, "Don't think too much about it. No one can blame this kind of drought. It's just that the time is wrong. In fact, Uncle Fu Cai was also wronged. Fortunately, we met a living god and rescued him. Uncle Cai, you also saved us. Now that we have water, we don’t have anyone who died of thirst or starvation. It’s God’s mercy. It’s a good thing that we can continue to live a good life in the future and don’t have to leave our homes to flee famine.”

Zhang Changfu nodded, and said: "I just feel sorry for my father. It's not easy to live at such an old age, and it's rare. After talking about it, I have to endure it again. Fortunately, I heard that living fairy said that I can be reincarnated. Finally, there is no one in the family. You don't need to implicate the people in our village even if you are a grieving ghost."

"Since the Living Immortal can leave, he must have arranged everything. Besides, even if something happens, there is a person from the village, there is always a solution, right?"

The stream has been cut off for less than half a year, and part of the stream is washed down by the rainwater from the mountain. It is a little turbid and not suitable for use.Even if it can't be used, just looking at it makes me feel comfortable.

Later, it rained heavily again. At this time, people in the village were basically full of water. Li Ji’s house had just stored water, and all the containers under the eaves were taken out to collect water. It was getting late, so I stood at the door and watched. Seeing the continuous rain outside, it was the first time that I felt the truth that spring water is as expensive as oil.

Li Ji stretched out his hands to catch the water falling from the eaves, and sighed contentedly: "The rain will rain for another two days and the ground will be completely watered. If we plant seeds at that time, this year's harvest will definitely be more. Let's reclaim the back of the yard tomorrow. Come from a piece of land, our family has little land, and you don’t have any land yet, let’s grow rice with corn, so that we don’t have to buy feed for the livestock in the coming year.”

Most of the fodder for the livestock is grass from the mountains, all kinds of bran, corn stalks and crushed corn. When the ration land at home has a good harvest in a year, it can harvest at most six stones of cob rice. It's not enough to feed pigs, so we have to buy them from the village.

"What is land reclamation?"

"It is to clean up the land full of weeds and stones. The grass is shoveled and the stones are picked out. It is very troublesome, but let's work hard. Before the grass in the mountains grows up, we can mow the grass and dry it." Cultivate more and diversify, and we will save a fortune. Although we are not short of money, it is always good to do more work."

Continue to look at the sky: "Request, I am now praying that the weather will be good this year, not to mention a good harvest, at least not to reduce production. If the streams in our village are not affected, even if the wells in other places dry up, we will not be afraid of starvation. , but people in other villages will starve to death after another year or two of drought. Not only people who starve to death, but also those who sell their wives and children during the famine. Our village has food, and others will definitely be targeted by others, so there will be no peace. Days passed."

Ergouzi didn't care whether he understood or not, he just nodded his head: "The food we eat is bought, and the meat we eat is home-raised. We don't lack food."

Li Ji smiled: "We can buy food because there is no shortage of food. If there is a shortage of food, we can't buy it. In the past, our village was small, and there were even many people in other villages who didn't know our village. Yes, I know that our village has more people, our village is also bigger, and there are more people, it will be eye-catching if we can eat enough, especially for a rich family like ours, who is really hungry. The one with a full face looks like a big enemy."

"Don't be afraid, I'm in the family." Er Gouzi said.

Li Ji reached out and rubbed Er Gouzi's head, messing up his bun, but Er Gouzi was not annoyed and let Li Ji mess around.

The closer they are, the bolder the interaction between the two.If Li Ji was still in awe when Er Gouzi first arrived, he is really daring now.It is precisely because two people can do this that they can better reflect each other's specialness.

The author has something to say: This paragraph is a bit of feudal superstition, so I set it as a dream of Li Ji.It is fine to say that it was a Taoist priest's dream, but it is also fine to say that it was Li Ji's random dream.

The following plot probably revolves around: farming, raising livestock, raising cute pets, going through the motions for something in the village

I'm considering whether to bring the whole village to get rich together, but pulling them will make the two-person world of Li Ji and Er Gouzi less and less~

Doing charity also has to find a way to be alone~

The first batch of my charitable donations will be enough next month~

Where do you donate~