Traveling through the famine years with the system to raise cubs

Fortunately, the price of food in the mall is less than one-third of the world's price. Jiang Ling breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the price.

First, he bought two baskets, some basic food and daily necessities, and then Jiang Ling thought about it and bought two large buckets. Finally, Jiang Ling hesitated and bought a piece of pork the size of a palm.

In just a short while, Jiang Ling's heavy pockets were almost gone. Jiang Ling touched the few copper coins and sighed helplessly. It seems that he will have to work harder to dig the herbs in the future.

After deftly stuffing all these things into the back basket, Jiang Ling walked out of the alley with another back bag to meet Jiang Yaojie.

When meeting Jiang Yaojie, his face was not very good. Jiang Ling thought he had an argument with others and quickly asked, "What's the matter, Yaojie? Who bullied you?"

Jiang Yaojie shook his head and saw that he handed a small package of things in front of Jiang Ling and said to Jiang Ling: "The price of salt in the grocery store has increased, and you can buy so much for ten copper coins."

Jiang Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She threw the paper bag, which was not as big as a palm, into her back basket and comforted her: "It's okay, just eat what you have! Don't worry, I won't let you and your sisters go hungry!"

Jiang Ling, who had returned with a full load, got into Lu Bo's ox cart again.

At this time, there were already many people returning to Lujia Village on the bullock cart,

As soon as Jiang Ling got into the car, Uncle Lu saw the pot on Jiang Ling's back basket and asked curiously: "Aunt Jiang, where did you buy this pot? The craftsmanship seems to be much better than that of the blacksmith shop in the town!"

"Is there? Maybe it's a new pot, I think it's the same." Jiang Ling answered vaguely.

After hearing this, Uncle Lu glanced at Jiang Ling dissatisfied, and couldn't help sighing in his heart: "Sure enough, a woman who is separated from a man has a bad life. I don't know how much it will cost to buy such a new pot."

After a while, Uncle Lu's ox cart was full of people again, and Uncle Lu drove the ox cart slowly towards Lujia Village, while the bored women in the cart also started chatting.

"Aunt Wangde, have you heard that Li Shanren's house in the town was burglarized last night!"

Jiang Ling, who was drowsy at the side, suddenly opened his eyes when he heard the news, and quietly moved to the side, listening to the conversation between these women.

"I heard that, it's really scary. It is said that the thief who stole the grain even killed a boy! He stole more than 100 catties of grain."

"Because of this, the food in the town has doubled again! Hey, I get angry when I say this! You only bought such a small amount of brown rice for thirty or forty copper coins!" Aunt Wang De said while pointing at the Baozhu's daughter-in-law next to her shook the bag in her hand.

Hearing this, Jiang Ling's heart tightened, and she understood even more that in this famine year, not only the wealth cannot be leaked, but even the food cannot be disclosed to others, otherwise people will inevitably be jealous.

She quietly turned her head and glanced at her back basket. Fortunately, she bought a pot and put it on the back basket, so that everyone in the ox cart didn't know what she bought.

While Jiang Ling was meditating, something suddenly flew onto her face. If Jiang Ling didn't feel scared before, the sudden creature still startled Jiang Ling.

She said to Jiang Yaojie next to her with a stiff body, not daring to move: "Yaojie! Quick! Help me take it off!"

Seeing this, Jiang Yaojie skillfully took the bug off Jiang Ling's face, and the sharp-eyed Aunt Wang De suddenly screamed: "Oh my god! This! This is a locust!!"

"Locusts?" Everyone in the bullock cart gasped when they heard Aunt Wang's scream, and even Uncle Lu, who had been driving, stopped the car quickly.

I saw him running to Jiang Yaojie's side in a panic, grabbed Jiang Yaojie's hand holding the locust, widened his eyes and looked carefully, and finally saw Uncle Lu's face pale, his body trembled, and he fell limp on the ground.

"I... my god! It's really a locust!! Could it be that God is really going to kill our Lujia Village?" Uncle Lu said with some despair.

"I'm so pissed off! This locust! Bah, bah, bah! Damn it!" Aunt Wang De had a bad temper, and she snatched the locust from Jiang Yaojie's hand.

He crushed the locust to death with a pinch of both hands, then threw it on the ground and stepped on it several times to vent his inner anger.

Looking at the chaotic crowd, Jiang Ling couldn't help but feel worried. She knew the truth that no grass would grow when locusts crossed the border, especially for these peasants who depended on the weather for their food. The drought for several days was already fatal. After killing the locusts, Jiang Ling didn't dare to think about the consequences.

Uncle Lu, who was paralyzed on the ground, waited for a while, and then returned to the ox cart with a face full of despair and continued on his way. The locusts disturbed them, and everyone lost the desire to chat. They all sat on the cart with sad faces and sighed.

After coming for a long time, Jiang Ling saw the familiar Lujia Village. Uncle Lu's car stopped at the entrance of the village, and everyone got out of the car. Jiang Ling took Jiang Yaojie back to the old house quickly.

"mother!"

"mother!"

As soon as Jiang Ling pushed open the door of the old house, two thin and small figures flew into Jiang Ling's arms. Jiang Ling smiled and rubbed the heads of her two daughters.

She walked into the house alone with a backpack on her back, and after confirming that there was no one around, Jiang Ling quietly put all the things she bought into the two inconspicuous jars in the house.

Then he carefully moved the jar to the bedside, so that even if a thief really came in to steal food, Jiang Ling could detect it as soon as possible and minimize the loss.

After Jiang Ling finished all this, she walked out with rice and the piece of lean meat she bought earlier.

"Is it meat? Mother! Did you really buy meat?" The youngest daughter, Jiang Wenxi, saw the lean meat in Jiang Ling's hand, her eyes widened, and she said with an incredulous expression.

"What? Meat??" Jiang Wenxi's voice attracted Jiang Suhe and Jiang Yaojie, and they also looked at Jiang Ling in disbelief.

Jiang Ling looked at the three children who were frantically swallowing saliva in front of him, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Yes, you go and play for a while, and call you when mother is ready!"

After the three children heard it, they still couldn't believe it. You look at me, I look at you. In the end, it was Jiang Yaojie who brought Jiang Suhe and Jiang Wenxi out.

"Brother, why do I feel that there is something wrong with my mother?" Jiang Wenxi just walked out the door and looked at Jiang Yaojie next to him in a daze and asked.

"This... Anyway, we can eat whatever mother does!" Jiang Yaojie scratched his head in confusion as he recalled the scene at the wonton stand this morning.

"Well, brother is right!" Jiang Wenxi said while swallowing his saliva.

The word "meat" is strange and distant to Jiang Ling's three children. They just vaguely remember that only during the Chinese New Year every year, they can share a little bit of broth and fat slices the size of a fingernail.

But even so, it was an excellent meal for them.

Today, even Jiang Yaojie, who has always been calm, couldn't restrain the saliva secreted in his mouth, he swallowed from time to time.

Soon the smell of meat came out from the kitchen, and the three children couldn't restrain their inner desire for meat. They all stood at the door of the kitchen, with three pairs of eyes staring at the mouth with eager light. A black cast iron skillet.

At the same time, Zhao Erleng's house next to the old house also smelled the smell of meat. Zhao Erleng's daughter-in-law, who had been drowsy, suddenly opened her eyes. Not dreaming.

Then he sniffed the air vigorously, and couldn't help but frowned and thought: "Whose family is cooking and cooking meat at noon?"

Full of suspicion, she got out of bed uncontrollably and walked towards the door.