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Chapter 18 Food Price Crazy

The rabbits I raised were unable to eat for a while, but fortunately, the trap pit on the gentle slope was cleaned up by the three brothers of the Luo family and put them on the condom. They were lucky and they really gained something within two days.

With meat, Luo Xiaohua no longer had her eyes red and kept staring at her and thinking about eating rabbit meat all the time.

The Luo family also gave the Lin family half a pheasant. The Lin family is not short of meat now, but in order not to reveal Lin Yuan's secret, the old lady took the half of the pheasant.

At most, if the Luo family is not having a good life, she will give some subsidies to her quietly during the famine.

As the drought becomes more and more serious, people in both rural and urban areas have guessed that they will be sad in the future. Many families who have experienced major famines have begun to buy food and stock up.

Because there are too many people buying grain, the grain from the black market will soon be sold to sky-high prices.

The Luo family regretted not listening to the old lady’s previous advice to stock up on more grain. Although their family bought some while the price of grain was still low, the amount they bought was too small. It was estimated that if they saved up the most, they would be able to keep up until the summer harvest. It was impossible to eat well and eat well.

Although there are more wild animals at home recently, which can add oil to the stomach and alleviate the crisis of food shortage in the Luo family, Old Mrs. Luo is still not very at ease, so she asked her son to take all the savings from the family and go to the city to buy grain.

The next day, the old lady went to the Luo family to inquire about the current black market price with the eldest son of the Luo family who had returned from buying grain. She couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning.

It was not long before she bought grain, and the price of grain in the black market was already two or three times higher than that time.

The Luo family spent about the same amount as hers, and the food she bought was less than half of the food she bought at the beginning.

The old lady saved another thirty or forty yuan in her pension in the past two months. She was planning to buy some more grain to stock up, but now she immediately gave up her mind, and the price of grain was already crazy.

Anyway, the grain I bought at home can last for a year or two, and the fields can always be distributed to some extent. Not only does their family have a small population, but also the gods send meat to eat, so the demand for food is not too urgent.

The old lady couldn't help but be glad that she bought the grain early. If she had waited until now, the price of grain would not be able to bear it.

The old lady who really felt the crisis was getting busier and took advantage of the space of feeding pigs to pack up the re-divided private areas.

Since the Lin family chose an idle open space with a large reserved space, her private land was just behind the house, about three parts of the size of the land.

When the private plot was taken back last year, the team asked to plant castor. Now, as soon as the castor was collected, the private plot was divided into each family. The old lady re-revised the three-point private plot and prepared to plant sweet potatoes that are drought-resistant and easy to feed.

Although I eat too much sweet potatoes and heartburn, in the disaster year, people will eat the bark and grass roots, and no one will care about these things.

Seeing that the old lady was busy, Lin Yuan helped the old lady plant sweet potato seedlings together.

After the sweet potato seedlings were planted one by one, Lin Yuan poured some spiritual spring water respectively.

Although the spiritual spring water cannot ripen, it can make the sweet potatoes more energetic, and there are fewer pests and diseases, not to mention that Lin Yuan has also done experiments, and the vegetables watered in place taste better than ordinary ones.

When the sweet potato vines creep in the private fields behind the Lin family house are all over the corners and the vines leaves are lush, it is almost time for summer harvest.

However, compared with the joy of harvesting everyone in the summer of previous years, due to the severe drought in Yulan County this year, even if everyone has been busy for a long time to dig water and irrigate, they have not achieved great results.

Seeing that the wheat in the field was almost time to be harvested, Lin Da'an led the old farmer in the team to check in the field. When he grabbed a wheat ear and rubbed it in his hand, he saw the wheat grains with a little shriveled palm, and his heart couldn't help but sink.

"I haven't seen a drop of rain throughout the heading and grouting period. It's a big loss for us to irrigate this way and not die. It's all because of our timely irrigation."

Although Lin Da'an felt a little uncomfortable with the reduction of grain production, compared to the wheat in Xiaolin Village next door that died in large areas before grouting, it was good for them to go to Lin Village.

The old farmers who followed also sighed, not feeling very good.

"Da'an, the harvest in the fields this year is like this. It can no longer be like last year's autumn harvest. If Lin Laoguo reported a yield of several thousand kilograms per mu to the superiors, the grain we collected would probably not be enough to hand over to the public."

The old man who spoke was Lin Changyu, who was of the same age as Lin Daan's father.

Lin Daan thought of Lin Laoguo who had been jumping up and down recently and ran to the county town every day. He was busy with meetings to understand his spirits, and his brows also frowned.

Although Lin Laoguo is also surnamed Lin, his relationship with Lin Da'an's branch is not very good. There seems to be a big conflict in their great-grandfather's generation.

Although they are all in the same village, the contradictions have been passed down from generation to generation, and the relationship has not improved much. It is also because of this that Mr. Lin and Mr. Guo dislike Lin Da'an.

However, the matter of public grain is related to the survival of the entire village, so he naturally would not let Lin Laoguo do it.

"Uncle, don't worry, I will definitely stop Lao Guo this time. If he has to hand over the harvest this year, we won't have to live."

Lin Daan and Lin Chang kept assured, and couldn't help but remember the note he had picked up in the brigade headquarters before the New Year. At first, he didn't notice the words on it, but when he found out, he was frightened by the message written on it with charcoal.

At first, Lin Daan thought that someone was writing a joke, but after muttering a few words, he didn't care much.

But when the drought and food shortage became more and more serious, the famine seemed to be coming, and when he thought of the note again, he didn't know where he had thrown it.

Lin Daan also secretly thought about who was the person who left the note, whether that person was a prank, or could he really predict the future?

He had suspected that he knew any words in the village, but he never found the person who wrote the notes.

Given that Lin Yuan is too young, she is illiterate in Lin Da'an's perception, and the first wave was ruled out.

But he was suspicious for a long time and could not find the suspect.

Lin Daan sighed helplessly, even if he could find the person who wrote the notes, this year's dry food is destined to reduce production, unless he has the ability to have a timely rain.

Thinking that the note said that the disaster would last until 61 years before it ended, Lin Daan was in a state of great concern and didn't know whether he should believe it or not.
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