According to the head of the county, when the county magistrate goes to the countryside, he must be on his good side. If he asks if there are any difficulties, there must be no difficulties at all.
So one day in advance, he sent a message to Qili Village. If the county magistrate doesn't come, it's fine. If he comes, the roads in the village must be cleaned. take it out.
The white rice is too fake, and the head of the village didn't dare to ask for it, so what he asked was that every family should make the same meal as the New Year's meal.
Because the county magistrate has not been to Qili Village for many years, and many villagers have no experience in entertaining high officials, the village head can only pass on the order of the head of the village.
There were a lot of things, and everyone had a meeting under the banyan tree at the entrance of the village. When Manbao and the others returned from the county, the meeting had just started, so Manbao listened to the whole process.
She was a little angry, thinking that it was fine if the chief didn't cry and be poor, but he even planned to show off his wealth.
So she followed old Zhoutou to find the village head, trying to persuade him not to follow the village head's instructions, and to change from showing off his wealth to crying about being poor.
But before she finished speaking, the old Zhou Tou carried her back. While walking, he turned his head and said to the village chief: "This child comes out as soon as he wants to, so don't listen to her."
The village chief waved his hand, "Uncle Jin, take her back, I know that."
It is impossible to cry poor, such an obvious matter, the village chief settles the score afterwards, should he still be the village chief
But showing off their wealth is also impossible, because even if they want to show off their wealth, they can't show it off.
The whole village was mobilized, together with the energetic children, the whole village was cleaned up in half a day.
In fact, there is nothing to clean, so I picked up the rocks on the road and filled them into some mud pits. What kind of garbage can there be in the countryside
However, there are many places in the house that need to be cleaned. The Zhou family cleaned the inside and outside of the house with more care than cleaning during the New Year.
Man Bao ran to find Bai Shanbao, the two of them murmured together for a while, and then took the big head to play with the children of the three families whose house had collapsed. Zhou Daliang had just been married for half a year, and his wife was not pregnant yet, so there were no children at home. .
But Zhou Daliang is not very old, so Man Bao directly drags Zhou Zhoulang to find him.
Everyone gathered together and muttered.
The next day, after County Magistrate Fu came to Qili Village from Dali Village, the first thing he wanted to see was the three houses whose houses had collapsed.
As soon as they walked into the low courtyard wall of Zhou Daliang's house, they saw a lot of dustpans on the ground, in which some ugly-colored rice and wheat were being dried.
The village chief was taken aback, and subconsciously stared at the village chief, who was also staring, turning his head to look at Zhou Daliang's parents.
The head of the village also looked at Zhou Daliang's parents. The couple obviously didn't expect such a situation at home, their faces turned pale, and their eyes hurriedly searched for their son in the crowd.
County magistrate Fu didn't notice their change, squatted down to look at the somewhat blackened rice, touched it, and asked, "Are these soaked in water?"
Zhou Daliang took out a bag of wheat from the house, and looked at the people in the yard with surprise, as if he didn't expect there to be so many people in the house.
Man Bao squeezed from behind the crowd to the front, hid behind Zhou Dalang and gave him a thumbs up to express his appreciation.
Zhou Daliang didn't dare to wink at her, and stood on the ground without moving.
County magistrate Fu saw that Daliang's parents were hesitating and speechless, so he frowned, looked at Zhou Daliang, and asked again: "Is this food soaked in water?"
Zhou Daliang nodded again and again, and said: "Originally, the food of each household, except for some leftover food, should be placed on wooden frames to avoid moisture. But my house collapsed, and the beams fell down, and the wooden frame The grain piled on the ground was also smashed to the ground. It was raining heavily outside, the house collapsed, and the water flooded in, so all the grain was soaked."
Then their luck was still very bad. After that day, there was still continuous heavy rain, and they all had to live in relatives' homes, let alone take care of the food.
When the rain finally subsided and they found a place to dry the grain, they took it out and saw that a lot of wheat had germinated, and a lot of rice had sprouted.
And the rest, even if they are aired out, there are still many sprouts in the absence of the sun.
In the end, Da Liang's father cruelly exchanged the sprouting wheat and rice with the people in the village at a ratio of three catties for one catty.
There's no way, the wheat and rice are not only sprouting, but also wet, but even so, not much has been replaced.
After all, it’s okay to eat one or two meals of this food. If you buy too much and take it back, the buds are too high, and you can’t eat it if you want to eat it. That’s a waste.
The old Zhou head changed a lot, it can be said that the Zhou family changed the most, a total of three hundred catties.
There is more wheat and less rice.
There are many Zhou family members and the place is big. The old Zhoutou burned charcoal directly in the kitchen, and asked the second child to weave a long, long, wide and wide bamboo bed, put it on top, and put the charcoal on the bottom to bake.
Pour the rice on it, carefully bake it over a charcoal fire overnight, and then pay attention to turning it, and the rice will dry slowly.
Although they had sprouts, Lao Zhoutou didn't dislike them at all. They were dried and then shelled. During this time, the rice was used for cooking porridge and rice at home.
Although Manbao felt that it was not delicious and lacked a lot of flavor, the Zhou family still ate with gusto.
The wheat is also put on top to bake, and if it is too late to bake, it is ground into powder.
Because the wheat is wet, the powder ground with the husk is not very good-looking, but the family does not care, directly put the ground powder on the bamboo bed, dry it carefully and put it away, and then make it into noodle soup , or direct pancakes or steamed buns will do.
It might not taste great, but at least it's going to last.
Da Liang also came to visit their bamboo bed curiously, and spent money to order a bed with Zhou Zhoulang.
But they couldn't restore much loss to their family, because they had a small family and they used fire to bake it, so they had to be watched all the time.
Busy with the work in the field, staring at the fire at home, and possibly staying up late at night, there are only four members of Daliang's family, and they can't stand it at all.
In the end, most of the food turned into such dark musty food because it was not dried in time and dried in the sun.
Magistrate Fu stretched out his hand and rubbed it, and opened it to see that it was dark. As soon as I smelled it, a musty smell hit my face.
County magistrate Fu was silent.
The master who followed him hurriedly said: "My lord, let's go to the next one to have a look."
County magistrate Fu glanced at him and asked Zhou Daliang, "How many acres of wheat and rice have you planted this year, and how many have been flooded, but you can grow beans?"
Zhou Daliang answered one by one.
County magistrate Fu nodded, asked the master to take note of his situation, and took a look at the other two houses. Those two houses were also drying grain in the yard. It can be said that the whole village is drying food in the yard now. Moldy and blackened grain.
Everyone had good reasons, "It's just that the sun has been better these two days. If we don't dry it quickly, I'm afraid it will rain later."