Sign in to foster husband in the fugitive desert

Chapter 19

After breakfast, Lu Changge went to town.

There are not many locusts in the town, at least a few locusts hit the face without walking.

However, affected by the locust plague, there are fewer stalls on the street than before.

The doors of all the shops are blocked with bamboo curtains, and the business looks very bleak.

The people on the road were in a hurry and did not dare to slow down.

Some even wore veiled caps.

Lu Changge didn't stay in the town for long. After buying the cloth and bamboo curtains, he bought three more hats, two big and one small.

There were too many bamboo curtains, so Lu Changge hired a carriage to transport them back.

Before going back, Lu Changge found a shop selling snacks and bought some bunches of candied haws and a bag of pastries.

After returning home, Lu Changge first brought the cloth requested by his wife and the candied haws from the boy into the house, and then began to install the bamboo curtains.

The outside of the corridor is surrounded by a green brick wall that reaches Lu Changge's knees.

Lu Changge cleaned up the debris placed on it first, and then began to hang the bamboo curtain.

The length of the bamboo curtain is just a little longer than the length between the eaves of the promenade and the blue brick wall.

[Erto. ] Lu Changge shouted.

[clear! ] Er Teng responded.

At the same time, roll up the bamboo curtain in the owner's hand to the eaves.

Then, a strong rattan cane is passed through one end of the bamboo curtain to fix it to the eaves.

After being fixed, the bamboo curtain fell down with a swish, and the bottom end just fell on the top of the blue brick wall a little below.

Lu Changge nailed the bottom of the bamboo curtain to the green bricks, and it was completed.

Next, repeat the steps just now, one person and one vine.

It didn't take long for the bamboo curtains to be completely fixed.

After the bamboo curtain was installed, Erteng's vines covered the entire roof again.

Strips of slender green vines hang down from the eaves, swaying in the wind.

Against the backdrop of bamboo curtains, there is a special taste.

Lu Changge stood in the yard, looking at the renovated house.

Not to mention, it looks pretty good.

In addition to hardening and toughening, Erto also has a special ability.

It is to emit a smell that is disgusting to all animals.

It is also this ability that allows it to rise to level six in the last days without incident, until it is accepted as a pet by Lu Changge.

Therefore, the three exits of the promenade were blocked by the vines of Erteng hanging down.

After the rattan curtain fell, there were significantly fewer locusts around.

Not long after, the front of the three curtains became a vacuum.

The corridor was sealed, so Lu Changge went in and checked it carefully.

After confirming that there is no locust, the door of the house is opened.

"Daughter-in-law, you can come out now." Lu Changge shouted standing at the door.

"Finished?" Su Qingyun raised her head and looked over upon hearing this.

"Well, come out and have a look."

Hearing what Xianggong said, Su Qingyun put down the needle and thread in her hand and walked over.

Xiaotuanzi obviously cast a shadow on the outside of the house. Seeing that Father Mu was about to go out, he stamped anxiously on the spot and said, "Father Mu, there are... worms outside! Don't go!"

"It's okay, Father Mu will go out and have a look." Su Qingyun reassured.

Su Qingyun walked out of the house in a few steps, and what she saw was not the familiar courtyard, but a long bamboo curtain wall.

The sunlight outside came in through the gaps between the bamboo curtains and fell on the floor and the walls of the house.

There's a dusk afternoon vibe to it.

Hearing the sound of locusts buzzing and flapping their wings outside, Su Qingyun no longer felt irritable and anxious.

This feeling is like letting the wind and rain outside, hiding in a safe haven and being at ease.

"How?" Lu Changge asked.

"Very good." Su Qingyun looked at him and smiled.

It feels so good to be loved unconditionally.

Afterwards, Su Qingyun turned back and called the dumpling to come out, "Come out, the dumpling, there are no more bugs outside."

"Really?" Xiaotuanzi was still a little scared, hiding behind the bed curtain, only daring to show his head.

"Really, ask your father if you don't believe me."

Upon hearing this, Xiaotuanzi looked at his father and asked silently.

"Well, come out."

Hearing what Daddy said, Xiaotuanzi finally ran over.

When he got close to the door, he saw the scenery outside.

"Wow! It's so delicious!" Xiaotuanzi looked up and looked around, then ran back and forth in the corridor excitedly.

In order to hide from the locusts these days, Xiaotuanzi stayed in the house, but he was suffocated.

After running back and forth a few times in the corridor, Xiaotuanzi finally found the special curtain.

"Huh? This looks like Er Er..." Xiaotuanzi grabbed a vine.

[Little master, this is a part of me! ]

"Two two!" Hearing Erteng's voice, Xiaotuanzi was very happy.

"Two two, I miss you so much!"

Staying in the house for the past few days, Xiaotuanzi hasn't talked to Erto for a long time.

[I miss you too, little master!Little master, you can see the outside when you lift off the cane. ]

"No, no!" Xiao Tuanzi shook his little head like a rattle, "It can't be opened, bugs will fly in."

[No, no, those bugs dare not approach me, if you don’t believe me, the little master lifts the cane and try, I guarantee that none of those bugs dare to fly in! ] Erto assured.

"really?"

[real! ]

In the end, Xiao Tuanzi ran around the yard wearing a wreath of the Erteng brand on his head.

What is surprising is that wherever the small group goes, the locusts will fly away quickly.

It seemed to smell something fatal.

"Wow, Er Er is amazing!"

Xiao Tuanzi, wearing a garland, ran over with a huff, and ran over with a huff.

Seeing that Chongchong was scared away by him, Xiaotuanzi giggled happily.

Su Qingyun lifted the cane and watched Tuanzi running around wearing the familiar garland.

two two?

Can Tuanzi really hear plants speak?

Thinking that he suddenly had the ability to store things, Su Qingyun was a little suspicious.

Erto didn't know that his wife began to doubt its authenticity, and at this time it was having fun with its little master.

In the end, the locusts did not dare to approach the main house because of the scent of Erteng brand rattan.

Only dare to fly in the yard near the gate.

In fact, Lu Changge wanted Erteng to climb the entire courtyard wall directly, keeping all the locusts out.

However, this is too obvious, and a discerning person will know that there is a problem at a glance.

Lu Changge has always been low-key in his work, so he gave up this once-and-for-all solution.

……

On the third day after the locust plague broke out, according to regulations, this day was the day when the government sent people to collect grain taxes.

This year, however, there was a drought first, which led to a lack of soil moisture in the fields and cracked land.

Then a plague of locusts broke out, resulting in no harvest this year.

The drought does not know when it will end, and the number of locusts continues to increase.

As a result, the grain for the second half of the year was not planted.

The newly succeeded emperor was considered a benevolent monarch, and he exempted the affected areas from grain tax this year.

Of course, there are also some local officials who rely on the high sky and the emperor's distance, thinking that no one knows, and continue to collect grain taxes.

However, the grain tax received this year went into their pockets.

This is the case in the town where Lijia Village is located.

There are four other villages around Lijia Village, but these four villages are not so lucky.

Because the rice was harvested too late, more than half of it entered the belly of the locusts.

The whole family can't get enough to eat, and half of the food tax is charged. Isn't this killing people?

Fortunately, there is a merchant in Lujia Village who just came back from the imperial city not long ago.

In the imperial city, I also heard the news that Xindi was specially exempted from the grain tax in the disaster-stricken area.

As a result, magistrates who wanted to fill their pockets were beaten.

Now, several villages are planning to jointly report to Fucheng.

Originally, if this matter was put in the past, the common people would definitely dare not speak out.

But now, with no food and ready to be forced to death, is this tolerable?

Because of a rumor, Lijia Village was lucky enough to harvest the grain before the locusts broke out, and the loss was not too much.

But the village head must not be able to tell the truth to other villages.

Therefore, the village head called all the villagers urgently and asked them to hide all the food at home.

Also, I couldn't tell the people in other villages about the desperate rush to harvest the millet.

In short, the village head is very shrewd.

Lu Changge didn't know what the other villagers did.

However, his family's food can really be hidden in a place where no one can find it.

The food tax issue has been going on for a long time, but Lu Changge didn't pay much attention to it.

He now has to fill those 600 empty buckets.

The water storage bucket is an ordinary type with a cover, about as high as Lu Changge's waist, and the inside diameter of the bucket is quite large.

A bucket can hold about 350 liters of water.

Six hundred barrels can hold a total of 210 tons of water.

Under normal circumstances, a family of three consumes six to eight tons of water per month.

According to this calculation, the water can be used for more than a year.

And the drought lasted only one year.

Moreover, Lu Changge also has an infinite storage bucket.

In this way, it is completely sufficient.

Now, all Lu Changge has to do is fetch water, pour it into a bucket, cover it and put it in the storage container.

This sounds simple, but it's a lot of work to do.

After pumping ten barrels in the morning and ten barrels in the afternoon, after a month, Lu Changge's arms, waist and abdominal muscles have grown stronger.

Coupled with his height of nearly 1.9 meters, he looks even more fierce.

A month passed quickly, and it is now late August, and the number of locusts around has obviously begun to decrease.

And the common people have also adapted to the flying locusts flying around, and they can even grab them with bare hands without changing their expressions, and then crush them to death.

At this time, Su Qingyun's belly was about six months old, and she was about to give birth in four months.

I gave birth in December, when it was freezing cold, and the warming facilities had to be prepared.

The lactation period of ewes here is about 5 to 6 months.

Now start to prepare the rations for the cubs, which can last for two months.

It just so happened that their family was leaving at that time.

So the ewes have to start buying another one too.

Now the one at home is out of milk, so I will buy another one just for the dumplings.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Before going to Fucheng to buy supplies, Lu Changge started today's check-in.

[System, sign in. ]

[Ding—Successfully sign in on the 83rd day of fleeing from famine, and get sign-in rewards: four catties of rice, one pig's trotter, and three pieces of water tofu.

Get a random reward for signing in: a luxury carriage.

Rewards have been put into system space. 】

Luxury carriage?

Lu Changge frowned when he saw the random reward.

Isn't this a typical example of someone giving you a pillow just when you want to fall asleep.

Not to mention, this system is sometimes quite sweet.

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