It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 273

After consulting with several experienced elders, Jiang Yan confirmed that there was no way to save the hen, so he immediately killed it before it died.

The ingredients are no longer vibrant enough, but they have to be fresh no matter what.

The skinny hen was stewed in a full can of water for the entire afternoon, and only before dinner was a small bowl of broth distributed to each family. The rest of the time, it was up to each family to add water and seasoning.

When Li Hao came over, Jiang Yan was holding the salt jar with only a little salt left. He told Jiang Ying that he would go to the city to buy some tomorrow and hoped that the price of salt would not change too much.

Li Hao reached out and stroked the top of Jiang Ying's head. "It's hard for her to sit so close and smell the food when she can't eat." He then turned to Jiang Yan and said, "The village is planning to pick a suitable time to plant another millet crop. Remember to take good care of yourself during this period."

Jiang Yan agreed obediently, and then asked curiously: "Can you plant in such a hot weather?" She remembered that she had never planted at this time before. If it sprouted, wouldn't it be dried up in a few days?

"Yes, your Grandma Juhua is watching the weather. Although the harvest will definitely not be as good as on a normal day if we plant now, we have to find a way to delay it until next year's winter wheat harvest."

"Where are the beans?"

"It's the same, the yield will be much different. But we didn't get many bean seeds, so we don't plan to plant them right now. It's not worth it."

Jiang Yan nodded. If the village didn't organize planting, she would find an opportunity to buy a few pounds from outside. She was craving soy milk right now. This wasn't just greed, but her body's irresistible desire for protein.

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Two days later, there was another fierce lightning and thunder, but unfortunately the rain was not heavy and only slightly wet the ground.

The elders in the village took advantage of the cool weather and went out with farm tools to plow the land, while Jiang Yan followed his friends into the mountains to look for ground vegetables.

This thing grows rapidly after the rain, and everyone waited until this time to set out in the hope of giving it enough time to grow so that they can collect more at one time.

Buds can now be vaguely seen on the originally bare tree trunks. I believe that in a short time, we can pluck some tender shoots to add to the vegetables.

By the time the third rain fell, the temperature had dropped a little, and Dongshan Village immediately entered the busy farming mode. The gloom that had gradually dissipated with time was no longer visible.

After finishing his farm work for the day, Jiang Wang came over, pausing with a hoe on his shoulder. "We're going to the city early tomorrow morning. Jiang Yan, you have a good memory. Ask everyone later if they need anything to bring."

"Okay, I'll remember that. How many people are going to the city this time?"

"Three or four." If he wasn't afraid of running into bad things on the way there, and if he wasn't an old guy who couldn't scare people away and couldn't run fast, two would be enough.

Jiang Yan is definitely the one you must visit.

A few days ago, because she was worried about the risks along the way, her plan to go to the city alone to buy salt was stopped by her elders, and she had to eat salt from different houses.

But the amount everyone brought back was very small to begin with, and there was still a lot of heavy physical work to do, so the salt consumption was rising rapidly, so we had to buy more.

At dawn the next day, Jiang Wang, Jiang Hu and Jiang Yan rushed to the county town carrying a large bamboo basket with two tubes of freshly dried ground vegetables at the bottom of the basket.

When Jiang Yan went to collect the vegetables to sell last night, Grandma Gao Hua was worried that no one would want them and they wouldn't be able to sell them at a good price. After all, even children can find these vegetables in the fields, so how could people in the county town be willing to buy them when times are tough?

Even though Jiang Yan explained that these things were to be sold to wealthy families, Gao Hua was still puzzled: "Rich families have so many farms and arable land, don't their tenants bring them food?"

I don’t know about that. At that time, she was just selling things, whatever she had. Maybe the tenant farmers thought that rich people don’t eat ground vegetables, so they never gave her any?

You can't just not eat it because you think the ingredients are not high-end enough...