Spatial Farm Life: Raising My Kid, Abusing Scum, and Keeping Busy With Life

Qiao's family put on cotton-padded clothes. Last year's ones were all warm. She hurriedly asked people to go to the cloth shop to buy cotton to make cotton-padded clothes. Who knew that all the cotton in the town was sold out.

After thinking about it, she simply drove the carriage to the county seat by herself.

Unexpectedly, the cotton in the county was also exhausted. She frowned, and used her thoughts to collect a few acres of cotton grown in the space and loaded it into the car.

She studied mechanics, and immediately used wood to make a machine for picking cotton when she got home.

Call two women and ask them to wear masks. After the church, let her be in charge of picking cotton.

After the cotton was plucked and distributed, everyone rushed to make cotton clothes overnight, and everyone had two sets of thick cotton clothes.

There were still some cotton and cloth left, and she had them made into cotton padded clothes for adults and sent them to Qian's family. These were not for Mayor Qian, but for beggars in the town.

Fortunately, everyone responded in time. The shopkeeper Lu let the beggars live in the small courtyard where Qiao Mai lived, and no longer used Qiao Mai's shop.

It could be considered that she supported Mayor Qian. Apart from donating cotton clothes, Qiao Mai also bought them food for the winter.

He also asked Mayor Qian to post notices, asking the poor families in each village to come to the mayor's house to receive food, and the lonely and unclothed old people would send food and firewood to their homes.

What Qiao Mai was worried about was not their food, but whether there would be a snowstorm from the heavens. He was afraid that they would not be able to get out at that time, and they would be sitting and eating, so they distributed food and firewood.

If it is not said that the officials are doing something, the people will enjoy the blessings.

With Qiao Mai's support, Mayor Qian asked his family's guards to drive the carriage to deliver food and firewood to the needy households in the villages under his jurisdiction.

Some came to pick it up by themselves, and they acted in both directions, and all the relief was in place within a few days.

Yuan Jiaqi came back at the end of the month, and when he left, he only brought a thin cotton coat, but when he came back, he was freezing.

Qiao Mai hurriedly sent him a newly made thick padded coat, as well as the medicines for wind-cold and fever that he bought from the platform, and the names and effects of the medicines were written on the bottles.

"I'm too busy these days, so I may not be able to take care of you. If you're not feeling well, go see a doctor. These two bottles of medicine are for you to take to the academy, and you have a new set of cotton-padded clothes."

"Well, you are busy, I can take care of myself."

After Qiao Mai left, Yuan Jiaqi hurriedly changed into thick cotton clothes and trousers, took off his shoes and got into the warm kang.

It's better at home, it's better to have a woman at home.

No matter how busy Qiao Mai was, he never ignored him.

Chuan'er was wearing a thick cotton coat, and ran in like a ball, carrying a small cloth bag.

"Daddy, daddy, I can sleep with daddy tonight."

"Hey, I've gained weight again. Didn't I lose some good food when I went to the capital?"

"Hee hee, eat well every day."

He put all the good things in the bag on the table, introduced them to Yuan Jiaqi one by one, and stuffed them into his mouth for him to eat.

"Father, are you hungry? Shall I go to the kitchen and get you something delicious?"

"Not hungry, let's eat together at noon."

"Well, Mother is reinforcing the greenhouse with the wives in the backyard,"

"Can you tell Dad what happened to you in the capital?"

"OK."

In the warm room, the father and son snuggled together, Yuan Jiaqi listened to his son talking about Qiao Mai vividly.

Sometimes he laughs, sometimes he is touched, and sometimes he is proud.

As soon as I warmed up, I ran to the back to help.

The old man and the old lady dare not go out, they are afraid of the cold, and they are undoubtedly looking for illness when they come out in such weather.

As soon as November entered, it was freezing outside, and Yuan Jiaqi reluctantly left to go to the academy. The howling north wind blew on his face, which hurt like a knife.

Compared with previous years, Tianshui Town has entered winter half a month earlier, and the common people's wheat seeds have just been planted in the ground, and they don't know if they can survive this hurdle.

Qiao Mai is not a god, nor is she a magic stick, nor can she pinch her fingers or tell her fate. Just in case, she started to ask people to hoard food.

This is just after paying the grain tax, not only hoarding grain, but also buying firewood.

On the martial arts arena, half of the place is piled with firewood and charcoal.

Not to mention her, many people feel that it is abnormal, and they have started to stockpile food and firewood. Even some ordinary people, in order not to be frozen to death or starved to death in winter, use the money they have to start buying. stand up.

The price of food and charcoal rose immediately, and there were even shortages of food and charcoal in many places.

It just so happened that the batch of rubber trees felled by Qiao Mai Space last time had a place to use. In the middle of the night, when everyone was asleep, she almost filled up the training ground.

They are all in pieces of 30 centimeters, which is very convenient to cut and use.

On the sixth day of November, it was snowing heavily and there was no one on the road. It was so cold.

Qiao Mai ordered the snack shop to close, let the shopkeeper and the staff have a good rest, and sweep the snow on the roof when they are free, so that there is no need to sell any more goods.

Every two hours in Qiao's house, someone would step on a ladder and scrape down the snow on the house to prevent the house from being crushed by the thick snow.

Although it is a new house, you have to pay attention.

This kind of snow fell for a whole day and night, then it turned into moderate snow, and it took another day and night before it turned into light snow.

When people came out of their homes, the snow was as high as a person. If it turned into rain, Tianshui Town would be flooded.

Many people are worried about the harvest in the coming year, even thinking that there may be no harvest, and they all feel sad, but no matter how worried they are, they have to take care of their eyes.

After the snow stopped, Mayor Qian hurriedly ordered people to start clearing the snow, but how? There is snow everywhere, where will the snow that is one person tall be cleared?

Each family can only clear a road to walk back and forth, and there is no place to pile up the snow.

Qiao Mai wanted to move the snow to the space, but after thinking about it, she couldn't. Snow is also water. She moved the roots here, and she wondered if it would bring them other disasters.

She didn't dare to try, and she couldn't bear the consequences.

She led people to tamp down the snow in the open area of ​​the house first, and then moved the snow from other places here to pile up like hills, and then cleared out the greenhouse, poultry house, and road.

At the gate of Qiao's house, and the section of the official road in front of the shop, Qiao Mai and his family also cleaned it up like this.

After all the snow has been compacted and piled up together, the height of one person becomes the height of two people, and then becomes the height of three people. That's how she leads people to clean up part of it every day.

The people in the town followed suit, and they all mobilized to clear the snow like her.

If there are no merchants, the shop will have no business, and if there are no people around, where the income will come from, the roads must be cleared.

Mayor Qian came out to watch every day, and the servants and guards at home were all on the move.

With a lot of people and great strength, they cleared about ten miles to the north and twenty miles to the south.

In some places the snow is thick, while in some landowners the snow is thin. It seems that the snow falls in different places.

Not only are they cleaning up, but many places are also being cleaned up. The imperial court has ordered that when it rains and snows, the official road must be guaranteed to pass.

The road didn't pass until the end of November. Yuan Jiaqi also suspended classes because of the sudden cold weather and the school's lack of firewood and charcoal reserves. If you want to go to class, you will be notified.

There is no need to go to Fucheng anymore, he can finally rest at home.

When I came back, besides working, I went to Mr. Wang's place, and the two discussed knowledge while drinking tea.

The children don't go out very much, they practice calligraphy and play games together in the house.

Mayor Qian has not been idle during this period. Since the road was opened, he has taken guards to various villages to check. Some houses have collapsed and are uninhabitable, and he has registered them in the register.

Fortunately, this year, the prevention was early, only a few houses were unoccupied, and he paid for it himself, so he didn't bother Qiao Mai and those merchants again.

Qiao Mai has done a good enough job. She donated the food and firewood on her own initiative. Without her, many people in the ten miles and eight villages in this town would not be able to resist.

Liu Ye and Liu Hai sent a cart full of food and firewood to their families long before it snowed.

The two were trapped in the small town for a month, and every day they had nothing to do, they followed the people to clear the snow.