Su Yan didn't expect that the biggest obstacle to getting the children to work in the fields was actually her father. Which rural child doesn't go to the fields at a young age?

There is a widow at the east end of the village. Her parents-in-law passed away long ago, and her husband also passed away last year. She is the only one left at home with her two half-grown children.

Every time she went to work in the fields, she brought her children with her. The youngest was only two years old.

The widow planted peanuts in the field with her children. The eldest child, who was six years old, used a small rake to dig holes, and the two-year-old child threw peanut seeds, while the widow spread fertilizer on the side.

Su Yan still admired this young widow. She was not even thirty years old yet, but she refused to remarry with her two sons.

Other people’s children start working in the fields at the age of two, but her child is twelve years old and has never even picked a vegetable. No way, absolutely not.

Even if the king of heaven came, he couldn't stop her from educating her son, and Su Yan didn't say much to Su Qingshan.

After changing into work clothes and tying up her hair, she prepared bait for feeding the turtles, a fishing net and an iron bucket, and took a few children to the turtle pond to catch turtles.

Lu Yian looked at the pond full of duckweed and asked, "Mom, are there really turtles in this pond?"

"Yes! The turtles in this pond have been there for almost a year and a half, and the small pond was added this year. The pond over there is used to raise small fish, shrimps, and snails. The wooden house on the left is used to raise earthworms, and the wooden house on the right is used to hatch turtle eggs."

"Mom, what else do turtles eat besides small fish, shrimps, and earthworms?"

"Animal offal, but all minced."

"What's the red bait in your sister's bucket?"

"Minced beef and duck liver." After Su Yan said that, she patted the minced beef and duck liver into patties and threw them on the slope of the pool.

Lu Yining tightly gripped the handle of the fishing net, "Mom, when will the turtle come up?"

"They smell the fishy smell and after a few minutes they will come out from under the duckweed."

"Mom, how many times a day should I feed the turtle?"

"If you want them to grow faster, you should feed them three or four times a day. What? You want to come and feed the turtles with your little grandfather?"

"Sure. Mom, there are hundreds of turtles in this pond. Will anyone steal them?"

"Don't you see the wall? Even if it can't stop us, we still have your grandfather. He lives in a thatched hut nearby.

Anyone who dares to steal turtles will be caught by your grandfather and sent to the police station. Those scoundrels in the village have the will but not the courage to steal turtles in the middle of the night.

During the crackdown in the 1980s, any mistake could ruin your life. Su Yan wasn't afraid that they would climb over the wall to steal the turtles, but she was afraid that they would come to the pond and poison them.

If the turtle pond was poisoned, all her efforts for the past year and a half would be wasted.

"Brother, the turtle has crawled up, hurry up and catch it, hurry up and catch it!"

Lu Yian watched the turtles crawling onto the shore and screamed anxiously, fearing that they would eat the bait and run away.

Lu Yining used a net to scoop it up, and the big turtle fell directly into the water, taking the bait beside the pond with it.

"Mom, I might as well catch it with my hands."

"Are you stupid? If you get bit by a turtle and don't keep your hands on it, you'll be in trouble. Give me the net bag, I'll fish it out."

Su Yan shook her head and took the net bag. The kids were so useless. They held the net bag and watched seven or eight big turtles crawling by the pond, but they didn't catch any of them and even spilled the bait into the water.

She casually scooped up two turtles and put them into the net bag. Lu Yirou said, "Mom, please catch a few more turtles. Then you can give two to Dad."

Su Yan glared at Lu Yiru. This ungrateful little bastard only had eyes for her dad, and that stinky man only knew how to flirt with other women, eat soft-shelled turtles, and eat farts.

"Stop messing around, grab an extra one to eat for dinner."

After catching the soft-shelled turtle, Su Yan took the children back to cook. Su Qingshan picked a handful of long beans, three eggplants and half a basket of peppers from the field.

"Yan Yan, let's make scrambled eggs with chili peppers and fried eggplant for lunch today."

"What about the long beans?"

"I'm using it to pickle sour beans. Didn't you go to the turtle pond and catch some turtles? We'll braise the turtles for lunch, and make turtle soup with red dates tonight. Tomorrow morning I'll take An An and the others to the market. Just buy whatever you want to eat."

"Dad, we already have two hundred sheep on the mountain. Do you want to raise a few thousand chickens?"

"Raising chickens requires enclosing the mountain. There are a few scoundrels in our village who steal chickens and dogs. Your young grandfather and your second uncle would walk around the sheep pen and cow shed every night with flashlights. Fortunately, the strawberry shed is guarded, and the melon field has a thatched shed with people to help watch over it."

"Then let's not raise chickens for now. Collecting eggs every day is a hassle, and raising chickens requires a lot of feed, and we don't grow rice or corn at home."

"Well, raising chickens requires two more people. You've expanded your business so much that many villagers are complaining at home and want you to pay them back. It's better not to run the chicken farm anymore and let them run it."

"good."

After lunch, Su Yan took the children to rest for more than an hour, and then took them to the melon field to help pick watermelons and cantaloupes. Less than half an hour after picking, Lu Yiru said that her arms and calves were itchy.

Su Yan applied some cooling oil on her and took the three of them to the strawberry shed to start picking strawberries.

Most of these strawberries were sent to major supply and marketing cooperatives, and some were taken to Jinshi.

Her own fruit shop can sell over a hundred kilograms of strawberries a day. Citizens think strawberries are too expensive and usually only buy watermelons and cantaloupes.

Su Yan would also sell the green apples, pears, grapes, longans, kiwis, late-ripening lychees, and late-ripening cherries in the space.

Her fruit shop has a wide variety of products and her business is actually pretty good. The two people who help run the shop are honest people hired by her father.

Apart from a small amount of loss, Su Yan was not afraid of them doing anything wrong. After all, they had records of how much fruit they sold every day, and hiring two salespeople was to allow them to supervise each other.

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