Old Madam Qiao was reborn—seven days before her whole family was sent to the countryside.
Looking at her family, still safe and sound—her son and daughter-in-law alive, her two young gran...
"Aunt, these are three slaughtered sheep and their internal organs, weighing a total of 377.8 jin. If you have enough money, we can use small yellow croaker to pay for it."
"And there are these twelve little ducks and three little geese. The ducks are ten cents each. The geese are more expensive, twenty cents each."
The second brother pointed to the three baskets of mutton on the cart and the ducklings and geese in the two chicken cages. He then reported the total and gave Qiao Jiuru more than 220 yuan, and the remaining money was calculated as two small yellow croakers.
Gold nowadays is not easy to spend and is not as useful as banknotes. Knowing that Qiao Jiuru was willing to accept the gold, the second brother and the others were very happy.
Qiao Jiuru did a quick mental calculation and knew that the amount given by the second brother was correct. She collected the money and the small yellow croaker, while Su Huaiyuan and the old man were also actively handing over the goods.
Two hundred rabbits looked even fatter than the first batch, especially their fur, which was shiny and glossy. The rabbit skin alone must be worth at least a dime a piece.
The second and the eldest were both grinning from ear to ear; they felt that they had made a great profit from this deal.
Of these two hundred rabbits, at least ten would be kept to raise as baby rabbits for the next generation, and half a day later there would be rabbits to sell. The most important thing was that they would have more rabbits to sell in the future, and they would no longer have to buy rabbits from Qiao Jiuru.
This time, Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan didn't wait for the second and third elder brothers to leave first, and the couple left first.
Ten minutes after they walked out, they immediately found a hidden place and got into the space with their car.
The space has changed a lot now. Except for the imported varieties from decades ago and the varieties from the south, almost all the fruit trees in the north are available.
Not only is it almost complete, it has also formed a large orchard on the other side of the creek.
A batch could be harvested every six days or so, and there was so much that they could hardly eat it all. Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan had to work hard to finish it all, but they could only eat two or three pounds a day at most.
With the help of Dabao and Xiaobao, the total consumption was about two kilograms.
Occasionally, I would borrow some to give to my son and daughter-in-law, and every time I would send some to Su Huazhu and the others, but the fruit in the space was still not enough.
Under no circumstances could Qiao Jiuru ask Su Huaiyuan to make dried fruits, jams, and canned food.
After it was finished, Su Huazhu sent it to her younger brother and to the families of Zhang Hong and Lu Baoguo.
They can also put such dried fruits in their own bags and eat them as snacks, but unfortunately this still consumes a lot of water.
"The meat from these three sheep is enough for us to eat until next summer. Now we have ducks and geese, so we basically don't need any meat. We will go to the black market once every half an hour in the future to avoid worrying and being scared."
While Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan were setting up a tray for the ducklings and geese far away by the river, they were discussing the matter with him.
Far away on the opposite side of the river, in a large orchard, three wild deer were walking leisurely, looking energetic and having changed a lot since they first came in.
"I told Xiaoze that I understand his feelings. It is indeed dangerous to go to the black market. If we had this space, the black market here would be a place we could go to."
Relying on the existence of this space, they dare not be so bold. If not, they can only be like Lao Feng and Cai Qing, moving their horses like ants moving house, moving whatever is in their bodies to their homes, and dare not be idle at all.
"The children are afraid, and I understand. Forget it, let's just live a more stable life from now on."
Qiao Jiuru thought about it and decided that he still wanted his eldest son and the younger two to live in fear, otherwise what they did would be meaningless.
The couple first settled the ducklings and geese, and then went to harvest the grown vegetables. There are many varieties of vegetables now, but they dare not plant more, and only plant 100 plants. Even though they feed them to chickens and rabbits every day, they can still eat up all the vegetables.
In the end, they can only be dried into vegetables, pickled vegetables, or stored away. If the space has the function of keeping fresh, these things will be wasted.
Now, the most common plants in the space are various medicinal herbs, which need to be harvested every two or three days. The fastest harvested herbs are harvested once a month, such as ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, and Dendrobium, which are precious herbs, which are harvested only once a year or once every two or three days.
Grains are still planted, mainly wheat and rice, corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes, followed by cotton, mung beans, soybeans, red beans, black beans, watermelons, cantaloupes, winter melons and pumpkins.
In addition to these, there are all kinds of mushrooms and fungus in the orchard. They were all thrown into the space by the soil they dug from the mushroom-growing areas when they were picking mushrooms.
Originally, they knew it would be successful. After all, Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan were in agriculture. They decided to give it a try, but they didn't expect it to really grow.
These mushrooms will also grow when it rains in the anti-space. Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan have to pick a wave of mushrooms every day when they come in. Now they have picked more than a dozen baskets.
After the couple worked in the space for about a few hours, they left the space and headed back to the production team.
Su Ze knew that his parents were going to go to Shenyang early this morning, so when he heard some movement in the room next to him, he quickly got up.
"You have to continue chopping wood at home today. Your father and I may have to go in for two or three days. We will try to come back tomorrow afternoon."
"If Uncle Jiu and Lao Feng ask, just say we went to your sister's place."
"When we're not at home, you have to go out and stay at home to look after Xiao Wan and the two children. One third of the grain is in your room, and some is in my room and your dad's room, and the rest is in the kitchen. Tomorrow, after the spring plowing is finished, find a place to dig a cellar and put about half a cubic meter of grain in it. Then you and Xiao Wan don't have to worry about it anymore."
Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan were cooking breakfast together. When they saw their eldest son entering the kitchen, they took the initiative to explain to him, in case they both rushed back today and he was discovered in a hurry.
Su Ze saw that his parents had made arrangements, and knew that they had it in mind, and he was relieved.
After the family of three had breakfast, Qiao Jiuru brought more than 20 steamed buns and 20 boiled eggs, three pounds of recently dried noodles, a small pot, salt and a small bottle of lard, a kettle, matches and other things in front of his son.
Su Huaiyuan only carried a large backpack, a hatchet, a knife and a hoe. It was obvious that he was well prepared.
Finally, under Su Ze's watchful eye and concern, Qiao Jiuru and Su Huaiyuan set off at daybreak.