Chapter 12 Proposal

Song Jingyun ate two bowls again.

At night, lying on the bed, Song Jingyun couldn't sleep.

One reason is because I am full.

The second reason is that I am still thinking about the braised pork.

It’s really delicious, no matter how you eat it.

Song Jingyun licked his lips, turned sideways, and spoke to Jiang Mixia in a low voice, "Will I go fishing tomorrow?"

Could it be that this young son-in-law is addicted to the harpoon?

Jiang Mixia raised her eyebrows. "We still have enough fish at home to eat for a few days. If we fork too much fish, it will go bad easily. If we make them all into salted fish, it would be fine, but the weather is getting hotter and hotter, I'm afraid it won't taste good."

"I don't want to eat fish." Song Jingyun shook his head.

"What are we going to do with that?" Jiang Mixia thought for a moment, "Sell it for money?"

"Yes, I sell it to buy pork." Song Jingyun answered truthfully, "I stew the braised pork."

Yes, I’m craving for braised pork.

But you can't blame Song Jingyun for being greedy. If possible, she also wants to eat braised pork often.

"It's still some time before the next market. The fish we caught can only be pickled. They won't be fresh when we sell them. Besides, selling fish today wasn't smooth. Selling to Fuyun Restaurant was just a coincidence. It's not a long-term solution. If we want to make money, this won't do it alone."

Jiang Mixia said, "We still have to think of other ways."

"Then do you have any solution?" Song Jingyun asked.

"Let me think about it, and then try it again to see if it works." Jiang Mixia yawned as she spoke, "But now, I need to sleep."

Work when the sun rises and rest when the sun sets. The sun rises early in the morning, so people get up early. Now Jiang Mixia is so sleepy that her eyelids are fighting each other.

Without enough sleep, her brain wouldn't work.

"Oh." Song Jingyun lay down again.

But his eyes kept blinking and finally closed after a long time.

After getting up in the morning and having breakfast, Jiang Mixia saw Jiang Youcheng starting to weave baskets, so she came up to him and said, "Dad, although these wicker baskets are easy to sell, the price is not high. You can't make much money even if you work hard for several days. Since Dad has this skill, why don't we try to weave something else?"

"What are you weaving?" Jiang Youcheng stepped on the rattan and used all his strength to bend the rattan into the arc of the bottom of the basket in the round hole on the ground.

"Should we try to weave some bamboo baskets?" Jiang Mixia suggested. "I saw that the bamboo baskets sold in town are much smaller than the rattan baskets we have at home, but they are not cheap. One costs thirty coins. A small sewing basket made of bamboo strips also costs more than ten or twenty coins. It takes less effort than weaving a large rattan basket."

"There is a large bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain behind the village. The bamboo there can be cut freely. Let's go cut some bamboo, split it into strips, weave some fine things, and sell them for more money."

Jiang Youcheng paused, looking hesitant. "It sounds good, but I've been making wicker baskets for a while now, and I'm only good at rough work. I'm afraid I can't make something so fine."

Can he do that kind of work well? This answer was within Jiang Mixia's expectations.

If you do the same job for a long time, you will get used to it and won't want to try other things. At the same time, you will feel very insecure about doing other things because of your condition.

Especially in such an era of strict hierarchy, the idea of ​​sticking to the old ways is deeply rooted, and many people have lost the idea and ability to try and break through.

"Dad is so good at weaving wicker baskets. He is so skillful. I think weaving this is no problem at all. Besides, let's try it first. If it doesn't work, we can do it later."

Jiang Mixia smiled and said, "Besides, weaving wicker baskets is a strenuous job. We often can't help Dad even if we want to, and we can't even learn how to do it. As for weaving bamboo strips, we can also chop the bamboo strips and learn the basket weaving skills from Dad. In the future, the whole family will join in, and there will always be more work."

"If it really doesn't work, let's just weave this wicker basket first. I'm strong too, so I'll take Jingyun to the back to cut bamboos and come back to try it out. If we can fix it, we'll continue. How do you think?"

Yesterday Jiang Mixia took a look around the town, observed the market conditions, and thought carefully about it based on her own situation.

She didn't have any outstanding skills that could surpass those of the natives of this era, but as a modern person, she had a flexible mind. If she wanted to get rich, she might as well start by combining the skills currently possessed by her family and making some slight modifications.

"I think what my daughter said is right. Let's give it a try first. If it succeeds, that's the best. If it doesn't, there's no loss. This business is not profitable to begin with, and at most you just have to work harder. Are farmers afraid of working harder?" Liu echoed.

Having said that, Jiang Youcheng didn't want to disappoint his daughter, so he just nodded and said, "Okay, let's try it first."

"Then Jingyun and I will go cut bamboo."

As Jiang Mixia spoke, she went to look for a machete and two pieces of strong hemp rope, ready to use to tie the bamboo later.

My daughter is very strong and her mind is clear now. The foot of the mountain is not far away, so it should be no problem for her to go and cut two bamboos. We can rest assured.

However, Liu still gave two reminders, "Cut two and come back, don't be greedy, don't go too deep, there are many wild animals in this mountain, don't get hurt."

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"Don't worry, mother." Jiang Mixia nodded repeatedly and led Song Jingyun out of the door.

The back mountain is at the northernmost end of Jiangjia Village. It’s not too far away and only takes about half an hour to walk there.

Speaking of which, this mountain is quite abrupt.

Most of the mountains nearby start to slope gently after a few miles from the foot of the mountain, and are rugged and difficult to walk on.

It just so happens that this mountain is like a bamboo shoot that suddenly popped out from the ground. The surrounding area is flat until the foot of the mountain when it suddenly becomes taller.

Moreover, there are dozens of mountains stretching to the north, tall and short, connected together. It is said that there are all kinds of birds and beasts in them. There are also people in several nearby villages who rely on hunting in the mountains for a living.

Because the terrain in the mountains is steep and the roads are rugged, and no one has ever walked through the entire mountain, no one knows what is inside, so hunters always walk in groups to avoid accidents.

However, Jiang Mixia and Song Jingyun only cut some bamboos on the outer edge of the mountain and did not go inside, so there was no need to worry about safety issues.

The wild bamboos, with no one to take care of them, grew a lot from the foot of the mountain, densely packed and towering into the sky. Looking from below, they blocked out the sun and even the sun could not be seen.

Jiang Mixia found a few straight and strong ones, picked up a machete and started working.

Song Jingyun also had a machete in his hand, and he imitated Jiang Mixia and chopped at the bottom of the bamboo in front of him.

“Bang!”

The shock of the machete made Song Jingyun's hands numb, and the machete also chopped into the bamboo, and it took a lot of effort to pull it out.

Another cut and the same thing happened.

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