Chapter 196 Is it difficult to admit that others are better than us?

"It's just that our village has such a large income, which is really not a small amount. We also have a large area of ​​wasteland that can be reclaimed for planting, so we can earn a lot of money every other year.

The Lei family relies on hunting to make a living, but it's obviously tight, so I'd like to ask for your opinion. Can you tell them?" Shen Qing asked.

The last time they went to the city with the Lei family to purchase goods, they sold leather and bought grains such as corn and millet. The money from the leather and the silver they brought with them was almost gone. This was even after people in their village gave them more than 200 kilograms of grain. Otherwise, the silver they earned from this trip would not be enough to buy food for the winter!

Even so, she looked at the several hundred kilograms of food and felt that it was not enough for the twenty or thirty people in the Lei family to survive the winter.

The little money left could only buy a small amount of salt. Liu Cuihua said optimistically that when she hunted more valuable leather and brought it to the city, she would be able to buy more salt, and then she could buy a few feet of linen again.

Hunters in the mountains rely entirely on prey for their income, and their income is so meager that their lives are extremely tight.

Mr. Jiang never expected that Shen Qing was asking this question in such a serious manner!

He said frankly: "This Astragalus was originally discovered by you. You can tell anyone you want and whenever you want. No one else has the right to question it.

Although I am the village chief, I am just like everyone else in these matters, and you have the final say."

Shen Qing smiled and said, "You are the village chief and my second uncle. I want to hear your opinion."

Mr. Jiang was shocked and moved!

He took a deep breath, and after a long pause, he made a serious suggestion: "The Lei family is trustworthy. They don't have land, and they're not good at planting. When you tell them, you can ask them to dig up the astragalus and bury the seeds in the pods in the soil. That way, they can harvest again next year."

His eyes turned and he continued, "Don't tell the villagers for now. Now that the problem of food and clothing has been solved, it's not that they are in urgent need of money. Protection and building houses are more important.

We had just entered the mountains and were not familiar with the various plants, roads, and wild animals there. It was not worth it to risk digging for astragalus without someone familiar with the terrain.

Besides, the astragalus won't run away. If the harvest in the fields fails next year, and if the grain harvest is also poor, I can dig some up and earn money once I get familiar with the forest."

This year, there is no need for that. Earning money should be steady and long-term. It is better to have some income every year than to earn all the money in one year.

Shen Qing felt that she asked the right question!

As the old saying goes, one person plans for the shortcomings, while two people plan for the strengths. This idea just popped up in her mind, but her second uncle thought of all aspects directly.

"Okay, then I'll go up the mountain and talk to Mrs. Lei tomorrow."

Mr. Jiang nodded, then instructed: "Take the two sisters Feng Xing and Feng Tao with you."

It’s not that he doesn’t want to let the Lei family go, but he wants to be on guard against Mrs. Cao who is halfway up the mountain.

The Feng sisters are good at fighting and are very agile, so with two of them around, they are not afraid at all.

Shen Qing understood Mr. Jiang's intention and nodded heavily.

The village is busy at night, feeding the chickens, ducks and geese, organizing the various grains, cutting grass for the lambs... The busyness is filled with joy, and every household is happier and more excited than during the Chinese New Year!

*

"You said that the villagers downstairs carried a few sacks out, and when they came back there were flocks of chickens, ducks, geese and sheep on the cart?" Mrs. Cao looked at the servant and asked again in surprise.

The servant emphasized, "Not only that, there are also quite a few sacks, probably food."

Cao Qingzhu gasped and asked in equal shock, "How is this possible? Where did they get the money to buy so much food and flocks of chickens, ducks, geese, and sheep?"

Mrs. Cao reacted and asked, "Do you know what's in that sack?"

"It should be something like a tree root. I couldn't see it clearly from a distance, but I saw them digging and digging for the past two days. The vast wasteland below was full of holes and pits.

The dug-up tree roots were not thrown away, but washed clean in the river, and sliced ​​and dried. I didn’t understand what they were used for before, but today I see them coming back with a large amount of food and livestock. I guess they must be medicinal herbs that can be sold for money?" The servant glanced at Mrs. Cao's face and said hesitantly.

Mrs. Cao's face was extremely ugly. After a while, she calmed down her anger and said, "Impossible! We are a family of scholars and well-read people, but we can't identify the medicinal herbs. How can a bunch of farmers know?"

"Nay, maybe they are just a blind cat catching a dead mouse." Cao Qingzhu said angrily.

Cao Junzhu in the room frowned and interrupted, "Is it difficult to admit that others are better than us?

If you come across it by chance, how do you know to dry it and sell it? You must recognize it after you dig it out and know how to deal with it. "

Mrs. Cao gritted her teeth, regretting her decision: "If only we hadn't delayed so much and started clearing the wasteland right away, the money we earned from selling the herbs would belong to us."

Now all the money has gone to those lowly farmers, and I feel uncomfortable watching them live a good life."

She hated to see villains succeed the most. It had been so hard for the Cao family to have lived a good life for many years. Why could a group of humble farmers live a life not much different from hers?

She ate refined rice and white flour, while they ate coarse grains and vegetables. Like the Lei family, they had to look up to her.

Fortunately, the Lei family still lives a tight life as usual.

No, she would go and talk to the Lei family tomorrow, letting them know that they trusted others wholeheartedly, and that others who had money to earn were wary of them...

Cao Junzhu sighed.

Those farmers don't rely on the Cao family to live a good life. Why shouldn't grandma be comfortable if they rely on their own abilities?

Besides, what's the point of them going to open up the wasteland early? They don't know the medicinal herbs and even find it too much trouble to bring them back to use as firewood.

Then it occurred to her that she was blaming him. She blamed him for stopping her from opening up the wasteland in the beginning, but after she decided to do so, she herself was not proactive... Never mind. She was just putting the blame on others when life was not going as she wished.

Since she couldn't get rid of outsiders, she could only blame them, her relatives...

*

After Shen Qing had packed up, before he started climbing the mountain, he ran into Liu Cuihua at the foot of the mountain.

She shouted happily, "Sister Cuihua, we were just about to go up the mountain to look for you! Are you going out?"

Behind Liu Cuihua were her two daughters and two nieces. The five of them were looking around curiously. When they saw Shen Qing, they greeted him even more happily: "We're not going out, we just came to visit you."

When Shen Qing heard this, he thought, "Isn't this a coincidence?" He immediately led her towards his house and said enthusiastically, "Come on, come to my house and have a seat. I just happened to be looking for you to talk to you about something."

When Liu Cuihua heard that Shen Qing had something to talk to her about, she became very curious.

However, seeing Shen Qing gather the cloth bag she was carrying behind her, he thought she was going to give him something, so he swallowed his curiosity and didn't ask any more questions.

But it just so happened that she also had something to give to Shen Qing!