Chapter 302 Walking in the Snow at Night

It's just a guard duty. Today it's for Huo Bing, but who can say that next time it won't be for their family?

The divisions are too clear and detailed. If something happens to your family in the future, who will be willing to help you?

Shen Qing insisted: "I can't take care of anything else, I'll take care of the night watch."

Master Jiang sighed, stretched out his hand to press the big guy, and said, "That's good. We can roast some food over the fire to avoid getting sleepy."

The village chief, who was a member of the Jiang family, agreed, and the others stopped refusing and enthusiastically started building temporary houses.

Jiang Yu and Jiang Shui started to knead the dough to make steamed buns, dumplings and pastries. It was too late to make the steamed buns tonight, but they could make some pickled mustard greens and meat pastries and bake them in the evening. They would be delicious. The extra steamed buns and dumplings would also come in handy in the next few days.

There are only seven or eight days until the Chinese New Year. I hope I can have a peaceful year.....

Shen Qing gave the workshop a New Year holiday, but tonight, except for the ignorant kids, most people slept uneasily.

Shen Qing was waking up from time to time, and in the second half of the night he simply sat up to check the items in the mall.

Nowadays, there are more seeds. Most people in Qili Village eat corn. Corn, a coarse grain, has a yield of about 500 to 600 kilograms per mu, which is considered high compared with wheat and rice, which have a yield of 300 to 400 kilograms per mu.

The corn yield per mu in the mall is at least 1,000 to 1,200 kilograms. With standardized planting and good lighting conditions, it can reach 1,500 kilograms!

But Shen Qing was still not very satisfied.

As coarse grains, potatoes can easily produce two to three thousand kilograms per mu, and sweet potatoes are the king of high yields, with ordinary four to six thousand kilograms being no problem, and some varieties can even produce as high as seven to eight thousand kilograms!

She only planned to take out one high-yielding and rare variety, saying that it was found in the mountains, so as not to arouse suspicion and because rare things are valuable, if she found too many, not only would she not get any credit, but she might also be arrested and interrogated.

Since we can only grow one crop per season, when comparing potatoes to sweet potatoes, we will naturally choose the sweet potatoes with the largest yield. When we are starving, we don’t care which one tastes better. The yield is the only criterion.

The mall balance has accumulated to 410,000. Sweet potatoes can be grown into seedlings. Even if all the vacant land in the valley is planted, it won't cost much.

Medicinal herb seeds are weighed by kilograms, and each kilogram costs dozens of yuan, so it doesn't cost much.

Each fruit tree is different. At most, 30,000 to 50,000 yuan will be enough. If you want more, it will be too late to plant them. You have to wait until autumn or next spring to plant them.

The remaining three hundred thousand or so can be used to purchase food, weapons and tools.

Shen Qing breathed a sigh of relief, feeling fortunate that he had been secretly selling goods to the mall to make money. Now that something unexpected had happened, he no longer had to worry about food and fodder after recruiting a large number of soldiers.

Fortunately, Pinggu was there, and her embroidery was sold for tens of thousands!

In another month or two, Pinggu's hands will be completely healed, and she will be able to embroider while teaching, and the mall will have a large income.

There is no need to worry about silver for the time being. There is still a small box of gold bars that have not been used. Moreover, brushes and soaps have been sold along the way. Now the warehouse is stocked with tens of thousands of brushes and several thousand yuan of soap. They can be shipped out and sold after the New Year.

I don’t know how A Bing and the others are doing outside.

With night vision goggles, they can stay far away, so they shouldn't be discovered. But traveling at night and in the cold weather must be very tiring. I don't know if they can handle it...

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Huo Bing only knew that Liu Sheng and his group could not bear it anymore.

It takes two or three hours to get from Hulu Mountain to the city by donkey cart, and at least four hours if you walk fast.

It is difficult to walk on the road at night, especially on a road that has snowed or is icy. Moreover, this is the first time for our group to go out of the mountain, while the other party is going back and forth!

From day to night and from night to early morning, everyone in Liu Sheng's team was exhausted and complained.

"No, I need to go back and have a good sleep. It will take me two or three days to recover! If you want me to continue working hard for you, don't bother me for the next two or three days!"

"Me too. This is simply not a job for a human being. How can you be so unplanned?"

Uncle Fang was even more furious, shouting, "I don't care. Don't blame me if today's matter doesn't work out. Give me my share of the silver, and don't come looking for me later!"

He won't go there again anyway, because the other party really ejaculates.

Several other men from the Fang family also shouted that they would never go there again.

They were lying on the ground, shaking with cold. How could this be considered human work? They would rather eat coarse food at home than earn this much money!

Among the crowd, only the disaster victims kept their heads down and said nothing.

Others dared to quarrel and make a fuss because having money and food or not was just the difference between having enough and eating well, but they were different. Without food, their whole family could not survive.

The weather is already cold, and if you don’t eat enough, you won’t be able to withstand the biting cold.

Liu Sheng was exhausted and returned empty-handed, and was now furious.

He led the man outside a house and said angrily, "Wait!"

Although everyone was impatient, they waited patiently.

After a while, Liu Sheng came out. He took out some silver from his pocket and handed it to the man from the Fang family. He said impatiently, "Go away. Don't let me see you again, you useless bunch!"

After receiving the silver, Uncle Fang and the others put the silver in their mouths and chewed it, then walked away with a smile on their faces.

There were also more than thirty ferocious-looking men who took the silver, snorted, and left.

Liu Sheng bowed and knelt to see them off with a smile. He didn't stand up until they were far away. He said impatiently to the remaining ragged men, "Follow me."

Huo Bing silently noted that this was where the silver and money were.

After walking for another incense stick of time, the room here was obviously larger than the previous one. Liu Sheng stayed in for a long time. After a while, he brought out two half-full sacks and threw them in front of the many waiting men. He said condescendingly, "Take them back and divide them among yourselves!"

Then he added, "Don't run around. I'll need you in a few days. If you don't find such a good job, it will be gone."

All the men nodded and agreed, "Yes, yes, we know."

They waited until Liu Sheng walked away before they put away their smiles and walked back with their sacks.

Huo Bing, Jiang Xiangxi and Lei Dafu exchanged glances. Jiang Xiangxi led a few people to follow Liu Sheng, Lei Dafu led a few people to check the grain warehouse, and Huo Bing led the remaining few people to follow the victims.

The further we walked, the more desolate it became. The moonlight sprinkled on the snow, making it clear and cool.

The men stopped only when they saw a small forest in front of them, with more than ten thatched houses crowded around it. They walked forward carefully and lightly. Soon, several women came out and were surprised to see the sacks in their hands.

"Boss, is there any food?"

The men nodded.

The women smiled even more and hurried forward to take it.

The man whispered, "It's not ours, so the people who come later will share it equally."

There was sorrow in the woman's eyes.