Now, someone delivers fruit to their home every morning. Cao Xiangnan controls the children to come back with the old man. First, he is afraid that the children will be in danger if they stay there alone. Second, they can deal with it earlier if the fruit is delivered earlier. Otherwise, it may rot and no longer be fresh the next day.

The fruits in the forest are wild and not grown by anyone. Anyone in the village can pick them. At this time, no one wants these fruits. It is a waste to let them rot on the branches. He can collect these fruits at a very low price, just paying a little labor cost.

Now most of the adults in the village have jobs, such as road construction, which can make ten big bucks a day, so the adults don't care about these big bucks. But for many children, they have never held a copper coin in their hands since they were young. For some families, two copper coins are enough for a day's food money. No adults are willing to give children a copper coin to buy snacks, so one or two copper coins are still very attractive to children. As long as they are given a few dollars, the children are willing to pick the biggest and best fruits on the branches for him.

The price of the fruits he collects now is very low, and these fruits are almost free. But when he makes the preserved fruits and starts selling them in autumn, there will be no more fruits on the branches, and naturally someone will be willing to spend money to buy them. Then he can sell them at a good price.

"Dad, we want to go pick fruits too."

"Uncle, we want to go too."

"Mom, I want to go too."

Seeing the children in the village bringing fruits over, the group of children in their family also wanted to go pick fruits.

Xiangzi looked at his uncle Xiangnan with burning eyes. He could also help his uncle pick fruits.

"Okay, okay, you can go if you want to. You can recite the arithmetic formulas to me first. I will check it later. Only those who can recite them can go. Those who can't recite them can stay at home and continue to recite them. Only when you can recite them well can you go. Those who can't recite them can continue to recite them next time. Only when you can recite them well can you go." Cao Xiangnan has now started to teach arithmetic to the children in his family. His children and Sun Bailian's children can recite them. As for the other naughty ones, it's hard to say.

Most of the time, when there is a reward, there is motivation.

"I will definitely recite it!" Baowang clenched his fists, he will definitely recite it.

"Yeah." Jingbao, who was always in a mess behind his back, was smart, but not practical enough.

Seeing these little kids with such a big tone, Cao Xiangnan waited and saw. He had to say that his An An was the best student among the group of children. Now he made An An a study committee member to lead everyone to study and learn together. "An An, you will be responsible for teaching anyone who doesn't know how to do it, okay?" he asked.

"Okay." An An nodded seriously. He was now responsible for leading everyone to study together.

A group of little ones ran back and recited the rhymes seriously, while Xiangzi and Kangkang were responsible for disciplining their friends and maintaining order.

Seeing her husband fooling a group of little ones, Qi Wanfeng couldn't help but laugh.

It was still early, so they washed the fruits, cut them into pieces and pickled them, and then waited until the sun was at its highest at noon to put them on the dustpan to dry. After the moisture was dried, they could be put away and stored, and they would be sold only in autumn.

They didn't have many people now, and Cao Xiangnan also controlled the amount of fruit the children brought. However, the children were limited in what they could bring in one trip, and the old men brought more, so they could handle the daily amount.

When Chen Hong came over every day when she was free, she would help clean the stream when she saw everyone in the yard processing the fruits. Even though she knew that Cao Silang was going to make the fruits into dried fruits, she was not very curious. She knew what she should know, and she would not ask too many questions about what she should not know.

So Chen Hong was a smart person. She knew in her heart that her husband had learned a lot from Cao Silang, and the monthly salary was more than they could earn in a year before. She was already very satisfied. In addition, he was now in charge of the vegetables in the village, and Cao Silang would pay him wages every month. His current salary was not less than that of any other man in the village.

The child has someone to take care of and teach him at Cao Silang's place, and he is no worse than those who go to school and learn from teachers. When he comes back, he can even do arithmetic for him, which is something he doesn't understand. He knows that Cao Silang is a capable person. Now that his husband has a promising future with Cao Silang, he hopes that Cao Silang can give his children a good future. He and his husband are incompetent, so he hopes that Cao Silang can help his son so that he won't have to worry about his life.

Compared with seeking a little bit of immediate benefits, he looks at the long-term.

Most of the goods in the town were delivered by Cao Gang. When he came back today, he brought back the altar that Cao Xiangnan wanted.

Seeing Cao Gang's carriage coming back, Cao Xiangnan went over to help move the altar down and said, "Yes, Brother Cao Gang, the floor tiles of your house have been laid. When you go to the town tomorrow, remember to ask them to deliver all the furniture I ordered. I will give you the order later."

If he hadn't said this, he would have forgotten about it. The custom-made furniture was all ready, and he just had to deliver it when the time came.

"Okay." Cao Gang basically didn't care about building a house at home. He just wanted to have a house to live in after it was built. He just wanted a place to sleep. He wanted a good house just for his wife and children to live in, and wanted them to live a better life.

"Husband, you're back." Sun Bailian called out when she saw her husband coming back.

"Yes." Cao Gang nodded, walked over, and came to help from behind.

"Bai Lian, tomorrow the town will deliver your bedside cabinets. And didn't you say you would choose a date to move in? Do you plan to invite people from the village to dinner or something?" Cao Xiangnan looked at Cao Gang and Sun Bailian and asked.

Sun Bailian looked at her husband, waiting for his idea.

"...Keep it simple." Cao Gang glanced at his wife and added, "Prepare a few tables of food."

"You can go back and discuss it tonight." Cao Xiangnan threw the question back to Cao Gang.

"Yes." Cao Gang nodded.

The sun is shining brightly now. If we follow this kind of sun, the fruit flesh can be harvested after a few days of drying. Cao Xiangnan observed the color of the fruit flesh after two days of drying. It looks very good. After he led the way, he handed it over to Sun Bailian. If there are any problems, he will point them out.

After the jars are washed and dried, they can be dried in the sun before they can be used.

The family now uses a lot of jars. Almost everything is stored in the jars. A batch of jars is transported back every once in a while. The shops in the town no longer need to order in advance to get the goods. With him as a big customer, there are jars for sale whenever you go to buy.

As for the grape field at the foot of the mountain, because it was located relatively inwards and there were snakes in the climbing plants, Cao Xiangnan did not dare to let the children pick them, so he had to go there with Cao Gang every day to transport them.

However, he did find sweet grapes, mainly because of Cao Gang. When he asked the man, he told him where the sweet ones were, but the location was relatively high, so Cao Gang still had to go up to pick them.

Today, Cao Xiangnan promised his children to pick peaches. He checked the children's homework and found that even those who didn't work hard could still carry the peaches with difficulty. When the sun was not so hot in the afternoon, he took a group of children and prepared to set off. "Let's go, let's go." He shouted.

The children lined up in a straight line, one after another, he walked in front, and Cao Gang followed behind.

Sun Bailian also came, and Qi Wanfeng stayed at home to look after the house.

It was not too far from his home to the forest. A group of children came to the forest and saw the trees full of fruits, and they screamed. Cao Xiangnan touched An An's head and knew that his children had not been here. He told the little ones not to climb the trees and the big ones to be careful.

Xiangzi climbed up the tree like a monkey returning home, jumping around with his flexible body, and the fruit he picked was the biggest and reddest. In the past, when the fruit was ripe at this time, he would take his younger brother to pick fruit when he was hungry, but now they don't have to pick fruit to fill their stomachs.

"Wow, brother, that one is so big."

"And that one."

A group of children saw the fruit on the tree. The younger ones were ordered not to climb up, but they were also happy to see it under the tree and shouted and jumped.

Cao Xiangnan said to Sun Bailian, and he and Cao Gang went over to pick grapes, and Sun Bailian stayed here to look after the children. "Be careful, I will look after the children here, and I will take them back in a while." Sun Bailian said.

After handing the children over to Sun Bailian and telling them to be obedient, Cao Xiangnan left with Cao Gang.

It was the season when grapes were ripe, and they had to be picked as soon as possible. The manpower was limited, so they had to pick as many as they could. The grapes that were picked would have to be processed later. Every day, Cao Xiangnan would open the first two jars of grapes and use chopsticks to press down the floating residue on the surface. Now they smelled good, and he didn't know what they would smell like after they were all fermented. He handled the rest carefully.

Seeing that the children had almost finished picking grapes here, Sun Bailian called them home.

When they came, everyone brought a small backpack, which was filled with half a basket of fruits. His second son even ate them directly. "Wash them before eating." He hurriedly pulled the fruit out of his son's mouth, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Mom, I want to eat it." It was very sweet. Jingbao looked up at his mom.

"Wash them and peel them before eating." Sun Bailian knew that his boy was pretending, so she glanced at him and ignored him.

Cao Xiangnan and Cao Gang also picked a lot of grapes inside. Each of them filled a basket and carried dozens of kilograms back. After running back and forth twice, Sun Bailian also came with them on the second trip to help pick the sour fruits. Although he didn't quite understand what these sour fruits were used for, it didn't stop him from helping.

So they came back twice to harvest hundreds of kilograms of grapes. Qi Wanfeng at home was responsible for washing the fruits and picking out the bad ones. Cao Xiangnan and Cao Gang, who had returned, also came over to help. With everyone working together, they quickly finished the job.

"You'll know when the time comes." Seeing Cao Gang looking at him in disbelief, Cao Xiangnan didn't explain. You'll know when the wine is brewed.