Chapter 126 Chapter 126 Have you ever grown mushrooms before?
When they heard Lin Chuntao say that she wanted to divide the money, except for Lin Chunhe, Lin Chunxing and Lin Duoer all showed a confused expression. The two sisters thought that Lin Chuntao was already married, and when they heard this, they thought that she wanted to divide the family.
"Sister, why do we need to divide the money? Are you going to split up with us?" Lin Duoer couldn't keep it a secret and asked without hesitation. Lin Chuntao frowned and looked at her like she was stupid. "What do you mean by splitting up? I'm just giving you some pocket money because we're making money now."
"Then we can just ask you for it when we need it."
Lin Chuntao: “…”
"What if I'm not home? Wouldn't it be nice to have some money in hand?"
Lin Duoer grinned. It would be good to have the money, but what if it was lost? That would be a shame. Anyway, when they needed the money, they could just tell Lin Chuntao and she would give it to them.
If it wasn't about dividing the family, Lin Chunxing wouldn't care. She would just follow Lin Chuntao's arrangements.
Lin Chuntao looked at them and said, "I roughly calculated today. Our sauce business made forty strings of cash last month, and our soup noodles and braised eggs also made over a dozen strings of cash. If business is good in the future, we can make even more. We sisters will be rich in the future."
"Chun Xing makes the noodle soup. I make the sauce, but Chun He takes care of a lot of things on a daily basis. Duo'er is a little smaller, but she doesn't have to worry about anything except cutting grass and feeding the pigs and chickens. We all contribute to making money, so I said I'll give you some money every month. You can buy whatever you want, or save it if you want."
After Lin Chuntao finished speaking, the sisters' faces were full of excitement, as if they had just found out today that their family was making money.
Seeing them like this, Lin Chuntao asked, "Tell me, how much pocket money do you want per month?"
After hearing this, the sisters looked at each other, and finally looked at Pei Ying.
Pei Ying smiled and said, "I don't take pocket money, you can figure it out yourself."
Lin Chuntao said, "Yes, just tell me what you want to say, and then I'll take a look."
Lin Chunxing pondered for a moment before looking at Lin Chuntao and speaking.
"Sister, is five hundred wen okay?"
Lin Chuntao nodded, "Okay, what about you two?"
Lin Chunhe: "Then I will do the same as my second sister."
Lin Duoer: "Me too."
Lin Chuntao originally planned to ask for one guan of money, but Lin Chunxing lowered the price to only five hundred wen.
"Wouldn't you like some more?" Lin Chuntao asked.
Lin Chunhe said, "It's a lot. It's not good to keep too much money in our room. I can ask my sister for more when I use it."
Lin Chuntao nodded, and after the agreement was reached, she went to get the money and counted it. It was five hundred coins per person.
Lin Chunhe felt strange holding the half string of money. Her sister led them to a good life. They had a house to live in, food to eat, meat to eat, new clothes to make, and new cloth shoes to buy. They even had leather boots made. This was already very good. She never thought that her sister would give them 500 coins in pocket money every month.
Lin Duoer took the money and asked Lin Chuntao with a smile: "Sister, can we buy anything with this money?"
Lin Chuntao said, "Yes, both are fine."
It sounded like she wanted to buy something, so Lin Chunxing asked with a smile, "Duo'er, what do you want to buy?"
Lin Duo'er's eyes rolled around, and finally she looked at Lin Chuntao and said, "I want to buy a hair ornament, the bright red one."
Lin Chuntao knew the head flowers she was talking about. They were sold in the market. There were good craftsmen who made the flowers. They were fake, but they could be worn on the head. Lin Chuntao could not imagine how funny it would be to wear such flowers on the head of a child like Lin Duoer, but children's preferences were different from those of adults, so she just let her be.
Because Lin Chunxing has been making soup noodles, she always has some money on hand, which she can spend directly, but she is relatively frugal. Lin Chuntao spends money much more lavishly than her. Most of the time, Lin Chuntao buys and cooks whatever she wants or eats, so it seems that she doesn't want anything anymore.
The sisters shared it, and Lin Chuntao also received a portion and put it in the drawer of the bedside table, which also contained the wages that Pei Ying brought back.
Pei Ying spent most of his wages on meat. Lin Chuntao would sometimes remember to add some money, and sometimes she would be too busy to bother. After all, they were family, so it didn't matter whose money was spent.
In the past, Lin Chuntao thought that Pei Ying had traveled all the way to Yizhou alone, without any relatives or friends, and it always felt a bit inappropriate to spend all his money. But now it doesn't matter. The 560 silver notes are more than enough to eat and wear.
Pei Ying noticed Lin Chuntao's actions and turned back to her, saying, "Let's go to the city in a few days. If there's a suitable shop, we can buy one and have Chunxing move the noodle soup stall in."
Lin Chuntao raised her eyebrows slightly, and Pei Ying said, "I asked Brother Zhang and the others, and it seems that sixty or seventy taels is enough for a shop."
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "Okay, I'll count the money these two days."
Pei Ying said, "Just take the banknotes and exchange them for cash, then pay."
Lin Chuntao wanted to say that it was given to him by the Pei family, but she felt it was not a good idea to say it out loud. Pei Ying knew what she was thinking when he saw her like this. Earlier, he would have felt that Lin Chuntao clearly wanted to draw a clear line between them because she wanted to draw a line between them. They were each their own, which would make people a little sad.
As time went by, he understood her personality and realized that she might be thinking about him.
"Even though they gave me the money, the shop is ours too, isn't it?"
After Pei Ying finished speaking, Lin Chuntao smiled helplessly.
After being together for so long, Pei Ying treated his sisters like a brother, and Lin Chuntao was very happy that they could get along well with each other, but she always felt that the sisters were her own sisters, and raising them was her responsibility, and had nothing to do with Pei Ying.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Chuntao agreed: "Okay, then we will keep an eye on it in the near future."
The next day, just after the Yin hour, the system reported that there were milk mushrooms. Lin Chuntao went into the mountains with a basket on his back and picked up half a basket of milk mushrooms. After daybreak, Lin Chuntao walked out of the mountains and picked up a few blue-headed mushrooms and pine-hair mushrooms. The basket was not even full, so Lin Chuntao carried it to the county town.
On the way there, the system suddenly became talkative and told Lin Chuntao that there were fewer mushrooms in the mountains recently.
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "It's because the weather is good that we can still pick some. Otherwise, it would have been winter and we would definitely not be able to pick any mushrooms."
The system sighed and asked Lin Chuntao, "Host, have you ever grown mushrooms before?"
Hearing this, Lin Chuntao smiled silently. She had never grown mushrooms on a large scale. She had only bought mushroom sticks of shiitake and oyster mushrooms on some orange software. That didn't count as growing mushrooms, right?
"No, what's wrong?" Lin Chuntao asked back.
System: "I just want to ask if the host is interested in growing fungi."
Lin Chuntao raised her eyebrows slightly, "It feels a bit troublesome."
System: "It won't be too troublesome. If you want to grow mushrooms, I can guide you to cut down trees. Now is a good time to cut down trees. You can plant them next year."
Lin Chuntao has also watched videos on traditional mushroom cultivation. She feels that it is not easy to produce a crop of mushrooms and it will be a bit slow.
Growing oyster mushrooms is faster, but it requires wood chips, wheat bran, corn cobs and the like. Without a grinder, it would be very difficult for her to do it. She is already busy making sauce and growing mushrooms, so she will have to wait and see.
"Let's wait and see after the autumn harvest. I'm afraid the weather will suddenly turn cold. I haven't harvested my corn yet, and the villagers have almost finished planting their buckwheat."
After Lin Chuntao finished speaking, the system said, "Host, if you grow mushrooms, you can sell mushrooms all year round. Each mushroom will give you points, which you can redeem for things. You won't have to go into the mountains in the middle of the night, which will be much easier."
Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "By then, I won't have to go into the mountains, but I'll still have to get up in the middle of the night to pick mushrooms."
Exposed by Lin Chuntao, the system laughed awkwardly twice. Lin Chuntao said, "Let me think about it."
As she spoke, she opened the control panel, went to the seed area, looked at the radish seeds, and exchanged ten kilograms of them. She then exchanged fifty kilograms of buckwheat seeds, fifty kilograms of soybean seeds, thirty kilograms of pepper seeds, and thirty kilograms of vegetable seeds. After exchanging the seeds, Lin Chuntao went to the recipe area to exchange two recipes.
Seeing her redeem so many seeds, the system said quietly, "Host, there's something I forgot to tell you. I remember Number Five said that we can enable the weather forecast after we reach a certain point in points."
Lin Chuntao's eyes widened. "Weather forecast? Is that true?"
"You made this up to trick me into growing mushrooms, didn't you?"
System: "My words are absolutely true, but I don't remember how many points it is."
Lin Chuntao: "I don't believe you can't remember such an important thing."
System: "Actually, you can't blame me. I'm a sign-in system, and I need a host who can go out and be diligent. I haven't met a host as reliable as you in a long time, so I didn't care at all."
Ever since Qin Suyun told her that this was a setting in a book, Lin Chuntao now listened to the system talking as if she was chatting with a fellow villager. Every word she heard was filled with gossip, which ignited Lin Chuntao's curiosity. She asked the system to tell her about it, and the system kept talking all the way.
But it was still a problem with the system. After selecting several hosts, none of them could complete the task. There was a young master who was seriously ill in bed, a female protagonist who was imprisoned by forced love, an old maid in the deep palace, etc. After listening to its complaints, Lin Chuntao felt that the most terrible thing was that it was bound to a newborn child, but that child later could not walk and could not get out at all.
System: "Host, when I met you, you were going into the mountains to pick mushrooms in the middle of the night. My heart was broken."
"But luckily you were poor and hardworking enough, so you went anyway."
Lin Chuntao: "Well...you can shut up now."
It's not my fault that I'm dressed like a poor peasant girl.
After joking around all the way to the county town, Lin Chuntao went to the cloth shop to buy two pieces of cloth, returned the clay pot to the mutton shop, and cut five pounds of meat. Today she brought the clay pot from home.
Feng Guan saw that she bought mutton twice yesterday and again today, and jokingly said, "Shopkeeper Lin, have you made a fortune?"
Lin Chuntao laughed and said, "There's no such thing as getting rich. We can only make ends meet. When we were in trouble, our relatives were kind enough to help us. Now that we're barely getting by, shouldn't we buy something and go over to their house to say thank you?"
Feng Guan nodded when he heard this, "That's right, I should be grateful."
As he was talking, he cut up the mutton. When Lin Chuntao was about to put it in the backpack, he saw the mushrooms in the basket and exclaimed, "Oh my! It's so late, and you still picked up mushrooms? Are you carrying them to sell? Sell us a few pounds."
Lin Chuntao said, "I can't find any more. I went into the mountains today and only found this much. I won't sell it. I'll keep it for food."
Thinking of the mutton offal Feng Guan and the others had given her, Lin Chuntao smiled and said to He Guizhu, "Sister, bring me a colander and I'll get you some."
After Lin Chuntao finished speaking, He Guizhu smiled and went to get a colander. Lin Chuntao grabbed about three pounds and gave it to her. He Guizhu wanted to give her money, but Lin Chuntao smiled and said, "No, no, just this little bit, just to try something new."
The two of them pushed and shoved each other for a long time, and Lin Chuntao did not accept the money. She propped up the basket with thin bamboo and put the clay pot in it, but it could not press down the mushrooms underneath.
After buying the things, Lin Chuntao did not stay in the county town. She said goodbye to Lin Chunxing and went back.
She was planning to go to her uncle's house. She bought the cloth and mutton for them. She wanted to see her uncle and aunt, and check on how the pepper seedlings she had grown last time were doing.
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