In other words, the money made from mushrooms will only last for about a month.
Mushrooms are plentiful after rain, but more rain is needed for them to thrive.
Shui Qing was somewhat melancholy.
Activating other categories requires money, but temporarily not activating categories like clothing, fabrics, and seasonings won't significantly impact your life.
However, as a 28-year-old woman, she still needs sanitary napkins every month.
She absolutely did not want to try wood ash!
Therefore, the category containing her 'daily necessities' needs should be enabled.
And the category of 'pharmaceuticals'.
She remembered that the daily necessities only cost 2,000 yuan to activate, but the medicine was much more expensive, costing a full 8,000 yuan.
Fan Jin, unaware of Shui Qing's worries, gently explained to his two daughters, "No need to wash them. Tomorrow, your father will take them all to sell, and washing them will cause them to shrink and wrinkle."
Upon hearing that bamboo mushrooms and skirt mushrooms were to be sold for money, Xinghui jumped up and asked with delight, "Father, should we sell them in the city or at the market?"
Father was copying books in Guangning Prefecture, but Guangning Prefecture was far from Shanshui Village, more than an hour's walk away. People in the village would not easily go to the city unless they had valuables to buy.
If you need to buy something, you can do so in Niutou Town, where there's a big market every five days. At the market, you can barter for things like eggs, chickens, ducks, geese, homemade bamboo baskets and trays, and handmade carrying poles... You can exchange these with others for what you need.
Thinking of the bamboo mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms growing all over the mountains, Yan Qiu asked worriedly, "Can we sell them? Do city people like to eat them?"
She didn't know whether city dwellers in this dynasty liked to eat water chestnuts, but she knew that people in China, whether in cities or in the countryside, loved to eat chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms and bamboo fungus!
That's why they sell so well in shopping malls.
Fan Jin explained the reasons he had previously discussed with Shui Qing: "Don't worry, your father isn't selling them at the market, but to bookstores where readers buy books."
As you all know, families who can afford to buy books are generally well-off; they're willing to pay four coins per pound.
When Yan Qiu and Xing Hui heard that they could sell the product, their little faces lit up with bright smiles.
"Great! Black flour is three coins a pound now. Ten pounds of mushrooms can buy thirteen pounds of black flour. We'll have almost twenty pounds of mushrooms today, right?"
That way, we can earn 26 jin of dark flour a day, and we won't have to worry about going hungry before the winter wheat harvest.
After eating white flour pancakes, I found that dark flour steamed buns were not very tasty, but no matter how unpalatable they were, they were still food, food that would keep me from going hungry.
Besides, one meal of white flour pancakes is enough; how can one be so greedy as to eat them every day!
Hearing that there would be black noodles to eat, Yan Qiu was equally happy and made arrangements for tomorrow's itinerary, saying, "I'll go pick mushrooms as soon as it's light tomorrow!"
She used to dislike rain the most, always feeling it was sticky and greasy, but now she wishes it would rain every day so she could pick mushrooms.
"I'll go too, and my brother will go too. Let's pick lots of mushrooms as a family!"
Anyway, mushrooms are everywhere on Zhushan Mountain, and there's no way to pick them all. If you don't pick them, they'll become too old to eat in a day or two.
Fan Jin thought that picking mushrooms was something the children were used to doing. Compared to busy farming seasons and housework, picking mushrooms was not particularly tiring and could also give them a sense of accomplishment.
He then promised, "After the mushrooms are sold tomorrow and the money is used, Father will buy fatty meat for you to eat."
Yan Qiu and Xing Hui nodded heavily.
It turns out that Mother had said Father would buy pork to eat tomorrow, and that she was already planning to sell mushrooms.
They will work even harder to pick mushrooms tomorrow so that their father can take them to the city to sell for money.
And you absolutely must not let anyone in the village know, especially your aunt's family!
You can never have too much water for termite mushrooms and bamboo fungus; the more the better!
She wanted to quickly exchange the mushrooms and bamboo fungus on the ground for money to see how much she had. She said to her two daughters, "You two go wash up and go to bed early."
"Give your father three of the flatbreads in the basket to take to the city. Tomorrow morning, whoever gets up early will cook a pot of millet porridge first, and the rest can be shared."
The two girls, Yan Qiu and Xing Hui, happily agreed and quickly went to their three younger brothers to discuss making money.
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