Looking at Uncle Liang's nervous yet excited expression, Du Yuhan smiled and said, "Uncle Liang, the wild vegetables have already grown, and they're everywhere on the mountainside. You can just use the wild vegetables to trade for fertilizer."
Upon hearing this, Liang Shouzhen could hardly believe his ears and asked, "The wild vegetables that we usually eat at home, the ones we dig up from the mountains?"
Du Yuhan nodded and smiled, "That's right, those wild vegetables. If they want these, they must have another use for them. The children can also dig these wild vegetables, such as common wild vegetables around here like dandelion, purslane, shepherd's purse, bracken, and cat's ear vegetable."
The wild vegetables are still a bit small now; you can have them dug up later when they're a bit bigger. I'll have them lend you the fertilizer on credit, and you can pay me back when the vegetables are big enough.
Upon hearing this, Liang Shouzhen laughed happily, "Xiaohan, you are truly a lucky star for our old river bend. No problem, I'll get you as many wild vegetables as you need."
Du Yuhan said, "Let's calculate based on the price of ten catties of wild vegetables for one catty of fertilizer. I wonder if you agree?"
Upon hearing this, Liang Shouzhen said, "Ah, ten catties of wild vegetables can be exchanged for one catty of fertilizer. Do you think they would agree to that? Xiaohan, don't make things too difficult for yourself. More would be fine too. We have plenty of wild vegetables in our mountains."
Du Yuhan said, "That's fine. There's a drought now, and wild vegetables are scarce anyway. Who knows what will happen when the weather gets warmer? I'll go out for a bit and contact them to see when they can send some to us. You and Dad can go to the usual place to get fertilizer then."
After happily spinning around a few times, Liang Shouzhen said, "Xiaohan, if you need anything in the village in the future, just let me know. I am truly grateful for all the contributions you have made to our village. I also thank you on behalf of the villagers of Laohewan Village."
Du Yuhan said, "Uncle Liang, I also hope that everyone in our village can have enough to eat. Only then can I live in the village with peace of mind. I plan to stay in our village for a long time and consider myself a member of this village. Of course, I hope that our village will get better and better."
Liang Shouzhen nodded heavily after hearing Du Yuhan's words and said, "Uncle understands your thoughts. Don't worry, you can live a peaceful life in our village from now on. Just for all the good things you've done for our village, not to mention the good deeds done in secret, the villagers will be grateful to you for all the good things you've done in public."
Du Yuhan's efforts for Laohewan Village were not entirely for others, but also for herself.
If she stays in Laohewan Village for too long, while her family members are healthy and radiant, and others are starving and emaciated, there's no guarantee that nothing bad will happen.
The saying "It is not scarcity that is to be feared, but inequality" is a profound truth.
Besides, she couldn't let herself and her family become as emaciated and starving as everyone else, so she could only ensure that everyone in the entire Laohewan Village had food to eat and wouldn't starve to the point of being emaciated.
She can now enjoy a leisurely life in Laohewan Village with peace of mind.
After speaking with Uncle Liang, Du Yuhan said goodbye to her mother and rode her bicycle away from Laohewan Village.
After leaving Laihewan Village, she didn't go anywhere else, but instead went into the woods and stored her bicycle in the mountains.
She's going to try her luck in the mountains today.
These days, if she's not in the city, she has to find a way to get meat from the mountains.
She took out a rather ordinary bow and arrow she had collected in her spatial storage and walked through the woods. She planned to use this bow and arrow today on the main road, and rely on it for hunting from now on.
The forest was already showing some green, but it would take some time before it was fully lush and verdant.
Du Yuhan carefully walked through the woods with her bow and arrow, and soon caught a pheasant.
It's currently the lean season, and many animals are also lacking food, so going into the mountains would be quite dangerous.
Du Yuhan didn't go too far. She didn't plan to hunt large animals today, just a few pheasants or rabbits.
If she actually hunts a big wild boar today, it will probably terrify her mother, and she might not be allowed to go into the mountains again. It's better for her to gradually let her family accept the fact that she can shoot arrows and hunt.
Du Yuhan hunted three pheasants and two rabbits and then headed back. Too many would attract too much attention; it was better to keep a low profile.
Upon reaching the mountainside, Du Yuhan looked around to make sure no one was nearby, then took her bicycle out of her spatial storage. She tied a willow basket to the back of the bicycle, placed the prey inside, covered it with some grass, and then rode back.
The bicycle Gu Qishen gave her is really practical; she can use it now. And she can ride it back to the city in the future.
However, it would take several hours to cycle into the city. Unfortunately, cycling is the only way to get around now; cars are out of the question.
Du Yuhan arrived home quickly on her bicycle. She pushed the bicycle into the yard, unloaded the willow basket, and saw her younger brother playing with Gu Huayang and He Haobo. She asked, "Haisheng, where are your older brothers?"
Du Haisheng said, "They're studying at home. Their parents don't let them run around; they make them study at home."
Du Yuhan said, "Then go and call your eldest brother and second brother, and have them come to the house to clean up the wild rabbits."
Upon seeing the wild rabbit that his eldest sister took out of the willow basket, Du Haisheng immediately replied, "Yes, I'll go call my eldest brother and second brother."
As she spoke, she ran out of the yard to go home and call her two older brothers.
Yu Huiru, who was tidying up inside, came out when she heard the noise. She saw her daughter taking dead pheasants and rabbits out of a willow basket and asked curiously, "Xiaohan, where did you get these?"
Du Yuhan replied, "I just went for a walk in the mountains and hunted a few game. I'll clean them up and stew them for dinner. I'll also send some to my adoptive father and Uncle Liang's family."
Yu Huiru was even more surprised, "You said you hunted this, what did you use to hunt it?"
Du Yuhan picked up the bow and arrow beside her and said, "I just went out to order fertilizer for the village and also got a bow and arrow. I learned archery when I was in Luancheng and often went hunting in the mountains. I'm quite skilled at hunting."
"Since we're living here, I can often go hunting in the mountains without having to venture deep into the mountains, so there's no danger."
Yu Huiru said, "I've heard there are wild beasts in the mountains of Northeast China, so you have to be careful. You can't risk your life just to hunt."
Du Yuhan said, "Mom, don't worry, I won't joke around with my safety."
Du Haisheng ran home and shouted as soon as he entered the house, "Big brother, second brother, Big sister asked you to go and prepare her game. Big sister has brought the game back."
But as soon as he finished shouting, he saw the person sitting inside and instinctively covered his mouth with his hand.
Because he saw an adult sitting inside the house, the same person who had been chased away by his parents last time they came to his house.
My older brothers said he was a bad person who bullied our eldest sister. They told him he couldn't see her anymore, and he couldn't know she was home. Why is he here again?
That's right, Han Yixian has come to the Du family again.
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