“It just so happens that your sister-in-law is pregnant now and doesn’t want to stay at home. Now that you’ve brought back two Angora rabbits, it’s perfect for her to take care of them. Once we’ve collected enough rabbit fur for the first batch, I’ll go and try to sell them to garment factories or similar places.”
Seeing how easily he made it sound so easy, Lin Shanhai shook his head and smiled: "Making money isn't that easy. Since you know about Angora rabbits, those people naturally know about them too. Why would they even bother with our rabbit fur, especially since the quantity is so small?"
“Dad has a point,” Lin Chaosheng said with a smile. “Let’s try raising them first. If it doesn’t work out, we can treat them as little pets. These two little things are quite cute.”
Zhao Shufang heated oil in a pan, then put the rolled-out pancake in and fried it until both sides were golden brown.
She made a total of ten pancakes, ten pairs of single pancakes.
Then I stir-fried eggs with sauce, hot and sour shredded potatoes, and stir-fried shredded pork with spicy sauce.
Liang Mei washed the dandelion and other wild vegetables again, planning to roll them up in pancakes later.
With this table set up, all the neighbors around here get to eat their dinners for free.
"What kind of life is this? Lin Chaosheng has moved to his parents' house to stay. His neighbors can't smell the meat anymore, but we're going to suffer every day."
"That's right, sigh... no wonder they're so lucky to have two such capable sons."
Similar conversations continued to unfold in different households, but the Lin family didn't care about any of that and ate with great relish.
Lin Chaosheng took a bite of the fried dough, and after that one bite of the golden and crispy dough, he felt like he was about to faint from happiness.
These fried dough cakes aren't oily at all, and the outside is crispy and crumbly, while the inside is very chewy and soft. Every bite is full of the aroma of wheat, it's so delicious!
Zhao Shufang rolled up a single pancake and ate it, and the two sisters, Liang Mei and Liang Fu, followed suit.
Lay the flatbread flat on the table, add the soy sauce and egg, then the hot and sour shredded potatoes, and some wild vegetables. Roll it up and it's ready to eat.
Liang Fu loves spicy food, and she took another bite of spicy stir-fried pork with spicy girls. The taste was so good that it left people speechless!
This family, who usually loves to chat, ate their meal in complete silence, with only the sounds of their satisfied sighs and the clinking of bowls and chopsticks.
This is enough to prove how much everyone enjoyed the meal.
After a whirlwind meal, not a single pancake from Zhao Shufang's pancakes was left; they were all eaten clean!
Zhao Shufang was worried that they would overeat, so she quickly urged them to go out for a walk and digest their food before going to sleep.
So a strange sight appeared in the village: after dinner, the entire Lin family did not go to sleep, but instead wandered around the village!
Someone curiously went up to them and asked, "What are you all doing? Are you just parading through the streets because you're bored?"
Lin Shansheng laughed heartily: "How did you know? We just ate too much. You have no idea how delicious my mom's pancakes are..."
The man, who was about to make sarcastic remarks, suddenly fell silent, turned around and left with a speechless expression.
They didn't even have dinner, but they ate so much refined grains that they were stuffed, to the point that they had to go out for a walk. Isn't that infuriating?
After taking a walk to digest their food, the Lin family all went back to sleep.
The next morning, Lin Chaosheng took his father, Lin Shanhai, to the county town to deliver goods.
Lin Chaosheng arrived at the back door of the state-run restaurant with practiced ease. After knocking twice, the man from yesterday came out.
"Oh, Brother Lin, you've come to deliver the goods?"
"Hmm, take a look and see if this is the right one."
Old Liu opened the bucket, glanced at it, and immediately said with a smile, "Yes, yes, everything is correct. I'll pay you; this is the order form for tomorrow."
Lin Chaosheng put away the money and the order form, and said to Lao Liu, "This is my father. From now on, he and another young man will be delivering the goods. You two should get to know each other."
After Lao Liu greeted Lin Shan Hai, Lin Chao Sheng took Lin Shan Hai away.
"Aren't we going back now?" Lin Shanhai asked, puzzled, seeing that Lin Chaosheng wasn't heading in the same direction as the way back.
Lin Chaosheng shook his head and said, "Let's go buy a donkey first. It's not right to keep borrowing from other people."
Upon hearing this, Lin Shanhai said, "Don't rush, there's no need to buy this donkey yet. Let me go back and ask the family; what if they've been wanting to sell it for a while?"
Lin Chaosheng felt that his father's words made sense, so he temporarily gave up the idea of buying a donkey and went back to the village with his father.
The two first went to the house where the donkey cart had been borrowed. Lin Shanhai asked casually, "Where did you buy your donkey cart? My son and I would like to buy one too, otherwise it's really exhausting to travel back and forth to the county town every day!"
Upon hearing this, the man immediately said, "Why are you going anywhere else to buy it? Just buy it from me! This donkey of mine is a fine donkey; I'll sell it to you along with the cart!"
Lin Shanhai and Lin Chaosheng exchanged a silent glance and asked, "So, how much do you want to sell this for?"
“We’re all from the same village, I certainly wouldn’t cheat you,” the man laughed. “It would cost over eighty yuan on the market now, but I’ll only charge you sixty yuan.”
"But you all know that money is useless to us now, and everyone knows that your family has a lot of grain. So how about you exchange some grain with me?"
Seeing the troubled expressions on Lin Chaosheng and his son Lin Shansheng's faces, the man immediately said, "No refined grains, just coarse grains will do. Give me a little of each, a little of both. You won't find a better seller than me!"
Lin Chaosheng knew the man was telling the truth; after all, a donkey and cart of his quality would cost at least eighty yuan in the county town.
This is already considered a cheap sale; it's not unreasonable to want to exchange it for some food.
"Okay, I'll bring the food over to you later."
When the man saw that Lin Chaosheng and his companion had agreed, he beamed with joy and said, "Alright! I'll be waiting!"
After returning home, Lin Chaosheng packed some coarse grains, then thought for a moment and packed a bowl of rice, and then cut some wild boar meat for his husband to take.
The man was utterly shocked to find there was rice.
"This, this still has rice?"
"Okay, take it and eat it."
Lin Chaosheng patted the donkey, feeling a mix of emotions as he looked at the man's tearful gratitude.
In these famine years, people value food more than money.
His personal abilities were limited, and when he saw that these people, who had not harmed him in his previous life, were not being provided with food, he felt sorry for them.
But he can't help everyone.
Lin Chaosheng sighed inwardly, put away his compassionate thoughts, and drove away in his donkey cart.
"Oh my, Chaosheng! You've bought a donkey cart instead!"
"Why buy a donkey cart? People aren't even getting enough to eat these days, and you're still raising donkeys?"
"Exactly, we have so much food that we have nowhere to show it off."
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