Chapter 134: 133: Stock up on food
Yang Chunyan wiped her sweat and helped him put down the backpack. They found a rock to sit down. "Mom and sister-in-law are more tired than us in the corn field!"
"Look, we've been selling tender corn for more than ten days, and we only made a little over a hundred yuan. We can sell at least 10 to 20 yuan each time we go out, and after sharing it with big brother and others, we can still earn about 10 yuan. It's worth it even if we work ourselves into a dog!"
Zhou Huaian thought what she said made sense. "That's right. Where can we find 10 yuan a day? What we produce is not valuable. My mother raises pigs. After working hard for a year, a fat pig weighing more than 200 kilograms only sells for more than 100 yuan. A rooster weighing 6 or 7 kilograms only sells for a few yuan."
Yang Chunyan pounded her swollen calf and said, "So we have to find a way to start a side business. We are not good at other things, so we can only make herbal medicine, which we know a little about.
When the wasteland is reclaimed, we will collect herbal seeds and plant them at home. It is impossible to live a good life just by planting corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc.!"
"Got it!" Zhou Huaian stood up and picked up her calf without saying anything, "Lean on the backpack and take a rest. I'll massage it for you!"
"Thanks!" Yang Chunyan looked at him lovingly, "The slope here is too steep, and my calves are a little swollen after walking for so long!"
"Tsk~ You're still being polite to me!" Zhou Huaian patted her lightly, "I'm your man, if I don't feel sorry for you, who will?"
"I know you're good, otherwise I would have ignored you a long time ago."
"If you dare to ignore me, I will pester you!" Zhou Huaian smiled and rubbed her calf, "The muscles here are hard. You will feel comfortable if you rub them loose."
Yang Chunyan patted him and said, "Okay, you feel much better now. If you don't leave now, it will be dark before you even get to the top of the mountain!"
Zhou Huaian helped her put the backpack on and picked up the sand gun on the backpack. "I didn't even see a rabbit. I would have not brought it out if I had known."
"There are many people going up the mountain to pick mushrooms these days, so even if there are any, they will run away and hide."
"My wife is really smart. I didn't think of that!"
Yang Chunyan knew that all men liked to wield swords and guns. He didn't go to the mountains with a gun, but he did it to satisfy his shooting urge.
These days, if you go hunting in the mountains with a shotgun, as long as nothing happens, basically no one cares. In another ten years or so, it will be regulated, and it will be difficult to even touch it.
By the time the two of them passed through the bamboo forest and returned to the back mountain, it had already darkened.
Yang Chunyan said to Zhou Huaian, who was slumped on the ground, "I think this way is not as fast as the old way. I won't listen to you next time."
"When I was a kid, I went to the woods with Tintin Cat and the others to look for bamboo shoot worms. It didn't take long to run back and forth!"
"You came here for fun, but now you're carrying something so heavy, how can you feel the same?"
“That makes sense!”
The two stood up again. Before they reached the corn field, Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaijun came with flashlights, "Youngest, Chunyan!"
"Brother, if we had known you were coming to pick us up, we would have been waiting for you on the mountain."
Zhou Huaijun rolled his eyes at him and said, "Lazy guy, if we don't pick you up, you'll have to go home anyway!"
"Hehe! My eldest brother and second brother are the best!" Zhou Huaian took the flashlight with a smile and gave the backpack to the two of them.
Zhou Huairong: "You are such a smooth talker. We were all fooled by you!"
Yang Chunyan thought so too after hearing this.
When they got home, Zhou's mother was already standing at the back door, and she was relieved to see them back. "Come back earlier next time, there will be wild animals coming down the mountain after dark!"
Zhou Huaian raised the gun in his hand and said, "Now that I'm here, it's a good time to test the gun!"
"Bah~" Zhou's mother slapped him angrily, "Do you think that just because you hold a gun, you are a dragon or a tiger?"
Zhou Huaian rubbed his shoulders, "My God, are you my real mother? I'm so tired, and you still hit me!"
"I told you, I picked mushrooms!" Mother Zhou said, turning back to look at Yang Chunyan and laughing again, "Yan'er, we have already eaten, you two should go wash your faces and have dinner!"
"His expression changes so quickly!" Zhou Huaian muttered as he walked into the yard.
Arriving at the kitchen, Yang Chunyan took the lunch box out of the cloth bag and said, "Mom, there are a few pheasant eggs in here. Can you see if there are any seed eggs?"
"Oh! You found some pheasant eggs!" Zhou's mother opened the lid and took one to look at it. "Are you looking for eggs to hatch pheasants?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "Huai'an said he wanted to try it!"
"When pheasants grow up, they need to fly. I'm afraid we can't keep them!" Zhou's mother said as she held up an egg to a flashlight. "Look, the egg with a dot inside is a breeding egg!"
Zhou Huaian came up to take a look and said, "Mom, I picked them up for free anyway, why don't you try taking two!"
When Zhou's mother heard him say to try two, she nodded and said, "I'll try it when the hen starts to brood!"
Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaian carried the basins to the steps and saw that Zhao Huifang and others had already poured out the contents of their backpacks.
Zhao Huifang picked up a piece of Drynaria fortunei and said, "Chunyan, do you want to pick the leaves from the stone ginger?"
"Yes, clean up the leaves and the sand stuck in the fluff, then spread them out to dry."
Zhou Huaian said: "Sister-in-law, take out a section of chicken blood vine and let me make wine for you!"
The old man came out upon hearing the noise and picked up a piece of chicken blood vine. "Youngest, the chicken blood vine you cut back today looks quite old!"
"Yeah, but I don't know if it's worth the money?"
Zhang Xiuxiang took a look and said, "No matter what, it's more valuable than corn. I think I should go dig some herbs and plant them to sell!"
The old man looked at her disapprovingly and said, "I tell you, it's okay to try growing some herbs. But you can't use all the land to grow herbs. If there's another famine, and we have no food to eat, we can't just eat the roots of herbs!"
Zhang Xiuxiang said hurriedly: "Grandpa, that's what I said. I don't plan to use all the land to grow herbs. We plan to open up a piece of wasteland and give it a try!"
She had also experienced hunger before, and she knew better than anyone how hard it was to endure hunger. Eating the wild fruits and grass roots in the mountains could only fill her stomach, and some wild fruits would make her even hungrier!
The old man: "That's more like it. Remember, land is our lifeblood. When God gives us food, we should store more food. In case of drought and famine, we won't eat tree roots or bark!"
"Understood!" Several people on the steps responded in unison.
The old man then went back to the house with his pipe in his mouth, satisfied.
Zhou Huaian glanced at Yang Chunyan and whispered, "I told you that you dare to use the land to grow herbs. My grandfather's pipe is not a vegetarian."
"We don't plan to use all the land to grow herbs. What I mean is that after the family is divided, we can open up the land for planting. Then they won't have any objections."
"This is the only way." Zhou Huaian thought that if it came to reclaiming wasteland, the most effective tool would be a tractor. It would be so easy to plow the land.
Thinking about the money at home, which was not even a few thousand, I had to work harder to earn money to buy a tractor. Damn it, after he cleared the land and planted herbs, he would definitely do nothing and have a good time for two months, sleeping whenever he wanted and eating whenever he wanted...
(End of this chapter)
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