Chapter 54: Cutting down trees
After drinking a bowl of cool mung bean porridge, Gao Mingcheng and Gao Zhuang felt a lot more comfortable.
In the days when there were no refrigerators, villagers also had a little trick to cool down the porridge. After serving the porridge, they would put it in a basin of cold well water, so that the hot porridge would cool down quickly.
Gao Mingcheng ate two bowls of mung bean porridge and a bowl of dry rice in a row.
Grandma Xi knew that they must be tired today, so she stewed the remaining yellow muntjac meat and also fried eggs with chili peppers. This dish is both nutritious and goes well with rice.
After dinner, Gao Zhuang felt pain all over his body and had no strength. He said he wanted to lie down on the bed for a while and then went into the house.
Gao Mingcheng also returned to the room where he was temporarily living, but he did not lie down to rest. Instead, he took out the money from his trouser pocket and put it together with the other money.
After his rebirth, he has been thinking about this ancient tomb. Now the tomb robbers have been arrested and the things in the tomb have been taken away by the people from the Cultural Bureau, and this matter is completely over.
The next thing he has to do is to make money!
As the saying goes, live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water. They are surrounded by mountains on three sides and have very little water resources, so the way to make money has to come from the mountains.
He currently has a large jar of honey that he has not yet sold.
Before, he had brought back some honey from the mountains, but he had no container to put it in, so he put it in a bucket. Later, when his grandmother found out, she found him a large ceramic jar. This large jar was used to store pickles in the past, but now it was washed clean by his grandmother and filled with sweet honey.
But this is only a temporary transition. Next, he needs to buy some containers to hold the honey, preferably plastic jars, so that he can weigh them directly without having to remove the weight of the jars themselves.
In addition, he plans to find a carpenter to make some beehives.
For him, collecting wild honey is not very dangerous, but it is also troublesome.
If you build some beehives and place them deep in the mountains, and then go to the mountains to collect honey once a month, this would be much more convenient and would also ensure output.
Besides making honey, there is hunting.
He is now in good physical condition, can run fast, and can hit small prey with stones, but this is not enough, he has to find a way to hit large prey. There is no rush for this, as he already has a way to solve it.
Besides, the weather is still hot now. If you kill too many prey, you won’t be able to keep them unless you sell them immediately.
In addition to these two things, there are other treasures in the mountains - medicinal herbs.
There are many kinds of medicinal materials, some are precious and some are cheap. Cheap medicinal materials can be found everywhere, while precious medicinal materials are hidden in the mountains.
The mountains here are not very rich, so there are not many precious medicinal materials. The two most famous ones are Ganoderma lucidum and Poria cocos.
It is already the beginning of September. By the end of September, he will be able to go to the mountains to get these two medicinal herbs. After drying them, he plans to take them to Zhangshu City, the capital of medicine, to sell them.
Zhangshu City holds a medicine fair every year, usually on October 16th to 18th. When you arrive at the fair, you will see stalls set up by drug dealers everywhere, and all kinds of medicinal materials can be found here.
In addition to those who sell medicine, there are also those who provide medical treatment and make medicine. In short, anything related to medicine can be found here.
In his previous life, Gao Mingcheng had never been to a pharmaceutical trade fair because he had never been involved in this business, but later he got to know a drug dealer and heard what the drug dealer said.
So after his rebirth, he felt that since Qingshan had given him a treasure, it should not be wasted. Their village was too remote and no one came to purchase medicinal materials, but they could send the medicinal materials out of this small mountain village and send them to the medicine fair!
After thinking over what he was going to do next, Gao Mingcheng had an idea in his mind. He changed into clean clothes, took an axe and went out into the mountains.
When hiring a carpenter to do a job, there are two ways to calculate the price. One is to have the carpenter provide the materials and the work, which is definitely more expensive. The other is to provide the materials yourself and have the carpenter do the work, which is cheaper.
Gao Mingcheng plans to produce the materials himself.
There is a lot of wood in the mountains, so there is no need to spend more money.
However, the trees on the hills near the village were distributed to every villager, while the trees in the deep mountains belonged to the country. In principle, trees could not be cut down secretly, so when Gao Mingcheng went into the mountains to cut trees, he was actually fleecing the country.
Fortunately, as long as this kind of thing is kept away from people, not known to others, and not reported to the higher-ups, it won't be a big problem.
It was fine now, but he remembered that a few years later, stealing wood and selling it for money was a popular trend in the village. A piece of wood that was four or five meters long and ten centimeters in diameter could be sold for thirty yuan, while a piece of wood that was fifteen centimeters in diameter could be sold for fifty yuan.
The profit is quite good, so many people will go into the mountains to steal trees, and even people from outside will secretly go into the mountains on their side to cut down trees.
At that time, the villagers' lives generally began to improve, and most families had enough money to build houses, which required a large amount of wood, so wood was quite easy to sell.
Gao Mingcheng avoided people and entered the mountain smoothly. He carried an axe and ran quickly in the mountain. The mountain wind blew on his body, blowing away the heat.
He kept running until he reached a place where there were few people. Then he slowed down and began to look around, searching for suitable wood.
There are two types of wood that are suitable for making beehives, one is fir and the other is paulownia.
Fir wood has good corrosion resistance and will not be infested with insects. After being made into beehives, it can be used for decades. If it is brushed with a layer of tung oil, its service life will be extended.
As for Paulownia wood, it is also corrosion-resistant and insect-resistant, but not as good as fir wood. However, it is light in texture and can be easily moved after being made into a beehive.
Gao Mingcheng is very strong and does not value the lightness of paulownia wood, so he chooses fir wood first. Because the beehive will be placed in the wild, and fir wood can be used for decades without any anti-corrosion measures, it is obviously a better wood.
After searching for a while in the mountains, Gao Mingcheng found a suitable fir tree. He estimated that the diameter of the tree was about 15 centimeters. If he sold it, it could be sold for 50 yuan.
Of course, although he was short of money, he did not plan to cut down trees and sell them.
If you only use the money yourself, it's not a big problem to fleece the country. But if you sell it in large quantities, it will be easy for people to find out, and you might end up in jail.
After selecting the tree, Gao Mingcheng started working.
There were no electric saws at the time, so we had to use axes to cut down trees. It took a lot of effort to cut down a tree with a diameter of 15 centimeters.
Fortunately, he was very strong now, and he swung the axe and chopped it down hard, leaving a small gap in the tree trunk.
He continued swinging the axe, and each blow hit the same part. The blade was surprisingly smooth, showing that he had good hand-eye coordination and good control.
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