Chapter 8: Make a Fortune
Lin Qian asked her mother to come out expressionlessly and put the wild boar back into the space.
Lin Shuo also picked up the machete with an expressionless face, picked up the basket and continued to look for mushrooms, ignoring the couple who were showing their love behind him.
"Wife! You don't know, when the wild boar rushed over just now, I raised my knife and rushed forward. I was so agile..."
Lin Qian and Lin Shuo looked at each other and tacitly moved a little further away from the couple. Dad was about to start his catharsis again. For the sake of their physical and mental health, they should stay away from him!
Single people can’t afford to be hurt!
Soon, the sun set and the family of four prepared to go down the mountain.
In addition to picking a lot of mushrooms and slaughtering a wild boar today, Lin Qian and Lin Shuo also caught two pheasants and found four pheasant eggs.
"We have a good harvest today. When we get home, we will kill the pheasant and make soup. We will have a good meal tonight." Zhao Xiu said with a smile.
"Okay!" Lin Qian and Lin Shuo smiled happily.
Lin Wu said, "Wife, I still want to drink the egg tea you made. I've been feeling a bit irritated these past two days and have a toothache."
"Dad, if you have a sore throat, I'll pick some herbs for you to drink. It's much easier to drink egg tea!" Lin Qian interrupted.
Lin Wu turned around and said, "Go away, children, don't interrupt when adults are talking. Wife, I want to drink."
Lin Qian: “…”
She shouldn't talk too much, just slap herself in the face!
After returning home, Zhao Xiu started to get busy, and Lin Wu followed behind her to help.
As for the brother and sister Lin Qian and Lin Shuo, they were discussing among themselves.
"First dig a hole, put branches and leaves on the hole, then pick some fresh grass and put it on top. Maybe you can really catch a hare." Lin Shuo said. He is a boy and he used to play in the fields a lot.
I like chasing pheasants and catching rabbits the most.
Although I haven't really caught one, I still have a lot of experience.
Lin Qian said, "Okay, let's do it this way first. There should be a lot of wild rabbits in this mountain. If we can catch one or two, we can sell them for a lot of money tomorrow."
Lin Shuo nodded, and the brother and sister agreed to start working immediately. They took shovels and candles and went up the mountain.
They didn't go very deep. They found a few places where rabbits might pass by and started digging traps.
If you are tired, I will do it. In a short while, the two of them dug five pits.
"It's almost done. Let's dig these five first and wait and see tomorrow morning. If we really catch any, we'll buy some traps." Lin Shuo said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.
"Okay, I guess Mom and Dad have already prepared dinner, let's go back."
When the brother and sister returned home, they could smell the aroma before they even entered the door. The rich and fragrant pheasant soup made their mouths water.
Zhao Xiu had just washed his hands when he saw Lin Qian and Lin Shuo, and quickly called out, "Dinner is ready. We've been waiting for you to come back. Wash your hands and come over to eat."
"Oh." The two responded and quickly ran to wash their hands.
A pheasant weighed almost two kilograms, and the family of four finished it all.
After dinner, I went back to the space to practice. This shabby house was so dilapidated that it was basically uninhabitable after the rain yesterday.
It seems that the most important thing is to make money and build a house as soon as possible.
Early the next morning, Lin Qian and Lin Shuo went to the mountain to check the traps.
The harvest was pretty good, with five traps and three rabbits. The other two traps looked tampered with, but judging by the signs, they must have escaped.
Three hares, a pheasant, and a wild boar weighing more than 200 kilograms. If we sell all of these, we will probably have enough money to build a house.
They were still riding in Lin Fei's ox cart, a family of four, each carrying a basket of mushrooms.
"Oh! Brother Wu, why did your family pick so many mushrooms? Where did you pick them?" Lin Fei's eyes widened when he saw it.
The place they went to was crowded, and they couldn't pick many mushrooms.
Lin Wu said, "We saw that there were too many people, so we didn't join in the fun, but went into the mountains instead."
"Brother Wu, you are still the same brave as before. There are so many wild animals in the mountains. I dare not go there." Lin Fei sighed.
Lin Wu smiled and said nothing more.
The ox cart was very fast and we arrived at the town in no time.
Lin Wu first spent four hundred and fifty coins to buy a cart, and then asked Lin Qian to put the mushrooms, pheasants, wild boars and rabbits in the space on it.
We took him directly to the largest hotel in town, Yingbin Building.
"Boss, do you want to buy some game? I shot a wild boar." Lin Wu asked the shopkeeper first.
The shopkeeper was counting the money with his head down. When he heard this, he immediately nodded and said yes.
Although there are many wounds on the wild boar, it does not affect the price.
"This wild boar is quite big. I want it. I'll charge you eighteen cents per pound," said the shopkeeper.
On the way here, Lin Wu had already inquired about the price. When selling wild boar meat outside, people gave seventeen cents per pound, but the owner of Yingbinlou gave eighteen cents, which was already very high.
"Okay, that's the price."
The owner of the Yingbin Building immediately asked his servants to carry the wild boar in through the back door and weighed it, which was a total of 210 kilograms.
"That's three ounces of silver plus seven hundred and eighty coins. I want these three hares and the pheasant too, so to make it even, I'll give you three ounces of silver plus nine hundred coins."
Zhao Xiu saw that the money for the game had been settled, and then asked, "Boss, how about some mushrooms? They were just picked yesterday and are very fresh."
"Yes, let me see how many there are. If possible, I'll take them all."
Lin Wu moved the mushrooms down again.
"Wow, so many?" The shopkeeper was a little surprised when he saw four large baskets of mushrooms.
"They all look fresh. Okay, I'll take them all."
The mushrooms were also weighed. The wood ear mushrooms were the heaviest, totaling twelve pounds, followed by chanterelles at ten pounds, then chicken mushrooms at more than five pounds, and finally black fungus at a little over one pound.
Adding all these up, the shopkeeper gave a total of one and a half taels of silver.
The price was right, so Lin Wu didn't say much and just delivered the goods, took the money and left.
"Hehe, I earned a total of five taels of silver plus four hundred coins. Now I can rebuild the house. Wife, I will go back and buy you some delicious food, and some cloth to make clothes for you." Lin Wu took the money and started to show off to Zhao Xiu. As for the two children, he had forgotten about them completely.
The brother and sister looked at each other and thought, well, the wife is their biological child, and the child was given to them as a gift for topping up their phone bill.
After buying a cart, they could no longer ride Lin Fei’s ox cart. After the four of them bought some more things, they went straight back to Linjia Village.
Lin Wu pulled the cart, and Lin Qian and Lin Shuo sat on it. It was shaking, and soon they both felt sleepy.
Although they had adult souls, their bodies were those of children after all. After a while, the two fell asleep.
Lin Wu and Zhao Xiu saw the two children's sleeping faces and smiled at each other.
"daughter in law."
"Um?"
"Are you tired? Why don't you sit up too?"
"I'm not tired, just a few steps, it's okay."
The young couple chatted in private, holding their two sleeping children, and slowly walked towards home.
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