Time flies, and before we know it, it is already the end of October.

From the beginning of September to the end of October, there have been more than 10 autumn rains in just two months.

After each autumn rain, Chen Xuanxuan feels that the temperature outside has dropped a lot. Now, the temperature outside is almost a few degrees above zero.

Although Chen Xuanxuan was not very good at geography before, she can still roughly judge from the temperature change that she is now in the real north, and the latitude is relatively high.

In late autumn, the cold wind outside is blowing, and it is only a few degrees above zero. Chen Xuanxuan needs to cover herself with an old quilt when she goes to bed at night, and put on a big cotton coat after waking up in the morning.

The kang in the house was already burning as early as last week.

The weather is not good today either, it is pouring rain outside. The raindrops seemed to be going crazy, constantly hitting the ground from the sky with great force.

When it hits someone, it feels very painful.

Therefore, during this season, except for those who run escorts and do business outside, ordinary people will not go out in their homes.

Especially people living in the mountains.

Chen Xuanxuan is now lying on the warm Kang, leaning against the wall of fire while eating hot rice.

Chen Xuanxuan is a person who loves life very much. Whenever she is in trouble or in a bad mood, she likes to think about food.

Today, she figured out a sticky rice dish that she used to particularly like to eat.

This glutinous rice is not salty, but sweet.

On the glutinous rice, there are red dates and red beans that are cooked especially well, as well as some raisins that she bought on the Qiongheihei app.

The glutinous rice is stewed especially soft, and Chen Xuanxuan feels it is especially fragrant when she eats it.

Seeing Chen Xuanxuan eating with relish, Gu Yanzhang, who was sitting next to her eating a big pancake, couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

At this time, Gu Yanzhang felt regretful.

He felt that he shouldn't have been polite to his wife just now. His wife actually asked him if he wanted to eat, and he should have answered that he wanted to eat.

Instead of thinking that there was not much glutinous rice at home and it would be gone after eating it... Thinking of

this, Gu Yanzhang couldn't help but lean his head over, looked at her pitifully and said, "Wife, is your glutinous rice delicious?"

Chen Xuanxuan heard him asking knowingly, his eyes looking at her brightly. She smiled in her heart at that time, and then continued to pretend not to see his greedy look, and replied happily.

"Of course it's delicious. This glutinous rice is fragrant, sweet and soft. Plus, I'm a good cook, so how can the food I make not be delicious?"

"Oh, what a pity. When I made glutinous rice before, I asked you if you wanted to eat it, and you said if you didn't want to, just eat noodles. Look, even if you want to eat glutinous rice now, you can only wait until next time. After all, making this glutinous rice is very troublesome. It takes an hour..."

Gu Yanzhang regretted it even more when he heard this.

However, he finally pulled himself together, looked at his wife eagerly and said, "Wife, do you still want to eat glutinous rice tomorrow? If you want to eat it, I'll soak it for you in advance. ... By the way, can you make a bowl for me too, okay?"

Chen Xuanxuan smiled and nodded after hearing this. "Okay."

"It's just that we don't have much glutinous rice at home. We can almost finish it tomorrow."

Chen Xuanxuan deliberately mentioned to him, "In the two months of September and October, we seem to have saved three taels of silver. I'm thinking that next spring, we will rent an acre of paddy field in Chenjia Village and plant an acre of glutinous rice. What do you think?"

After hearing this, Gu Yanzhang immediately lowered his head and thought seriously.

"Grow glutinous rice. It seems that no one grows glutinous rice in our place anymore."

"But I heard that a few decades ago, there were still people growing rice in our area. However, the rain from God is not stable every year. Sometimes it's a lot, sometimes it's less. So growing rice is not as safe as growing wheat and sorghum..." Glutinous

rice is actually a kind of rice, and it requires a lot of rain.

Sorghum is drought-resistant, and wheat is relatively easier to grow. Therefore, the vast majority of farmers with land here have given up growing rice.

Thinking of this, Gu Yanzhang couldn't help but tell Chen Xuanxuan about his concerns.

After listening, Chen Xuanxuan pondered for a moment and nodded slightly.

"You're right. In fact, I think we can still take a little risk. Let's give it a try. We can just rent one or two acres of paddy field."

"As long as they grow glutinous rice, we can sell the glutinous rice I ate today. What do you think?"

"Yan Zhang, you have to think about it seriously. You can't make money just by being frugal and conservative. Look at how poor our family was in the past! How hard our family lived in the past. Your father and mother only knew how to save money every day. They were never willing to eat or wear. What kind of life did they live..."

Gu Yan Zhang couldn't help but fall into deep thought after hearing this.

What his wife said was indeed true.

If you only save money but don't increase income, the family won't be able to save any money. Instead, their lives will become more and more bitter and difficult.

Since he started a small business outside with the support of his wife, he has been making more and more money. It can be said that the money is rolling in.

The more money you have, the more ways you can make money. The more ways you can make money, the more money you can make. Those copper coins are like snowballs on a snowy mountain in winter, rolling bigger and bigger.

He couldn't help making money.

Thinking of the sweet and soft red date and red bean glutinous rice he had eaten earlier, Gu Yanzhang swallowed his saliva and nodded.

"Okay. Wife, I will listen to you. Let's plant glutinous rice next spring."

Gu Yanzhang knew his wife, why didn't she just buy glutinous rice instead of making it. Because the money to buy glutinous rice is really too much.

He bought three catties of glutinous rice before, and it cost more than 50 coins in his hand.

In other words, one catty of glutinous rice already costs 18 coins.

This price is really too expensive.

If it is made into glutinous rice, some red dates and red beans have to be added on top. Then the cost of such a bowl of glutinous rice is about 30 wen. Who

will they sell such expensive glutinous rice to?

Their family does not run a big restaurant. Ordinary civilians will definitely be reluctant to spend money to buy such a bowl of rice.

In order to make money, Gu Yanzhang can only reduce its cost from the source.

Plant glutinous rice by themselves, try to plant red beans by themselves, and plant red dates by themselves.