Chapter 157 How did he save so much money?
Song Shuyan originally thought that the children came to the mountain just to play, but he saw them grinning as they finished eating an orange, then turned around and looked for dead branches scattered on the ground.
"Uncle Zhou, Aunt Song, now that you're here, don't you want to get some firewood to take home?"
Fang Yuan said this as he walked past the two of them, dragging a dry branch.
Zhou Jingshen rolled up his sleeves and told Song Shuyan, "Just sit here and don't move. Don't run around. I'll go with them."
He checked the surroundings and found no snakes or insects.
Song Shuyan thought it was fun to search for dead branches all over the mountains and fields. She smiled and said, "I can help."
Apart from this orange grove, the rest of the mountain is covered with large pine trees.
The branches on the ground were probably broken by the violent storm some time ago and scattered across the mountains. After being exposed to wind and sun for a period of time, they are just right to be taken home and used as firewood.
Song Shuyan couldn't drag the big branch, so she called Zhou Jingshen when she saw it.
After about half an hour, everyone found a pile of firewood.
The question is, how to tie these branches together?
They didn't bring any ropes when they went up the mountain.
But Fang Yuan led the other children to find a tough vine very skillfully, pulled it out along the root, and with some effort, a long rope was made.
Zhou Jingshen also used the same method to tie the branches into a bundle.
Song Shuyan looked at him doing such down-to-earth farm work with his handsome face that looked dignified and arrogant, and his almond-shaped eyes were filled with smiles.
It has a special breath of life.
At first she wondered where the firewood for burning at home came from. Did they buy it?
It seems that he brought it back himself.
When they were going down the mountain, they met some aunts who were also going up the mountain to collect firewood.
Song Shuyan came down the mountain empty-handed. Her aunt looked at her with envy and felt that she was not as efficient as a child at work.
That is, she is young, beautiful, and pampered by someone.
When I reach their age, I might have to do all the work myself, just like them.
The aunts are jealous.
Captain Zhou is a battalion commander at a young age.
Not only do they have the most intense training, but they also help with housework when they get home. Unlike their men, they always say that training is tiring enough and that housework should be done by the women of the family.
When he got home, Zhou Jingshen broke the dead branches he carried home into similar lengths and stacked them neatly.
We don't often cook at home, so boiling water for bathing consumes more firewood, so it's enough for a while.
Song Shuyan was thinking about a question.
What would she do if the firewood at home ran out when Zhou Jingshen went on a mission?
She misses the days when there was an electric water heater for taking a bath.
Sometimes it is like this, only when you lose something do you realize how important those insignificant things you originally had in your life were.
Now, let alone electric water heaters, even gas water heaters are not up to date.
It's not popular in their area yet.
When Zhou Jingshen came out of the shower, he saw Song Shuyan in a daze, looking melancholy.
"what's on your mind?"
Song Shuyan looked back and saw a drop of water sliding down from his jet-black hair and sinking into the collar behind his neck.
"Don't you want to dry your hair? Be careful you might catch a cold."
Zhou Jingshen didn't care at all, "It's okay, it will be done in a while."
He motioned Song Shuyan to follow him into the house.
"What are you doing?"
Song Shuyan followed him into the bedroom.
"Close the door."
Song Shuyan was shocked. "Why close the door? The door outside is not closed either."
Zhou Jingshen had no choice but to turn around and close the door himself, then walked to the wardrobe, opened the drawer, and took out a black wooden box.
Song Shuyan: "..." Well, she had misunderstood just now, and thought he had entered the house...
He handed her the wooden box.
Song Shuyan took it out of curiosity, and it felt so heavy in his hand that he almost couldn't hold it steady.
"What's this?"
"Open it and take a look."
"oh."
Song Shuyan opened the wooden box, which contained two passbooks, a stack of bills, and a stack of banknotes.
She looked up at him.
He sat down next to her and said, "I'll leave these for you to keep and spend."
Song Shuyan opened the passbook and took a look.
One ticket costs more than two thousand, and the other one costs more than twenty thousand!
Song Shuyan widened his eyes.
so much?
She was filled with disbelief.
"How do you have so much money?"
"Well, the one with over 2,000 is my own savings, and the one with over 20,000 is a gift from my family. My mom brought it over this time."
Song Shuyan looked at the bills again.
Most of them were grain coupons, there were also some industrial coupons, and only a few meat coupons were left.
She suddenly felt distressed that she had money but couldn't spend it.
This money is useless to her!
I can't spend it at all.
These days, you need tickets to buy everything.
But he handed all the money to her so easily, he was really not afraid that she would abscond with the money!
Song Shuyan raised an eyebrow, "Aren't you afraid that I'll ruin the family and spend money recklessly?"
Zhou Jingshen also raised his eyebrows. How much money can be spent on eating and drinking?
Song Shuyan closed the box and returned it to Zhou Jingshen, "Put it back."
"Okay, when you need it, find it and use it yourself."
Song Shuyan wondered if their family should also raise two chickens to lay eggs?
There is another benefit to raising chickens.
Chickens are omnivores and eat everything, including centipedes and small snakes, as snacks.
Now that the weather is cold, she is not worried about having these at home.
She heard from the old educated youth in the educated youth home that when the weather was warm, they found centipedes crawling onto the bed and silver-white snakes crawling into the house.
Fortunately, it was discovered early and no one was bitten.
She got goosebumps when she heard it.
Life in the countryside is not as good as imagined.
She walked out of the house, wondering where she could put a chicken coop or build a chicken coop?
Some people in the family compound also raise chickens.
They are all free-range. When it gets dark, I call the children to bring my chickens back and put them in cages.
What if you can’t recognize your own chicken?
It's also simple. Each family has its own method. Either they cut the chicken wings in half for easy identification, or they tie colorful threads on the chicken's feet and necks.
"Zhou Jingshen, what do you think about us raising two chickens?"
Zhou Jingshen frowned, "Don't you think the chicken smells bad?"
Song Shuyan pointed to a pile of fresh chicken droppings at the door and said, "Even though we don't raise chickens at home, don't chickens still come here to poop?"
Zhou Jingshen went into the kitchen, shoveled out some wood ash, spread it on the chicken manure, and then shoveled it away.
After finishing all this, he thought for a moment and said, "I'll find time to get you two chicks."
He thought Song Shuyan might want to keep the chicks as pets. After all, the furry chicks were indeed quite cute.
The two of them still didn't cook for themselves in the evening.
Song Shuyan was in trouble when he entered the kitchen.
There is no meat or eggs, only a bunch of spinach given by the neighbor. Forget it, let’s just eat in the cafeteria.
She found a canning jar, washed the macaroni, broke it into pieces, and made sauerkraut.
This is very simple.
Clean the bottle, put the spinach in it, pour in boiled water, and cover it with a lid.
After about a week, the pickled macaroni will turn into sauerkraut.
In the evening, Zhou Jingshen pulled Song Shuyan into the house early, turned off the lights, and continued to sweat profusely.
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