Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

Chapter 222 Chapter 224
Zhou Shitou thought for a while: "Chestnuts, dried fungus, fungus, pepper...these are all there. Every year at the end of winter, we will go out to the mountains to sell dried goods at Zhenjiang Supply and Marketing Co., and buy salt for money."

After hearing this, Lin Lan felt that there were too few varieties of aniseed ingredients, so she could only collect some dried fungus, and sold the fungus: "Big cousin, how many mountain products does each family sell?"

Zhou Shitou shook his head: "Families who are diligent collect more dry goods, and those who are lazy will collect less. I don't know the details. I will go and find out for you tomorrow morning."

Lin Lan smiled and said, "Thank you, big cousin."

Wu Shufang made the bed, fetched hot water, and asked Lin Lan and the three to wash up. She went to the kitchen to help the eldest daughter-in-law Xu Hongju cook.

Xu Hongju looked at her and whispered, "Mother, I heard from my cousin that they are here to collect mountain goods."

Wu Shufang nodded: "Yes! Your cousin sent us plasters, medicine for cough and fever, a large bag of salt, and a bag of white flour..."

Xu Hongju's eyes widened in surprise: "There are so many! Qiaohui is right to go to her cousin's house. Let Xiaoyu go when she gets older." So many things, how much do they cost?
"Okay! Your second aunt has always thought of us, even the children. These years, without the help of your second aunt's family, the family is even more difficult."

Wu Shufang thought about it and told her, "Cousin is here to collect dry goods, you can help her choose, don't let those shameless pits on the team."

Xu Hongju nodded repeatedly: "Understood!"

Wu Shufang took down the old bacon brought by Lin Guoliang, and the two younger ones ran to the stove: "Grandma, I want to chew on the bones."

Wu Shufang nodded and looked at the two of them: "Grandma is done cooking, cut it up and put it on a plate, you and your elder brother are eating together in the kitchen, did you hear me?"

The two children nodded obediently: "I heard, we won't go to the main room to eat."

Xu Hongju glanced at the puffed mouths of the two, and said, "You two put the candy that your cousin gave you, don't eat it in a day."

"Oh!" The two children walked towards the room wearily.

Wu Shufang looked at the two and sighed in her heart, thinking of the life of her three younger sisters, and thinking about herself, she felt that the mountains were far worse than the outside.

The children can't let them stay in Shankakari anymore, it's better to follow his cousin to the city to settle down.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are both accustomed to doing the work, and the meals were prepared in a short while, and they were brought to the main room and placed on the table.

Wu Shufang looked at them embarrassedly: "Xiaolan, Xiangyang, it's your first time here, and there is nothing good to entertain you at my aunt's house..."

"Auntie!" Lin Lan interrupted her with a smile, "You are out of touch, wild game, all are good things!"

Li Xiangyang also said with a smile: "That's right, how can there be such a fat wild rabbit to eat outside? Look, there are also pheasant stewed mushrooms."

Seeing the smiling faces of the two of them, Wu Shufang smiled happily and said, "We set up a few traps in the woods, and we'll go see if we can trap pheasants and hares tomorrow morning."

Lin Lan and Li Xiangyang ate spicy hare meat, soft and smooth ginger and taro vermicelli, pheasant stewed dried mushrooms, and drank fruit wine brewed by the mountain people themselves.

Wu Shufang told them that the fruit wine is made from jujubes in the mountains. There are several jujube plants on the slope of her house, which ripen after the frost every year. They are picked and soaked in homemade sorghum wine. It is good for those with rheumatism to drink. .

After dinner, everyone gathered around the brazier in the hall.

The farthest place Zhou Shitou has ever been to is the Zhenjiang Commune. He smiled and asked Li Xiangyang what the East City is like?
"The city is bigger than the commune, and the roads are wider..." Li Xiangyang told him briefly and invited him to play in Dongshi.

Zhou Shitou cheerfully agreed, saying that next year he would definitely go to Dongshi to drink his and Lin Lan's wedding wine.

Lin Lan asked Wu Shufang: "Auntie, does Shishanling also grow rice?"

Wu Shufang shook her head: "The reason why Shishanling is called Shishanling is because there are many stones and little soil, and there is not even flat land. Everyone's houses are built around the mountain."

"There are a few fields in the mountains where rice and wheat can be grown. Others are sorghum, bracts, and sweet potatoes. Those who are diligent pick up more mountain products, and those who are lazy don't even have money to buy salt."

Lin Lan thought for a while, and said to Wu Shufang: "Auntie, tell the team members next year to let everyone plant more pumpkins and beans."

"If you want to do something, you can put these things away and send them to Shi Lian to my parents. You can earn a few cents per catty. If the quantity is large, you can't count carefully."

Wu Shufang smiled bitterly and said: "Actually, Guoliang told us last time, let us talk to the members of the team, let everyone grow white beans, beans, etc., collect them and send them out to sell to you, but the family is really poor , no money to start with.”

Zhou Dashan also said at the side: "After Guoliang left, we went to talk to a few companies who said that they didn't believe it. They were afraid that they would not get the money when the things were delivered."

After hearing Lin Guoliang's words, they thought it was a way to make money, but apart from two pigs and a mule, they didn't even have five yuan left, so what could they use to collect mountain goods?

After Lin Lan heard it, she felt the same way. Money is the guts of a person. My aunt's family looked like a poor and poor family. It was inevitable for everyone to collect some mountain products for money to subsidize the family.

"How about it! If you want to receive the goods, I can lend you some money as capital, and I will write a list of the purchase price to you later, and you can earn some money after receiving the goods and sending them out."

Wu Shufang stood up gratefully, and looked at Lin Lan who didn't know what to say: "Xiaolan..." The most worthless old pumpkin in the mountain actually costs eight cents a catty, so I ran a few times before it was snowed and closed the mountain. I can also make some money.

Zhou Dashan rubbed his hands, blushing and said: "How embarrassing, how embarrassing!"

Zhou Shitou also kept thanking Lin Lan and the others.

Li Xiangyang looked at Lin Lan with a smile, this is his daughter-in-law, kind, righteous, and will not lose her kindness.

At this moment, Xu Hongju came over from the kitchen and said to Wu Shufang, "Mother, Second Aunt and Qiaoyan are at the door, saying they want to see Xiaolan."

"I'll go and have a look." Wu Shufang stood up and went out, opened the back door, and there was a chubby woman and a pretty girl standing there.

She glanced at the two of them lightly: "Is there something wrong with his second aunt coming over so late?"

The last time Guoliang came to pick up Qiaohui, Zhou's second family member stopped Guoliang sternly and asked him to take her family Qiaoyan to Dongshi.I was still worried that her mother and daughter would pester Xiaolan again tomorrow, but I didn't know they would come tonight.

It's funny, her Xiaolan is not a human trafficker.

Aunt Tuesday looked at Wu Shufen with a flattering smile on her face: "I heard that Cousin Qiaohui is here, so I brought Qiaoyan to show her cousin, and helped my Qiaoyan also take Dongshi to earn some money to spend, and there is I want to ask her about what I told you last time."

(End of this chapter)