Make a lot of money!I got rich in the year of famine

Chapter 18 The thieves are here
Shen Qing didn't have the heart to worry about these things, because she had already thought of ways to make money, and now the most urgent task was to open up the wasteland.

After the grass was dried, Shen Qing asked Huo Lin to dig a firebreak around the wasteland before he dared to light it.

Thick smoke enveloped the fire and soon jumped more than ten meters high. It looked scary, but luckily fire prevention measures were taken in advance.

The torch drove out all the hares hiding in the grass, choked by the smoke, and ran around without thinking, Huo Linga Shen Qing, the two of them just picked up a lot for nothing.

Uncle Huo lamented that wild rabbits are too fertile. At the beginning, there were only one or two, but within a year, they were flooded, everywhere.

The fire burned for a day, and after it was extinguished, it happened to catch up with a spring rain, and when the rain stopped, it was time to start plowing the ground.

Boss Fan invited three people, plus the two of them, a total of five people, to work on the mountain before dawn.

Fan Cuicui also came over to help Shen Hui cook. There were hares for meat and wild vegetables for greens, so it didn't take much trouble.

The staple food is multi-grain pancakes, which can keep you hungry but still full.

It took two or three days to finally clear up ten acres of land, and a total of six fields were cultivated.

I didn’t save much farmyard manure, so that was all I could do in the first season.

Shen Qing discussed with Boss Fan, "Uncle Fan, these pieces of land have been left in the sun for a few days, and they need to be plowed again."

The sweet potato seedlings she planted will then be ready for transplanting.

I didn't get a few trees in total, and I could only plant two acres of land when I was exhausted.

Of the remaining eight acres, four acres were set aside for corn, the rest for pumpkins, one acre for cabbage, one acre for peppers, and one acre for soybeans, and the rest was planted with corn wherever possible.

Two days ago, she asked Huolin to make another trip. Before she left that day, she asked the blind mother-in-law to bring in more dried chili peppers, as much as she wanted.

The mother-in-law asked her son to get more than ten kilograms of dried red peppers.

Because the locals don't like to eat, the price is very cheap.

Shen Qing picked out the chili seeds, and turned half a ridge of fertile soil in the vegetable garden to raise seedlings.

Their vegetable garden has grown more than a dozen kinds of seedlings, including hundreds of pepper plants alone.

Shen Hui nagged for a long time about this. She also liked spicy food, but growing so many of them was useless.

When they were planting sweet potatoes, they didn't ask anyone to do it. They went up alone. Even Mr. Huo went down to the ground with a walking stick.

Planting sweet potatoes is simple, just need to make a ridge, and corn pumpkin is even simpler. Dig the hole and sprinkle the seeds, grab a handful of fertilizer, and then cover it with a layer of soil without watering. When it rains, it will sprout.

The difficult part is the weeding and maintenance in the later stage, which requires diligence.

Looking at the wasteland that had been sown, the Shen sisters finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Cao Dahai sent two little piglets, and Wu Laohan actually followed the ox cart and said he was helping push the cart.

As soon as he came, he smirked at Shen Hui, hooked his back, hurried in and out, very attentive.

Shen Hui simply hid in the kitchen and refused to come out, but Cao Dahai was in a hurry to go back to weed the wheat grass, and hurried away after lunch.

Shen Qing looked at their backs as they went away, thinking secretly.

She asked her uncle just now why she brought Wu Laohan here.

Cao Dahai looked bewildered, apparently ignorant of the inside story.

He was just about to go out today, and Wu Laohan happened to come, and when he heard that he was going to send the piglets to Crescent Bay, he volunteered to help.

Cao Dahai couldn't refuse his enthusiasm, so he agreed.

Shen Qing then told his uncle not to bring him here again in the future.

Cao Dahai looked at Wu Laohan wonderingly, but seeing him staring at the kitchen door, he understood, and called Wu Laohan to leave with a gloomy face.

After seeing the two of them off, Huo Lin ran over and said angrily: "That old man Wu is not a good thing at first glance. Look at his thief eyes, he has never moved away from Sister Hui."

Shen Qing is not in the mood to care about this, as long as he doesn't come again, it will be fine, "Huo Lin, go to the mountain tomorrow and inform Uncle Fan and the others that I want to collect fish. For big fish weighing more than three catties, silver carp is the best. How much will you get?" How much, we are going to start making money."

Huo Lin was a little excited, "You want to sell fish? But we don't have a scale, and we don't have a bullock cart. If we bring it to the town, it will probably be dead. We will lose money, right?"

Shen Qing knocked on his head, "Just do what I say, don't ask other questions, you still don't understand after I explain it, sister, let's fry spices this afternoon..."

Crush coarse salt, add spices and stir-fry over low heat.

It's just that the weather is not good. It starts to rain after nightfall, and the temperature drops sharply, making people shiver from the cold.

Uncle Huo had gone to the kang to rest early, and Huo Lin was shivering and ran to burn the kang.

The sudden drop in temperature, if you don't burn the kang, I'm afraid the old man won't be able to resist.

While he was holding firewood, he heard bang bang bang bang on the door, which startled him.

"Who is it?"

"Huolin, it's me, your Uncle Fan."

"Uncle Fan, it's so late, why are you here?"

Shen Qingzheng was rinsing his mouth with a glass of water. He was also wondering that Mr. Fan hadn't come home at such a late hour, so he pricked up his ears to listen.

Huo Lin opened the door and saw Mr. Fan wearing a heavy raincoat and holding an old oil lamp in his hand. His feet were bare and his trouser legs were rolled up to his knees.

Seeing that Boss Fan's expression was not right, he asked first, "Uncle Fan, is something wrong?"

Because they live in a remote place, occasionally thieves or even robbers miss them.

It happened once last year, but at that time the family was poor, the two thieves went around and saw that there was really nothing to steal, so they smashed it angrily before they were willing to leave.

Boss Fan raised his hand to wipe off the rain on his face, and said anxiously: "I just came back from the town, and I heard that another group of thieves came here, and they robbed several houses one after another. People ran away, and someone saw them coming to Crescent Bay, I was anxious, so I rushed over to tell you, pack up your things quickly, follow me into the mountain, and come back after the limelight has passed in two days."

Huo Lin's soles felt cold when he heard this, "What, what should we do, Sister Qing, Sister Qing, are you listening?" He shouted towards the other side of the wall.

Shen Qing put down the water bowl, put on some clothes, hurriedly opened the door, and came to Huo's house.

"Uncle Fan, how many thieves are there in that group?"

"I don't know, there must be five or six at least! Girl, ask your sister to pack her things, and let's go up the mountain together."

"We can't leave. The chickens, ducks, and piglets in the family can't do without people." How could she be willing to leave, and how could it be worth going to the mountains to hide for a few days?Who knows when this group of people will come, maybe not at all!

Fan Dashan said anxiously: "I don't care about people anymore, why do I care about chickens and ducks? Girl, listen to my uncle's advice and keep the green hills there. Don't be afraid of running out of firewood. If you encounter them, it will be over. People like them can do anything." Can do it."

Huo Lin was scared when he heard this, "Then let's go up the mountain, and I'll call grandpa."

Shen Qing hesitated and said, "I'll go back and ask my sister."

When Shen Hui heard about the thief, she was so shocked that her face turned pale and she was speechless for a while.

Seeing her like this, Shen Qing held her cold hand and said: "Sister, you go up the mountain with Uncle Fan, I will stay."

"What's the matter? Let's go together if we want to go, and stay together if we want to stay."

(End of this chapter)