How to survive in poverty: I use a simulator to farm

Chapter 116: Going hungry again?
Chen Qiliang and his party rushed to the river and found Chen Yixuan. Chen Yixuan's family was in full swing.

Seeing that they had opened an acre of land this morning, Chen Qiliang stopped Chen Yixuan.

"Shuanzi, what are you doing?"

Chen Yixuan smiled and touched the back of his head.

"Village Chief, no one is cultivating or taking care of this wasteland. Didn't my wife make a useful and cheap loom last year? My wife just wants to plant some ramie here. By then, our family will No need to go out and buy twine like before.”

"..." Chen Qiliang suddenly fell silent when he thought of the loom he had worked so hard to acquire.

Since being taught how to weave by Shuanzi's family, the loom at home has been used every day.

The family bought the twine for weaving linen clothes from the county town.

This is a lot of money.

If your family also learns how to grow ramie and how to make ramie into twine, then your family will earn more money.

If you can’t use up the twine at home, you can also sell it in the county town.And this is another way to make money.

Originally, he came here to persuade Chen Yixuan not to open up wasteland, but then he thought that his family's fortune was improving and they were becoming richer and richer. Chen Qiliang suddenly said to Chen Yixuan tentatively: "Shuanzi, what do you think our family is?" , shouldn’t we also open up a few more acres of wasteland?”

Chen Yixuan was stunned.

"Village Chief, if you want to open up wasteland, isn't it up to you? We outsiders won't do that!"

Chen Qiliang thought that Chen Yixuan was showing his dissatisfaction to him by saying such words, so he was embarrassed for a moment.

Then, he smiled and said: "Shuanzi, I'm asking for your opinion now. After all, we don't have ramie seedlings on hand."

"Shuanzi, do you have any extra seedlings at home? I've always known you to be a fair person, so just give me a price and I'll buy them from your home!"

Chen Yixuan was very happy when he heard that business was coming and he could make money at home.

He secretly thought, as expected, his daughter-in-law knows things like a god and has a thorough understanding of these people's psychology.

She said that not long after her family opened up wasteland, business came to her door. Sure enough... on the first day of opening up wasteland, business really came to her door.

Thinking of what his wife had said in advance, Chen Yixuan said with a smile: "Village Chief, we don't have that many seedlings at the moment."

"Our family can give you up to 200 ramie seedlings at most. If you want more, they will be gone. Our family has never sold these ramie seedlings, and I don't know what price I should give you."

After Chen Qiliang heard this, he was silent.

He suddenly stretched out two fingers and said: "I'll give you two hundred coins!"

Chen Yixuan shook his head, "Village Chief, your price is too expensive! Now when we rural people go to the county town to sell eggs, the grocery store charges only three cents for two. If I really pay you the price Miao, then everyone else’s saliva will drown us.”

Chen Qiliang frowned: "The hundred wen?"

Chen Yixuan shook his head: "It's still too much!"

Chen Qiliang felt a little embarrassed when he saw him like this.

He was willing to pay such a high price, not because he was stupid, nor because he was willing to be taken advantage of, but because he had his own plans.

The two hundred cents were spent not only to buy seedlings, but also to buy his family’s technology on how to make ramie into twine!
If the price is too low and he is not allowed to take advantage, then he will find his family and ask them to teach them the art of making ramie into twine. The Chen Yixuan family will definitely not do it.

When he thought of this, Chen Qiliang said tentatively: "Then I will give you eighty yuan?"

Chen Qiliang still shook his head: "Village chief, you still call me honest! I think you are much more honest than me. I think those two hundred ramie seedlings are worth at most twenty cents. If your family is in trouble, Just give my family ten cents big money!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Qiliang knew that he would not be able to take advantage.

He knows the time to do farm work cannot be delayed.

After planting ramie, the family still had to go to the fields to loosen the soil and plant wheat, soybeans, and various vegetables.At that time, they will have to go back and forth to pour water and fertilize the crops in the fields.

In short, rural people like them never have a day to spare.

……

Someone in the village noticed that the village chief, Chen Qi, and his family were both clearing land on the river bank.Even the dangerous muddy land on the river bank, the village chief and Shuanzi's family seemed not to let go.

The people in the village murmured.

I'm afraid that something can really grow on the edge of the river beach, right?

In ancient times, rural people liked to "hit several poles whether there are dates or not." After some discussion, they really followed suit.

Soon, a lively scene appeared on the beach of Youshui River.Labor was digging everywhere.

Some children also like to run deeper into the reed swamps.

Most of these children do not even have enough to eat all year round. They are really not afraid of death in order to catch wild ducks, pheasants and wild birds hidden in the reeds.Drill deeper into the swamp.

Some children can touch several nests of wild duck eggs and catch water fish, eels and loaches every once in a while.

Some children are not so lucky.He accidentally fell into the mud, and his friends who were traveling with him did not dare to pull him. They could only watch as he struggled more and more and sank in. Finally, the mud submerged his upper body, and they went back one by one in fear, leaving their homes behind. The adults came for me.

However, by the time the adults at home came looking for him, the child had already disappeared.

Many people say that there are monsters in the swamp that can eat people, and they tell their children not to go there.

They could just dig up the land near the river beach.

……

Chen Yixuan's family has been growing ramie on the edge of the river beach.It took a whole month for the fourteen men to plant forty acres.

However, his family's achievements are already something that many people in the village envy and hate.

The vast majority of people in the village have only cultivated seven or eight acres of wasteland.

Knowing that Chen Yixuan's family didn't have enough ramie seedlings, they planted sorghum in the high muddy ground.

By the end of March, Chen Yixuan took his whole family to rent [-] acres of dry land from landlord Zhang.He used it all to grow soybeans.

As for his two acres of fertile land, he planted wheat because it was closer to the water source.

Rural people will feel tired after doing farm work for a whole day, even if they are used to it.

But for the sake of living, no matter how tired they are, they will grit their teeth and hold on.

Chen Feiyan saw that Chen Yixuan and the others had lost weight visibly, and she felt anxious.

I feed them extra meals every day, including fish stew and pork stew, but why do they still lose weight?

Chen Feiyan was a little confused about this.

There were too many people at home to eat. In late April, Chen Feiyan suddenly discovered that there were only a few dozen kilograms of food stored at home!

With this amount of food, no matter how careful she was, her family could survive for a month at most!

However, next month, in May, there are still several months before the food harvest!

Knowing that if she didn't think of a solution, her family would have to starve again, Chen Feiyan stared at the life simulator in front of her and began to make plans again.

(End of this chapter)