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

Chapter 15 Going out to make money
Seeing those young people leaving cursing, Chen Yixuan immediately closed the door.

Chen Feiyan saw that his expression was not good, so she cautiously approached him. "What's wrong?"

Chen Yixuan shook his head and slowly walked beside the kang with her support. "Daughter-in-law, you must be careful when you go out in the future."

Chen Feiyan said in surprise: "Why?"

Chen Yixuan felt unhappy, and he pursed his lips before speaking slowly. "I always feel that it's not safe. There are all bachelors in and around this village who can't get wives. It's not safe for a woman like you to walk on the road."

After saying this, he looked at his daughter and said, "I suddenly realized that you were right not to bind my daughter's feet. We will not bind her feet in the future."

I was really tired after getting up in the middle of the night.After Chen Yixuan whispered something to Chen Feiyan, he fell asleep.

However, Chen Feiyan was lying on the edge, unable to sleep for a long time.

……

She didn't fall asleep, and neither did most of the people in Chenjiacun.

Especially the family that already regarded Chen Yixuan's family as the meat on their plate.

His family has a lot of boys.Just because the family is full of children and grandchildren, their family feels that their family is special and they will not be bullied even when they go outside.

Now, more than 20 men in their entire house were sitting together, and they began to discuss the affairs of Chen Feiyan's family again.

"Dad, when we went there, the door was opened by the outsider. We all talked to him and found that he spoke vigorously, had a loud voice, and walked quite fast. He didn't look like he was sick. I guess his health should be It’s all good.”

The father of these people was sitting on top, holding a homemade dry cigarette in his hand. "Now that he's fine, let's not think about that."

"...But, his family has two acres of land..."

"Huh? He's not the only one with Arita! There are so many outsiders in our village. If we want to make a huge fortune, we'll just wait. Anyway, we can't afford them!"

The people sitting below all know what he means.After understanding it, he started to change the topic.

"Dad, I plan to find a landlord to rent another five acres of land. There are many children in my house, and I can't even feed those half-grown cubs if I only plant a small amount."

The old man sitting above nodded. "Boss, if you have a lot of children, you can farm a few more acres. If one day you can't plant it, just ask us for help."

……

The next morning it was still dark, so Chen Feiyan got up.

As soon as she put on her shoes, she saw that her eldest son, Chen Xiaoyi, was already up.Also cooked a big fish.There are three fish grilled next to it.

When Chen Xiao saw Chen Feiyan getting up, he quickly said to her: "Mom, you eat fish."

"Dad and we have already eaten."

As he said that, he hung the three grilled fish by the stove.

"Mom, dad wants to take us out."

After saying that, Chen Xiaoyi was about to walk out.

When Chen Feiyan saw that he was leaving and found that Chen Yixuan and Chen Xiaoer were not in the house, she rushed out the door.

Seeing Chen Yixuan and his two sons standing outside, Chen Feiyan immediately became anxious.

"What are you going to do so early in the morning?"

Chen Yixuan pointed to the nearly eighty pairs of straw sandals that had been packed beside him, as well as straw clothes and straw trousers, coir raincoats, a few kilograms of wild radish and leeks, and a few grilled fish, and said slowly: "I plan to take them Go to the county town and sell all these things.”

"You go to the county town and sell these? Can you make money?"

Noticing that Chen Yixuan was only wearing a thin jacket, a pair of full-length trousers, and a pair of uncomfortable thick-soled straw sandals on this cold spring day, Chen Feiyan hurried home to get them for him. I bought a pair of socks made from her foot wraps.

"Here, the cold starts from under your feet. Wear an extra pair of socks to keep you warm."

Chen Yixuan shook his head and did not answer.He called Chen Xiaoyi and Chen Xiaoer to put on straw clothes and trousers, and then said to Chen Feiyan: "Daughter-in-law, it's windy outside, please go back!"

"After we go out, you close the door tightly. Don't open the door if anyone knocks. I'll be home at night at the latest!" After saying that, he carried a full load on his shoulders and took his two sons with a basket of straw sandals on their backs. Left without looking back.

……

As soon as she saw him leaving, Chen Feiyan hurried back to the house.

One more day before she can simulate.Thinking of this, she started sewing at home with needle and thread.

After applying several patches, she began to teach the third, fourth, fifth, and daughter to speak, gesture, and teach them to knit straw sandals together.

The children of the poor are in charge early.

Even though these kids don't look very smart, they are still capable of making sandals.

When they could make straw sandals, she taught them how to weave straw curtains.

At noon, Chen Feiyan stewed a grilled fish and radish.After eating and drinking, she took the children and continued to weave straw curtains.

Time passed quickly, and it seemed that in just a short while, the sky outside became dark.

Chen Feiyan stewed the fish as usual, and after she and the children had finished eating, Chen Yixuan, father and son, had not returned yet.

When she heard a knock on the door in the middle of the night, Chen Feiyan made a sound and sat up from the kang without thinking.

"Who?"

Seeing that it was going to be windy and rainy again in the middle of the night, Chen Yixuan closed his collar and said to Chen Feiyan in the back room: "My wife, it's me!"

"..."

Knowing that they were back, Chen Feiyan rushed over and opened the door for them without even thinking about it.

Seeing Chen Yixuan's tall and thin body trembling, Chen Feiyan quickly poured him a large bowl of fish soup.

"Drink quickly, I've been stewing it for you guys!"

After Chen Yixuan drank a bowl of steaming fish soup, he felt like he was completely alive.

"Daughter-in-law, today is really not easy. If I hadn't been lucky enough to sell those straw sandals to a grocery store in the county at a cheap price, we might have had to pick those things back again!"

As Chen Yixuan spoke, he took something out of Chen Xiaoyi's backpack.

"Daughter-in-law, I sold more than 80 pairs of straw sandals today for 35 cents. The straw clothes, straw trousers and coir raincoats were a total of ten cents. The straw curtains were more expensive. A family of scholars took a fancy to a roll of straw curtains and sold them for ten cents. money. There were also those few kilograms of wild vegetables, which were sold for eight cents in total. I made 63 cents today, and I used them all. I bought twenty kilograms of grains. I also spent the remaining three cents to buy rice for his home. sack."

Chen Feiyan widened her eyes and said, "Grains cost three cents per pound?"

Chen Yixuan nodded. "In the past few years, many places have been hit by disasters. Many people have fled. The miscellaneous grains have become more and more expensive..."

Chen Feiyan looked at the twenty kilograms of grains in the torn sack, lowered her head and rummaged through it with her hands.

Chen Feiyan's eyes widened when she discovered that these miscellaneous grains were not the black rice, corn, peanuts, and soybeans that she had imagined, but... some broken rice, bran, corn, and moldy wheat that exuded a musty smell.

"This, this moldy thing actually costs three cents a pound?"

Chen Yixuan nodded.

"Really? In the past, this kind of thing only cost two cents a pound. But who told us to catch up with this lean period?"

"Our family still needs to eat these grains. Fish and radishes still cannot be eaten."

Hearing this, Chen Feiyan said: "These twenty kilograms of food seem to be a lot, but I estimate that these things will not last long."

"Master, since we are doing well in selling shoes in the county, why don't we take the straw sandals and curtains we make at home every once in a while and sell them in the city?"

Chen Yixuan was moved after hearing this, but when he thought that his family had only cultivated the two acres of land recently, he shook his head.

"Isn't it temporary? I feel that this business of selling straw sandals will not last long. Our family still needs to take advantage of the wheat season before it is over and quickly find Landlord Zhang to rent an additional twenty acres of land! Otherwise, in the spring of next year, None of our family will survive."

(End of this chapter)