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

The whole family was happy to have a bite of lard-fried sorghum cake, and they were all laughing with joy.

Chen Yixing, Wang Yingying and his wife have long understood that the farmers at the bottom who make a living by farming eat coarse grains all year round.

Being able to barely get enough food and clothing to make a living without starving to death on the streets is the best life farmers can live.

Children from poor families become parents early.

Wang Jihe, who used to be a young master at home, has been able to do any farm work since he settled here with his parents, and he is very good at everything.

After working for a long time, their faces turned black. The teenagers looked dark, with a sense of vicissitude that everyone could see.

"Sister-in-law, this sorghum cake is really good. However, I think the glutinous rice cake is more delicious."

Hearing that she wanted to eat glutinous rice cake, Chen Feiyan smiled: "Of course the glutinous rice cake is more delicious! If you put some brown sugar or something in it, it would taste even better."

Brown sugar is a precious nutritional product.

Only the children of the big landowners, rich merchants and aristocrats could afford it.

People at the bottom like them, only those from well-off families, can have a chance to eat when they meet a pregnant woman at home who has given birth to a child and is in confinement.

And this time is once in a lifetime.

Eating brown sugar just once in a lifetime is a big deal for many people.

The countryside is too poor and miserable.

Chen Feiyan sometimes feels that this kind of suffering is the kind of suffering that will last forever.

In ancient times, productivity was extremely low and transportation was inconvenient.

She lives in the north, and eating oranges from the south is a luxury.

Fortunately, she had made plans in advance when she traveled here a few years ago.

Fruit trees were planted in front of and behind the house.

There are three persimmon trees planted behind the toilet. It is now five or six meters tall. The branches and leaves are luxuriant, the growth is gratifying, and it has begun to bear fruit.

Five date trees were planted in the yard.

The jujube tree also grows well.

It has grown taller and bigger in just a few years.

These trees are planted in front of and behind the house to provide protection from rain and wind when it rains.

Now Chen Feiyan is just waiting for these persimmon trees and jujube trees to bear fruit.

By then, their family will have at least several hundred kilograms of persimmons and dates to eat.

Chen Feiyan never imagined in her previous life that eating fruit would become an extremely rare thing for ordinary people.

Chen Yixuan also thought of the fruits at home.

So, while eating sorghum cake with a smile on his face, he said expectantly to Chen Feiyan beside him.

"Daughter-in-law, wait another month and our family can harvest dates. If it doesn't wind, rain or snow at that time, we can dry the dates. As long as the dates are dried into red dates, we can put them at home. It won’t suck for half a year.”

"There are also persimmons at home. I think I can pick them in October..."

"Our family will be able to save at least several hundred kilograms of fruit this year!"

The fruit can be used as food and can also be sold for money.

Sometimes Chen Yixuan has to sigh that his wife can live a good life.

When Chen Feiyan saw that her whole family was full of hope and yearning for a better life in the future, she began to tell them about her life plan again.

"Daddy, aren't the chickens, ducks, geese, etc. we raise at home shedding their hair all the time? I asked the children at home to accumulate all those hairs. The total of those hairs is almost two or three kilograms... Dad, when will you find time to pick all these hairs and sell them in the city?"

Chen Yixuan asked curiously: "Why sell such good wool? We have to save it and make wool clothes for our family."

When Chen Feiyan heard this, she thought for a moment before nodding.

……

Time flies so fast and October is here in a blink of an eye.

It’s the so-called golden autumn in October.

In this area of ​​Chenjia Village, autumn is always crisp and clear because of the beautiful weather. There was no cold wave, no wind or rain, no snow or hail.

The weather outside is wonderful.

Chen Feiyan urged her family to quickly pick all the persimmons from the persimmon trees at home.

Then peel them, tie them with hemp rope, hang them in a cool place, and air-dry them into persimmon cakes.

Hundreds of hanging persimmons are quite nice to see.

The little yellow dog at home also drooled when he saw the persimmon. But it is very understanding of human nature and knows that Chen Feiyan regards them as treasures and secretly counts them one by one every day, so it does not dare to eat them secretly. Instead, he walked around Chen Feiyan's trouser legs all day long, watching for her.

As for the peeled persimmon skin, Chen Feiyan did not waste it.

Mix it with other hogweed and feed it to the pigs.

The pigs were also very happy after eating it.

After picking the persimmons, I picked the dates again.

Soon, the family had two baskets of dates.

Chen Feiyan is very diligent. At ten o'clock every morning when the sun is very hot, she spreads the dates in the yard to dry.

As soon as the sun was about to set, she took back those dates.

Wait until the dates are completely dried and become bright red dried dates.

Chen Feiyan asked Chen Yixuan to carry three kilograms on his back and go out to sell red dates.

The price of dried red dates in the city is comparable to that of meat. One kilogram can be sold for more than 20 cash, and three kilograms of red dates can be sold for 84 cash.

I sold more than twenty kilograms of pickled cabbage, two kilograms of leeks, less than ten kilograms of mushrooms, and five kilograms of grilled fish, and received another hundred and twenty cents.

Chen Yixuan got it right every time.

Every time I go to the county town, the items sold are basically about 200 yuan. Now he and his son go there four times a month without wasting time.

All the two hundred coins were used by him to buy food.

Because basically every household sells newly planted sorghum this year, and those powerful nobles don’t like to eat sorghum noodles, so the price of sorghum rice is low.

New rice only costs five cents a pound.

The old rice of the past few years, such as the rice shipped from Jiangnan and stored for several years, only cost four cents per pound.

Chen Yixuan carefully looked at the colors of various rice varieties.

He found that the old rice was only beige and yellow in color and had no mold, so he bought twenty kilograms. I also bought 20 kilograms of new sorghum rice this year.

He thought about the remaining money and went to the butcher Hu to cut another pound of suet.

The food my wife cooks these days is getting worse and worse.

He was constipated for four or five days after eating vegetables without oil every day.

His stomach was a little bulging after not pooping for such a long time. He couldn't pull it out, and he was worried that something would happen to his body.

Before going out, his wife told him to check the prices of various rice first and make sure he would carry forty kilograms of rice home every time.

Accumulating a little makes a lot, and over time, the family can always store enough food.

As for meat, I won’t buy any this year. If you have extra money, you can buy a few kilograms of suet.

Come back, fry it up, it will be delicious when you cook it.

……

Knowing that he could eat meat today, Chen Yixuan walked briskly when he took his two sons home.

After arriving home, he told Chen Feiyan all about today's results. "Daughter-in-law, can our family have some meat today?"

Chen Feiyan nodded and said, "You can eat it!"

"I'll do it for you now!"

After saying that, she touched him and found that there were only two pennies left, but she didn't say anything.