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

Chen Feiyan's family harvested only a few hundred persimmons this year, but the eight persimmon trees owned by village chief Chen Qi's family are growing even more gratifyingly.

When Chen Qiliang took his sons to harvest the fruits, he discovered that his persimmon tree had produced nearly a thousand persimmons this year.

Chen Qiliang was very happy to see so many persimmons weighing heavily on the dense branches.

In previous years, his family has never produced so many and big fruits. Unexpectedly, his family would receive such an unexpected fortune this year!

If these nearly a thousand persimmons were made into persimmon cakes and sold in the city, his family would get at least five to six hundred Wen!

This is more than half a tael of silver!

Nowadays, an adult labor force in the countryside, working in the fields every day and working as a porter at the dock, may not be able to save so much in a year...

Chen Qiliang's sons were also very happy to learn that their family could make a lot of money from selling fruits this year.

"Okay, okay, fortunately our father is wise! Seeing that Shuanzi's family is planting this and that, our family will also follow suit!"

"Dad~, you said that if our family had planted more persimmon trees or jujube trees a few years ago, our family would have made more money than we do now!"

"Dad~, I feel that planting fruit trees is better than farming in the fields. After planting fruit trees, we don't have to do anything. But in farming, we have to do everything ourselves..."

Chen Qiliang shook his head and said: "Food is our foundation. These persimmon cakes and so on are the snack fruits that only rich people can eat. If they are willing to buy, our fruits can be sold. If they don't If you are willing, our fruit will rot in our stomachs. If we eat too much of this persimmon cake, it will be bad for our stomach and intestines. We cannot eat it like sorghum rice."

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Chen Qi's family had a bumper persimmon harvest, and word soon spread to every corner of the village.

The family originally only planted one or two fruit trees, but now they have planted several more.

Chen Yixuan’s family is no exception.

Chen Yixuan knows that his wife likes to eat red dates. Red dates are good for beautifying the skin and replenishing blood and qi. They are a medicine that can be sold for a lot of money, so Chen Yixuan planted five more trees behind the house.

There are also jujube trees planted on both sides of the gate of the courtyard.

Originally, the soil in the yard had been plowed by Chen Yixuan and had been used as a vegetable plot.

Nowadays, the rows of vegetables in the vegetable field are green and growing happily.

This year, like previous years, a lot of mustard greens were planted. Winter melons and cabbage radishes were also planted.

Now these vegetables are cooked in this season.

Mustard greens and radishes, as well as some cabbage, are specially used for making pickles.

Winter melon can be boiled, and cooked with sorghum rice to eat every day.

Moreover, old winter melon can also be used to make winter melon candy.

Winter melon candy is a good thing that Chen Feiyan used her own life simulator to simulate during this period.

However, making winter melon candy requires a lot of white sugar.

In ancient rural areas, brown sugar water was a rare commodity. White sugar is even more amazing. Even the emperor in the palace may not be able to eat crystal clear sugar. Not to mention the farmers at the bottom.

Therefore, even though Chen Feiyan now has the recipe for how to make winter melon candy, her family currently does not have the conditions to make winter melon candy.

Chen Feiyan has already inquired and found out that there are only two dim sum shops in the entire county.

Moreover, those two dim sum shops have been passed down from generation to generation for many generations.

Those two shops only sell seven or eight kinds of snacks.

For example, candied haws, mung bean cake, cloud cake, pea yellow, donkey rolling, and something called egg powder.

Chen Feiyan had never gone to see it, nor had she tasted it herself. She didn't know what those snacks tasted like. But she could imagine that those sugary snacks were labor-intensive and expensive, and most people were reluctant to spend money on them.

Therefore, even if she worked hard to make winter melon candy, she might not be able to sell it.

In ancient times, transportation was blocked and the economy was also blocked. The circulation of specialties from various places is not as strong as in modern society.

It is difficult for farmers at the bottom to make money, and they are also very stingy with their money. The self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy represents a particularly narrow economic market.

If you want to make a fortune in business, you have to be like the Xue family in Dream of Red Mansions and become an imperial businessman.

Only then can someone make a fortune if they have connections.

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Chen Feiyan has been thinking about it for a long time recently and feels that her family still needs to dig deeper into agriculture.

We still have to engage in breeding and tree planting.

You can grow mushrooms on your thatched roof, and grow leeks, chives, and ginger under your eaves.

I also have to make a lot of pickles to sell.

My family still has to go to the river every day to set up grass cages to catch fish and shrimps. Then make them into grilled fish and sell them.

As long as you open up more ways to make money and your family accumulates a lot, one day, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes, and your family will save a lot of money.

Chen Yixuan saw that Chen Feiyan was busy from morning to night, just to hoard enough food for the family before the New Year. Chen Yixuan hesitated for a long time. On this day, he took his sons out early.

Recently in the mountains, he saw several nests of rabbits.

Rabbits are full of treasures. Rabbit skins can be made into clothes and mattresses. Although rabbit meat is very popular, poor people don’t choose it. Rabbit is at least a meat dish.

Chen Yixuan has good abilities. When he came back that night, he took out a total of seventeen rabbits, large and small, from his own basket and those of his sons.

All eight big rabbits died.

The rest of the bunnies are basically alive.

Chen Feiyan saw that he had caught so many rabbits in one day, and she was curious and excited.

"Daddy, how did you do it? Why did you catch so many?"

Chen Yixuan smiled sheepishly and touched his head. "I'm also lucky today."

"I didn't expect that those rabbit holes were all filled with rabbits..."

"I plan to skin and sell these big rabbits tomorrow."

Chen Feiyan said: "No, I will make such a good rabbit skin. When the time comes, I will use this rabbit skin to make a fur vest for you."

When Chen Yixuan saw what she was doing, the first thing he thought about was himself, and he was particularly moved.

My wife is so kind!

"Daughter-in-law, why are you making me a waistcoat? You have to make it yourself!"

Chen Feiyan smiled: "On a cold day, you have to go out every once in a while. You can't bear the little clothes you have on."

Chen Yixuan couldn't defeat her and could only listen to her arrangements.

Peel off the skin of the rabbit, cut the rabbit meat directly into pieces, fry it in a pot until it is about 70% cooked, then add half a pot of water to stew it.

Then a lot of sorghum rice was put in and cooked together with other vegetables.

Once it's cooked until it's done, the whole family will eat.

"Brother~, do you think this rabbit meat can be converted into money?"

Chen Yixuan shook his head: "It is not easy to sell rabbit meat. Many people say that rabbit meat is smelly and smelly, and it is not as delicious as pig intestines. A pound of rabbit meat can be sold for about eighteen cents!" There is no fat on it, and many people don’t like to eat it. They think it’s not worth buying it.”