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

Ever since Aunt Sun lived in a big house like Chen Feiyan's house, she felt that the place where her parents' family slept was just a little better than the doghouses of those rich and powerful people.

Maybe, it's not as good as someone else's dog house.

There are many people in the county, but little land, and every inch of land costs money.

The family works diligently every day and barely survives. If you want to buy a more spacious house in the county town, you have to pay more than 20 taels of silver.

The money his family earns every day is just a living, and whatever money he barely saves is all saved from his mouth.

The house made of wooden boards that her family currently lives in is extremely hot in summer and extremely cold in winter. When there was a violent storm outside, the family hid in the house shivering.

They have no land or land, so they have to find others to buy their food every day.

Moreover, living in a county town is extremely burdensome.

Every autumn, they also have to pay taxes to the county magistrate.

There are eight types of poll tax, corvee fee, charcoal tribute fee, fire fee, excrement and urine sanitation fee...

In addition, the people in these slums in their county have to endure harassment from local gangsters from time to time.

...Aunt Sun felt that it was too difficult to live in her own family.

The reason why she can hold on until now is because of her huge body, which can hold up to three men by herself.

……

In the evening we all had a bowl of spicy and delicious sorghum noodles. I ate another large bowl of soft-boiled poached eggs that were not very thick.

Finally, I had another small bowl of red date and sorghum cake made by Chen Feiyan.

"How do you feel? If the sorghum noodles are mixed with crushed red dates, will it smell more fragrant and sweet?"

Chen Yixuan nodded: "It is indeed more delicious. If there is some sugar in it, it will taste even better."

Chen Feiyan laughed at him: "Do you know how much brown sugar costs now?"

"Didn't you ask around in the county town last time? One tael of brown sugar now costs more than a hundred cents!"

"It's more than five hundred yuan for less than half a catty... It's very expensive. I always feel that you took such a big risk to catch wasps and other bees in the past few years, and then sold them in the county for money. Sold at a loss.”

Chen Yixuan shook his head.

"There's nothing we can do about it. Why was our family so short of money back then?"

"People are willing to pay that price, but we have no choice but to listen to them. After all, other households in the county may not pay that price."

"..."

After eating and chatting for nearly half an hour, the family lay on the kang and fell asleep.

Nowadays, in order to save firewood, the family no longer washes their faces and feet at night. Sleep directly.

When she got up the next day, Chen Feiyan was busy cooking.

After cooking, she rummaged through the boxes at home and began to count the supplies she wanted to send to her parents' house.

Aunt Sun felt very envious when she saw her putting something weighing almost 100 kilograms on the donkey cart.

It would be great if one day in the future, I could send something like this back to my parents' house.

When the time comes, those neighbors will look at her with envy and jealousy.

They must have thought she had something going for her.

She felt that the man she married was very good, and the Chen family she married into was very rich.

If her life in her husband's family gets better and better, her parents and brothers will come to curry favor with her.

Aunt Sun just wants others to please her.

She just wants others to say more good things about her.

……

After the family finished breakfast, Chen Feiyan hugged her daughter and got on the donkey cart.

Chen Yixuan took his eldest son and led the donkey cart to his father-in-law's house step by step.

Seeing them all leaving home, Aunt Sun quickly sat down on the loom and started weaving. Weaving is a major subject, and embroidery is even more so.

Aunt Sun had long thought that she must learn more from her mother-in-law.

What you learn is your own.

When the time comes, she must teach her mother how to spin, weave, and embroider like this when she returns to her parents' home.

Those professional embroiderers in the county can earn at least two to three taels of silver every year. Compared with an adult man who carries bags and unloads goods at the dock every day, he earns much more money.

If my mother also learned how to use a loom, how to embroider, and how to make tofu products, her mother's family might be able to open a small shop in the county town in the future.

As for the tofu shop that specializes in selling tofu, she thinks it's pretty good.

Ever since Aunt Sun had eaten spicy tofu skin, fried tofu, bean curd, stinky tofu, tofu Qianzhang, dried tofu... in this house, she had an indescribable envy and admiration for her mother-in-law.

How did the melon seeds on my mother-in-law's head grow?

How could she come up with so many new and delicious things in one go?
Aunt Sun feels that she is quite lucky to be here. That is, after eating too much, she always feels that her intestines and stomach have become delicate, and sometimes it is difficult to digest.

……

Aunt Sun is not that kind of lazy person.

When she works hard, she is not lazy at all.

She was concentrating on her work, and soon it was noon.

Hearing her stomach growling from hunger, Aunt Sun put down her work and raised her head to look at her husband.

His husband has been sitting at home knitting straw sandals all morning. In just a few hours, he had already compiled eight pairs, which was extremely fast.

"..." Finding his wife looking at him, Chen Xiaoer immediately understood that she was hungry.

So, he put down his work and went to find his third brother.

The third brother has already developed good cooking skills.

Whether he is washing, cutting vegetables or cooking, he does it very beautifully and very quickly.

After getting instructions from his brother, he took out the ingredients that he had given her when he went out, and then he chopped them into pieces.

Soon, he started to stew a large iron pot of food.

This big pot dish is actually spicy, and it smells particularly fragrant. It tastes even more delicious.

The aroma of chili oil whetted everyone's appetite and made saliva drip from their mouths.

"Can I eat it?"

Aunt Sun is tall and strong, and she usually consumes food very quickly.

Knowing that she was hungry, Chen Xiaoer nodded quickly and served her a large bowl of spicy hotpot.

Aunt Sun was very satisfied with her meal. After a while, she was full and ready.

After eating, she followed her husband outside.

They are going to hunt hogweed today.

We have several pigs at home, and they eat more and more aggressively.

Thinking of her mother-in-law saying that they would have to add some fine grain to them after a while, Aunt Sun immediately lamented in her heart that the poor people in the slums in the county sometimes lived worse than pigs.

……

At this time, Wang Yingying was also embroidering.

She has already embroidered several embroidered umbrellas for sun protection.

Thinking of the small embroidered umbrella Chen Feiyan mentioned last time, which could be sold in the county town for more than 100 yuan, the corners of her mouth raised and her heart brightened.

It’s pretty good to make this money.

Not too tiring.