Traveling through the ages with the hotel, being doted on by four brothers

Chapter 87: Poor people cannot be defeated

Now that the brothers have discovered that selling cooked food is very profitable, they are interested. Xia Chan has made an agreement with them. After all, there are only so many prey on the mountain, and they are not inexhaustible, so they cannot hunt all the time. They can go there in a week. Just hunt once. When your pheasants and hares breed next year, you won't need to go hunting again.

So now when I am not hunting, I make braised meat. The four brothers work together in pairs and take turns to go to the town to buy pig meat and come back. The two brothers who stay at home are responsible for cleaning and marinating the pig meat.

Although pig offal doesn't fetch much, you can add potatoes, radishes and dried mushrooms to it. You don't have to fill the pot like pheasants and hares. You can sell it for three yuan a pot. You can still make money by selling dozens of pots a day. A lot of money.

Although pig waste is troublesome to deal with, not everyone finds it troublesome. Some people are willing to go to any trouble just to eat, so sometimes the brothers can't buy much pig waste.

In order for the business to continue normally, Xia Chan decided to take her brothers to break ice and catch fish.

The brothers listened to her words and did not object. Anyway, the creek was not far from their house. You would know if you went there and tried it. So everyone set off with bamboo baskets and homemade fishing bait.

When she came to the creek, Xia Chan jumped directly onto the ice. The ice layer was particularly strong, which showed how cold the winter here was.

With the efforts of several brothers, they finally made a hole in the ice more than one meter away from the shore. Then they followed the hole and slowly expanded it until they could finally fit two people in side by side. A cylindrical bamboo basket, then he stopped.

Xia Chan sprinkled the bait mixed with liquid fish spices. The bait was mixed with white flour, rice bran and wheat bran. Xia Chan poured a little fish spice into it, and her brothers couldn't find it.

Sure enough, after a while, I saw a fish swimming into the bamboo basket. When the brothers saw this, they quickly used a bamboo net to catch the fish. As soon as the fish left the water, it froze instantly. This shows how low the temperature was at this time. .

With her brothers here, Xia Chan couldn't use her golden finger and could only watch them fish one by one. Of course, they were very excited when they were fishing, so she wouldn't deprive them of the opportunity to be happy.

After the bait was eaten, they also caught a lot of fish. They took the bamboo basket home with the fish and waited until all the fish at home were sold before catching again.

Xia Chan uses these fish to make pickled fish, spicy fish, boiled fish... Each pot contains fish weighing three kilograms. If it is a smaller fish, he will put two fish in it. Anyway, he will never fool others about the weight.

The pheasants and hares in the yard were almost smoked and ready to be mailed. Xia Chan packed up all the pheasants and hares, and also packed a five-pound piece of bacon, and set off to the town to mail the parcel alone.

On the way, she carried an empty basket and waited until the post office was near before transferring her things out, and then went to the post office.

Because the post office aunt got to know Xia Chan, she had no shortage of meat to eat. When she saw Xia Chan sending so much meat today, she didn't say anything. Moreover, the meat was sent to a nearby military camp, so no one dared to say anything.

Xia Chan also stuffed the letter she wrote to Xiao Yunfan into the package, and put her watch inside. The other food had a shelf life, so she kept it and sent him more meat in the future, treating it as her own. Exchanged with him.

I hope Xiao Yunfan will understand what she means after reading this and stop buying her expensive things.

The family had to cook so much food every day, and the consumption of firewood was quite high, so the brothers started to go to the mountains to collect firewood and chop dead trees every day. They worked hard and earned money, so no one complained of being tired. This morning, the two brothers had not returned from selling the cooked fish. Xia Chan and the other two brothers had just returned from the mountains to collect firewood when they heard a knock on the door. It was not Song Qingshu's voice, so Xia Chan checked the house and pulled open the curtain on the side where she slept to block her sleeping area, and then went to open the door.

What they saw was the little boy who had a peanut stuck in his throat on the day they were dividing the pork, and the middle-aged woman at that time. Next to her was a girl who looked to be about ten years old.

This girl must have never read books, otherwise Xia Chan would know her. Xia Chan knows all the students from first grade to fifth grade, whether they are from this production team or other production teams.

"What's the matter with you?" Xia Chan asked puzzledly.

"Teacher Xia, thank you for saving my grandson. The doctor at the clinic said that if it had been a little later, even the gods wouldn't have been able to save my grandson. My grandson is fine now, so I brought him here to thank you and let him remember that you are his savior." The middle-aged woman said, and handed the basket in her hand to Xia Chan, "Teacher Xia, here are a little gifts, I hope you can accept them."

Xia Chan was a little surprised when she heard this. She didn't expect that this middle-aged woman was actually the little boy's grandmother.

But that's right, people in this era get married very early, even earlier in the past. In the past, many people got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, so it is normal for people in their forties or fifties to have grandsons.

Xia Chan did not take the thing in her hand, but said, "It's too cold outside, you guys come in first!"

After welcoming them into the house, Xia Chan poured hot tea for them in a bowl with a handful of tea leaves in it. Her family also owed foreign debts, so the poor people could not afford to fail.

Xia Chan brought out a bowl of persimmon cakes. Seeing that the girl was afraid to take them, she stuffed one into her hand and said, "Eat it, I made it myself. Try it to see if it tastes good."

"Thank you, Teacher Xia." The girl smiled slightly, then took a small bite and said to Xia Chan, "It's sweet."

After a brief chat, Xia Chan learned that the little boy was named Lan Linmao. He was just over two years old and less than three years old. The girl who came with him was called Lan Weichun. She was thirteen years old. She was from the family. The eldest, there are two younger sisters in the family, Lan Linmao is the fourth.

Xia Chan advised this middle-aged woman to send her granddaughter to study. Now she can earn work points, but what's the point of a few work points a day? Only by reading can you create more income for your family.

Xia Chan tried her best to tell them the benefits of studying and let them think about it for themselves after going home.

Even educated people can choose someone with better conditions when marrying.

If you don't study, the matchmaker will only introduce you to people who are as uneducated and have no money as you are.

After reading the book, the matchmaker will introduce you to someone who is worthy of your conditions, so instead of leaving girls to work at home and wait until they are old enough to get married, it is better to improve yourself and then meet someone better. good person.

(End of this chapter)